This June, Lusipurr.com is pleased to present The Summer of IX! Throughout the month of June, all of the Lusipurr.com staff will be playing through the classic PlayStation RPG Final Fantasy IX. One disc will be covered each week, and each Sunday will be occasioned by a post (like this one) with a different FF9-related more »
The most important part of storytelling is the way information –characters, setting, and plot—is conveyed to an audience. Games, perhaps unfortunately, have the double task of both giving audiences an understanding of mechanics and story all at once. For the most part, this happens in the introduction. I am not a patient gamer. I like more »
I put Final Fantasy X into my PS2 for the first time in a while the other day. I have since stopped played it for exciting reasons to be revealed this Sunday, but I got a good five hours in. I truly enjoyed that five hours, however, and a full play-through would likely result in my overall more »
Lusipurr.com is soliciting reader opinions on the topic of lesser-known favourites. We would like to know about games which, for whatever reason, were not hailed as enormous successes but which you love anyway. The Megaphones Ahoy! Podcast will discuss a selection of reader suggestions on the upcoming podcast for 31 May. Feel free to tell more »
I firmly believe that, unlike any other medium, videogame sequels generally tend to out-perform their predecessors. Hollywood continues to crank out sequels that shame and defile what came before them, yet the game industry has managed to avoid that trend… for the most part. Today, I’m going to talk about five videogame sequels that have more »
Although a few years old, Bioware’s 2005 action-RPG Jade Empire stands majestically against the test of time. Jade Empire places the player in the shoes of a martial arts student in ancient China who, although still young and learning, has an epic destiny to change the fate of the world. The game shares similarities to more »
Most would agree that World War II is one of the most overused settings in video game history. However, many might not realize just how overused it is. In counting the World War II games listed on Wikipedia, I compiled the following statistics: seventy-four shooters (including The Outfit which is listed in “other”); thirty-six RTS more »
Produced 2009.05.24 When the Call of Duty comes, who will answer? MasterChef and Bup, that’s who! Topics include Sherlock Holmes vs. Jack the Ripper; Spy vs. Sniper; inFamous vs. Sly Cooper; E3 vs. Swine Flu; and Hideo Kojima vs. the World. Answer the call by listening now!
Is it just me, or does it seem like game companies are expecting less and less from gamers? When I first started to play Final Fantasy X some years ago one of the first things that stood out to me was the fact that all of the places I needed to go were marked clearly on more »
While that title might imply that I’ll be talking about the surprisingly impressive Where The Wild Things Are movie trailer, Lusipurr.com is not the venue for such discussion until the assumedly horrible liscensed video game tie-in hits stores. No, instead I wish to weigh in on the recently leaked trailer for Project Trico. While nothing has been more »