The first season of the Netflix One Piece live-action adaptation is here and has been out long enough for many of you to have watched it once or maybe even multiple times. I remember when I first heard that Netflix was doing an adaptation I was anxious. You don’t have to think back too far to remember some very bad live-action versions of great anime series. (Netflix’s Death Note is one of the more recent ones, and also one of the worst ones. We've been hurt time and time again by very poor...
There’s new activity involving the Hollow Knight: Silksong Steam page, which adjusted the art showing Hornet. SteamDB noted updates on September 21, 2023, then later September 23, 2023. This involved a web assets change that added the updated piece of art. [Thanks, Wario64!] There have been a number of updates to the Steam product listing for the title in 2023. Many of them involved changing the user tags for the game. On January 13, 2023, however, SteamDB noted the TBA release date change...
The first playable demo for Synduality: Echo of Ada appeared at Tokyo Game Show 2023. Bandai Namco also provided gameplay footage of the demo build on its livestream. It shows how the player can use their Cradle Coffin mech to explore the world's regions while gathering items and destroying hostiles. Players will find containers that contain lootable items. They can also use AO Search to detect nearby mineable AO Crystals. When players reach a yellow spot, they can send their companion Magus...
There was something special about playing platformers on the Game Boy. We’d sometimes get these oversized, chibi versions of characters and opponents that could look more endearing than menacing. However, the appearance would often bely a genuinely enjoyable game. Curse Crackers: For Whom the Belle Toils is a game that completely gets what people liked about this formula, with Colorgrave offering an entertaining character that keeps its personality present throughout. It’s also especially fun...
Custom Mech Wars will have an extensive free-form robot creation system, and D3 Publisher showed how it will work at Tokyo Game Show 2023. The game's producer Yosuke Uchida was present at D3 Publisher's livestream to explain the Omega Customization system with live gameplay footage. In Custom Mech Wars, a leg part will constitute the minimum requirement to construct a robot. While players can immediately launch with such a robot, its only attack will be a tackle with recoil damage. Other...
When Capcom revealed Dragon's Dogma 2 would be four times the size of the original game, I was a bit hesitant. Generally when the scope of a game is increased, it often comes with a cost. Sometimes polish is lost along the way or the game is marred with technical issues. Dragon's Dogma was already an expansive game, with a decent-sized world map that featured both night and day cycles, that legitimately felt organic. It was hard to imagine something bigger than what Capcom had created in 2012....
I'm generally not the kind of person to talk about my personal experience with a game to any great degree. Naturally, for reviews I'll dive into some choice encounters that create a broad picture of what shaped my opinion along the way. For example, what it felt like to overcome a particularly arduous challenge, how a narrative absolutely enamored me in presentation or prose. But Baldur's Gate 3 brought something out in me I thought was long since dead. That was an abrupt and extreme hyper...
Dark Souls fans will be able to praise the sun even more through UselessUse Laboratory new line of home decor items coming out in March 2024. The collection includes a Dark Souls 3 clock, soup mug with mini plate set, and a wooden small item storage unit. The Dark Souls 3 clock features a golden Warrior of the Sun covenant symbol affixed to a traditional 12-hour roman numeral clock made of black steel. Solaire of Astora can be seen praising the sun in place of the roman numeral "VI". The clock...
During the official TGS live stream presentation for Blue Protocol, Bandai Namco revealed the new Japanese release window for the game on consoles. Blue Protocol is scheduled to release for the PS5 and Xbox Series X on Winter 2023 in Japan. Additionally, the new Chapter 4 is coming to the PC version of the game in Japan on October 25, 2023. The developers also announced that Blue Protocol will feature cross-play between all three versions of the game. Additionally, cross-save between the...
There’s another layer to the FFXIV KFC event on the way, as a Colonel Sanders Black Mage statue appeared at TGS 2023. The life-size figure is at the Square Enix booth at the event. Square Enix Senior Manager for Social Media David Lee shared a photo of it at the event. The placard in front of it reiterates that things will “start” on October 4, 2023. [Thanks, David Lee!] First, here’s Lee’s photo of the KFC Black Mage Colonel Sanders display at the FFXIV booth. The mascot is wearing the...
During the Tokyo Game Show 2023 Level-5 livestream, Producer Keiji Inafune revealed a new “Life” (job) players can choose in the upcoming game Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time. The Artist Life will be entirely new to the Fantasy Life series. We still have no word on a release date for the game, aside from the developer assigning it a 2023 window. A playable demo of Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time is currently available to try out at Level-5’s booth at Tokyo Game Show 2023....
At Tokyo Game Show 2023, attendees can try their hand at dating a woman who is a giant with a demo of SAEKO: Giantess Dating Sim. It is an upcoming indie title by SAFE HAVN STUDIO. On the game’s Steam page, the supported languages list English, Japanese, and Chinese. The game is scheduled to be released on PC sometime in 2024. [Thanks, Game Watch!] As you might be able to tell from the title, Saeko is a giant. Or, that is to say, the player is very small. Their avatar is merely the size of...