As a new player, I found Nobunaga’s Ambition: Awakening confusing rather than challenging, obtuse rather than detailed, and lacking a level of basic explanation necessary for someone who isn’t familiar with the series. Also, the controls are poorly-matched for the Switch.
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The new visuals in Atelier Marie Remake: The Alchemist of Salburg are engaging, and the cute, 3D approach to the characters is an effective match for the game’s tone and theme. As much as I love the more modern visuals of the Ryza games, I felt instantly at home here in Salburg.
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Atelier Ryza 3: Alchemist of the End & the Secret Key adjusts the JRPG series’ gameplay formula in numerous ways—some subtle and some dramatic. Do the changes work? Let’s go on a summer adventure to find out!
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Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse centers around the exploration of exceptionally creepy environments: a sanatorium, an infirmary, a lighthouse, and others on Rogetsu Isle. Should you risk the trip?
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Yesterday’s Nintendo Direct didn’t include everything. Perhaps Nintendo were too scared to include the Japanese horror adventure FATAL FRAME: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse? KOEI TECMO America is not.
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KOEI TECMO America posted on Twitter this morning that Atelier Ryza 3: Alchemist of the End & the Secret Key is being pushed from its original February 24th release to March 24th, 2023.
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KOEI TECMO America has provided some more details on the locations players will be visiting throughout FATAL FRAME: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse. This one looks to be heaven for urban explorers…or hell, I guess, depending upon your perspective.
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Atelier Ryza 3: Alchemist of the End & the Secret Key is scheduled to hit Nintendo Switch on February 24th, 2023, and KOEI TECMO continues to build anticipation with details of the enhanced battle system and some returning characters.
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Yesterday’s Nintendo Direct featured the first glimpse of Atelier Ryza 3: Alchemist of the End & the Secret Key. Switch players will have to wait until February 24, 2023, to play this final chapter in Ryza’s story arc, but KOEI TECMO America and GUST studios have now provided additional details to hold us over.
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Today’s Nintendo Direct gave Switch owners a lot to look forward to, and amongst the more exciting announcements is that KOEI TECMO is finally bringing Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse to western audiences in remastered form.
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Koei Tecmo has jammed Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes with as many elements from Three Houses that they could shove in. There’s a level of comfort in that, but if Byleth’s “school days” stuff put you off earlier, it’ll also put you off here.
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In Touken Ranbu Warriors, a collection of 15 swords in human form use Musou gameplay to stop the History Retrograde Army from traveling through time to mess up the course of history. And man, do they look good doing it!
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Atelier Sophie 2: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Dream picks up where the first left off, continuing the story of Sophie and her quest to return her friend, Plachta, to a human again. How does this title rank amongst the other recent releases for the Nintendo Switch?
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Blue Reflection: Second Light isn’t your typical JRPG with mech or mystical militaries fighting against rogue gods. It’s the story of a group of young women learning about who they are and how they fit into a world they don’t understand. And I’m not ashamed to say I have more in common with that than the guys who fight the gods.
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Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water is a unique survival horror game that looks great and runs well on the Nintendo Switch. If you’re looking to dig into something creepy and unnerving, it’s definitely worth the price. However, it is haunted by a couple problems that could frighten off some players.
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If yesterday’s Nintendo Direct didn’t press all your gaming buttons, KOEI TECMO America has just placed another on the console. Touken Ranbu Warriors is coming to Nintendo Switch in May of 2022.
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The first Musou-style game I ever played was Warriors Orochi III Hyper on the Wii U, and I had a great time with it. Unfortunately, none of the Warriors games I’ve played since then were quite able to recreate the same level of fun…until now.
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One of the more pleasant surprises to come from the E3 Nintendo Direct was that KOEI TECMO is updating 2014’s Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water. We now know the game will be released for Switch, other consoles, and Windows PC on October 28th, 2021, in North America.
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