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June 3, 2019

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News by Matt S. Otomate is an Idea Factory brand that regular readers of DDNet should be pretty familiar with. It’s the visual novel brand that is “for women,” in that it produces games with harems full of gorgeous dudes for you to date and fall in love with. Of…

Review: Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth

June 3, 2019

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Review by Clark A. Atlus has been expanding the world of Persona in recent years with the likes of dancing and fighting game offshoots. It’s inspiring how well these spin-offs fare, translating the core appeal of revered narrative masterpieces like Persona 4 into contexts far removed from JRPG action. Of…

Review: Project Nimbus: Complete Edition (Nintendo Switch)

June 3, 2019

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Review by Harvard L. I’m always excited when I hear a new mecha game is getting released. Although I’m not the most well versed in the anime genre, I know enough about the various official and unofficial attempts to translate Japan’s giant robots into an interactive medium. They’re almost always…

The catch-up coffee: Monday, June 3, 2019

June 2, 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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May 31, 2019

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Video by Matt S. Kotodama: The 7 Mysteries of Fujisawa is a new visual novel/Match-3 puzzle game combination from PQube. And it is so, so good. Not just for the fanservice (though the fanservices is *really* good), but also because it has a great sense of humour, great character design,…

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May 31, 2019

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Review by Matt S. In Kotodama: The 7 Mysteries of Fujisawa you use your incredible powers of match-3 puzzling to strip a bunch of guys and girls down to their underwear. If that doesn’t sell you on the game, nothing will. Seriously. If seeing anime characters in amusing states of…

Review: Happy Words (Nintendo Switch)

May 31, 2019

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Review by Matt S. It must be pretty hard to screw up a Scrabble clone. But we now know that it can be done. The developers of Happy Words have lived the impossible dream and done it. This is one terrible clone of Scrabble. I’m going to start with the…

A rather beautiful RTS about vikings is console-bound

May 31, 2019

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News by Matt S. I’m always up for more strategy action on console. It’s a genre that does so well on PC, but we see so less frequently on our TV devices and handhelds, and yet, it usually works so well on handheld too. Anyway, we’re going to get a…

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May 30, 2019

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News by Matt S. Rayark’s Cytus 2 is a free-to-play rhythm game, available on Android and iOS. It just got the best add-on a rhythm game could hope for, with a pack of Hatsune Miku tracks to play on. The most beautiful Goddess also shows up, naturally, with a new…

On making the Kotodama, the sexy new visual novel/puzzler combination from PQube

May 30, 2019

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Interview by Matt S. Kotodama: The 7 Mysteries Of Fujisawa releases tomorrow, and it’s a big deal for publisher PQube, as it also happens to be the first game that PQube has developed. Taking that step from publishing games for other developers to creating one in-house is a huge one,…

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