Multimedia Articles: May 2008

Almost without exception, the changes to the standard JRPG formula in The World Ends With You improve the gameplay and provide a startlingly fresh take on the role-playing experience.

Mario Kart Wii has reached critical mass levels of madcappery.

Imagine playing Mario Kart and wanting to turn left, but because of technical incompetence you can only turn right! That's exactly what this is akin to.

Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII is a multi-million dollar, audio/visual fan fiction.

Worms: A Space Oddity's most crushing failure is the absence of the ninja rope.

The very point of having a huge roster of characters to play is the change of tactics and style that different characters bring with them. With Naruto, none of that exists.

Devil May Cry 4 intermittently strives for a kind of high-Gothic camp, but it jumps willy-nilly into steampunk, lasers-and-robots future shock, and lost-civilization exoticism.