I wasn’t expecting Armored Core VI to be a Soulslike, but I was expecting some kind of transformative experience. Perhaps that’s a bit much to ask of FromSoftware, but for more than a decade now, since Dark Souls itself in 2011, FromSoftware has grown to become renowned for a certain…
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With Armored Core VI just around the corner (unfortunately we didn’t have a review ready for launch because of all the disruption over the last couple of weeks, but we will get one turned around as soon as we can), it’s good to see FromSoftware stepping back into some of…
Read MorePreview by Matt S. Dark Souls was one of those rare things; not only was it an excellent game, but it also entered the lexicon. “The Dark Souls of XXXX” became a favoured turn of phrases for anyone who was stretching to describe a particularly challenging example of a genre…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I liked the Souls games before they were cool. In fact, I loved them before they were even Souls games. Way back on the PlayStation 2 (and earlier) FromSoftware had a series called King’s Field. It wasn’t particularly popular, because it was brutally difficult (the PlayStation…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. One of the “lost” classics in FromSoftware’s long history, Metal Wolf Chaos was only ever released in Japan, and on the Xbox – a console no one wanted in that country. That made it almost impossible for anyone to play. Now, courtesy of Devolver Digital, we’re…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. In an alternate timeline, the Vice President of the United States orchestrates a military coup d’état on the sitting President, imposing martial law and flooding the country with pro-coup propaganda. In an act of political brilliance, the President boards a giant mech and starts blowing things…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. I haven’t played the commercial release of Sekiro yet. I have a copy sitting on my desk, but having spent the last couple of weeks in Japan I’m still playing catch-up with everything that I need to play for review, and we already have a review…
Read MoreReview by Nick H. It is clear that FromSoftware knows its way around epic action games, and Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice provides plenty of combat action. There are some similarities to FromSoftware’s popular Souls series, but Sekiro also brings plenty of new elements to the table as well while carving…
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