I’ve not seen the controversial Goblin Slayer anime or read the light novel, and I’m still not sure if that’s a good thing or not. Opinions about this thing are polarising from all corners, but from what I understand this is a very dark fantasy thing with an awful lot of sexual violence to go with the bloodletting. I don’t…
It feels like I’ve been asking for a new Ogre Battle title for decades (probably because I have been). No, not Tactics Ogre, though those are also very fine. I do mean Ogre Battle, the JRPG/Real Time Strategy series of just two titles that I was obsessed with back on…
Free-to-play games can run the gamut from terrible and money-hungry to quite…
Persona 5 has become a full-on franchise in its own right, having…
It’s difficult to write within the fantasy genre in 2022. On the one hand, it’s painfully easy to write something so self-serious and overwrought that it comes across as a desperate and doomed effort to channel Tolkien. Writing fantasy that people will take seriously is monumentally difficult because fantasy by…
Read More
When I think back to my early efforts in game criticism, things get a bit hazy (I’ve reviewed thousands of games since, give me a break), but I’m pretty sure that La Pucelle, on the PlayStation 2, was the very first JRPG I was ever given the opportunity to review.…
Read More
I know this is a nice problem to have, but there are just so many games that 2022 has thrown up that deserve awards at the end of the year. It has been a monstrously good year for video games, especially if you like Japanese games, and The DioField Chronicle…
Read More