STRATO-SPEAR

Ludum Dare-like events are awesome. We have already featured a game at the very beginning of this little site, but I somehow find myself constantly returning to these sorts of things, looking for stuff to play and see what people can make in a short amount of time. This time around, I've brought in STRATO-SPEAR …

Yume Denwa – Strange Telephone

Strange Telephone is a side-scrolling adventure game for consoles, PC and mobile by indie developer HZ3 Software and published by Playism. Heavily inspired by Yume Nikki the game responsible for the RPGmaker horror boom, Strange Telephone is about exploring small liminal worlds that you travel to via dialing a six digit phone number.  You play …

Anime isn’t real, it was all a delusion – Chaos;Head

=- Chaos;Head is the first game in the Science Adventure series conceived by Chiyomaru Shikura, developed by 5pb Games (now Mages Inc) and published by NitroPlus on April 25th 2008. In comparison to the second game in the series, Steins;Gate, I never hear people talk about Chaos;Head much. Maybe it’s because it never got a …

The Legend of Heroes: Crossbell Duology

After Trails in the Sky concluded with its third entry, the series disappeared for a couple of years, only to return in a different form. By 2010, Falcom was well past its honeymoon phase with the PSP and was pumping out title after title. Mostly ports, as well as a couple of new games. Ys …

The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky Trilogy

It's safe to say that Falcom's approach to video games was to throw everything at the wall, see what sticks and absolutely roll with it. Out of everything they made, nowadays only Ys and The Legend of Heroes series are the ones to still be considered alive. Unlike Ys, where most of the games are …

Xanadu Next – A classic revived

After the last Dragon Slayer game, The Legend of Xanadu II, Falcom kinda just started focusing on their new flagship, The Legend of Heroes and remakes of older titles. For the better part of 7 years, things weren't too exciting. Then at the turn of the millennium, things changed and Falcom started producing other titles …

Romancia – Evil Incarnate

"What were they thinking?!" is the only genuine question I can ask when I think about Romancia. If this was an AVGN episode, the nerd would spend 80% of the episode cursing, 15% beating up a Fan Freddy cosplayer and 5% crying in agony and it would be the last episode because why do more. …

Issun Boushi Starring Shinmyoumaru-san

Touhou Project is massive and it would probably be an impossible undertaking to explain what it is, deep dive into its lore and try to understand what is going on in this game and why. So instead of doing that, I'll just treat this as a normal game, but rest assured, there is a reason …