Merry Christmas + Early thoughts on Tokyo Xanadu eX+

Merry Christmas everyone! It’s a blessing to be able to make it to another Christmas. I’m not taking anything for granted any more these days. Any year I make it through safe and sound and with all my body parts intact is a good year! I spent today pigging out with family like I always […]

Luminous Arc Infinity – Actually it’s not so bad

I didn’t have any clear goals when I started this blog years ago, but one thing I knew was that I wanted to give every game a fair chance. I didn’t want to either rush through games or play a little bit just to say I’d played them. Sometimes a game just sucks and I […]

Luminous Arc Infinity – I hate it already

I’ve only played an hour, but I’ve played enough of other games to know the signs so I can tell Luminous Arc Infinity is going to suck. Here are the three main signs: Too much talking. In that one hour I played, I’ve only fought two battles. And they were tutorial battles too, so almost […]

Finished Demon Gaze. It was good…

…but I liked its predecessors better. Entaku no Seito had bigger dungeons and less fanservice, Stranger of Sword City had better graphics and a more interesting setting. If you’ve played those two, Demon Gaze doesn’t have much to offer except more of the same. Which is great, because I wanted more of the same. It’s […]

Ocean Lunch Antique – Same old, but I can’t stop playing

Ocean Lunch Antique is another simulation game from inutoneko, a Japanese indie game I’ve been sort-of following for years. Their games used to be Japanese only, but now you can find their more recent games on Steam with poor but readable translations. Worth a try if you like simple but hopelessly addictive games. Having said […]