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If the developers were to take the tower defence sections and spin that into an entire, dedicated game, Aegis Defenders could be really something worthwhile. That side of the game is truly enjoyable. But it’s let down by trying to be something more than that, and the platforming and “exploration”...
A Case of Distrust has a narrow target audience in mind – their players would have to be fans of the hard-boiled detective genre, with knowledge of all the genre’s tropes and trappings, but also have enough familiarity with adventure games to navigate some of the steeper leaps of logic...
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Even so, Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[st] (here’s hoping this is the last time I need to type that) is fantastic. The Vorpal system is a clever twist on the format, adding a neat extra layer of strategy to the game, but it’s the cast that really makes Under Night In-Birth...
This is quite simply the best Monster Hunter game I have ever played. After being so used to playing the series on the 3DS in recent years, it has been refreshing to play Monster Hunter again on the big screen. Long, enduring hunts are much more calming sitting back in...
Vesta is a decent isometric puzzle game as whilst it manages to implement a two-character system relatively well, there’s still moments where that key aspect of the game is its own downfall. The fact that the game forces you to restart the level when you’ve made a mistake in a...
The best thing about Space Invaders Extreme, though, is that for all the modernisation, the game has kept the classical core that made people fans of Space Invaders in the first place. The enemies have kept the same design, and the developer has worked with those rather than try and...
There really isn’t that much more to The Longest Five Minutes. It’s a clever mix of sentimentality and satire, structured in a way that’s quite unusual for JRPGs. With most games in the genre, the end boss is the goal and triumph. The Longest Five Minutes is a love letter...
By and large EA Sports UFC 3 is the best offering from the series yet. The standing combat is well nuanced, and most of the choices made for career mode felt like steps in the right direction. Ultimate Team feels a bit out of place and unnecessary, and the overall...
Eventually the charm of the game’s scenarios and limited number of characters wears off; one gets the point. Perhaps Insult Simulator won’t be the game you play longer than Persona 5, but I have no quarrel whatsoever with games that know what they can deliver and avoid overstaying their welcome....
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But, most importantly of all, you really can ride the trains, and the game is absolutely gorgeous. About the only thing that would have made the experience even better is if you could jump off the train and explore the stations and cities that wouldn’t be developing were it not...
Lost Sphear, as with I Am Setsuna before it, is a beautiful, heartfelt bit of classical Japanese videogame storytelling. It’s not a game that you should be playing for the gameplay in so much as it wraps nostalgia and some more modern ideas together in order to tell something that...
