Review by Brad L. Normally games that have the main character die over and over again cause me some immense frustration. The sense or repetition can almost drive me up the wall. But then I played Minit. Never in my life did I think a game that makes dying over…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I’ve reviewed so many Atelier games now. Atelier Lydie & Suelle concludes the third complete trilogy that I’ve worked through since first discovering the franchise. Atelier Rorona back on the PlayStation 3 was my first, and if the games before it were even released in Australia,…
Read MoreReview by Ginny W. We all probably remember where we were when we first saw the explosive early footage for Far Cry 5. Hot on the heels of a number of terrible decisions by the United States government’s latest elect and white nationalism crawling out of the woodwork all across…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The Witch and the Hundred Knight is, essentially, Nippon Ichi’s effort at making a Japanese version of Diablo. It wasn’t to everyone’s tastes, but with its interest in playing with a very Japanese view of Grimm-style fairy tales produced something that was oddball from start to…
Read MoreReview by Lindsay M. It’s quiet in outer space. Deafeningly so. But inside space stations, all becomes bustling again. The whir of machines. Voices traveling down hallways. Doors opening and closing. Beeping computers. Cutlery clanking. So when you enter a large research station to only the sound of the engines,…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Betrayal is a common theme in Ni No Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom. We first meet our young king protagonist as he desperately flees a coup organised by one of the chief retainers of his father. A few hours later, our team of intrepid heroes prove their…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Think back to when the PlayStation 4 was new and shiny. People were excited about what Ubisoft would do with the extra power of the hardware with its moneymaker Assassin’s Creed franchise. After all, a series that is all about massive open worlds and historical epic…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Yakuza games can be such a glorious mess at times. Each title in the series pulls together so many completely disparate elements that the end result is a weird, and often downright surreal, soup of gameplay mechanics, aesthetics, tone and themes. And yet the overriding fact…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. For the first hour of DJMax Respect, to say I loathed the game would be an understatement. I love rhythm games, as a rule of thumb, and I especially like them when they’re traditional. DJMax’s gameplay system features icons flying from the top of the screen…
Read MoreReview by Matt C. You’re a refugee in a strange land. You work a dangerous mining job with little real understanding of the purpose, and you live in a rundown, one-room apartment with a few other people. You don’t understand the language and customs of those around you, and you’re…
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