扉の伝説, Tobira no Densetsu

It's been a while since my last post but I'll talk about a doujin rpg for a change Tobira no Densetsu (Tobiden) is a free game that was released in 2007 after 4 years of development telling the story of Lucia a 15 years old girl trying to find money to cure her sister, she …

モミジは紅く其の身を染めて and Dear my Abyss, reviews

This time I'll review 2 games by Team Berial, Momiji wa Akaku Sono Mi o Somete that was first released in 2010 and Dear my Abyss that was released just last month   モミジは紅く其の身を染めて Momiji tells the story of Masaki,a seemingly normal high-schooler in every ways. Spending his time with his 2 friends Hiroaki and …

2016 in a nutshell, part 1

2016 ended up being a pretty weird year for me so rather than doing a simple ranking of whatever I liked released this year a brief non-exhaustive retrospective of everything I enjoyed in a somehow chronological felt more appropriate TOKYO NECRO My first (and not the last) surprise of the year was a game I …

RITTERORDEN, review

Paved roads, horses running, court intrigues, a world where sometime words have to be spoken with swords and arrows The usual middle age setting. But in this world exist special stones who give superhuman powers to their wielders, these stones are owned and controlled by the Church and given to countries as proof of their …

The Hegemony of Free Games pt2: CyberRebeat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ3f681XBR8 This post will be about one free game only, CyberRebeat -The Fifth Domain of Warfare- You can get it there: https://freegame-mugen.jp/adventure/game_3628.html CyberRebeat is a doujin game developed by the group E.N.Nach, it was originally released during the comiket and later distributed for free. First to talk about the most unpleasant part of the game and …

The Hegemony of Free Games pt1

It's been a while but I've been meaning on making that post for a while to talk about an area of Japanese subculture that have been really impressing me recently: the free games The free games are simply doujin/indie games released as their names indicate for free, often on sites focused them like http://freegame-mugen.jp/ They …

一緒にいきましょう, 露草ユーフォリア overview

Well it's been a while but here is an overview of 2 doujin games I did last month 一緒に行きましょう逝きましょう生きましょう http://water-phoenix.com/ikimasyou/ One day a highschool student, Kyouya, wakes up in some ruins his body bound making it impossible for him to move. Suddenly a being enter the room and immediately drop dead just to stand up …

西暦2236年 A review

I imagine not many people know this title and Twitter isn't actually the best place to review things so I decided to create a blog, it will probably be full of typos and weird phrasing but bear with me. I'll try not to post too many spoilers but I probably won't be able to avoid …