Review by Harvard L. If there’s one thing that education and video games have in common, it’s that everyone seems to want to pay the very least they can to get the very best product possible – oftentimes putting an unbearable strain on the suppliers of the product. Teachers might…
Read MoreDanganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls is a deeply unsettling game. And I mean that as a genuine compliment. I don’t think there has been another game that has managed to shake me quite as profoundly as this one. Related reading: At the least you should consider playing the original…
Read MoreI may be a product of the Ontario (Canada) school system but even I have heard the (American) slogan “No child left behind.” So when a game came up with the title of No Pineapple Left Behind, I was intrigued. I may also really like pineapple, but I promise that…
Read MoreHatoful Boyfriend is a visual novel/ dating game where you play as a human girl who goes to a school for the gifted. Gifted birds. Literally. Your classmates are pigeons and doves, and your job is to say the right things so that your chosen birdie falls in love with…
Read MoreI love games that use satire to make some social commentary. No Pineapple Left Behind is certainly shaping up to be one of those games. It has been developed by Seth Alter, a former educator turned developer, and while the game is nominally a simulation/ strategy game in which you…
Read MoreI am getting so sick of Hyperdimension Neptunia games. It seems like every month at the moment Compile Heart has a new one to inflict on us, and so soon after Hyperdimension Neptunia U: Action Unleashed I just wasn’t in the mood for any more of these games. And yet…
Read MoreIt took a while for the Japanese developers to really start jumping on board with the PlayStation 4, with the first year of the console’s existence being marked very heavily with games from western developers, but only a few notable examples from Japan. Now, though, after a truly spectacular couple…
Read MoreThe Devil May Cry series has always been about blending intense action with a story that plays loose and fast with a mix of supernatural themes. The game that Ninja Theory crafted in DmC: Devil May Cry is an entertaining one, but it might have done better under a different…
Read MoreThe Hyperdimension Neptunia series has been kicking for several years now and, despite its polarising otaku-centric qualities, has impressively reached a point where demand is sufficient that western fans are getting at least six releases in a year’s time. That release schedule would make Mario blush; poor protagonist Neptune must…
Read MoreSaints Row started off as a different take on the open world Grand Theft Auto formula. Since then, the series has become progressively more oddball to the point where Saints Row IV felt more like a crazy superhero adventure than open world crime simulator. Saints Row: Gat Out Of Hell…
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