You may be thinking I’ve lost my mind. “Lindsay, writing about a PC demo for a game that launched in 2020 is strange.” I get it. I rarely cover demos, and I don’t think I’ve ever written about one coming out four years after a game’s launch. But this is…
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The Western release date for the latest title in the Memories Off series, SINce Memories: Off the Starry Sky, if officially right around the corner as publisher PQube announced an October release date today. I explain a bit more about the series in my post about the game’s Western reveal,…
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Reynatis’ single biggest flaw is that it tries too many things, and while each of its themes would in itself be worth exploring, piled into a heap together they create a narrative that often seems confused about what it is. Take for example the theme of fascism and resistance that…
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I was tempted to resist writing anything about the announcement of Ghost of Yōtei. It’s increasingly difficult to have a mature conversation about anything to do with video games without one pile-on or another happening, and I had more than enough of a pile-on from my review of Ghost of…
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Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s weekly catch-up news feature, the catch-up coffee. I will bring you the best news you may have missed with each issue. Grab the biggest mug you’ve got, fill it with your favourite brew, and catch up with us (and our favourite news anchor, Dee Dee)!…
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There are very few things that trigger my sense of nostalgia quite as powerfully as Worms: Armageddon. When this was released on the Nintendo 64 back in 1999, it instantly became one of THE rotation of multiplayer hits that dominated Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights at home with family and…
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The Western release of The Hokkaido Serial Murder Case: The Okhotsk Disappearance will probably be ignored by the majority of the occidental gaming world, and with no marketing at all aside from word-of-mouth advertising from video game diehards, I feel that’s a real shame. So I’ve come out of my…
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From the creator of Final Fantasy, Fantasian launched via Apple Arcade in two parts during 2021. Even then, I hoped the RPG would be released for PC and consoles. Apple Arcade has a limited pool of potential subscribers and Fantasian was too impressive to stay exclusive to that small percentage…
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They really should have called this “The Legend of Link”, to keep up with the series syntax. That aside, Nintendo’s first significant effort to make their good princess (sorry, I never cared for Peach) a protagonist is an absolutely delightful experience, and shows that while Nintendo enjoyed massive success with…
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Manufacturing third-party controllers must be a tough gig. It’s one of those things that the major console manufacturers – Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo – are hyper-competitive about because controllers impact heavily on how enjoyable their consoles are to use. Consequently, all three make excellent controllers, put them at reasonable prices…
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