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I remember when the original Pokemon Snap came out for the N64, all the kids I knew were super excited. It was the first Pokemon game in 3D, and while people were hoping for a game that featured 3D battles, the game was extremely popular anyway. It was a novel premise to photograph Pokemon in … Read more

Capcom has something of a love-hate relationship with its Ace Attorney fans. Admittedly, it’s a very weird franchise. A series of visual novels where absurdly named attorneys battle over equally absurd trials that throw all semblance of legal procedure out the window. But it works, dammit, and the fans of the series crave each new … Read more

I remember playing the original Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town when I had it on the Gameboy Advance. It was one of the few GBA games I had at the time and it was a birthday present from a friend. I’ve always been a big fan of the franchise with its adorable features and … Read more

Gust’s Atelier games are JRPG comfort food. Candy-colored affairs with frilly character designs, goofy monsters and silly jokes. Where it’s far more urgent to make flour so the blacksmith can bake a cake for his daughter than it is to save the world. The first Atelier game I played was Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana, the … Read more

I’ve been getting more into visual novels recently, mostly because the Switch is quickly developing a great catalog of them. While looking into some good ones to play, a recommendation that kept coming up was Root Letter. Not only was Root Letter highly recommended, there are even talks of a Hollywood adaptation of the plot. … Read more

Gamer Diary: WILL, A Wonderful World One of the Switch’s real strengths this generation is just the sheer amount of visual novels being released for it. For decades, the genre had been largely overlooked when it came to being localized, and aside from a few choose-your-own-adventure style text games on the PC, was not a … Read more