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By: Omar (@neo_graphyte)
Do you ever fantasize about bishounen hunks? Are said hunks historical samurai from the turn of the century? Do you dream of living with them until they give up their most intimate secrets and confess their love to you? Are some of them vampire-like half demons?
Well, you have very specific fantasies. Fortunately, Hakuoki also has those fantasies covered.
by Omar (@neo_graphyte)
With the latest release of Hakuoki on mobile platforms, I thought I’d throw up a general primer for both Hakuoki and the otome (maiden) game genre. Consider this the start point if this is your first foray into either otome, visual novels, or Hakuoki. If those are already familiar to you, feel free to skip to the full review.
By: RJ (@rga_02)
Every week we’ll be recommending you a game and an album to check out. Today I will be recommending Night Time, My Time by Sky Ferreira and Soul Sacrifice.
Read our original review on Watch Dogs here.
By: RJ (@rga_02)
I remember visiting a friend’s place around the summer of 2012. He’s what people would call a “casual gamer” You know, the type of people who would only play Call of Duty, Madden, FIFA, etc. Before I was about to leave, he asked “Hey, have you heard about this new game called Watch Dogs? It looks pretty awesome! Finally a GTA style game set in our very own city!” I too was hyped, but I never actually got to play Watch Dogs until now.
By Omar (@neo_graphyte)
These are initial impressions for Finding Teddy 2. Further thoughts to follow.
It’s difficult not to make the easy comparisons in Finding Teddy 2. It wears its influences on its sleeves. From the jumping animations, the introductory text scroll, and the character designs, Teddy purposefully invokes imagery of early Nintendo games to the point of homage.
By Kevin (@Prufesuroak)
CounterSpy was just what I needed. A platformer that isn’t at all fast paced, though it could be. More fun for less work. CounterSpy is a side-scrolling 2.5D stealth platformer that delivers the goods.
by Omar (@neo_graphyte)
This Time It’s Persona is a series of essays on Persona 3 originally published on ashensiegarettes.
I am lying to you.
At this very moment I am being untruthful. It’s a fundamental truth of our society that we only show certain sides of ourselves to each other. At times we engage in a complicit lie, pretending to care about one another in order to achieve some fundamental goal. At this very moment I am choosing only to show this side of myself to you, to engage you on a “meaningful” level .This concept of the faces we wear around each other, the idea that the relationships we create are based not only on what we choose to share with each other, but we choose not to share, is at the core of the great game that us members of society play with each other.
By: RJ (@rga_02)
In 2013 Compile Heart announced that they would be developing new jRPGs that weren’t the usual Neptunia fare they are known for. Aimed for the Japanese market, they wanted to stand out above the rest of the mainstream Japanese based companies who are now catering to the Western audience. They dubbed this project, “Galapagos RPG”. The first jRPG under that moniker was Fairy Fencer F and now the second game arrives, dubbed Omega Quintet, an interesting hybrid between an idol game and a jRPG. But will Compile Heart have a perfect song to for their audience?