I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: farming life sims are a perfect way to just chill out. There’s something cathartic and incredibly relaxing about having lots of little tasks to focus your energy on, but with little in the way of time constraints or pressure. In the …
On Friday, Marvelous and XSEED unveiled a couple of different special editions for Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town, as well as introducing the world to “Buffy the Buffalo”, a plushie that’ll be available with certain versions of the game. Just look at this adorable creature: In Europe, Buffy …
I know I’m normally one to rail against games being too long, but The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel series are the rare sorts of games that earn every minute of their running time. I said as much in my review of the first game in this four-part …
Bullet Witch is a clunky, messy game. It was clearly made on a very low budget, and it looked dated even when it first came out for Xbox 360 in 2006. If you’re the kind of person that needs your games to be polished and pristine, with production values coming …
The Western debut of Zwei: The Ilvard Insurrection is one of the most delightful surprises of the year. It’s a localisation of Zwei II, one of Nihon Falcom’s lesser-known titles and a game that, having originally released in Japan in 2008, is almost a decade old. I can’t imagine there …
I’m loving this new trend towards less-violent shooting games. There’s something inherently exciting about shooting game mechanics, but they’re almost always tied to violence—understandably so, given the genre’s origins, but it’s always nice to see games question the ubiquity and necessity of violence as the main form of interaction. Gal*Gun …
A couple of years ago, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita owners got introduced to The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel, one of the best JRPGs in years. Sadly, the Western release came in the waning years of both those platforms, so it didn’t make as much of a …
There are few games with as rich a world as that of the Trails series. Across a handful of different sub-series, Nihon Falcom built the continent of Zemuria up into one of the most intricate and believable settings ever seen in the medium. Each different sub-series focuses on a different …
