Up here. I have more to say about this later, but I think this is more than enough for now.
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I've been quiet lately, because I've been trying to sort out how I feel about NightCry to write a review. I've gotten myself so mixed up on the title that I have no idea what to say. Nothing's obliging me to write a review, of course, but I feel the need to put a capper on the experience. I need closure ( Read more... )

As per an e-mail sent out to Kickstarter backers. In a little less than a week! The project was silent for a long time, and it was a bit delayed, but they snuck up on us and got the game together on the sly, pretty quickly. It's refreshing to see a video game Kickstarter deliver without drama ( Read more... )

Sorry I declared my return a bit early - I'm concentrating on translation projects, plus my dog's health is acting up - but I wanted to drop by to post on my belated discovery of Pixiv's doujinshi market, Booth.pm, where Pixiv artists can sell their doujinshi items directly. It's a real intriguing concept, but there's not much to report, at ( Read more... )

- The upcoming Angelique game has a special edition that's the equivalent of two hundred and fifty dollars. And I thought $100+ for the Maren special edition was pushing it. There actually is a mid-tier special edition for Angelique Retour that's around $100, and I think that's what I'll be getting, as the extra tchotchkes in the mega-super ( Read more... )

- As you've probably heard through social media if you're into the series, Koji Igarashi has put up a teaser website for the coming Kickstarter to a Castlevania spiritual successor. For such a big announcement - the effective revival of classic Castlevania - it's gotten almost no formal press; SiliconEra reports on every single little teaser ( Read more... )

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Sorry about posting late, right after I set an "at least every three days" deadline for myself; I was sick with a cold for a couple days.

An extended gameplay video was released of NightCry, and...it strikes me that more and more, I'm supporting this game in spite of the material that's being released, rather than because of it. I am sick of ( Read more... )

So NightCry released its first gameplay trailer today:

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I do like what we're seeing of the exploration perspective and camera work in scenes like the bar and the pantry. It's an effective update to the classic Clock Tower perspective that makes good use of 3D, and the way the camera is scaled back a bit more into the background that what we ( Read more... )

"LIMBO always overlaps with reality. This is why humans must always gather the threads of life in fear――" (NightCry)

or

"The fear of blood tends to create fear for the flesh." (Silent Hill)

In other news, the NightCry Kickstarter isn't quite on schedule to make its target; there are 20 days left, and it's gathered about $46,000 of its $300,000 ( Read more... )