Review by Matt S. Steins;Gate is one of the best visual novels that you’ll ever play. Indeed, it’s a big part of the reason that more and more visual novels are coming out west – PQube hit some real success in localising the original and now other niche publishers want…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Root Letter is one beautiful detective mystery. It’s a visual novel, so for the most part you’re looking at static images of backgrounds and portraits of the various characters, but every single part of every single image drips with the most subtle, elegant, deft touch of…
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 MoreReview by Nick H. Despite being a game that first released back in 1999, but it never received a western release. Finally having the chance to play it, The Silver Case, as one of Goichi Suda’s first projects as an independent developer, is an interesting game because it certainly shows…
Read MoreInterview by Matt S. Root Letter might just be the most “Japanese” visual novel to find an English localisation. Sure, Danganronpa and Steins;Gate offered the Japanese sense of the surreal, the abstract, and the odd, but Root Letter promises to be more that; it’s going to offer players a very…
Read MoreNews by Lindsay M. I am thrilled to be able to share this news: Root Letter (or √Letter) is getting a Western release. Serene artwork meets an intense murder mystery in this visual novel by Kadokawa Games and published by PCube. The past comes back to haunt you as you…
Read MoreReview by Mikhail M. The Ace Attorney franchise is pretty special for me. It is also one of Capcom’s best franchises and I rank it up there with the likes of Monster Hunter. I still remember borrowing the original Ace Attorney from a friend when I got my 3DS and…
Read MoreReview by Matt C. One Way Trip is like videogames’ answer to the stoner road trip movie – those classic films like Up in Smoke, Harold and Kumar, and Dude, Where’s My Car?. If you take that to mean that One Way Trip is a bizarre, nonsensical trip that could…
Read MoreReview by Clark A. Famed writer of anime and visual novels, Gen Urobuchi, has a penchant for dark, perverse themes. Those familiar with the man’s portfolio may label that a gross understatement as his works range from deconstructions of the innocent magical girl subgenre to relentlessly grotesque Lovecraftian horror. Though…
Read MoreReview by Clark A. The recently aired The Asterisk War anime did not strike me as a modern classic. It’s a largely conventional battle-infused harem show and leans on the cliché personalities of its heroines. Nevertheless, there are some twists along the way and it goes down nicely as a…
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