Month Overview: August 2017

 Tally:
Dead to Rights II 6.0
Mortal Kombat 4 6.5
Dead to Rights - Reckoning 8.0
X-Men Legends 6.0
X-Men Legends II - Rise of Apocalypse 7.5
Dead to Rights - Retribution 8.5
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 7.0
War Gods 3.0
Mortal Kombat Trilogy 4.5
Marvel Ultimate Alliance(PSP) 7.0
Dragon Ball GT - Final Bout 0.5
Bloody Roar 7.0
Marvel Ultimate Alliance(PS3) 7.0
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2(DS) 4.0
X-Men - Mutant Academy 6.5
Gladiator - Sword of Vengeance 6.0
Shin Megami Tensei IV 8.0
Street Fighter EX2 Plus 8.0


 The month of Franchises? I played the rest of Dead to Rights, played almost the entire Marvel Rpgs from Raven Software, and played two Mortal Kombat games as well as War Gods, MK 4's predecessor. More interestingly, one year later I finally finished SMT IV, the bastard! I absolutely hated how much they Persona-fied it, but it's still a quality game... but I don't think I'll be picking up SMT IV: Apocalypse any time soon, they even added Beach/Swimsuit DLC, because Persona-fying the main branch of SMT is a smart idea. Damn you, Atlus! I also picked up Monster Hunter 3 back, so maybe I will finally finish it this year, eh?

 Game of August:

This cover is NOT pretty, but...

 Dead to Rights Retribution was phenomenal, it was everything I wanted it to be and more. I still can't understand how underrated this game is, and I can't understand how many people would describe it as 'generic'. This is as good as arcadey shooters get!

 Runner-up:

...at least it's not this ugly. Who gave the OK to this cover? The European and Japanese covers are so much better it ain't even funny.

 Street Fighter EX2 Plus was almost as good as I remembered it to be, almost. Perhaps... perhaps it's as good as it's ever been, but other fighting games that came after it spoiled me? Alas, it's still a great time to be had, although I don't think I'll be coming back to it as often as I once did.