Author: Hirun Cryer
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Granblue Fantasy: Relink review – great real-time combat drives this action-RPG follow-up
A truly excellent combat system and neat character-centric episodes complement a compelling tale, but weak side activities and some turgid grinding hold it back. At a glance, Granblue Fantasy: Relink, Cygames’ action-RPG follow-up to the 2014 original, has all the key ingredients of something easily-dismissible, including all the typical genre stereotypes like impractical fashion sense…
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Like A Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name review – Kiryu makes an entertaining but superfluous return
Kazuma Kiryu returns for yet another action-packed adventure – but after his perfect sendoff in Yakuza 6, is this a story that really needed telling? There’s a joke among Yakuza fans that Kazuma Kiryu will never truly be gone. At 90 years old he’ll be hauling himself out of the retirement home to beat…
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Eurogamer’s impressions of Octopath Traveller 2.
[ad_1] JRPGs do bloody hate God. There’s that old joke of a JRPG’s first quest being to collect chicken eggs, and it’s final quest tasking you with slaughtering a deity. Five years ago in 2018, Octopath Traveler embodied that distaste for deities, albeit with decidedly less egg collecting to go through first. Octopath…