Review by Matt S. If Destiny and Phantasy Star were to have a baby, we’d be questioning Phantasy Star’s taste in partners… but more particularly, we’d be looking at something like Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet. Based on the popular anime that is one giant meta-discussion about anime MMO worlds,…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet is a shooter-orientated take on the Sword Art Online formula. It still features plenty of grinding and single player MMO-style gameplay, but done in the context of a shooter. Related reading: Clark reviews a Sword Art Online game from a few…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. And the best bit of news all week comes in right at the end of the week; Koei Tecmo is releasing a proper Atelier game on mobile, for a premium price, and with none of the free-to-play nonsense mechanics (we think). The game is Atelier Marie,…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Miku bless Atlus/SEGA. Without that publisher we would just never see quirky Japanese games like Shining Resonance Refrain in the west. Of course, it’s SEGA’s own game and it’s been something like a decade since it bothered to localise one, but let’s not hold grudges here.…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Why didn’t Square Enix just produce a new Mana game? There’s a lot to like about this Secret of Mana remake. It’s gorgeous. It’s bright. It’s charming. But it’s not the original Secret of Mana. It’s not surprising that it can’t match the original Secret of…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. It usually does my head in when developers, authors, film makers, or any other creative tries to tackle the topic of time travel. That’s not to say it can’t be done, and the body of philosophical thought around time travel and associated themes (morality and so…
Read MorePreview by Matt S. I had a chance to mosey on over to Bandai Namco and test out two of its upcoming games; Ni No Kuni 2 (due next month) and Soul Calibur VI (due eventually). In short: boy is Namco in for a good year this year. Related reading:…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Fantasy Hero is trashy. It was trashy on its original release on the PlayStation Vita, and on the very long list of games I’d like to see released on the Nintendo Switch, this one is nowhere close to it. But, the Switch is the “in” console…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Of all the tactics JRPGs that have been released in recent years (yes, including Fire Emblem, Disgaea 5 and Dynasty Wars: Godseekers), God Wars is by far my favourite. Developed by Kadokawa Games and released on the PlayStation 4, this is a game that took traditional…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Over the weekend, Nippon Ichi announced that it was publishing Labyrinth of Refrain in the west, a dungeon crawling JRPG for PC, PS4 and Nintendo Switch. We can’t get enough of dungeon crawling, of course, so we were keen on the game on principle alone, but…
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