There’s a lot to like about Legrand Legacy: Tale of the Fatebounds. It comes out swinging with a full-motion video opening that’s both intense and charmingly retro. From there, you’re thrust into a gorgeous world of hand-painted, pre-rendered backgrounds, anime-style character designs, mystical prophecies, and strange monsters. For a game …
Before Cyberdimension Neptunia, before Sword Art Online, before Star Ocean 3, there was .hack (pronounced “dot hack”). The immense popularity of the anime .hack//SIGN and a handful of game spinoffs in the early 2000s popularised the premise of players trapped inside an MMO game, and you can see that …
This morning, SNK and NIS America announced SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy, a new crossover fighting game starring the glorious women of SNK’s numerous games. It’s coming to Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4, and it looks fantastic. SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy brings together women from a wide variety of …
Ōkami has been one of Capcom’s most beloved games since it first released more than a decade ago, and it’s easy to see why: a beautiful art style, rich story, and Zelda-inspired gameplay all combine to create one of the most captivating games of the PlayStation 2 era. Strangely enough, …
“None of this is real. You’re not real. Rachel’s family isn’t real. This whole thing– It’s all just… theater.” “Well, you know what William Shakespeare said…” “Something about the whole world being a stage, so might as well act the fuck out of it?” “Nailed it.” “But I don’t want …
I always enjoy a good rogue-lite. I don’t much care for the more hardcore aspects of proper roguelikes, but I love the way games like Rogue Legacy and Children of Morta find a balance between the high stakes of permadeath and accessibility through meta progression systems. It’s into this camp …
Just in time for the holidays, Sony’s recently launched a handful of new games under the PlayLink banner. Like That’s You, released earlier this year, the new games are simple party games that use smartphones as controllers. I’m sure many folks will have less-than-fond memories of scrambling to find a …
Planet of the Apes: Last Frontier The biggest problem for Planet of the Apes: Last Frontier is that it’s difficult not to compare it with Hidden Agenda, and that’s not a kind comparison. Last Frontier is also a cinematic narrative game, but it’s a more straightforward one: the story plays …
You can always improve a game concept by adding cats and an onslaught of cat-themed puns. Always. The latest example of this is Cat Quest, a small, straightforward open-world RPG that finds plenty of charm in its feline persuasion. Cat Quest starts as many a game does, with someone close …
Strange, abstract trailers have a way of catching my attention. No, I’m not talking about that Death Stranding thing from The Game Awards, but the curious-looking 0°N 0°W from indie outfit Colorfiction. The title, pronounced “zero north, zero west”, is based on the coordinates of the fictitious Null Island. The game itself is described …
