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Japanese books: Edogawa Ranpo and his influence on Persona 5

May 8, 2017

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Books by Matt S. We talk a lot about Japanese games, films, anime and manga in western culture, but we talk about Japanese literature far less frequently, and that’s a pity, because as with all those other mediums, Japan has produced many of the world’s finest writers, and literature gives…

The catch-up coffee: Monday, May 8, 2017

May 7, 2017

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News by Britta S., Lindsay M., 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…

Review: Birthdays The Beginning (Sony PlayStation 4)

May 5, 2017

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Review by Matt S. Birthdays The Beginning is one of the most beautiful games I’ve ever played. It’s not pushing polygons like Horizon: Zero Dawn or any other blockbuster game out there might, and it doesn’t have the vivid stylisation of a game like Persona 5; but what characterises Birthdays…

The Friday Ten: The ten must-play JRPGs for the PlayStation Vita

May 5, 2017

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List by Matt S. The PlayStation Vita is an utterly essential console if you’re a fan of JRPGs. There’s just no other way to say it; the console might not have been a mainstream success, but to this day there is an endless stream of incredible JRPGs that are being…

Review: Castle Battles (Apple iPad)

May 5, 2017

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Review by Matt S. Castle Battles is as casual as strategy games come. You’ve seen what this game offers, more or less, many times before, and, on a platform such as the iPad, which already has a glut of both casual and serious strategy games, this is going to struggle…

Review: Late Shift (Sony PlayStation 4)

May 4, 2017

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Review by Lindsay M. I’m going to start this review a little more personally than usual, with this statement: I suffer from chronic pain. The kind of pain that no medication can take away, no doctor can cure, no message therapist can knead out. In the years since the pain…

Review: GNOG (Sony PlayStation 4)

May 4, 2017

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Review by Matt S. GNOG is delightful. It doesn’t really have a purpose, intent, or reason to exist, and that’s precisely why it’s a delight; it’s an acid trip given form and a playful bit of nothingness that’s really quite hard to put down. Each “level” of GNOG starts life…

Review: What Remains of Edith Finch (Sony PlayStation 4)

May 4, 2017

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Review by Britta S. The first thing the Finch family starts building in 1937, when they are shipwrecked on Orcas Island, on the Pacific Northwest coast, is a cemetery; only then do survivors Sven and Edie, with their little daughter Molly, begin the construction of the Finch home. This is…

The catch-up coffee: Thursday, May 4, 2017

May 3, 2017

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Japanese history: On Ieyasu Tokugawa, the patient one

May 3, 2017

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History by Matt S. Over recent months I’ve had a number of people ask me to write more about Japanese history and its personalities. Games from Japan, unsurprisingly, often feature references or depictions of Japan’s past, and it’s an unfortunate reality that, at least in the West, learning about Japanese…

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