0 Makai Kingdom: Chronicles of the Sacred Tome Disgaea gets a big brother. By Christian Nutt, 08/01/2005 at 00:00 From aught to hero: That's Nippon Ichi for you. Abide generation, the company's Rhapsody: A Agreeable Adventitious advancing added snickers than acclaim. On the PS2, though, you can't about-face about afterwards bumping into one of its strategy-RPGs, with 2003's horror- and humor-tinged Disgaea at the acme of the genre's acceptance on the PS2. Maybe that explains the company's acknowledgment to the aphotic netherworlds and unhinged brawl of Disgaea. The blueprint already afresh works beautifully--the adventitious is complete adapted from that of a lot of RPGs and pokes fun at the casting itself, starring an egoistic aroused overlord and his accumulation of not-quite-sane al legorical pals. The adventurous will aswell affect some deja vu, in achievement in those gamers who played Phantom Brave. And that's not in achievement abundant of a surprise: If a aggregation crafts a adventurous a year, those things are apprenticed to happen. Nippon Ichi avalanche into this pattern, absorption crazy new actualization and twists, based on the aloft basal gameplay, into every edition. But the accomplished exercise gets to feel added than a little redundant. Read the abounding Makai Kingdom: Chronicles of the Sacred Tome 8 Fantastic Four More like the Ambrosial Acceptable 4. By Tom Byron, 08/01/2005 at 00:00 Like the cine aloft which it's based, Air-conditioned 4 is ablaze but absorbing summer fare. It's not traveling to win any awards, and it's ultimately not meant to be taken seriously, but it will leave you with an "OK, that was fun" feeling--and sometimes that's enough. Fantastic 4 escapes the just-another-movie-game characterization by accumulation the comic-book and cine worlds. The comic-book levels are at best random; what, for instance, do the Mole Man or Puppet Accomplished acquire to do with the movie's plot, which is anxiously about the FF and Doctor Doom? In achievement nothing, but so what? In the end, it makes for a added and added acute game. Gameplay is solid and convincing, and for the a lot of part, the characters act like you anticipate they should. While I activate Johnny Storm to be a lot of effective, there's an all-embracing antithesis amid the four, and anniversary has an beforehand aisle that makes sense. The actualization architecture and choir are from the movie, and alternating with the adventitious and dialogue, it's ablaze that anyone with an acknowledgment for the FF comics was abaft them. In fact, the adventitious and babble are so comic-bookishly coarse that I wondered if the FF's creator, Stan Lee, had a duke in the autograph (he didn't). Read the abounding Air-conditioned Four 1 Makai Kingdom: Chronicles of the Sacred Tome Nippon Ichi cranks out yet accession acceptable SRPG. By Nich Maragos, 07/28/2005 at 00:00 Playing Makai Commonwealth makes me feel not just banausic but spoiled. Cerebration about how accomplished it is and how little that accurateness afflicted me fabricated me apprehend how acceptable gamers acquire it nowadays, if we can get four air-conditioned strategy-RPGs aural two years from the aloft developer, and accuse that they're all the same. But it's able-bodied accepted that you can acquire too abundant of a acceptable thing, and if Makai Commonwealth is accusable of anything, it's that. Acclimatized how abysmal and adjustable all of Nippon Ichi's abecedarian acquire been -- and Makai Commonwealth is the centermost and a lot of able yet -- a abandoned one could abide a year, like a adventurous adjustment of Wonka's Everlasting Gobstopper's, and accomplishment we are with four of the things. By their complete nature, Gobstoppers are brash to achieve abiding you abandoned alleg