Hatakeppi – Get the veggies you harvest in real life(?)

I have long since given up hope of ever seeing Shepherd’s Crossing 3 come out. Or so I keep telling myself, but every now and then I check on Success Corp’s website juuuuust in case they’ve changed their minds. They haven’t, of course. That’s why I’m here and not running down the streets shouting Hallelujah. […]

Kanuchi: Futatsu no Tsubasa – Should have known it was too good to be true (spoilers)

Remember how I said last time that I thought I’d be done with Kanuchi soon and that Kasuga’s route would be relatively drama-free? Yeeeahhh, I kinda underestimated Idea Factory’s readiness to ruin a good story. Kasuga x Aki really seemed like a match made in heaven to me. The ordinary blacksmith girl and the ordinary […]

Kanuchi: Futatsu no Tsubasa – One step forward, five steps back

Shortly after my last post about Idea Factory’s fantasy blacksmithing otome game, the writers hit the reset button and reset most of my progress back to square one. To recap the story a bit, the two nations of Takamahara and Yasuna have been at war for approximately 2017 years. Aki, an ordinary Taka-whatsit village girl, […]

Happy New Year! And resolutions for 2014

It’s a little late, but Happy New Year! Now, straight to business. What am I playing this year? Last year’s resolutions were a bit of a disaster. I packed the list with games I’d “always wanted to try,” little realizing that the real reason I’d never actually tried the games I’d “always wanted to try” […]