Aoi Tori (Blue Bird) is an erotic visual novel developed by Purple Software and published in English by NekoNyan. Though I’m not a veteran of Purple Soft’s prior works, the name caught my attention, and the premise seemed to suggest it had the potential to be intriguing. Let’s see if this bird can sing, and […]
Author: Rob MacIntosh
Touhou Mystia’s Izakaya – Review
Touhou Project occupies an unusual niche in indie gaming. Unlike most franchises, its creator (ZUN/Team Shanghai Alice) is comparatively looser with allowing/licensing games using its world and characters. As a result, the catalog of Touhou games is as massive as it is diverse. Although the original series is predominantly known for bullet hell games about […]
Berserk Boy – Review
Berserk Boy is an indie 2D action-platformer influenced by many classic sidescrollers of the 16 and 32-bit eras. As a sucker for games with dynamic movement and sense of speed, the early trailers for this game caught my eye and piqued my interest. With the game out now on PC and Switch, I figured it’d […]
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV – Review
Continuing right where the previous game left off, The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV aims to draw the ambitious, lengthy Trails of Cold Steel story to a close. While the Trails series found its niche in the JRPG landscape with its long and interconnected story arcs, Cold Steel is by far the biggest yet. […]
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III – Review
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III is the third of Nihon Falcom’s Trails of Cold Steel quartet of JRPGs. As a longtime fan of the Trails series, I fell in love with the world of Zemuria and its incredibly expansive cast of characters in its first two arcs (Trails in the Sky […]
TEVI – Review
Tevi is a 2023 2D action-platformer developed by GemaYue, Ein Lee, and developer/publisher studio CreSpirit. The game is a follow-up, and spiritual successor, to their hit 2016 title Rabi-Ribi. Like its predecessor, Tevi is a Metroidvania game with a cutesy visual presentation and an emphasis on combat. Its signature flair is the presence of bullet […]