Night has fallen on the highway overpass. There’s a hole in the chain link fence protecting pedestrians from the drop. Car lights flash by, illuminating the lone strand of ivy fighting for life in this dark concrete world, before fading into twin dots of red. The music swells. It is atmospheric. Ominous. It knows something… Read More First Impression: Shiboyugi: Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table
A girl walks around a sepia-tinted city. She sees a white rabbit on a manhole cover, the Cheshire Cat on a screen, and an arcade. “Auld Lang Syne” randomly starts to play. Renji works at the arcade. The girl turns out to be a foreigner. Renji takes pity on her after seeing her strive for… Read More First Impression: Cultural Exchange with a Game Centre Girl
Nikola lives in a farming village. And then the frog-dragons attack! She meets a strange man named Haga who seems to be some kind of researcher. Nikola gives us a geography lesson. The villagers speculate that Haga is a King’s Seeker, a kind of elite investigator (a theory he later confirms when Nikola visits him… Read More First Impression: Quality Assurance in Another World
Shin is strong player who saved thousands of players who were locked in a realistic VR MMORPG called The New Gate. But after he thought he finished the game, a surprise was waiting for him. Before he has the chance to leave the game, he seems to skip 500 years into the future of that… Read More First Impression: THE NEW GATE
Crystalline, a visual novel available on Steam, is a fun isekai / romance / adventure story. Crystalline is the first visual novel I’ve ever tried, so I have nothing with which to compare it, but I found it charming. From what I can tell, it is typical of the visual novel genre, straddling the intersection… Read More Crystalline: A Visual Novel Review
Every few months, we like to take a couple weeks to play some interactive games. This time around, JP (Japesland), Kaze, Jack (R86), and Casey (CutsceneAddict) play a game of JP’s own creation called “Kantoku-san.” What if you were the kantoku of all anime studios in Japan? Listen in and post your own opinions in the comments below! As always,… Read More TangleCast 32: Game – Kantoku-san 1/2
Our special game week four weeks ago went so well that we decided to try playing Magnum Opus again using some of the categories we didn’t have time for last time! JP (Japesland), Casey (CutsceneAddict), Jack (R86), and Kaze provide some fun opinions on which anime should get a magnum opus, eternal rebirth, or complete extinction. And, just like last time,… Read More TangleCast 23: Game Week 2
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