….So……yeah….let’s talk about sex(?!?!?!?!) I am so far from the authority on this sort of thing I might as well be typing up this list in Pashtun. My prudishness has been the second longest-running joke on this website after my jokes about various Cyanide Tea characters. I cannot, CANNOT emphasize enough that YOU, YES YOU, […]
And so we’ve come to it, as we inevitably do. Welcome all to the 2018 End of Year Lists. First I want to thank you for your patience. 2018, overall, was a good year for visual novels in the West: even with the controversy around Steam. But that isn’t to say we didn’t have some […]
Every month, the community over at Chic-Pixel have events to play certain games. This month has been declared VN November which strikes my fancy quite nicely. You can get the full details on the Chic Pixel website here along with a few recommendations and most of those I can get behind (with one or two […]
Tomorrow, the world will remember the end of World War One one hundred years ago. Many families back then lost their loved ones as they fought bravely in this war, some, unfortunately, went missing in action and were never heard from again so this can be a tough time for many families to remember. Now […]
Every October 30th we celebrate World Audio Drama Day! As a fan of radio dramas, I offer my own humble contributions from four years ago: a dramatic reading of Edgar Allen Poe’s short story The Black Cat! Enjoy! (The actual performance starts at the 3:54 mark) Header artwork is The Black Cat by Frrruuussstraation.
…………..Where in the blue Hell do I even bloody start? I think it is worth noting that you can trace a line between the fanfiction writers of over a decade ago now to many of the genre writers of today: which includes visual novels. While I’m not here to critique the positives and negatives of […]
I don’t know how anyone familiar with visual novels isn’t excited for Route 59’s Necrobarista. Everything we’ve seen of the title oozes with style and a unique awareness of presentation and direction. The developers hopped onto the console train before anyone else realized it was a train at all and have, to my knowledge anyway, […]
HELP. ME. I have repeatedly stated that I am willing to give ecchi visual novels a shot because just based on mathematical probability, THEY CAN’T ALL SUCK. Even if the vast majority sucks, in order for the universe to remain balanced one ecchi title has to be legit good. I, personally, have yet to find […]
Lately I’ve fallen into a literary fandom that I’m probably not going to get out of anytime soon. Long-time readers of the site will remember me constantly referencing one of my favorite authors, Samuel Beckett, in the early days. Current readers of the site will be more familiar with this particular fandom: Junji Ito. Ito’s […]
The Walking Dead franchise should get a lot more credit. Yes, it helped run the sub genre of post-apocalyptic fiction into the ground with everyone who tried to cash in, as this Angry Joe bit illustrates. The biggest issue with is that there are seemingly only so many stories that can be told from the […]