When it came time to make up a “Best of 2011” list at the end of last year, a little PSP horror game from Team GrisGris, 5pb, and XSEED called Corpse Party was my #2 game for the year. My #1 game was Dark Souls—a choice that really required little justification, even among those who chose something else for that particular spot. Putting Corpse Party at #2, however, seemed crazy to many. First of all, it was on the PSP—and wasn’t that thing dead? Second, it looked like something from the 16-bit era of gaming—and gameplay-wise, played like something even older. Plus, not only was it on the PSP, but it was a horror game on the PSP. Does that concept even work?
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My Pick-Ups From Japan!
I went to Japan recently, and this is what I bought! Usually I just spend a lot of money on games, and come home with a bunch of stuff but kind of meh overall. This time, I bought things that were really fun and/or that I really wanted. I spent less, but felt far more satisfied with my purchases.
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The Hotties of Gekkoukan High
There are many interesting aspects of Persona 3 Portable – the PlayStation Portable port of Atlus’s mega-popular JRPG – but one of the ones I’ve noticed so far has to do with the faculty of Gekkoukan High. See, in the original Persona 3, most of the teachers didn’t actually have any portrait art. In the switch to P3P – where most backgrounds are flat and no longer feature polygonal characters – the teachers all received portrait art.