Narelle Ho Sang's saved articles

Is it a basket that looks like this?

With 8-Bit Futurama you’re already off to a good start!
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Riveted already, BB. Read more

I’m convinced that no one ever rented a ROTK game from video stores in the 90's. Ever. Read more

Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors are my secret gaming passions. I have poured so many hundreds upon hundreds of hours into those games, maxing out every warrior, finding ultimate weapons, etc.

I dunno, they’re like mediation to me. I usually ride the exercise bike and beat several stages and more than an hour has… Read more

ROTK has one thing that is missing from other turn based world building strategy: managing “people”. In other games, you only need to manage projects and economy. ROTK series has you managing officers, talented (and not so talented) individuals to head your projects, be it infrastructure building or warring. It makes… Read more

I always thought that the ROTK games looked cool, but also super daunting, so I've never given them a shot. The Civ series seemed that way, too, but I managed to get into that series a bit. Does something like ROTK XIII have a good tutorial for new players? Or does learning its mechanics entail a lot of… Read more

Hey Peter, read all your articles today. Just wanted to say they have been highly informative and interesting. Thanks so much, I’ll be looking for more of your stuff in the future. Read more

I actually loved the game when it first came out, but reading your review makes me realize there were a lot of layers I guess I was just too young to pick up on at the time. Definitely feeling like it’s time to revisit. Read more

Nah, you’d be fine in terms of following the story. There are references to Trigger, of course, because it’s the same universe (well...maybe that doesn’t mean much in a series about time travel and dimension-swapping, but you know), and the characters from Trigger do make a cameo and are somewhat part of the story,… Read more

You have spoken heresy. I will prepare your pyre—I expect you to mount up like an adult and take your burning properly.
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Honestly, this is one of the best assessments of Chrono Cross I’ve ever seen.

I purchased the game on release, because I am an unapologetic and rabid Chrono Trigger fanboy—and was sorely, sorely disappointed in it as a sequel. At the time (I was in college), I conflated the ideas of “awful sequel from a thematic… Read more

Welcome. I’m digging this guest-editors-from-within-the-community thing.

I’ve cried at one game (FF7, obviously), and I screamed in terror twice: once when those fucking zombies bust through the boarded window (you know the one) in the Raccoon City PD, and once when I played Slender and the gee dee game wouldn’t let me… Read more

I would give anything for an HD remake of Cross. It’s my favorite RPG of all time. Read more

This isn’t really a fun prompt in a game, but I always liked to mess with RedXIII’s name in Final Fantasy VII. Read more

Final Fantasy Tactics was always my favorite to play with naming. They gave you 15 letters!! My favorite was Ramza as Jesus Christ. Of course his bday is Dec 25. You save Boco, “you better thank Jesus Christ.” Later on in the game it’s all, “Jesus Christ the heretic!” and many other great moments. My last playthrough… Read more

I think the single funniest thing my brother and I ever did was come up with real world phrases to use for names. By far the best one we ever came up with was for a recent playthrough of Tactics Ogre, where we named the main character “I can’t even”. The super seriousness of the game made it that much funnier whenever…