Etrian Odyssey is an interesting concept with a classic twist, you exploring through long dungeons like a dungeon crawler, but at the same time give you the old school JRPG experience while drawing your own map. Etrian Odyssey IV: Legends of the Titan is the series' continuing attempt to try and bring…

Shadowrun Returns is the first major Kickstarter game to be released since crowdfunding became popular amongst developers wanting to try something different. Bringing back the tabletop series to the virtual world, is it a good game with old-school sensibilities, or can you not teach old dogs new tricks? What is…

Mario and Luigi Dream Team Bros Players: 1 Genre: RPG Platform: 3DS Developer: AlphaDream Shying away from the Paper Mario side, Nintendo have taken us back to the pure RPG side for the Year of Luigi and while we at VGU really enjoyed Paper Mario Sticker Star, we also all agreed…

Time and Eternity is a game that starts out very different from what you expect. Unlike most RPGs this one starts with a wedding and then even more bizarrely gets invaded by a group of assassins who are there to kill the princess, Toki. At first you play as Toki’s…

On the review table today is the latest edition in the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity. As a child, if you ever dreamed of living with Pokémon after having watched an episode of the Pokémon show, then this is the game for you. This new…

Games such as Diablo 3 and Torchlight 2 are a different experience for gamers to behold. They require you to be on the ball all the time in order to combat a combination of puzzles, enemies and environments. A new comer to the genre, The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing,…

GOD MODE is a 4 player co-op 3rd person shooter which is set in Hades (hell in a toga basically). You play an undead warrior trying to break out of hell… and that is really all there is to it. If you are a fan of stories in you games…

The Monster Hunter series has always been a classic in Japan and while it has sold very well in the West, it was nowhere near as loved as it is in the East. To be honest, who can blame the western fans? For the longest time, players in the US…

From NIS America, Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory is a JRPG that brings some new gameplay and narrative elements into the field of a very hard to compete genre.The game delivers some interesting ideas to the table such as in game rewards, an interesting world to explore and an abundance of fourth…

How often were we told as kids that friendship makes the world go round? That any number of close personal chums can make anything easier or solve any problem. Now what if you added demons, God's and other supernatural beings into that idea? Well for one you'd have some weird…

The Milky way is a big place. It is big in the sense that the Arctic is a little bit cold. How do you convey that scope and scale into a video game? Bioware have a reputation for crafting large worlds, filled with unique lore and characters with tragic pasts…

Dungeonland is the Multiplayer, Dungeon crawler game that takes you and your friends on an adventure through a Dungeon themed theme park. The park has three adventure levels and a DM (Dungeon Master) mode for people to play with along with a great series of customisation options. But does the…

We at VGU had a lot of trouble preparing to review Ni No Kuni, not because of anything overly negative, mostly because we wanted to do this game justice. Ni No Kuni is a JRPG created by Level-5, who are known for making high quality and in depth RPG’s, and…

After the first piece of Borderlands 2 DLC just missed the mark with dulled humour and bland environments, “Mr Torgue's campaign of carnage” sets all of this right with one of the most memorable Borderlands characters so far and varied areas. This round of DLC opens with resident mad scientist…

After defeating Alduin, playing through Dawnguard and having three custom built houses and two very terrifying children (not to mention a creepy fox with strange heavy breathing) in Hearthfire, Skyrim quickly became a little dull. Sure there were still Dragons to kill, chests to pillage and a gravity-defying horse, but…

Pokémon is back and is bigger than ever. The Pokémon games have always been a big part of Nintendo’s handheld game line-up and this title is no exception, by having the “prequel” of the Pokémon Black and White games, this allows Pokémon Black and White 2 (Pokémon BW2) to take…

Final Fantasy 7 (for Playstation 1 and PC) initially released in 1997 and re-released again on the Playstation Network in 2009 is widely regarded as one of the best JRPG’s in a long time, gaining critical acclaim upon release. Now because of the 25th anniversary of the Final Fantasy series…

Mugen Souls is the next anime style moe moe* game by NIS America and developed by Compile Hearts. The game centres around a young pink haired girl Chou-Chou, who rides around in space on a massive bunny space ship with her companions Altis, a self proclaimed demon and Ryuto, the spaceship…