It is enough to play a little bit of The Caligula Effect: Overdose. It’s another game that would have ended up as “the one that got away” in my mind if I hadn’t tried it. The ideas are great, I love the publisher (Furyu) and I usually enjoy high school RPG shenanigans, but the battle […]
Going 2 for 4 on Switch RPG demos now. The first batch was good, this second batch was a disappointment. Thank God for demos is all I can say, because Shining Resonance Refrain and Labyrinth of Refrain are the games I was more likely to shell out for sight-unseen, the former because I liked previous […]
I almost wish I hadn’t played the demos, because now I really want both full games but I don’t want to pay $49.99 (Oninaki) and $59.99 (Monark). They were nice but not that nice, and I’ll kick myself if they go on sale later. Oninaki – Dark and dreary game about Watchers who guide the […]
Buying the Nintendo Switch was long overdue, because I’ve been playing my brother’s since 2018-ish. Not only have I completed two games on it (Xenoblade 2 and Octopath Traveler) but I’ve also identified at least five other JRPGs I could play on it. “Identified” doesn’t mean I’m actually playing those games, though. Heh heh. Naturally […]
Dragalia Lost is one of those games I’d always meant to play but never got round to it. It’s 90% because the game doesn’t run on emulators, and I’ve said ad nauseam that I don’t like gaming on my smartphone. Still, when I heard the game was ending service soon, I knew I had to […]