Review by Harvard L. The late 00’s were something of a Wild West for the shounen manga – following the charge of the “Big Three”: Naruto, One Piece and Bleach, dozens of epic narratives with grand ambitions and understandably outlandish premises popped up in serials and doujin circles across Japan.…
Read MoreReview by Matt C. Bataille, Missouri is a small mining town full of big secrets. Erika Wright is an FBI agent from the city, just passing through Bataille to assist in the capture of an accused serial killer, when her whole life changes forever. A bunch of enormous spires, each…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. LoveKami: Divinity Stage was released on Steam back in 2016. There it got a small, but positive, following, with an 85 per cent positivity rating across 358 reviews. Now, courtesy of MoeNovel, it’s coming to Nintendo Switch. There’s no firm release date at this stage, but…
Read MoreReview by Lindsay M. I have a confession to make: despite being in a long-term relationship, I’ve been talking to women via a dating app. My spouse approves. No, we’re not polyamorous or looking for a third to join us. Instead, I have been playing Five Dates, an interactive FMV…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. After Piofiore: Fated Memories just about ruined me when I played it a few weeks ago (I just never thought Otome games would get that dark), I rather enjoyed the contrast that Café Enchanté has offered. It’s another lengthy, substantial visual novel by the same developer…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. We are doing something very different with this review. It’s an experiment for now, and who knows how it will go in the future. Hopefully, we can do more of these in kind, but if they’re not working like we hope, then we can always pull…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Nothing is sacred in Aussie gender-flipping, boob-inflating, hyper-sexed buddy-cop drama visual novel, Max’s Big Bust 2 – Max’s Bigger Bust. If this game – and series – from Lached Up Games were more prominent it would almost certainly find a level of notoriety within certain circles…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Visual novels and pretty girls go together… well, very often. Except in the otome games. Then it’s pretty boys. But either way, everyone is always pretty. You’d think we’d be bored of games with pretty people in them given how many there are but, nope. It’s…
Read MoreInterview by Matt S. Every so often a visual novel comes along that breaks away from the “hyper-niche” reputation that the genre has to pull in people that aren’t usually that interested in it. Root Letter was one such example. A detective mystery story set in regional Japan, it was…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Gangsters – be they yakuza, mafia, or otherwise, are aestheticised in Japanese culture in a way that lends itself very well to otome and a kind of violent, but ravishing romance story. Because of that, Piofiore: Fated Memories, which is a visual novel about three warring…
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