Valkyria Chronicles 2 on PSP was the follow up to Sega’s 2007 Valkyria Chronicles. Blending turn-based strategy with real time combat the original certainly stood apart from its competition.
DoFuss 2010 – The Further Chronicles
The 3rd Birthday
Square Enix is changing things up a little in its up coming PSP title The 3rd Birthday. In terms of heritage the game is a sequel to the Parasite Eve titles, a pair of survival horror role-play games that came to the original Playstation, which were in turn based on a Hideaki Sena book of the same name.
The DoFuss Show – The Penultimate
We are back for the almost-last DoFuss Show. December will see the last DoFuss Show with my return from Japan to the UK. As I won’t be in the ‘land of the rising sun’ any more, the opening lyrics claim that I am ‘the number one gaijin, the man in Japan who can’ will become hopelessly inaccurate so (as we can’t be bothered to rewrite the theme tune) we decided to cancel the show.
The DoFuss Show – 29 out of 100.
It has been a long week, in no way helped by the fact that we had to record this show twice thanks to technical problems. Fortunately the dry run meant that even with my general exhaustion we were able to keep the show mostly on track, and when we didn’t it was at least funny.
April Links in Preparation for Golden Week.
We are coming in to May, which here in Japan means Golden Week. A magical time of strained family relationships and unspoken expectations that can only result in disappointment. Fortunately if you are I, and thus only involved in these
The DoFuss Show – Craig Charles had far too much to do with it.
Darren is back just in time for a semi-festive show. We spend most of our time catching up on the last few months events and our respective holiday breaks but in the process we do touch on lots of games
The DoFuss Show – Where is the Gumbo?
What have you been playing, news and features make up the show this week. Though the last few weeks have been uneventful in terms of new releases we keep playing games and stuff is still happening in the industry. Fallout
DoFuss’s 2008 Top Handheld Game of the Year
My thinking when it comes to handheld titles is simple. The game should fill the gaps in my life when I have no other choice than to sit and wait. It is a very rare occurrence for me to play
Japan’s Handheld Market
In Japan the handheld is king. Week after week PSP and DS battle it out at the top to the hardware charts. Recently of course sales of both have been rejuvenated by the PSP-3000 and the DSi with many buying