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Aussie readers of DDNet, have we got a treat for you! (Note: this competition is only open to Australian residents. Apologies, overseas friends, but I’m sure we’ll have another contest for you soon) Stranger Of Paradise is one of the finest, and smartest, games in Square Enix’s storied series. As we wrote in our 4.5/5 review: Do you know that…
I don’t believe topics should be ignored in games, but I do believe that certain issues need to be handled delicately; things like mental illness, sexual assault, and war are not topics to be taken lightly. LKA is, to me, best known for approaching some very sensitive topics in The…
I’m not sure there’s ever a precisely right time to release a…
I really wish I loved anything as much as Yamauchi Kazunori loves…
Article by Matt S. I’ve finally got around to playing the first installment of Summer Lesson, which was given English subtitles for a release in the English-speaking Asian market. So if you can access the Hong Kong PlayStation Network (thank the mercies for region-free) you can play it on any…
Read MoreMatt’s back! And that means the Digitally Uploaded podcast is a go again! Unfortunately we discovered while Matt was in Japan that technical issues meant that we couldn’t record new episodes of the podcast, so sorry about that, but we’re back now, and boy have we got a great show…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. We here at DDNet really like cultural games, and what we have here is possibly the most memorable one you’ll play all year. Detention is a game developed by Taiwanese indie team Red Candle, set in the country’s turbulent history in the mid-20th century and weaving…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Touhou Kobuto V: Burst Battle is not a very good game, unfortunately. It’s a clumsy, clunky and amateurish production. That, of course, is part of its charm for the very small niche that would look at the screenshots and even think to give it a go.…
Read MoreReview by Moshe R. Football* is art. Football is an exact science. Football is a real time strategy game where two competing armies strive to make the most of the resources they have available to them through the positioning of the right player at the right time. Julius Caesar might…
Read MoreNews by Lindsay M, Ginny W, and Matt S. Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s regular catch-up news feature. With each issue we will bring you the best news that you may have missed. Grab the biggest mug you’ve got, fill it with your favourite brew, and catch up with us (and…
Read MoreList by Matt S. So we’ve had a week now with the SNES Mini, and while it’s a delightful nostalgia trip, we can’t help but be severely disappointed that there’s not more to it than the 21 games that are on the console. It’s not that there’s anything wrong with…
Read MoreInterview by Matt S. So, here’s the shocking truth; Gal*Gun Double Peace, a game deemed so perverse that the New Zealand censorship board needed to ban it to protect the nation’s very morality, isn’t actually perverted at all. Related reading: Our review of Gal*Gun: Double Peace. It wasn’t intended on being…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Back when I was at university, I had a professor that was somehow every university academic cliche you could imagine; he was softly spoken, as far from a fashionable dresser as you could imagine (tweed jacket and all), and had hair that didn’t look like it…
Read MoreReview by Ginny W. Let’s get a disclaimer out of the way: this review was written by someone who adored Super Mario Sunshine and Banjo-Kazooie. It’s also incredibly likely that A Hat in Time appears to have been conceived explicitly for the people sitting neatly in the nostalgia-heavy, old-timey intersection…
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