My History with Video Games and Favorites

I’m not going to make some kind of wild and insane statement like ‘I’m getting back into video games’ because that’s the kind of thing that is never definite. However, I have accomplished something today that I don’t believe I ever have in a game, and I’ve got time as well as interest in other games as well. Because I didn’t want to clutter an upcoming review with talk about video games in general, I’m making this post instead.

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Rondo of Swords First Impression: Having Fun, Loosing Teeth

What is it with Japan and the word Rondo?

What is it with Japan and the word Rondo?

When the Nintendo DS and even the DS Lite came out, I confirmed them as excellent systems with excellent games; however, I was not a fan. I always found the DS to be too cumbersome to play compared to my favorite game system, the Game Boy Advanced SP. The first game to turn me on to the DS was the system’s second Castlevania game. Right about that time, an assload of great DS games were on the horizon — so naturally, my brother’s DS got broken and my other brother’s Lite disappeared. Nearly a year’s worth of games I want to play later, we finally found the DS Lite. My brother immediately bought 2 new games for it – Rhapsody and Rondo of Swords.

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