Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, a spiritual successor to the acclaimed Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, is coming to mobile thanks to a partnership between ArtPlay and NetEase. The mobile version of Bloodstained will be a premium title (in other words, not reworked into a free-to-play game) that “features all …
Last month, indie developer Benny Heller released Arachnowopunk, a single-button, infinite-runner metroidvania. It’s a concept that doesn’t sound like it should work—the defining features of the genre are a variety of different abilities that improve your ability to explore, and the freedom of movement to actually do that exploring. How …
Spike Chunsoft’s acclaimed visual novel Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc Anniversary Edition is now available for mobile, on both Android and iOS. Originally released for PSP in 2010, Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc sees Makoto Naegi selected to attend Hope’s Peak Academy, a special high school for students who are the ultimate …
Burly Men at Sea is a picture book in video game form. I don’t mean that it’s a visual novel, in the sense of a mechanics-derived game genre – though I guess it is that, too. Rather, I mean that it quite brilliantly captures the calm, simple sense of wonderment …
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 …
