Issho ni Gohan. Portable – Apartment Dinner Show (lit. Let’s Eat Together) is a forgettable otome game about the relationship between a bunch of college students and their female dorm manager, more or less. They’re all studying at a college of nutrition and food sciences or something like that so a lot of their interactions […]
Little Witch Parfait: Kuroneko Mahouten Monogatari is an alchemy/shop/relationship simulator about student magician named Parfait whose mother dies leaving her with a magic shop that is 1,000,000g in debt. To work her way out of this hole, Parfait has to drop out of school and devote her days to producing and selling enough magical goods […]
Rezel Cross is a PSP turn-based RPG about the lives of five people who suddenly (or not so suddenly) find out they have superpowers. They spend the game running around the map pursuing their own agendas, but fate keeps throwing them together in unexpected ways. Ail – A young beast hunter seeking revenge on the […]
“Call no game good which has not ended well,” a wise man once said. Or should have said, anyway. In my last post on Tsukumonogatari, I forgot to mention one more feature of Majin-likes: the true ending is the only one worth getting. The so-so ending I got left a number of questions unanswered, a […]
And of course, saying I like it when I’ve only played 5 hours means I’ve probably jinxed the game. Just like I jinxed Tokyo Majin Gakuen, a game Tsukumonogatari bears more than a passing resemblance to. In fact I have created a “Majin-like” genre in my mind that encompasses games such as these. To qualify […]