Review by Harvard L. It’s hard to be angry in a room full of grinning faces. LocoRoco is proof of this fact – it’s a cutesy platformer developed by Sony CEJ originally intended as a flagship title for the PSP (along with the also very underrated Patapon series). A critical…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. It amuses me to think that the Fire Emblem that may just represent the way forward for the series is the remake of a very old game. Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia is actually a remake of the second Fire Emblem, originally released back on…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The idea – and philosophy – behind ‘reality’ is a subject that Japanese developers are clearly finding very interesting at the moment. Persona 5, Akiba’s Beat, and Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth from last year, all made the blurring between whatever objective reality there might be, and…
Read MoreReview by Moshe R. The beginning was without form, and void. And the Flying Spaghetti Monster said, let there be sauce: and we got the first arcades. Universe creations aside, I remember my own personal evolution in the field of video games. That first go at Pong, the first sightings…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Disgaea 5 is one of my favourite tactics games. Nippon Ichi managed something truly special with that game; it took the whacky, zany nonsense (though nonsense with a purpose) that we had become accustomed to over the previous Disgaea games, and then leveraged the PlayStation 4’s…
Read MoreReview by Nick H. The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 3rd manages to do something very important for those who are fans of the series: it offers, finally, a satisfying conclusion to a believed story but takes some changes along the way as well. It would have…
Read MoreReview by Lindsay M. If you want to make me mad, tell me that global warming is a myth. Nothing stirs anger in me quite like someone arguing that scientific fact, proven time and time again, is actually a lie. Next time somebody starts that fight, I’m going to direct…
Read MoreReview by Matt S Spare a thought for the poor development (and localisation) team behind Akiba’s Beat. To find out too late that you’re working on a game so similar in thematic tone to Persona 5, on a fraction of the development time and budget, must have been crushing. Related…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The #1 rule of game development is that if something is really popular, dozens of imitators are going to follow. And why not? Games become popular for a reason, and if there’s money to make in giving fans more of what they like, then it’s a…
Read MoreReview by Britta S. Period: Cube is a visual novel for people who don’t have quite enough time or patience for a mammoth title with all the trimmings. It certainly feels a little shorter in total, and individual story arc, length than other Otomate titles, such as Amnesia: Memories or…
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