It has certainly been a good couple of years for these life simulations. It wasn’t so long ago that it was just Harvest Moon and Rune Factory flying the flag, but now everything from Stardew Valley to the recently released Harvestella is giving people real choice in this delightful genre.…
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Idea Factory announced the release date for RPG Neptunia: Sisters VS Sisters today, which is incredible exciting. It also announced what the different versions include; there’s digital standard and Deluxe, and physical standard and Limited. The game actually has a strange link to the pandemic, in my opinion. Maybe I’m…
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It’s the old world but a new fungi in void* tRrLM2(); //Void Terrarium 2. I was chuffed to hear about this sequel coming to the west early next year, which was announced at an NIS showcase earlier this year. The games are best described as roguelite dungeon RPGs, which is…
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I’m not sure how the initial launch of 7 Days to End with You slipped past me, but it did. The puzzle/visual novel game is all about language, and what does a games journalist love more than games and words? Very little. In a place where you don’t know the…
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Papergames is a Chinese development studio that up until this point hasn’t really been known for mainstream releases. Ths company’s line-up has, in fact, largely considered of otome visual novels and dress-up games for mobile. For this new one, though, the team is aiming higher. Project: The Perceiver is a…
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It might be a remake of a remake, but Tactics Ogre Reborn is one of the greatest games of its genre. It effectively established the genre, many years ago, and has barely lost anything in the years since. I have to hope that Square Enix has prepared this release to…
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The visual novel genre scene of gaming can, at times, be difficult to get into. Poorly made releases, carbon copies, and plainly obvious cash grabs are around every corner, but the good news is that this particular release we’re talking about here is anything but one of those. This is…
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Nintendo’s Indie World Showcases have quickly become one of the best ways to learn about indie games coming to Nintendo Switch. Today’s showcase proves that the Switch is still the place to publish indie games aside from PC, which is one of the reasons I love the console so much.…
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I’m about to age myself here: I remember when getting a box of ten 3.5-inch floppy disks was a big deal. With each disk having 1.44 MB of memory, such a box was a whopping 14.4 MB of storage! That meant so many photos back then, or little arcade games…
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As much as we all live in a world that champions the idea that speech should be as free as possible (rightfully so, of course), we make exceptions to that rule all the time (also, rightfully so). For example, it has been illegal to advertise cigarettes across much of the…
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