Fractured Blooms is an upcoming game by Serenity Forge, who’ve published a share of indie titles that often focus more on story and subversive aspects. It’s being pitched as a psychological “life sim”, which is to say it’s a psychological horror game masquerading as a life sim about gardening and home life. I got the […]
Hollow Knight had quite a humble genesis, but steadily it grew into quite a tour de force among indie games. The long-teased expansion-turned-sequel Hollow Knight: Silksong raised an inordinate amount of hype during its prolonged development cycle, with Team Cherry relatively mum on developments until suddenly announcing a release date in 2025. At the announced […]
Ys vs. Trails in the Sky: Alternative Saga is quite the peculiarity within Nihon Falcom’s catalog. I’m not one for reductive comparisons, but the easiest elevator pitch I can give this game is that can loosely be described as Nihon Falcom’s version of Square Enix’s Dissidia Final Fantasy as a sort of PSP crossover RPG/fighting […]
Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter is designed to be a remake of the first game in the Trails series built to be closer to the modern games of the series. There’s a lot you can do in this game, and while it’s been made more approachable, I thought I’d write up a series of […]
Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter requires 350 Bracer Points (BP) to reach the maximum rank of Rank 1 Bracer, with a maximum obtainable total BP close to 400. Throughout the game, you’ll have many decisions to make in both the main story quests and side quests that can grant you bonus BP. Most of […]
More than two decades after the initial release of The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky (Eiyuu Densetsu: Sora no Kiseki), developer Nihon Falcom is taking us back to where the Trails JRPG series began. Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter is a remake of the very first title of the series, one of […]
The world of sports games has hit some peculiar times. Decades ago, we saw a lot more titles that I could describe as being easy to pick up and play while offering enough subtle depth to be fun to continually come back to, all while keeping the video game medium in mind. I’ve not especially […]
Waning Flowers of a World Eternal – The Rainbow Appears After Flowering Rain (Karenai Sekai to Owari Hana or KareSeka) is a 2016 eroge visual novel by Sweet & Tea, brought to English-speaking audiences courtesy of Shiravune. Despite looking like a cute little moege title set in a cafe, the story predominately deals with themes […]
Waning Flowers of a World Eternal – The Rainbow Appears After Flowering Rain (Karenai Sekai to Owari Hana or KareSeka) includes a main route with sequential branching-off points for additional scenes with each of its four heroines. This guide will tell you how to get each of its respective heroine’s scenes. If you’ve not yet […]
Announced in June of 2025, Lumines Arise is the next installment of the classic puzzle game series Lumines (pronounced like “luminous”). While the series has largely been dormant since its heyday, it looks to return with a bang on Arise’s announced release date of November 11, 2025. The game is brought to you by Enhance […]