Picross e, SMTIV: Apocalypse and other adventures

I took more time off from gaming than I’d planned to, but it’s all good. When you’re not feeling it, you’re not feeling it. After lounging on my sofa watching K-dramas with my sisters for a month, I’m just about ready to get back in the saddle. I realized two things: 1) I love Picross, […]

Issho ni Gohan. – No thanks, I’m full

Issho ni Gohan. Portable – Apartment Dinner Show (lit. Let’s Eat Together) is a forgettable otome game about the relationship between a bunch of college students and their female dorm manager, more or less. They’re all studying at a college of nutrition and food sciences or something like that so a lot of their interactions […]

Hanayaka Nari Waga Ichizoku Kinema Mosaic review

I wasn’t too happy with Hanayaka Nari Waga Ichizoku Kinema Mosaic when I did my first route, but I said I would do a few more routes and give my final thoughts, so here we are as promised. First I do have to eat a tiny bit of crow and admit that the new work […]

Dungeon of Windaria – Sometimes simple is good

Windaria is a classic anime movie from 1986 that tells a tragic tale of love and betrayal in the midst of war. Dungeon of Windaria is a roguelike based on the anime made by Compile Heart and Idea Factory in 2008. If you haven’t watched the movie the game won’t make any sense at all. […]

Hanayaka Nari Waga Ichizoku Kinema Mosaic – Sometimes a bad sequel is worse than no sequel at all

Disappointment, thy name is Kinema Mosaic. But in retrospect I shouldn’t be surprised. The original Hanayaka Nari Waga Ichizoku was all kinds of fun not because it has the best graphics or the greatest story but because it had a great cast and very strong comedic writing. That kind of feat is hard to repeat, […]