News by Matt S. I don’t usually cover sales figures here on DigitallyDownloaded.net, because how well a game sells is really irrelevant to the quality of it. We’re here to talk about art and stuff, not the business of making games, but since this is about the goddess herself, I’ll…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Over the last few years, the last vestiges of “the console wars” being anything more than pathetic capitalist sycophancy have washed away. The various players within the industry work together with increasing frequency, and where once there was a point to having a preferred console (because…
Read MoreReview by Lindsay M. I’m not sure anyone expected the wild success of Little Nightmares. The horror puzzle-platformer launched in 2017, and has since had great critical success and player reviews. It was so well-received that it spawned a comic series, although that ended after two issues instead of the…
Read MoreNews by Matt S.Cuphead really paved the way for a revival of older, more traditional animation styles to become an aesthetic in video games, and it’s something I am very much here for. At this stage, the only issue with Chicory: A Colorful Tale is the lack of localisation of…
Read MoreReview by Brad L. SHMUPs, vertically-scrolling shoot ‘em ups, “bullet hells,” or whatever else you might want to call them are things that I would usually rather just avoid. As my body gathers up the years and my reflexes start to wane, the idea of fast-paced shoot ‘em ups, dying…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. The Disciples series has been kicking around for quite a few years now, though often without fanfare or celebration. The original Disciples was released way back in 1999, and gained the dubious award of “best game no one played” in Gamespot’s awards that year. There were…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free,” so Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote once, and Ys IX reminded me of that quote a little. It’s not such a direct interpretation (we leave that to Persona 5), but imprisonment is the…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. If we all forget that Mass Effect: Andromeda exists, the Mass Effect series has been some of the most intelligent and artful work that EA has produced in the last 20 years or so. You can even write think pieces about Mass Effect’s themes and philosophy,…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Koei Tecmo and its JRPG specialist developer, Gust, had a lot to prove with Atelier Ryza 2. This is the first time that any single protagonist in the Atelier series has been given a direct sequel, and doing so was going to necessitate that Gust take…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Idea Factory has unveiled the release date for its upcoming action JRPG Neptunia Virtual Stars. The game lands in North America on March 2 and Europe on March 5 for PlayStation 4, and a further Steam release will occur on March 29. Neptunia Virtual Stars is…
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