30 Mar 2017
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Review: Project Lux

Making the Jump It is always a risk for a franchise or genre to make the jump to a new technology. Look no further than the 2D/3D shift for some great examples of successes and failures. For a game that has spent so long working in and perfecting its current medium of tech, adapting it
27 Mar 2017
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Review: Tokyo Twilight Ghost Hunters Daybreak: Special Gigs

Trying Something New When jumping between different games within the same genre, most gamers have come to expect similar mechanics to be used between them. Most popular FPS titles use the same basic controller layouts, classic-style JRPGs have the same basic commands to drive menu-based combat, and so on. Most games will put their own
20 Mar 2017
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Review: Senran Kagura: Estival Versus [PC]

[Note: Due to the fanservice-heavy nature of this game, some of the images in this article may be considered NSFW.] For the Many or the Few Nearly every creator of entertainment media is going to hope and wish to reach the largest audience they possibly can. Not only because more sales equals more money and
11 Mar 2017
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Review: ChronoClock

Let’s Get Cute Like pretty much every genre of every medium, the gaming genre of the visual novel has a number of subgenres to help further classify the games that fall into it. Being a mostly Japanese exclusive genre until recent years, most of these subgenre titles are abbreviations or portmanteaus of Japanese words, with
10 Mar 2017
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Review: NieR: Automata

Foreword You should know that I took my time with this review, and not just because it’s my first “real” review for Gamer Escape, or because we’re comfortably between the PS4 and Steam releases. Being no stranger to director Yoko Taro’s previous games (a bit more on him later), it felt safe to assume that
2 Mar 2017
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Review: Stage Presence

Future Goggles We are just about a year into the so-called VR revolution. Both the HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift have been on the market for nearly a year now, and PlayStation VR will be hitting its six-month mark soon. With the format still in its infancy, the kinds of games launching for them
21 Feb 2017
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Review: Berserk and the Band of the Hawk

Forcing a Fit When it comes to licensing a property to create a video game, there’s one important question the game developer should ask themselves: “Would this property even really work as a video game?” All too often, we see horrifying games churned out with various licenses slapped on the game’s box. Has there ever
15 Feb 2017
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Review: Atelier Shallie Plus: Alchemists of the Dusk Sea

Mixing Things Up Gamers of a certain age place console RPGs in a certain bubble. In early generations, console games were the way to go, due mostly due to technical superiority being on their side. Early handhelds usually played second fiddle to their stationery brethren, and were technically inferior to boot. However, technology advances, as
12 Feb 2017
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Review: Dynasty Warriors: Godseekers

Spicing Up the Past Human history is full of fascinating subjects and epic stories. Wars that tear countries asunder, struggles of entire nations of people, the rise and fall of civilizations…but no, that’s much too boring. History is a dull subject! How do we liven up all of these tedious tales? It’s easy, really! We
26 Jan 2017
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Review: Resident Evil 7: Biohazard

Ever since the game’s official reveal at last year’s E3, I’ve been incredibly unsure of how Resident Evil 7: Biohazard would stack up to the other games in the series. This latest installment, which is the first game to make use of the new RE Engine, makes a dramatic change for the series by going
24 Jan 2017
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Review: Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star

Never the First Thanks to companies like Atlus and XSeed, the west has been seeing a major increase in localizations of somewhat niche Japanese games and franchises. Over the past few years, the Americas have seen (or will be seeing) official entries in series like Corpse Party, Hakuouki, and Utawarerumono. While relatively popular names in
19 Jan 2017
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Review: Yakuza 0

Watch or Play? As the technology behind games has increased, so has the desire and opportunity for developers to make their titles more “cinematic.” Crafting stories on a grander scale, acted out by highly-detailed digital performers on your console of choice. Quite often, though, this desire for higher storytelling has put games at odds with
9 Jan 2017
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Review: Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Future Tone

Vocaloid Revolution Let me start this off by saying that I’ve always had an affinity for rhythm games. I came of age around the time Dance Dance Revolution and Pump It Up were taking over arcades and eventually the home console market. I frequented the flashy cabinets and ended up going through my fair share
29 Dec 2016
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Review: Gurumin 3D: A Monstrous Adventure

Bring the Old to the New We’ve already talked about Japanese developer Falcom at length in various reviews. Really, what else is there to say about them? What’s that? They released a one-off action-RPG game over a decade ago that’s become something of a cult classic? Well, let’s talk about that, then! At the tail
27 Dec 2016
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Review: The Final Station

Post-Apocalyptic Express Zombie-centric games are a dime a dozen in this day and age. Some are obvious cash-ins on the supposed craze, and others are well-crafted and rather enjoyable (Looking at you, The Last of Us). Sometimes, there are entries into the already overcrowded genre that raise an eyebrow, and the game we’re looking at
24 Dec 2016
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Review: Shantae: Half-Genie Hero

Funding the Good Stuff With licensed video games generally seen as low-effort cash grabs and the butt of many jokes amongst gamers, its hard to imagine that any developers actually want to work on these games. Seemingly even crazier is the idea that a developer would purposely focus on licensed games and still enjoy relative
13 Dec 2016
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Review: Redout

Ever Race…In The Future? Racing games can be a bit of a security blanket for some. The genre is about as diverse and varied as they come. If you’re looking for realism, racing sims would probably be up your alley. Some players are just looking for fun, and they usually gravitate towards kart racers and
10 Dec 2016
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Review: Nitroplus Blasterz: Heroines Infinite Duel [PC]

The Gang’s All Here The crossover – an idea in entertainment that brings a character or a group from a secondary piece of media (or multiple) into the primary one. It’s incredibly common, and we see it across all forms of entertainment. Whether it’s a simple cameo that acts as an easter egg, or the
7 Dec 2016
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Review: Final Fantasy XV

It’s certainly no secret that players the world over have been waiting a long time for Final Fantasy Versus XIII… I mean, Final Fantasy XV. After skipping an entire console generation, the game has finally released to eager fans who have been waiting, building years of expectations, to see what the final product would be.
22 Nov 2016
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Review: Senran Kagura Bon Appetit! – Full Course

[Note: Due to the fanservice-heavy nature of this game, some of the images in this review may be considered NSFW.] Show the PC Some Love The Console-to-PC port market has become a burgeoning one over the last decade or so. For the longest time, many developers (a number of them Japanese ones) avoided releasing their games