Review by Matt S. Making a comedy game is a challenge. It’s one thing to have jokes in there, but there also needs to be a compelling experience around it that people want to play through from start to finish. After all, the running of a game is generally fairly…
Read MoreMy time with Attack of the Friday Monsters is one which I’d compare to reading a novella or watching a short film. From the mind of Kazu Ayabe comes a game set in a sleepy 70’s village in Japan, where the residents have light conversation about food, laundry and television.…
Read MoreReally, we expect better from Keiji Inafune. The man is outspoken, but deeply creative, and his other recent games (Soul Sacrifice, Asura’s Wrath) are well worth playing. His upcoming Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z looks brilliant. What the heck happened with Bugs Vs. Tanks? I can only assume that some executives…
Read MoreGoichi Suda’s funky flight combat game, Liberation Maiden, has hit the iOS app store in Australia and New Zealand courtesy of Level-5. The A/NZ app store is increasingly used as a test run for iOS releases. We had Real Racing 3 a couple of weeks ahead of the rest of…
Read MoreIn our original Ni No Kuni review, our Editor-in-Chief, Matt Sainsbury, awarded the title a perfect score in his glowing review. The intention of this second opinion review isn’t to criticise the game or the differences in our opinions of it, but to share the experience from another perspective. Just…
Read MoreLast year, I was deeply disappointed by Kingdoms of Amalur. It was a good game, even a great one, but it fell short on the potential that a game developed by the minds of game developer Ken Rolston, storyteller R.A Salvatore, and artist Todd McFarlane. Bringing those three nerd-cool hero…
Read MoreHaving now played two of the four games that Level 5 and various game auteurs threw together for the Guild01 3DS retail release, I am not surprised that the compilation was a hit in Japan. Liberation Maiden was a flawed bit of genius, and Aero Porter is an even more…
Read MoreIf there was any game that the 3D effect of the 3DS could mess up, I was worried that it would be Professor Layton. What made the DS games such a joy to play was the impeccable 2D animation, character art, and cutscenes that looked like they could have been…
Read MoreLevel-5 has announced that the sixth game in the series, Professor Layton & the Remains of an Advanced Civilization, will be releasing in Japan in 2013. Not much has been revealed about the storyline yet, though it is thought to be set one year after the events of the last…
Read MoreI read the reviews for Level-5’s White Knight Chronicles series with some distress. From the middling, through to the downright horrific, critics seem to consider this fledgling franchise as mediocre at best. I honestly don’t see where that’s coming from. The critics that slaughter these games will often, a breath…
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