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Vampirdzhija Vjedogonia

Vampirdzhija Vjedogonia Urobuchi Gen and Nitroplus have proven themselves to be quite an irresistible lethal combination of dark gritty stories and highly quality stylized production values pinpointing straight into the heart of those visual novel gamers who look for something more serious and unusual, especially when compared to what their contemporaries are doing. Vampirdzhija Vjedonia is Nitroplus’s only the 2nd game but unsurprisingly it keeps the company’s focus on pushing the env

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Dra+Koi

Some years ago Nitro+ released a fandisc under the title Sabato Nabe which included three games. Nitro Wars, a generic Tohou style 2D shu’m’up with a lot of recruitable Nitoplus characters. Kaigen Seito, a shitty addon mini game to the shitty Hanachirasu. And Dra+Koi, a surprising little gem and just might be the only reason to try and track down this rare fandisc. Dra+Koi comes almost out of nowhere as a complete surprise. Coming straight out of the creative over the top loving and passion

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Phenomeno

It’s a wonder why people love to be scared so much. Maybe the rush of adrenalin in their brain catches their bodies of guard after of which, a great release when we finally see that there’s nothing there, no real danger, and we are in our usual safe environment. Maybe the after laughter brings hope and restores our belief in the culminations and worries of our mind, secreting a form of powerful alembic of pure neural ecstasy. Or maybe it’s just fun to be scared sometimes. Horror films are undeni

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Hanachirasu

This is going to be a long, +1000 word negative review. It's got profanity and I didn't bother to clean up my language. Sorry, hope you enjoy my rage. This visual novel is a complete total and utter shit. It’s the most horrible visual novel I have ever read in my visual novel reading career. Never have I read a vn that left me with SO much regret that I wasted time reading this pile of shit. It’s terrible. It’s utter shit. I don’t care what anybody says, this is not a story, this is a waste

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Battle Heat

The PC-FX was an alluring system full of promise and had a lot of potential to become the next step as a PC-Engine successor. Unfortunately due to PC-Engine’s popularity the PC-FX experienced delay after delay and eventually released in a market already selling advanced systems like the Saturn and the Playstation. The Nintendo 64 (or the Ultra 64 as it was called at the time) was already on the far horizon. Everything seemed to be set against the system that almost could. Whether the system was

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Batman (Natsume)

The stench of crime saps the streets under the cover of dark hollow night like twisting tendrils penetrating everything like a dark putrid stench of death. Like river of rust, crime sheds its dark red skinned coiled innards of a hungry beast shredding the remains of its collapsed prey, unable to scream unable to breath, eyes as empty as kindness and purity of this city. Cold empty breath detaches from freezing blue lips, everything crumbles under its dark cover of terror and not even a wind or s

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King of the Monsters 1 & 2

King of the Monsters                                                                                                                     Japanese monsters beating the hell out of each other in a fight to the death has been projected in the Japanese theaters all the way back in the early half of the 20th century. Being the 90’s kings of the arcade SNK decided to take their hand at the monster brawl formula and made King of the Monsters. King of the Monsters is a 2D fighting game bu

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Best Visual Novel Writers and Storytellers

After reading Clephas’ recent blog update I decided to rip him off was inspired to do something similar. My own experience with visual novel is not as vast as his so go read his blog, his list is awesome and is way more interesting, so just give up reading this and go to his blog -__- Every work should be judged on its own no matter who the writer is but it’s impossible, in my opinion, not to rely on those writers that really speak to us, those that know how to push our buttons and inspi

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Fatal Fury Series - Part 1

Fatal Fury: King of Fighters The fighting and shmup games were the most popular genres among both the hardcore and the mainstream gamers in the 90’s. The fighting game genre can be traced way back to the 80’s but it is Capcom’s Street Fighter 2 where the storm really began. Street Fighter 2 was on a completely different scale and blew everything that came before it. Nobody thought a video game could reach this kind of amazing quality. Many companies where getting on the hype train and

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Ghost in the Shell 2 : Man-Machine Interface

