Reviewing Japan-Only Games

[goemon]

UPDATE: Afraid Gear Review is up!

I've started reviewing Japan-only Playstation games on YouTube. (Or, rather, I have a promo video finished and will upload the first review this weekend.) I already have a batch of 15 games picked out to review, but I'm open to suggestions. I would like to stick to the Playstation for now, but once I get more apartment space for systems, I would like to branch out to the SFC and PCE.

I'm trying to do something unique with these reviews. I don't want to praise or trash a game -- I want to explore why it was never released in America and what the good and bad things are. There are already plenty of people reviewing bad games (AVGN, Armake21, Jedite, UrinatingTree, etc) and some of their reviews are entertaining, but just bashing a game seems rather pointless after a while. I want to remain neutral and detatched. I think that Lee's Still Gaming reviews manage to do that to an extent, which I like.

Anyway, the promo movie is HERE. I know I sound awful -- I'm not much of an actor and I usually mess up when reading from a script, and I'm not a good ad-libber either. I hope I'll get better as I get used to reviewing. Let me know what you think, and maybe suggest some future reviews!

[Daltone]

I think it's a fantastic idea, and you don't sound bad at all.

[Drag0nsfyre]

cool promo video. I look forward to your reviews.

[thetoxicone]

Looks like they will be a good watch, I'll be awaiting word of the first actual episode

[UndeadKing]

I too look forward to it! You picked out a nice variety of games.

[Windy Miller]

Good stuff goemon - I look forward to watching them. As for suggestions, maybe puzzle games ? Not that it's my favourite genre or anything...

[OldSchoolGamer]

Great idea! I have often wondered which Japan only games would be worth checking out and simple text descriptions don't always convey enough! Thanks for this and good luck! looking forward to seeing all the results!

[goemon]

Thanks for the feedback, everyone! YouTube cut off the last few seconds of the video -- after the music started to fade, I talked a little more about alternative fuel and soy sauce.

Anyway, I'm working on my second video now. It's going to take a little longer since I'm using Flash instead of WMM. Since Aussie2B can't figure out what to do in Monster Collection, I think I'll lend a hand and review that next.