You’ve most likely heard of the Mystery Dungeon series through its various crossovers over the years with the likes of Pokemon, Etrian Odyssey, and Final Fantasy. While it started out as a spinoff of Dragon Quest IV, it soon took on a life all its own in the form of Shiren the Wanderer. Shiren’s journey has spanned nearly […]
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 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 […]
What does it mean to be a real human? This question is at the core of Crymachina, an action RPG set in a world where humanity died out long ago. NIS America is bringing us this emotional sci-fi tale from developer FURYU. Humans Never Change Crymachina opens as Leben wakes up in a robotic body. […]
Crymachina is a fairly straightforward game in terms of playing through the story, but it does offer some optional hidden content. There are unlockable portals in many of the levels with tough mini-bosses and you can enter subnetwork coordinates to try and unlock new optional levels. This guide will provide some information about how to […]
Disgaea 7 is a huge game, with a lot of systems the player needs to work with to achieve victory. For those just getting started it can be easy to miss some useful tools that the game makes available to you, and you can easily find yourself a little bit lost for direction. Below I’ve […]
Disgaea 7: Vows of the Virtueless is the latest entry in the long-running Japanese SRPG series, Disgaea. It’s only been a couple of years since the launch of Disgaea 6, which received something of a mixed response from series fans, so you may be wondering what Disgaea 7 brings to the table to entice players […]
First released way back in 2011, Nayuta no Kiseki was an Action RPG spinoff of Falcom’s mainline Trails series. It was a last hurrah of sorts for their lucrative and successful time on the PSP. Trails was barely more than a footnote in the west at the time, so it was passed over for a […]
Reef Entertainment kindly invited NookGaming and some other outlets to London to check out some upcoming NIS America titles as part of their press tour. Alongside that, we had the chance to chat with some key staff from NIS America, one of whom graciously granted us the opportunity for an interview. Interview with Nicholas Odmark […]
Reef Entertainment kindly invited NookGaming and some other outlets to come and meet with them, along with a couple of key figures from NIS America. The event of the day? Check out the first English builds of some of their upcoming games, the most notable being Disgaea 7: Vows of the Virtueless. It is worth […]