Review by Matt S. Crime Opera is a wildly ambitious project for a development team that wasn’t quite ready for it. This visual novel features 20-odd characters, a plot that shifts between six perspectives, and, thematically, is brutal. This is a story about crime families, with a patriarch that openly…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Treasures of the Aegean is being developed by Undercoders and published by Numskull Games, and will release at the end of this year for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC. It is billing itself as a “historical action thriller”, and the game has a…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I had thought that Death End re;Quest might be pushing it with the Nintendo Switch. Idea Factory’s ports to the console are always quite playable, but usually have rough edges that are introduced that are not present on other platforms. Death End re;Quest was a relatively…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. I do so love Rin Tohsaka. And also I love Everyday Today’s Menu for Emiya Family. For those that don’t know, this is a spin-off of the Fate series, and while Fate goes some incredibly dark places, Everyday Today’s Menu is bright, wholesome, and a truly…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Publisher, Entergram, has announced three separate romance visual novels to announce across PlayStation and Nintendo Switch. All have previously been released on PC. All feature very pretty girls. None have been announced for a western localisation, and I wouldn’t bet on it, though I would rather…
Read MoreLast week Nintendo and Fujifilm had something exciting to share; a new partnership that would allow people to directly print out their favourite digital photos (i.e. screenshots) from the upcoming New Pokemon Snap using the instax mini Link. The mini Link is a tiny, pocket-sized printer that churns out Polaroid-style…
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. I like the ambition and appreciate the effort that went into Infinite Adventures. Sadly, I don’t think it was executed very well, at all. The idea of doing a grand dungeon crawler in the tradition of Etrian Odyssey, with some randomised level layouts for added replay…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The really nice thing about having Shantae released on the Nintendo Switch is that the Switch now has the entire collection running natively on it. That’s right: every single one of the glorious adventures of everyone’s favourite half-genie on the one console. Given how rare and…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Look, I’ll level with you here: There’s not much I have to say about the three titles in the Atelier Mysterious Trilogy that I haven’t already in my reviews of their original releases, so for the bulk of this review I’ll be copying some sections from…
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