Review by Harvard L. RemiLore is a game that unfortunately I do not have the patience for. South Korean indie outfit Pixellore brings to the table a top-down beat-em-up with a JRPG flavour, that weighs a little too heavy on the grind and a little too light on the substance.…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. After slogging through utterly mammoth reviews of Dead or Alive 6 and The Caligula Effect: Overdose – games that have a great deal of personal resonance with me – I needed to play something empty that I could be done with quickly. About the highest compliment…
Read MoreReview by Brad L. An ever-growing trend over the past decade has been a resurgence of games with a decidedly retro feel. We have seen the rise of many titles that represent parts of video game history from the 1980’s and 90’s. Anodyne is certainly one example of that… and…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The original The Caligula Effect is the NieR (not Automata) of this generation. By that I mean that the game’s smart – genius smart – and has thematic and philosophical depth that few other games even come close to. But the packaging was a bit rough,…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Remember when just about every second mobile phone game was from the tower defence genre? There was a period where it was a little like the roguelike genre is today, with developers falling over themselves in excitement to announce that they’ve created a new tower defence…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I hope that Magic Scroll Tactics is a big commercial success for the developer, so that the team can come back and put some actual money behind a sequel. That’s not to say that Magic Scroll Tactics is a poor game. Far from it. It offers…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. “Roguelikes” are dime a dozen these days. Any game that takes a procedural approach to the level design (i.e. the level is randomised) is proudly broadcast as a roguelike, and it’s easy to understand why; random levels means unlimited replay value, or something. If that’s not…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Sigh, Kemco. I like what Kemco wants to achieve; the publisher wants to give us all retro-styled JRPGs that are reminiscent of the SNES through PlayStation One era of the genre. As a fan of that era of game development – especially with regards to the…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The summer school romance – is there any single topic out there that is sweeter, more nostalgic, and warmer than that? I’d argue not. We all have memories of those schoolyard crushes and summer camp flings, and Tokyo School Life is actually one of the better…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Gameloft represents a lot of things that I find genuinely offensive about big business game development. The company takes popular ideas that other developers and publishers have pioneered, cribs them wholesale, and then dumps them for free (or close to free, but of course always with…
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