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Every year NHK does a television series like Sanada Maru. This year the focus has been on one of the most prominent women of the Sengoku period (and one of the very few who was head of a noble family for any meaningful length of time), Ii Naotora. I rather...
Which brings me right back to where I started this review – LocoRoco can be confusing, wearisome and infuriating at times, but it’s still impossible to stay mad at it for long. It’s a happy game without gratuitous conflict or drama, and its sheer optimism alone prevents its shortcomings from...
Related reading: For another tactics JRPG just recently released, there’s a new Fire Emblem on the 3DS, and it’s a great game itself! Matt’s full review.
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 3rd is a love letter for fans, a final send-off for some beloved characters and fitting conclusions to endearing storylines. The likeable characters kept me interested and never left me feeling as though the development team had gone to the same...
The main point here is that Nippon Ichi has done a spot-on job with Disgaea 5 in porting it to the Nintendo Switch. This is one of the best tactics JRPGs you can play. It’ll last you a long time, become more rewarding the more time that you put into...
I mean, I could take a piece of tracing paper, place it over the Mona Lisa, carefully copy all those lines, and then reproduce the artwork in its entirety. That doesn’t make me an artist of the standard of Leonardo Da Vinci.
These issues aside, what Akiba’s Beat does well is mesh all the stuff into a B-grade bit of fun that is hugely entertaining to play and completely competent in structure. Apparently the game wasn’t a sales success in Japan, and I can’t see the critical or commercial response being much...
A new NBA arcade game will always be something to get excited about. Many of us have fond memories of dropping coins into those arcade cabinets back in the day. A game that can capture that raw sense of fun, while modernising the more archaic elements would instantly become one...
There’s a lot to love about Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War III, especially if you consider yourself an RTS veteran and a fan of the franchise. If you’re neither of those things, then you’re probably going to find yourself very overwhelmed. While the game’s narrative is true to the universe...
I enjoyed my time with the game. It’s a classic dungeon crawler, and I suspect as long as I’m playing games I’ll have all the time in the world for that genre. It’s a beautiful, elegant genre, and, when it all clicks, it’s a timeless formula. Unfortunately, Operation Babel: New...
Syberia 3 feels like a game that was made because everyone involved in the project felt an obligation to make it. It has its moments, and as a fan it’s great to see Sokal’s work reach a proper conclusion, but it’s also difficult to see how this game will find...
Properly articulating what Birthdays means to me is difficult. It is the embodiment of the pure joy of gaming, where I can sit down and simply immerse myself within this space without feeling pressure or tension. There’s nothing to “win,” but everything to enjoy while, at the same time,...
