May the great vocaloids above bless D3 Publisher for eternity. Without this company and its love of publishing B-grade aesthetics, we wouldn’t have the likes of Onechanbara, School Girl/Zombie Hunter and Earth Defence Force and the games industry would be a much darker place. I mean this quite sincerely, too.…
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My favourite film of all time is The Crow. I have seen the film so many times that I can recite it from heart. “It can’t rain all the time…. I thought I’d use your front door… And I say I’m dead, and I move.” It’s a classic. One of…
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Conan Chop Chop wants to sit somewhere between Gauntlet and Hades. It wants to be an action roguelike with a moreish loot system, but also being orientated heavily towards bringing four friends together for some button-mashing chaos. Unfortunately, it’s much too inconsistent to reach the heights of either genre-defining great,…
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Video by Matt S. Dynasty Warriors 9 Empires is a spectacular return to form, for anyone that found the original Dynasty Warriors 9 to be disappointing. More than that, though, it’s perhaps the most thematically true adaptation of the classic novel that all these things are based on. In this…
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My spouse (Lady Sun Shangxiang, no less!), who I had been wooing for years before finally tying the knot, was in trouble. A large force led by Cao Cao had attacked one of my more remote territories, and the task of holding down an entire flank was left on her.…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. At first, Serious Sam 4 is disappointing. Here I was watching an extended loading screen on the PlayStation 5 and, while these things don’t typically bother me, wasn’t the whole “no more loading times,” a big deal for the console? If I can play Ratchet &…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I grew up with the Asterix & Obelix series. Where other kids around me were more into the American superheroes, the very French antics of these very French characters were much more my thing. Consistently hilarious and nonsense but also full of big adventure and fisticuffs,…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The amusing thing about BloodRayne 2 is that the game was very much less favoured on its original release… but the ReVamped edition shows that it has held up better. When you consider what the first BloodRayne was trying to achieve – to be that grimy,…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I really should give this game a 5/5 score and be done with it. After all, it checks off just about everything I like. It has a vampire (sorry: half-vampire or dhampir, lore nerds) that leans heavily into the sexual motif in vampire tradition. It has…
Read MoreReview by Trent P. In the infancy of the Internet, many were fixated on quotes and philosophies from lead developers. One great example of this is the legendary Shigeru Miyamoto himself. Miyamoto has always been the face of Nintendo and responsible for so many of its characters, has been perhaps…
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