When a console approaches the end of its life, the kinds of games that you see on it are stuff like Tokyo Twilight Ghost Hunters. However, where many of these kinds of budget productions are quick cash-ins on an increasingly starved audience, desperate to play anything new on their fading…
Read MorehtoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary has a title that is impossible to pronounce, but it is not a random collection of letters there before the colon. That “htoL#NiQ” makes perfect sense the moment you start playing, because it is alien, otherworldly, and perfectly represents the kind of sheer, wonderful hostility that…
Read MoreUnder Night In-Birth Exe:Late hurts my hands to play, and I’m not entirely sure it’s worth it. The latest 2D brawler from French Bread and Arc System Works is fast, furious, and complex to a fault, and whether that is a good thing depends greatly on just how many of…
Read MoreDanganronpa. Monokuma. If these two words don’t have you squealing with glee, then you’ve obviously not played either the first Danganronpa or its sequel. And if you haven’t shame on you for missing two of the best games ever created. These visual novels (yes, you read that right) are intensely…
Read More“Oh my, this game is going to be controversial.” These were my thoughts almost immediately after I started playing Criminal Girls: Invite Only (I may or may not be paraphrasing my thoughts to remove expletives there). And after reading the first batch of reviews I guessed correctly – already there…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Nippon Ichi’s The Guided Fate Paradox impressed us greatly when it was released a while back. A roguelike that did some very clever things with its narrative, it was a deep, complex game that you could get stuck into for months. It was also enough of…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. The name is unpronounceable, but don’t let that put you off hotL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary, because this PlayStation Vita exclusive is looking breathtaking. The story of Mion, a young girl with no idea of her identity and on a quest for understanding with the assistance of…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. The developer behind the excellent Demon Gaze is back! NISA has announced that it will publish the exciting Operation Abyss: New Tokyo Legacy in April (April 14 for Americans and April 17 for the rest of us). As with Demon Gaze, Operation Abyss will be a…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. NISA, the publishers and localisers of Criminal Girls outside of Japan, have released some new screenshots showing off the combat of the game. Given the controversies over how gender is represented in games such as Dead or Alive 5, Bayonetta 2 and Senran Kagura over the…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. If you haven’t bought into the Atelier series yet, then March 6 will be the time to do so. NISA is releasing a special trilogy collection, with all three games on one disc, for £39.99/39.99 EUR. The games are, of course, Atelier Rorona, Atelier Totori and…
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