Oh, there's so much about which to talk, but this bears posting right now: there's a new Neo Angelique game on the way! The return of His Holiness stabby priest Mathias! (Er, [Spoiler (click to open)]from the dead? I don't know if this new project's following the continuity of the previous game or that of the anime. The latter seemed to have better visibility; it was a ( Read more... )

As you've probably heard, Igarashi's successor to Castlevania was announced and fully funded within a scant two hours. The bright roses-'n'-jewel-tones art design and gothloli aesthetic is proving a sticking point for me, partially because it's a bit removed from the mist-covered, slate-grey Transylvania we all know and love, and partially because ( Read more... )

So I spent a bit on doujinshi this weekend. I forgot what I was originally searching for that led to the discovery, but I happened across the Otaku Republic shop, which stocks a relative wealth of Akari Funato and Lunar doujinshi. (Not all the entries under the "LUNAR" tag are related to the franchise, of course, but enough are.) I didn't end up ( Read more... )

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Mia, Lunar: The Silver Star etc.: Mia used to be one of my favorite characters in Lunar, but I kind of don't like her that much anymore. With time, I've come to care less and less about Silver Star's five ostensible main characters, whose own small character troubles seem self-involved and by orders of magnitude less interesting than the Ghaleon- ( Read more... )

I was delaying posting this until I finished my reaction posts for the first half of Silent Hill 4. I'm not going to get back to that game in the next couple weeks, though, and I'd rather do one unbroken stream of commentary for it - so heck with it; let's get this out the door and take an accounting of the games I played in 2012.

Beaten:
Neo ( Read more... )

A recent installment of the Q&A feature at the Onion's AV Club asked about pop culture stuff that the writers found hard to get a hold of. Thanks to Yahoo! Japan auctions and scans and torrents and YouTube, that's far less of a question for fans of Japanese gaming than it was a long while ago. I remember the first import book I bought: Yoshitaka ( Read more... )

I'm thrilled to see that someone's making Animamundi fanart, particularly of the caliber of Candra's work - bold color, strong Art Nouveau-esque lines, and a Lady Death aesthetic. She has other fanart and original work well worth checking out, if you've no problems with the frequent S&M milieu. (Er, but don't go to that Castlevania section at ( Read more... )

Overdue, I know. I'm going to be going back and forth between the cuts from spoiler talk to vague non-spoiler talk.

As I said in the music post, at its best, 999 is tense and gripping as hell. I don't have a copy of the original Japanese release, so I don't know if this is a faithful translation of a great original script or if Aksys just made ( Read more... )

I have more to say and will have to continue this tomorrow. ( For now, cut )