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Review: SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech (Nintendo Switch)

April 30, 2019

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Review by Matt S. Be careful what you wish for. The SteamWorld series, by developer Image & Form, has always offered stellar production values and tight, engaging gameplay, across the many genres that it has crossed over the years. There’s been a tower defence, two platformers, and a 2D XCom…

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April 29, 2019

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News by Matt S. The 3DS is well and truly a legacy console now. It’s still brilliant, of course, with hundreds of great games to play on it, but in terms of new stuff, there’s just not much left to look forward to. With one exception. The first Persona Q…

A Japanese novel you should read: Confessions

April 29, 2019

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Book review by Matt S. Published a little over a decade ago (2008), Minato Kanae’s Confessions was the book that immediately established her as one of Japan’s pre-eminent crime fiction writers. Like many of the best modern crime fiction works, Confessions isn’t so interested in figuring out whodunnit – that’s…

Review: Panty Party (Nintendo Switch)

April 29, 2019

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Review by Matt S. Panty Party is a game in which variations of women’s undergarments battle it out in a no-holds barred deathmatch. Whether your preference is plain white briefs or panties with bear designs printed on them, tentacle panties (which seem rather… impractical to me) through to the mighty…

The catch-up coffee: Monday, April 29, 2019

April 28, 2019

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News by Matt S. 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 anchor, Dee…

Review: BoxBoy! + BoxGirl! (Nintendo Switch)

April 26, 2019

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Review by Matt C. I’m sure I’m not alone in thinking that 2017’s Bye-Bye BoxBoy! was meant to be the final game in the series. After all, this was the third game in what Nintendo kept referring to as a “trilogy”, and one with a definite air of finality about…

Review: Moero Chronicle Hyper (Nintendo Switch)

April 26, 2019

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Review by Matt S. Moero Chronicle is Idea Factory at its most Idea Factory. It’s a game so utterly devoted to fan service that it doesn’t bother itself with traditional expectations of a video game; the localisation is barely coherent, and the narrative behind it isn’t any more disciplined. And…

Koei Tecmo is making a Persona Warriors game and that’s just the best news

April 25, 2019

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News by Matt S. Koei Tecmo is well known for taking its Dynasty Warriors “Musou” formula and applying it to all kinds of licensed properties. In just the last couple of years we’ve had Warriors games in the Hyrule, Fire Emblem, Berserk, Arslan, One Piece and Dragon Quest properties. Now…

Review: Days Gone (Sony PlayStation 4)

April 25, 2019

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Review by Harvard L. I like to believe there was a collective feeling of apprehension in the audience at E3 when Days Gone was first announced. The game’s elevator pitch is simple. Zombie apocalypse. Open World. Motorcycles. A PS4 exclusive by a Sony in-house studio based in Bend, Oregon, in…

Review: My Time At Portia (Nintendo Switch)

April 25, 2019

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Review by Matt S. Harvest Moon (and the genre it spawned) is great, because Harvest Moon is a sentimentally meditative game. You enjoy a homey little life in the far-flung countryside, where you run through a daily routine of milking cows and tending to onions. Morning chores done, you head…

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