Tokyo Game Show is all wrapped up for this year, and if there’s one important takeaway from it, it’s that 2016 is looking amazing for fans of Japanese games, and JRPGs in particular. Between new announcements, new footage for previously-announced games, and one delay that everyone saw coming, this year’s TGS gave us …
One thing I love to do in games is fly. If a game has a flight mechanic, you just know I’ll spend a lot of time aimlessly, joyously soaring across the sky. I did this in Tearaway Unfolded, with its paper planes. I did this in Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward, with its …
[URIS id=664] Gallery: The beautiful papercraft world of Tearaway Unfolded Depending on where you live, Tearaway Unfolded is either already available, or will be very soon. It’s a very good, very beautiful game from Media Molecule, the studio behind LittleBigPlanet and the original Tearaway for PS Vita. Between the PS4 screenshot function and the in-game …
On paper, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture should be a game that’s exactly up my alley. I like exploration games, I like experimental games, I like games with a strong focus on narrative and worldbuilding. Rapture is all of these things, and yet I found it frustrating and, ultimately, unrewarding. The main …
Spoiler warning: This whole article is about a major spoiler for Dragon Quest III. As if the title didn’t give that away. Fake endings aren’t exactly a rarity in video games, or any narrative for medium. This is particularly true of RPGs, where “surprise! here’s the real final boss” is such a worn-out trope …
After starting a semi-regular feature about comics I’m reading last week in Now Reading, doing something similar for my other go-to pastime – video games – was probably inevitable. Introducing… Now Playing, a quick look at some of the games I’ve been playing lately. Most of my free time over …
Playing through Dragon Quest for the first time in 2015 was a weird experience. It’s a game that hasn’t exactly aged well, but somehow, that made it a fascinating and rewarding experience. It’s a snapshot of the early days of console RPGs, an insight into where many of the genres standards originated. Despite …
Despite what you’ve probably heard from a lot of folks on the Internet, and despite Sony apparently having all but given up on it, the PlayStation Vita is a really great handheld with an awesome library. With the likes of Danganronpa, Persona 4 Golden, Tearaway, OlliOlli, and Killzone: Mercenary (which …
A couple of days ago, I did something unprecedented: I clicked on a promoted tweet to find out more. Normally, I just gloss over promoted tweets; sometimes I dismiss them. If they’re particularly offensive (weight loss ads, looking at you) I’ll tweet my disdain, and then dismiss. But not this …
[URIS id=495] Postcards from the beautiful world of Submerged This week sees the launch of Submerged, a wonderful little indie game from Canberra-based Uppercut Games. It’s a combat-free exploration game about the efforts of a young girl to aid her injured brother in a beautifully post-apocalyptic world that is, well, …
