Review by Matt S. Senran Kagura, the franchise, is great. Whether it’s the water gun shooter, the mainline action brawlers, the anime or the upcoming pinball game, this series brings extreme, ridiculous, hyper-sexualisation in a way that can only be called “rambunctious”. Because those games also tended to play well,…
Read MoreReview by Brad L. When I was in high school, much of my time was spent on the PC my parents bought me for Christmas. Their intentions were good, I would need a computer in order to do research and do assignments for high school. Little did they know, most…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. Party games are in a weird spot on the Nintendo Switch at the moment. The console is ready-made for them with its portability and ease of sharing controllers, and developers of all kinds have answered the call. Chiki Chiki Boxy Racers falls square into this category…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. CastleStorm must have a reputation by now as Zen Studios’ “other” game – the Zen Pinball series had cemented the Hungarian development studio as the reigning champion of digital pinball, so much so that the company’s bite-sized RTS often falls by the wayside. While Zen Pinball…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. There’s no development house out there that quite understands the fairy tale aesthetic like Nippon Ichi does. Its habit of playing up the darker side of the Grimm Brothers aesthetic, with a healthy dose of anime exaggeration, was what made earlier efforts like Witch and the…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. One of the problems that “Diablo clones” face is that their genre is named for competition that’s almost impossible to beat. Diablo has barely missed a step since its original release, so many years ago now, and with Diablo 3 going from strength to strength, it…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. After the Valkyria Revolution experiment proved to be a disaster with series fans, being far too experimental and different from its predecessors, I’m not surprised that Valkyria Chronicles 4 veered so far back to the series genesis that there were times I could have easily confused…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Wow does Athena look good in a bikini. I mean, there’s other good stuff in SNK Heroines, but let’s just cut right to the chase here. I was always going to love this game. Related reading: Also released recently is Blade Strangers, the cross-over fighter. Matt’s…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Hyakki Castle is one of my favourite dungeon crawlers in recent years. It plays much like a modern western dungeon crawler (think Legend of Grimrock rather than Wizardry), but has an unmistakably Japanese aesthetic, theme, and tone. It’s an eclectic blend, to be sure, but it…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I would never have predicted that the Nintendo Switch would end up with a strategy game of the scale of Realpolitiks. World Conqueror X was pushing things far enough as a complete simulation of World War 2, but that was almost exclusively focused on the battlefield…
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