At first, I actually wasn’t 100 per cent certain on Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai DX on the Nintendo 3DS. I kinda assumed that I would enjoy it, given that it’s Miku and all, but I prefer the aesthetics of the more “realistic” Miku. As adorable as the nendoroids that Project…
Read MoreBack when I was a child, I had a mild addiction to a little card game that came, one pack of cards at a time, with a magazine I was collecting about dinosaurs. The card game itself wasn’t much more than a Top Trumps game, in which each dinosaur had…
Read MorePlaying Code Name: S.T.E.A.M actually felt like a betrayal. Until this game Intelligent Systems had never done me wrong. From Fire Emblem to Pushmo, Advanced Wars to Paper Mario, Intelligent Systems has one of the most stellar track records of all developers, and its upcoming Fire Emblem and Shin Megami…
Read MoreBloooooooooooooo. Booooooooooooo. Ahem. Bloo Kid 2 is so bad it made me feel bloo. No, wait, blue! The stupid game is making my IQ bleed out all over the place. Look, there are homages to old games out there, and it’s perfectly reasonable for indie developers to want to make…
Read MoreAs with any creation that increases in popularity, clones and spiritual successors will attempt to capitalise on the appeal of the original. We’ve already seen this on the Nintendo 3DS, and it was a truly horrific experience. Cube Creator 3D for the Nintendo 3DS is another take on Mojang’s Minecraft,…
Read More“There is a poison spreading huge enemy making a nest at the bottom of the underground waterway.” “Woooooooooow” thought I. “This game is awesome if there’s a poison spreading a huge enemy, or a poison spreading huge enemies.” I wasn’t quite sure what to expect because the grammar of that…
Read MoreSeeing release after the unyielding barrage of downloadable tower defence games has declined somewhat, Collavier’s Monster Combine TD does a decent job of standing out from its hundreds of peers. Though it borrows the general format of Plants vs. Zombies and hardly endeavours to perfect the genre, Monster Combine relies…
Read MoreIt’ll take you a full weekend to play through the three tutorials in A-Train 3D. In that time you’ll be bombarded with text as the game slowly – but comprehensively – walks you through its myriad of systems. You’ll generally quite overwhelmed with its complexity. But by the end of…
Read MorePrograms like Adobe Photoshop rule the roost when it comes to digital art on computers, but the landscape isn’t as cut and dry for apps that cater specifically to the limitations of consoles and portables. Dedicated systems have received everything from Art Academy, which makes use of the 3DS’s native…
Read MoreAs I booted up Story of Seasons for the first time, I was greeted with a couple sentences that outlined the developers’ desire for players to appreciate farm life and respect nature as a whole. A message that succinct couldn’t reasonably articulate an impactful environmental message, regrettably, but perhaps that…
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