List by Matt S. It has been a really good week for visual novels, with both Chaos;Child and Bad Apple Wars launching in the one week. Indeed, it’s been a really good couple of years for the genre, as localisation outfits have come to realise that there is a market…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. It’s no secret I love Danganronpa. These visual novels are not just entertaining, darkly humourous whodunnint murder mysteries. They’re also intelligent and insightful games that look at a host of interesting philosophies and themes, from game theory to moral relativism. Wrap that up in some light…
Read MoreList by Matt S. Virtual Reality is still getting going. It’s not like a new console, in that developers can apply much the same learning as they had to existing games. Building a game for VR requires different thinking to game design, and, a little like the original Nintendo Entertainment…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Danganronpa: Ultra Despair Girls was a very different game to the two original visual novels that so won fans over on the PlayStation Vita. Those games were interactive mystery novels that mixed humor, serious themes, and a touch of fanservice together to create two narratives that…
Read MoreNews by Lindsay M. Nippon Ichi Software (NIS) teased us with the above image last week, with it linking to the site of an upcoming title. The image shows 12 people — each decidedly different — standing on a spattered red background. The site feature the same 12 silhouettes before…
Read MoreList by Matt S. It’s Halloween time! Depending on where you live in the world that can mean anything from Trick ‘n Treating to getting dressed up in crazy costumes and going to boozy parties. Or you could just stay at home and play horror games. That’s what we’re doing.…
Read MoreList by Matt S. There are people that don’t consider visual novels to be games, and therefore are not worth talking about or playing. Those people are a little silly, because regardless of whether you consider visual novels to be a game, or something else entirely, a good one is…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. I think we all knew this was coming, but it’s nice to get confirmation; NISA has announced that Danganronpa 1 & 2 are coming to PlayStation 4 in 2017 as a complete package. Related reading: Matt’s review of the first Danganronpa. This release had to happen…
Read MoreList by Matt S. The PlayStation Vita still has some games in it, let’s get that out of the way from outset. The release schedule isn’t massive, but there’s a steady trickle of releases that should keep us going through the console’s twilight. But we are at the point where…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. If the essence of drama is conflict, then the most dramatic of games will always revolve around the diametric opposition of two key ideals, and the supporters of those ideals rallied together on each side. We see this in games about war, games about revenge, games…
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