Retro reflections by Nick H. Having spent a good deal of time with Dark Souls III recently, the idea of good level design has been forefront in my mind. This led me to dig up my copy of Metroid, a game that I first played about a year after its initial…
Read MoreRetro Reflections by Nick H. I have had the Romance of the Three Kingdoms series on my mind a great deal of late. There are multiple reasons for that. Recently I wrote about a classic strategy/RPG hybrid Shining Force, so clearly the tactical genre is in the forefront of my…
Read MoreRetro reflections by Nick H. The Ninja Turtles have been popping up a great deal lately. My oldest daughter recently discovered the Nickelodeon animated show. My youngest (for some reason) thinks the most recent movie is pretty entertaining. There is a new game courtesy of Activision and Platinum based on…
Read MoreRetro reflections by Nick H. While strategy games have been around for about as long as games have, one title stands out to me as the first I played on that was a strategy/role-playing hybrid. When Shining Force released on the SEGA Genesis back in 1993 in North America, the…
Read MoreArticle by Matt S (premium article). I almost wish the Souls series never happened. I say “almost” because I am a massive fan of those series and I am ultimately glad that they exist, but it’s a bitter sweet relationship that I have with the series, because the Souls series…
Read MoreReview by Brad L. The one thing I love about being a part of DigitallyDownloaded.net is the fact that there are times when I have the opportunity to review a game I have no prior knowledge about. Of course it is always exciting to review the latest AAA title, but…
Read MoreInterview by Matt S. Recently, Australian indie developer/ publisher, Nnooo, announced that it was going to publish a large number of indie games on consoles. The really good news is that a significant number of these are being developed by Australians. It’s good news for the local indie scene that…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Siralim is my kind of retro-themed nostalgic rush. Where others get stuck right in to all those pixel-heavy platformers that the indie space is so inundated by, I’d rather kick back and rip through something just like this. Back when I was a kid, there was…
Read MoreWhen we look at the modern FPS we think of Call of Duty, Battlefield & Halo as your big AAA shooters. Often we question the evolution of these games and how little progress is made each year. It wasn’t always like that. Turok: Dinosaur Hunter was once a big gun…
Read MoreIt’s always a good idea to play the worst games in your favourite genres. That way you can appreciate the good ones. Chronus Arc is one of the worst JRPGs I’ve ever played. In theory it wants to be a glorious throwback to the SNES JRPG tradition, but in practice…
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