Ookiku Furikabutte: Hontou no Ace ni Nareru Kamo – Okay for one or two playthroughs

I’m not a mega-huge fan of Ookiku Furikabutte (known in the west as Big Windup!) but it’s definitely one of the best sports anime I’ve seen so far. I liked it enough that I even bought the series after watching it for free on Funimation’s youtube channel. So despite my misgivings about anime spin-off games, […]

Ore ga Omae wo Mamoru – Metroidvania for girls

The first release in Idea Factory’s now abandoned Otomate Forte series of games. The idea was to produce regular games with a ‘girl-friendly’ coating to make them more appealing to female gamers. The second game was Date ni Gametsui wake ja nai, which was a remake of Master of the Monster Lair with added bishies. […]

In which I moderately praise Phantasy Star Portable 2 for being a very good game, objectively speaking

It took me 20 hours, but I finished Phantasy Star Portable 2. Take that, stupid Kumhan! You and your stupid Light Attack that killed me 6 times until I realized it was blockable! It’s not just blockable but it’s his weakest attack once you block it. All those wasted attempts. Tch. I was a bit […]

Sol Trigger – Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid!

Welcome back. Today I continue to explain why Sol Trigger is such a stupid game. I covered the problems specific to Part 2 of the story last time, but the rest of the story was plenty bad enough to begin with. Obligatory spoiler warning, but you’re better off being spoiled and avoiding this game for […]

Sol Trigger – Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid.

And another 1000 stupids for good measure. What a stupid game. And what a stupid gamer I am for seeing it through to the end. I hate Imageepoch so much right now, but I hate myself even more. *deep breath* Okay. Let’s do this. But first I must warn you that there’ll be pleeeenty of […]