News by Matt S. With the most unpronounceable name in the history of videogames, void tRrLM(); //Void Terrarium also looks like one that you won’t want to miss. NISA’s latest is a game about a “cruel world contaminated by fungi” where you’ll need to struggle to survive, while also protecting…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Through Shinto-based storytelling and mythology there is a fun concept in Japan; Hyakki Yagyo, which translates as “The Night Parade of 100 Demons”. That’s only a rough translation, since the “parade” is made up of yokai, which are not really demons, but rather spirit creatures. Nonetheless…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. Katana Kami: A Way of The Samurai Story came out of nowhere. I didn’t realise that Spike Chunsoft was localising it, and going into it, I didn’t really know that much about it. It will be one of my favourite games of 2020. It represents a…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I never thought that I would struggle with a Level-5 JRPG. From Yokai Watch to Ni No Kuni, White Knight Chronicles (yes, I was a rare fan), and right back to Dragon Quest VIII and Dark Cloud, the company has been nothing if not a consistent,…
Read MoreInterview by Matt S. Fans of card games have been spoiled for choice in recent years, with a real explosion of games that, in one way or another, riff on the old Magic The Gathering CCG format. You’d think that the space was approaching saturation point, but it continues to…
Read MoreVideo by Harvard L. Slay The Spire is a delightful mix of so many things – it’s card game, it’s a roguelike. It’s fantasy and it’s colourful. In his latest Let’s Play, Harvard highlights many of the strategies and mechanics at play that make this such a delightful little game.…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I did make a promise to myself that in 2020 I would try and play fewer games, but go much deeper on those that I did play. That would mean that I stopped giving so many poor or middling titles a go purely on the basis…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Just yesterday I wrote a review for Black Future ’88, a game that I criticised for being far too beholden to the indie trend of making everything into a “roguelike.” Well, Black Future ’88 looks like a masterpiece of innovation when compared to Labyrinth of the…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. It’s not always fair when a video game – or any other art work, for that matter – belongs to a genre that has become so saturated that it’s hard to muster up enthusiasm for it. It’s often not the game’s fault, in isolation, and many…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The Conception series is much smarter than people give it credit for. After all, it’s a fanservicey JRPG where you need to breed with a harem of women to create an army of little soldier-people. There are a lot of people that would look at that…
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