The Rabbitte Perspective

Where it all started... There's really nothing quite like it when you relive a game that was forever in your interests as a child. While there were numerous games that me and my older brothers played countless amounts of times, games such as FIFA, Timesplitters, Mario Kart 64/Super Mario 64 and many others, the game that not only peaked everyone's interest at the time but served to be the 1st genuine game that I had properly played through, was Pokemon Silver. Despite these first Pokemon Blue/Red belonging to my older brothers, leaving me and the other brother of mine helplessly watching along, at the time it was just as addicting watching people play the game since it was a GameBoy head-title that had so much mystery, secrets and replay-ability within it. This would prove to be the same when I first played Pokemon Silver where not only were there more secrets and trinkets that kept me glued to catching more of these creatures and obtaining more badges, but was a vast im...

A refreshing game filled with old and new touches  Over the years of gaming's history, I think it's really easy to suggest that the RPG (Role Playing Game) genre really is a hard type of game to consume and engross in. While in Japan and other Asian countries people are used to playing long and stretched out games such as these, in the West it's a hard sell for games such as 'Final Fantasy' and the 'Tales of...' series due to the fact that we are very much used to hard-core sellers such as 'Call Of Duty', FIFA that really don't make us sit through a long ordeal and that it takes forever to do something. I personally think our mind set (Western audiences) when it comes to gaming is that everything should be instant and fast paced and we don't have to 'explore' a game such as 'Call Of Duty' or 'FIFA' in great depth. Don't get me wrong there are rare occasions when a certain RPG may appeal to the masses a...