With the indie scene’s obsession with “retro-inspired” games, we’re seeing a lot of throwbacks to the 8-bit era. Some, like Shovel Knight, commit fully to the idea; for others, it’s a vague reference to a pixelated art style. But one things remains constant: “retro” and “8-bit” seem to be almost …
I’m genuinely surprised there hasn’t been an announcement of a remastered Nier yet. With Nier Automata on the way, I can’t be the only person with renewed interest in finally playing the original, and Square Enix hasn’t exactly shied away from remasters to date. Nier was, by almost any metric, a dismal failure. It was …
What would an E3 be without some sort of gender representation – related controversy? This year, Nintendo have kindly stepped up to deliver on this front, with Nintendo producer Eiji Aonuma confirming that, no, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild will not have the female hero that many were hoping for. …
Content warning: This game and, by extension, this review addresses themes of domestic violence and child abuse. Spoiler warning: In order to fairly explain what makes Resette’s Prescription as good as it is, I’ve had to talk about some significant plot details. They’re not things I think would detract from …
Maybe Naughty Dog should have gotten Joshua Williamson to write Uncharted 4, because if there’s one thing I’ve learned from reading the Uncharted comic, it’s that this is a man who knows what makes the series tick. It has all the action, all the laughs, and all the characterisation that …
It has been revealed that, earlier today, famed game developer Hideo Kojima enjoyed a cheese sandwich for lunch, but what this means for Kojima Productions’ upcoming game of the decade contender remains a mystery. Questions around Kojima’s lunch preferences have been circling since a Tweet from the great man himself …
With its original 3DS release back in 2014 (well, early 2015 for New Zealand), Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse was the first Shantae game I’d played. I was somewhat familiar with the franchise just through general exposure and my fondness of some other WayForward games I’d played, but I didn’t …
Coming out very late in the PlayStation 2’s life cycle, Odin Sphere perhaps didn’t get as much attention as it deserved. It was a critical darling (and rightly so) and sold fairly well, but it was niche game fighting against a newly-released PlayStation 3 and all the hype that goes …
Shadwen is an interesting game. It’s not necessarily a good game, but it’s certainly an interesting one, which makes it a curious game to review. It’s so unpolished in its current state that I couldn’t in any right mind recommend it to someone looking for high-quality entertainment, but it’s so …
This week, Square Enix released Romancing SaGa 2 on iOS and Android. With the publisher’s obsession with porting older games to mobile, there wouldn’t be anything remarkable about this release, if not for the fact that this is the game’s first official localisation in 23 years since it came out in Japan. …
