It was a relief to see that Ragnarok Odyssey had arrived in Australia. Here was one of those early Vita games that I was really looking forward to, but was worried it would be too niche for this market. While I needed to wait a while to finally get my…
Read MoreThe fifth installment of GAMEVIL’s popular Zenonia action/RPG series lands on Apple devices. Zenonia 5: Wheel of Destiny picks up “long after” Zenonia 4 ended and takes players on a quest through a world that’s fallen into corruption at the hands of some very bad folk. The game offers four…
Read MoreRise of the Guardians was never going to be a classic game, but to look at the game’s Miiverse community you’d think this is the worst game since Ninjabread Man. Ignoring the fact that most of that Miiverse community hasn’t played the game (a topic for a discussion on another…
Read MoreBaroque is one of the least well known games that keeps getting remade, I’ll wager. This exact title which is now an iOS download was originally a Sega Saturn and PlayStation 2 game, and then ported to the Nintendo Wii. Either it sells well enough each time to justify a…
Read MoreIgnoring the silly tantrum that many people threw over the ending of the game, Mass Effect 3 is going to go down as one of the generation’s finest games. It’s also a game in a series that people who have stuck exclusively to Nintendo’s hardware have yet to experience. In…
Read MoreDigitally Downloaded recently scored the chance to talk to the guys bringing the multi-platform title Two Brothers to a range of platforms, from iOS to Wii U. Two Brothers has been inspired by retro 8-bit RPGs and the golden Game Boy era of gaming; games such as The Legend of…
Read MoreWhen the demo for Silent Hill: Book of Memories was released, I wrote with great enthusiasm about how great and important that game was, for both gamers and the Vita itself. Having played the full game I need to revise down my initial impressions a little. That’s not to say…
Read MoreThere’s something about Cyanide Studios’ games that I love. Even when its games fail to live up to the promise, these guys are clearly genuine in their love for the same kinds of games that I love. Cyanide is the team that revived Confrontation – one of the finest miniatures…
Read MoreScratch beneath the surface, and Bastion is a tight, but entirely generic Diablo-style action RPG, with a little less depth. Then again, why the heck would you want to scratch beneath the surface? For all its accolades and reputation, Bastion isn’t exactly innovative with its gameplay systems. You’ll descend into…
Read MoreThe World Ends With You (TWEWY) is a pretty big deal amongst a very small group of gamers when it was released on the Nintendo DS. Despite only shifting around 650,000 copies worldwide, when a teaser website featuring TWEWY art work went live, there was a lot of excitement around…
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