Review by Matt S. Circle Entertainment has done a clever thing in packaging up the three Mercenaries Saga games for release on the Nintendo Switch. On the one hand, each game in the series is almost a painfully generic take on the tactics JRPG genre. On the other, bundled up…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Ambition of the Slimes is a charming, clever little tactics game, though it often feels closer to a puzzler than something genuinely strategic. It’s not a game you’re going to be celebrating for years down the track, but as something cheap and disposable it’s a pleasing,…
Read MoreReview by Ginny W. Someone described Lost Dimension to me as a mix between Danganronpa, Fire Emblem, and anime. For better or for worse, that description is incredibly spot on. It mixes a bunch of well-known concepts and mechanics and produces a polished result that looks all set to succeed…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Summon Night 6 has been long delayed, and the end product just hasn’t lived up to how excited we all let ourselves get about it. It’s decent enough as a traditional tactics JRPG in the vein of Final Fantasy Tactics or Ogre Battle, but an incredibly…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Witching Hour Studios, from Singapore, has an uncanny ability to make games that seem to be designed for me personally. Ravenmark, from a couple of years ago, is exactly the kind of strategy game that, were I to make a game myself, would be aiming for.…
Read MoreRetro reflections by Matt S. The last couple of months has brought us a pretty substantial influx of tactics RPGs. On the Nintendo Switch there was the excellent port of the excellent Disgaea 5, the 3DS got a remake of one of the early Fire Emblems in Fire Emblem Echoes,…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. We talk a lot about Japanese games on DDNet. You might have noticed that. But there are Japanese games, developed by Japanese game developers, and then there are Japanese games that are Japanese, in the sense that they designed specifically around the Japanese cultural experience, tapping…
Read MoreReview by Jim S. Anyone who grew up in the 90’s will surely remember Power Rangers. I know I loved it when I was a kid. I owned action figures, clothes, VHS tapes, and, of course, the video games. I was a huge fan. Back then I was too young…
Read MoreReview by Ginny W. I had the chance to play this game when it was in beta a little while back, and now that it’s come time to set pen to paper for the finished product, I consider my past experience with it both a blessing and a curse. I…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Back on the PlayStation 3 there was a rather interesting little game that came and went without garnering too much interest; but I found it utterly enjoyable. That game was Tears to Tiara 2 – a cross between visual novel and tactics JRPG, which in so…
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