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Review: Paper Mario: The Origami King (Nintendo Switch)

July 15, 2020

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Review by Matt S. The performance of the Paper Mario series (and the Mario RPGs in general) has been patchy. The first two – Paper Mario on the Nintendo 64 and The Thousand-Year Door on the GameCube – are rightly considered in the upper echelons of Mario’s very long career.…

Developer Q & A: On what to expect from Gust’s upcoming Fairy Tail

July 15, 2020

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Interview by Matt S. Last year, three titles in the Atelier series released in a single year. In that context it is almost surreal that we’ve had to wait this long for Gust to drop its next game, but now it’s just around the corner. Fairy Tail is a licensed…

Review: Waifu Uncovered Nintendo Switch

July 15, 2020

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Well then. Waifu Uncovered is certainly a thing. A thing I never expected Nintendo to allow, in this state, onto the Switch. Publisher eastasiasoft certainly deserves credit for somehow making that happen. To stop beating around the bush, Waifu Uncovered is strip SHMUP, and while it doesn’t go quite as…

Ghost of Tsushima: A great history misfire

July 14, 2020

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Video by Matt S. Ghost of Tsushima is Sucker Punch’s latest, and it is a really good open world action game, in just about every way. Combat is fun and fluid, the world is a technical marvel to explore, and the black & white mode is a lot of fun…

Review: Ghost of Tsushima (Sony PlayStation 4)

July 14, 2020

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Review by Matt S. For a fraction of a second, I almost thought that developer, Sucker Punch, was going to surpass my expectations and deliver a game that genuinely understood and respected the samurai mythos. The opening moments of Ghost of Tsushima feature a small group of samurai facing down…

Gadget review: EPOS Sennheiser GSP 670 Wireless Headset

July 14, 2020

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Hardware review by Matt S. Now we’re talking. Last week I reviewed the relatively modestly-priced EPOS Sennheiser GSP 370 headset, which offered excellent sound quality through the speakers but let itself down by lacking key features and having a microphone that wasn’t useful for anything but the most casual gaming applications.…

Review: CrossCode (Nintendo Switch)

July 13, 2020

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Review by Harvard L. It’s not a proud segment of my life, but in the early to mid-2000’s I was a kid with a computer and Internet access, but no money to feasibly buy games for myself. It’s farfetched to consider based on the relative unpopularity of the genre today,…

Review: Urban Trials Tricky (Nintendo Switch)

July 13, 2020

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Review by Harvard L. Urban Trials Tricky is fun, agreeable, and plain. It’s the fourth in Tate Multimedia’s Urban Trials series of motorcross-trials videogames, and like the others before it, there isn’t really any vastly distinguishing factor setting it aside from previous games in the series, or the similarly named…

The catch-up coffee: Monday, July 13, 2020

July 12, 2020

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News by Lindsay M., News Editor 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…

Paper Mario: The Origami King first impressions!

July 10, 2020

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Video by Matt S. Paper Mario: The Origami King had a lot to make up for after Color Splash on the Wii U proved to be quite the disappointment. The good news is that while I’m still only in very early first impressions, the game’s immediately more appealing, creative and…

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