Tsurugi no Machi no Ihoujin, the early days

Tsurugi no Machi no Ihoujin (Stranger of the Village of the Sword) is a 2014 first-person dungeon crawler from Experience Inc., makers of other fine dungeon crawlers like Entaku no Seito, Operation Abyss and Demon Gaze. I’m going on hearsay for the last two, but I played far more Entaku no Seito than was good […]

7th Dragon 2020-II – Almost the same as 2020

That’s why they didn’t bother giving it an exciting new name or anything. I was hoping 7th Dragon 2020-II would at least let me fight dragons in the rest of Japan instead of just Tokyo, but it’s basically 2020 with another rash of dragons to fight. The dungeons have changed a bit and there’s a […]

Back from gaming break!

I took a break from console and handheld games for about 3 weeks in May. I have to specify ‘console and handheld’ because I was still dabbling in casual fare like Candy Crush and Shepherd’s Crossing Online from time to time. I can’t blame casual gamers any more – ‘proper’ games just require too much […]