Video by Matt S. Ys IX: Monstrum Nox is the latest in a long-running series of action JRPGs that I have had a complex relationship with over the years… but this one? Wow, do I love this one. Nihon Falcom has knocked it out of the park and then some.…
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Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s weekly catch-up news feature, the catch-up coffee. Here, I bring you the best news you may have missed from last week. Grab the biggest mug you’ve got, fill it with your favourite brew, and catch up with us (and our favourite news anchor, Dee Dee)!…
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Ys X: Proud Nordics, the definitive edition of the acclaimed Ys series game, was previously announced for PC and Switch 2 in the West. Today, NIS America announced that the title would also be coming to PlayStation 5. The publisher also revealed the game’s two release dates: one for the…
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Ys Memoire: Revelations is considered a pioneering action-RPG classic, and it’s making a return with Ys Memoire: Revelations in Celceta. The “renewed” take on the title launches physically and digitally in the West for Nintendo Switch in early 2026. The game takes place immediately following the story of Ys X…
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I’d only ever played The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky via the PSP version, and then via Anbernic handhelds, where I would putter around with it for a short time before inevitably finding something else to play. I came to the Trails series much later (with Cold Steel),…
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It seems to take a lifetime for the Trails games to make their way from Japan to the West, even though it’s truthfully less than a couple of years. Delays don’t help, though! The Legend of Heroes: Trails beyond the Horizon follows this pattern; it was originally released in Japan…
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I come bearing good news and bad news. The good? RPG The Legend of Heroes: Trails beyond the Horizon will be launching for Switch 2 alongside its previously announced PC and console versions. The bad? The game’s release window was originally set for this (Northern) fall, but that has now…
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JRPG Ys X: Nordics was only released in the West late last year but today Nihon Falcom announced that its upgraded version of the game, titled Ys X: Proud Nordics, is set to launch for Nintendo Switch 2 in Japan in mere months. It will be available physically and digitally,…
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Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s weekly catch-up news feature, the catch-up coffee. I will bring you the best news you may have missed with each issue. Grab the biggest mug you’ve got, fill it with your favourite brew, and catch up with us (and our favourite news anchor, Dee Dee)!…
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There’s a literary device called the Deus Ex Machina (no, the game series didn’t invent that cool-sounding word), which describes when an author uses a plot device to solve a seemingly unsolvable problem in a story. It’s possibly the most difficult literary device to use, since, if you calibrate it…
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