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Review: Gal*Gun 2 (Nintendo Switch)

April 11, 2018

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Review by Matt S. Have you ever read Georges Bataille’s work? Particularly his novel Story of the Eye? If not, it’s a useful way to understand and interpret a game like Gal*Gun 2. In fact, Gal*Gun 2 is the perfect example of so much of Bataille’s work and philosophy in…

Embargoes are becoming too restrictive

April 11, 2018

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Opinion by Matt S. To do our jobs as games critics, we often need to get access to a game ahead of its release date. Else we’re reviewing it after it has been released, and that’s not helpful to readers who are really keen on doing some reading up about…

Square Enix has patched the PC port of Chrono Trigger to fix it

April 11, 2018

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News by Matt S. Square Enix recently released a port of Chrono Trigger to PC that was… controversial, to say the least. The company had made a number of changes to the game – most signficicantly, messing with the game’s art to make it “HD” – and that didn’t exactly…

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April 11, 2018

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News by Matt S. Well, here’s a collaboration I would never have guessed at. Gust’s Atelier Lydie & Suelle is a delightful JRPG about two girls and their dreams to become master alchemists. And, apparently, they play a mean game of golf, with a special collaboration event with Everybody’s Golf.…

Review: Titan Quest (Sony PlayStation 4)

April 10, 2018

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Review by Matt S. Let’s talk about Diablo clones. It’s rare for a game to be so influential that it becomes a genre title in itself, but that’s certainly the case for Diablo. That original masterpiece, released far back in 1996, has joined the ranks of the likes of Rogue…

Review: Regalia – Of Men And Monarchs (Sony PlayStation 4)

April 10, 2018

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Review by Matt S. I didn’t really want to sit down and write this review of Regalia. Doing so is going to take hours out of my life and… the game’s just not worth it. But in the interests of being professional, here we go: there’s nothing outright wrong with…

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April 10, 2018

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News by Matt S. There have been some truly horrible attempts at bringing the noir literary genre to video games, and yet I continue to hold out hope that each new “noir” game really nails it. The next attempt at doing noir in video game form is the psychological horror…

Final Fantasy VIII, Studio Ghibli and games that kids and adults love equally! (Digitally Uploaded 2018, Episode #13)

April 10, 2018

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This week on the DDNet podcast, we take a break from video games to discuss Studio Ghibli and the impact that those amazing films have had on us. And then we’re right back to games, talking about games that kids and adults can enjoy equally, and then Final Fantasy VIII…

Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA finally has its PC release next week

April 10, 2018

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News by Matt S. What an odyssey this has been. Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA was released on PlayStation 4, with a PC release expected soon after. But then the nightmares started for publisher, NISA. A localisation so controversial the team needed to go back and re-localise from scratch. Issue…

Early Access Preview: PlataGO! (PC)

April 9, 2018

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Preview by Harvard L. The recent stories about harsh indie gamedev working conditions, triple-A microtransaction scandals and oversaturation of digital platforms are necessary, but they can have a nasty side effect making the general public forget that game design can be fun and exciting. There is a palpable barrier between…

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