Shin Megami Tensei III Factions & Choices Trailer
What begins as a normal day in Tokyo turns out to be everything but, when the Conception – an ethereal apocalypse – is invoked. The remains of the world are swallowed by chaos, as a demonic revolution descends into a broken city. Caught between a battle of gods and demons, the choices you make can bring life, rebirth, or death, and determine who triumphs. This genre-defining, infamously punishing ...[Read More]
Persona 5 Strikers
Persona’s contemporary operation as a rigid series of turn-based role-playing games hasn’t prevented it from twisting and contorting its identity into the guise of disparate genres. Arc System Works combined sequels to Persona 3 and Persona 4 into pair of 2D fighting games. Atlus itself leveraged Etrian Odyssey’s labyrinthine dungeon descents into a couple of competent side stori...[Read More]
13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim
When losing myself in the intricate narrative web Vanillaware spins in 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim, I couldn’t help but be reminded of playing Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward on my PlayStation Vita. Like a good book, I would clutch my Vita in hand, poring over hours of seemingly convoluted text involving murder, time travel, end-of-the-world cults, and escape rooms. One thing kept me fro...[Read More]
Catherine: Full Body (Switch)
In 2011 I had never played a game like Catherine. In 2020, with the Switch release of Catherine: Full Body’s treasure chest of enhancements and additions, I have still never played a game like Catherine. I have played visual novels that use supernatural energy as a metaphor for recurrent vices. And I have played puzzle games with complicated varieties of block pushing. I have also played soc...[Read More]
Persona 4 Golden (PC)
What in God’s name have I gotten myself into? For the better part of FOREVER, I have somehow not played any Persona games. Generally, I pass these off to our resident Persona person, Eric Layman, to review, but this time I took a chance with Persona 4 Golden to see what all the hubbub was about with the series, which has made its doubt on PC with this edition. What I found during my experience wer...[Read More]
Persona 5 Royal
Persona 5 was not a game left wanting for content. Traversing seven Palaces throughout the Metaverse and forging bonds with sixteen Confidants across eight months consumed an enormous amount of time. These proper nouns only make sense if you have already been absorbed into Persona 5’s world and are prepared for its studious blend of visual novel story sequences and dungeon crawling deep dive...[Read More]
Persona 5 Royal releases on 3/31/202
Details are listed below. School is in session! For new students or seasoned Phantom Thieves, Morgana and Kasumi go through all the Persona 5 Royal highlights in the latest trailer from ATLUS West. Morgana’s Phantom Thief Crash Course is available now on the official ATLUS West channel. The trailer covers a ton of Persona 5 Royal highlights, including: What is a Persona? New foes/New Persona...[Read More]
Catherine: Full Body
In 2011 I had never played a game like Catherine. In 2019, with the release of Catherine: Full Body’s treasure chest of enhancements and additions, I have still never played a game like Catherine. I have played visual novels that use supernatural energy as a metaphor for recurrent vices. And puzzle games with a complicated variety of block pushing. And social simulations with the ambience of...[Read More]
Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth
Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth has the prestigious honor of being the final retail release for Nintendo’s venerable 3DS hardware. As such, it is allowed indulgences abnormal of more active platforms. It incorporates characters and themes from Persona, a Shin Megami Tensei spinoff that has never appeared on a Nintendo system. It operates through the dungeon crawling paradigm of Etrian Odyss...[Read More]
Valkyria Chronicles 4 opening sequence revealed
Cool opening. Like the dog with the hat. Check out the goods below. Return to the chaotic battlefield of the second Europan war and discover the legendary story of Squad E in Valkyria Chronicles 4, a rich tactical strategy game with a distinct watercolor art style. For the first time, fans can now watch the game’s opening sequence in English, featuring the members of Squad E as they face off again...[Read More]
Fight evil demons on the snowy terrain of Antartica in new Shin Megami Tensei game
A new addition to the Shin Megami Tensei series comes to the 3DS! The Story A spatial distortion full of demons appeared in Antarctica, threatening to engulf the Earth in Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey. The United Nations responded by tasking a team of highly advanced specialists with piercing the anomaly and figuring out how to stop it from the source. Well, get ready to don your Demonica on...[Read More]
Watch the 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim E3 2017 Trailer
Life as you know it is ending because 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim will be localized and released in the West by ATLUS. The upcoming title is being developed by Vanillaware and directed by George Kamitani (Dragon’s Crown and Odin Sphere). A departure from the studio’s traditional fantasy style, the game takes place in a modern setting punctuated with giant mechs. Although the world may be b...[Read More]