I’ll be playing mainly Genshin Impact and Picross for the rest of the year, so apologies to readers who don’t care about gacha games. Technically I’m also playing a few other games, but none as seriously as these two. I’ve been playing Rakuen Seikatsu Hitsujimura for years and years, but the current raid event is […]
Up to AR25 in Genshin Impact
Life never goes the way you expect. I was planning to play Tokyo Xanadu eX+ and some other PC games, all off my laptop. Then my laptop suddenly stopped booting. Won’t respond to all the common fixes. It seems like the hard drive is okay, so there’s a good chance I’ll be able to copy […]
One Hour Review: The Alliance Alive – Charming little game
I ended up playing about an hour and a quarter of The Alliance Alive, because a lot was happening at the hour mark. Story: 1000 years ago, daemons took over the world. The game world, not the real world, though you might be forgiven for being confused. As a result, the sky has been purple […]
Genshin Impact – Just say NO to stealth missions
Thanks to a successful PR offensive and positive word of mouth, Genshin Impact is one of the hottest and most successful gacha games of theĀ year. I mentioned that I was going to try it once the version 1.1 patch hit on November 11th, and indeed I did. An hour here, and hour there. I […]
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 […]