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June 24, 2019

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List by Matt S. Studio Ghibli is rightfully celebrated across the world for its contributions to cinema, as “Japan’s Disney,” only with a far greater emphasis on the artistry and storytelling potential of animation than Disney’s mass-market commercialisation. As one of Japan’s greatest exports, Ghibli, helped by two of the…

Review: Devolver Bootleg (PC)

June 24, 2019

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Review by Harvard L. Let’s set the scene. It’s 1993 – the SNES had just hit stores, and that means people are flogging off their old consoles. You chance upon a much-worn NES at a garage sale, along with a peculiar cartridge: “99 Games-in-one”. You’ve never seen this at your…

The catch-up coffee: Monday, June 24, 2019

June 23, 2019

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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…

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June 21, 2019

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Video by Matt S. I do love my JRPGs, and the PlayStation 4 has given us a whole lot of great ones to play. While everyone knows the likes of Persona, Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and so on, there are also a lot of niche and obscure JRPGs that are…

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June 21, 2019

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Video by Matt S. Crash Team Racing is an absolute delight. It’s clearly not easy to do a really great kart racer, and Mario Kart hasn’t had real competition for quite a while now, but Crash here changes all that. Excellent tracks, brilliant characters, wonderful design… this game has it…

Review: Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled (Sony PlayStation 4)

June 21, 2019

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Review by Matt S. What a delight Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled is. For whatever reason it has proven to be hard for developers to even compete with Mario Kart, sitting high on its kart-racing party game pedestal, and while Crash Team Racing doesn’t quite get there, it’s the closest anyone…

There’s a rather beautiful romance story on the way to PlayStation VR

June 20, 2019

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News by Matt S. Focus on You is a rather gorgeous and elegant looking VR title that releases on July 5 in Japan and the Asian PlayStation Stores – Hong Kong, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand (with English localisation in those locations). It’s developed by Korean developer, Smilegate Entertainment, and…

Disaster Report 4 is coming out west!

June 20, 2019

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News by Matt S. God bless NISA. Disaster Report 4: Summer Memories is getting a full localisation across PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch and PC courtesy of the maverick publisher. It’s a while away until the game releases, but it is coming, and that’s the main thing. For people who haven’t…

Review: My Friend Pedro (Nintendo Switch)

June 20, 2019

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Review by Harvard L. My Friend Pedro is admittedly very on brand for Devolver Digital, and it’s no surprise either that it first found life as a Flash short on Adult Swim Games. It’s another in the line of skill-intensive, individual-expression-through-stylised-violence games that follows in the wake of Hotline Miami…

I made a level in Super Mario Maker 2. Hire me now, Nintendo!

June 20, 2019

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Preview by Matt S. Super Mario Maker 2 is the next big Nintendo release for the year, and while we have a review in the works, in this here preview period before the various embargoes lift and we’re allowed to talk about it in full, I’ve just got to remind…

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