Review: Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (Sony PlayStation 4)

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Review by Matt C. As soon as you describe a Kickstarter project as a spiritual successor to something beloved, you set the expectations through the roof—not least of all when the original creator comes out of the shadows to take the helm. Even if the end result is something that’s…

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Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade – Nintendo’s most important JRPG

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Retro reflections by Matt S.  With Fire Emblem: Three Houses releasing this month, and marking the first “proper” Fire Emblem to land on Nintendo Switch, I’ve been going back over my time with the series, and replaying the first Fire Emblem to be formally localised and released into English. Fire…

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Review: Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered (Nintendo Switch)

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Review by Matt S.  Red Faction: Guerrilla was a major hit for THQ (as in, the original THQ prior to bankruptcy, not the Nordic Games-renamed THQ Nordic). It soared well over the million units threshold, and was a critical darling too; on Metacritic the aggregate score for PS3 and Xbox…

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