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I feel like very few people truly enjoyed the original Daemon X Machina, released back in 2019, besides myself and my colleague Kyle Nicol. Even if it was too similar to Armored Core (it was created by the same person behind a ton of that franchise’s titles), I fell for...
Hell is Us
Hell is Us combines elements of traditional action gameplay with a more experimental, old-school approach to exploration and puzzle-solving, one that trusts the player to figure things out. We have a lot of games now that are a mile wide but lack in depth. Hell is Us provides the opposite...
Varlet
Atlus is taking so long to come up with a sequel to the highly successful Persona 5 that it gives a reason for smaller (and thus, less prepared) teams to come up with what I can only describe as “we have Persona 6 at home”, stopgaps meant to satiate everyone’s...
Cowboy Bebop doesn’t mean a damn thing in Japan. When Millennial weebs finish rage smashing their empty Sobe bottles, we can continue. This anime, which I know was a cornerstone for Adult Swim viewers of the late 90s, is heralded in the U.S. as one of the best of all...
I really hope that, one day, I’ll get to interview the folks at Shin’en Multimedia and learn more about their development skills. Ever since the GBA days, these German wizards have been able to push each and every Nintendo system to its graphical limits with games like Iridion 3D, Nanostray,...
It’s the return of Story of Seasons, or for the older folks like me, the return of Harvest Moon. It’s been two years since A Wonderful Life released, and only a couple months since the spin off series Rune Factory released its most recent entry. This time though, it’s time...
And now we’re two for two in high-quality Prince of Persia releases by Ubisoft in the last couple of years. Who would have thought that, amidst all the crap they’ve tried to shove into us about making “AAAA” games worth the higher pricetag (you know exactly the game I’m talking...
I know I’ve had controversial statements about art games in the past, but I don’t dislike all of them. What I don’t like about this particular niche of game is when you can ooze the pretentiousness coming out of my screen, with a “game” being made with the sole intention...
A while back, when I wrote a piece regarding my love for the so-called AA gaming sphere, I expressed my admiration for those games being the perfect middle-of-the-road between the visuals and production values seen in AAA titles, and the niche appeal and creativity seen in indies. I did not...
It never occurred to me that people would make such a big deal out of a half naked genie, but I also didn’t know that people would end up watching Japanese horse racing more than most sports. People tend to gravitate towards characters and ideas if they give them something...
It never occurred to me that people would make such a big deal out of a half naked genie, but I also didn’t know that people would end up watching Japanese horse racing more than most sports. People tend to gravitate towards characters and ideas if they give them something...
