Video by Matt S. I do love my JRPGs, and the PlayStation 4 has given us a whole lot of great ones to play. While everyone knows the likes of Persona, Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and so on, there are also a lot of niche and obscure JRPGs that are…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. By the numbers, the Collection of Mana that Square Enix dropped on our Nintendo Switches as part of the E3 festivities last week is one of the most limited “retro packs” of all. Street Fighter had a dozen or so games, the SNK collection even more,…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Experience Inc, the Japanese specialist in Wizardry-style dungeon crawlers, has one final PlayStation Vita game in production, and it looks gorgeous. What’s more, it’s exclusive to that platform for some unfathomable reason. Blue-Winged Chevalier is a remake of Students of the Round, and is a classically…
Read MoreArticle by Pierre-Yves L. Following along the path of the first chapter of Falcom’s Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel, the second chapter has also been upgraded to the PlayStation 4 in preparation for the third later this year. Picking up the story just one month from the conclusion…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. Idea Factory’s newest Neptunia game comes to us from Canadian Artisan Studios and… it’s a nicely made game. It has an elegant combat system, some truly stunning art, and there has clearly been a lot of effort put into it. So why is it a disappointment?…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Here’s a review of two contrasts for you: As a 2D platformer JRPG, Super Neptunia RPG is good fun and well made. As an entry in the Hyperdimension Neptunia series, it’s a disappointment. Your mileage with this game is going to depend on two things: how…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Within all the announcements that were made through the Nintendo Switch E3 Direct (and there really were an awful lot of them), one really stood out as something that came out of nowhere, and I am immediately grateful that it exists. There’s a tactics RPG tie-in…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Created by everyone’s favourite up-and-coming developer/publisher, FuRyu, and localised in the west by XSEED, Heroland is the western title for what is known as WORK X WORK in Japan. Courtesy of E3, we now have a release window for the game – it launches in fall…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Bandai Namco’s anime Souls-ish-like, Code Vein, has been quietly turning heads and generating interest for a while now. And now, it finally has a release date. The game lands on September 27 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. Code Vein is basically a vampire story,…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Earlier this year, Idea Factory released Death’s End re;Quest, which proved to be an impressive step in a bold direction for the publisher. Previously known principally for budget, fanservicey JRPGs that revelled in their B-grade nature, Death End built impressive depth in its narratives and themes…
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