Ghost is the Shell 2 is not a complete continuation of the previous manga. Masamune Shirow planned it be a standalone work but still feel like a semi-sequel. The original story was pretty much complete and it’s welcoming to see a fresh story. It opens the way to explore some new but equality interesting ideas. Shirow even planned to change one of the title kanji to indicate a slight difference between this and the previous work. “I would also like to thank the people, who have waitd for 10

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Ghost in the Shell manga

Masamune Shirow’s Ghost in the Shell manga is one of the most intriguing mind captivating compelling and thought provoking stories hiding under a clever camouflage of a humorous tongue in cheek presentation sometimes even subverting itself so as not to overwhelm the reader. However it is so thoroughly confounding how far and broad the profoundly deep ideas Ghost in the Shell comprises under its umbrella so far so that it is astounding why this manga never gets a mention on people’s  top Cyberpun

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Golden Axe Warrior

When Shigeru Miyamoto created the concept for Zelda he probably had no idea the legacy that will follow after that first legendary game. There were many similar games before but never quite like it. Instead of leaving you puzzled not knowing what to do the game’s design focused on exploration and discovery, instead of frustrating enemies it had a slow strategic anticipation of enemies’ movements, instead of mostly unfair puzzles the playr instead was rewarded with new areas to explore. Many trie

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Keio Flying Squadron 2

The first Keio Flying Squadron was a SegaCD exclusive side scrolling shooter with funny wacky premise about Keio and her family worshiping a big golden key and her journey to bring it back after it was stolen. The game opens up with a grainy almost colorless animated anime opening, beginning with a history lesson and suddenly moves to the main part of the story, the history lesson had nothing to do with the main story. The English dub wasn’t good but strangely they did not dub any of the voice c

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Spoiler Alert! This Reaserch is Incomplete

In a recent research study that was done by the UC San Diego psychology professor Nicholas Christenfeld about spoilers he discovered that spoilers do not ruin the enjoyment of the story but in fact makes it more enjoyable. I want to take a better look at these finding and let you, my dear readers, decide if you agree with this research or not. Spoiler alert, in my opinion Prof. Christenfeld's research still needs work because as it is right now it completely misses the mark. It's as if this rese

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Magic Knight Rayearth - The Saturn Game

Hearing the words a movie license game send chills down a gamer's spine causing him to run to the ends of earth and hide under a rock for hundreds of years while forcing himself a life of denial and self exile. Undeniably licensed games have a well earned horrible reputation by showing again and again what the true meaning of horror really means. But it's unfair to say that 100% of all licensed games are bad as there are plenty of good licensed games as well, even if 98% of them are bad there ar

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70's Robot Anime - Geppy-X - The Super Booster

The anime industry used to be dominated by the super robot genre and nowhere is it more prevalent than the 70's when every other show was about a giant robot the protector of all good and keeper of piece while fighting the great evil organization/alien/ lizardmen/ invaders/army. By putting the pilots inside the machine and glorifying it as something mystical or even godly, Go Nagai practically invented the genre. The idea about the cockpit being inside the robot [head] came to him after he worke

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VN Review: Dies Irae

Whatever our hobby is there are always these once in a while moments when we get a chance to experience something that makes us glad we have this hobby, it defines and gives reason why we love what we do. Dies Irae is one such visual novel for me. Written by Takashi Masada, Dies Irae was his most ambitious work at the time. The game was a bit of a mess when it was first released. However it gained enough popularity and allowed Masada to redo the script, add two more routes, and polish up the

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Hotblooded epic anime: Gunbuster

The first pick for my series of epic anime has to be non other than Aim for the Top: Gunbuster! one of the best anime ovas every produced. EVER! This six 30min episode anime is more packed with more awesome than your average 26 episode tv series. Produced by Gainax and directed by non other then Hideaki Anno himself. The creators put so much love and passion into each and very frame you can't help but keep watching just one more episode and before you know it it's over. But it's over at just

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Yeaw I got myself a blog!

Hey everybody who reads this. I'm fun2novel and this is my new blog. Actually it's my first blog ever. Always wanted to have my own blog if only to wine and complain about the state of the industry today. What industry? I have no idea, I guess I needed a place to be heard, lol. But I was too busy or too lazy to make a blog. But here I am, finally taking the right step, at least I hope, it's kind of scary putting yourself out there, lol. Well, actually the truth is that I wanted to get myself

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