Initially, I wasn’t too fond of what Lost Dimension was offering. It seemed like it was a simplistic turn based combat tactics game, with a relationship system that seemed to mirror the absence of complexity that the combat system was offering. How wrong was I. Related reading: For a second…
Read MoreBack when the Nintendo 3DS first launched, it offered a thin range of content and the console struggled as a result. But if there was any one game that justified for me the launch purchase of that little console, it was the original Samurai Warriors Chronicles. Related reading: Our review…
Read MoreI am getting so sick of Hyperdimension Neptunia games. It seems like every month at the moment Compile Heart has a new one to inflict on us, and so soon after Hyperdimension Neptunia U: Action Unleashed I just wasn’t in the mood for any more of these games. And yet…
Read MoreFor years now Steins;Gate has been renowned for being one of the finest visual novels ever produced. First released way back on the Xbox 360 in 2009, it has been ported to PC, PSP, iPad, Androd and, now, the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita. There has even been an anime…
Read MoreIt’s always a bad sign for a console when the manufacturer’s own interest in it has dropped to publishing games like this. Looney Tunes Galactic Sports isn’t terrible, but it’s almost the dictionary definition of a something thrown together quickly to cash in on a license. Which is amusing in…
Read MoreThe dungeon crawler has been going through something of a renaissance recently. As the star of Wizardry and Might & Magic has faded (at least, compared to the dominant franchises they once were), we’ve seen a number of Japanese developers do some really interesting things with the genre to revitalise…
Read MoreSayonara Umihara Kawase is no fishing simulator but it might as well be dubbed Reel Fishing 2015. To play is to hop into a boat and drench your lure in the waters of discovery for the first time. It’s a comparison that should have zero business being applied to a…
Read MoreWith the gaming industry in uproar over the overwhelming success of the just released Kickstarter campaign from ex-Rare team members, Yooka-Laylee – even if we at DDNet have our reservations for the game – Shovel Knight’s release on the PlayStation Network once again reminds us that while Kickstarter indeed does…
Read MoreTamsoft, the developer of Hyperdimension Neptunia U: Action Unleashed, is in some ways the perfect match for Compile Heart’s premier franchise. But in other ways the licensing of the franchise to the developer has resulted in a confused title that doesn’t quite know what it wants to be. Related reading:…
Read MoreHaving recently visited America, I did my best to appreciate a lot of the culture that yells “AMERICA”. And while I certainly enjoyed a lot of it (I already am a huge fan of ice hockey), the Americans certainly made baseball, an otherwise interesting twist on cricket (a sport that,…
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