News by Matt S. PQube is one of the most eclectic publishers out there, taking on everything from super-fanservicey Gal*Gun through to a range of lovely visual novels, and on to daughter-raising simulator Ciel Fledge. Its next one is VEWO Interactive-developed Nexomon: Extinction, and this is a very Pokemon simulator.…
Read MoreReview by Matt C. With romance games, there’s often an attempt to try and gamify the whole process of falling in love. Getting the good ending with your chosen lover should be at least a little bit of a challenge, says common wisdom, so getting there involves just the right…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. While I do wish that PQube would hurry up and partner with Kadokawa to bring us one of the LoveR series (they just look so good), the localisation outfit’s newest announcement is for a game that has been deserving of its own chance in the west…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Ciel Fledge doesn’t hide the source of its inspiration: the game wants to be a Princess Maker title in all but name, and largely succeeds at that. Your task is to take a 10 year old girl, and by managing her routines and making the right…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Dusk Diver was released in the wrong part of the year. Given some space away from the half dozen other, excellent, JRPGs and other big releases that have come over the last month, Dusk Diver would have grabbed some attention for its cool aesthetic and lighthearted…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. The original Cat Quest was a game often described as “comfort food”. Its simple combination of grind-reliant action-RPG gameplay and an overload of cat puns made it adept at giving players small, frequent rewards. I distinctly remember being strung along through the colourful open world, helping…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. In yesterday’s CUC we shared the news that there would be a sequel to the gorgeous, beautiful mystery visual novel, Root Letter, and that it would be called Root Film. Now we’ve got the great news that Root Film will indeed be localised, by PQube, the…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Raging Loop is a fascinating little game. It’s cheaply made, and its very limited production values do prevent the game from ever getting the dark horror atmosphere that the narrative deserves, but after an adjustment period you’ll put all that to the side, because what matters…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. AeternoBlade II is much better than its predecessor, and that’s not a small thing to say. The original AeternoBlade had its heart in the right place, and, coming from a development team out of Thailand, it was something that you really wanted to root for. Unfortunately,…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Root Letter: Last Answer leaves me in a very difficult position. On the one hand, and purely on a sentimental level, Root Letter is my favourite visual novel. I’d argue that there are smarter and deeper VNs out there – Steins;Gate, for example, and there are…
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