All in all, Halo 5: Guardians is an excellent game. It tells a story about two teams, and in many ways is a tale of two games as well. While many shooters have chosen to forgo a campaign completely, or have become tokenistic in effort at best, Halo 5 continues…
Read More“What do they make these out of?” An all-American soldier asks, after setting down explosives to take down a locked (traditional) Japanese gate, only for those explosives to go boom and the gate left without so much as a scratch. For me, that moment became the defining moment of Devil’s…
Read MoreThe PC used to be the gaming platform with the biggest shortage of niche Otaku games. Most of the time, PC players would be getting years old games like Ys and Recettear which small but dedicated translation groups would tackle. Fast forward to now though – we’re getting all the…
Read MoreI don’t think I’ve come across a title that has proven as successful in exposing deficiencies in how games are typically reviewed in this industry as I have just seen with Corpse Party: Blood Drive. Flicking through some of the other reviews on the game and you’ll see endless complaints…
Read MoreCharles Dickens’ parents, John and Elizabeth Dickens, were fans of the social life; they loved to attend dinners, perform a 19th Century prototype of the now-infamous Stanky Leg at parties, and mix pleasantries with mustache taming advice at family functions. The monetary cost of this lifestyle, combined with the absurd…
Read MoreThe last couple of months have seen an absolute deluge of visual novels land on the PlayStation Vita. Perhaps because they are relatively inexpensive to localise, and that the only people still regularly playing the Vita are fans of Japanese games, we have seen a real surge of the genre…
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I love RPG Maker. I love it, I love it, I love it, I love it. I love anything that encourages people to be creative and get “hands on” with their favourite hobbies, rather than being passive consumers of it. I love Tyranobuilder because it lets people make their own…
Read MoreI still haven’t finished The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. I’ve spent hours upon hours adventuring across the beautiful landscape of Novigrad or sailing the seas surrounding Skelliege, but I still haven’t quite seen it all. And now I’ve got even more to work though, in the well worn boots of…
Read MoreI absolutely love that the PlayStation 4 is developing a stable of simulation and serious strategy games, and already, just a couple of years into its life, it is doing better with these genres than almost any console that has come before it. Nobunaga’s Ambition and Tropico 5 are both…
Read MoreSword Coast Legends takes us back to the popular world of Forgotten Realms that so inspired a generation of RPG fans way back with the likes of Baldur’s Gate and Icewind Dale. This particular offering has two distinct components. One is the ability to play campaigns, including the one crafted…
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