By Terry Randolph What defines a challenging game versus a game that’s just challenging? It’s a question I’ve been asking myself ever since picking up Rogue Continuum, which has culminated into one of the most frustrated gaming experiences I’ve had the “pleasure” of enjoying. Defining a challenging game is tough because it’s rather subjective; it’s [...]
Rhythm Game Retrospective: A Look Back on Guitar Hero and Rock Band from Michael Ros
By Michael Ros Remember when rhythm games ruled the world? We had Dance Dance Revolution, a slew of karaoke titles, Audiosurf (which Jake Rushing honored as Last Token Gaming’s first Obscure Game Review), and, of course, who could forget the Guitar Hero vs Rock Band debate? You know, the OTHER Activision vs EA Fanboy War. [...]
LTG Convention Coverage – The First TwitchCon
By Isaac Smith Twitch is just over 4 years old. Were it a human being, it would be walking, spouting nonsense, and giving you lip about eating vegetables. Instead, it's renting out one of the larger convention halls in downtown San Francisco and cramming an obscene number of people into it. It's getting Triple-A devs [...]
LTG Review – Layers of Fear
By Jordan Nelson Layers of Fear is a psychological horror game, with emphasis on the psychological part. The game is still in its early stages, as it is in pre-release mode at the moment, but boy is it good. The art work, both featured paintings and the in game art itself, is phenomenal, among the [...]
I am Rambo: Far Cry 4 Backlog Review
Release Date: November 18, 2014 Platforms: Playstation 3, Xbox 360, Playstation 4, Xbox One (Review), Microsoft Windows Developer: Ubisoft Montreal Publishers: Ubisoft Genre: First Person Shooter, Open World Mode: Single player with some Co-Op modes MSRP: $39.99 Far Cry has always been a series of cognitive dissonance – the outcome of the game is one [...]
Kickstarter: The Future of Video Games?
by Benjamin Fitzgerald Kickstarter has slowly begun to demand my attention. It started off small: a game here and a game there; an offhand comment in a casual conversation; a brief visit to the website half a year ago. Lately, however, I’ve been paying the highly successful crowd-funding company serious consideration. After reading Marshall Garvey’s [...]
Retro Review – In the Hunt (1995, Kokopeli/THQ, Sony PlayStation)
By Michael Mygind I’m going to start this review off with a question. Do you like Metal Slug? If you answered yes, you might as well be a fan of In the Hunt as well, even if you’ve never played it. This game would essentially help lay the foundation for what would become one of [...]
This Day in Gaming History – The Sega Dreamcast is Released in the U.S. (September 9, 1999)
By Marshall Garvey and Sean Willis Marshall: Oh, Sega. What happened? These past 14 years trying to leg it out as a third party developer have been pretty rough, to put it nicely. The financial struggles, the layoffs, not having a booth at E3 this year, the disaster of Sonic Boom...and it’s not like you [...]
Last Token Gaming Interview – Daryl Rodriguez and Jeanette Garcia, Filmmakers of “World 1-1”
By Marshall Garvey Earlier this year, Last Token Gaming was approached on Twitter by the filmmakers of a documentary entitled World 1-1 to officially review it. Given the film’s focus on the early days of Atari and the video game medium as we know it, we were excited to give it a watch. To say [...]
A Fun Adventure in a Nonsense World
by Benjamin Fitzgerald What do you get when you combine an overweight exterminator, a singing purple bear and a world full of monstrous insects? Why, you get The Ballads of Remus – When the Bed Bites! Enter a zany, bizarre world full of over-sized parasites, ketchup plants and thirsty peasants in this charming adventure. [...]