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This review was originally published on the  Console Purist  Facebook group on November 2nd, 2019. It’s time again to return to the PlayStation Basement! PlayStation Basement is a weekly, Saturday review of an obscure or odd game for the original PlayStation. Games are rated Good, Bad, or Neutral. Now, let’s go! I wasn’t going to do it, but here it is – one last horror review! This is the last horror review to ever be written, I think, because this game, Clock Tower was the last horror game to ever be made possibly. The last sentence is just a big lie, the opening to a trailer. “See the horrible Scissorman! Feel the terror in real, polygonal 3D!” Clock Tower came to a console near you (in Japan) on December 13 th , 1996, to a console near you (in North America) on October 1 st , 1997, and to viewers like you all in Europe sometime in February 1998. In a truly psychotropic nightmare of nonsense, the game is actually the second in the series; the real first Clock T...

This review was originally published on the  Console Purist  Facebook group on October 26th, 2019. Hello, and welcome again to the PlayStation Basement! PlayStation Basement is a weekly review of an obscure or odd game for the original PlayStation. Games are rated Good, Bad, or Neutral. Now, let’s go! This is the last full week of October, so I have another horror-ish game for this eerie month. Today, it’s LSD: Dream Emulator by Asmik Ace. The game was published in Japan on October 22 nd , 1998, a day before my 9 th birthday. Earlier this week, I turned 30, and LSD: Dream Emulator turned 21. The game was made from an idea by Osamu Sato and based on a dream diary kept for over 10 years by Hiroko Nishikawa. Essentially the game is about exploring Nishikawa’s linking, sapient dreams (or at least dreams similar to Nishikawa’s). Along with the previously reviewed Ore no Ryouri , LSD is one of the games that made me want to get a way to play Japanese PlayStation games...

This review was originally published on the  Console Purist  Facebook group on October 19th, 2019. Hello again, and welcome back to the PlayStation Basement! PlayStation Basement is a weekly review of an odd or obscure game for the original PlayStation. Games are rated Good, Bad, or Neutral. Now, let’s go! October’s month of horror returns with Kenji Eno’s D . This was intended to be my first horror review for the month, but various challenges arose that forced me to push the review back. It was my first PlayStation longbox game (a set I ended up completing a year later) and a game that I sometimes saw growing up but having no idea what it was. D was released on the 3DO, Saturn, PC, and the PS1 at various points in 1995 and 1996. I’ll just be talking about the PlayStation version. The game was released in Japan as D no Shokutaku ( D’s Dining Table ) and later as D’s Diner: Director’s Cut , but it is known only as D in the West. The game was developed by Warp, ba...

This year I have completed a number of games already. There's still a bit more time for more games to be completed, but I exceeded 100 so far in the last quarter. I've been writing reviews for each game I completed so far, and you can find those in the articles about  Four in February  and  First Quarter  and Second Quarter games. Since last year I've been aiming to actually play and finish the games I've been accumulating, and I think I've been doing an okay job. This quarter was kind of goofy in terms of what was completed, but I had to make time when I could while moving from one house to another. Here are the games I completed during our rough moving time - July, August, and September: 94. Puyo Puyo Tetris (Switch) - July 1st, 2019 I started Puyo Puyo Tetris  some time ago. It was a pretty early game for the Switch, but I actually avoided it for a bit. I didn't love the art style, and the game seemed kind of cheaply made. After playing it for...