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Treasures of Steam’s Secret Comiket Sale, Part III
By now, if you’ve been following MoeGamer this week, you’re hopefully aware of Steam’s Comiket sale, in which a selection of Japanese doujin titles are available for significantly reduced prices in...
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Treasures of Steam’s Secret Comiket Sale, Part IV
And so we come to the final part of our exploration of Steam’s Comiket sale — a well-hidden set of discounts on a wide selection of Japanese doujin titles in celebration of the biannual Comiket...
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Where Everybody Knows Your Name is “Bartender”
One of the most powerful — and underexplored — aspects of video games at large is that they allow us to put ourselves in the shoes of other people: to explore lives that are not our own. In the case of...
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Tales of Xillia 2: Some First Impressions
By popular (well, relatively speaking) request, it’s time for us to take a look at Tales of Xillia 2, the newest Western release in Bandai Namco’s long-running Tales of series. I absolutely adored the...
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Tales of Xillia 2: A Test of Character
One of the most important things for any party-based RPG to get right is that feeling of everyone having a place. This can be handled in two different ways according to what kind of RPG we’re...
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Tales of Xillia 2: Becoming a Better Person
Long gone are the days when an RPG could get away with a linear progression system, with characters simply learning skills at predefined levels. Instead, these days we see all manner of different takes...
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Tales of Xillia 2: Those Who Fight Together…
While it may be hyperbolic to say that an RPG can live or die by its combat system — I’ve played plenty of games over the years that remained compelling despite shambolic or overly simplistic battle...
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Tales of Xillia 2: The Difficult Second Game
There’s a reason we don’t see all that many direct sequels in gaming these days: they’re extremely difficult to do effectively. This is particularly true in genres where individual installments are...
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Eorzea Diaries: Fixing the Hunt
It’s been a little while since our last report from Eorzea, the setting of Square Enix’s spectacular rebooted MMO Final Fantasy XIV, and so it’s about time we checked in. Last time we spoke, you may...
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I Shall Give You Endless Earth
Every avid gamer out there has at least one series — or perhaps even just one game — that they latch onto and will defend to the death. For my friend Alex, it was the Ar Tonelico series, a...
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Are JRPGs Primed for a Comeback? No; They Never Went Away
If IGN’s Colin Moriarty is to be believed, then Japanese role-playing games have been in a “steep decline” since Final Fantasy VII. You and I, as fellow enthusiasts of Japanese gaming, both know that...
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Ten Great RPGs That Came Out After Final Fantasy VII
As we saw recently, there are those among us who believe that the Japanese role-playing game has been in consistent decline since Final Fantasy VII, and that only now are we starting to see a...
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Adventures in Akihabara
One of video gaming’s great strengths is the opportunity it affords us to truly, interactively immerse ourselves in other cultures. We talked about this a little while back when we examined how...
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Criminal Girls: A Game About Trust
Criminal Girls, one of the more controversial Japanese titles to make it over to the West in recent years thanks to its semi-explicit depiction of BDSM-style “punishment” scenes, actually proved to be...
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Senran Kagura: More Than Just Life and Hometown… Much More
“Tits are life, ass is hometown.” So runs the catchphrase of Senran Kagura creator Kenichiro Takaki, and the unofficial tagline for the series as a whole. While Takaki’s sentiments are refreshingly...
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Let’s Talk About Dungeon Travelers 2 and “Ecchi” Content
The story so far: In the beginning, Polygon’s Phil Kollar posted an article called “Atlus can do better than this creepy, porn-lite dungeon crawler“. This has made a lot of people very angry and been...
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Free-to-Play Games Quietly Got Good
Free-to-play games, particularly in the mobile gaming sector, have something of a… reputation, to put it politely. And it’s not altogether undeserved. Mobile development has a cloning problem. And not...
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MoeGamerTV: Omega Quintet
Hi folks! Been a bit quiet around here of late, I know. An update for you, though: I’ve been experimenting with making videos, and am going to try and put out more when I can, both “readings” of...
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MoeGamerTV: Sword Art Online Re:Hollow Fragment
Sword Art Online Re:Hollow Fragment is a PlayStation 4 rerelease of a Vita game that was itself an expanded version of a Japan-only PSP title. It’s a “simulated MMO” that follows on from the first arc...
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MoeGamerTV: Treasures of Steam’s Summer Comiket Sale
Steam’s running another Summer Comiket sale full of Japanese doujin games goodness — they’ve actually remembered to promote it this time, though! Here’s a selection of games that are worth exploring....
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