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Mystic Vale: Harvard Let’s Plays

March 6, 2020

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Video by Harvard L. Mystic Vale releases on the Nintendo Switch in a week or so, but it has been kicking around on PC for a year now. It also happens to be a very, very good digital adaptation of an excellent board game. In his latest Let’s Play, Harvard…

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March 5, 2020

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News by Matt S. Prinny 1 & 2 were platformers released back on the PSP. Featuring NISA’s demon-penguin mascot, these games were infamous for being very challenging and very, very good. Now NISA has decided to bundle them up together and release them on Nintendo Switch. The package will include…

No matter how disgusting he finds anime, Senator Stirling Griff is wrong to try to censor it

March 5, 2020

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Opinion by Matt S. It’s such an easy topic to champion in the political sphere that it can only be cynical – for those that haven’t been following Australian politics, one of our more obscure and useless senators, Stirling Griff, has decided to go on a campaign against anime and…

Review: Kingdom Rush Frontiers (Nintendo Switch)

March 5, 2020

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Review by Matt S. For a time the tower defence genre was a giant. It was when there was still space for premium-priced phone games, and people latched on to the simple – but challenging – strategy of tower defence as an the ideal time killer to make the daily…

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March 4, 2020

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News by Matt S. Indie publisher, Ratalaika Games, certainly likes to push games out, and frequently. This time around, the publisher has announced seven – yes, seven – visual novels, currently locked on PC, for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch ports. Sadly, for some reason Ratalaika Games hasn’t…

Review: Hero Must Die. Again (Sony PlayStation 4)

March 4, 2020

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Review by Matt S. Hero Must Die has one of the most interesting premises you’ll ever see in a JRPG. It’s almost distressing that it struggles so completely to execute against that potential, and the reason is simple: It stubbornly sticks to being a JRPG. The attempted gamification of the…

Get an early teaser for a rhythm game RPG not due until 2023

March 4, 2020

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News by Matt S. Sometimes a news announcement makes you do a double-take. Announcing that a game will release in 2023 is one such occasion. It’s rare for a game to be announced so far out from release, but that’s what Pracy Studios has done with Nocturne. Don’t worry, though,…

Hero Must Die: Heartfelt, but deeply flawed

March 4, 2020

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Video by Matt S. Hero Must Die. Again is a powerfully evocative game in many ways. You play as a hero who, after saving the world from a demon, dies. As a reward, he’s granted five days from heaven to tie up his loose ends and, perhaps, have one more…

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March 3, 2020

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News by Matt S. With the most unpronounceable name in the history of videogames, void tRrLM(); //Void Terrarium also looks like one that you won’t want to miss. NISA’s latest is a game about a “cruel world contaminated by fungi” where you’ll need to struggle to survive, while also protecting…

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March 3, 2020

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Review by Matt S. Almost every visual novel aims to present players with a fantasy – it may well be located in a real world location (Stein’s;Gate’s Akihabara, Root Letter’s Shimane prefecture), but the stories that they share are complete flights of fancy. Wanderlust: Travel Stories is a little different;…

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