Review by Harvard L. It’s no faint praise for a game to be compared to the early Legend of Zelda titles, but there is no easier way to express the feel and mechanics of Heart Machine’s indie masterpiece Hyper Light Drifter. This is a top down action RPG which values…
Read MoreRetro reflections by Matt S. I’m going to talk about Final Fantasy in my retro reflections this week, because Final Fantasy is a game that is slowly slipping out of people’s thoughts. It’s almost never listed among people’s favourite games of the series any longer, and very few talk about…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. NISA has been busy this week. In addition to the big reveal of The Longest Five Minutes, the publisher has also unleashed a new trailer that gives us a closer look at how Criminal Girls 2: Party Favors will play. Related reading: Matt’s review of the…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. NISA really does choose some fascinating projects to localise. Earlier this week it announced that it will be bringing The Longest Five Minutes to the west (PlayStation Vita and PC), and it’s a fascinating sounding little game, to be sure. From the press release: Originally developed…
Read MoreReview by Lindsay M. When I installed Final Fantasy Brave Exvius on my iPad, I wasn’t sure what to expect. I had played Record Keeper before and grown tired within days; I was just not familiar enough with every Final Fantasy game to truly appreciate it. Brave Exvius is essentially…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Traditional as traditional comes, Shiren the Wanderer was one of the pioneers of the modern roguelike Mystery Dungeon subgenre. The first game landed right back in 1995 on the Super Famicom in Japan, and while we see shades of that game in so many more innovative…
Read MoreRetro reflections by Nick H. Recently we have had a few articles talking about Three Kingdoms period of ancient China. In particular I have spoken about how I fell in love with the Koei strategy game back on the NES and Matt recently reviewed the latest version of Romance of…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Fruitbat Factory is one of my favourite localisation houses. The team specialises in bringing over ultra-niche games from Japan, and are perhaps best known for Eiyuu Senki, the tactics strategy game on the PlayStation 3 that absolutely wowed us in that console’s twilight. Related reading: Matt’s…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The Japanese word “Setsunasa”, which I Am Setsuna derives its thematic thrust from, is a nuanced one, and it’s a word that doesn’t really translate into English as neatly as some might try to force it to. In literal terms it means something close to “sorrow,”…
Read MoreRetro reflections by Matt S. FromSoftware did not spring into existence with Dark Souls. No, Demon’s Souls wasn’t even its first game. Not many people were, perhaps, as familiar with FromSoftware prior to hitting the big time with those gothic nightmares, but in actuality, the developer was already a favourite…
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