One thing I often hear as a critic is that no matter how bad I believe a game is, I need to find something positive about it. I admit that it mostly stems not from what I critique, but rather it comes from how I critique. After five years of this, I’ve never been one […]
Okay…nobody panic…but we’re going to talk about diversity today. I SAID NO ONE PANIC. I’m sure everyone reading this already has an opinion on the representation of different ethnicities, genders and sexualities in Western media. I want to make clear from the offset that we are not here to debate the larger cultural clash and […]
One of the more interesting partnerships formed by Sekai Project is with the Japanese group Alice in Dissonance. The Fault Milestone series is their very first project undertaken by the group and its continued growth directly mirrors the level of comfort AID as they continue their work. While I had my issues with Fault One, […]
And so, a new chapter opens. Yes, I am still done with the Sakura series. My hands are washed of it and I am not looking back. However, I’m not necessarily free from the sub-genre that spawned it. Interestingly enough, despite the success of Sakura Spirit a few years ago (siiiiigh), only a handful of […]
So! Once again, I’ve found myself playing an eroge. There’s a long list of people to blame for why I keep getting pulled into this genre: Tao Tao, the entire team at Sugar Script, Christine Love and Tryinmorning all come to mind. But I’m here, so we might as well not linger. Today we’re talking […]
This weekend, thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of anime fans will sweep through Los Angeles for Anime Expo 2016! The yearly convention is considered the largest in North America and will feature some of the biggest names in the anime industry today as well as the top three VN localization companies operating in the […]