Starry Sky ~In Spring~ Review

Starry Sky is the story of the only girl at Seigatsu Gakuen, a school that specializes in celestial topics such as astronomy, horoscopes, and other topics related to these fields.…

Review: Enzai [BL game]

First, a rant. But before I begin, I want to mention something about the official English release. This translation is just terrible. It’s as though it went straight from the first…

Visual Novels on Steam

Recently, Visual Novels have begun to gain traction on one of the biggest game portals around these days; Steam. With the release of Steam’s Greenlight, Visual Novels have finally been…

Review: Saya no Uta

I meant to review this for Halloween as I thought it would be fitting, but it’s now been delayed so long that it’s already the Christmas season. Maybe not such…

Sweet Fuse ~At Your Side~ Review

18 year old Saki Inafune is excited to be attending the opening of her uncle’s, legendary game developer Keiji Inafune, new theme park, the Gameatorium, where everything is video game…

My issue with “Free-To-Play”

Today I would like to rant about the Free-To-Play model which is becoming more and more prevalent in gaming and visual novel mobile market. For those less…informed, Free-To-Play is a…

Walkure Romanze More&More Review

IT’S TIME!!! After waiting for 2 years, Walkure Romanze is back in full swing with the anime airing and the release of the fandisk spin-off (as Ricotta emphasizes), More &…

Riding Hot Air Balloons to the North Pole as a Cute Alchemist Girl: Thoughts on Atelier Ayesha

Imagine your cute imouto (voiced by the lovely Mariya “Stocking” Ise) got spirited away. Lay down on the couch right there and tell me how you feel. Does it feel…

The “Definition” of a Visual Novel

http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=28767003 You might have read a short interview by Kai to me (it’s the last one) and thought, “Wow, Kastel, is your definition of a visual novel that vague? Anything…