La Corda d’Oro replay + thoughts on restarting a musical instrument

I’m suffering from “choice paralysis” right now. I have so many games I’d like to play that I’m running away and not playing any of them. Instead I’m retreading old ground with La Corda d’Oro, a musical otome game I first played in 2014. You can read my initial thoughts on the gameplay and all […]

Ring ☆ Dream is shutting down

A couple of years ago, I posted about Ring ☆ Dream (リング☆ドリーム 女子プロレス大戦), a rather mindless browser game from Success Corp that I was playing at the time. I used to play it avidly every day, but dropped it and switched to very intermittent play after they disappointed me. I’ll explain more about that incident […]

Atelier Firis – Okay, that’s enough!

As I mentioned in the previous post on Atelier Firis, I’ve been having a good time with the game, but at the same time I’m eager to try other games. Atelier Firis is a super open and open-ended game with no clear storyline besides your initial objective of getting Firis to become an alchemist in […]

Atelier Firis – 42 hours, starting to wind down (spoilers)

Contrary to my fears after finishing the exam, no real story has showed up in Atelier Firis since I started. Firis wanted to become an alchemist, she became an alchemist, now she’s just having fun here and there. This is the kind of Atelier I wanted to play, so I really like this game. Sure, […]

Atelier Firis, Firis, Firis the Explorer!

She’s a super cool explora-firis~♪ Small update to say I’m still exploring and exploring and exploring in Atelier Firis (in fact, I’ve taken to calling it “Atelier Xenoblade” in my head :-p). I’m slowly making my way over to Reisenberg to see Sophie and discover whether Atelier Firis actually has a story or not. Very […]