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On spending 1,600 hours making a JRPG epic using the Nintendo Switch

April 29, 2022

This week, an absolutely fascinating story landed on my feet. Someone had spent 1,600 hours plugging away at RPG Maker MV on the Nintendo Switch to produce a JRPG, which they released this week. To emphasise: I’m not talking about the PC RPG Maker MV – we get plenty of…

Review: Samurai Bringer (Nintendo Switch)

April 29, 2022

Nintendo Switch/Playism/Reviews

Samurai Bringer is Samurai Warriors: The Roguelike. If that doesn’t have you rushing to the eShop to buy it right now, then you’re probably not a regular reader of DigitallyDownloaded.net. This game is an excellent, clever, interesting and entertaining take on the roguelike, and while I’m getting increasingly burned out…

River City Saga Three Kingdoms is a thing I never knew I wanted, but I do

April 29, 2022

News/River City Ransom/trailer

River City Saga is one of the more enduring “Double Dragon”-like brawler properties, and while that genre has had its peaks and troughs, it is enjoying a renaissance right now. River City Saga is back for some more with a Three Kingdoms edition that looks amazing. Yes, we are talking…

RPG Maker Unite’s project management feature is legitimacy exciting

April 29, 2022

News/RPG Maker

The next version of the long-running RPG Maker property, RPG Maker Unite, is exciting for many (many) reasons. One of the big ones is that while it will maintain the series’ vision of allowing people to make JRPGs without coding, it will be built on Unity, meaning that aspiring game…

Nintendo Switch Sports: Unfortunately we’ll never have another Wii Sports…

April 28, 2022

Nintendo/Video review

Wii Sports was one incredible little experience. It was the perfect way to launch the Wii console, and it was one of those rare games that got everyone playing. Unfortunately, while Nintendo Switch Sports is very good, it fails to capture the same zeitgeist, and I don’t think we’ll ever…

Mothmen 1966 is the first in a series of pulp fiction titles

April 28, 2022

News/trailer

I have a preferred list of supernatural entities: ghosts, cryptids, aliens. Sometimes they get mashed together, as it happens with the Mothman; he is thought to be an alien creatures who either warns of or creates catastrophic events. Developer LCB Game Studio and publisher Chorus Worldwide have announced Mothmen 1966,…

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodhunt can bugger off back into the shadows

April 27, 2022

News/Opinion/Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines 2

I am becoming thoroughly sick and tired of developers taking a popular IP of some kind, and reaming it into a hole where it just doesn’t fit. Vampire: The Masquerade is a storytelling-orientated horror-fantasy RPG. It always has been. I haven’t kept up with more recent editions of the game,…

Review: Nintendo Switch Sports (Nintendo Switch)

April 27, 2022

Nintendo/Nintendo Switch/Reviews

Nintendo Switch Sports would have been an excellent launch title pack-in game, much like Wii Sports was back on that console 16 years ago. It’s a well-made minigame compilation that highlights the strength of the motion controllers and system dynamics. However, the Switch already has a lot of those kinds…

Here’s the first look at Legend of Mana: The Teardrop Crystal

April 27, 2022

News/Square Enix/trailer

Square Enix’s Mana series is on its way to a television (or computer monitor, let’s be real) near you courtesy of Warner Bros. Japan. Announced about a year ago and set to air this year, Legend of Mana: The Teardrop Crystal is an anime based on The Legend of Mana…

Monochrome Mobius announced for the west (Utawarerumono is back)!

April 26, 2022

Aquaplus/News/trailer

Hooray for good news! Utawarerumono is back, with Aquaplus announcing that Monochome Mobius: Rights and Wrongs Forgotten will be getting a global release. This game was developed to celebrate 20 years of Utawarerumono, which has become almost the defining definition of “cult hit” among JRPGs. Related reading: Our review of…

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