Home Sweet Homecoming (E School Life) includes a common route with seven heroine routes and two bad ends to unlock. This guide will tell you about the choices to access the various routes and explain the situation regarding the patch. Adult Content If you have purchased the Steam version of Home Sweet Homecoming, you can […]
Author: Thomas Knight
LOVEPICAL-POPPY! by SMEE releases on December 19th, 2025
Kagami Games has announced that they’re bringing SMEE’s 15th anniversary title LOVEPICAL-POPPY! out in English, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese. The story follows a nameable protagonist who, due to circumstances, moves into a girls’ dormitory with his younger sister, taking on the role of a ‘dorm mother’. This will be Kagami Games’ second release in […]
Interview with Sohei Niikawa on Etrange Overlord
Etrange Overlord brings together the man known for creating the Disgaea series (Sohei Niikawa), the character artist from Re:Zero (Shinichiro Otsuka), and a wide range of other talent to create an upcoming action RPG with musical themes. We had the chance to play the opening hour of the game and shared our thoughts, but we […]
NIS America Showcase 2025 – Early Impressions of Upcoming Games
Reef Entertainment kindly invited NookGaming and some other outlets to check out some upcoming NIS America games down in London. Along with that, they brought a special guest: Sohei Niikawa, the former CEO of Nippon Ichi Software, key figure behind the creation of Disgaea, and producer and writer of the upcoming Etrange Overlord. We had […]
Kamui: The Easiest Way to Learn Japanese? (Game Translation, Flashcards & More)
There are far too many games that never made their way out of Japan. What if we could play them while improving our Japanese skills at the same time? This is where tools like Kamui come in. Kamui calls itself a full toolkit for extracting text from video games, looking up words, translating, creating flashcards, […]
Pokémon Legends: Z-A – Review
Pokémon Legends: Z-A takes players to Lumiose City, the site of a citywide Pokémon tournament. It puts a new spin on Pokemon gameplay, particularly shaking up battles and differentiating it from both the mainline series and Pokémon Legends: Arceus. An Evolving City Five years on from the events of Pokémon X/Y, Lumiose City is undergoing […]
UltraGirl Alters – Demo Impressions
UltraGirl Alters is a story-driven SRPG, where you become the manager of a new tokusatsu-themed virtual idol group. You can command them through battling virtual monsters, growing their skills, and their growth together as a group. It seems like an interesting idea to mix what’s essentially Vtubers, tokusatsu, and SRPG combat, so I picked up […]
Ryne-Arca – Demo Impressions
Ryne-Arca is an upcoming anime-style action-RPG by indie developer Asuka Watanabe. We had a chance to take an early look at the demo, which will be released in the October 2025 Steam Next Fest. As a disclaimer, this is an early look, and the developer themselves described it as “not polished” and “the beginning of […]
Heroic Songs: the Remix! – Review
Heroic Songs: the Remix! takes you on an isekai idol adventure, saving worlds through the power of song. With a mix of visual novel storytelling and city-building gameplay with rhythm segments, it’s somewhat of an oddity, but an intriguing enough mix to give it a shot. We’ll Make an Isekai Idol of You! Akari Sunohara […]
Monkeys!¡ – Update on the English Release
Visual Novel fans have been eagerly waiting for the release of Monkeys!¡ in English and Chinese since their announcement in late 2021. Four years later, the developer Harukaze hasn’t mentioned it since. Some began to suspect that it may have been cancelled. It has been quite a long time since any public announcement was made […]










