Dungeon Defenders: This is MY house

I was going to celebrate the end of bad movie month by reviewing a bad movie, just for old times sake, but then decided that I’ve had quite enough of that, thank you very much.  I mean, when was the last time I reviewed an honest to god VIDEO GAME?  As someone who is a [...]

Blue Dragon: Because magic means having a weird ass shadow

Blue Dragon is a unique game for me.  Namely, it’s one that I have actually beaten.  Oh, granted, it took me a while.  I teetered on the edge of no return of this JRPG for about a year and a half before I finally piloted my airship-fish into the atmosphere sucking hole at the end [...]

Infinite Space: The Energizer Bunny of extraterrestrial games

If you’re a regular reader here at Faceplant then you know that I’m not particularly fond of jRPGs. In fact, I’m relatively new to the whole RPG genre. But Infinite Space for the regular old Nintendo DS intrigued me. I read about it on a news post by one Tycho Brahe early last year, and [...]

Final Fantasy 4 DS: It keeps happening

One of my favorite probably unintentional ironies in the video game world is the fact that Final Fantasy is still a thing.  I know the original Final Fantasy was named as such since Squaresoft never intended to survive past the game’s release, but that one, sole game resurrected the entire franchise and made the name [...]

Radiant Historia: Do it again, whore

Anyone who has been reading Faceplant! for a while is probably aware that I’m a sucker for RPG games.  I like the tedious micro management that accompanies battles and character upgrade menus, watching the best laid plans of the vapid and shallow characters in the game go completely to hell, and nothing quite beats that [...]

Demon’s Souls….yes, it’s supposed to be plural

Remember back in the day?  When games were on enormous cartridges you had to blow into to make work?  Developers were wily then, because they realized something.  “Hey!  Our game isn’t very long because it’s not the future yet!  How can we make this short game longer?  I know, let’s make it really god damn [...]

Fable 2 leaves you wanting more

This would probably be as good of a place as any to say this:  This is not a review of Fable 3.   This really makes sense since Fable 3 isn’t exactly out yet, and as a poor, penniless blogger, it’s not like Microsoft and Lionhead Studios are just handing me pre-releases of their up and [...]

Resonance of Fate: John Woo would be so proud

Resonance of Fate caught my eye a few months back because it still remains one of the few RPGs that exist on the Xbox 360, which is quickly becoming overrun by first and third person shooters.  Sure, we’ve got the Mass Effect series, Oblivion and Fallout 3, but a lot of the traditional RPG formula [...]

Mass Effect 2: Import your bad decisions today!

Okay, lets face it. People were anticipating the release of Mass Effect 2 like trolls sitting under a bridge waiting for billy goats to messily devour. It was fabled to be like a god among video games, ready to be released by Bioware at any point to descend to our poor mortal realm to turn all the water in the world into wine for some reason. And for good reason! The first Mass Effect was one of the best RPGs to appear on the Xbox 360 thus far, answering burning questions, like if an epic scale role playing game can exist in the depths of space, if there is, indeed life in the galaxy, and if maybe, just maybe we can get our freak on with a weird snake-headed blue chick.

Anyway, there’s numerous, countless decisions you can make over the course of Mass Effect one and two, so it seemed fair that, like the game, this review will have multiple endings, with contributions from all of the Faceplant staff.

Final Fantasy XIII: like a fat man on rollerskates

Final Fantasy XIII takes a long time to get moving, but once it does it has all the majesty and wonder that you could expect from seeing a 300 pound man barrel down a steep hill, careening through traffic and injuring civilians. Just be patient, man. Just calm down.