Currently playing : Nier

I'm currently playing Nier (not Automata) on Xbox 360.

I really like it. It is a beautiful, sad game, with beautiful music and good artwork.

I finished the game with one ending last night, and decided - rather than play and get the next ending to the game, I would start over again from nothing.

There's an achievement for completing the whole game under 15 hours which I'm aiming for. I'm skipping all the sidequests, which means sadly I miss out on Devola & Popola singing together.

It is unrelentingly sad, just chock full of sad stories, sometimes unnecessarily sad. 

For example - when you go to turn in your final fishing sub-quest, there's another man standing in the quest-giver's place. He tells you that the old man who gave you the quest died then says no-one in town really liked him anyway. I mean, come on, writers, you didn't need to do that! This has no impact on the overall story of the game, they just decide to throw in things like that all the time.

But the sadness is a good outlet for me in this world we're living in. It's easier to put your heart into a bunch of fictional grief and feel that than look at the world today pretending along with everyone else that the daily massive amounts of death aren't that bad.

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Upcoming:

• Atelier Firis: The Alchemist and the Mysterious Journey (PC)
• Atelier Sophie: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Book (PC)
• Nights Of Azure (PC)
• Tales of Berseria™ (PC)
• Angels of Death (PC)
• Moékuri: Adorable + Tactical SRPG (PC)
• Flowers -Le volume sur été- (PC)

Out Now:

• Himawari - The Sunflower - (PC)
• Ninja Smasher! (PC)
• Kokurase - episode 3 (PC)
• Red Spider2: Exiled (PC)

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Featuring:

• Xanadu Next (PC)
• Senran Kagura Bon Appétit (PC)

MINUS ZERO - PC game review

Normally if I play a game on Steam and want to post a review, I just post it there. But I've tried to post a review for this game a few times this afternoon and it's just not working, so I'll post it here instead. :)

It's a fun little shoot-em-up by Triangle Service, originally part of the "Shooting Love, 200X" compilation, and is currently in Steam's big "Shoot-em-up sale", priced at £1.19 including 25% discount.

Information sources for Japanese gaming news

I thought I'd post a list of sources for the English-language Japanese game news I've been posting.

I guess it's quite European-centric, but then... I'm in Europe! The internet pushes me in a direction...

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Featuring: 

• Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 
• Saint Seiya: Soldiers' Soul
• Etrian Mystery Dungeon
• Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold: The Fafnir Knight
• Shin Megami Tensei Devil Survivor 2: Record Breaker
• Machina of the Planet Tree -Planet Ruler
• Shizuku no Oto
• November Boy 
• Sayonara Umihara Kawase +
• Kirby And The Rainbow Paintbrush
• various 3D Sega Classics on 3DS eShop
• Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai Remix