Content warning for discussion of sexual assault Last week, someone shared allegations that Tool / A Perfect Circle singer Maynard James Keenan had raped her 20 years ago, when she was 17. Since then, a few of other people have come forward with similar claims on forums like Reddit. The …
Disclosure: I did some freelance work for publisher eastasiasoft on the PS4 port of Rainbow Moon. I’ve had no involvement with the development of Rainbow Skies. Rainbow Moon was a strange beast. It was a game of epic proportions in a genre known for its storytelling, but the grandiosity of …
In its opening moments, The Lost Child doesn’t pull any punches. While investigating a series of bizarre subway suicides wrapped in supernatural rumours, occult reporter Hayato Ibuki suddenly finds himself pushed onto the tracks by an invisible force. He’s saved at the last second by a stranger shouting about how …
In a rising sea of pixel-art “rogue-lite” RPGs, it takes something special to stand out. For Moonlighter, that something is an element of shop management: playing as the owner of an item shop, you’re tasked venturing into dungeons in search of wares to sell, in turn allowing you to build …
Yesterday, Dark Souls creators From Software announced their newest game: Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. Set in the late 1500s during Japan’s Warring States era, Sekiro looks to be a twist on the usual Souls formula with more mobility and a greater scope to use the environment to your advantage in combat, thanks to the ninja hero’s trusty …
I’ve tried a few times to get into Little Witch Academia, but to no avail. It seems very much like my kind of thing—there’s a school of magic, the usual delightful anime tropes, and a main character whom I find thoroughly relatable in her clumsy, lazy swagger—and yet every time …
If you enjoy cute, lighthearted romance visual novels, then roseVeRte’s Story of Eroolia series are well worth a look. Set in a fantasy world were humans and cat people coexist—not always peacefully—each Story of Eroolia follows a different heroine on a tale of adventure and budding romance. There have been …
Framed and Framed 2, originally released for mobile in 2014 and 2017 respectively, are two of the most unique, clever puzzle games to come out in the last few years. They start with a simple concept–you face to rearrange panels in a comic so that each scene plays out as …
It’s a rare horror game that can make you regress to that little kid, hiding under the covers from the shadows that creep across the room. All the gore and body horror in the world can’t compare to the childhood fear of the dark, and a game that can build …
It’s hard to believe that just a few short years ago, I was one of those people who wrote off the Warriors series as one of repetitive, tiresome button mashers. Then along came Dragon Quest Heroes to completely change my mind, and I’ve gone on to enjoy just about every …