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Culdcept: The First Saturn Tribute Review [SWITCH] – Where the Series Began

Originally released back in 1997 for the Sega Saturn, Omiya Soft’s Culdcept is a board game & deck-building hybrid that plays like a mix of Monopoly and Yu-Gi-Oh. Culdcept: The First Saturn Tribute marks the first time the original game has received an official English translation, and with the recent release of the excellent Culdcept

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Culdcept BEGINS Review for Nintendo Switch 2 – Monopoly Meets Deck-Building

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The Culdcept series has a long, albeit largely non-Western, history dating back to 1997 on the Sega Saturn, known simply as Culdcept. In fact, that original Japanese game is getting a modern release coming soon via City Connection as part of their Saturn Tribute range, but that is not the game we are talking about

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R-Type Dimensions III Review [SWITCH 2]

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Recently, R-Type seems to be making a bit of a comeback. In just the past few months alone, we’ve had releases of R-Type Delta Boosted, R-Type DX: Music Encore, an easily accessible way to play through the Game Boy Color versions of R-Type and R-Type II and even a very nice remake of both the

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Ys X: Proud Nordics Review [Switch 2]

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I’m a big fan of the Ys series, and personally, I’d say Falcom have been putting out some of their best work yet with Ys X: Proud Nordics being no exception. Story Cannocially, Ys X is set just after Ys II, making it a prequel to Memories of Celceta Even though we start off our

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Romancing SaGa Minstrel Song Remastered International Review – A Perfect RPG Revival

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Romancing SaGa: Minstrel Song Remastered International Romancing SaGa: Minstrel Song Remastered is a reimagining of the Super Famicom Classic Romancing SaGa. More accurately, it’s a remastering of the PS2 3D remake Romanacing SaGa: Minstrel Song and acts as the perfect introduction to the classic RPG series. You start your playthrough by choosing one of 8

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MARVEL MaXimum Collection Review [SWITCH]

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At its core, Marvel MaXimum Collection is a 6-game collection with the included iterations of each title, making for a total of 13 games. The overall presentation is a little barebones, but it gets the job done. From the main menu, you can choose between Games, a Music Player featuring the OST from each title

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R-Type Delta HD Boosted Just Made the PS1 Original Obsolete

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R-Type Delta HD Boosted Review [SWITCH] I’m quite a big R-Type fan and have been playing the series for well over 30 years at this point. I spent a lot of my teenage years playing R-Type DX on the Game Boy Colour before graduating on to the fantastic R-Type Final on the PS2, yet somehow

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Atelier Ryza DX Trilogy Review – A Perfect Farewell to Ryza’s Alchemy Adventures

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Atelier Ryza DX Trilogy Review [Nintendo Switch 2] Koei Tecmo are sure having one hell of a year with some great titles. This year alone, we’ve got Atelier Yumia and Atelier Resleriana, so I was surprised when I heard the announcement that we would be getting an additional three Atelier games with the release of

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Atelier Resleriana: The Red Alchemist & the White Guardian Review – A Perfect Mix of Old and New

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Atelier Resleriana: The Red Alchemist & The White Guardian Review In an interesting move for the series, Atelier Resleriana: The Red Alchemist & the White Guardian is a spin-off game from the mobile-exclusive Atelier Resleriana: Forgotten Alchemy & the Liberator of Polar Night, released back in 2023. Koei Tecmo has done a great job of

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Chained Echoes: Ashes of Elrant Review

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Chained Echoes: Ashes of Elrant I always find writing a review on a DLC quite difficult, especially when I haven’t played the base game in well over two years! That said, I really enjoyed my time with Chained Echoes and couldn’t wait to get stuck into Ashes of Elrant, so here are my thoughts. The

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