A little late on the news wrap this time (life be like that sometimes!), but here are some of the game news highlights from last week! The Swords webtoon is getting a game (for real!) Matthew Wills, the creator of popular comedy-fantasy webtoon Swords often gets asked about the possibility …
There are few developers who are as consistent as Otomate when it comes to thoughtfully pushing the boundaries of the stories videogames can tell. The framework of an otome game is perfect for exploring the depths of the human soul at its best and worst, and Otomate has long made …
It’s official: Touken Ranbu Warriors is getting an international release, with a simultaneous international launch planned for May 24, 2022 for Nintendo Switch. Touken Ranbu Warriors is the latest Warriors series collaboration title, this time based on Touken Ranbu Online, a popular browser-based simulation game about collecting and training famous …
Otomate’s “divine romantic comedy” otome game Cupid Parasite is set for release in the west this November, Idea Factory International announced this morning. It’s coming to Nintendo Switch on November 2 for North America, and November 5 for Europe (and, presumably, Australia and New Zealand, given its recent Australian Classification …
The latest crossover title in Koei Tecmo’s prolific Warriors / Musou series seems both unexpected and like a match made in heaven: Touken Ranbu Musou is currently in development for Switch and PC, combining the swords-turned-into-beautiful-men stylings of Touken Ranbu with Musou‘s 1-vs-1000 action. Touken Ranbu -ONLINE- is a browser-based …
The quick elevator pitch for London Detective Mysteria would be to say that it’s a combination of detective fiction and romance, with analogues for a handful of famed literary detectives as your potential love interests. As intriguing as “cute detective boys” sounds in its own right, the magic here runs …
You can always count on certain things with an otome game from Otomate: stunning artwork, excellent writing, cute boys, and a tragic undercurrent to the romance that defines the genre. Oftentimes, Otomate will also use that framework for some sort of big-picture philosophical exploration: Collar x Malice is as much …
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 …
It was inevitable that sooner or later, Otomate would turn their attention to the Nintendo Switch—after all, their specialty is visual novels, visuals novels are a perfect fit for handheld consoles, and the Switch has dethroned the Vita as the premier handheld. What is, perhaps, surprising is just how many …
Despite being the first half of a two-part remake, last year’s Hakuoki: Kyoto Winds stood on its own surprisingly well. It expanded greatly upon the original Hakuoki, with six new romance options and narrative routes, and three entirely new characters among them. Even though the original routes were “cut …
