Review by Harvard L. With the original Dragon Quest Builders, Square Enix had a winning formula on its hands – combining the creative gameplay of Minecraft style voxel-builders with the JRPG breadcrumbing of the no-nonsense Dragon Quest franchise. Rather than being a throwaway spinoff to cash in on a fad-genre,…
Read MorePreview by Ginny W. While Notch may have suffered a bit of a publicity blowout after being an idiot on the Internet, his progeny, Minecraft, remains ever popular. Part of that may be that no other building simulator looks as child-friendly at Minecraft, but it’s far more likely that he…
Read MorePreview by Pierre-Yves L. Ark: Survival Evolved has to be one of the more interesting ‘Early Access’ titles so far. Having ‘launched’ on the PC back in the summer of 2015, it is very much a well-progressed game, having seen content expansions on its native platform, and now what amounts…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I think we all chalked Dragon Quest Builders up as a fairly cynical project by Square Enix, where it looked at the success of Minecraft and then decided to try and get a piece of that pie. Before actually sitting down to play the game, that…
Read MoreSquare Enix really does take risks with Dragon Quest. Whereas Final Fantasy has always been carefully controlled and curated, Dragon Quest has seen MMOs, Pokemon clones, Warriors games, a board game in collaboration with Mario, an on-rails shooter, a little digital tactics game on the DSiWare platform. And, now, Dragon…
Read MoreThe word LEGO means different things to different people – and that is by design. As someone who grew up with these tiny connectible bricks, I have many fond memories of building a variety of landscapes for my toys to play in. The possibilities were limited by only my imagination…
Read MoreAs with any creation that increases in popularity, clones and spiritual successors will attempt to capitalise on the appeal of the original. We’ve already seen this on the Nintendo 3DS, and it was a truly horrific experience. Cube Creator 3D for the Nintendo 3DS is another take on Mojang’s Minecraft,…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Battle Miner is a truly appalling piece of work. I appreciate that the Nintendo platforms don’t have a version of Minecraft on them yet, and I do understand that Nintendo fans want a version of Minecraft on their preferred console. In that context I understand why…
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