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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…

Review: F1 2020 (Sony PlayStation 4)

July 10, 2020

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Review by Matt S. Over a number of years now, Codemasters has steadily built the F1 series into a top-flight racing game contender, and one of the few in the genre that manages to straddle the line between a serious simulation for fans of the sport, and something accessible to…

Waifu Uncovered: A special kind of glorious

July 10, 2020

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Video by Matt S. Newly released on Nintendo Switch, Waifu Uncovered is a low price SHMUP with a lot of fan service. A *lot* of fan service. In this video we take a quick look and first impressions of the game, ahead of our review next week. This game is,…

Review: Deadly Premonition 2 (Nintendo Switch)

July 9, 2020

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Review by Matt S Deadly Premonition was released ten years ago now, and you’d think that in that time people would have learned. But, nope. Ten years ago people fixated on technical issues of that game at the expense of the greater point, only for Deadly Premonition to eventually become…

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July 8, 2020

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News by Matt S. NISA’s upcoming Giraffe and Annike is looking like a true delight. As a gorgeous 3D adventure game with charming animal-like characters to interact with, and rhythm game-based action and drama it looks like it will be a vivid, highly fulfilling game when it releases on PlayStation…

Deadly Premonition 2: Absolutely Brilliant

July 8, 2020

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Video by Matt S. Deadly Premonition 2 is a sequel that I don’t think any of us were expecting. The first was a cult hit in the truest sense, but the creators had moved on to other projects and the game itself had largely faded from memory. But here we…

Review: Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town (Nintendo Switch)

July 8, 2020

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Review by Matt S. Harvest Moon (now Story of Seasons; this is a continuation of the old Harvest Moon, and Harvest Moon in the west now is actually a different series. I know it’s confusing, but it is what it is) is like Animal Crossing but with just a little…

The smartest western RPG studio is back with something that looks spectacular

July 7, 2020

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News by Matt S. You may not have heard of Spiders Studio before. You should have, but the studio is infamous for making games that have a B-tier level of jank and clumsiness to the gameplay, so a lot of people have dismissed them for a long time on that…

Retro reflections: Remember when roguelikes could ruin you?

July 7, 2020

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Retro reflections by Matt S. These days, indie developers fall over themselves to implement “roguelike” elements into their games. Indeed, the “roguelike” to indies is what “open world” is to the big publishers – a safe and commercially-proven way of throwing a lot of content at players… and it is…

Review: Infliction: Extended Cut (Nintendo Switch)

July 7, 2020

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Review by Matt S. Indies love horror, and it’s easy to understand why. Horror is reasonably within the means of smaller developers from a scope perspective. It presents an opportunity to limit the scale of an experience – a single house can be a playground for exquisite horror. You don’t…

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