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 […]
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, […]
Kanuchi: Futatsu no Tsubasa (Kanuchi: Two Wings) is a fantasy blacksmithing otome game developed by Vingt-et-un Systems and published by Idea Factory under their Otomate label. The ‘kanuchi’ part of the title is an in-game title for the king’s exclusive blacksmith. The ‘two wings’, I suppose, refer to the fact that our heroine Aki has […]
I’m supposed to be playing Phantasy Star Portable right around now. But I still hadn’t had enough item synthesis after Atelier Elie last week, so I played Atelier Annie instead. This is actually my third or fourth playthrough of Annie. I played it quite thoroughly when it first came out in Japanese, but I didn’t […]
Atelier Elie was sooooo much fun. It’s exactly what I was looking for. I wanted to synthesize different items for 20 hours straight, and that’s exactly what I got to do. That’s why Marie, Elie and M, E & Anis (the Salburg games) are the best Atelier games in the series, period. All the other […]