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Interlude
Since we had five Wednesdays this month, I thought I’d take the opportunity to talk a bit about what’s coming up here on MoeGamer. In the immediate future, you can expect the full Cover Game treatment...
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One Way Heroics: Introduction and History
The concept of a “point of no return” is a common one in RPGs: it normally refers to the point immediately before the game’s finale where advancing the plot any further will put you on a collision...
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One Way Heroics: Mystery Dungeon, Forest, Plains and Mountains
Mystery Chronicle: One Way Heroics — and indeed its illustrious predecessor — is unique in the Mystery Dungeon series in that it’s not confined to dungeons. Indeed, the fact that the majority of the...
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One Way Heroics: Narrative, Themes and Characterisation
Unlike many other roguelikes, which tend to focus on mechanical complexity and the emergent narrative of each play session, Mystery Chronicle: One Way Heroics has a plot. The original One Way Heroics...
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One Way Heroics: Which Version to Play?
Given that there are now three different versions of One Way Heroics in the wild, the question on your lips will doubtless be “which one is best”? It’s not an easy question to answer definitively, so...
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Gal*Gun: Introduction and History
With the advent of HDTVs and their different method of producing an image compared to old-school CRTs, one genre of game has largely fallen by the wayside: the light-gun shooter. With that said,...
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Gal*Gun: Dating on Rails
Although Gal*Gun Double Peace has the trappings of an arcade-style light-gun shooter, there’s a lot more going on in the game than simply pointing and shooting. We no longer live in an age where a...
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Chat live with hot girls and sweaty men now on the MoeGamer Discord!
Discord is a thoroughly lovely free alternative to Skype and Teamspeak, offering full text and voice chat facilities both via a Web client and a downloadable client for Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Android...
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Delicious! Pretty Girls Mahjong Solitaire: Exactly What it Sounds Like
You have to respect a game that is up-front about what it is; one that says to you “we both know why you’re here.” Japanese developers and localisers — particularly in the visual novel sector, and...
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Gal*Gun: Narrative, Themes and Characterisation
Gal*Gun Double Peace is about much more than just shooting pretty girls until they fall over in quasi-orgasmic states: it’s actually got a pretty decent narrative, too. Technically, it’s got several...
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Gal*Gun: Sights and Sounds
Gal*Gun Double Peace is memorable for a whole lot of different reasons: its contribution to the revival of rail shooters, its silly but touching plot and its striking audio-visual aesthetic. Unlike...
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Supipara: A Tale of the Greatest of Smiles
minori’s Supipara, a collection of five visual novels, the first of which has been localised by MangaGamer, is in an interesting situation. It’s a series that doesn’t quite exist yet. As the series...
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Fairy Fencer F ADF: Introduction and History
Idea Factory’s label Compile Heart has repeatedly proven over the years that they’re not afraid to look back on their past work and try to improve it. As a result of this highly iterative development...
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Fairy Fencer F ADF: Anatomy of an RPG
Compile Heart RPGs have a very clear sense of identity; they’re instantly recognisable. Everything from their overall aesthetic to the structure of the game contributes to this distinctive identity,...
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Negligee: Pretty Girls in Sexy Pants
With a title like “Negligee”, you probably think you know what you’re getting — and in this case, you’d probably be right. Mostly. Negligee is a short visual novel from the UK-based (but heavily...
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Root Letter: Eleven Letters, Eight People, One Truth
Kadokawa Games’ Root Letter, first in their new Kadokawa Games Mystery series, quietly snuck out onto the market at the end of October, just four months after its Japanese release. The proposed series...
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Fairy Fencer F ADF: Narrative, Themes and Characterisation
Compile Heart games, as we’ve previously discussed, don’t exactly follow the mould of the stereotypical JRPG. However, this doesn’t stop them from having a strong sense of worldbuilding. You may not be...
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Fairy Fencer F ADF: Sights and Sounds
Fairy Fencer F and its Advent Dark Force counterpart represent an interesting melting pot of influences. We’ve already talked about how the gameplay includes influences from Compile Heart’s own...
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Final Fantasy XV: A Series of Constant Reinvention
“If it’s not new, it’s not Final Fantasy.” According to World of Final Fantasy director Hiroki Chiba, speaking with Gamer Escape earlier this year, this is the attitude that Final Fantasy series...
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Final Fantasy XV: The Latest Reinvention
As we discussed last time, the Final Fantasy series is one that has rarely stood still or grown complacent. Each new installment has represented a reinvention of the basic formula to one degree or...
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