Happy New Year 2022! + Sorting out gacha games

Happy new year everyone! Can you believe we’re already 10 days into the year? It feels like Christmas was only yesterday, but now it’s already time to go back to school/work. And so another year begins. I had a lot of time to think about gaming over the new year break. Specifically why I’ve moved […]

Shining Nikki – Just another grindy gacha game

Shining Nikki, the sequel to Love Nikki, launched globally on July 5th 2021. I’ve been playing since day one and have only missed a few logins here and there. It’s fun in its own way, but like Love Nikki it isn’t really about fashion. Shining Nikki is more fashionable in effect because of changes to […]

Love Nikki: Dress Up Queen – “Dressed up” does not equal “fashionable”

…What? I told you I was a lost cause. Save yourselves! I had to do a spot of extended babysitting earlier this month because of reasons. To keep my niece entertained, I downloaded Love Nikki: Dress Up Queen on my tablet and let her try it. Why that game in particular? Because I’d seen ads […]