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Nioh
Nioh manages to carve (ha!) its own identity by expanding on the Souls template. I fell in love with the combat after I finally wrapped my head around it, and it’s going to be hard to go back after experiencing a game that’s this responsive and snappy. The depth in...
With the best story since Abyss and the best cast of characters since Vesperia, Tales of Berseria is the best entry in Namco Bandai’s flagship franchise in years. It’s got all the familiarities of the previous entries that worked, but also makes some refreshing changes and refinements that the series...
Alone With You
If I weren’t reviewing Alone With You, I would not have finished it. This review reads pretty damning, and I feel bad for that. What the developer was trying to do here feels on the cusp of something grand. If different design decisions were made or the dialogue was fleshed...
If you have to own every Kingdom Hearts game on your PS4, then you’ll probably be satisfied with the collection regardless of how poorly the touch screen controls translated to the analog sticks, and I suspect you won’t be bothered by the price. For everyone else, I encourage waiting for...
Steins;Gate 0
Steins;Gate 0 is a great game with one glaring flaw: gratuitous filler. It’s tough to rate games like these because nuances aren’t easily conveyed in a numerical score. The core components are good to great, but the overall package is bogged down by unnecessary content and the game feels longer...
The Dwarves
The Dwarves is a game that came out of a Kickstarter campaign, and it’s absolutely the type of success you’d hope for as a gamer. It’s a fun game with a really good story, thanks to a solid adaptation of good source material. It looks good and it sounds good,...
For anyone after a great little throwback to the glory days of point-and-click games, The Little Acre might just be your thing. I enjoyed my time with the game but came out disappointed due to its short playtime. I would’ve been happier had this game been a little bit longer,...
This review is based on a free review copy provided to RPGFan by the developer. This relationship in no way influenced the reviewer’s opinion of the game or its final score.
Xanadu Next
Bugs aside, I had a great time with Xanadu Next. It’s a vastly different experience compared to Falcom’s most beloved titles, but it has a quiet dignity and an air of mystery that hearkens back to the developer’s microcomputer roots. You can finish the game within 10 hours, but players...
Editor’s Note: As of this writing, THQ Nordic has released a patch that addresses some, but not all, of the aforementioned bugs. The audio synchronization has been fixed during cutscenes, as has the heavy slowdown during at least one of the encounters where it had been prevalent. I still had...
This long-awaited fifteenth installment of the franchise synonymous with the RPG genre has notoriously been in development for the past decade, and even in spite of a few questionable design choices and a couple technical issues, I can say with great relief that it was worth the wait. A tale...
Root Letter
There are five different endings, and which one you get is determined by how you choose to reply to Aya’s letters. While the ending I got offered me a sense of closure, it still didn’t satisfy me, as it felt extremely rushed. The stilted dialogue and numerous localization errors, coupled...
