Omega Force’s musou games have a contentious reputation, with critics and consumers often finding fault in the repetition of combat, a rigid adherence to formula, and the excessive frequency of release. While the latter culpability ...
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With early rhythm games, representation was obvious. Dance Dance Revolution duped players into boogying atop a set of neon-lit panels, mimicking the energetic gyrations found in dance clubs. Similarly, GuitarFreaks, DrumMania, and Keyboardmania simulated musical ...
Read More »Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls review
All too often gaming franchises can grow overly comfortable, churning out a procession of sequels that compliantly follow in the footsteps of their predecessor. Certainly, the Danganronpa series could have followed this prudent blueprint, with ...
Read More »Dungeon Travelers 2: The Royal Library & the Monster Seal review
Polarized pundits will tell you why you shouldn’t buy Dungeon Travelers 2: The Royal Library & the Monster Seal. Self-appointed virtue cadets and page-view pursuers have complained about the game’s content, finding the Aquaplus-developed title ...
Read More »XBlaze Lost: Memories review
A hero’s journey to the underworld is ubiquitous in narrative tradition. As far back as the third century B.C., the Argonautica detailed Orpheus’ decent to rescue Eurydice, returning his beloved wife to the world of ...
Read More »Lost Dimension review
For decades, role-playing games have drilled a very specific decree into our heads: our fellow adventurers are devoted, dependable friends. Allies are routinely our most valuable resource, endowed with traits such as a capacity for ...
Read More »Ar nosurge Plus: Ode to an Unborn Star review
Although Japanese role-playing games are habitually criticized for having derivative battle mechanics, verbose dialog, and trope-filled plots, the genre flaunts one prodigious advantage; no other type of game routinely offers such a rich depiction of ...
Read More »Samurai Warriors Chronicles 3 review
Much like EA Sports’ athletic franchises, Omega Force’s Warriors titles offer an evolutionary, rather than revolutionary approach to their properties. In execution, both companies offer annual iterations of their renowned titles, maintaining core play components, ...
Read More »Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth3: V Generation
When NIS America published Hyperdimension Neptunia in 2011, the title was an unmistakably mixed bag. In concept, the game’s allegory of anthropomorphized gaming machines reconciling their differences to fight a common enemy was one of ...
Read More »Operation Abyss: New Tokyo Legacy review
As fans of fighting, platforming, and rhythm-based games likely know, genres can be curiously cyclical. Case in point: the first-person dungeon crawler, a type of game which rose to prominence during the ‘80s with the ...
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