Review by Matt S. The only right way to play Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight and Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight is to play them together. Individually they’re a little limited, but taken together they’re a marvellous celebration of the incredible music that has powered so much of the tone…
Read MoreWe’ve got a mix of stuff to talk about this week! From our thoughts on the information that’s come out about Ghost of Tsushima, including an interview that went up on Gamesindustry.biz last week, to the unending stream of retro collections that we’re getting these days, and then rhythm games,…
Read MoreReview by Ginny W. The wait is finally over. Taiko no Tatsujin, the acclaimed Japanese rhythm game featuring many little drums who could, has finally had a localisation on both Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. Unfortunately, there wasn’t a drum kit included with this particular copy, but pretty much everything…
Read MoreReview by Priscilla M. Who would have thought that combining an all-girl metal band, aliens and a story arc that involves gender swapping (very much reminiscent of the acclaimed Japanese movie Your Name) would work as well as it does as a complete package? You can definitely call it wacky…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. “Classical” music is a little like Shakespeare: We all know the highlights; Shakespeare’s “to be or not to be,” for example, and we all recognise that famous sequence of eight chords in Beethoven’s Symphony No.5, Mov. 1 the moment that we hear it. But so few…
Read MoreNews by Lindsay M. Anyone with a Nintendo Switch in their hands will be able to become, well, a legendary virtuoso as promised in the title in upcoming music title Pianista: The Legendary Virtuoso. Touted as being a high-end music game designed specifically with the console in mind. The game…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. I don’t think anyone expected to see another Space Channel 5 happen, but happen it is, and in VR no less. Everything’s better in VR. There’s a new trailer, showing off the uniquely oddball aesthetic and tone of Space Channel 5, in which you need to…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. SEGA has announced a tiny, tiny update to Hatsune Miku: Project Diva Future Tone on PlayStation 4. It’s so small that normally it wouldn’t be worth mentioning, but given that SEGA has all but given up on our favourite digital idol, it’s nice to be able…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. One of the many very fine rhythm games available on Nintendo Switch is Musynx, which offers players some 80 or so tracks across a range of Asian pop and rock genres (including vocaloids!) Related reading: Our review of Musynx on Nintendo Switch And now it’s going…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Rayark, the most talented rhythm game developer on mobile platforms, already has two of its hits on Nintendo Switch in the brilliant Voez and Deemo. Now Switch fans will soon be playing its other rhythm game, Cytus, too. Cytus’ Switch version will be called “Cytus Alpha”,…
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