Ookiku Furikabutte: Hontou no Ace ni Nareru Kamo – Okay for one or two playthroughs

I’m not a mega-huge fan of Ookiku Furikabutte (known in the west as Big Windup!) but it’s definitely one of the best sports anime I’ve seen so far. I liked it enough that I even bought the series after watching it for free on Funimation’s youtube channel. So despite my misgivings about anime spin-off games, […]

Hayate no Gotoku! Ojousama Produce Daisakusen: Bokuiro ni Somare! ~Gakkouhen~

A short, sweet palate cleanser from the sour aftertaste of Lunar. Hayate no Gotoku! Ojousama Blah Blah ~ What is it with Hata and Long Titles, Anyway?~ is a raising sim slash beauty pageant sim with a little bit of romance rounding it out. I stopped reading Hayate no Gotoku! over a year ago so […]

Played Really? Really! DS. It’s aight.

Really? Really! is one of the games I was somewhat interested in playing when I first started this blog, but I forgot about it pretty quickly and never tried it until now. Shuffle! is one of the few anime harem shows I actually enjoyed watching, and even though I hated, and continue to hate Asa-sempai, […]

Hayate no Gotoku: Boku ga Romeo de, Romeo ga Boku de (2)

Even monkeys fall from trees. And even normally careful gamers forget to keep backup saves and accidentally overwrite precious New Game+ data with an actual new game save. In most games this wouldn’t be a problem because each route would be (mostly) separate. But in Hayate no Gotoku: Boku ga Romeo de, Romeo ga Boku […]

Gokujou!! Mecha Mote Iinchou: Mecha Mote Days, Hajimemasu wa! review

Konami is the company responsible for some of my favorite games on the DS: Tokimemo GS 1-3, Lost in Blue 1-3 (moaaarr), and more. However even monkeys fall from trees, as the Japanese saying goes. And even good companies make bad games every once in a while. It’s when it’s every time that it becomes […]