News by Lindsay M. 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 C. When she ran away from home, Regina just wanted a chance to prove her independence—to her overbearing father, to her strict older brother, and, most of all, to herself. She gets more than she bargained for, though, when she finds herself mysteriously transported to a strange…
Read MoreReview by Matt C. Rinka’s first day of high school started like any other, with a combination of excitement and apprehension. On her way to there, though, something happened and she blacked out. When she woke up, she found herself being welcomed to school by a strange, rabbit mask-wearing teacher…
Read MoreReview by Ginny W. Hakuoki: Kyoto Winds occupies a unique space between a game and a neat education in the history of feudal Japan, and it deserves praise for meticulously carving out this space despite traditional notions of what otome games are meant to be like. Visual novels are often…
Read MoreReview by Britta S. Period: Cube is a visual novel for people who don’t have quite enough time or patience for a mammoth title with all the trimmings. It certainly feels a little shorter in total, and individual story arc, length than other Otomate titles, such as Amnesia: Memories or…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I have played – and loved – a lot of visual novels over the years. There are the VNs that mix with other genres, such as Danganronpa, 999, Eiyuu Senki and Tears to Tiara, and I love them all. Then there are the “true” VNs, where…
Read MoreNews by Britta S., Ginny W, and Lindsay M. 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…
Read MoreThe last couple of months have seen an absolute deluge of visual novels land on the PlayStation Vita. Perhaps because they are relatively inexpensive to localise, and that the only people still regularly playing the Vita are fans of Japanese games, we have seen a real surge of the genre…
Read MoreThe importance of box art has been relegated in today’s digital marketplace, but the front cover of Code:Realize ~Guardian of Rebirth~ drips such ornate passion it could knock over a shelf of raunchy pseudo-romance covers. Without any hint as to what the heck the title means, the featured couple’s warm…
Read MoreYou, the heroine, are not having a good day. You’ve got work to go to, a relationship you just got into to deal with and on top of that, a little creature named Orion has accidentally made his way into your head and wiped all your memories. This is the…
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