Ico, I should have played this long ago…

Once in a while, you find a game the critics and players alike, love. Ico was that game eons ago. Originally released on the PS2, I bought it then and never got around to it. Then it got a 3D to remaster on PS3, and I bought it again because I have a 3D TV and I actually enjoy the feature… but I never got around to it. These days, with the economy in shambles, and the future uncertain, my wife has asked me to beat three backlog games for every one new game I buy. I cherish my wife, and so I have been honoring this request. Thankfully she is flexible enough to let me buy Re-releases, remakes, and remasters and count them. Sadly, this game has not been Re-released since its PS3 remaster. I wish it had.

Castlevania’s Search For It’s Soul

As a franchise, Castlevania has been in some very rough waters. It’s DS trilogy didn’t sell well, despite being great games, and the series had been losing steam quickly. It needed a shake up. It got the shake up in the terrible Castlevania Judgment for the Wii. It was a fighter game, that by all measures, stank on ice, but its ending was an interesting one. You see, you are made to fight a time distortion, one that kind of erases everything, or threatens to. It completely throws the timeline off track in a way similar to the Star Trek Reboot. After beating it, I knew a reboot was inevitable. Enter Lords of Shadow.