When I played Hatoful Boyfriend last year, I didn’t really expect to get attached to the characters because it was marketed as a light hearted visual novel. But it wasn’t that at all. Hatful Boyfriend dealt with dark themes and emotions once you got past the initial silliness and delved…
Read MoreXenoblade Chronicles on the Nintendo Wii (and, later, New Nintendo 3DS), is a sprawling game with ambition well beyond what anyone thought the console could handle. At the same time, despite the game’s openness, its love of sending players on fetch quests, and the near endless incentive to keep backtracking…
Read MoreIt is difficult for me to play the Yakuza games. Not because I don’t like them – quite the opposite – but rather because, every time I do play one of the Yakuza titles, I wind up feeling very homesick for Japan. Related reading: Why Don’t You Play In Hell,…
Read MoreClannad has a lot of text. Clannad doesn’t have impressive graphics. Clannad is from a decade ago. There are several reasons people could use for disliking Clannad, but each one is another reason I can find to love the game even more. Clannad is a romantic visual novel that was…
Read MoreThe Kung Fu Panda films were unexpectedly good in my eyes. Compared to most Pixar movies, I always saw DreamWorks as a cheap, unfulfilling alternative. But, surprisingly enough, the first Kung Fu Panda film was really great, and also game birth to a rather good adventure video game tie-in most…
Read MoreBlockbuster season is basically over now that the end of the year is upon us. One of the last big titles to sneak in this calendar year was Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege, which puts a much higher emphasis on tactics and team play than most shooters do. The formula…
Read MoreTennis in the Face is not a unique concept. The idea of toppling over objects (or in this case, people) with a series of ricocheting projectiles has been seen countless number of times all over the Internet. These games often employ ragdoll physics and seriously addictive gameplay, and the one…
Read MoreAfter Minecraft Story Mode – Episode 2: Assembly Required, I was left with a bitter taste in my mouth. The episode was half the length of the first and contained a plot hole I could not look past. I look at Episode 3: The Last Place You Look as the…
Read MoreAn artsy little indie game that is heavy on the narrative and has a striking minimalist aesthetic… you can probably guess where I’m going with this, right? Right. I love Three Fourths Home. It’s the kind of game I want to see an awful lot more of. Related reading: Actual…
Read MoreImage & Form’s SteamWorld franchise has been steadily growing into a quality indie IP. From humble beginnings as a simple, but effective tower defense title in SteamWorld: Tower Defense on the DSiWare downloadable platform, to SteamWorld Dig, which was a breakaway success across almost every platform out there, we now…
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