Posts Tagged ‘great aesthetics’

ROMiniscing: Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (Super NES)

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

Superior Epic [ Legendary ]

Legend of the Seven Stars

We might be used to the idea that SquareSoft can take something like the Disney universe and make a full-fledged role-playing experience out of it, but Kingdom Hearts does not come without precedent.  Before Paper Mario, before Kingdom Hearts, and before Rare unhitched its wagon from Nintendo, there was today’s ROMiniscing feature: Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars.

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Dishwasher update from Ska Software

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

Just some indie news, since I happen to be a HUGE independent game junkie. James Silva (who did Survival Crisis Z, which I happen to like so much) is gradually getting closer to the completion of his next project, an XNA game called The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai. He’s posted a status update on his developer blog, and it has some interesting things on it. For example, there will be a ranked story mode that is about equal to the hardest difficulty. There’s also going to be 3-play co-op in unranked story mode. Sweet.  Check his post for his complete status update. I’m no uncouth enough to post the whole thing verbatim!