A company mixup led to me going without electricity for three days. 👿 It wasn’t too much trouble to keep my laptop and phone charged, but as a principle my consoles and handhelds don’t leave my bedroom, much less my house, so I haven’t got much gaming down in the past couple of days. I […]
Tokyo Mono Hara Shi – Not ‘too niche’, just ‘too boring’.
Tokyo Mono Hara Shi: Karasu no Mori Gakuen Kitan, to give its full name, is a spin-off of the Tokyo Majin Gakuen series. I’d never even heard of Tokyo Majin before I tried this, and apparently none of the games in the series have been released in the west. This despite the fact that they […]
Steambot Chronicles – Too hard!
I barely made it two hours into Steambot Chronicles before getting clobbered by some spiky train in a canyon. I like everything about the game: the story so far (amnesia excepted), the characters, the setting, the music, the art (the cover really doesn’t do it justice), everything. I like the hunger stat, the music mini-game, […]
Growlanser – Lost interest
I haven’t actually dropped Growlanser yet, but it’s going back on the shelf for a while. I still like the characters and the setting, and the story has just taken a rather interesting turn. If only I liked the battle system better things would be wonderful. Unfortunately the following things are bothering me quite a bit. […]
Growlanser – So far, so good
Growlanser is one of those series I’ve always heard of but never played. For some strange reason I’ve always believed the Growlanser games were SRPGs. I confess I approached this PSOne remake with more than the usual excitement because of that, but while it’s slightly disappointing that is not the case, I’m still having a […]