Review by Matt S. Look, I’ll level with you here: There’s not much I have to say about the three titles in the Atelier Mysterious Trilogy that I haven’t already in my reviews of their original releases, so for the bulk of this review I’ll be copying some sections from…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. At its core, NieR is a story about identity. In creating it, director, Yoko Taro, who loves to joke about philosophy being nonsense but is clearly very cognizant of the big names in the field, took the infamous “I think therefore I am” from René Descartes…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Ravensword: Shadowlands is a good lesson that I hope developers learn. Back in 2012, which it first launched on iPhone and iPad, it was hailed as something amazing, as an effort to do the Elder Scrolls aesthetic on mobile. Back then mobile gaming was still fairly…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Qureate, purveyors of smutty-themed visual novels like NinNinDays, TroubleDays and Prison Princess, has landed on exactly the kind of experience that actually works with the M.O. in Livestream: Escape from Hotel Izanami. This is a fusion of stalker horror, visual novel and the developer’s love of…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. Gravity is an inherently fun mechanic to mess around with – and this is one game that delivers on that promise. Developed by Brazilian studio Electric Monkeys, the gaming division of Studica Solution, Gravity Heroes is a platform-based arena shooter with unique movement mechanics, which offers…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. This is going to be a very short review, since Toree 3D is about $1 on the Nintendo eShop and has about as much content as you would expect for that price. It offers nine levels, and each of those is just a couple of minutes…
Read MoreSaGa has never been Square Enix’s biggest property. The first couple were even renamed as “Final Fantasy Legends” for release in the west, and SaGa Frontier, the game being remastered here, never even got a release in Europe and Australia. It did get a release in the US, but this…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Look, I know The Game Of Life is just a board game and so on and so forth, but in some ways it makes me genuinely uncomfortable. The way it abstracts a person’s progress through life is very much about upholding and celebrating the status quo,…
Read MoreReviews by Matt S. The Nintendo Switch has become a home for the visual noveLl, with more being released on the console than is easy to keep up with. It is a favourite genre of mine, though, so I thought I’d do some quick summary reviews of some of the…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. It’s refreshing to see a developer turn things around like this. The original Clea was a noble idea and effort, but struggled in execution. Clea 2 takes the same basic idea that powered the original, but finds interesting ways to iterate and build on it, and…
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