News by Matt S. Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s regular catch-up news feature. With each issue we 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…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Penny-Punching Princess represents game development when it’s at its most irritating – it’s a good idea that constantly compromises itself in the pursuit of meaningless “fun”. What we have here is a foundation that could have easily been used to great effect. It’s a game that…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The Witch and the Hundred Knight is, essentially, Nippon Ichi’s effort at making a Japanese version of Diablo. It wasn’t to everyone’s tastes, but with its interest in playing with a very Japanese view of Grimm-style fairy tales produced something that was oddball from start to…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Penny-Punching Princess is a new IP being brought to our shores courtesy of Nippon Ichi. It’s an action dungeon crawler with a clever twist; everything involves money. I’m not just talking about equipment here. You can bribe and defeat enemies simply by throwing money at the…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Birthdays: The Beginning wasn’t everyone’s cup of tea. The reviews and consumer response to it has been largely mixed. It’s because you don’t kill stuff in Birthdays. It confuses a lot of people into thinking a game’s no good if it doesn’t involve shelling an enemy’s…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Over the weekend, Nippon Ichi announced that it was publishing Labyrinth of Refrain in the west, a dungeon crawling JRPG for PC, PS4 and Nintendo Switch. We can’t get enough of dungeon crawling, of course, so we were keen on the game on principle alone, but…
Read MoreNews by Lindsay M. and Matt S. Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s regular catch-up news feature. With each issue we 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…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The Longest Five Minutes is a game entirely about memories, and of nostalgia. So it makes sense that the game itself is a nostalgic trip right back to the era of eight bit graphics and super-simple combat. Some will probably pass this off as a game…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Nippon Ichi held a press event overnight, the bulk of which was regarding games that the studio has in development for the Japanese market. But there was one really neat bit of news; we’ve got a firm release date for The Witch and the Hundred Knight…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. The PC port of Falcom’s action JRPG Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA has been much delayed. Originally it was meant to come at around the same time as the console release, but various issues that have plagued the game (an infamously poor localisation, for a start)…
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