Well, you guys asked for it. With the release if the Nekopara OVA, I have submitted to the wishes of the people and watched it. With that done, it’s time for a long….loooong review. Now, as I say in the rant, I did not going into the OVA with an open mind. I am not […]
One of the more difficult task of a critic is to separate the popular from the good. I used to say that we were living entire lifetimes in a single day, so the obvious corollary to that is the any piece of media can become a hit within the snap of your fingers and be […]
Well, it’s been a busy news cycle in the typically quiet EVN community. Let’s run down what has gone on in the past twenty-four hours. On Tuesday, the EVM Pro YouTube channel released a video documenting Winged Cloud’s questionable business history, as well as accusations of malpractice and abusive management. Among the events covered in […]
One of the most difficult genres of media to translate to a visual novel is, in my opinion, shounen manga/anime. Many have tried, to be sure. The closest we’ve come to a successful translation is with the Sunrider series and that is more due to really nailing (no pun intended) what makes the mecha subgenre […]
…Am I being corrupted? It’s a little disconcerting that I even have to ask that question: seeing how long I went without covering adult material on VNs Now. Perhaps the worst fate really is to fall silently after all…if I start praising terrible ecchi VNs just because of boobs, double-tap me in the skull and […]
The Rising Angels series has had its fits and starts over the past few years. However, it seemed to find some footing with Reborn in 2014 (check out my review of Reborn here). The game had its issues, but it also managed to put together a strong sci-fi thriller and even squeaked out a reasonable […]
One of the things I have enjoyed about growing older is how my perception has changed when it comes to fiction. There were a lot of stories that I read as a boy, but didn’t fully understand. With time however comes experience, and the older I get, the more the tales of films like Gladiator, […]
Alrighty. Shall we go over a quick list of things I’ve been heavily critical of in the past? Teenage Romance High School Drama Sexual Fanservice Sexual Abuse Used as Backstory for Villains Stupid Characters Rounding out this list of ‘Things JP Has Been Critical Of’ is the developers themselves: Zetsubou. At best, their work has […]
We have developed a glorious ideal of Artificial Intelligence. That isn’t to say that idea is necessarily ‘good’. Rather, that idea sees AI as the next great evolutionary step: the pinnacle of human thought, theory and experience. In Science Fiction, reaching that pinnacle fundamentally changes mankind: either driving us to extinction or forcing us to […]
VA-11 HALL-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action by Sukeban Games had an interesting road to us. Starting with a game jam, the original had such broad approval that Sukeban invested the time and resources to make it into a full game. At its core it’s a visual novel, however its main method of storytelling and its decidedly […]