Let’s get straight to the point, for once. I feel like a reprobate for liking and recommending a game about torturing teenage girls for the gamer’s sexual pleasure, so I’m taking down all my posts about Criminal Girls. I still like the game a lot – revisionist history can only go so far – but […]
What I asked for: A short, English RPG to act as a rest stop between UnchainBlades Rexx and Persona 2 What I got: Dragoneer’s Aria. Well, it’s in English all right. And it’s definitely an RPG. But at 89 hours and counting, it is hands down the longest RPG I’ve played this year. And it’s […]
Every once in a while, you should do something you don’t usually do, just to remind yourself why you don’t usually do it. I started Persona 2: Innocent Sin several days ago, and now I remember exactly why I don’t play games in a series too quickly after each other: it’s boring! Especially when they’re […]
See, I told you I’d heard the main theme of Trails in the Sky somewhere before. It’s a direct rip-off of the main theme of Laputa: The Castle in the Sky!! Not note-for-note, but close enough that someone like me who hasn’t watched Laputa in years could tell I knew that song from somewhere. I’ve […]
“Heaven has no rage, like love to hatred turned…” – William Congreve I’ve played a lot of RPGs in my life and I have never been so glad to put a game behind me as I was when the credits finally rolled on Snails in the Sky. The credits rolled, but the game didn’t exactly […]