I’ve been wanting to replay the Ace Attorney series and talk about it on this blog for a while, and while I’ve done two reviews and a sneaky mention before, I don’t think I can properly express my love for the series without a full-on series of critiques on each game. I’ve played each game …
This post contains a few major spoilers for the game. I recommend playing before reading. When I write reviews, I usually like to use them as a thinking process for working out what I felt about the work I’m reviewing. Of course, I know before I start writing what I thought about a game, or …
Weapon Shop de Omasse is an interesting addition to the GUILD series because of who made it. While I’ve lauded the series as a way to give game creators space to make a small game with full creative control, Weapon Shop de Omasse gives that control to a Japanese comedian named Yoshiyuki Hirai. Hirai, who …
I can safely say I had pretty much no idea what I was doing or what was going on for about 90% of my playthrough of Liberation Maiden, making reviewing it a slightly intimidating prospect. The game was developed by Goichi Suda, better known as Suda51; the man responsible for classics such as No More …
“This game contains no tutorials or explanations. Part of the experience is to discover things for yourself” - Disclaimer before starting The Starship Damrey. The last time I looked at the GUILD series was to wax lyrical about Attack of the Friday Monsters, a game I thought would never have been made in the way it …
In the 1950s, the prospering Japanese film industry reinvented the “monster movie.” The giant monsters of the era were “kaiju” that often symbolized the effects of pollution, such as radiation and hydrogen bomb experiments. In the 1960s and 70s, the “hero show” was born. Brave heroes challenged the kaiju on prime time television, and the …
This post contains heavy spoilers for the ending of Ghost Trick, and I recommend having played the game before reading. I view it as a mark of shame on my own self that it has taken me this long to finish playing Ghost Trick. I have owned the game on DS and iOS for a …
Because of their nature as more time consuming and expensive than films and tv shows, I didn't get the chance to play too many games in 2017 (something further complicated by me moving somewhere without a TV in September). But the games I did manage to play were almost all at a higher standard than …
This post contains spoilers for the entire Danganronpa series. I recommend having played the games before reading this, or you won't understand much of it. Recently I held a poll on my twitter as to which game I should review this month. The choices were between Danganronpa V3, a game most people had at this …
Spoilers for the entirety of Persona 5 ahead. The other Persona games are not spoiled in this post. Persona 5 is a game for Japan. It talks to Japanese people and it was made by Japanese people. It’s set in Japan, and it appears to address issues facing Japan today. I thought I should get …
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