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Etrian Mystery Dungeon doubles down on its dungeon-crawling roots

Posted byby GamesBeat
April 6, 2015
7 min

Atlus surprised the role-playing world last year with the announcement of a crossover 3DS game that would have the worlds of the company’s own Etrian Odyssey 3D dungeon-crawler franchise mixing with Spike Chunsoft’s randomized roguelike series, Mystery Dungeon.

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7 min

Xenoblade Chronicles 3D: One of the best Wii role-playing games is better on a portable console

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 25, 2015
7 min

It may seem like moving from a game console to a handheld system would be a step down, but somehow Xenoblade Chronicles 3D is even better on the New 3DS, Nintendo’s latest portable. But how? It’s not like sweeping changes have been made to the original since its release three years ago on the Wii .

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7 min

Bloodborne is a fantastically demented test of player skill and patience (update)

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 24, 2015
9 min

The Souls Saga continues in this PS4-exclusive dive into a demented vision of a Victorian village gone bestial.

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9 min

SwapQuest is the devilishly cute tile-swapping adventure for Zelda fans

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 20, 2015
4 min

This clever iOS game gleefully mashes the role-playing and puzzle genres together.

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4 min

Grow Home is an adorable, and tedious, ascent

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 9, 2015
7 min

Grow Home gives you an adorable little robot B.U.D.dy and 2,000 meters of plant to grow. Is it worth the climb?

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7 min

Citizens of Earth is as charming and manipulative as the politics it mocks (review)

Posted byby GamesBeat
January 20, 2015
7 min

The Earth is in danger and only the Vice President (with his dozens of delegates) can bureaucratize it to safety. Is there more to Atlus and Eden Industries' retro-loving RPG than person-collecting?

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7 min

Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc takes a joyfully bizarre, sometimes tedious look at courtroom action (review)

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 5, 2014
8 min

Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc for the PlayStation Vita drops players in the middle of a happily absurd game of murder. Can it survive its own lack of player trust or translation hiccups?