During last week’s Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase, we got our first glimpse of Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & the Envisioned Land. Anything explained was vague: it’s an alchemy RPG and a woman dealing with her past and it’s expected to launch in early 2025. Today, publisher Koei Tecmo…
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What if Harry Potter was something that you could enjoy without the knowledge that every word you read came from someone who is deeply, aggressively hateful? What if you could jump into the body of a student of magic and fall in love with all the characters? That’s essentially where…
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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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If you’re keen on a whale-worshipping dark fantasy action game, you have very specific tastes. Seriously though, Selfloss has an intriguing narrative. It showcases the beauty of Iceland and Slavic mythology with a unique tale of wise healer Kazimir diving into the mythical world of whale-worshipping to help heal his…
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There is something quite charming about storybook city-building Fabledom. Descriptions calling it “cozy” and “enchanting” are apt. The laid-back game has you ruling a world where fairy tales come to life, complete with giants, witches, flying pigs, and hidden secrets. Following a reasonable amount of time in Early Access, Fabledom…
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Visions of Mana is Secret of Mana, 20 years later. I said as much in my preview, and the deeper I played the more the game seems exclusively interested in tapping into my nostalgia for that SNES classic. Given that the Mana series has been otherwise highly experimental in recent…
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To the Moon is one of those games that will remain with you for quite some time. So long that it’s getting a new episode 13+ years after it first launched. A remake for iOS/Android was released in 2007, and after being completely rebuilt with Unity, the game launched for…
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Fairy Tail 2’s original launch window was late this year or early next, and I’m thrilled that the release date falls into this calendar year! (I’m just so used to delays.) The RPG sequel to the first Fairy Tail Game (2020), is again based on the popular manga and anime…
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Nintendo must have liked the response that its remake of the first two Detective Club titles got when it released them on the Switch a couple of years ago. Now, decades after those games got their first run back on the Famicom, we finally have an all-new entry in the…
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Today’s second (now-annual) Panic Games Showcase shows off recent and upcoming titles being published by Panic. (In case there’s any confusion, the date in the title is for Australia and the date in the header image is North America.) All the games overlap with last year’s presentation, which you can…
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