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Short ‘n Sweet reviews: Games ported to Nintendo Switch edition!

November 13, 2017

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Reviews by Matt S. The Nintendo Switch is getting an absolute deluge of games released on it each week now, and many of those games are ports of titles released on other platforms, and (apparently) easy enough to port to the new kid on the block. We’ve got reviews of…

Review: Tokyo Tattoo Girls (Sony PlayStation Vita)

November 13, 2017

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Review by Matt S. Tokyo Tattoo Girls is, tonally, one of the oddest games that you’ll ever play. From a quick glance you’d be forgiven for thinking that it’s a standard fanservice-heavy JRPG. This is particularly true since NISA, which counts JRPGs as its bread and butter, is the one…

Review: Summon Night 6: Lost Borders (Sony PlayStation 4)

November 13, 2017

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Review by Matt S. Summon Night 6 has been long delayed, and the end product just hasn’t lived up to how excited we all let ourselves get about it. It’s decent enough as a traditional tactics JRPG in the vein of Final Fantasy Tactics or Ogre Battle, but an incredibly…

The catch-up coffee: Monday, November 13, 2017

November 12, 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…

In a game based on World War II, shooting shouldn’t feel “wonderful”

November 10, 2017

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Opinion by Matt C Content warning: this article includes some graphic World War II photos.“This is married to a generous aim assist and assorted impact effects that, simply put, make shooting things wonderful.” [Emphasis mine] That’s an actual quote from an actual review of Activision’s Call of Duty: World War…

Visual Novel Maker is all that and more

November 10, 2017

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Article by Matt S. I’ve been playing around a little bit with Visual Novel Maker, the upcoming “Maker” software from the same publishers as the RPG Maker series. I’m not going to run a full review on it just yet (it releases on the 16th of the month), but I…

Review: Hand of Fate 2 (Sony PlayStation 4)

November 10, 2017

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Review by Matt S. When Hand of Fate first released back in 2015, it was something genuinely new that people hadn’t seen before, and that made it a hugely impressive effort for a small Australian game developer. Now the team is back with a sequel, and the fact that it’s…

The Fast Five with Andrew Lau: One of the team bringing us Fiend Legion

November 9, 2017

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Interview by Ginny W. Australia’s game development landscape is brimming with indie developers, and even in such a big pool, almost no two ideas are the same. Fiend Legion is a great example of a title that pleasantly subverts expectations even whilst looking familiar; we may have seen CCGs and…

Review: Stifled (Sony PlayStation 4)

November 9, 2017

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Review by Matt C. Stifled is a horror game built around a very interesting premise: you can generally only “see” things through echolocation. In order to make any sort of progress, you need to make noise so you can see where you’re going, but noise also attracts monsters to your…

Review: Etrian Odyssey V: Beyond the Myth (Nintendo 3DS)

November 9, 2017

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Review by Matt S. I don’t think it’s an understatement to say that the Etrian Odyssey franchise has been a major cause for the revitalisation of the Japanese dungeon crawler genre in the west. It was once a substantial genre in its own right, but time had been unkind to…

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