Neal Chandran
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Playing Wintermoor Tactics Club gave me the same feeling as curling up on the couch with a comic book and a blanket. It wholeheartedly lived up to its billing as a “cozy” game and I loved the 12 or so hours I spent with it. The entire play experience felt...
Virgo is a great game, plain and simple. While every aspect of the game is worthy of praise, the ace in the hole is easily its sound. Any game where the music makes me immediately drop my controller, grab my bass guitar, and play along to learn my favorite pieces...
When all is said and done, I enjoyed my time with Winds of Change. I liked its blend of visual novel and point-and-click elements, making it a sort of East-meets-West game. I also found the story and characters engaging and spent several playthroughs exploring new character subplots and decision branches....
It’s no secret that I simply could not get enough of Fell Seal: Arbiter’s Mark. I must have sunk over 80 wonderful hours into the game, most of which were spent building up class levels to earn skills and see which classes I liked best for my play style. I...
Hakuoki: Kyoto Winds and Hakuoki: Edo Blossoms are a magnificent duo of games that enhanced a beloved otome game to breathtaking heights. I hope Hakuoki: Kyoto Winds and Hakuoki: Edo Blossoms do well enough outside of Japan to warrant more Hakuoki games getting localized and into my hot little hands....
If I were to offer a film critic style soundbite, I would say that Collar X Malice is a slick, stylish, and sexy thriller. The story and characters held my interest and the sense of danger kept me on the edge of my seat. It had its tropey “because anime”...
If it wasn’t already abundantly clear, I loved Hakuoki: Kyoto Winds. I already adored the game’s previous iteration as Hakuoki: Demon of the Fleeting Blossom on the PSP in 2012, but Kyoto Winds brings it to the next level. I simply cannot say no to a hard-boiled, politically charged epic...
Shadows of Adam is clearly inspired by the classics but falls short of being a classic itself. The lovely gameplay, with its exceptional balance and enjoyable exploration, kept me engaged, despite the flaccid story and characters. There is potential in Shadows of Adam, and I would gladly play another game...
Odin Sphere: Leifthrasir shows what is possible when a grand idea is not hampered by hardware limitations. With today’s technology, the already vivid graphics shine even brighter without a hint of slowdown. But VanillaWare did not stop there. They upgraded the controls, rebalanced the difficulty levels, remapped the stages, and...
The long and short of this review is that the visual novel aspects are fantastic, but the RPG aspects are clumsily designed and executed. Despite its egregious flaws, I enjoyed my time with Trillion: God of Destruction, because it unexpectedly turned out to be the kind of game I like....
Atelier Escha & Logy Plus’s delightfully breezy charm is par for the Atelier series, but may not appeal to an RPG fan looking for a more Final Fantasy-type experience. The relaxed and routine nature in Escha & Logy Plus may be too lackadaisical and repetitive for some. If you think...
Transistor
The iOS version of Transistor brought me joy equivalent to a summer blockbuster film. The graphics are stylish, the sound is gorgeous, the gameplay is fun, and the story is cinematic. Some players may find the game too short or skewed easy, but those are not problems to me. I’d...
