Interview by Matt S. Heart of the Woods landed on Nintendo Switch earlier this year, after developing a powerful following for its previous release on PC. As we wrote in our glowing review on DDNet: “Heart of the Woods is a beautiful and romantic visual novel, with a wonderfully winding…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. To save Akihabara – nay, the whole world! – from a growing vampire threat, you’ve got to suit up, hit the streets, and rip the skirts off school girls. Okay, you’ve got to rip the pants off businessmen and the shirts off tourists too, but we…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. I love seeing this. There’s a meltdown from the “fans” every time Nintendo announces a new update to the Nintendo Switch Online service, because they want Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger and other games they’ve already played a million times before to be added to the library,…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Red White Yellow is a useful game because it highlights some realities about game design – sometimes some of the simplest elements that melt right into the background really do help a game shine. Red White Yellow is so closely inspired by Lumines, and yet not…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Spike Chunsoft shared some new details for Danganronpa S: Ultimate Summer Camp (the all-new game that’s being released as part of the Danganronpa Decadence collection that is coming to Nintendo Switch). One of those details is the key artwork and I’ve not had a nosebleed like…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. Cris Tales is the first Columbian JRPG I’ve ever played… perhaps the first one ever? Anyhow, the good news is that it is exceptional. It’s aesthetically beautiful, has some innovative gameplay mechanics, and it weaves a wonderful story. In this video, I discuss what makes the…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. It’s rare that we get a JRPG that can be considered to be genuinely innovative. Cris Tales might have been inspired by the genre’s classics, but it’s a far more modern and bold game than I think even the developers realised they were making. It all…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. There’s that rare beautiful moment when playing a scrolling shooter where the speed and the tension fade away, and the player is suspended in a perfect state of flow. I get this feeling on the rare occasions that I make it past Stage 2 on Gradius,…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Great news for people who enjoyed the distinctive, original and interesting The Liar Pincess and the Blind Prince (check out our review here); NISA has confirmed that its stylistic stablemate, The Cruel Kind and the Great Hero, will also make its way to our western shores.…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. The classic Zelda title, Skyward Sword, has finally been rescued from the Wii and Wii U and has got a release on Nintendo Switch. Spruced up, no less. This is a brilliant game. It might be one of the lower-scoring Zelda titles, but with a Metacritic…
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