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The Friday Ten: Ten games to get you into visual novels

October 14, 2016

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List by Matt S. There are people that don’t consider visual novels to be games, and therefore are not worth talking about or playing. Those people are a little silly, because regardless of whether you consider visual novels to be a game, or something else entirely, a good one is…

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October 14, 2016

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Interview by Matt S. Atelier Firis: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Journey is going to be a very different game to the Atelier games that you’ve played in the past. At a rate of almost one game per year over the series’ 19-year history, fans have grown accustomed to what…

Review: The Silver Case (PC)

October 13, 2016

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Review by Nick H. Despite being a game that first released back in 1999, but it never received a western release. Finally having the chance to play it, The Silver Case, as one of Goichi Suda’s first projects as an independent developer, is an interesting game because it certainly shows…

Review: Zenith (Sony PlayStation 4)

October 13, 2016

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Review by Matt S. You know how children think it’s funny to take something good, and then put something ridiculous over the top? Or take something serious, and then apply hyperbole or sarcasm to the point where it’s ridiculous, and they then think it’s funny? Most people grow out of…

Review: A Bastard’s Tale (Sony PlayStation 4)

October 13, 2016

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Review by Matthew C. Did you ever play the original Karateka? A Bastard’s Tale feels like a modern take on that concept, albeit with a medieval European setting rather than Japanese. Both games are side-scrolling beat-’em-ups in a sense, but with a focus on slow, methodical one-on-one combat instead of…

The catch-up coffee: October 13, 2016

October 12, 2016

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News by Matt S and Matthew C. Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s regular catch-up news feature. Each ‘issue’ we will bring you the best news from the previous few days that you may have missed. Grab the biggest mug you’ve got, fill it with your favourite brew, and catch up with…

Review: Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Celebration (Sony PlayStation 4)

October 12, 2016

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Review by Matt S. Rise of the Tomb Raider does not get off to a good start. Utterly obsessed with hurling its infamous hero, Lara Croft, into rockfaces, having avalanches drop on her, and throwing her into perilous positions where she needs to desperately run across platforms crumbling from underneath…

Review: Dead Rising Triple Pack (Sony PlayStation 4)

October 12, 2016

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Review by Pierre-Yves L. Capcom’s Dead Rising series was really instrumental in changing the way we look at zombies in games. These once classic slowly moving undead have been given a bit more life when it comes to gnawing on the flesh of the living. Granted freedom of movement in…

Review: Slain: Back From Hell (Sony PlayStation 4)

October 11, 2016

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Review by Brad L. Heavy Metal was one of my favourite music genres growing up as an angst-ridden teenager. As time went on and I gained a family, my angst slowly disappeared and with it my love for heavy metal music. Occasionally, some sort of media will come along and…

Review: Touhou: Scarlet Curiosity (Sony PlayStation 4)

October 11, 2016

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Review by Clark A. Touhou is a franchise known chiefly for its genre-defining bullet-hell insanity. Team Shanghai Alice’s wholehearted embracement of fan-made games (“doujin” more accurately), though, has led to a bustling, open-ended franchise where creativity is bread and butter. Its characters have gone on to star in everything from…

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