Lindsay picked up an NES controller for the first time at the age of 6 and instantly fell in love. She began reviewing GBA games 20 years ago and quickly branched out from her Nintendo comfort zone. She has has developed a great love of life sims and FMV titles. For her, accessibility is one of the most important parts of any game (but she also really appreciates good UI).
Now that everyone has (hopefully) finished their holiday gaming plans, today’s new DLC for Fairy Tail 2 might lure you back to the action RPG. The Fairy Tail 2 Hot Springs paid DLC has launched and features a new scenario, a new hot springs area, and special outfit sets. A free outfit set is also available, and there are a…
I don’t know where the past year and a half went. I could have sworn I’d just barely stopped posting about Dokapon Kingdom: Connect, but my last post was in June… June 2023. It is a Compile Heart-developed remake of Sting’s Dokapon Kingdom (2007) for Nintendo Switch, best described as…
Last month, PQube announced that it will bring Iwakura Aria to Western…
Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s weekly catch-up news feature, the catch-up coffee. And…
Just about everyone who knows me knows there’s nothing that I love more than a good, mysterious FMV game. D’Avekki Studios has become a developer that I trust, developing four phenomenal games from 2017’s The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker to this year’s Murderous Muses. It is basically tailor-made to…
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There’s simulators for just about everything these days: powerwashing, farming, running an animal rescue, village development… take your pick. There’s something I’ve never done, though: drive a taxi. (Okay, so I’ve done in by picking up fares in Grand Theft Auto, but that doesn’t count.) And that could change very…
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I’ve been quite excited for office romance otome visual novel Sympathy Kiss to launch in the West; it first launched in Japan in 2022, and in July of this year it was announced to be coming West in 2024. The game follows a woman at her job for a mobile…
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Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s weekly catch-up news feature, the catch-up coffee. With each issue I will bring you the best news that you may have missed. 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)!…
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Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet may have had an iffy launch, but there’s no denying that people are playing the game. Its first DLC, The Hidden Treasures of Area Zero Part 1: The Teal Mask, was released in September. Part 2: The Indigo Disk was always set to launch before…
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Battle Champs is a F2P RTS game that was available for four years (from 2015 to 2019). In Battle Champs, players built and strengthened bases, then teamed up with others to attack enemy fortifications. So why am I talking about this dead game? It was actually the predecessor to casual…
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Subscription services have unfortunately become the norm, often becoming the only way to access specific media. They are also a detriment to the discoverability of art, as Matt wrote in 2022. But let’s be real: subscription services are a necessary evil at this point. If you were to avoid them…
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We constantly make decisions as we play games. These days, these decisions often impact the game in meaningful ways, like with branching narratives and multiple endings. But imagine what would happen if a game keeps track of your decisions and creates a personality profile based off of them, and allows…
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Silent Hill: Ascension has an interesting concept as it’s not just one thing. It’s part video game, part television series that takes the audience’s choices and applies them directly to what is happening in the story. It’s like a massively multiplayer FMV game, basically. It will be premiering in mere…
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Buried in today’s eastasiasoft showcase was a December release date for the Western Nintendo Switch launch of turn-based RPG Xuan Yuan Swords: Mists Beyond the Mountains. It is a remastered version of the third instalment in the series, with the original launching over 20 years ago in 1999. The game’s…
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