Video by Matt S.Trails of Cold Steel IV is finally out, and it’s a brilliant, breathtaking game. We’ll have a review up on DDNet once we can figure out how to write it without delving into spoilers, but the point is you should absolutely play it (though not unless you’ve…
Read MoreReview by Matt S.The two Prinny titles – Can I Really Be The Hero? and Dawn of Operation Panties, Dood! are some of the most oddball titles that Nippon Ichi has created. Taking the common peon and mascot of the Disgaea tactical JRPG series, and throwing them by the thousands…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. The Prinny platformers were infamous for being incredibly difficult games, where you would often need to work through all 1,000 of the “lives” that the game gives you. Now they’re on Nintendo Switch, and they’re excellent, satirical good fun. I take a look at these re-released…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. RPG Maker MV has launched on Nintendo Switch, and it is a really good little sandbox tool for playing around with. If you’re serious about game development, you’ll want the PC version, but if you’re just looking for a toy to play with, this app has…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. RPG Maker MV might share a name, features and toolset with its PC counterpart, but they’re very different pieces of software. RPG Maker on the PC is a reasonably serious tool that you can use to create commercial software. RPG Maker on Nintendo Switch is more…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Popular niche developer, Experience Inc, is behind some of our favourite horror VNs of all, and now, courtesy of NISA, we’re going to get to play two of its dungeon crawlers on our Nintendo Switches in 2021. Saviors of Sapphire Wings and Stranger of Sword City…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Void Terrarium (ignore all the nonsense in the title – this is what the game’s name is) is a Mystery Dungeon-style roguelike, and if that immediately makes you roll your eyes a little, I’m not surprised. There’s already a half dozen (if not more) of that…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. Void Terrarium is the latest from NISA, and it’s a beautiful and melancholic traditional roguelike. As someone who has become hesitant with the genre (every indie game thinks it’s a roguelike these days…), it is still one of my favourite genres when it gets things right,…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. NISA’s upcoming Giraffe and Annike is looking like a true delight. As a gorgeous 3D adventure game with charming animal-like characters to interact with, and rhythm game-based action and drama it looks like it will be a vivid, highly fulfilling game when it releases on PlayStation…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. If you had played the Yomawari series then you probably were interested to see what the director, Mizokami Yu, would come up with next. They are two of the most distinctive, interesting horror games in the past decade, after all. You probably weren’t imaging a punk…
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