Author: Eliot Lefebvre
Review: Onee Chanbara Origin
So here’s your Japanese lesson for the day. “Onee-chan” is an affectionate term for an older sister. “Chanbara” means swordfighting. Thus, the title of this particular game series... Read More
Review: Ys Origin [Switch]
The Ys series is an odd one in the annals of JRPGs. On the one hand, it is very much in the original school of these games, with... Read More
Preview: Remothered: Broken Porcelain
As someone who really does love horror as a genre, horror games are a tricky beast to get right. Even more than other media, video games seem to... Read More
Review: Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning
In many ways, this game is the easiest game to review that I have ever been handed. Here is the review: Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning is Kingdoms of... Read More
Preview: Dirt 5 – Playground Mode
Despite the name, Dirt 5 is not actually the fifth installment in an epic JRPG series about the soil beneath our feet. I know, I was a bit... Read More
Review: Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls In a Dungeon? Infinite Combate
At a certain point, you simply have to accept that there are certain flaws in your approach to life that you clearly do not have much interest in... Read More
Preview: Eastern Exorcist
You know what’s kind of a shame about Demon’s Souls? For all the influence that it has had on the game industry in a positive way, a lot... Read More
Preview: Windbound
An interesting aspect of games that emphasize survival as a core gameplay mechanic is that… well, most of them usually aren’t really about survival in a sense so... Read More
Review: Fairy Tail
Some games are really tough to review coming in from the outside. Case in point? Fairy Tail. Much like when I reviewed Gensou Skydrift, I am aware walking... Read More
Review: Röki
There are lots of ways to do adventure games badly, but there are also lots of ways to do them right. Sometimes, it’s as simple as giving you... Read More
Review: Krystopia: Nova’s Journey
Point-and-click adventure games are one of those genres that faded away for a long while, then started to get a resurgence once two facts of video games became... Read More
Review: Brigandine: The Legend of Runersia
The release of the Sony PlayStation in North America in 1994 was an enormous and unprecedented event, one which drew a great deal of attention from both game... Read More
Interview with STATIONFlow’s Tak Fujii and Szabó Marcell
Tak Fujii is a very, very different sort of creator in the game industry; as someone who has worked in games for a long time, he has consistently... Read More
Review: Utawarerumono: Prelude to the Fallen
So this is a title with a weird approach. Utawarerumono: Prelude to the Fallen is the first title in the Utawarerumono series, and also the last one to... Read More
Review: Signs of the Sojourner
I found myself feeling very divided in my opinions as I played Signs of the Sojourner. Actually, that’s not altogether true; my opinion was relatively clear insofar as... Read More
Preview: Arboria
Jump in the hole. Kill things. Get killed. Respawn. Jump back in the hole. The first footage I saw of Arboria at once piqued my interest and made... Read More
Hands-On: Paradise Killer
When I read the broad summary of Paradise Killer, I wasn’t actually sure what to expect from it. Having sat down and played the game for an hour... Read More
Review: STATIONflow
Some games are very difficult to review effectively. You have to leverage a lot of different ideas and notions, a lot of conflicting artistic visions, the depth of... Read More