La Corda d’Oro 4 – Solo ending and Sunaga Takumi GET

Before starting, I read reviews of La Corda d’oro 4 that said it was really hard. I was like “pshaw, they always say that.” How hard can an otome game be? The answer is pretty darn hard, especially if you play it on Hard mode. I mean, it says Hard but usually Hard is like […]

Dungeon Shoujo – Finished. Not that exciting

Dungeon Shoujo / Dungeon Girl,  is yet another game from Japanese indie developer inutoneko. It was released before both Soul Smith of the Kingdom and Witch Ring Meister, but I skipped it earlier because mentally I couldn’t reconcile the dungeon exploration setting with the puzzle gameplay. If it’s a dungeon crawler then I want to […]

Witch Ring Meister – Finished! It was fun

Witch Ring Meister is yet another simulation game from inutoneko, the Japanese indie developer I’ve been following for years. My last post was about Soul Smith of the Kingdom, another of their games. Normally I like to let time pass between games in the same series/genre. Unfortunately I’m going through a gaming rut right now […]

Soul Smith of the Kingdom – Helps pass the time

Soul Smith of the Kingdom / 王国のソウルスミス is a training/management simulation game by inutoneko, a Japanese indie game circle I’ve been following for years. Last time I played one of their games, I mentioned that they had started releasing games in English on Steam. I had heard the quality wasn’t the best, but I thought […]

La Corda d’Oro 3 – Ritsu, Kyouya, Daichi, Nanami, Houzumi GET!

Or, more accurately, GET in the case of Ritsu and Kyouya, sorta GET for the others. I saw all their events, qualified for their true endings in all cases, but the only confession scenes I cared about were Ritsu and Kyouya. The others I watched 5 seconds of and skipped the rest. Koei made it […]