It’s hard to believe that just a few short years ago, I was one of those people who wrote off the Warriors series as one of repetitive, tiresome button mashers. Then along came Dragon Quest Heroes to completely change my mind, and I’ve gone on to enjoy just about every …
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Though it’s not billed as such, Omensight is very much a sequel to Spearhead Games’ Stories: The Path of Destinies: it’s set in the same wartorn fantasy world, tells a similar time-hopping story, and shares the same action RPG mechanics and Groundhog Day-esque game structure. But Omensight takes those good …
Bullet Witch is a clunky, messy game. It was clearly made on a very low budget, and it looked dated even when it first came out for Xbox 360 in 2006. If you’re the kind of person that needs your games to be polished and pristine, with production values coming …
By Ginny Woo After 12 long years of spin-offs, and remasters, the Yakuza franchise is finally closing the curtain on its main series with Yakuza 6: The Song of Life. The title may confuse some who haven’t followed the trajectory of the series since day one, but it’s clear …
I’m not sure how to feel about this trend of porting mobile games to home consoles. I love mobile games, don’t get me wrong—this isn’t some sort of tired “mobile games aren’t real games” nonsense—but mobile is a very different environment with very different strengths. Most phone games tend to …
Capitalism is cruel and unforgiving. It follows, then, that a game that, oddly enough, exists as both a parody and a celebration of capitalism should also be cruel and unforgiving. For better or worse, that’s exactly what Penny-Punching Princess is. At first glance, this looks like a fairly typical 2D …
The first three Devil May Cry games are among the most iconic of the PS2 era. With its deep combat system, emphasising timing, finesse and creative combos, the trilogy gave rise to the “stylish action game” (or “character action game”, or “extreme action game”, or any other of a …
The Attack on Titan anime and manga hype a few years back completely passed me by, so reviewing Attack on Titan 2 (or A.O.T 2, as it’s known in Europe and Oceania, presumably for licensing reasons) put me in the odd position of approaching it as a newcomer to …
By most accounts, Bayonetta 2 was one of the best games on the Wii U. Unfortunately, that console’s low install base meant the game didn’t have nearly as much reach as it deserves. It makes sense, then, that Nintendo would choose to re-release Bayonetta 2 (along with the first game) …
Monster Hunter has always been a tricky series to get into. The idea at the heart of it is simple—hunt monsters, collect materials from their corpses, and craft that into stronger equipment that lets you hunt stronger monsters—but the wealth of different systems underscoring that was always difficult to wrap …