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You’ve landed on our hub page for TheGamer’sFive Star Re-Reviews! Our team of writers are taking renewed looks at older games — not necessarilyoldgames, but at least six or so years in the rearview mirror. Sometimes much, much more. We’re bringing our passion for these gems to the forefront, reviewing them in the truest sense, pondering what’s made them stick with us for all this time.
Fans of long-running series will doubtless be in for a treat as our hub expands, but for now, please enjoy these early darlings!
Our growing group of old-school analyses.
Five Star Re-Review: The World Ends With You - It’s A Party In My Mouth!
It’s the wild, wonderful world ofThe World Ends With You, a cult-classic Square Enix JRPG originally for the Nintendo DS. The small but vocal fandom finally compelled Square to create a sequel recently, but TWEWY, it seems, will forever slip under the mainstream radar. Join Rebecca Phillips as she explores Tokyo’s most vivid district with an unforgettable cast of quippy companions.
Five Star Re-Review: Spore - Spreading Joy
Lu-Hai Liang lends his retrospective lens toSpore, a fascinatingly ambitious game from developer Maxis and publisher Electronic Arts that promised a dynamic scientifically thought-provoking experience and delivered in spades — or didn’t, depending on who you asked at the time. From microscopic organism to galaxy-charting civilization, players are in for a truly expansive experience.
Five Star Re-Review: Fable 2 - A Beautiful, Bizarre Look At What Could Have Been
Rhiannon Bevan posits thatFable 2isn’t ‘just’ a great game in its own right - it’s a glance into a path that RPGs might have developed going forward, but mostly didn’t. In other words, Fable 2 represents a road not taken, and occupies the pantheon of classics in a space that is very much its own.
Five Star Re-Review: Final Fantasy 2 - Stop Hitting Yourself
Final Fantasy 2has been a black sheep in its series for nearly 35 years and counting. The very first sequel to the flagship RPG series with the increasingly ironic name, FF2 plays out quite unlike its predecessor or any of its successors. Quinton O’Connor points out how the game that summoned many of Final Fantasy’s core conventions is ripe for reanalysis.
Five Star Re-Review: Tron 2.0 – End Of Line
Joe Parlock entertainingly explains howTron 2.0’remixes and reworks' much of what makes the original feature film so poignant. While Tron 2.0’s rough sales could have consigned the game to the dark pages of forgotten software, hardcore fans have ensured that it remains playable - and in some ways better than ever before.
Five Star Re-Review: Mass Effect - The Best One, Really
Fans have bickered over which entry in BioWare’s beloved space adventure trilogy is best for over a decade. Rhiannon Bevan won’t magically bring us all under one united umbrella in this excellent essay on why the originalMass Effectis her favorite, but she offers some terrifically compelling thoughts as to why Commander Shepard’s freshman outing is their finest hour.
