Final Fantasy Record Keeper is an iOS/Android game that takes characters and creatures from almost every main numbered Final Fantasy game and lets your create your own party to fight against those creatures. In short, it’s a game for Final Fantasy fans who really love the old-school combat from the earlier games. Combat in Final…
The complaint often arises with anime that the voices all sound the same. So how does it sound when you have one voice actress having a conversation with themselves? The anime Kantai Collection, based on the game of the same name, features anthropomorphized battleships. Each of the characters that appears in the series is based…
But aren’t we all? Yes, yes, Steam is a pretty decent online store. At least Smash Bros. creator, Masahiro Sakurai, thinks so. Maybe he could, you know, make a game to sell there. “It’s become mandatory that each platform has its own built-in [digital] shop.” Sakurai reflected in his semi-weekly column in Weekly Famitsu. “So…
The PlayStation 4 was released in Japan nearly one year ago. So are Japanese buyers of the console happy with their purchase? Over 1,000 PS4 owners answered a customer satisfaction survey in this week’s Weekly Famitsu. Many were happy. Some were not. Here’s what was asked, what was answered, and a bit of what was…
Camping is a big part of Final Fantasy XV. And what is camping, without some campfire cooking? As previously explained by director Hajime Tabata, is part of the core gameplay of FFXV, and plays a vital role in adventuring the vast open world. To recap, camping in FFXV converts exp gained through battles into levels.…
The new Pokémon fighting game, Pokkén Tournament is hitting arcades in Japan this summer, and a new trailer is out to offer new details, including a breakdown of the controls. In the newly released trailer, some of the previously announced playable characters were shown as well as some new details were on how the game…
The new trailer forPersona 5 was just the right balance of entertaining and intriguing. But if the trailer alone wasn’t enough, here’s more info from the game’s director. In a recent interview with Weekly Famitsu, Persona 5 director Katsura Hashino revealed details on the game’s protagonist and what all the masked man stuff was about.…
Recently, Capcom made an announcement about an ambitious online game with the initials DD. But the new Dragon’s Dogma wasn’t exactly the game that people were expecting Capcom to highlight. So what’s going on with that other game? Deep Down was announced back in 2013 and caught everyone’s attention with its enigmatic visuals and Dark…
Following the Attack on Titanmodel, Terraformars, the popular manga/anime series, will be getting a live action movie in 2016. That sure is an awful idea. Here’s why. For those who don’t know, Terraformars is a manga about a future where Mars has been turned into a habitable environment for humans, but the cockroaches that were…
After 15 years, one of my favorite video game series is coming back. The Langrisser series was a video game series that debuted back in 1991 from game developer Masaya. The series enjoyed a relatively steady fanbase in Japan and some pockets of cult fandom overseas. Over the decade, the series managed to have 5…
Future animators out there, take note. Making hand-drawn animation is not easy. But in a video that made the rounds online in Japan, famed Japanese animator, Yasuo Otsuka, who has worked at Toei Animation and Studio Ghibli, explained his method to add some clarity to the process. Taking the swordsman character, Goemon, from the Lupin…
Online piracy is a problem for copyright holders, there’s no question there. However, Japan’s latest ad campaign against the illegal uploading of copyrighted materials has been causing a bit of a stir due to its apparent demonization of Japanese otaku in one of the ads. In the 15-second ad, a detective sits in an interrogation…
Capcom will be releasing a new online open world action RPG this year based on its 2012 release, Dragon’s Dogma Announced in this week’s Weekly Famitsu, Dragon’s Dogma Online is made to essentially be the original Dragon’s Dogma, but fully online. The game was initially developed in parallel to the expansion, Dragon’s Dogma Dark Arisen,…
Captain America: The Winter Soldier was one of my favorite movies from last year, so when I learned that Hong Kong collectible toy maker Hot Toys was releasing a Captain America figure from the movie, only one word came to mind: Gimme. The new figure from Hot Toys comes with not only Cap in his…
The potential cost of a great game. In his semi-weekly column in Weekly Famitsu, Smash Bros. series creator Masahiro Sakurai addressed fan letters. One such letter focused on the toll developing the latest games has taken on him Wrote the fan, “Hello, Mr. Sakurai. It sounds like development of Smash Bros. was really, really hard.…
While there’s no word on a western release for the upcoming Yakuza 0, the latest trailer was just too awesome not to share. With English subtitles no less. The games of the Yakuza series have always been very cinematic, making for some pretty great trailers that give you a very meaty taste of the stories…
Why, no. I never had any intention of ever sleeping again So I was walking down the aisle of a bookstore when I noticed a manga with a cream-colored cover and a red eyeball looking back at me. There weren’t any content samples on display, but the text on the wrap-around all seemed to indicate…
Every now and then, some excerpt or scene from a manga or movie or TV series will make the rounds on the internet that will pique my interest. In most cases, that one scene or excerpt will be the most notable thing, with everything else paling in comparison. Literacy of Nana was one of the…
The latest Tales game, Tales of Zestiria, comes out in Japan next week, and already it’s got a ton of wallet-gouging DLC announced. Bandai Namco has recently came out with a series of DLC for Tales of Zestiria: character costumes, and accessories, some of which are collaborations with other series. The costume themes are as…
Overseas, the PS Vita continues to struggle, but in Japan, things are looking better for Sony’s handheld. Things have not been easy for the little portable console ever since its launch over 3 years ago. One of the biggest complaints early on after the Vita’s release was the lackluster library of games. However, since then,…
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