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Blue Reflection: Second Light is going to be the most beautiful, wholesome game of all

July 7, 2021

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News by Matt S. Overnight, Koei Tecmo in Japan dropped a bunch of new screenshots and a trailer for the upcoming Blue Reflection: Second Light. The first Blue Reflection still being the most beautiful game of all, as far as I’m concerned (as in art direction and aesthetics – yes,…

Danganronpa gets its Switch release date

July 6, 2021

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News by Matt S. I already have the Danganronpa series twice over – on Vita and on PlayStation 4 – but I am so immeasurably excited to also be able to have it on my Nintendo Switch. It is, after all, the best console of all for visual novels (also…

Nintendo indulges screen porn with a sexy, sexy new OLED model

July 6, 2021

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News by Matt S. Oh my. Oh. Oh. Ohhhhhhh. Look, if Nintendo wanted some boring coverage of its exciting new console, it wouldn’t have announced it after 11pm at night. But that’s what Nintendo has done, and I’m being a good, dutiful journalist in reporting just how much I want…

Akiba’s Trip: Hellbound & Debriefed – Why I love this game

July 6, 2021

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Video by Matt S. It’s fan service, it’s satire, and it’s fun! Akiba’s Trip took the whole hikikomori trend in Japan, as well as the social and cultural concerns that have come from it, and spun it into an entertaining PSP game about a decade ago. Now it has been…

Review: Doki Doki Literature Club Plus (Nintendo Switch)

July 6, 2021

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Review by Matt S. I’ve been fortunate in that I was able to go into Doki Doki Literature Club Plus having never played the original, and also not knowing a whole lot about it. I was aware that it was a horror game and the initially bright and bubbly presentation…

On making avant-garde visual novels

July 5, 2021

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Interview by Matt S. Sometimes you put off playing a game that you regret the moment you start actually playing it. This has been my experience with Cross The Moon. I’ve had a copy sitting on my PC for over a year, but it was only because I had an…

Review: Cross The Moon (Nintendo Switch)

July 5, 2021

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Review by Matt S. Before we get into talking about the game’s many (many) merits, I want to start by saying that Cross The Moon is so incredibly inspiring to me. It’s a visual novel made on a hyper-indie budget and, as a person making my own VNs on hyper-indie…

Interesting games on itch.io: July 5

July 5, 2021

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List by Matt S. I’m a big fan of itch.io for the freedom and open platform that it allows for developers to be creative, experimental, and directly canvas the audience for feedback for games that are not yet ready for primetime on Steam and its ilk. In addition, itch.io allows…

Catch up with last week’s gameplay streams: July 5

July 5, 2021

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News by Matt S. As some of you will know, we’ve been doing regular streams over the last year or so on the DDNet YouTube channel, showcasing the latest and greatest games, while chatting with people about those games (and just about everything else) as we go along. If you’d…

Samurai Warriors 5 might be the perfect realisation of the Musou vision

July 2, 2021

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Preview by Matt S. I’ve finally been able to get some hands-on time with the console (PlayStation 4) version of Samurai Warriors 5. As my favourite series within the Musou genre (one of my favourite genres), I’ve been aching for a go as other critics have been previewing it on…

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