News by Matt S. Who doesn’t like a good visual novel with gothic sensibilities? That’s what Fata Morgana: Dreams of the Revenants looks like, and it looks good Coming to PlayStation Vita on May 28 (i.e. right about now), and PlayStation 4 on June 11, the game actually features a…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. World End Syndrome plays with fire a little. On the first play through, it’s impossible to avoid getting the “bad ending,” because you’re only presented with one decision to make, with that decision giving you a single option to “choose” in leading up to that ending.…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I like games with fan service and risque humour. I like my anime tropey games. Our World Is Ended contains copious amounts of both, and on a certain level I do derive some entertainment from that. The game is indeed often amusing. Unfortunately, a lot of…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. VA-11 HALL-A has been kicking around for a fair few years now, but for one reason or another I have never actually played it before. Finally, after a number of people have been badgering me to finally move it off the backlist, the Nintendo Switch release…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. We recently reported that the Australian Classification Board had let slip that Root Letter: Last Answer was likely getting a western release. After all, you don’t go to the expense to get something classified in Australia unless you’re going to release it. Now, publisher PQube has…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Yet another of the better quality examples of the adult visual novel genre is getting a Nintendo Switch port. The Grisaia series (Fruit, Labyrinth, and Eden) started life as sex scene-filled pornographic games, but underneath that surface was a strong narrative core. Strong enough that the…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I’ll be honest: I never expected to play a game in which short skirted, big boobed anime girls started cracking jokes about Australia’s right wing politician’s drive to rip incomes away from working class families. But here we are at Alluna and Brie and, as odd…
Read MoreReview by Lindsay M. To review the Phoenix Wright: Attorney Trilogy is a bit of a loaded task for me. The three titles have so much history on their own and as a package, and the characters contained within have spanned media outside of video games. So what exactly is…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Zanki Zero: Last Beginning wants you to believe that it’s different to the Danganronpa series, despite being made by the same narrative and creative team. It positions itself as a dungeon crawler; something a lot more active and game-y than the aforementioned visual novel torture trilogy.…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. One of the Idea Factory games I’m looking forward to the most is Date A Live: Rio Reincarnation: a “romantic visual novel” based on a brilliantly fanservicey anime franchise. And now we have confirmation that it’s coming soon to the west! It releases on PlayStation 4…
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