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Hatsune Miku Project Diva X: Review – Dancing All Night
ESRB Rating: T
Hatsune Miku: Project Diva X is the latest entry in the Project Diva series – a rhythm game based around music from the phenomena known as Vocaloids and the music their fans produce for them. In this one, Miku aside, our digital singers have lost the ability to sing. It’s up to you to guide Miku to restore the prisms to give them the strength to sing again. After the first prism everyone will be able to sing again, but that’s just the beginning.
Grand Kingdom Review – Grand Tactics
Platform: Playstation 4, Playstation Vita
Developer: Monochrome
Publisher: NIS America
ESRB Rating: T
Thank You NISA America for providing a review copy of this game.
Every once in a blue moon there is a primarily single-player RPG with an online component. Usually these modes aren’t necessarily important to the game and can largely be left alone. Grand Kingdom is different in that its online mode isn’t some afterthought, but, better yet, a perfect extension of what’s provided in its single player offerings
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Zero Time Dilemma review: Face 999 Dilemmas and the Reward is Won
Platform:Nintendo 3DS, PS Vita, PC (version played)
Developer: Spike-Chunsoft, Abstraction Games (PC)
Publisher:Aksys, Spike-Chunsoft (PC)
ESRB Rating:M
Thank You Spike-Chunsoft for providing a review copy of this game.
Back in 2009 the first Zero Escape game known as 999: 9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors was released. While it didn’t sell very well, it ended up being a cult classic, and deemed one of the Nintendo DS’s best games on the system. Series director and writer Kotaro Uchikoshi was given a second chance and released it’s award winning sequel Virtues Last Reward. Of course, awards are nice, but subpar sales are not thus, the series was quietly canceled… Not wanting to be left off on a cliffhanger, fans asked and pushed for the trilogy to at least be completed, and, through a miracle, Spike-Chunsoft decided to green light it. Please note that because this game was greenlit out of fan demand, it is highly suggested that you play the previous two entries first as it’ll be very easy to get lost if you don’t have any background knowledge of what’s happening.
Senran Kagura Shinovi Versus PC review
Platform:PC
Developer: Tamsoft
Publisher:XSEED Games
ESRB Rating: The PC release was not rated by the ESRB, the original Vita release is M
Thank You XSEED for providing a review copy of this game.
The girls of Senran Kagura: Shinovi Versus are back, but now in 1080p and 60 frames per second. Shinovi Versus was previously exclusive to the Playstation Vita, and this new version of the game supports higher resolutions, framerates, the ability to play with Japanese text, and all of the DLC is included.
VA-11 HALL-A: A Cyberpunk Bartender Action Review – Drove Me Wild
Platform: PC, Lniux & Mac
Developer: Sukeban Games
Publisher: Ysbryd Games
Release Date: June 21st, 2016
Thank you Sukeban Games for the review code.
VA-11 HALL-A takes place in the year 207X in the dystopian city known as Glitch City. In this city you’re born with nanomachines to make sure you’re following the corrupted government’s laws. You are nothing but a stressed out bartender named Jill that works at a bar in HALL-A coded VA-11 giving the bar its name: Valhalla.
Odin Sphere Leifthrasir Review: Making a Good Game Great
Odin Sphere Lefithrasir
Platforms: PS Vita/PS4/PS3
Developer: Vanillaware
Publisher: Atlus USA
ESRB Rating:T
Thank you Atlus for providing a review copy.
Odin Sphere Leifthrasir is a remaster of the classic PS2 game, Odin Sphere. Odin Sphere is about an ongoing war in the fantastical world of Erion and how this world will soon come to an end due to an old prophecy.
What’s Old is New Again: A Odin Sphere Leifthrasir Preview
Platform: PSV/PS3/PS4
Developer: Vanillaware
Publisher: Atlus USA/SEGA
Rated: T
Release Date:June 7th, 2016
Thank you, Atlus for providing an early copy of the game.
Odin Sphere is a series of books with each book while all connected offer a completely different perspective on the same on-going tale about the war in Erion. This title was originally released on the Playstation 2 back in 2007 and since then has gained a cult following. Odin Sphere Leifthrasir, is a remaster of said game that offers much more than just a simple resolution upscale.
The main emphasis of this remaster is certainly the upgrade in gameplay. Odin Sphere Leifthrasir is an Action Role Playing Game on a 2D plane with its combat has been completely revamped. It’s much, much faster paced than the original as combos are extremely fluid to a point where getting a 100 hit combo on a wave of enemies is incredibly easy and yet incredibly fun to pull off as you’ll be constantly juggling your enemies. In the original game, hoarding seeds weren’t an option as you couldn’t hoard Phozons – a material released by a certain type of plant, butterflies, and mainly defeated enemies, or something you can make it yourself using alchemy. In Leifthrasir you can hoard Phozons, so you can grow plants whenever you want. This is incredibly beneficial as now you don’t have to plant a seed before battle and hope you defeated enough enemies to make it grow by the time the battle was over or just constantly using alchemy. Overall, the game is much more accessible now thanks to the traveling restaurant at resting points as well as a checkpoint system as well. Of course, if you don’t like any of these things you actually just play the original version right from the get-go when you start of up the game and plays just as you remember it.
Corpse Party: Blood Covered
Platform: PC
Developer:Team GrisGris
Publisher: XSEED Games
Rated: M
Release Date: April 25, 2016
A review copy has been provided by XSEED Games
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: it’s a dark and stormy night after the school festival, seven children in charge of cleaning up stop to tell a ghost story about “Heavenly Host Elementary,” and how a teacher died in the school. Shortly after, the school was shut down and destroyed. In on it – their teacher decides to spook one of the students. Shortly after, a character’s little sister stops by to bring them their umbrella as they forgot it at home. Due to the fact that another character is moving away, the cast decides to perform the “Sachiko Ever After” ritual, a ritual that works as a charm in that, once performed, you will be best friends forever with the people you did it with. In this circumstance, not only are these nine people now BFFs, they’ve also been teleported to “Heavenly Host Elementary.” If you’re familiar with this introduction, then you’ve probably played Corpse Party already on the PSP which was Corpse Party Blood Covered… Repeated Fear. In that sense, outside of some minor details, these versions are incredibly similar.
Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair – PC Review
Platform: PC
Original Developer: Spike-Chunsoft
Port Studio: Abstraction Games
Publisher: Spike-Chunsoft
Rated: M
Release Date: April 18, 2016
A review copy has been provided by Spike-Chunsoft
When Danganronpa 2 came out on the Playstation Vita, it quickly became one of my favorite games of all time. Playing through it again on the PC and I remember why that is the case.
Trillion: God of Destruction Review – Micromanaging in the Trillions
Platform: PS Vita
Developer: Compile Heart
Publisher: Idea Factory International
Rated: T
Release Date: March 29, 2016
A review copy has been sent by Idea Factory International
Trillion: God of Destitution is the first game to come out in the Makai Ichiban Kan series. These games, while unrelated, are created by a new team made by Idea Factory with the director of this team being Masahiro Yamamoto. If you don’t know about Masashiro by name, that’s understandable, but the main thing is that he has a history of working on Disgaea. Just like in Disgaea, Trillion is full of overly large numbers with trillion being at the very center of it.
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