Platform: Nintendo Switch Genre: JRPG, Anime Last year's Xenoblade Chronicles 2 came out on the tail end of 2017 and ended up becoming quite a gem of a JRPG. It's kinda old-school but has a lot of nuances to make the 100+ hour slog bearable, it gets better after the 20-hour mark, its combat system is fun, and its hero

Marvel's Spider-Man is a success even before it launched thanks to fanboy and game journalism hype dating back to the last few E3s. But you know what? The final product earns its merit badge. I bought my copy, finished it, and thought it was a great first step in making Spider-Man games again. God bless Marvel for giv

With Destiny 2's latest expansion Forsaken already out, it's time for old Guardians burnt by Destiny 2 to jump back into the fray. Bungie promised, and it delivered somewhat, but you're not sure what the new changes are. Let Kakuchopurei help you out. First, we'll dish out the basics... Keep Your Old Weapons The new

This feature is currently in development... Update (19/9/2018): Added Challenge Tombs The third instalment in the second Tomb Raider reboot is out in the wild. So far, it's quite a hoot if you fancy action games with a ton of spelunking, jumping, and puzzle solving. And if you're a fan of tombs; this game has a lot o

We can't have a continuous SNK retrospective leading up to Retro DNA's showcase this October without doing a King of Fighters article now, can we? Ask and you shall receive.  Here are the past SNK retrospectives:  Why The Neo Geo Was Successful The Top 15 SNK Games You Must Play Before You Die The Ar

This feature is still under development.  Marvel's Spider-Man game for the PS4 is out now and it's a lovely superhero open-world cornucopia of awesomeness. In fact, Insomniac took a page from Rocksteady Games for their Batman games but do it in their own style and identity so that it is a completely different game.

Platform: PS4 Genre: Action Adventure, Spider-Man Simulator Amazing. Astonishing. Spectacular. Sensational. Those are but a few of the adjectives games media journalists who review the game would choose to describe Marvel's Spider-Man for the PlayStation 4. But if you were to ask me what word I would choose? It

From this mid-August until mid-October, we'll be releasing an SNK-themed retrospective per week as part of our tribute to SNK's 40th anniversary. This is in conjunction with the folks at Retro DNA & Versus City.  When you think the arcades and the 90s, what do you remember? Street Fighter? The King of Fighters?

Platforms: PC, PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch Genre: Action game mixed with roguelike & Dark Souls elements Price: RM44-ish You don't need us to give you a score for the recent indie wunderkind Dead Cells, a 2D action adventure hack-and-slash game that's part multi-tiered Metroidvania, and part random level genera

With Dota 2 International season being the highlight this week, we're very sure that other new esports teams will want to jump in on this for next year's grand Dota 2 tournament, or even on any other esports-worthy game. But where should you start? What are the legal knowhows you need to know before forming a team so

Top image credit: Gam3Asia, The Pantheon All default money/$ value is in US unless stated otherwise.  With an estimated population of over 650 million people across 11 countries, the Southeast Asian region is home to roughly 10% of the worldwide population. But what else do we know about its gaming habits and gamin

I've had my share of gaming laptops over the years. From the tank-like, thick and bulky behemoths to the MacBook Air-lookalikes, they all came in many shape and size. Each trying to stand out from one another with bells and whistles that half of the time does not contribute even an iota to the machine's performance. In

I never thought much about the Winnie The Pooh animated shorts and feature movie from Disney back in the late 70s. It's a sweet tale of adolescence where the titular character, which was initially crafted from the imagination of one Christopher Robin, goes about his adventures in the Hundred Acre Woods; mundane adventu

This story is still in development... This year's Evolution Championship Tournament boasts a number of cool finishes, upsets, and surprise moments. If you're a fighting game fan, you should know that these moments will echo in the annals of FGC history worldwide. Full disclosure: I recently got into BlazBlue Cross Ta

It's been just over 24 hours since Overwatch's 28th hero, Wrecking Ball a.k.a Hammond hit the live server and we are seeing complaints about him (it?) being OP. Having tested him on the PTR (on PC) and played about twenty maps as, alongside and against him on the PlayStation 4, we've come to a conclusion - No, Wrecking

After a week of digestion, it’s time to unpack Asia Comic Con (ACC) 2018! Held on 13-15 July at the Sunway Pyramid Convention Centre, this geek convention was pretty hyped up in the past few weeks. If you had read our previous ACC write-up, you probably had a good guess regarding what’s on the menu for th

This feature is still under development, as the game is just out. Don't act too shocked: the latest game from the Bravely Default devs is knee-deep with systems and complex bits that you'll figure out after the first 5 to 10 hours. Fortunately, we're here to help. Who Should You Start With? Just a heads up: once you

When a franchise is under a new wing -in this case, it's the Hitman series now distributed under Warner Bros. - it's time to start anew. What's the best way to do that after telling everyone that it's ditching the episodic model that obviously worked in favour of a single-player story that people are on the fence about

Overwatch's latest patch is now live and ready, and it comes bundled with some welcome changes. Here are the top three that help liven up the current team-based shooter scene. These Social Features Are Rad The Overwatch quality-of-life options now include Endorsements, Looking For Group options, and Career Profiles upd

Figured I get this out of the way: before I started contributing to good ol' Kakuchopurei, I played a LOT of Assassin's Creed Origins and its two expansions. I dug the RPG aspects of it, its charismatic protagonists Bayek and Aya, the ancient Egyptian setting during Ptolemy's rule, and the second expansion's foray into