Pics or it didn't happen!

That's fair. There's something there for sure, particularly in overall tone. It's just buried under a lot of janky gameplay sadly!

I agree slightly less than you folks. I found it wore thin pretty quickly and was a little half baked.

But it is absolutely worth £4.50 and an interesting curio - the aesthetic has heavy NiGHTS vibes, which is more than enough reason to give it a punt.

Living my best life with this delicious abomination

Cheesecake and Unto Others - that sounds like my dream night!

*its - blame autocorrect!

Exactly. Display box, get your sticky mits on the controller.

I'm still gutted I missed out on the PS1 styled DS4 years ago, so am fervently refreshing stock checkers for this one..!

Come on, you've got to play! If I manage to get my hands on one, it's coming straight out the box and in to my hands.

The original GBA form factor is definitely the king, but I always feel weird playing GB / GBC games on it due to bulky cartridges and a dinky screen size.

Then again, this is how I've ended up with way too many handhelds - by being fussy. Irony is I mostly play the Pocket these days!

It's also good fun and surprisingly doable to mod them yourselves. I've ended up doing a few over the years - these are the most recent ones.

I do now however have more Gameboys than strictly necessary..!

Writing, recording and finishing something so ridiculous a concept still remains one of my biggest achievements.

That I managed to convince a bunch of great singers and guitarists to help me out was incredible.

Anyway, hope you listen and enjoy!

RE influence aside, musically the album is my love letter to the more bombastic and over the top side of rock and metal; Meat Loaf, Queensryche, Savatage, Ayreon, Avantasia etc.

Of course, recording an album for the first time in my living room meant the production values didn't quite match..!