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…
Video by Matt S. This week in the week in review! Lots of Dragon Quest announced: https://twitter.com/Nintendeal/status/1397765520284274694 Amazon acquires MGM (i.e. James Bond): https://twitter.com/IGN/status/1397536439542460418 Mr. Smash Bros, Masahiro Sakurai, considering retirement: https://www.siliconera.com/smash-director-masahrio-sakurai-is-considering-early-retirement/ Demon Slayer game news (Nezuko so pretty): https://www.siliconera.com/demon-slayer-hinokami-kepputan-english-release-planned-for-2021/ And https://www.siliconera.com/demon-slayer-movie-now-2nd-highest-grossing-anime-at-us-box-office/ More data proving that video games are for…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. These days, I spend most of my time railing against the obsession that this industry has with content and game length. I don’t believe that it’s relevant to the quality or value of a game, and if we’re going to see games as…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. Square Enix announced a bevvy of new Dragon Quest remakes and new projects today. Most of them are good, exciting announcements, suggesting that the series might be hitting a new purple patch. Rather than summarise them all, I’ll just link you to the various Gematsu stories,…
Read MoreInterview by Matt S. If you haven’t heard of Cris Tales yet, I suspect you’re going to start hearing a lot about it quite soon. This grand homage from South America to the JRPGs of yesteryear (particularly Chrono Trigger), looks like the real deal, and then some. When so many…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. We do like a good tactics RPG experience here at DDNet. Publisher 1C Entertainment and developer 40 Giants Entertainment look set to provide that with Reverie Knights Tactics, which will launch this year for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC via Steam. The developer…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. Check out my review of Final Fantasy VII Remake here. We are just days away from the release of Yuffie’s chapter (and the PlayStation 5 edition) of Final Fantasy VII Remake. I am very much looking forward to this game, and after seeing a chunk of…
Read MoreReview by Alex Kidman. Back when I was but a teenager – which wasn’t quite the middle ages, but was some time ago – I attended a medieval-themed fancy dress party. As was befitting my social status at the time, I went dressed as a humble peasant. Yes, I was…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. With a heavy dose of the same kind of 19th-century English countryside gothic aesthetic that was instrumental in making Wuthering Heights my favourite book of all time, Maid of Sker hits the ground running. This game is beautiful and, while it is only very (very) loosely…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Susanoo is one of the great deities of Japanese mythology. He’s the brother of Amaterasu, and was considered both a benevolent and, at times, malevolent kami (deity). In other words, he’s the perfect source of inspiration for a game, and that’s exactly what developer, Hachikumasoft and…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. It often feels like it’s impossible to talk about video games without ending up talking about their price, as though the capitalism is related to the quality of the artwork. I would argue that they’re independent of one another, and while the cost of games is…
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