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Persona 5 Tactica Repaint Your Heart Review – Artist’s Block
Persona 5 Tactica Repaint Your Heart is the day 1 DLC expansion to P5T. The good news is that, unlike a lot of day 1 DLC, it doesn’t feel like something they sliced out of the main game. This is a fully standalone story with characters who don’t otherwise appear at all and you could…
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Persona 5 Tactica Review – A Slow Buildup
Persona 5 Tactica is an odd game because of what it isn’t. Atlus already had a tactical RPG series in the Devil Survivor games, and those games were already not far from being Persona tactics games. Considering that Persona Q was just Etrian Odyssey rethemed, I’d have expected this to establish a pattern and be…
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Dragon’s Dogma 2 Review – Soaring Highs, Crushing Lows
Dragon’s Dogma 2 is, like Mirror’s Edge: Catalyst, a sequel to a personally beloved game that I never thought I’d get. But where Catalyst failed because it largely abandoned what made the original great, this game has the opposite problem. It is deeply faithful to the 2012 original. Almost the entire cast of monsters, the…
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Bang Average Football Review – Above the Mean
Bang Average Football is a retro arcade soccer/football game that’s mostly focused on the RPG-esque story mode. This follows a relatively standard plot about taking the worst team in the bottom league all the way to the top, but with more focus on the management side than you typically get from indie games. It doesn’t…
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The Sekimeiya Review – Caught in its Own Web
The Sekimeya: Spun Glass is a difficult game to talk about. It revels in the complexity of its own mysteries and eventually ends up feeling more like a puzzle from a hardcore puzzling competition than a story. It clearly takes inspiration from games like Zero Escape (particularly VLR) and has (presumably) coincidental similarities to the…
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Dicefolk Review – Slay the Friendly Skies
Dicefolk is a rougelite monster battler that takes obvious influence from both Slay the Spire and Pokemon. You fight rotation battles a la Pokemon‘s Generation V/Black and White, but the actions of monsters on both sides are controlled by dice. You click the die you want to activate and may also get to chose who…
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No Case Should Remain Unsolved Review – Plaintext Detective
No Case Should Remain Unsolved is a mystery visual novel in which you’re exploring the unsolved case of a young girl’s disappearance. The central gimmick, which is revealed almost as soon as the game begins, is that the old detective’s declining memory has resulted in her being unable to remember the order or even the…
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Witchspring R Review – Bewitching
Witchspring R is, apparently, a remake of the first in a series of mobile RPGs that I’ve never heard of. You’d be forgiven for not realizing that it was originally a phone game either, both because the Steam page makes no mention of that whatsoever and because your typical phone-first RPG is lucky to manage…
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My Time at Sandrock Multiplayer Review – Castles in the Desert
My Time at Sandrock looks like a farming simulator at first glance, but in reality it’s more of a town building simulator. You start out with an empty workshop in the almost equally empty town of Sandrock. Your goal is to complete requests and commissions you get from the townsfolk, which begin as small items…
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Party Party Time Review – Party Starter
Party Party Time is a collection of minigames that’s very much like Mario Party without the board game part. Up to six players compete in up to 16 different games and earn points based on how they place, ultimately leading to one player being crowned the overall winner. SAT-BOX has made quite a few games…