Over the past few years, the visual novel scene has been steadily gaining traction and support outside of Japan. No longer limited to titles that have to have more standard types of gameplay to justify their existence, we're now enjoyi...

When the name of Toei's newest Kamen Rider was leaked to the masses, people weren't sure what to make of it. Ex-Aid? Some took the "aid" and thought doctors, while others tried to figure out how "Ex-Aid" could turn into "18." Anyt...

Today is a pretty big day for the gaming world! A title very dear to me released on Steam today... but for most, this tremendous contribution will go largely unnoticed. Hence why I'm here! Because while it hasn't impacted many out the...

No, this one isn't going to be about Mighty No. 9. After some deliberation, I'm likely not going to be blogging about that topic again. In fact, after some more deliberation, I've decided that this is going to be my last blog here on D...

Yesterday, I posted a blog tangentially related to this topic. This, however, may be much much much more important. See, it turns out that Umineko no Naku Koro ni already has its Steam page up! With pictures and everythi...

Yesterday, a bomb was dropped by one of the translators for the upcoming Steam release of Umineko no Naku Koro ni, aka the visual novel besides MuvLuv (preorders now up on Steam!) that I hold in super super high regard and is one of my...

Hello there, reader! Are you a Pokemon fan? Do you like having nice Pokemon things in your Pokemon games? Well then do I have good news for you! You may not know it, but periodically The Pokemon Company gives away special prize Pokemo...

Let's talk about the Vita for a sec. I mean like, literally, a sec. I'm gon' be quick on dis one. There still seems to be this weird opinion floating around that the thing is without content. That because some of the games on it, of th...

Lately, I've tried to get away from blogging about controversial topics and get back into having fun writing again. But there's one subject, one misunderstood fact, that keeps popping up in a lot of these conversations that I've been s...

No, not that Scout. Of all the games I've played with class-systems in them, Makai Kingdom was one of the first. Disgaea, despite being its predecessor, was the second. Interestingly enough, I had gotten a little booklet about Makai K...

Depending on who you ask, one hundred blogs is either a huge number or an impossibly small number. It probably depends on how long they've been doing it, and whether or not they're asshats whose online handles start with Z that can pu...

Thirty five thousand, seven hundred and ten words. 35,710. That's almost half as long as the first Harry Potter book. It's a third the length of The Hobbit. It's also, to be more specific, how many words I've unleashed on this site thr...

I didn't actually think I'd do this Bloggers Wanted prompt. I'm not really overly interested in VR, and I feel like I got my fill of it when I was a kid at some theme park attraction. For me, I figured that was the end of it. It's expe...

It's not often I, or anyone else for that matter, can say that they're playing a new Digimon game. Not as often as they can say they're playing a Pokémon game at the very least. Thanks a lot, Bandai Namco! But wait! Would you lo...

Much as people claim to desire originality above all else, you just can't deny the allure of what's familiar to us. Whether it's our own personal nostalgia or just something rooted in the cultural consciousness, like Batman or Snow Whi...

You'd think that after my last blog, where I discussed how I'm not as huge on character creation as it seems like the rest of the gaming community seems to be, my taking up the Initiation Station challenge now would be the last thing I...

Character creation means a lot of different things to people. Now more than ever, it's a huge part of the appeal of gaming. It can make or break whether or not a player can get truly find themselves immersed in a game. It's a feature t...

In the two years since DrinkBox announced Severed as an upcoming PS Vita game, it's also been announced for iOS and rumored at that it'll be coming for 3DS too, though these rumors may not come to fruit. In those same two years, many o...

A few days ago, Kouji Wada passed away. This name probably isn't significant to some of you, in fact I imagine quite a lot of you have probably never heard of the man, but to me, I'd been following this for a... little while. I was onl...

It's time again for Zetta's Pokémania Power Hour! Or something. I'll figure out a catchy name one of these days. How's today's version?  On today's exciting installment of this incredibly dull series, I am going to break a little fro...

Welcome once again to Pokémania with Overlord Zetta! As the title implies, this is a series of Pokémon themed blogs that will cover topics of all shapes and sizes. The first installment, posted earlier this month, started off a wishlist o...

Welcome to Pokémania with Overlord Zetta! As the name implies, Pokémania will be a series of Pokémon-themed blogs. Specific topics in Pokémania will vary from blog to blog, but things I'd like to talk about in the future include differe...

Despite how many games have come to the Vita since it released, Soul Sacrifice Delta still remains one of my favorites on the system. Thanks to Sony essentially sweeping the title under the rug, however, many people just... haven't played i...

If I told you the writer of Tales of the Abyss/Symphonia had teamed up with Tales of and Sakura Wars character designer to work on a game about a task force dealing with a virus infecting people in the early 1800s through 1900s that drives ...

As I sit here today, watching waifu battle waifu, demon battle demon, and pocket monster battle pocket monster to the death... I ask myself. Aren't we all just avoiding the real questions here? Like... Which Senran Kagura character is the ...

Danganronpa 2 was a surprisingly polarizing experience for me initially. There were times I found myself shockingly disappointed with Spike Chunsoft, and there were times when I was completely immersed and enraptured with what they'd put ou...

It is a rare moment where I take issue with animu tropes. Really, really rare. If you talk to me about this kind of thing or read my blogs regularly enough, you probably know that already, but so we can be clear on this, and I admit it is l...

It is with great sorrow today that I need to call out some out there. It is with great sorrow that I must, once more, venture down the rabbit hole of the topic that is censorship of Japanese games. Indeed, today, I am no longer able to hold...

Remember Medabots? Yes? No? Maybe? For those of you who either didn't have a childhood, are old, or who had childhoods that didn't involve discovering the glory of robotic beetles and middle aged Japanese men being able to appear from seem...

If there is one aspect that I can both love and hate about games, it is grinding. The love or hate will usually depend on the game and the manner in which The Grind is presented to the player. It doesn't even matter if I like the game, beca...