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Not all Nikke characters are built equally. Team composition is a particularly important factor in Nikke‘s shooting-based combat system, so you may want to take advantage of your first free rolls to target a character that’ll make your early-game life easier. To that end, we’ve come up with a quick guide on who best to shoot for when building out your Nikke roster.

Playing Forspoken feels like playing two games. More accurately, it feels like playing a game and watching a movie at the same time. The game is about running freely around a vast fantasy playground full of monsters, challenges, and wild landscapes. Meanwhile, the movie is about a young woman struggling to survive in an unfamiliar land full of strangers. Though both parts of the experience are contained within Forspoken, they don’t really meet all that often. That’s ironic, considering Forspoken‘s central dynamic is that of an odd-couple bond between Frey, its heroine, and her talking vambrace, Cuff.

When is mecha fiction not mecha fiction?

One might say “when the mecha in question aren’t robots,” but that would be too simplistic. After all, mecha are just framing devices for all kinds of science fiction and fantasy stories. The mecha themselves are just a part of what makes mecha fiction unique.

Sakura Wars is back, and though Graham has the scoop if you’d like to learn about the upcoming PS4 exclusive, there’s plenty more Sakura Wars where that came from. That’s where I come in, with Siliconera’s quick primer on the franchise as a whole.