Review: Dead or School (Nintendo Switch)

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Review by Matt S.  You’ve got to hand it to the development team behind Dead or School. Despite the Indiegogo campaign to fund the game failing spectacularly back in 2016, the small team has persevered and managed to get the thing over the line. It’s not bad, either. Dead or…

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Import review: Taiko no Tatsujin: Nintendo Switch Version! (Nintendo Switch)

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Review by Matt S.  On the happiness scale, there aren’t many things that can out-happy Taiko no Tatsujin. The adorable arcade drumming rhythm experience, with its psychedelic use of colour and sheer energy, has become an institution in Japanese arcades, and a beloved example of the rhythm game genre for…

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I want to talk about virtual girl simulator, Summer Lesson, and the wrong idea people have about it

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Article by Matt S. I’ve finally got around to playing the first installment of Summer Lesson, which was given English subtitles for a release in the English-speaking Asian market. So if you can access the Hong Kong PlayStation Network (thank the mercies for region-free) you can play it on any…

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Play-Asia review: Natsuiro High School: Seisyun Hakusyo

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So, Natsuiro High School is a game in which its sole reason to exist is to give people the chance to skulk around a school and nearby town, with a camera in hand, and equipped with the mad skills necessary to slide under a girl’s skirt and photograph her underwear…

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DDNet does Japan! Day #20: Import Review: Taiko no Tatsujin V Version (Sony PlayStation Vita)

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If you want an example of a rhythm game that could never really work in the west, it’s surely Taiko no Tatsujin V Version. With huge tracklist that could only ever be relevant to the Japanese, Taiko is also ridiculously colourful and has an energy to it that can only…

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DDNet does Japan! Day #4: Import Review: IA/VT Colorful (Sony PlayStation Vita)

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Like I was going to pass up an opportunity to grab a new vocaloid game while I was in Japan. Especially since it’s a game that we’re being told can never be localised into English. IA/VT Colorful might feature a vocaloid whose popularity by comparison to Hatsune Miku is like…

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