This year has been a solid one for silly slice of life anime. Rent-A-Girlfriend was a surprise highlight, a romantic comedy that featured characters firmly out of high school and into their college years. Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out is a similar show, a comedy with a simple with-they-won’t-they premise and featuring a young woman […]Read More
Prequels are precarious things. When your audience knows where the story is going to go, there isn’t much chance to surprise and delight them. It was one of the many things that held back the Star Wars prequels, after all. So, when Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity was announced, that was the biggest source of […]Read More
Trying to explain the plot of Kingdom Hearts is a fool’s errand. It’s a convoluted mess of retcons, lore-dumps, and the intense mash-ups between iconic Disney villains and anime nonsense. But making the attempt to recap the series thus far is Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory. From the first moments building a raft on Destiny […]Read More
Café Enchanté released on the 5th of this month, exclusive to the Switch as of now. It easily beats Aksys’ previous otome release of Piofiore: Fated Memories as the better title, with its rich world-building and lore, increasingly engaging story and lovable cast from the love interests (LI’s) to the side characters. Let’s get into […]Read More
With many JRPG franchises over the years switching to real-time battle systems, it was odd to see the latest Yakuza entry take the opposite route instead. By forgoing the usual beat ’em up gameplay for old-school turn-based combat, Yakuza: Like a Dragon ends up being a unique entry in the series. However, this change does […]Read More
A game taking inspiration from the Souls series isn’t anything new at this point. One of my personal favourites is Salt and Sanctuary, which took the Souls style of gameplay and melded it into a slightly faster 2D framework. As the years go by, more developers have tried their hand at 2D soulslikes, with mixed […]Read More
It’s a good time to be a Greek mythology fan. Hades has given us the chance to run amuck in the underworld, Disney has yet to announce an inevitably terrible live action remake to their animated version, and Netflix has given us a new anime from Powerhouse Animation Studios steeped in the mythos. Blood of […]Read More
Back in 2018, we were all asked a very important question: Which monster do you want to take to prom? It is one that I ended up answering repeatedly and in increasingly creative ways thanks to Monster Prom, the dating-sim/visual novel hybrid from Beautiful Glitch. And now, thanks to the sequel Monster Camp, we’re getting […]Read More
Nintendo aren’t afraid to experiment with unique peripherals, with the Switch alone being home to both Ring Fit Adventure and the series of Labo kits. Created in partnership with Velan Studios, Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit is yet another inventive release for the system, combining augmented reality with the chaotic kart racing of Nintendo’s long-running […]Read More
Genshin Impact is the latest game released by Mihoyo, the creators of numerous mobile games such as Honkai Impact. Much like their previous title, Genshin Impact is another gacha game that is currently making some serious waves online thanks to it being free to play, beautiful, colourful and playable on numerous platforms including PC and […]Read More
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