Note: This is a review of both Famicom Detective Club titles released together: The Missing Heir and The Girl Who Stands Behind. Though they have different narratives, they are functionally and mechanically the same, and since this will be a spoiler-free review that won’t talk about the narratives at any…
Read MoreBook review by Matt S. Matsumoto Seichō is one of Japan’s most prolific – and influential – crime fiction writers. Japanese crime fiction is one of the rare few areas where a good weighting of works have been translated into English (and other languages), and in many ways we can…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Jake Hunter is pretty popular in Japan, but the series is rarely localised into English. I haven’t played any of the handful that have been translated previously, but if the series is of the standard of Alternate Jake Hunter: Daedalus: The Awakening of Golden Jazz, then…
Read MoreLiterature by Matt S. Kirino Natsuo is one of the most important figures in modern Japanese literature – right up there with Murakami. Kirino’s writing isn’t exactly pleasant to read, and you’ll walk away from Grotesque feeling more than a little deflated, but the way she structures her writing, and…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Whoever managed to come up with the concept for Detective Pikachu deserves real respect for being a mad genius. You look at Pokemon, and everything the franchise has been over the years, and of all the spin-offs you could think of, the last that you would…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. “Noir” is not just a great word; it’s a great genre. Presenting us with worlds of shadow, where the dark swallows the light, and where the good guys are not as heroic as they should be, and the bad guys represent the cancers that are slowly…
Read MoreReview by Nick H. Despite being a game that first released back in 1999, but it never received a western release. Finally having the chance to play it, The Silver Case, as one of Goichi Suda’s first projects as an independent developer, is an interesting game because it certainly shows…
Read More“Adventure Time, c’mon grab your friends. We’ll go to very distant lands. With Jake the dog and Finn the human, the fun will never end, it’s Adventure Time!” The Adventure Time theme song actually suits Adventure Time: Finn & Jake Investigations. I spent my time playing the game with a…
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