Showing posts with label Nippon Ichi Software. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nippon Ichi Software. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 29, 2022

On why The Cruel King and the Great Hero is a better bedtime story than it is a satisfying JRPG

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When the folks at Nippon Ichi Software revealed The Cruel King and the Great King  in early 2021, I was ecstatic. I adored The Liar Princess...
Thursday, December 24, 2020

My favorite games of 2020: Moon, The Origami King, and Void Terrarium

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I've spent most of 2020 ping-ponging between feeling terrified and traumatized. One of the few areas of my life that has bucked that tre...
Sunday, December 29, 2019

My biggest gaming disappointments of 2019

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This may be the first time I've published a post about my most disappointing games of a particular year. I guess that's because th...
Thursday, December 19, 2019

My favorite games of 2019: Lapis x Labyrinth and The Liar Princess and the Blind Prince

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If you had told me this time last year that I'd declare  Lapis x Labyrinth and The Liar Princess and the Blind Prince my favorite game...
Thursday, November 07, 2019

You press a button to hold hands, plus four more reasons I can't stop thinking about and playing The Liar Princess and the Blind Prince

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I've got to admit: I hemmed and hawed quite a bit when it came to buying a physical copy of  The Liar Princess and the Blind Prince ear...
Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Six reasons all the people who suggested I'd hate A Witch's Tale were wrong

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Shortly after I announced on  Twitter  that I was starting through  A Witch's Tale , my old podcasting pal Mollie Patterson sent me a GI...
Sunday, October 22, 2017

A few (more) thoughts on Yomawari: Night Alone in honor of #HorrorGameOct

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Nippon Ichi's Yomawari: Night Alone and I have a complicated--and convoluted--history. First, I bought a boxed copy of this Vita game...
Thursday, November 17, 2016

Nippon Ichi's Roze to Tasogare no Kojou coming to North America as A Rose In The Twilight

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I don't know why, but I was genuinely surprised to see NISA announce yesterday that it's bringing a localized version of its Japanes...
Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Thanks to this trailer, I'm probably going to buy The Princess is Money-Hungry (Vita) even though I doubt I'll understand much of its gameplay

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You may recall that a couple of weeks ago I published a post about this upcoming Nippon Ichi-made Vita game. At that time, I suggested I...
Sunday, August 21, 2016

CIB Sunday: World’s Longest 5 Minutes Limited Edition (Vita)

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When the recently released Nippon Ichi-made Vita game World’s Longest 5 Minutes --aka Sekaiichi Nagai 5 Funkan or 世界一長い5分間--was first annou...
Thursday, August 11, 2016

Who wouldn't want to play a game called The Princess is Money-Hungry?

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Apparently the folks at Nippon Ichi Software didn't get the memo that I need another Japanese Vita game sitting on my shelf like I need ...
Wednesday, August 03, 2016

This latest Yomawari: Night Alone trailer has my name written all over it

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I know the statement in the headline above isn't all that shocking. Nippon Ichi's Yomawari and its cute-slash-creepy graphics and g...
Tuesday, August 02, 2016

Oh, hey, did you hear? NIS America will release World’s Longest 5 Minutes (Vita) in North America sometime next year

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Well, color me surprised. NIS America recently revealed--in rather shocking fashion, I might add--it'll bring Nippon Ichi's World’s ...
Tuesday, May 31, 2016

So, who else has plopped down 60 big ones for the North American version of Yomawari: Night Alone?

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What kind of idiot agrees to spend $60 to buy a second copy of a game he already owns--especially when that money could be put toward the pu...
Thursday, May 05, 2016

As much as I love this new World's Longest 5 Minutes (Vita) trailer, I love the contents of the game's limited edition even more

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Full disclosure: I've already pre-ordered a copy of this Japanese Vita game via the usual source . The problem is, the version I pre-o...
Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Nippon Ichi Software just announced what appears to be a Half-Minute Hero rip-off for Vita, and I'm more than OK with it

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After all, it's not like Marvelous, the maker of the Half-Minute Hero games, seems all that interested in continuing the series. So why...
Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Who else is thrilled that Nippon Ichi's Yomawari will be released in North America later this year?

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What timing, eh? I'm talking about the timing of the post I published yesterday, of course. The one about Yomawari 's lovely case,...
Sunday, February 21, 2016

Nice Package! (Yomawari, Vita)

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Just before Halloween last year, Nippon Ichi Software released Yomawari , a Vita title that ticked off so many of my personal "these th...
Saturday, February 20, 2016

Yep, Cladun Sengoku (Vita) definitely is yet another Cladun title

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Considering my love of Nippon Ichi Software's first two Cladun games, you might think I typed the header above without an ounce of mali...