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July 30, 2022

Competition

LAST CHANCE! Win one of FIVE RIG 800 PRO headsets & Stranger Of Paradise (+DLC)

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…

psychological horror

Why I can’t review Martha is Dead

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…

Review: Elex II (Sony PlayStation 5)

I’m not sure there’s ever a precisely right time to release a…

Review: Gran Turismo 7 (Sony PlayStation 5)

I really wish I loved anything as much as Yamauchi Kazunori loves…

Review: DiRT 4 (Sony PlayStation 4)

June 28, 2017

Codemasters/DiRT 4/PlayStation 4/PS4 Review/Racing/Racing Game/Reviews

Review by Matt S. As I’ve said in reviews in the past, designing a rally racing game is surely something of a blessing and a curse for developers. It’s a blessing on the one hand because there’s relatively little AI work to do. The only car on the track is…

Review: Danganronpa Another Episode: UItra Despair Girls (Sony PlayStation 4)

June 28, 2017

action/Danganronpa/Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls/Horror/NISA/PlayStation 4/PS4 Review/Reviews/Spike Chunsoft

Review by Matt S. Danganronpa: Ultra Despair Girls was a very different game to the two original visual novels that so won fans over on the PlayStation Vita. Those games were interactive mystery novels that mixed humor, serious themes, and a touch of fanservice together to create two narratives that…

Retro reflections: On King Arthur’s World, the forgotten SNES classic

June 27, 2017

DDNet Premium/King Arthur/King Arthur's World/Retro/Retro Reflections/RTS/SNES/Super Nintendo

Retro reflections by Matt S. With the Super Nintendo Mini being announced this week, I thought I’d take a look back on a game that will never appear on that console’s list of games. It’s a game that has been all but forgotten, and will likely never be resurrected. It’s…

Review: Valkyria Revolution (Sony PlayStation 4)

June 27, 2017

action RPG/JRPG/PlayStation 4/PS4 Review/Reviews/Sega/Valkyria Revoluion

Review by Matt S. One of the quickest tells for what a developer intended with a game, even if it doesn’t quite succeed at that intention, is if the game pays homage to Shakespeare on a meaningful level. If you’re dropping names from his plays, repeating famous quotes verbatim, and…

A month of Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood – Diary 2: To Doma

June 27, 2017

Final Fantasy/Final Fantasy XIV/Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood/MMORPG/Square Enix

Impressions by Matt C. In the past week, I’ve visited a Japanese-style temple at the bottom of an ocean-bed ravine, I’ve taken part in a battle royale among Mongol-inspired nomadic tribes, and I’ve seen a subjugated people rise up after 25 years of oppressive rule. I’ve fought primals, voidsent, elite…

Review: Perception (Sony PlayStation 4)

June 26, 2017

blindness/Horror/Indie/Perception/PlayStation 4/PS4 Review/Reviews/walking simulator

Review by Matt S. Perception is a game that I am thoroughly convinced is very genuine in what it wants to achieve, but unfortunately the developer team lacked the ability to execute to that ambition. It’s the game that everyone knows as “the horror game about the blind girl,” and…

Review: God Wars: Future Past (Sony PlayStation 4)

June 26, 2017

God Wars/God Wars: Future Past/JRPG/Kadokawa Games/NISA/PlayStation 4/PS4 Review/Reviews/Tactics RPG

Review by Matt S. We talk a lot about Japanese games on DDNet. You might have noticed that. But there are Japanese games, developed by Japanese game developers, and then there are Japanese games that are Japanese, in the sense that they designed specifically around the Japanese cultural experience, tapping…

The catch-up coffee: Monday, June 26, 2017

June 25, 2017

11 bit studios/2D platformer/catch-up coffee/Cities: Skylines/Dynasty Warriors 9/Indie/Koei Tecmo/News/RPG/The Tenth Line/This War of Mine/This War Of Mine: The Little Ones

News by Lindsay M. 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 our favourite…

The Friday Ten: Ten games to cheer you up when you’re sick

June 23, 2017

Friday 10s/list/Top 10

List by Matt S. I’ve been really, really sick this week. Sick enough that if it wasn’t for the awesome efforts of the entire DDNet team, the website would have been all tumbleweeds this week. Now that I’m somewhat on the mend, I’ve been hit with a bit of a…

Review: Victor Vran (Sony PlayStation 4)

June 23, 2017

Diablo clone/Gothic/PlayStation 4/PS4 Review/Reviews/RPG/Victor Vran

Review by Matt S. The unfortunate reality about the entire “Diablo clone” genre is that it’s impossible to make a top-down perspective, loot-heavy, narrative-light game without having your game compared to Diablo. It’s right there in the genre title. Most games – in fact, almost all games, do not come…

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