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” […]
What I’m playing lately (September 2024)
Just realized it’s been almost two months since my last post. Just a few notes so you know I’m alive and still gaming. Quite actively, actually, but nothing really worth writing about. Xenoblade Chronicles 3 – Definitively dropped. I tried to get back into it. Loaded it up, moved a little bit and was thrown […]
Tried and dropped Atelier Resleriana – Too sluggish and too stingy
I haven’t played any Atelier games in a while (last proper game was Firis in 2020 IIRC), but I still have a lot of love for the series. A lot of good memories, lots of fun times spent crafting and adventuring, good times. The more recent entries have just left me cold because the focus […]
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 […]
Gacha gaming update 2023 – Shining Nikki (dropped again)
Continuing the series updating the gacha games that sustained me in 2022. This time it’s Shining Nikki, the sequel to Love Nikki (which I prefer by far, but Shining Nikki isn’t terribad). I started playing it at launch, dropped it for a while in January 2022, and I picked it up again in time for […]