Review by Matt S. I’ll start this review with a confession: Final Fantasy VIII is one of my favourite games ever. Not Final Fantasy VII. Not Final Fantasy IX. Those are both perfectly fine, but it’s the story of Squall, Rinoa, and the gang (especially Selphie, the original waifu <3)…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The influence of Agatha Christie on The Raven is thick, to the point that I needed to go back through the Christie catalogue to confirm that it was an original story and not an attempt to bring a Christie novel to the videogame medium. Christie’s influence,…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. On the one hand, Fight of Gods his hilarious. The very idea of pitting Jesus Christ against Buddha, or Santa Claus (hilariously the “God of capitalism”) against Amaterasu, Shinto’s highest goddess, is such nonsense, and the game knows it, and runs with it. Sadly, on the…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The Shrouded Isle is immediately appealing because of the aesthetic. Like the yellowed pages of a book from antiquity, the deep sepia tones, combined with the promise of a dark narrative of sacrifice and worship, is very hard to ignore. The actual game isn’t even remotely…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The folks at Corecell Technologies have achieved something remarkable; made getting a swimsuit costume for a character such a chore that I just can’t be bothered. In Crazy Strike Bowling EX you earn points for unlocking costumes by playing games, earning a “prize” point per point…
Read MoreReview by Priscilla M. “The forces of a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.” (Jawaharlal Nehru, New York Times Magazine, Sept. 7, 1958) Pikuniku, developed by Sectordub and published by Devolver Digital on both the Nintendo Switch and PC via Steam,…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Bury Me, My Love should be a game that is mandatory for us all to play. At a time when in the west we have developed a kind of cultural sociopathy towards the most desperate among the human population – people who our nations are directly…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Travis Strikes Again is quite clearly a vanity project for the endlessly eclectic Goichi Suda. It was his opportunity to indulge his love of retro games, indie game development, and Devolver Digital (we all know there’s a collaboration project coming up; just announce it already). It’s…
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. Before there was Nioh, there was Onimusha: Warlords. That’s not a superficial comparison. Nioh was a dark fantasy tale that mixed Japanese yokai and oni mythology with Sengoku-era heroes and villains. Onimusha: Warlords… is a dark fantasy tale that mixes Japanese yokai and oni mythology with…
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