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Speaking of PlayStation 5, though, the one complaint that I have with Monstrum Nox is that it crashes a lot. About once per hour on average. I played the game exclusively on PlayStation 5 and didn’t have the time to check if it was any more stable on the PS4,...
I’m told that all of this is also in keeping with the spirit of the anime, and I was genuinely impressed that the developer went to such lengths to come up with a fairly unique combat system just to do justice to the base property. It would have been so...
The narrative reminds me of the Pacific contact fiction of the 1800s, such as the works of Herman Melville or Daniel Defoe. Faraday (a name dripping with English pomp) finds himself often at the mercy of strange island tribes, learning from their cultures, fighting their enemies and adapting to the...
In most other ways Atelier Ryza 2 tracks along with what its predecessor achieved, tweaking things at the edges to refine them, but resisting making any major changes. The combat system remains vaguely turn-based, but characters take their turns to a timer that is both highly dynamic and snappy. Success...
The reward systems are also nice, with a steady drip-feed of new characters and items to mess around with that will help to keep you interested. As with any roguelike, Rhythm Fighter wants to test your patience for repetition in re-treading old ground in exchange for the satisfaction of making...
Fatal Fury: First Contact is still a joy to play and – I really can’t say this enough – it remains impressive that the developers were able to create such pristine fighting games on such modest hardware. With that being said, the five games Neo Geo Pocket Color games that...
Helping to set the mood is the art and music, and they absolutely nail it. The art has a beautifully savage, primal quality that vividly renders every scene in the brain. There’s some interpretation involved in it, since the characters tend to be indistinct and environments hazy, and is a...
The game plays beautifully whether you’re playing docked or in handheld mode, and has online and local multiplayer options, with an AI alternative if you can’t get a game going. The AI is robust in the decisions that it makes, and you’ll certainly find that victory isn’t a guarantee, so...
Two Realms is, basically, a puzzle platformer. The premise and structure is simple: you’ll wander around a little hub world, before running into someone that has a problem. You solve that problem by being transported to a series of short puzzle-platformer levels, at which point you’ll be moving on to...
– Matt S. Editor-in-ChiefFind me on Twitter: @mattsainsbThe critic was provided with a copy of this game for review.
Square Enix was quite strategic about the release timing of Collection of SaGa Final Fantasy Legend. The company released this late into the year so they can pick up some easy cash from the nostalgic with what is a very cheap retro collection, without too much risk that it will...
Brigandine is missing some pretty valuable features. A multiplayer mode would have been appreciated given that this is really just a glorified board game. Additionally, while I appreciate that the developer’s goal wasn’t to create a 4X, Civilization-like strategic experience, some rudimentary town-building, resource management, and diplomacy options would have...
