Review by Matt S. Who the hell needs FIFA and PES when you’ve got Captain Tsubasa to play now? Not me. This humble little “arcade football game”, produced by a tiny team at Tamsoft for a fraction of the cost that EA and Konami’s monoliths are made with, is simply…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. (Footage in this video captured on Nintendo Switch) Gust’s latest effort is Fairy Tail, its first licensed game. It’s also an excellent JRPG with plenty of spirit, charm, humour and fan service. In this video, I show you some of what to expect from the game,…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I have been looking forward to this. Gust, the developer behind the Atelier series and Blue Reflection, might operate on shoestring budgets, but the developer understands the classical JRPG form and delivers, without fail, every time. Meanwhile, Koei Tecmo, Gust’s parent company, has a long history…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. John Wick Hex has finally released on the PlayStation 4, and it is so, so good. Slick, fast-paced, raw tactics action, and the perfect adaptation of the tone, aesthetics and style of the film trilogy. It surprised me. It really did. I thought the movies were…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. Late last year, Wizards of the Coast, in collaboration with Tuque Games, announced Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance. As a long-awaited new entry in a beloved action RPG series from the PlayStation 2 era (not to be confused with the likes of Baldur’s Gate, Dark Alliance…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I have played a lot of video games over the years. According to Metacritic, in the half decade or so that DDNet has been listed there, we’ve reviewed 2,333 games, of which a big percentage was my doing. Across all of those games I don’t think…
Read MoreReview by Nick H. The Dragon Ball series makes for some great games. Large casts of distinctive characters, and plenty of fighting, fits in perfectly with what we do in so many games. Love or hate the series, there is no questioning that Dragon Ball has been an influential anime…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Koei Tecmo has proven that its Warriors formula is incredibly versatile, and can be applied to most anime. The success of this strategy has seen the likes of One Piece, Fist of the North Start, Arslan and the upcoming Berserk, and many of those games have…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Okay, so licensed games don’t have a great reputation, but here’s the thing; there’s actually a couple of movie licensed RPGs that I really enjoy. EA, when it had the license for the Lord of the Rings films (sadly now expired, because EA did great work…
Read MoreMovie-tie-in games are always an interesting bunch. Even if the source material has a rich history, like Peanuts, there isn’t the guarantee that a good game will be delivered. In many ways, this can be reflected in an iconic, recurring scene from the comic strip. Lucy holds a football for…
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