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Review: Atelier Firis: The Alchemist and the Mysterious Journey (Sony PlayStation 4)

March 7, 2017

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Review by Matt S. In a delightfully odd way, Atelier Firis: The Alchemist and the Mysterious Journey is simultaneously the biggest step forward for the series, and, after the Dusk trilogy took the Atelier series down some more serious thematic roads, also its biggest step back towards tradition. Having been…

Horizon: Zero Dawn is not a feminist masterpiece

March 7, 2017

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Opinion by Matt C. Horizon: Zero Dawn is a game that does a few things really well. It’s a technical marvel, showing a beautiful vision of a post-apocalyptic that just begs to be explored. It’s a fun game, in that open-world checklist-a-thon style popularized by Ubisoft and Rockstar. It has…

The DDNet Podcast! NieR: Automata, the Nintendo Switch, and the ridiculous March release schedule

March 7, 2017

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NieR: Automata is here! A game that we never thought would actually get made after the original bombed so badly, NieR: Automata is everything that we could actually want from a game, and then some. It’s a work of pure genius. This week we have a good chat about NieR,…

Short ‘n Sweet Reviews: Nintendo Switch launch edition!

March 7, 2017

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Reviews by Matt S. I know a lot of people seem to think that the only games available on the Nintendo Switch are The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and Bomberman (mabye), but in actual fact the console released with quite a few games. In Europe and Australia,…

The catch-up coffee: Tuesday, March 7, 2017

March 6, 2017

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News by Davis A. and Britta 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…

Review: NieR: Automata; the greatest game ever made (Sony PlayStation 4)

March 6, 2017

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Review by Matt S. The opening line of dialogue in NieR: Automata could have been pulled directly from Nietzsche or Kierkegaard, if those men were militant androids about to go to war with an army of genocidal robots. Related reading: On why NieR: Automata’s predecessor was the best game of…

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March 6, 2017

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Review by Harvard L. Before I start actually assessing the game based on its merits, I think perhaps it’s reasonable for me to sulk a little about what the game isn’t, and what I wanted the game to be. I wanted 1-2-Switch to be bundled with the console. I wanted…

The Nintendo Switch is rushed and deeply flawed, but it’s also a sheer delight to play

March 6, 2017

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Hardware review by Matt S. The Nintendo Switch is one rushed piece of hardware. Formally announced just a few short months before it was actually released, and released with the overt intent on boosting Nintendo’s end of year financial results (which were shaping up to be pretty dire if the…

The catch-up coffee: Monday, March 6, 2017

March 5, 2017

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Retro reflections: On my history with Nintendo handheld consoles

March 3, 2017

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Retro reflections by Matt S. With the latest Nintendo handheld, the Nintendo Switch, now on the market (yes, I know it streams to home televisions too, but it’s totally a handheld), I thought for this week’s retro reflections I’d take a bit of a personal look back at my history…

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