htoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary has a title that is impossible to pronounce, but it is not a random collection of letters there before the colon. That “htoL#NiQ” makes perfect sense the moment you start playing, because it is alien, otherworldly, and perfectly represents the kind of sheer, wonderful hostility that…
Read MoreHyperdimension Neptunia is clearly an important and commercially successful franchise for Compile Heart and Idea Factory. After three “main” JRPG releases on the PlayStation 3, ports of all three to the PlayStation Vita, and the first PC release in the franchise, we’ve also seen the publisher experiment with bringing the…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. A PlayStation Vita re-release of the original Hyperdimension Neptunia made a lot of sense. The original game, released way back in 2010 on the PlayStation 3, was a great concept but a terrible game. And that remake, Re;Birth 1, was a very good game indeed. However,…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Satire is a very difficult genre for to pull of well in a game. Consider this – if you went along to a 20-hour performance from a comedian, would you find him or her as funny by the end as the start? Probably not, right? It’s…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. NISA, the publishers and localisers of Criminal Girls outside of Japan, have released some new screenshots showing off the combat of the game. Given the controversies over how gender is represented in games such as Dead or Alive 5, Bayonetta 2 and Senran Kagura over the…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Monster Hunter was the reason that the PSP had the success it did in its homeland, Japan (and make no mistake, it was a big hit in Japan). But Nintendo and Capcom have done a deal that has seen the franchise essentially become a Nintendo exclusive. Sony…
Read MoreReview by Pierre-Yves L. Designed by a team of animators with experience at the almighty Pixar, Flyhunter is the story of Zak, a janitor on a spaceship, that gets himself in a heap of trouble; he gets bored and accidentally releases the spaceship’s valuable cargo… and its captain. Someone should…
Read MoreNews by Jedediah H. Greetings, detective. Futuristic Tokyo’s in a bit of a snafu: genetically engineered monsters known as Variants threaten the city. If that weren’t enough of a cluster bomb, portals that lead to a strange dimension called the Abyss are emerging in the most inconvenient of locations. So…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. In all honesty I never thought I would ever type the following words: Hatoful Boyfriend, a dating game staring pigeons, is being released on consoles, in English. And I bet you never thought you’d read that. The game is really quite famous on account of being……
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I am completely convinced it is more difficult to make a game for children than any other genre. Because simply making a simple, watered down version of whatever existing genre the developers have decided to appropriate won’t work. Children are not stupid, they understand and demand…
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