Mystery. Romance. Monsters. These are common elements of JRPGs. And they are all part of Path of the Midnight Sun, a new indie entry to the genre that has just released. I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to preview the game last month. Even in my brief (two…
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We had a special guest on the Digitally Uploaded podcast this month – Lachlan, from Lached Up Games! He’s been on the podcast before, but because we love his fanservicey take on Australian visual novels, and the fact he has a new one just out on Steam, we couldn’t resist…
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Starting in 1977, the legendary rock musician David Bowie produced the Berlin Trilogy of albums. In a surprising move, he chose the avant-garde, ambient artist Brian Eno as a songwriting partner. One of Eno’s biggest contributions to the albums was his “oblique strategies” – a deck of cards with different…
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One Piece Odyssey is a particularly impressive game for one reason in particular: You don’t need to be a fan of One Piece to enjoy it. So often anime tie-in games consolidate the main anime plotline to an extreme degree, just so the developers can squish some form of it…
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Oh yes, I’m going there. With Fire Emblem Engage out in just a week, I’ve decided that DigitallyDownloaded.net needs a solid flood of very angry people, so I’m going to publish the definitive* ranking order of all the Fire Emblem titles released in English. (* Not actually definitive. This is…
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This one has been a long time coming, but NISA has finally given the world a release date for Ys IX: Monstrum Nox. It will land on May 9 in North America, May 12 in Europe, and will have all DLC baked into it. You have, of course, been able…
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2022 was such a jam-packed year for releases that it’s far too easy to forget about some of the great games that were released through the year. So, as part of our podcast this month, we chatted about what our most memorable games of the year were. Not necessarily the…
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The next release in Bandai Namco’s venerable JRPG series, Tales, will launch quite soon – February 17. Rather than being a new game, as such, it will be a remaster, but a remaster of one of the more respected titles in the series. Tales of Symphonia was a GameCube title,…
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Whenever Americans tackle Japanese material or attempt to situate a film, TV series or otherwise in Japan, there’s an inherent tension between what works in American cinema and entertainment, and what is representing Japanese culture and aesthetics accurately. Too often, under these circumstances, the work turns out to be something…
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January is usually one of the quietest months for game releases (and news, and all the rest), but in 2023 there are some big releases (and a few genuinely exciting surprises that we had no idea were coming). So we sit down to chat about what we’re looking forward to…
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