Last year’s mobile-exclusive RPG Adventure Bar Story wasn’t the finest example of the genre, but it had a charm about it, in no small part because the game’s scenario was written by Shinichi Yoshiike – a minor legend in Japan’s game industry for his work on the Atelier series, amongst…
Read MoreAs anyone who has ever read Digitally Downloaded knows, I am a massive fan of Tecmo Koei’s Warriors series. What people might not realise is that of all that franchises’ games, the Samurai Warriors series is my personal favourite. Those games quite literally inspired me to study Japanese history. Now…
Read MoreTokyo Jungle was a weird game. Not just because it is weird (though any game which features psychopathic Pomeranian that can take down a fully grown freaking Tiger is not just weird, it’s downright terrifying), but because it is a game that I really, truly should have loved. But I…
Read MoreI’m not sure people realise the degree of difficulty that is involved in a pinball game. It looks simple after all; it’s a ball bouncing around a small piece of barely animated real estate. But on a technical level, pinball is a nightmare of a game to develop. This is…
Read MoreIt’s a little sad seeing Mickey’s second “Epic” outing ported to the Vita, given that the original console release was such a failure that the team that made the game no longer exists. It’s like the port is a virtual obituary to the developers: “here is the last game of…
Read MoreSony has been talking up the social direction it wants to take its consoles and games. Even when it’s not conventional multiplayer where everyone sits down in front of the TV and plays together at the same time, Sony wants you engaged with your games and your friends when you’re…
Read MoreIt’s not often that I get hooked into a puzzle game because of its story, let alone because its story elements are more intriguing than the actual gameplay itself, but that’s exactly what happened with Quell Memento. The first thing I did after the game kicked off was to touch…
Read MoreI have a very high tolerance for games that others call clones. I see differences in PlayStation All Stars Battle Royale that set it apart from Smash Brothers games, for instance. There’s even the occasional Gameloft game that I can enjoy despite them inevitably being clones of PC and console…
Read MoreSpace seems to be the latest craze for the pick-up-and-play style games, but rarely do games have that “just one more go” magic that will see you up and playing the game until the next morning dawns. Velocity Ultra is a vertical scrolling space shooter that is faced-paced and stress-inducing.…
Read MoreI’m going to admit that I never thought I would enjoy a game about men going to the toilet. Men’s Room Mayhem somehow manages to turn the act of looking in on what goes in a men’s public bathroom into a hugely amusing little arcade game. The best way to…
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