Review by Matt S. I’m not a parent, and a lot of the time stories that deal with that particular dynamic, between parents and their kids, pass me by. I just haven’t felt the emotional connection there, and because those stories generally rely heavily on exploring that exact emotional connection,…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The rarest of rare – the absolute roc’s teeth – in console gaming is the grand strategy genre. There are so, so few attempts at bringing serious strategy games based on real-world conflicts that, as a fan of the genre but who doesn’t generally like playing…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Circle Entertainment has had a heck of a time with the Nintendo Switch recently. Hot on the heels of ports of The Ambition of the Slimes and the Mercenaries Saga trilogy, the company has announced that it’s bringing the beautiful, emotive, Shelter Generations to Nintendo Switch…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Circle Entertainment has done a clever thing in packaging up the three Mercenaries Saga games for release on the Nintendo Switch. On the one hand, each game in the series is almost a painfully generic take on the tactics JRPG genre. On the other, bundled up…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Finally! Finally Circle Entertainment has its name attached to a game that I actually enjoy. That might be because the publisher’s only role in the production of Adventure Bar Labyrinth is that it’s the publisher of the 3DS version of the game (it’s developed and self…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Well, I can’t say I didn’t know what I was getting into. The reality is that I knew exactly what I was getting into when I saw that Parascientific Escape Cruise in the Distant Seas was being published by Circle, the same publisher that brought us…
Read MoreCastle Conqueror Heroes was one of Castle Entertainment’s better titles. A shameless and cheap knock-off off Fire Emblem, it was somewhat compelling by virtue that the Fire Emblem formula was so compelling in the first place. Since quality by association seems to be a win for Circle, it’s back with…
Read MoreCircle Entertainment is not even trying now. It’s a development team that has never really minded ripping off other original ideas and throwing a cheap copy onto DSiWare, but it’s taken things to a whole other level this time around. As a business strategy it makes sense. There’s not a…
Read MoreHello there Circle. We’ve missed you for the past couple of weeks while you were busy cooking up your next work of plagiarism… uh, homage to another developer. Or not. It saddens me that developers and publishers get away with this, because Kairosoft, the developers behind the wonderful Game Dev…
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