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Review: Detention (Sony PlayStation 4)

October 9, 2017

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Review by Matt S. We here at DDNet really like cultural games, and what we have here is possibly the most memorable one you’ll play all year. Detention is a game developed by Taiwanese indie team Red Candle, set in the country’s turbulent history in the mid-20th century and weaving…

Review: Touhou Kobuto V: Burst Battle (Sony PlayStation 4)

October 9, 2017

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Review by Matt S. Touhou Kobuto V: Burst Battle is not a very good game, unfortunately. It’s a clumsy, clunky and amateurish production. That, of course, is part of its charm for the very small niche that would look at the screenshots and even think to give it a go.…

Review: FIFA 18 (Sony PlayStation 4)

October 9, 2017

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Review by Moshe R. Football* is art. Football is an exact science. Football is a real time strategy game where two competing armies strive to make the most of the resources they have available to them through the positioning of the right player at the right time. Julius Caesar might…

The catch-up coffee: Monday, October 9, 2017

October 8, 2017

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News by Lindsay M, Ginny W, and 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…

Ten games the Nintendo Classic Mini: Super Nintendo Entertainment System is missing and should have had

October 6, 2017

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List by Matt S. So we’ve had a week now with the SNES Mini, and while it’s a delightful nostalgia trip, we can’t help but be severely disappointed that there’s not more to it than the 21 games that are on the console. It’s not that there’s anything wrong with…

Gal*Gun Creator: It’s disappointing that the series is seen as “perverse”

October 6, 2017

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Interview by Matt S. So, here’s the shocking truth; Gal*Gun Double Peace, a game deemed so perverse that the New Zealand censorship board needed to ban it to protect the nation’s very morality, isn’t actually perverted at all. Related reading: Our review of Gal*Gun: Double Peace. It wasn’t intended on being…

Review: Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma (Sony PlayStation 4)

October 6, 2017

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Review by Matt S. Back when I was at university, I had a professor that was somehow every university academic cliche you could imagine; he was softly spoken, as far from a fashionable dresser as you could imagine (tweed jacket and all), and had hair that didn’t look like it…

Review: A Hat in Time (PC)

October 6, 2017

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Review by Ginny W. Let’s get a disclaimer out of the way: this review was written by someone who adored Super Mario Sunshine and Banjo-Kazooie. It’s also incredibly likely that A Hat in Time appears to have been conceived explicitly for the people sitting neatly in the nostalgia-heavy, old-timey intersection…

Review: Fragments of Him (Sony PlayStation 4)

October 5, 2017

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Review by Lindsay M. I’m not going to beat around the bush: Fragments of Him is one of the most emotionally charged games I have ever played. It’s actually difficult to use the term “play,” as the game takes you into someone’s life and literally has you act through it.…

Goichi Suda, crime noir, and The 25th Ward: The Silver Case

October 5, 2017

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Interview by Matt S. There’s a gulf in difference between some of Goichi Suda’s catalogue, such as Let It Die and Lollipop Chainsaw, and his first project upon forming Grasshopper Manufacture: The Silver Case. That game is a nightmarish, noirish, complex visual novel, largely free of the absurdity that is…

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