Reviews of retro games from 15 years ago.
It’s time for Sonic The Hedgehog to take a back seat for a moment as the chief mascot of SEGA, as the InRetroSpect Review Show dusts off Ristar from the collection to see whether you should be adding it to your games collection. Is this relatively forgotten SEGA platformer a shining star when reviewed 15 years later, or does it burn up on re-entry? Xero investigates.
Xero takes a look at this Super Nintendo Japanese Role Playing Game ‘classic’, trying incredibly hard to not make any bad time related puns. Is it just the same as any other JRPG? Does its focus on choice offer anything new? Tune in to find out!
Flying reptiles, lazer weapons, tribal warfare, it’s a weird world that Panzer Dragoon paints, but is it one you should spend any time in? Xero investigates this Sega Saturn classic.
The return to the world stage of the most beloved 2D fighter series of all time, but is this a superb addition to the Street Fighter stable or one one-on-one brawler to avoid? Xero investigates…
In this month’s episode of the InRetroSpect Review Show, Xero takes Air Combat for a spin. Is Namco’s port of the arcade title still a dream to play after 15 years? Listen now to find out!
Oh, what’s this? Another episode of InRetroSpect? Fantastic. This month, Xero looks at the unique little 3D platformer that is Jumping Flash, but the big question is, is it any good?
This month Xero dusts off Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island to see if it holds up some 15 years later. Is the sequel to one of Miyamoto’s finest works any good? Download and find out!
This month Xero reviews Wing Commander III.
Not just one of the first games to use FMV, but one of the first mediums to use full CGI backgrounds. It cast a full cast of professional characters (although it was not the first game to do so) including Mark Hamill, Malcom Mcdowell, John-Rys-Davies, and Tom Wilson [Who played Biff from Back to the Future fact fans]. Wing Commander III didn’t just pionner with it’s use of CGI, it also had the highest budget of any game made to that date ($4m).
The movies may have been groundbreaking, but were they any better than other failed attempts at intergrating live-action FMV? More importantly although billed as an interactive movie, was the interactive part any good? Xero Investigates.
A true 3D racer on the Super Nintendo? It can’t be done surely? It certainly can, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s good… Xero investigates this classic, but largely forgotten racer from 1994.
Final Fantasy 6 is one of those rare games that we hold up as a paragon of design, a title that we reminisce about fondly with friends. A perfect game then to take apart piece by piece to analyse whether it is still a classic RPG tale, or if its quality is now just a legend.
