Sometimes you know you’re in for something special. Maybe it’s the bright, vivacious cover art. Maybe it’s the cute-as-heck, free 12-month calendar packed inside. In this case, you’d be right — Cotton 2 is indeed something special.

Get busy! Dragonland is screaming!

If you’re thinking of dropping $400, there are certainly worse things to spend that money on than Sapphire — it’s a great shooter, and I’ll gladly tell you why. But have you considered purchasing it on PSP for only $50, instead?

To fully understand Cho Aniki: Sei Naru Protein Densetsu (Legend of the Holy Protein) demands a bit of biological background. Muscles are made up from protein, and protein is in turn composed of amino acids. A bit of biology for a bit of a shooter.

Every noble hero needs an appropriately malevolent villain. Kiaidan 00 has fourteen of them.

If you had a huge gaping hole in the top of your head, what would you do with it? Would you adorn it with an attractive beret? Or perhaps even cram a brain somewhere in there?

Hope springs eternal with my dear friends, Kain and Sahkun.

Our hero had seen all the awesomeness that his beloved Genesis had to offer. The well was dry, and Sega’s 16-bit goliath was but a chapter in his nostalgic past. Our tragic hero shed a single manly tear, quietly resigned to his fate. But then, at the nadir of despair, an overlooked dark horse challenger appeared.

“Cyberpunk isn’t just a genre — it’s a mindset. It’s a mindset that knows it’s beneath the thumb of corporate greed, but tries to dig itself out anyway. It’s a mindset that sneers at the shallow mainstreamers who swallow the recycled maxims of pseudo-intellectualism.”

Kikoeru ka, Kiaidan — ano sakebi ga? Mieru no ka, Kiaidan — ore no hikari da?