Shin Megami Tensei V – 42 hours in, roaming Tokyo till the end of day

I’m quite enjoying Shin Megami Tensei V now, even though I just spent the past 10 hours wandering around Tokyo trying to shut down Ishtar’s devices (doesn’t really spoil anything). The maps are horrendous because you can only climb in very specific spots, so a device might be right there in front of you, but […]

Shin Megami Tensei V – Finally picking up after 12 hours (early story spoilers)

I’ve heard of slow starts, but Shin Megami Tensei V was ridiculous. 10+ hours wandering in a boring wasteland with a bad map before you’re finally given some semblance of a story is just too much. The setting is that you’re an ordinary (you’re never ordinary but let’s not go there) high school student in […]

Shepherd’s Crossing port for Switch, yaaay!

We gaming fans are a stubborn lot. I had already accepted that Shepherd’s Crossing was a dead series outside of the gacha game, but I still stalk the developer (Success Corp) every couple of weeks, juuuust in case they change their minds. Imagine my joy when I checked in today to find out they’re porting […]

Xenoblade Chronicles 3 on hold while I play Counterside and Genshin Impact

What the title said. I haven’t dropped Xenoblade Chronicles 3, I’ve just been too busy with real life stuff to really get stuck in. But somehow I can always make time for casual games and gacha games, because they’re just designed with the busy person in mind. Of course they’re designed to steal the time […]

100 hours into Xenoblade Chronicles 3 – Climb every mountain, ford every stream (spoilers)

IIRC I finished Xenoblade Chronicles 2 around the 100-hour mark. I killed the boss, did some perfunctory extra exploration and that was it. There was a lot I didn’t like that about that game (and a lot I did), but the biggest was having the map filled in for me already so there were no […]