If there’s one thing I never stop shilling, it’s Satoshi Tadashi’s fantastic writing in the Persona 2 and Digital Devil Saga duologies. When The Caligula Effect was announced in early 2016, I was ecstatic to see him back to write a whole new game, especially one published by staff favorite…
How much do you want to bet you won’t be able to pronounce Utawarerumono: Mask of Deception perfectly on the first try? A big game with a big title and an even bigger heart, Utawarerumono is a franchise of visual novel/strategy game hybrids, and this marks the first time the…
The Otome genre of games sits in a rather obscure spot of the already niche visual novel genre. They are romance games made for a female audience in mind, where you choose between a variety of charming gentlemen to fall in love with. There is a lot of heart in…
As the old saying goes, “patience is a virtue”, and not many games have tested the patience of their rabid fanbase quite like Persona 5 has. Originally starting development in 2009 not long after Persona 4‘s release, the game went through a multitude of delays, landing far far away from…
Click here for the audio version! If there was a single Visual Novel series to recommend for newcomers to get into the genre, it’d have to be Zero Escape for blending complex puzzle solving gameplay and decision based visual novel storytelling. The Nonary Games is Spike Chunsoft and Aksys’ swan…
Click here for the audio version! The Yakuza series is well-known amongst most Sega fans as a weird, wonderful sandbox brawler. However, even after over 10 years and millions of copies sold collectively, many people are still in the dark when it comes to this series. Sega’s hoping that will…
Click here for the audio version! Finally, the moment we’ve all been waiting for. Yakuza 0’s release is on the horizon, with Kiwami and Yakuza 6 following not far behind. In this incredible Year of Yakuza, we’ve all been waiting with bated breath to see just what Sega of Japan…