Drugs, religion and corruption are all things connected to the fictional hands Mexican Santa Blanca cartel and its glorious leader El Sueño. No stranger to death, destruction and all things in-between El Sueño basically runs the country of Bolivia. Naturally the government of Bolivia isn’t...
Considered by many to be the premier Japanese RPG of the PlayStation 2 era, Square Enix’s Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King was a revolutionary title for its time. If you happened to miss out on its 2005 debut release, you are in luck for the title has been given a chance at new life...
Remastering games in HD are becoming common this generation with many developers jumping on board to bring their classic games and making them all look beautiful for today's console hardware. With the success of the first Resident Evil HD remaster last year, Capcom has decided to remaster Resident...
Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer is a spin-off title of the award winning Animal Crossing series based on decorating houses of the animals in town, instead of players living in a fictional town and doing errands everyday for the townspeople. Fans looking for a successor title following Animal...
ATLUS has been partnering up with Aquaplus in recent years, bringing over an eclectic mix of titles from their library from the more strategic stylings of Tears to Tiara II to the Aquapazza fighting game. Now, Aquaplus is bringing out a dungeon RPG called Dungeon Travelers 2: The Royal Library...
The Etrian Odyssey series has been known among the RPG community as being a challenging sort of Japanese role-playing franchise. Despite the cute anime characters, what lies beneath is a mixture of tactics and challenging encounters on every space of your map. The Fafnir Knight once again thrusts...
Although released back in September of last year for PC, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter has finally made its way onto the PlayStation 4. This updated console release adds Unreal Engine 4 support, giving this rendition of Ethan Carter a different feeling to the original PC release. Is it worth...
At long last, the Generation Xth series of RPG's has begun its transition out of Japan and into a more global audience. Operation Abyss: New Tokyo Legacy represents not just one, but rather the first two titles in the series thus far rolled together into one complete package for the Vita. Nearly...
Telltale's latest episode of Game of Thrones: Sons of Winter takes the slow momentum building up over the previous three episodes and finally begins its downhill descent into madness. Can the scattered Forresters keep their family from fading into oblivion, or will the once-great House struggle to...
If you were to ask me what the premiere driving simulator was, I would undoubtedly say Gran Turismo. Now, if you asked me that and limited it to the PlayStation 4, there would have been a time that I was at a loss for words. Need For Speed aims for a completely different style of racing, veering...
Ever since the days of the Super Nintendo, Harvest Moon has been a staple of gaming with its numerous releases centered around farming. In a series now twenty-five entries long (not counting the various spinoffs such as Rune Factory or Hometown Story), the series is returning back to nature and...
The development cycle for Axiom Verge has certainly been a lengthy one. This one-man project has lasted nearly five years, mirroring closely to the stretch of time gamers have been without a proper followup to Metroid: Other M. Developed in his freetime by Thomas Happ, a developer for Petroglyph...
Telltale's Game of Thrones series has reached the halfway point with the release of the third episode, The Sword in the Darkness. With the children of House Forrester still scattered to the four winds of Westeros, their paths continue to diverge and unfold in unpredicted ways. Has The Sword in the...
During the early days of the last console generation, developer Omega Force released a title based upon the Hundred Years' War between England and France. That title was Bladestorm: The Hundred Years' War and was a fundamental gameplay shift from the traditional action-based titles the team had...
Tecmo Koei and Gust have finally brought the final chapter of the Dusk Sea trilogy to a close on Playstation 3. Atelier Shallie: Alchemists of the Dusk Sea is unique to its predecessor if only for the multitude of alchemists at your disposal (namely, two). With new mechanics and items to craft,...
Nippon Ichi is no stranger to the roguelike genre. They've dabbled with it in some extent with previous titles such as Cladun, Legasista, and The Guided Fate Paradox. As a followup to the latter, The Awakened Fate Ultimatum once again puts NIS to the test and shows whether they can capture what...
Tokyo Twilight Ghost Hunters is a new role-playing game from the relatively new players in the field, Toybox Inc. Much of the team had previously worked on Deadly Premonition, a cult classic that was quite polarizing by critics and fans alike. Now, the team looks forward to letting American...
If you had told me about htoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary a year ago, I would have been completely onboard. NIS America-published platformer with a cute handdrawn motif to match? I'm in. Now, after getting my hands dirty with quite a few levels, I've started to see why this game received a CERO D (17+)...
Nicalis have made a name for themselves in recent years with their creation and handling of retro-styled titles. Matt Kap, one of the artists in the envoy of Nicalis, has just finished developing and releasing an independently developed title called Castle in the Darkness. As a title that often...
Telltale's second episode in the Game of Thrones game series has recently hit the networks and has already bared its necks to Ilyn Payne. Telltale has already shown their prowess with their ability to craft together a morose tale from the moment the first episode starts up. Can Telltale...
NIS America's latest RPG for the Vita, Criminal Girls: Invite Only, is no stranger to controversy. A frequent topic of discussion about the game was whether or not a game focused on reforming school-age girls through various forms of punishment could actually make it out of Japan. As a remake of a...
With the Arland trilogy officially wrapped up, it was only logical for Koei Tecmo to start releasing the updated Dusk trilogy for PlayStation Vita. The first title, Atelier Ayesha Plus: The Alchemist of Dusk, revisits the classic PS3 rpg from back in June 2012. Can Atelier Ayesha Plus charm a...
There was a time in gaming when nearly any conceivable idea for a game would be considered fresh and there was no such thing as paying homage yet. Clones were commonplace in the industry. With the success of Super Mario Brothers came titles like Giana Sisters before disappearing into the...
Acquire (and Zero Div) seem to be becoming a more prominent game developer of recent years in the US. Some of their more recent titles such as Sorcery Saga and Mind-Zero have only just released in the States through various publishers. Their latest US release, Class of Heroes 2G, arrives by way of...
