News by Matt S. Specialist publisher, NISA, has today announced that it has picked up three niche Japanese games to release in the west – two fighting games and one visual novel. The fighting games are Arcana Hearts 3: Love Max!!!! (PlayStation 3 and Vita, 2014 release) and Under Night…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. The more I see of Natural Doctrine, NISA and Kadokawa Games’ upcoming turn-based tactics game, the more I can’t wait to play it when it releases in September. NISA has released a new trailer in which we see the game’s multiplayer mode in action. Players collect…
Read MoreReview by Clark A. Toradora is a romantic comedy with an endgame that is seldom in question after the first fistful of episodes. Against this handicap, the writers managed to tell an intelligent, multifaceted tale that enriches the premise to the point where the outcome will be the last thing…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. NISA like to keep us busy. Come November we’re going to be very, very busy playing Tears to Tiara II: Heir of the Overlord, which is a seriously good looking strategy JRPG. The plot seems to be very traditional JRPG fair. Players take on the story…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Fairy Fencer f comes to us from Compile Heart; the same fine folks that produced the excellent Hyperdimension Neptunia series. It’s being billed as a somewhat more serious take on the JRPG genre, while maintaining elements of the same entertaining combat system. It’s being localised by…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. NISA likes to keep us busy. Specialists in the uber-niche, the publisher has shown off more of three new games that it has coming over the next year for the PlayStation 3 and Vita. First up we have Criminal Girls for the PlayStation Vita. Description from…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. NAtURAL DOCtRINE (there should be a law against titles with horrible grammar) is an upcoming tactics RPG that we a really, really looking forward to. Not least because the game will be the first tactics RPG coming to a next-gen platform as it’s being released on…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Battle Princess of Arcadias is what happens when a Japanese developer decides to poke fun at the role of the princess in traditional fairy tales. Coming to us from Nippon Ichi, it’s an attempt by the developer/ publisher to break away from its previous focus on…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. It’s safe to say that idol management games are an untapped niche in the west. They’re hardly mainstream in their homeland of Japan either, but releases such as the Idolmaster series in Japan have kept the genre alive and well. Hyperdimension Neptunia: Producing Perfection is an…
Read MoreReview by Clark A. Fusé: Memoirs of a Huntress (Fuse: Teppou Musume no Torimonochou) takes place in Japan during an era that is alien to most audiences. Its narrative, too, is partly based on a Japanese work of fiction that spans over a hundred volumes. You can imagine my shock…
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