The Silver Case Despite being basically a VN with short controllable puzzle segments this game is getting pretty good. I'm not sure if I'm just giving it more praise because I've got a basic understanding of what the hell is going on from some of the other games in the franchise, but the writing is...

Suda 51's The Silver Case has finally been translated into English and released on Steam. I'm playing through it now and I'd say it's defininitely worth checking out for fans of killer 7 or Flower, Sun and Rain, but the odd gameplay won't be everyone's cup of tea sadly.

^Might not be playable, since he has a super/Distortion Drive that lets him use that transformation.

^You could go back to play through it again. That's the fun part of FromSoft games, you can keep plowing into NG+ with all the stuff you collected the first time. If you haven't done or bought the Old Hunters DLC there's also that.

fuck you Sumia I'm currently playing as female!Robin, aiming for Chrom as my spouse and yeah, fuck Sumia. I might not dislike her as much if the game didn't keep trying to emphasise how Chrom x Sumia is one of the devs' preferred ships, since it's the only pairing which is strongly enforced with di...

From what I've gathered of the plot of Centralfiction from people who've played the Japanese Arcade version, the main plot is seemingly rather confusing and requires a fair amount of knowledge of the ending of Chronophantasma as well as possibly the character backgrounds and supplementary materials....

^I honestly can't tell if this is better or worse for the franchise than pachinko hell.

^I've been really excited for this, hope my aging PC can handle it. Another Metroid 2 Remake is out (that's actually it's name) and this is all I have to say to Nintendo besides fuck you: https://youtu.be/o-WwL2FzjV4?t=7 I've started playing this recently and I must say that it's a must-play for any...

Finally started Awakening. It's much better than I was expecting (and my expectations for it were already pretty high). I thought I was going to have a lot of trouble with the combat gameplay, but it's much more fluid than it appears and the game does a decent job of explaining everything in the ear...

Watching Stranger Things on Netflix. Oh, my God...this show is a-MAZ-ing. The understated and atmospheric synth music, the costumes and Eighties aesthetics, the very sincere acting by the kids, vague yet menacing government agencies, the slow yet legitimate build-up of dread, Winona FREAKING Ryder....

Berserk 1-3: I somehow get the feeling this is not the best place to start with this franchise. The problem is that the first few arcs have been adapted twice over, so clearly whoever's making the new show felt that they should skip those and get onto the next part. Unfortunately it seems they also...

I'm not too worried about any of the Children dying except maybe one of the Reis. I'm more worried that Misato is going to pull a Captain Nemo and sacrifice herself and the Wunder to disable one of Nerv's weapons so the others can have a chance to escape. Turning her into Nemo 2.0 was a great callb...

My quick thoughts on DS3: -Liked the PvE, but didn't like how linear the progression was compared to DS1 and 2. (In this game, the progression is always Lothric castle > Settlement > Farron woods etc.) -Covenants feel under developed (Blues and Blades do the exact same thing and have exact same rew...

Berserk ep.02 This was a lot better than last week's offering, since we've moved past the clumsy opening to the Holy Iron Chain Knights arc. It still does seem like a pretty rough transition, though, since the Rosine arc was cut out completely. As usual the animation remains the central spot of ann...

^I think part of the problem with Berserk ep.01 is that it attempts to partially adapt the first chapter of the manga. It's fairly faithful in some areas, but since that chapter as a whole had been written before the characters and backstory were fully realised, it's not a great establishing moment....

I've been interested in this series for the longest time because I like action RPGs and the atmosphere reminds me of survival horror games, but I just haven't had anything that's been able to run the games probably. I can never get a half decent PC. I'm thinking of maybe tracking down some of the K...

I think Kiznaiver ended way too quickly for its own good. More time to focus on the characters would have been better than the ending, which ultimately felt rather rushed.

SA2 was onto something good with its policy of having levels, and level variations, exclusive to one track or another, but AFAIK this concept was never reused. Shadow the Hedgehog had a morality system in which the order of your levels and your final ending were based on whether you helped GUN, the...

I got Elder Scrolls Online and Environmental Station Alpha off the Steam sale. ESO : The reviews for this game range from great to horrific so I went into this with low expectations. It's surprisingly quite good. I wouldn't call it my favourite Elder Scrolls game, but it's a pretty good MMORPG and I...

Kabaneri Episode 11

The show has really become predictable and cliché. I'm pretty sure I saw the entire plot of this episode in reddit speculation 2-3 weeks ago.

If there is one decent thing about this show, it's probably the sound design. Hiroyuki Sawano is wasted on this.