As I’ve reiterated countless times, the Rougelike isn’t a genre I’m very great at. However, thanks to a lot of games I’ve...
I appreciate Ratalaika Games’ approach to releasing small titles, and I’m especially glad the company made a subdivision imprint specifically for visual...
Ratalaika Games titles are for the PlayStation Vita as Just Dance is to the Nintendo Wii: frequent releases that hold the console...
They say that in the Vita’s twilight years, there are two things that are constant: Death, and Ratalaika Games. While the handheld...
Video games are so weird. You play so many games and do so many strange things in them that they all start...
We live in a world of smart technology which is steadily becoming more capable of anticipating our needs, but what happens when...
The Atelier series has become a steady source of incredibly fun JRPGs in the past few years. Routinely releasing a new game...
It’s Shantae! She’s here to save the town, but the town’s problems are a little too big for her cliche genie breeches....
After years of lampooning faux gaming consoles, the Neptunia franchise gets a partner, finally, that allows it to make some references to...
Like the stages of grief or the Hokey-Pokey, learning to cope with Compile Heart titles comes in five steps. You put your...
If you were defeated by a large, powerful robotic guardian, it’d be understandable to run away and flee. Rean Schwarzer is not...
Role-playing games demand a lot of time and attention. Whether it’s grinding up to the next level or exploring a new area...
The first ten minutes of any video game are, arguably, the most important part. The first moments introduce the player to the...
It’s rare to see a game take as many chances in its concluding chapters like Zero Time Dilemma does. For a game...
When I went to college, not once did I have to gather a group of friends and face evil forces. This is...
Dungeon crawlers have always been a difficult genre for me to get into. I was never the type to break out a...
Severed is the first touch-based action game I’ve ever loved. It carries itself with intelligence and fluidity, using a hybrid of thumbsticks...
While the Vita hasn’t been the success the Nintendo 3DS has, it seems like certain developers have taken a liking to the...
As far as it relates to consuming games, I’ve never been one to be a prude. While others may find the sexualization...
The idea of holding out against an unstoppable force, standing against overwhelming odds and just barely being able to survive is admirable,...
Pace is more than a putrid picante, my friends. Pace is the general flow of things that can turn a trip to...
When you are a kid, it is fun to play pretend jobs, like playing “restaurant” or “doctor” or “cement mixing yard foreman's...
The turn-based RPG of my day is having a sort of crisis moment. 2016 could very well decide the future and fate...
The Dynasty Warriors experience is one that seems best-suited to portability. It thrives in quick bursts of action, occupying your hours with...
There may not be many of you out there, but if the things you cherish most in this life are digital pinball...
All-star fighting games are nothing new to the genre, because they’re fairly easy to conceive and create. Take any number of cameo...
Never has a game put a smile on my face faster than Persona 4: Dancing All Night. While it’s hard to deny...
Everyone has that moment in their life they wish they could undo. It can be as major as burning that final bridge...
As easy as it would be to call Amnesia: Memories a simple dating sim, Idea Factory’s visual novel takes out a lot...
Lost out in the cold grippings of space, left with only a laser pistol and a limited health support system, most beings...
Now that Spike Chunsoft has taken players outside of the walls of Hope’s Peak Academy, one would expect a third-person shooter Danganronpa...