Note: This is a review of both Famicom Detective Club titles released together: The Missing Heir and The Girl Who Stands Behind. Though they have different narratives, they are functionally and mechanically the same, and since this will be a spoiler-free review that won’t talk about the narratives at any…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. First released way back in 1988, Nintendo’s Famicom Detective Club, a duology of two mystery-themed visual novels, is finally getting a localisation and release into English. I love these games. I can’t wait to review them, but what I can say, right now, in the preview…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Is It Wrong To Try To Pick Up Girls In A Dungeon? has got to be one of the neatest titles for an anime or visual novel. It’s immediately descriptive and you know exactly what you’re going to get going in (i.e. fantasy action with a…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. I’ve never watched the Is It Wrong To Try To Pick Up Girls In A Dungeon anime, but I was certainly interested in trying the game out – a fanservicey dungeon crawler/visual novel combination? Sign me the heck up! I’ll have a review up on DDNet…
Read MoreBy Matt C. For some reason or another, I’ve never played Steins;Gate (I know, I know, I’m sorry). That makes reviewing Steins;Gate 0 tricky, because is very much a sequel that’s tied closely to its predecessor. The central plot is broadly self-contained, but all the little details and character interactions…
Read MoreReview by Clark A. Just four months after the release of Bullet Soul on Steam comes Bullet Soul Infinite Burst. While there was originally a gap of several years where the Xbox 360 version was concerned, electing to release an enhanced game in a subgenre as niche as the bullet…
Read MoreReview by Clark A. Because bullet hell shooters are designed with a very specific demographic in mind, a game like Bullet Soul is able to articulate its appeal to that crowd in under thirty seconds. The title screen’s roaring 90s rock sent shockwaves of nostalgia through my body. The requisite…
Read MoreThe dungeon crawler has been going through something of a renaissance recently. As the star of Wizardry and Might & Magic has faded (at least, compared to the dominant franchises they once were), we’ve seen a number of Japanese developers do some really interesting things with the genre to revitalise…
Read MoreOperation Abyss: New Tokyo Legacy is NISA’s upcoming dungeon crawler for the PlayStation Vita. An exclusive to that platform, it comes to us courtesy of the developers behind the absolutely brilliant Demon Gaze, and just looking at this new 1:30 trailer, I can already tell I’ll love this game. Demon…
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