Let’s get this out of the way up front: Varlet very badly wants to be Persona. It’s a game about dungeons that form out of people’s wayward “desires”, and those desires just happen to offer an opportunity for personal reflection while casting a broader analysis on society. It’s not a patch on the quality of Persona 4 (which is, in…
Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s weekly catch-up news feature, the catch-up coffee. Here, I bring you the best news you may have missed from last week. 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)!…
Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s weekly catch-up news feature, the catch-up coffee. Here,…
The immersive, story-driven school life RPG Varlet will be released in one…
Unfortunately for Crymachina, NieR: Automata exists, and so as a concept “post-apocalyptic world where robots ask existential questions about what it’s like to be human,” is probably a theme that should be scratched from all other developers’ brainstorming sessions. Despite that very prudent advice, the team that took on Crymachina…
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I tend to be indifferent to remastered versions of older games. In fact, I don’t think I own a single one. But that will change with The Legend of Legacy HD Remastered, because the game is quite frankly brilliant. And it should be: it was made by some impressive industry…
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I think I blinked and missed out on the announcement of Crymachina, which is a bummer because it looks quite good and I would have liked to write about it sooner! The “serenely dark” action RPG is about mechanical girls trying to survive a post-apocalyptic world and become “Real Humans.”…
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At first glance, it’s definitely the artwork that makes me want to play Trinity Trigger. It’s designed to capture the look and feel of ’90s action RPGs, and the ’90s were my formative years of video games so there’s a strong nostalgic tug there. Dig a little deeper, though, and…
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Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s weekly catch-up news feature, the catch-up coffee. With each issue I 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 news anchor, Dee Dee)!…
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