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Review: Dungeons 3 (Sony PlayStation 4)

November 3, 2017

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Review by Matt S. Of all the franchises that EA has utterly destroyed (and sadly there are a number of them), two really stand out; Magic Carpet, a Bullfrog game that EA apparently never saw value in after it acquired the developer, and Dungeon Keeper, another Bullfrog game, which judging…

Demon Gaze II first impressions: WHOO BOY

November 3, 2017

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Preview by Matt S. Demon Gaze II’s full release in English is just around the corner, and NISA (the publisher in the west) has been kind enough to allow us to go hands on with the game. Demon Gaze II is notable as the first Japanese dungeon crawler on the…

Review: The Inner World: The Last Wind Monk (Sony PlayStation 4)

November 2, 2017

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Review by Brad L. One of the hardest things to do when reviewing games is to review a sequel to a game that you had previously never heard of. Despite this, when given the chance to review The Inner World: The Last Wind Monk, I jumped at the chance, for…

Review: The Count Lucanor (Nintendo Switch)

November 2, 2017

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Review by Ginny W. There have been some truly standout indie titles on the Switch. Nintendo has clearly been branching out by more readily allowing more mature games on the eShop ranging from Gal*Gun to having shooters like Wolfenstein II and DOOM attract a whole new target market for the…

Retro reflections Warlocked, the Game Boy Color’s own Warcraft

November 2, 2017

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Retro by Matt S. Given that I’ve already written three articles about strategy games this week, I figured I might as well continue the theme going, and take a look back at a real time strategy game that would be just about forgotten to history, but I remember it so…

Review: Revenant Saga (Nintendo Switch)

November 2, 2017

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Review by Matt S. We all know what we’re getting from Kemco JRPGs by now, right? We all know that they’re micro-budget games with presentation that makes RPG Maker titles look like masterpieces by comparison. That in itself doesn’t need to be a bad thing, but most of Kemco’s games,…

The catch-up coffee: Thursday, November 2, 2017

November 1, 2017

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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: ELEX (Sony PlayStation 4)

November 1, 2017

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Review by Matt S. ELEX is a hot mess of a game. Anyone who has played a Piranha Bytes game by now (most recently, Risen 3) surely knows what to expect; clumsy combat, an attempt at open-ended gameplay that isn’t quite able to get its quests and conversation trees in…

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November 1, 2017

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Opinion by Matt C. Content warning: descriptions of torture and abuse I don’t know when torture became a selling point for AAA games. It seems like, these days, every other trailer for a blockbuster game—especially those shown at big showreel events like E3 and Paris Games Week—is full of extreme,…

Review: Always Sometimes Monsters (Sony PlayStation 4)

October 31, 2017

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Review by Matt C. Imagine a survival game, but instead of a frozen tundra or an isolated forest, the unforgiving wasteland is a city drowning in the cruelty of late capitalism. That, in a nutshell, is Always Sometimes Monsters: a game about surviving poverty and desperation in a world where…

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