Donkey Kong Bananza marks a long overdue return for Donkey Kong, and Nintendo has pulled out all the stops this time. Launching exclusively on the Nintendo Switch 2, this 3D platformer features destructible environments, musical transformations, and plenty of extras alongside a fairly lengthy main quest. As a revival for a beloved character and a […]
This is going to make me sound like an old man, but I have fond memories of going to horse racing tracks! Seeing hundreds of people cram into a stadium to watch trained horses run around a large circle was surprisingly captivating, and the atmosphere near the end of each race was electrifying! With how […]
Patapon 1+2 Replay is a 2025 remaster of the first two titles of the Patapon series, which are rhythm games originally released in English for the PlayStation Portable back in 2008. The series is well-known for incorporating army-building strategies into a four-beat rhythm game sequence and for using French artist Rolito’s memorable and cute anthropomorphic […]
Nao has been confessing his love to Yua for ages, so what can he do but accept when she asks him out? The only problem is that he just started dating someone else. Futamata Ren’ai: Two Times the Trouble (Futamata Renai) is a two-timing romance comedy with far more than two heroines. This is an ASa […]
Mado Monogatari: Fia and the Wondrous Academy is the latest installment of the Mado Monogatari (Sorcery Saga) series, a very long-running JRPG franchise composed primarily of rather cute dungeon crawlers. It’s the series the Puyo Puyo franchise originally spun off from (and eventually far outgrew), hence the presence of several characters and franchise iconography. But […]
After another three year gap, it’s time to psync back into the ABIS once more with the third title of the AI: The Somnium Files series. While the previous installment, Nirvana Initiative, operated largely as a direct follow-up to the first title and featured different protagonists, No Sleep for Kaname Date – From AI: The […]
Released way back in 2006 for the PS2, Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army was one of the exceptionally rare Action RPGs by developer Atlus. As a spinoff to the broader Shin Megami Tensei series, it followed the exploits of the Raidou, whom some might recognize for his appearance in some versions of […]
Initially released in 2020, then later internationally in 2025, Summer Pockets REFLECTION BLUE is a nakige/slice of life visual novel from Key, a developer well-known for being one of the pioneers of the nakige genre. As the extended version of the 2018 Summer Pockets, it introduces four new routes with additional scenarios for both new […]
Based on the PlayStation 1 late ’90s release of the same name, which itself was somewhat of a remake, ToHeart has been remade once again, and this time includes an English release. But unusually, this time around it’s a 3D visual novel. Does this classic last the test of time? Is the pivot to 3D […]
Three years after 2019’s AI: The Somnium Files, Spike Chunsoft released a sequel titled AI: The Somnium Files – Nirvana Initiative (sometimes stylized as nirvanA Initiative and often shortened to AiNi). Set six years after the events of the first Somnium Files, the Advanced Brain Investigation Squad (ABIS) must again solve a strange new murder […]