When it comes to the Atelier series, combat and synthesis are core gameplay elements. Upcoming Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & the Envisioned Land (first announced during August 2024’s Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase) is no different, but both elements have been revamped to give the JRPG a new, fresh feel. Today, Gust and Koei Tecmo shared updated gameplay details…
Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s weekly catch-up news feature, the catch-up coffee. I will bring you the best news you may have missed with each issue. Grab the biggest mug you’ve got, fill it with your favourite brew, and catch up with us (and our favourite news anchor, Dee Dee)!…
Since it was announced in October of 2022, I’ve taken every opportunity…
For better or worse, so much can change in 10 years. In…
For a year now, I’ve been struggling to keep myself from subscribing to Apple Arcade to play Hello Kitty Island Adventure; subbing for a single game is ridiculous, or so I keep telling myself. But it seems as though I’ve successfully waited it out, as the open world adventure game…
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A Legend of Zelda game… actually starring the titular character in the main role?! It really should not have taken this long for a mainline title in The Legend of Zelda series to actually put Princess Zelda at the front and centre, but it finally happens in action-adventure game The…
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Ah, I do love the smell of a Nintendo Direct first thing in the morning! It even gets me out of bed, which is a remarkable feat these days. Today’s Direct is about 40 minutes long and features games coming out in the second half of 2024 or soon thereafter.…
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I guess life was never meant to be designed by you, after all. Who is you? YOU you! Upon announcement, Paradox Interactive and Paradox Tectonics’ Life By You was described as being really moddable and open, and maybe “ambitious” should have been tacked onto that list of superlatives. Following multiple…
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Another Not-E3 has come and gone, and some of the games have since moved into my brain to live rent-free. And by some, I mean ten. The genres in this group of games range from narrative adventures to cozy puzzles to mech platformers, but I definitely seem drawn to the…
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Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s weekly catch-up news feature, the catch-up coffee. With each issue I 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 Dee)!…
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Lollipop Chainsaw is a cult classic that first launched in 2012. The collaboration between Goichi Suda (Suda51) and James Gunn (yeah, that James Gunn, it’s obvious if you’ve seen 2001’s The Suicide Squad) is a subversive hack-and-slash game about a cheerleader with a short skirt violently fighting through horde after…
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Don’t Nod has been adamant that Max Caulfield’s story end when Life is Strange ends, but Max Caulfield is no longer in Don’t Nod’s hands. That was clear with the Life is Strange comic series, which was supposed to start as a four-part limited miniseries but soon ballooned to 23…
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Final Fantasy Adventure. Mystic Quest. Seiken Densetsu. Call it what you will, Square Enix’s Mana series started off with a Final Fantasy backbone and Legend Of Zelda-inspired gameplay. By the time the second title launched, the Final Fantasy elements were dropped and Mana was firmly in place as an official…
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I’m sorry for being many hours late, lovely readers. Saturday was insane and I hit a wall yesterday. This article got delayed entirely because of where it falls chronologically, not because the games are lacking. They aren’t. It was actually quite difficult to narrow it down to a handful to…
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