Persona 5 Royal – 44 hours in, tons of fun! (mid-game spoilers)

I’d forgotten how much fun it can be to play a JRPG with an actual start and finish. Persona 5 Royal‘s story is still immature, bordering on the ridiculous, but I keep reminding myself that they’re just kids and then it becomes slightly bearable. For example even a toddler knows better than to get into […]

What I’m playing lately (March 2024)

I’m pretty busy, but if I can squeeze some gacha games into the day, then I can squeeze proper games in as well. Here’s a few things I’ve been trying lately. Epic Seven & Love Nikki: Go without saying, but I just put them up here to proclaim my continued love. Love Nikki is the […]

Epic Seven 2024 update – Made it to Champion V! (plus tips for making your own journey)

In AI arena, of course, not Real-Time Arena. Smilegate actually scared me for a while when they announced a Lion Heart Cermia RTA skin, because the two Cermias are some of my favorite characters, but luckily they walked it back shortly afterwards. I like Briar Witch Isera too, but I don’t use her nearly enough […]

Happy New Year 2024! No resolutions this year either!… or wait a minute…

Come to think of it, I should just stop writing (non-)resolution posts altogether and stick to wishing everyone a happy new year. Happy New Year! And a belated Merry Christmas as well. In 2023 I put gaming in the back seat while I focused on getting my financial house in order, so to speak, but […]

Rakunou Princess – Tons of fun, but not really about ranching

Rakunou Princess is a ranch simulation game from Inutoneko, a Japanese indie game developer whose works I’ve been following for many years (since 2010, actually). They experimented briefly with releasing some of their games in English on Steam (Dungeon Shoujo, Witch Ring Meister, etc.) but the translations were bad, the games became bug-riddled and I […]