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Review: Azurebreak Heroes (Nintendo Switch)

November 23, 2020

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Review by Harvard L. Azurebreak Heroes is a solid little game which proved a formidable distraction to be over the past week. Developed solo by Piotr Powroziewicz and ported to the Switch by Silesia Games, it’s an action RPG with randomly generated elements, and a gameplay loop reminiscent of Risk…

Review: Serious Sam Collection (Nintendo Switch)

November 20, 2020

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Review by Matt S. At the start of the week, I reviewed the latest in the Call of Duty series; a flaming piece of nationalist trash set during the Cold War. I’ll wrap this week up with a review of games that I wish represented the FPS genre; the Serious…

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November 20, 2020

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News by Matt S. The Civilization VI season pass is turning out to be excellent value. Every two months you get new civs to play as, meaning that as you wrap one campaign up you can start playing as something new immediately (yes, it takes me months to finish Civilization…

Review: Pure Pool (Nintendo Switch)

November 20, 2020

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Review by Matt S. Ball porn. That’s right. That’s how I’m opening this review. Ball porn. We often use “XXXX porn” to describe a game that is so meticulous in its recreation of a real-world object that it almost seems to fetishise that object. It’s usually something we use in…

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November 19, 2020

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News by Matt S. This was great news to wake up to. The 007 license has always been a valuable one, since Rare’s Goldeneye 007 revolutionised console FPSers and single-handedly made the Nintendo 64 a multiplayer monster (not that there weren’t other great games, but Goldeneye was really the one…

Serious Sam Collection: Why I Love These Games

November 19, 2020

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Video by Matt S. Serious Sam Collection brings together ports of the first, second, and third in the series, along with all the DLC. It’s a big package of wildly entertaining run-and-gun shooty times, and exactly the right kind of shooter for the Nintendo Switch platform. In this video, I…

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November 19, 2020

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Review by Harvard L. The late 00’s were something of a Wild West for the shounen manga – following the charge of the “Big Three”: Naruto, One Piece and Bleach, dozens of epic narratives with grand ambitions and understandably outlandish premises popped up in serials and doujin circles across Japan.…

The catch-up coffee: Thursday, November 19, 2020

November 18, 2020

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News by Lindsay M. Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s regular catch-up news feature. With each issue we will bring you the best news that you may have missed. Grab the biggest mug you’ve got, fill it with your favourite brew, and catch up with us (and our favourite news anchor, Dee Dee)!…

Review: Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (Nintendo Switch)

November 18, 2020

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Review by Matt S. Nintendo and Koei Tecmo are on to a good thing as partners. After years of successfully bringing the Musou (Warriors) framework to various anime licensed tie-ins, Koei got the chance to work on one of Nintendo’s most sacred properties, producing Hyrule Warriors. That game delivered in…

Review: Crimson Spires (PC)

November 18, 2020

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Review by Matt C. Bataille, Missouri is a small mining town full of big secrets. Erika Wright is an FBI agent from the city, just passing through Bataille to assist in the capture of an accused serial killer, when her whole life changes forever. A bunch of enormous spires, each…

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