In a relatively stacked year of video game releases like 2024, a few inevitably slip through the cracks at first for me. I first heard about No Case Should Remain Unsolved near the end of the year after seeing it pop up a few times in year-end retrospectives, and decided I should see what it’s […]
After its release on Apple Arcade/iOS in 2021, Mistwalker’s latest turn-based JRPG finally sees a full console and PC release with Fantasian Neo Dimension! This enhanced edition of the game comes as a complete package containing both parts of the original mobile game along with several additional features and goodies to further enhance the experience. […]
Upon completing the Switch version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, I wrote that I hoped it and the Super Mario RPG remake would find enough success to send the message to Nintendo that there is still a place for bona-fide RPGs starring Mario. As it turns out, they’d been working on answering my prayer […]
2024 marks thirty years for Sony’s PlayStation brand, one which began as an upstart console to compete with Nintendo and Sega before it grew into a generations-spanning juggernaut of its own. Countless faces of gaming, whether they be iconic or obscure, ride-or-die or merely transient passers-by, have called a PlayStation console home at one point […]
I’ve been interested in SINce Memories: Off the Starry Sky ever since I first heard about it getting translated. As a spinoff of one of the longest-running series of visual novels around, Memories Off, I’d been curious to check one of these out, given the series is rather obscure in the West. Now in 2024, […]
Although the concept of a “boss rush” game has been around for a while, this sub-genre has become more of a mainstay of indie games in the last decade with the success of titles like Titan Souls, Furi, and Cuphead. Although these games use different gameplay systems, they all share in how they largely eschew […]
FuRyu Corporation is a Japanese game developer who is perhaps best known in the West for developing and/or publishing various JRPGs such as The Alliance Alive and Crymachina. With the English release of FuRyu’s newest game REYNATIS coming out soon, we had the opportunity to interview several of the creators who worked on REYNATIS regarding […]
I’ve had a bit of a peculiar relationship with Square’s long-running Mana series (also known as Seiken Densetsu). It’s one of gaming’s most enduring action-RPG series, and its influence on the genre is quite palpable. I have my share of fond things to say about several Mana games, yet I’ve always wanted to see one […]
Everlasting Flowers – Where there is a will, there is a way is the first full-fledged new visual novel title from developer Sprite in over a decade (based on Japanese release date). As someone who became a pretty big fan of their previous work in Aokana, I’ve been excited to see what they’ve been cooking […]
Tales from Toyotoki: Arrival of the Witch (also known by its Japanese name Ihanashi no Majo) is a visual novel created by Fragaria. What initially drew me to it was its art style, which had a somewhat distinct look to it. A couple of years after its initial Japanese release, we can now experience the […]