Resolution: Knights in the Nightmare review

Resolution's Peter Willington writes: Put plainly, Knights In The Nightmare stands for everything I hate about video games culture. It is unsocial. It is insular. It is unwelcoming. A port of the DS original, this strategy-shooter role-playing game from Atlus and Sting Entertainment tries to blend the projectile evasion of a shmup such as DoDonPachi, with the tactical play of an isometric strategy title from Japan such as Front Mission. While it largely succeeds at this impressive blending experiment, everything around these core mechanics is so brutally abrasive, so exclusionary, that what could have been a remarkable alternative to Disgaea or Valkyria Chronicles is lost amongst a sea of depressing Otaku bullshit and highly abrasive assumptions of the people playing the game.