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)!…
Games anthology The Immortal John Triptych brings together Four Last Things, The Procession to Calvary, and Death of the Reprobate. It comes complete with never-before-seen bonus features, deleted scenes, and a Quality of Life (QoL) facelift. The “gloriously silly” anthology will be released later this year for consoles.…
Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s weekly catch-up news feature, the catch-up coffee. Here,…
Hidden object games are a dime a dozen. Hidden Around the World…
I’m not sure who asked for a Bayonetta origin story, but I’m glad they did. I’m only the first five chapters into Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon, and I am loving every minute of it. Related reading: Our review of the most recent Bayonetta game – Bayonetta 3.…
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The reception to Pokémon Scarlet and Violet wasn’t great. Critics generally had positive or mixed opinions, landing the game with a score of 72 on Metacritic. Users, though… they weren’t so reasonable, and it’s currently sitting at a score of 4/10. Here at DDNet, Matt gave the game five stars…
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I do feel for indie developers that take a crack at the horror genre. I know that they’re typically passionate fans of the genre, that they go into projects with the best of intentions, and they’ve got plenty of peers that have done amazing work within horror. Many of the…
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Inti Creates is one of the most talented retro-style platform developers out there. While Nintendo continues to look for ways to modernise the 2D platformer in its Mario, Donkey Kong, and other properties, Inti Creates focuses on pixels, classic level design, and challenging, taut mechanics. Grim Guardians: Demon Purge is…
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Nippon Ichi Software is undoubtedly one of the best developers out there, and has been for some time now. From the Disgaea series to void tRrLM(); //Void Terrarium to newer titles like Process of Elimination, the developer is hard at work producing some of the games I find the most…
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Digitally Downloaded’s coverage of Fairy Fencer F dates back nearly a decade, beginning with Matt’s review of Fairy Fencer F for PlayStation 3. At the time, the game was billed as a more serious take on Hyperdimension Neptunia, and it succeeded at it; the first game was rated a DDNet…
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I am really quite confused by the release of Spy Bros.: Pipi & Bibi’s DX. This is an obscure arcade game that almost no one would remember, from a “series” that never got a sequel. It was one single arcade release, and then it was relegated to MAME history. Sure,…
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1997 was a long time ago. I was in the sixth and seventh grade at the time. The Backstreet Boys ruled my life (okay, some things never change). So many good movies were released, including Titanic and The Full Monty (the latter being the best, of course). As far as…
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Koei Tecmo is pretty close to revealing all there is to reveal about Atelier Ryza 3: Alchemist of the End & the Secret Key. It’s published videos about new characters, returning characters plus gameplay, and a general seven-minute look at the game. On DDNet’s side, Matt S. interviewed some of…
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“It’s more of the same!” You just know that this is going to be the main comment (and complaint) about Octopath Traveler II. “It’s too much like the first.” Except it’s not. Of course it’s not. Octopath Traveler was a narrative-driven game that focused on the stories of eight distinct…
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