Review by Pierre-Yves L. Battle Chasers: Nightwar is a western-developed JRPG from a team that includes Vigil Games veterans (the developer that made the Darksiders titles), and it hits all of the marks and more for dungeon crawling fans of all types. Starting off by sailing through the skies on…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Nights of Azure 2 has made some meaningful changes to its combat system when compared to the first. Having finished the game I’m still not entirely sold on those, given that I really liked the mechanics the first time around, but they’re still clean and playable,…
Read MoreReview by Trent P. Yo-Kai Watch is a modern monster collecting and battling JRPG series that lives in the shadow of Pokémon. But with western releases of other media in the series such as the anime, this immediate response to the game is becoming less common and people are starting…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L.Note: This Nintendo Switch release is actually two games in the one package. So we’ve reviewed both, and then the score at the bottom reflects the combined purchase. Brave Dungeon Brave Dungeon is a spinoff dungeon crawler developed by Japanese indie studio INSIDE SYSTEM, building on the…
Read MoreReview by Brad L. So far, 2017 has been host to a lot of incredible games, it most certainly has been one of the best years in games in a very long time. Even in a decade where remakes have almost certainly outstayed their welcome, 2017 has been host to…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. It was inevitable that the Hyperdimension Neptunia series would set its sights on the MMO at some stage. Each game in the series satirises and parodies one or another JRPG sub-genre; whether it’s the traditional turn-based genre, the tactics JRPG or action JRPGs, but until now…
Read MoreRetro reflections by Brad L. With Final Fantasy IX recently being released to a new generation on the PlayStation 4. We thought that rather than reviewing a 17-year-old game that has had minimal improvements in this port, we would instead reflect upon something that really ended with the final PlayStation…
Read MoreReview by Ginny W. Sword Art Online is somewhat of a household name around these parts, and by “these parts” I mean large swathes of the gaming community. Anime series like Sword Art Online now are a dime a dozen, and takes on the genre of being forced into a…
Read MoreInterview by Matt S. The dungeon crawler genre has been around since the very foundations of the RPG. Most of us older people have fond memories of playing through the Wizardry and Might & Magic games of the ‘80s and ‘90s, and indeed the early dungeon crawlers featured prominently in…
Read MoreReview by Matt C. Mel Kishida deserves to be a household name. Even at a relatively young age, he’s made his mark as a character designer with the likes of the Atelier Arland trilogy and Hanasaku Iroha. Fantastic as those are, Kishida’s taken things to a new level with Blue…
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