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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…

The Week in Review: July 2, 2021

July 2, 2021

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Video by Matt S. This week in the week in review! PlayStation Plus games for July announced: https://www.kotaku.com.au/2021/07/here-are-the-july-2021-playstation-plus-games/ Ni No Kuni Cross Worlds hits $100 million in revenue in just 11 Days: https://www.siliconera.com/ni-no-kuni-cross-worlds-grossed-over-100-million-in-11-days/ Konami and Bloober Team team up… almost certainly for Silent Hill: https://www.siliconera.com/konami-bloober-team-silent-hill/ The first three Final Fantasy…

nisa-localise-this-game-please

July 1, 2021

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News by Matt S. We can chalk this up as a game that almost certainly won’t get a localisation, but over in Japan, Nippon Ichi is set to publish a game from developer, Fog, that is looking truly wonderful. The game’s called Fuuraiki 4, and it’s a real-world visual novel…

Review: Mario Golf: Super Rush (Nintendo Switch)

July 1, 2021

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Review by Matt S. Mario Golf: Super Rush is at its best when it’s not trying to be super or rush. When it’s focused on simply being a bright, colourful golf game, starring Mario and the gang, it is the best Mario sports title that we’ve seen in quite some…

The brilliant AI: The Somnium Files is getting a sequel!

July 1, 2021

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News by Matt S. A-Set! A-Set! If you don’t know what I’m referencing there, then you haven’t played AI: The Somnium Files yet. You should probably remedy that because it’s one of the finest narrative games in recent years. Today, Spike Chunsoft has made the happy announcement that the game…

The first of those Final Fantasy Pixel remakes lands on July 28

June 30, 2021

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News by Matt S. One of the nicer (if smaller-scale) announcements that came out of E3 this year was that Square Enix was going to do new re-releases of the first six Final Fantasy games. This “Final Fantasy Pixel” remaster series was going to be closer in tone and aesthetic…

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