Review by Matt S. Dragon Quest VIII is one of the best JRPGs ever crafted, and the 3DS is a great platform for it. I could leave the review at that and slap a score on it, but that would be rather lazy, so here’s a bunch more words about…
Review by Matt S. For all its success, very few developers have attempted to emulate From Software’s “Souls” franchise (Demon’s Souls, Dark Souls, Bloodborne); perhaps because developers realise what a monumental task these games are. It’s easy to chalk them up as just super-challenging action RPGs, but in reality it’s…
Review by Pierre-Yves L. It’s 1993. A new TV show launched, timed with when the kids got home from school. A show featuring five teenagers with powers to fight evil, using martial arts and giant robots. It just didn’t get much better than that. I was eight at the time…
Review by Brad L. Knee Deep is a title that treads a fine line between a visual novel and an interactive drama. Its selling point is that the narrative is presented as a stage play, which suits the story itself as the game spins a tale of a washed-up actor’s…
Preview by Matt S. The Nintendo 64 wasn’t exactly the console for fighting game fans. Smash Brothers eventually launched on it, but aside from that, there were slim pickings indeed. About the best of these slim pickings was a dark 3D fighter called Mace: The Dark Age. It was an…
And you thought January was a busy month for games… February has a nearly unending release schedule of really good looking games, from all genres, for all kinds of gamer. So, this week on the DDNet podcast, we take some time to look at everything to look forward to in…
News by Britta S. and Trent P. 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…
Retro reflections by Matt S. When I was a real youngster, before I had even really started playing video games (I didn’t yet have my first console – a Game Boy – and though the family had a Commodore 64, I very rarely used it), I discovered a box that…
Review by Clark A. The rhythm and puzzle genres both adopt the old “easy to learn, impossible to master” mantra on a regular basis. Unlike strategy or fighting games where learning laws and manipulating dozens of variables is the key to victory, these genres often boil the core concepts down…
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…
