Tokimeki Memorial Girl’s Side 4th Heart – Not sure what I was hoping for, but this wasn’t it

Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side 4th Heart cover image

I used to like the Tokimeki Memorial Girl’s Side series of otome games. I still kind of do, in my head, but when it came to playing 4th Heart, I realized the games are far too long and the characters are far too childish (or the gamer is far too old, IDK) to make the […]

Ranshima Monogatari Lairland Story – How to get the true ending (spoiler free)

Some years ago… wait, how many years is that?! So, uh, many many years ago I played an obscure Princess Maker-like game called Ranshima Monogatari Lairland Story on the PSP. I played it and played it, got a number of endings and had a great time in general, but I never did get the “true” […]

100 hours into Xenoblade Chronicles 3 – Climb every mountain, ford every stream (spoilers)

IIRC I finished Xenoblade Chronicles 2 around the 100-hour mark. I killed the boss, did some perfunctory extra exploration and that was it. There was a lot I didn’t like that about that game (and a lot I did), but the biggest was having the map filled in for me already so there were no […]

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 […]

La Corda d’Oro replay + thoughts on restarting a musical instrument

I’m suffering from “choice paralysis” right now. I have so many games I’d like to play that I’m running away and not playing any of them. Instead I’m retreading old ground with La Corda d’Oro, a musical otome game I first played in 2014. You can read my initial thoughts on the gameplay and all […]