Tag: spirit
Builders FirstSource climbs to top industrial gainer, Spirit AeroSystems tumbles in earnings impact week
Video Premiere: Daisy Chute and Hannah Brine – Spirit of the Singers
Here’s a game about being the spirit of nature after we’ve killed all the animals
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective will have you sleuthing from the spirit world this June
The remaster of the cult classic Nintendo DS game Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective is officially out this coming June.
Last month Nintendo gave us a Direct that had some surprise reveals that were pretty perfectly catered to fans of the original Nintendo DS, like with Level-5 finally bringing back the Professor Layton series. Arguably the bigger surprise, though, was the announcement from Capcom that Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective would be receiving an HD release on Switch. And in Capcom’s recent showcase, the developer confirmed the game will be launching June 30, on Switch, as well as PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and Steam.
In Ghost Trick, you play as Sissel, a spirit that has no memory of who he is or why he was killed, on a journey to figure out the mystery behind his departed state. Using ghostly powers from the spirit world, he can mess with objects from the real world to protect a red-haired woman Lynne from being taken out by hitmen.
Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty review: a streamlined Nioh with an encouraging spirit
It’s easy to label Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty as a Soulslike that’s basically Nioh and Sekiro mashed together. To some extent, that’s true. But I think Wo Long is Team Ninja having sanded off some – not all – of the edges from the overwhelmingly complex Nioh, to craft an action RPG with even crisper combat than its predecessor. And crucially, it’s more approachable as a result. Clever ranks and meters reward, whether risk-taking is your jam or you’re more of a careful type. It may still be a tricky venture filled with demonic, titanic cows that’ll want to pound your skull into the dirt, but this is Team Ninja’s most encouraging effort yet.
Lyric Capital and Spirit Music Group raise over $800 million to buy music rights
Spirit Swap’s endless demo will eat your entire day
Have you ever planned to do a bunch of personally improving stuff on a Sunday morning like go for a walk down to the old pier or read 30 pages of an extremely political sci-fi book about aliens made of wool, but what you do instead is sit on the sofa playing an aggressively monetised mobile game while repeats of Modern Family run on the TV? For six hours, you do this, and eat your dinner feeling sick with unrealised potential.
Match-3 games are compulsive for a reason, and I don’t have beef with them as a concept. I actually like them! But I don’t like that to play a match-3 game I usually have to play a mobile game that wants me to spent money on Fairy Dollars so I can buy barrels of Explosive Wand Dust, making it easier to earn stars and incrementally furnish the Magic Toilet Goblin’s bedroom, or whatever. It’s the empty consumerism vibe of freemium mobile games that makes me feel like I’ve been eating the time-spending equivalent of junk food. Spirit Swap, which has a demo out now in the form of an endless mode, isn’t that. It’s beautiful, difficult, customiseable, and it’ll swallow you time in a good way, not a faintly unsettling one.