What I’m playing at the end of summer 2022

Summertime blues~ Let’s round up all the games I’m playing/want to play/should be playing right now. Xenoblade Chronicles 3 – It came, I’m playing it and I’m taking my sweeeeet time about it. I’m supposed to be doing [important spoiler mission] right now, but it can wait while I explore vast areas of nothingness. If […]

JRPGs that still need localization in 2020

After writing my “10th Anniversary” post, I scrolled through my list of posts and noticed a couple of Japanese games I really enjoyed but that still aren’t available in English (AFAIK). With the advent of Kickstarter and Steam and other similar platforms, I thought for sure that more old games would have been licensed and […]

Ranshima Monogatari – Rare Land Story (3)

This should have been a post about Neo Angelique Special, but that game was so slow and tedious that it drove me back into the loving arms of Ranshima Monogatari, where I finally paired Hiro with both Somarina AND Guana and married Chilia to Rui like she’d always wanted. Be careful what you wish for, […]

Ranshima Monogatari – Rare Land Story (2)

All right, continuing from my last post about Ranshima Monogatari , I tried to see what kind of ending you get when Chilia restores the city to its former glory. Unfortunately I spent so much time walking around the town viewing every event I could that I accidentally ended up with two different wedding endings: […]

Ranshima Monogatari – Rare Land Story (1)

No sooner had I seen Princess Maker 4 off than I moved right onto its replacement, Ranshima Monogatari – Rare Land Story. And I had an even better time than I did with PM4. First, about the title: all the official material has the title as “Lair Land”, but since most English sites call it […]