It’s difficult to quantify the effect that Hidetaka Miyazaki has on the games he touches, but there is a very real difference between a game that Miyazaki has worked on, and one that he has not. The games that he was directly responsible for: Demon’s Souls and the first Dark…
Read MoreAn exciting combat system and lots of hours of gameplay help compensate for a very ho-hum story. Sword Art Online Re: Hollow Fragment is not the most accessible action RPG out there, but it gets enough things right along the way to make the experience worthwhile. Having played the PlayStation…
Read MoreAt this year’s SMASH! event Namco Bandai, the local publisher of Square Enix games, was showing off some of its upcoming games. Chief among them (at least as far as I am concerned) was Dragon Quest Heroes. This is a game that has intrigued me ever since it was announced…
Read MoreFor those familiar with the Hyperdimension Neptunia JRPG series, Fairy Fencer F should feel both immediately familiar yet fresh enough to stand on its own merits. The visuals and gameplay certainly have Compile Hearts’ fingerprints all over it, but the more serious storyline and memorable characters give this original property…
Read MoreDragon Quest Heroes is surely one of our most anticipated games at Digitally Downloaded. Half Dragon Quest, half Warriors game, it promises to be much like Hyrule Warriors on the Nintendo Wii U: a truly entertaining bit of fan service for existing fans of the venerable series. Luckily for us…
Read MoreIt’s being billed as an all-star new IP, and the good news is that The Legend of Legacy on the Nintendo 3DS has been confirmed for an European (and Australian) release, courtesy of NISA. The game, to be released in 2016, is the work of a real who’s who of…
Read MoreThere are many different RPG series over the years that have garnered rabid fan support. Arguably my favourite has been the Suikoden franchise. I spent so many hours with what seemed like an overwhelmingly large cast of characters, yet the stories almost always spoke to me on a more personal…
Read MoreWhen I started playing Lost Dimension, I thought I might find myself enjoying my time with it. It seemed it was setting itself to be a mix of Danganronpa-style game theory philosophy and tactical RPG, and that’s a kind of game that I will always have time for. As it…
Read MoreAlthough the PlayStation 3 is most certainly on its last legs, there are a couple of remaining games on the horizon that are well worth getting excited about. One of those is Eiyuu Senki, a strategy JRPG in which the world’s greatest military leaders (from King Arthur to Nobunaga Oda)…
Read MorePreviously announced at its E3 2015 press conference, Square Enix has begun giving fans small tastes of what it to come from the upcoming RPG, Project Setsuna. In an interview with Japanese gaming magazine, Famitsu, Square Enix producer, Yosuke Matsuda, confirmed that the working title (Project Setsuna) comes from the Japanese…
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