Digitally Downloaded – Page 355 – Your specialist source of news and reviews for games, anime, manga, film and literature

Developer Q & A: Experience Inc on building dungeon crawlers

December 9, 2020

dungeon crawl/Experience Inc/Interview/Interviews/JRPG/NISA

Interview by Matt S. Experience Inc is one of the most under-appreciated developers out there. In addition to being behind the finest horror visual novel series out there (Death Mark, Spirit Hunter: NG), the company also creates some incredible, beautiful, classical Wizardry-style dungeon crawlers. If you haven’t played Stranger of…

Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon – It’s still a masterpiece

December 9, 2020

Fire Emblem/Intelligent Systems/JRPG/Nintendo/Retro/Video/Video review

Video by Matt S. Last week Nintendo localised the original Fire Emblem into English for the first time, to celebrate the series’ 30th anniversary. Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon first released in Japan-only way back in 1990, and playing it in 2020 has been some real nostalgic joy. A lot of…

DDNet Awards 2020! Blockbuster of the year

December 9, 2020

awards/Awards 2020/Blockbuster/DDNet Awards

Awards by DDNet Team It’s that time of year again, where we roll out the red carpet and celebrate the best that 2020 has offered us. In a year that has otherwise been so terrible, the fact that we’ve had a steady stream of such excellent games to play has…

The 24 Games of Christmas! Day #9: Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX

December 8, 2020

24 games of Christmas/Pokemon Mystery Dungeon

Article by Clark A. It’s the big countdown! Just as you pull out your advent calendars to count down the 24 days to Christmas, so too are we going to count down in our own way, by highlighting 24 games that you could play this month to get into the…

Review: Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 (Nintendo Switch)

December 8, 2020

Nintendo Switch/Puyo Puyo Tetris/Puzzle Game/Reviews/Sega/Switch Review

Review by Matt S. Puyo Puyo Tetris is one of those genius ideas that shouldn’t work… and yet somehow does. I don’t think, prior to the first Puyo Puyo Tetris landing, that anyone thought that bringing together such disparate puzzle games as Puyo Puyo and Tetris was going to result in…

Review: Immortals Fenyx Rising (Microsoft Xbox Series X)

December 8, 2020

action game/Immortals Feynx Rising/open world game/Reviews/Ubisoft/Xbox Series X

Review by Trent P. Immortals Fenyx Rising is a key new property for Ubisoft. Developed by Ubisoft Quebec, the title is a distinct action-adventure game in a style that sits neatly within Ubisoft’s comfort zone, and that’s not an inherently bad thing, though you know what you’re getting right from…

DDNet Awards 2020! Best free-to-play game

December 8, 2020

awards/Awards 2020/DDNet Awards/F2P/Free-to-play

The 24 Games of Christmas! Day #8: Paper Mario: The Origami King

December 7, 2020

24 games of Christmas/Paper Mario: The Origami King

Interesting games on itch.io: December 7

December 7, 2020

Art Game/Indie/itch.io/list/Top 10/top 5/visual novel

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…

Haven: The perfect PlayStation 5 art game?

December 7, 2020

Art Game/Haven/JRPG/PlayStation 5/RPG/Video/Video review

Video by Matt S. Haven is the first “traditional” RPG to land on the PlayStation 5, and it’s an absolute delight. It’s a non-violent turn-based RPG about two lovers that left their entire world behind so that they could be together, in tranquil isolation. It’s a truly beautiful, heartfelt game,…

Latest