Silent Hope combines the farm sim and dungeon crawler with a CRPG cast under a JRPG aesthetic, a change of pace from Marvelous’ Rune Factory.
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Out of the ashes of obscurity, Quintet’s Actraiser gets its Renaissance! Here’s all you need to know about how it compares to the original.
Kitaria Fables brings a bright and cheerful world to adventure gaming that’s more Zelda-esque than Stardew-esque.
Ten Things I Learned About Running a School by playing Academia: School Simulator
“Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.”…
Forager first impressions: it will likely tickle the fancy of any player into this type of genre. It’s really a crafting sim paradise.
Running an item shop is harder than most games would have you believe, especially when you’re a young girl with no business experience. In this review, The Sometimes Vaguely Philosophical Mage takes a look at what we can learn from this sweet animesque business sim about friendship, adventure, and hardcore capitalism.
First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.
With Gordon Ramsay-like culinary expertise and barely concealed existential rage, the Sometimes Vaguely Philosophical Mage takes a peek at Overcooked! 2, which may or may not be as good as the first one.
Is Overcooked a fun couch co-op experience about the joy of creating delicious meals, or a treatise on the inevitable descent of all things into chaos? The Sometimes Vaguely Philosophical Mage says: why not both?
“Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.”
“Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us;…
“Know what? I thought of you the other day, and it filled me with warm,…
“I don’t care what happens to them, but unlike you, I was at least trying to save humanity.”
-Reza, Angels With Scaly Wings
“Looking for an oasis on earth? You fool! Earth is already an oasis in the space!”
-Mehmet Murat ildan
Dear NPCs, please simulate reading the following: Today’s genre is the broad spectrum of…
“[Kids] don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”
-Jim Henson
“He always thought of the sea as ‘la mar’ which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her. Sometimes those who love her say bad things of her but they are always said as though she were a woman. Some of the younger fishermen… spoke of her as ‘el mar’ which is masculine. They spoke of her as a contestant or a place or even an enemy. But the old man always thought of her as feminine and as something that gave or withheld great favours, and if she did wild or wicked things it was because she could not help them. The moon affects her as it does a woman, he thought.”
-Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“Americans… are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
“Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery.”
-Mark Amidon
