Among the numerous indie gems that launched on Nintendo Switch last year was a little beat ’em up called Wulverblade. Set in AD 140, it follows the efforts of a handful of Celtic warriors to stop Rome’s invasion into northern Britannia, through cartoonishly violent, bloody combat. Following its warm reception on …
Street Fighter V was an odd beast when it launched two years ago. The fighting itself was fantastic and the multiplayer infrastructure was good, but there was precious little on offer for people uninterested in duking it out with other players. A few extra game features and game modes …
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 …
Like seemingly everyone else on the planet, I have a huge backlog of games that I’ve bought at some point in time but haven’t got around to actually playing. I’m not overly concerned about this, to be fair—I’ve tried to do the #backlogzero thing before, and the stress of it …
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 …
Anyone hoping to spend 2018 catching up on all the great games they didn’t have the time to play last year might be out of luck, because 2018 is looking like it’ll be another big year. There’s a lot to be excited about—and, no doubt, a lot of stuff 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 …
Omega Quintet was a welcome addition to the PlayStation 4 library when it first came out in 2014. At the time, Japanese developers were only just warming up to the PS4, so it lacked the sort of bright, colourful JRPGs that have always found a home on Sony’s consoles. Then …
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, …
Set within a lordly mansion in the 19th-century English countryside, Ebi-hime’s kinetic novel Blackberry Honey tells a sweet, heartfelt story of unexpected romance among a pair of maids. After being unceremoniously dismissed from her previous job at Hartwell, she finds herself new work at Bly estate. A maid’s work is …
