Blogcritics Author: Jason "Njiska" Westhaver

BC Gaming's Five Weeks of Horror: A Nightmare on Elm Street NES Review

Jason "Njiska" Westhaver — Mon, 6 Oct 2008 16:35:00 EDT

One, two, Freddy's coming for you. Three, four, better lock the door...
One, two, Freddy's coming for you. Three, four, better lock the door. You know the rhythm, you know why you should be afraid and you know why Robert Englund's tombstone will read, "See you in your dreams". For most of the '80s and part of the '90s, Freddy Krueger ruled our nightmares. He made us fear sleep, he made us love coffee and he became the...

BC Gaming's Five Weeks of Horror: Horror in the Time of Atari

Jason "Njiska" Westhaver — Thu, 2 Oct 2008 14:32:41 EDT

It's amazing what having one can reap with a few pixels and a joystick.
AlienI'll cut the BS and jump straight to the point on this one. Alien on the Atari 2600 is nothing more then a bad Pac-Man port. Game play is an exact carbon copy, aside from being able to briefly scare the aliens with a flamethrower. Every maze is exactly the same as the one before it only with slightly faster enemies. Enemies that seem to get...

BC Gaming's Five Weeks of Horror: Clock Tower Review

Jason "Njiska" Westhaver — Wed, 1 Oct 2008 19:10:15 EDT

It's like if Dario Argento made a horror game.
Horror gaming might be common in today's world of violent excess, but back in the early '90s they were few and far between. Though we'd seen a few titles like Halloween and Hugo's House of Horrors, they weren't really scary. Perhaps that's why Clock Tower so special. It was scary then and it's still scary now.Originally released in Japan for the...

BC Gaming's Five Weeks of Horror

Jason "Njiska" Westhaver — Wed, 1 Oct 2008 19:03:10 EDT

Violence and terror and gore, oh my! BC Gaming brings you 5 weeks of the finest horror games you may have never played.
Resident Evil, Silent Hill and Fatal Frame. They're often held to be the pinnacles of horror gaming, but when people start to refer to them as the originators of horror, my skin crawls. Yes, they made a huge impact on the genre, but we were fighting ghosts and monsters over a decade before we took that fateful trip into the Arklay Mountains.That's...

PC Game Review: Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People: Episode 2 - Strong Badia the Free

Jason "Njiska" Westhaver — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:23:58 EDT

Episode 1 was the opening volley, Episode 2 is all out war.
As with the last episode, Strong Badia the Free kicks off with Strong Bad, an e-mail and a question, “What's the dumbest law the King of Town has ever passed?” Within moments we get our answer when The King of Town and The Poopertrooper storm Strong Bad's home and place him under house-arrest for failing to pay the new E-mail...

PC Game Review: Strongbad's Cool Game for Attractive People: Episode 1 - Homestar Ruiner

Jason "Njiska" Westhaver — Tue, 9 Sep 2008 18:55:40 EDT

Homestarrunner.com. Great flash cartoons, but does the concept work as a game?
When it comes to creating strong episodic games nobody does it better than Telltale Games. With two seasons of Sam & Max under their belt and a collection of employees from Lucasarts' now-defunct "Cleverness Division", it's easy to see why they were chosen to adapt the wacky world of Homestar Runner. But was Telltale up to the challenge? Sure Sam...

PS2 Review: Obscure: The Aftermath

Jason "Njiska" Westhaver — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:01:40 EDT

Survival horror, done WB.
Let’s cut straight to the chase. Obscure: The Aftermath is an average, run-of-the-mill, survival horror game, with a strong fondness for WB-style storytelling and poor play mechanics. It’s a tacked on sequel to a generally terrible game that does little to set it apart from the dregs of the genre.Things kick off with you in control of...

Condemned 2: Bloodshot Review Companion

Jason "Njiska" Westhaver — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:39:59 EDT

Alcohol increased your ability to aim. BULLSHIT!
There's one glaring issue with Condemned 2 that needs to be addressed but because of the rather personal/moral nature of it, I decided it was best to do a separate article. I want to make it clear that this in no way affected how I scored the game. So here it goes.I love alcohol and I think it's a great thing in moderation, but I acknowledge the...

Xbox 360 Review: Condemned 2: Bloodshot

Jason "Njiska" Westhaver — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:48:55 EDT

20 drink minimum.
Do you want to be scared? Do you like to feel your pulse race? Do you need a level of intensity only found in a Muay Thai ring? Well then look elsewhere because for all that Condemned 2 does to satisfy you it ultimately fails to get you off in the end.The original Condemned was a dark, creepy and atmospheric nightmare filled with bone-chilling...

Nintendo DS Review: Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword

Jason "Njiska" Westhaver — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:05:13 EDT

The pen really is mightier then the sword.
Do you know why most franchises don't make a smooth jump to handhelds? It's because most developers never take the time to properly adjust game play for the new platform. Sure sometimes you get a game like God of War: Chains of Olympus that's really fun, but there's nothing there that screams, "This won't be ported to the PS2 in 3 months!" Let's...