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Review: Fate/Extella Link (Sony PlayStation 4)

March 19, 2019
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Review by Matt S.  It must be difficult making one of those “1 vs 1,000” action games, in the vein of Koei Tecmo’s Dynasty Warriors series. They obviously sell well enough (because Koei keeps making them), but so few developers even try, much less approach the quality of what Koei…

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Review: Space Overlords (Sony PlayStation 4)

December 22, 2016
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Review by Matt C I like to think that I’m pretty good at finding the positive qualities of games, even ones that are “bad”. There are lots of widely-panned games that I rather like, and even in games I don’t enjoy, I can usually see at least see the potential.…

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Preview: Children of Morta (PC)

September 29, 2016
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Preview by Matthew C. As a rule, I don’t really like roguelike games all that much. Sure, there are plenty that I’ve played and enjoyed, but that enjoyment is usually in spite of the things that make the genre tick – permadeath, high difficulty curves, lots of randomisation and so…

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Review: Senran Kagura Shinovi Versus (PC)

June 23, 2016
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Review by Pierre-Yves L. The Senran Kagura series is well known for its fast paced fighting mechanics and its ample fanservice. Taking both of these traits and really running with them, Shinovi Versus places the series’ ninjas into what becomes a battle royale as they represent their respective schools. Not…

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Review: Bayonetta 2 (Nintendo Wii U)

October 30, 2014
action/Bayonetta/Bayonetta 2/controversy/hack and slash/Nintendo/Nintendo Wii U/Platinum Games/Reviews/transgressive/Wii U Review

Review by Matt S. A tall, beautiful woman stands in the middle of a circle of angelic beings. With guns in both hands and the heels of her shoes, she is a whirling dervish of death, tearing apart the angels with impunity. The size of these creatures is irrelevant as…

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Review: Hyrule Warriors + Master Quest DLC (Nintendo Wii U)

October 29, 2014
DLC/DLC Review/hack and slash/Hyrule Warriors/Koei Tecmo/Nintendo/Nintendo Wii U/Omega Force/Reviews/Team Ninja/Warriors/Wii U Review

Review by Brad L. It is no secret that a lot of us love the Warriors series here at Digitally Downloaded. I’m sure many a reader here knows how Matt was first introduced to the series. You could easily say he is probably the biggest fan of the Warriors games…

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Review: Samurai Warriors 4 (Sony PlayStation 4)

October 20, 2014
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Review by Matt S. Given that I am such a fan of Koei Tecmo’s Warriors franchise, people are often surprised to hear that I came to the series quite late. My first Warriors game was, in fact, Samurai Warriors 3 on the Nintendo Wii. And I wasn’t going to play…

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Review: Sacred 3 (Microsoft Xbox 360)

September 8, 2014
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Review by Nick H. Sacred 3 was a game that everyone at DDNet was really looking forward to, thanks to the quality of the previous game, and given how long it has been since we had a new Sacred game (no, the beat-em-up, Sacred Citadel, doesn’t count). Certainly Sacred 2…

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January 27, 2014
brawler/hack and slash/Lucifer Ring/MonkeyPaw Games/PlayStation/PlayStation 3/PlayStation One/Retro/Reviews/Sony

Review by Pierre-Yves L. If The Legend of Dragoon and the miscellaneous brawlers over the years had a love child, then this would be it. Lucifer Ring’s main character Nash looks and behaves as though he could have been the twin of those other classic heroes. This is a genre…

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Review: Rise of the Guardians (Wii U)

January 8, 2013
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Rise 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…

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