“Out of the deep depths of misfortune comes bliss.” What’s up with reviewers today, huh? Sometimes they review half a game, sometimes they have selective reading, or sometimes they review OLD GAMES — “OLD GAMES,” you say? Yes, games so aged, the baby-boomers have to eyeball it a second time before the motors in their brains clicked, and they started constructing the connections in their heads. Reviewers have a job to tackle, folks. That occupation consists of appealing to their audience. Critics will critique, and readers will naturally formulate opinions — it’s the natural scheme of things. It doesn’t matter the material.
They refer to such reviews as RETRO reviews. Reviewers have made these old games sound, and appear refreshingly new. At least on a word processor. Final Fantasy VII is a game that I played as a wee lad; and now I’m sounding older than I actually am. You see what tangents will do to ya? But do these RETRO games really hold a candle to the imagination of a gr…
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