Warriors Wednesday: Scantily-Clad Barbarian Ladies
There’s no rest for the Shu forces as they come face to face with Masamune Date! Thankfully, Date’s friend Magoichi Saika, who has been rolling with the Shu crowd largely because of its...
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Waifu Wednesday: Tatiana Alexandrovna Sharapova
Well, it’s character-centric visual novel time again here on MoeGamer at the time of writing, and that always provides plenty of interesting female characters to discuss! The first heroine from Our...
View ArticleAtari ST A to Z: HeroQuest
I absolutely loved MB and Games Workshop’s HeroQuest as a kid, but I rarely got the opportunity to play it on the tabletop with real people. Imagine my delight, then, when Gremlin announced that they...
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SNK Essentials: Athena
Sometimes there are games that aren’t the most fun to play today, but remain significant from a historical perspective nonetheless. SNK’s 1986 title Athena, in both its arcade and NES incarnations,...
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Our World is Ended: First Impressions are Lasting Impressions
A common theme explored throughout the visual novel medium in general is the idea of people not being quite what they appear at first glance. The reason for this is mostly a practical one: the very...
View ArticleNew Game Plus: Night’s Domain
How tough is our girl Rorona? Only tough enough to fell both a dragon and a demon in a single expedition, that’s how tough! In this week’s installment of our New Game Plus run through Atelier Rorona...
View ArticleAtari A to Z Flashback: Missile Command
Dave Theuer’s Missile Command is an absolute classic of the “golden age” of arcade games, and still puts up a formidable challenge today! Embodying the paranoia many people were feeling towards the...
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It’s the end of another week as we head onward into springtime, and I hope you’ve had a good one! This week has seen the release of Konami’s Castlevania Anniversary Collection on various platforms,...
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Delving Into Castlevania – #1
One of the nice things about revisiting old games from a modern perspective is the fact that you can see how certain genres have evolved over time… and sometimes seemingly morphed into different things...
View ArticleAtari A to Z: Necromancer
I love weird games. Scratch that; I don’t really like using the term “weird”, because what people inevitably mean when they say “weird” in the context of a creative work is “highly creative, unusual...
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NES Essentials: Donkey Kong Jr.
If there’s one thing Nintendo has absolutely always been good at, it’s sequels. How do you follow up a big hit like Donkey Kong? More of the same? Some lesser companies might think that is a good way...
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Waifu Wednesday: Asano Hayase
If there’s one type of character voice actress Eri Kitamura knows how to play well, it’s the seemingly aggressive but actually terribly insecure tsundere. Asano Hayase from Red Entertainment’s visual...
View ArticleAtari ST A to Z: Ikari Warriors
SNK had some top-notch arcade hits throughout the ’80s and ’90s, and many of them came home in one form or another. One great example was Ikari Warriors, which saw several different home ports over the...
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Bluemoonpark: The Most Precious Wings
It’s always a pleasure when a developer, publisher or localiser reaches out to me and asks if I’ll take a look at their project, because it tends to expose me to things that I might otherwise have been...
View ArticleNew Game Plus: Truth and Acceptance
After an in-depth exploration of Night’s Domain, Rorona gets busy on some miscellaneous tasks before reaching the deadline for her latest assignment. This time around, she discovers the truth about...
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Our World is Ended: Worlds Apart
One of the most interesting aspects of Our World is Ended is how it explores the idea of virtual reality and other worlds without following the usual isekai format. Instead, what we have is an...
View ArticleAtari A to Z Flashback: Monte Carlo
Say the words “racing game” to someone these days and they’ll typically think of a game with at least a passing impression of a 3D perspective. Prior to titles like Namco’s Pole Position and Sega’s Out...
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Hello everyone! I hope you’re having a lovely weekend. It’s another bank holiday here in the UK, so I have yet another three-day weekend, which is exciting. I’m also going on holiday next month, which...
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Team Sonic Racing: Always Better Together
One of the most interesting success stories of the last couple of console generations is the series of Sonic-themed racing games. While the blue blur’s mainline adventures have had a somewhat mixed...
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Delving Into Castlevania – #2
Last time around, we looked at how Castlevania’s overall mechanics and sense of game design can be traced forward to technical action games such as From Software’s popular titles. Today, I wanted to...
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