Review by Harvard L. Simogo’s Sayonara Wild Hearts is a game which I can’t stop thinking about. On the surface it’s simple enough to enjoy – a music-based arcade game with pared-back mechanics suited well to short bursts, a dazzling graphic style of pinks and purples and a swathe of…
Read MorePreview by Matt S. A highlight of Tokyo Game Show was the demo for Hatsune Miku: Project Diva Mega39; a rhythm game in development for Nintendo Switch. Yeah, okay, that’s me being understated. I love Hatsune Miku so, so much, and finally getting to play with her on my Switch…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Every so often there comes a game that you just want to root for. A game that has come from a place of such overwhelming positivity and good will that the idea of criticising it feels wrong, because to criticise it would be akin to throwing kittens…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. I woke up this morning and, as I usually do, checked in to see what was going on on Twitter. I see a flood of comments. “Oh no”, I think to myself. “What corner of the Internet have I offended this time?” Reading through, though, I…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Have you ever played a game that you recognise as being well-made and executed, but you just can’t muster up any enthusiasm for it? That’s Vectronom. Sitting here to write the review, I can’t think of anything that is really wrong with the game. At the…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Rayark’s Cytus 2 is a free-to-play rhythm game, available on Android and iOS. It just got the best add-on a rhythm game could hope for, with a pack of Hatsune Miku tracks to play on. The most beautiful Goddess also shows up, naturally, with a new…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Following on from Voez, and later Deemo, we finally have Cytus on our Nintendo Switches, and therefore all three rhythm game franchises from Taiwanese developer, Rayark. This is a supremely talented team of rhythm game developers, and with over 200 songs on Cytus Alpha, they have…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Chinese poetry is, to westerners, esoteric at the best of times. Unlike other forms of the written word, poetry is notoriously difficult to translate effectively from one language to another, since a straight word-for-word translation would generally upset the rhythms and tonal quality that is so…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. So I’ve written for DDNet for a while, and I find that the games that I tend to like the most are the ones that feel like more than just a game – the ones that make me think about my life, and reality itself. I’ve…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Akihabara – Feel the Rhythm Remixed would have been so much more impressive if it came earlier in the year. Given that we’ve had both Lumines Remastered and Tetris Effect released this year, it’s been such a stand-out good time for puzzlers that blend in rhythmical…
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