News by Matt S. God Wars is one of the better examples of the tactics JRPG genre that has been produced in recent years. A deep, rich look at classical Japanese tales and aesthetic, God Wars won us over with its initial release on PlayStation 4, and won us over…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I hope that Magic Scroll Tactics is a big commercial success for the developer, so that the team can come back and put some actual money behind a sequel. That’s not to say that Magic Scroll Tactics is a poor game. Far from it. It offers…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Last year’s Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics was one of my favourite indie releases. After all, it was a game that let you kill both eldritch horrors from the cosmos, and the even greater evil, the Nazis. I’m not sure Lovecraft would have approved of an alliance between…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. There are a couple of Mordheim games on the market. There’s the really high quality Mordheim: City of the Damned on console and PC. As an exceedingly high quality skirmish tactics game made by developers that clearly cared a great deal about the source material, it…
Read MorePreview by Matt S. If there’s one thing that Fire Emblem Heroes proved without a shadow of a doubt, it’s that the mechanics of a tactics JRPG can be tailored for mobile quite nicely. Langrisser has, over the years, been Fire Emblem’s closest rival, and Langrisser’s development team apparently noticed…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The Disgaea series has evolved significantly from its first title. It has retained the same dark humour in telling stories about the various conflicts of the underworld, but in terms of how it tells those stories, and the game’s various mechanical systems, if you play Disgaea…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. After the Valkyria Revolution experiment proved to be a disaster with series fans, being far too experimental and different from its predecessors, I’m not surprised that Valkyria Chronicles 4 veered so far back to the series genesis that there were times I could have easily confused…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. H.P Lovecraft meets XCOM. Tentacled God-monsters from outer space meets Final Fantasy. It’s a mix made in heaven (or hell, as the case might be), and that’s exactly what we’ll be getting with Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics, and now, having seen the game in action for the…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Utawarerumono really impressed us last year in offering a lovely mix of visual novel and tactics JRPG, and it seems to have resonated on a large enough scale that the developers are building on its vision; there’s an action JRPG on the way, called Utawarerumono Zan,…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. God Wars, on its original release, had me enthralled in a way few tactics JRPGs have managed. I love the genre, but this one’s razor focus on the very old legends and mythologies of Japan helped it to stand out in a way that felt custom-designed…
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