I love traditional JRPGs. Having grown up with the genre on the NES, SNES, Game Boy, and whatever else I could get my hands on, more than any other genre the JRPG has been a mainstay for me through my life. So naturally when there is a game that promises…
Read More“Oh my, this game is going to be controversial.” These were my thoughts almost immediately after I started playing Criminal Girls: Invite Only (I may or may not be paraphrasing my thoughts to remove expletives there). And after reading the first batch of reviews I guessed correctly – already there…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. A PlayStation Vita re-release of the original Hyperdimension Neptunia made a lot of sense. The original game, released way back in 2010 on the PlayStation 3, was a great concept but a terrible game. And that remake, Re;Birth 1, was a very good game indeed. However,…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. It’s safe to assume that the PlayStation 3 is finally going to be replaced by the PlayStation 4 in terms of sheer quality and quantity of releases this year. It’s been impressive how, through 2014, the console was able to maintain such a high standard of…
Read MoreReview by Jedediah H. Whether you closely follow and intelligently participate in politics, or reluctantly observe its policies, promises, and the disparate outcomes that follow from behind news coverage of Taylor Swift’s perfect post-workout limp, you probably have a sense that something is smelly and awry within the world of…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. As the first game in the Dusk franchise, Atelier Ayesha came immediately after the happy-to-a-fault Atelier Meruru. As a fan of the franchise, this new game was a shock to the system, to say the least. Where Meruru was quite infectious in its upbeat positivity, Ayesha…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Are you still playing Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn? We hope so, because it’s going from strength to strength, and there’s a new patch due soon that will add even more content into the game. Before The Fall (as the patch is being dubbed) will…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Released very late in the year, Kingdom Hearts 2.5 HD Remix was an excellent way to round out the year. Apologies to all the readers that it has taken us a while to get this review done, but, well, it’s a disc with a solid 100-120…
Read MoreNews by Jedediah H. Idea Factory has blown its Hyperdimension Neptunia faithful a kiss in the form of a release date for its first strategy RPG, Hyperdevotion Noire: Goddess Black Heart, exclusive to the PlayStation Vita – in North America, it’ll be available February 24th via digital and physical distribution;…
Read MoreNews by Jedediah H. Greetings, detective. Futuristic Tokyo’s in a bit of a snafu: genetically engineered monsters known as Variants threaten the city. If that weren’t enough of a cluster bomb, portals that lead to a strange dimension called the Abyss are emerging in the most inconvenient of locations. So…
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