Review by Clark A. Atlus has been expanding the world of Persona in recent years with the likes of dancing and fighting game offshoots. It’s inspiring how well these spin-offs fare, translating the core appeal of revered narrative masterpieces like Persona 4 into contexts far removed from JRPG action. Of…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. I’m always excited when I hear a new mecha game is getting released. Although I’m not the most well versed in the anime genre, I know enough about the various official and unofficial attempts to translate Japan’s giant robots into an interactive medium. They’re almost always…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. In Kotodama: The 7 Mysteries of Fujisawa you use your incredible powers of match-3 puzzling to strip a bunch of guys and girls down to their underwear. If that doesn’t sell you on the game, nothing will. Seriously. If seeing anime characters in amusing states of…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. It must be pretty hard to screw up a Scrabble clone. But we now know that it can be done. The developers of Happy Words have lived the impossible dream and done it. This is one terrible clone of Scrabble. I’m going to start with the…
Read MoreReview by Lindsay M. I expected to like Darkwood. I really did. The survival horror title promises not to hold your hand, to let you figure out how to play as you die repeatedly. I’ve played Don’t Starve for dozens of hours, so this didn’t phase me. The premise and…
Read MoreReview by Brad L. Sonic the Hedgehog needed something good to happen. Anything positive. He has had such a bad time of it recently with the trailer to the live-action film that he’s needed a good-news story to prop his name back up again. Yet, Team Sonic Racing teeters somewhere…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Is the “AAA” of virtual reality really to be found in glorified light gun games? Is the pinnacle of this medium really to be a throwback to those days in the arcade where kids crowded around SEGA’s The House of the Dead cabinets because of the…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. It becomes very easy to overlook Kairosoft titles after you’ve played a couple of them. The downside to their consistency is that it’s easy to become complacent about them, and this is particularly true given that the company has decided to release them on the Nintendo…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. One of the first films I ever studied seriously – back when I threw myself into film studies in the hope that I could become a filmmaker – was Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. It’s such an influential, genius film, and I’m sure I’m not…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. My favourite thing about Lapis x Labyrinth is how your average party of four dungeoneers stacks on top of each other – affectionately referred to as “dango” by their developer (although not in game). It perfectly captures the energetic, lighthearted tone the game goes for –…
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