Review by Matt S. Years after the PlayStation Vita has finally been laid to rest, and even the Japanese developers and publishers who are still supporting it have stopped, I’m going to continue playing it for many years to come. The main reasons for that are twofold: on the one…
Read MorePreview by Matt S. It’s finally happening! NieR Automata is just around the corner. This is a game I never expected would exist. The first NieR was a critical and commercial failure. It deserved to be neither – indeed, we’ve formally classified it as the best game of all time…
Read MoreNews by Britta S. Koei Tecmo has announced the launch of Atelier Firis: the Alchemist and the Mysterious Journey to our humble English-speaking world. The game will release physically and digitally for PlayStation 4, digitally for PS Vita, and for PC via Steam on 7 March in North America and…
Read MoreNews by Matt C Until December 31, the acclaimed Xbox 360 JRPG Lost Odyssey is freely available on Xbox 360 and Xbox One – for everyone, not just Xbox Live Gold subscribers. To get the game, simply go to the game’s page on Xbox Marketplace and click “Download to Xbox…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I don’t really understand the logic of having Shin Megami Tensei games on Nintendo 3DS. Here we have an incredibly dark, violent, adult series on a console best suited to uber-cute chibi characters and bright colours. That’s not designed as an insult to the console, but…
Read MoreRetro reflections by Matt S. Square Enix owns a lot of different franchises, of course. Of them all, perhaps the one that has been given the least attention, despite being eminently worthy, is the Ogre Battle franchise. Indeed, aside from the Tactics sub-series, you have to go all the way…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Stand By Me is an incredibly important film to the Japanese: while it may have been filmed in Hollywood and looks and behaves like a Western film, the subject matter of the film itself is of great relevance to Japan. Related reading: You really should watch…
Read MoreReview by Clark A. Sword Art Online’s video game adaptations should be applauded for bringing a storied concept from the source material to life. That concept is of course the titular world of Sword Art Online, a fictional virtual reality-based multiplayer game (or, to use the inelegant acronym, a VRMMORPG).…
Read MoreReview by Nick H. The Dragon Ball series makes for some great games. Large casts of distinctive characters, and plenty of fighting, fits in perfectly with what we do in so many games. Love or hate the series, there is no questioning that Dragon Ball has been an influential anime…
Read MoreImpressions by Matt S. I am reviewing Final Fantasy XV, but it’s going to take quite a while; expect it towards the end of the week. It’s not just that the game is huge (it most certainly is, and I’m not nearly far enough through it to start judging it…
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