Noble scion Elymas undergoes the Ritual of Divine Blessing to receive a class. During the rite, he realizes he has reincarnated into a setting with classes derived from Magic World, a VR game he played in his past life. He becomes a Heavy Knight, his favorite class. Unfortunately, in this world, the Heavy Knight is… Read More First Impression: The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System
18-year-old Nao Kanzaki is the kind of girl who goes to the police and returns a coin she found on the street. Honest to a fault, she is accustomed to hearing she’s dumb, but she does not care much. Instead, her priority is honoring the teachings of her father, a cancer patient now living his… Read More First Impression: Liar Game
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
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