Review by Matt S. Dark Souls III is a superb game that mixes a gothic, melancholic atmosphere with genuinely challenging combat and a narrative that obscures the true, startling revelations behind its thick fog and inky, unforgiving darkness. It obscures, but it doesn’t hide; you can learn Dark Souls III,…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. They often say that some of the most experimental and interesting content comes to game consoles at the start, and end, of their life spans. With the PlayStation Vita in its twilight, that idea is certainly holding true, because Trillion: God of Destruction is one incredibly…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. It’s been a long time since I last played a game that was truly operatic in tone. There have been titles that have effectively latched on to some of the thematic pulls of the art form, such as Pandora’s Tower and Nier, but to find the…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Sadame very much slots into the category of “kinds of games I really like to play. An action JRPG set in an alternative universe where the heroes of the Sengoku period have turned into monstrous demons, it has a strong theme and setting, and the way…
Read MoreReview by Jim S. Trulon is a game based on an upcoming novel called Shadow Gears by Johan Lillbacka and Jak Koke. The game is also a port as it was originally released as a mobile game. Trulon tells the story of a young monster hunter named Gladia as she…
Read MoreReview by Pierre-Yves L. You open your eyes to see a place that you’ve never seen before. The stonework as far as you can see is old and has been here for a long time. As you stand up and dust yourself off a old man approaches. An old man…
Read MoreReview by Nick H. While the Hyperdimension series is known primarily for being a series of traditional JRPGs, the series has shown with other titles like Hyperdimension Neptunia: Producing Perfection and Hyperdevotion Noire that the publisher is willing to take some chances and do things differently. Hyperdimension Neptunia U: Action…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. When Square Enix released Bravely Default in 2013, people lauded it as a glorious throwback to the classic Square Enix of old, where rich turn-based combat, a job system straight out of Final Fantasy V, and old-school random encounters met with an ultra-traditional tale of four…
Read MoreReview by Nick H. On paper, the idea of mixing a traditional JRPG with a Harvest Moon-like farming simulation seems like a great idea. In execution, Return to PoPoLoCrois: A Story of Seasons Fairytale starts to come across as a series of half-measures that is still a good deal of…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The Mana series is the closest that Square Enix comes to a B-grade franchise. That’s not to say the games released under its name are bad (I’m one of the very few that genuinely love Children of Mana on the Nintendo DS), but with the exception…
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