Review by Matt S. It has been a big year for retro collections on Nintendo Switch. Capcom’s weighed in with two excellent ones (Street Fighter collection and the Beat ’em Up Bundle), SEGA’s got a pack of a huge pile of its classics on the horizon, and Nintendo’s paid online…
Read MoreReview by Ginny W. The wait is finally over. Taiko no Tatsujin, the acclaimed Japanese rhythm game featuring many little drums who could, has finally had a localisation on both Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. Unfortunately, there wasn’t a drum kit included with this particular copy, but pretty much everything…
Read MoreReview by Matt C. Car Quest is delightfully simple in its concept: it’s a 3D platformer, but you’re a car. You control like a car does—in other words, you can’t jump, save by flying off ramps. It works, and better than I would have expected. It’s got the best parts…
Read MoreNews by Matt C. Every week, there are approximately 8876358754 announcements for Switch ports of previously-released games. That’s great news for Switch owners, bad news for our wallets, and awful news for Lindsay, DDNet’s news editor. Once again, this week’s list is huge, and, once again, this isn’t even the…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. As a kid I loved the Where’s Wally find’em books (Where’s Waldo in other parts of the world). It wasn’t just the challenge of trying to find Wally or the other specific points of interest that the book challenged you with finding across each of its…
Read MoreReview by Trent P. In recent years there has been something of a trend of indies creating games that look and feel like the most retro of retro handheld games – the old Game Boy, monochrome titles. Clearly, a lot of developers entered the industry with fond memories of playing…
Read MoreReview by Priscilla M. Who would have thought that combining an all-girl metal band, aliens and a story arc that involves gender swapping (very much reminiscent of the acclaimed Japanese movie Your Name) would work as well as it does as a complete package? You can definitely call it wacky…
Read MoreNews by Matt C. Every week, there are approximately 1391121182112519 announcements for Switch ports of previously-released games. That’s great news for Switch owners, bad news for our wallets, and awful news for Lindsay, DDNet’s news editor. This week’s list is huge, and this isn’t even the result of some sort…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. “Classical” music is a little like Shakespeare: We all know the highlights; Shakespeare’s “to be or not to be,” for example, and we all recognise that famous sequence of eight chords in Beethoven’s Symphony No.5, Mov. 1 the moment that we hear it. But so few…
Read MoreReview by Tyler T. No genre depends on the moment to moment gameplay being thrilling as much as roguelikes. If you’re going to convince a player to willingly replay progress in making their way through a dungeon multiple times, then you’re going to need to make sure they enjoy the…
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