Lost Sphear is a game which is looking to garner players attention by hitting their nostalgic memories of growing up with the old school Japanese RPG games like early Final Fantasy titles, Chrono Trigger and others. The problem is nostalgia will only prop up a game so much before the…

Modern RPGs like Skyrim, Fallout and Witcher have been sung praises for their own strengths whether it be the questing system, the world or combat. With Elex they have tried to create an RPG which promotes flexibility with numerous mechanics that have taken inspiration from other successful RPGs. It creates…

The original Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth was released on the PlayStation Vita back in 2013, and was a massive success with fans of the Digimon franchise. Many western fans were pleased to learn that the game was being translated for a European and American release, as several of the newer…

This is DLC done right. I had a wonderful time back in March when the main game was released, ploughing almost 90 hours into the thoroughly engrossing main story and picking my way through the enjoyable side quests. All of them. Getting to dive back in to this beautiful world…

When the original Demon Gaze was released for the PS Vita back in 2013; it was praised for being a quirky dungeon crawling experience. Four years later, a sequel has now arrived for PS Vita, and has also received a high definition release on PlayStation 4. Demon Gaze II follows…

If you played any of the older South Park games around the Nintendo 64 era, you'd still have a bad taste left in your mouth from the thought of South Park video games. No South Park game made any waves, until The Stick of Truth. Not only was the Stick…

After a tragic accident leaves her unable to dance, a young ballet dancer and high school student named Hinako Shirai feels that her life has come to an end. After starting a new year at school, she makes friends with twin girls Yuzu and Lime, who give her the ability…

Over the last few years, NIS America has helped many Japanese developers bring their games across to European shores, such as the Disgaea franchise and some of the titles in the Persona series. Culdcept Revolt, the latest release from the long running Culcept series from its original developers Omiya Soft,…

While it may be as well known in the western world as Final Fantasy and Persona, the YS series has been going from strength to strength since it was originally conceived back in 1987. After many sequels and spin-offs, the adventures of its protagonist Adol Christin and his many companions…

Anime fans and gamer fans would have probably heard of Sword Art Online and maybe Accel World, two of the most popular virtual MMO titles in the anime sphere. Bandai Namco has published the joining of the two worlds from author Reki Kawahara. 99% of anime goers would have most likely…

The 16 bit RPG is a genre which has gone from strength to strength over the many years of its existence, with classic titles such as Chrono Trigger, and modern games such as I Am Setsuna proving that the graphical style is one that never goes out of fashion. Several…

It has been three years since Operation Abyss New Tokyo Legacy, a visual novel RPG hybrid was released in Japan. We gave the game a respectable score of six out of ten when it was released in English back in 2015 for the PlayStation Vita, and a few years later…

Victor Vran, originally released in 2015, left little impression on nearly anybody. Labelled a Diablo clone and thrown into the cultural waste paper basket, a small cult following eventually formed around the Van Helsing-esque ARPG. Haemimont Games have decided Victor Vran deserves another chance at mainstream success, collecting the base game…

The eternal questions of the enigma that is life after death is a mystery that many individuals have tried to answer, or given their own unique interpretation of what they believe to be present in the worlds beyond our own. Cladun Returns: This Is Sengoku is the newest action RPG…

To be blunt, Prey wasn't anywhere near my list of games I was excited for in 2017. Call me shallow, but the trailers failed to light the fire of curiosity within me. Colour me impressed then that Prey not only pleasantly surprised me, but it may be the best successor…

When a new console arrives on the scene, developers often decide to choose the best titles from previous consoles to port to the new system, usually including all previously released DLC as an added incentive. This is certainly the case with Nippon Ichi Software, who have decided to port Disgaea…

It’s hard to believe it has been almost ten years since the last main instalment of the Persona series came out in the UK. The series has seen a major shift in the number of sales, prompting Atlus to make the wait for the localisation for Persona 5 as painless…

Trepidation abounded as I made my journey into The Ringed City and from what we're lead to believe, this is to be the final chapter in the Dark Souls series. A series I have adored for the past few years and made me aware that I was a secret masochist.…

The celebrated author Stephen King once wrote that “Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.” This is certainly true in the case of the Danganronpa series, where the aim of the game is to find the guilty individuals who try to commit the perfect kill. The…

Way back in 1999, Planescape: Torment released in the hey-day of the CRPG era. 18 years later Torment is remembered as a cult classic; an example of “games as art (TM)”. Famous for waxing philosophical and a generally bleak tone, Planescape: Torment still tops GOG's best seller list. Cashing in on that…

Started from a Kickstarter in 2012, if you love multiplayer zombie games with RPG elements that can be extremely tough, then Zombicide might just be the game for you. It can be a little daunting to get into for new players to the board game genre but your patience to…