About Kirk Hiner

Angry boy with an unfortunate past picks fights until he’s chosen to help save the world. We’ve seen this setup before, but it gets a bit more complicated in Megaton Musashi W: Wired, a recent action RPG from Level-5. Yes, that Level-5.
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The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak serves as a fresh start. Although some locations, characters, and references will be familiar to series fans of the Trails series, there’s very little to this JRPG that will make newcomers feel lost.
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In my review of the original Shin Megami Tensei V back in 2021, I wrote, “…it’s been a long time since I’ve disliked the start of a game as much as Shin Megami Tensei V’s.” And yet, in 2024, I started it again. Don’t you want to know how that turned out for me?
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Atari 50: the Anniversary Celebration Expanded Edition will come with 39 new games split into two new timelines. It’ll also be available in a Steelbook physical version with plenty of goodies.
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Sunblink has announced that the current Apple Arcade-exclusive cozy life sim, Hello Kitty Island Adventure, will hit PC and Nintendo Switch as a timed console exclusive in 2025.
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My review of Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes is quite late, but that’s partially by design due to performance issues with the Switch version. 505 Games has now released a patch to address them. Did it do the trick?
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The SMT V: Vengeance masks were inspired by the demons Gurulu, Daemon, and Loup-Garou from the game, and all three are being made available to fans via the Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance x Slipknot Demon Mask Sweepstakes
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The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak is the first chapter of the second half of the Trails series, but the game takes place in a new setting with new characters, so players will not feel overwhelmed at the start. Need proof? Try the demo, as I have.
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I hope you kept your game saves safe. Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance releases for Nintendo Switch and other consoles in just a couple weeks, and it’ll come with bonuses for those played the original version on the Switch.
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The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak is just a little over a month away, but series fans won’t have to wait that long to get started. NIS America announced today that a demo is being released on June 4th, and save data will transfer over to the full game.
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Well, here we go. The fight of the centuries. A nightmarish Dewey Decimal mixup between Edo-era Japanese history, early 20th century pulp sci-fi, and the Who Would Win books. It’s Musashi vs. Cthulhu, and the winner can now be determined on the Nintendo Switch.
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It’s easy to recommend Goliath Depot to fans of classic arcade games, but does it have enough modern additions and replay incentives to engage a wider audience? Well, that’s what the review is for.
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The original Famicon version of Ikki led one reviewer to coin the term kusogē, or “crap game.” Ikki Unite is not kusogē, although your mileage with it will depend whether you’re initiating the game’s uprising alone or with online company.
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Here, we’ve got this ultra-violent, gory anime, and—with Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- Sweep the Board!—SEGA has turned it into a pleasant evening of light-hearted fun and family-friendly competition.
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NIS America, Inc. has announced that their action RPG, REYNATIS, will be released for Nintendo Switch and other platforms on September 27th, 2024 with special crossover content rom Square Enix’s NEO: The World Ends With You.
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Bill and I each took a game in Class of Heroes 1&2: Complete Edition, but we’ll review the collection as a whole because our thoughts are largely similar, and because it’ll be best if we work through those thoughts together.

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Spike Chunsoft’s roguelike RPG Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island is one of my favorite Nintendo Switch games of early 2024. And with the newly released DLC, that love is looking to push to mid-year and beyond.
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In Demon Slayer: Kibetsu no Yaiba, a kind-hearted boy named Tanjiro returns from a day of work to find his entire family brutally murdered by a demon, with his sister having become a demon herself. So, clearly, let’s make it a family board game!
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