Review by Matt S. So, here’s a riddle for you; what do you get when a bunch of critics expect a 3DS game to look, play, and behave like something that originally launched on the Wii U? I’ll save you the puzzle; you get a bunch of game critics that…
Read MoreNews by Dylan C. Koei Tecmo have announced today that upcoming dark fantasy action-RPG Nioh will be getting a downloadable demo exclusively for PlayStation 4. The Alpha Demo for Nioh will be available for download via the PlayStation Store between the 26 April and 5 May. Nioh is a samurai-centric…
Read MoreA copy of this game was provided to us for review from Play-Asia. If you are interested in the game, please consider purchasing it from Play-Asia, and support DDNet in the process. Thank you! Review by Matt S. I kid you not, but after playing Dead or Alive Xtreme 3…
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. I really expected Naotora Ii to be a token character thrown in to eke some additional life out of the already excellent Dead or Alive 5: Last Round. Something to convince players to throw one more wad of cash into the hat as Koei Tecmo prepares…
Read MoreNews by Lindsay M. It’s been a long time coming, and the time to rejoice is now: Gust’s Atelier series is finally coming to the PlayStation 4 after release upon release ignoring the current-gen console. Atelier Sophie: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Book will be released for PlayStation 4 and…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. On the one hand, you have Samurai Warriors 4, which, as we all know, is an action-heavy take on Japan’s historic Sengoku period, a time in which many warlords clashed over ownership of Japan in some of the most famous battles of that country’s history. On…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Years after Dead or Alive 5 was first released, Koei Tecmo is still hard at work at its flagship fighting game. Because it has had such an aggressive DLC strategy, Dead or Alive 5 (and the new PlayStation 4 version, Dead or Alive 5: Last Round)…
Read MoreWhat amazes me with Koei Tecmo’s Warriors franchise in recent years is just how good the company has become in distinguishing each new title from what came previously. It is, after all, a series that was once erroneously chalked up as an endless stream of samey button mashers (and still…
Read MoreKeisuke Kikuchi simply cannot get away from dark games with dark themes. The producer behind the Fatal Frame (or Project Zero) series of horror games has taken on the task of producing Gust’s newest IP, Nights of Azure. And, while Gust games are often more meaningful and serious than their…
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