Mosaic Chronicles isn’t your typical jigsaw puzzle game. Forget the usual puzzle piece shapes, with their tabs and holes; here, you’re assembling pieces of stained glass, and what at first seems like a superficial distinction changes the nature of the game to a surprising degree. The smooth edges of the …
Ragnarok Origin will soon make its English debut, though at this stage it’s only officially headed to North America. A pre-registration campaign is now underway for the latest Ragnarok Origin mobile MMO spinoff, suggesting that the launch isn’t far away, even if a date hasn’t been announced just yet. Ragnarok …
Crossword City Chronicles is a barebones port of a woeful mobile game that turned Scrabble into a tedious, mind-numbing grind. Let’s clear something up: crosswords and Scrabble are different things. They’re both word-based puzzles that use a grid of overlapping words, sure, but very different in how they actually work, …
The Nintendo Switch version of the colourful JRPG Witch Spring 3 Re:Fine – The Story of Eirudy – will soon be making its way west, courtesy of ININ Games and Studio Artdink. There’s no release date just yet, but it will be released both digitally and physically, with a couple …
Romancing SaGa Re;univerSe is now available globally for Android and iOS, following a Japanese release in 2018. Set in the same world as Romancing SaGa 3, Re;univerSe sees Morastrum—a cyclical apocalypse event that occurs ever 300 years—once again threatening to destroy the world. New heroes join characters from numerous other …
In April this year, Japanese game company G-Mode launched the G-Mode Archives project, with the aim of bringing some of its old flip-phone games to Nintendo Switch. The first four such games are already out on the Japanese eShop, and and G-Mode announced the next two—Sukebooo Man and Shijō Saikyō …
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night—one of the all-time videogame greats—is now available on mobile devices for just a few dollars, thanks to a surprise release from Konami. Originally released for PlayStation in 199, Symphony of the Night is responsible for the “-vania” part of “Metroidvania”. It coupled the non-linear exploration …
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 …
Earlier today, Square Enix announced a new Final Fantasy XIV companion app: Final Fantasy XIV Online GO, where the “GO” stands for “Gathering Outdoors”. Following the hype of Pokemon GO and other GPS-enabled games that followed, FFXIV GO would let players gather crafting materials from nodes in the real world. Reading the press release that came into …
Earlier this month, Square Enix Japan released a new mobile game, Samurai Rising. While the title certainly make any allusion to Final Fantasy, there’s enough throwback to Square’s flagship to make it a Final Fantasy game in all but name. Familiar character jobs, like the Black Mage, White Mage, Dragoon, and so on. Recognisable monsters like …
