Inti Creates is one of the most talented retro-style platform developers out there. While Nintendo continues to look for ways to modernise the 2D platformer in its Mario, Donkey Kong, and other properties, Inti Creates focuses on pixels, classic level design, and challenging, taut mechanics. Grim Guardians: Demon Purge is…
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“It’s more of the same!” You just know that this is going to be the main comment (and complaint) about Octopath Traveler II. “It’s too much like the first.” Except it’s not. Of course it’s not. Octopath Traveler was a narrative-driven game that focused on the stories of eight distinct…
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It seems as though Nintendo Switch is the best console to get FMV games; most launch on PC as well, but not all of them make it to other platforms. From classic to contemporary, there’s a lot to choose from. And here’s another one! Deathtrap Dungeon: The Interactive Video Adventure…
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I often wonder how successful I’d be working as an air traffic controller. It seems like it would be a stressful job, given how quickly air flights can turn deadly, and how busy airports are these days. I also suspect I’d be less-than-good at the job, given how many nightmare…
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I think otome games are pretty great; then again, I’m a woman, so I’m also their target audience. Regardless, the more the merrier! It’s especially nice when a game is launched that may have been overlooked at first due to its platform. And that’s kind of how I feel about…
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When Five Dates – one of the first (if not THE first) FMV games filmed and made 100 per cent remotely during quarantine – came out, it was at a time people were craving human interaction. It scratched that itch quite well despite those being fictional interactions. Its sequel, Ten…
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Square Enix is a company that has many decades of history, and over that time has built a business filled with competitive advantages. It is a company rich with products, services and IP that are unique to it and continue to underpin its value. Perhaps its greatest single advantage of…
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WBSC eBaseball: Power Pros isn’t quite what I was hoping for out of Konami. For the longest time, I have hoped against hope that the company would start localising its excellent baseball games again. I wasn’t fussed which! Either the serious simulations or the eBaseball bobbleheads arcade titles would have…
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Today’s Nintendo Direct was, by any measure, an impressive one. Nintendo announced a boatload of new games (many of them big-time exciting), and also finally brought the Game Boy and Game Boy Advance to its retro libraries for subscribers. It is the most obscure of these games, and possibly the…
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It’s not really February until there’s a Nintendo Direct, is it? The last one that lasted 45 minutes was in September 2022, but honestly this one is way better. Yes, there’s news of Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins coming to Switch, but there’s also that Zelda release date…
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