Ho, ho, ho, and Merry Christmas! Christmas is a wonderful time of year. If you’re in the north then you get to enjoy snow, hot drinks, the wonderful colours of decorations and the smell of a freshly-cut Christmas tree. If you’re south of the equator, it means blistering hot weather,…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The DigitallyDownloaded.net team are a little divided on Yo-Kai Watch. Some of the team can’t get into it when compared to other monster collecting games like Pokemon. Fair enough, too; the combat system is more hands-off, and the monsters themselves lack the adorable charm that we…
Read MoreNews by Lindsay M. Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s weekly news feature, Catch-up coffee Monday. Each Monday we will bring you the best news from the previous week 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 MoreNews by Matt S. Time to be really controversial here: I prefer Yo-Kai Watch to Pokemon. There, I said it. That’s not to suggest that I don’t like Pokemon, because I absolutely to, but Yo-Kai Watch has is far more in tune with the kind of Japanese culture and humour…
Read MoreList by Matt S. The Nintendo 3DS has been an absolute powerhouse for the JRPG genre. After a shaky launch, many years ago now, the console rapidly developed into a real home for the genre, with everything from major games from major publishers through to very niche, indie stuff. Why…
Read MoreOne of the neat little features that Nintendo has implemented into both its Wii U and 3DS consoles is a playtime recording app, that tracks which games you’ve been playing, and for how long. Nintendo probably implemented this so parents can make sure their kids aren’t spending too much time…
Read MoreLevel-5 has, for the longest time now, been hesitant to localise its Yo-Kai Watch franchise into western markets. One presumes that the underlying reason for that hesitancy is due to the intense cultural relevance the Yo-Kai games have to Japan, and the assumption that a great deal of the underlying…
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