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Review: Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance (Sony PlayStation 5)

June 28, 2021

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Review by Matt S. With over 30 books in print starring Drizzt Do’Urden and his companions, you would think that there’s plenty of material to turn into a compelling RPG. After all, while R.A Salvatore’s novels are pulp fantasy in every sense of the term, so too are The Witcher…

Dark Alliance: This Dungeons & Dragons game is an insult

June 28, 2021

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Video by Matt S. I’ve been reading Drizzt Do ‘Urden novels in the Dungeons & Dragons universe for over 25 years now. He and his crew are some of my favourite fantasy characters of all time. To this day when I play D & D my characters will generally use…

Interesting games on itch.io: June 28

June 28, 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: June 28

June 28, 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…

Review: Disgaea 6: Defiance of Destiny (Nintendo Switch)

June 25, 2021

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Review by Matt S. Disgaea faces a big problem, which Disgaea 6 exposes; when you’ve got a series that has parodied JRPGs through raw exaggeration, how do you keep that series’ energy going? How do you take something that is already hyperbolic to an almost grotesque degree, and build further…

The Week in Review: June 25, 2021

June 25, 2021

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Video by Matt S. This week in the week in review! The GBA turns 20: https://twitter.com/MattSainsb/status/1407204087397982213 Epic Game Store leaks a bunch of Trails titles: https://www.siliconera.com/trails-to-azure-trails-into-reverie-legend-of-nayuta-localizations-leaked/ People are paying top dollar for digital fashion: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/06/21/inside-cyber-fashion-market-digital-clothes-sell-thousands/ Is there a Castlevania Advance inbound?: https://www.siliconera.com/castlevania-advance-collection-rated-in-australia/ Final Fantasy IX to get an animated adaptation:…

Mario Golf: Super Rush – Why I love this game

June 24, 2021

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Video by Matt S. Nintendo’s latest Mario Golf game has now landed! Mario Golf: Super Rush is a delight, blending excellent standard golf, with some really entertaining, manic “party” games and ways to play. What’s more, the game has a story mode that is just gorgeous, and looks like it…

The first official Paralympics video game ever is out now and looks excellent

June 24, 2021

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News by Matt S. You’ve got to feel genuinely sorry for Japan. The Olympics was such a big deal and source of pride for the country, and for it to be trashed completely by a once-in-a-century pandemic is a cruelty that the country didn’t deserve. Nonetheless, the Olympics are going…

Review: Empire of Angels IV (Nintendo Switch)

June 24, 2021

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Review by Matt S. It has been great to see Taiwan become a growing force in video games, in no small part because culturally and aesthetically there are synergies between it and Japan that has meant that many of the games that come out of Taiwan do great things with…

Idea Factory’s excellent Dragon Star Varnir has a Switch release date

June 23, 2021

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News by Matt S. Dragon Star Varnir has been one of Idea Factory’s successful experiments on PlayStation 4. The dark fairy tale-infused JRPG offers excellent, original combat, a rich narrative and, of course, Idea Factory’s usual fan service infusion. Now it’s coming to Nintendo Switch, and will launch in North…

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