Atelier Lydie & Scumbag – Better than I’d expected but not exactly great

I’ve been looking for games to pass the time with while waiting for Xenoblade Chronicles X to come out. I tried Triangle Strategy (more on that another time, it’s not dropped), Shepherd’s Crossing (realized I don’t want to replay the original because it was a very annoying game) and… something else I can’t quite recall, […]

Shio to Ayakashi no Mori – A bit tedious, but not bad.

Shio to Ayakashi no Mori (Shio and the Mysterious Forest) is a dungeon exploration game from my favorite indie developers, Inu to Neko. Normally I portion out their Ishwald games here and there instead of playing them back to back, but shortly after I posted about Rakunou Princess, a power outage destroyed my save progress […]

Rakunou Princess – Tons of fun, but not really about ranching

Rakunou Princess is a ranch simulation game from Inutoneko, a Japanese indie game developer whose works I’ve been following for many years (since 2010, actually). They experimented briefly with releasing some of their games in English on Steam (Dungeon Shoujo, Witch Ring Meister, etc.) but the translations were bad, the games became bug-riddled and I […]