Nayuta no Kiseki – Coming up for air

Nayuta no Kiseki is an action RPG from Falcom, a developer I have a slightly-love/mostly-hate relationship with. It’s not that they make bad games – quite the opposite, really – but their stuff usually doesn’t sit right with me. Their turn-based RPGs like the Trails series are tiresome, long-winded affairs and just when they get […]

Trails in the Sky – The Whereabouts of Copyright

See, I told you I’d heard the main theme of Trails in the Sky somewhere before. It’s a direct rip-off of the main theme of Laputa: The Castle in the Sky!! Not note-for-note, but close enough that someone like me who hasn’t watched Laputa in years could tell I knew that song from somewhere. I’ve […]