Hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving weekend. It’s three-and-a-half weeks left until Decemberween (no, I will not stop calling it that). Why not pass the time with a little bit of nostalgia. For this week’s Retro Wrap-Up, the Operation Rainfall Retro Commercial Research Team (in other words, me) found a couple commercials for some of the Dragon Quest games that were released internationally. This includes the first installment for the NES, which was called Dragon Warrior at the time.
Of course, there were no commercials for any of the other Dragon Quest games that were released internationally. Not until Dragon Quest VIII, at least.
And, of course, we can’t forget this gem.
Here are the highlights of this past week.
Jonathan Higgins reviews Knack for the PlayStation 4, Tyler Lubben reviews Two Brothers for the PC and Jeff Neuenschwander reviews Defender’s Quest: Valley of the Forgotten for the PC and Dragon Quest IV: Chapters of the Chosen for the DS in this week’s Retro Review.
Atlus gives us more details about some of their recently announced Persona games, including the PlayStation Vita exclusive Persona 4: Dancing All Night and Persona 5.
Josh Speer recaps this past week of Smash Bros. screenshots in this week’s Smashing Saturdays, with Andy Na discussing his experience playing as Link in this week’s Character of the Week.
Rune Factory and Lufia developer Neverland Company has sadly announced that it will be shutting down.
We take a look at NIS America’s anime output in this week’s Publisher Spotlight.
Famitsu has revealed a new character for Guilty Gear Xrd –SIGN- known as Bedman.
Sharla decides to join Shulk and Reyn on their quest in the latest chapter of Charlotte Buckingham’s Xenoblade Novelisation.
Square Enix has finally released Final Fantasy IV: The After Years 3D Remake for both iOS and Android.
Finally, Jonathan Higgins listed his Top 10 favorite Legend of Zelda games of all time.
