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SaGa Frontier Remastered: Why I love this remade JRPG classic

April 14, 2021

Video by Matt S. Cult classic, SaGa Frontier, is getting the remaster treatment by Square Enix, and this game is a delight on every level. Superb characters, an excellent combat system, and some amazing art combine to create a game that is eclectic and always fascinating. In this video, I…

Review: SaGa Frontier Remastered (Sony PlayStation 4)

April 14, 2021

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SaGa has never been Square Enix’s biggest property. The first couple were even renamed as “Final Fantasy Legends” for release in the west, and SaGa Frontier, the game being remastered here, never even got a release in Europe and Australia. It did get a release in the US, but this…

Siege Survival looks like it’s going to be one very dark simulation

April 14, 2021

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News by Matt S. When I think about medieval warfare, one of the things that I often end up musing over is what it must have been like to be on the receiving end of a siege. Not only do you know that there’s an army out there waiting for…

Review: The Game of Life 2 (Nintendo Switch)

April 14, 2021

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Review by Matt S. Look, I know The Game Of Life is just a board game and so on and so forth, but in some ways it makes me genuinely uncomfortable. The way it abstracts a person’s progress through life is very much about upholding and celebrating the status quo,…

what-loop-hero-can-teach-us-about

April 13, 2021

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Article by Harvard L. If you’re a fan of RPGs, you probably enjoy a fair bit of repetition. Hopefully, that’s not a controversial statement, but if you’re inclined to disagree, I have a simple experiment for you. Load up a copy of Dragon Quest (the original) and start a new…

Reviews: Catching up with Nintendo Switch visual novels

April 13, 2021

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Reviews by Matt S. The Nintendo Switch has become a home for the visual noveLl, with more being released on the console than is easy to keep up with. It is a favourite genre of mine, though, so I thought I’d do some quick summary reviews of some of the…

The games industry’s hostility to short games is a damning indictment of gaming

April 13, 2021

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Opinion by Matt S. I’ve touched on this topic often enough in the past, but I saw a tweet this morning from a game developer that annoyed me enough that I felt like it was worth re-iterating on here, because it speaks to a common attitude towards games that are…

Review: Clea 2 (Nintendo Switch)

April 12, 2021

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Review by Matt S. It’s refreshing to see a developer turn things around like this. The original Clea was a noble idea and effort, but struggled in execution. Clea 2 takes the same basic idea that powered the original, but finds interesting ways to iterate and build on it, and…

Interesting games on itch.io: April 12

April 12, 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: April 12

April 12, 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…

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