Love, Elections, and Chocolate (Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate, or KoiChoco as it is often referred to by shorthand) was the first visual novel created and developed by sprite back in 2010. Although their later works of Aokana and Everlasting Flowers have already been released in English, their first title remained conspicuously without an official […]
It’s time to return to Edith and bear the nightmare once more! The second game of the Calvard arc of Nihon Falcom’s long-running, ever-expanding Trails series is now here in English with The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak II. Following shortly after the events of Trails Through Daybreak, Arkride Solutions once again must take […]
As one of Nintendo’s earliest flagship video game franchises, Donkey Kong has been through quite a few phases over the decades. The franchise has had several eras and iterations, from the 1980s arcade days to the bongo-beating Donkey Konga era of the Gamecube, but perhaps the most truly cherished period was Rare’s highly successful Donkey […]
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 […]