A MOST AGREEABLE PASTIME
Video Games, Victorian Style
Tag: RPG
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A love letter to the turn-based battles of yore.
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Twenty years on from the last game, hopes are high for Larian Studios’ stab at continuing the beloved series.
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“Wait, are we still in the game?”
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Forty slays and forty fights.
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The wholesome story of three friends deciding to get together and make their dream game: a multiplayer competitive RPG.
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A masterful return to form for a series that had lost its way.
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It’s repetitive, admin-heavy and ridiculously sexualised, but for a small niche of players, The Witch and the Hundred Knight 2 could be a lot of fun.
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It’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: The Video Game, but without the bats. Disco Elysium is shaping up to be a cracking isometric RPG with superb dialogue.
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This beautiful ‘micro-RPG’ from One Bit Beyond may look cute, but it holds a fearsome challenge. If your character dies, they’re gone for forever – and you lose almost everything.
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With a blatant lack of professionalism, I own up to not properly playing a game that was sent to me to review. But I’ve got an excuse, honest.
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That exciting feeling when you uncover a hidden gem down at the local secondhand game shop.
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What do you get if you cross the iconic Sonic Youth album Goo… …with the similarly iconic PlatinumGames JRPG Nier: Automata? This utterly awesome T-shirt, that’s what: I. Love. It. It arrived from the US yesterday, along with a whopping customs charge – but it was worth the money. If you want one of your…
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I’ve set myself the goal of finishing all three ‘Operation Rainfall’ RPGs, but finishing the second game on the list, Xenoblade Chronicles, is proving to be something of a challenge. I’m already 91 hours in, and the game just keeps unfolding like a never-ending carpet of multi-coloured delights… and frustrations. I’ve already blithely ignored my…
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I picked up Weapon Shop de Omasse for a pittance in a Nintendo eShop sale a few months back, and I’ve dipped into it a few times over the past few months. It’s the perfect example of a game with a winning idea that’s let down by poor execution. The set up is that you’re…
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I just forgot I owned a video game and the worst part was I was about one mouse click away from purchasing it again. That game was the Heroes of Mana, the Brownie Brown developed Real Time Strategy/Role-playing hybrid released in 2007 for Nintendo’s DS. It was one of the many games of its type…
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Today I was walking down the street and I spotted, in the distance, a shiny, gold two dollar coin. Fearing I would look like a total cheapskate if I frantically ran over to the coin and picked it up, I casually sauntered over to the coin, hoping that no one else had spotted it, and…
A MOST AGREEABLE PASTIME 