Author: firemarth
Yakuza Kiwami 2 Heading Westward This Fall
The Yakuza series seems to have become a bit of a darling for Sega in the west over the past couple of years. After a bit of... Read More
Ys: Memories of Celceta Heading to PC
XSeed Games has been on a roll in the past couple years in bringing their titles to PC gamers. The JRPG genre often feels forgotten and neglected on... Read More
Review: DJMax Respect
Reignition Ever since what I like to think of as The Great Rhythm Game Crash of 2013 (aka when Harmonix ended their regular DLC release schedule after Rock... Read More
Review: Hatsune Miku VR
Feel the Music In making the jump to VR, some styles of games are having a much easier time than others. On one end of the spectrum, you... Read More
Review: Secret of Mana (2018)
New to the Past In our recent review of Legrand Legacy, I wrote a bit about pandering to nostalgia. The purposeful use of style elements from games that... Read More
Review: Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[st]
An Inexperienced View I’ve never made it a secret that I love a good story in my video games. In fact, aside from my addiction to rhythm games,... Read More
Review: Zwei: The Arges Adventure
Time Hopping In our review of Fate/Extella, I spoke a bit about localizing games out of order. There are many older and/or long-running franchises that have stayed exclusive... Read More
Review: Legrand Legacy
Rose-Tinted Glasses The “Golden Age,” a term referring to a period of time where something (history, media, anything really) was at its greatest. The term is often used... Read More
Review: Light Tracer
Flip the Viewpoint The obvious appeal of VR is its ability to immerse the player in an environment. So, of course, a vast chunk of VR games are... Read More
Review: A Clockwork Ley-Line: The Borderline of Dusk
Clean It Up Adult games are a relative rarity in the market, and it’s fairly easy to see why. After all, including explicit content and/or getting the “dreaded”... Read More
Gamer Escape’s Top 5 Reviewed Games of 2017
Well, folks, it’s just about time to wrap up another wonderful year here at Gamer Escape! It sure was one hell of a year – Final Fantasy XIV... Read More
Quick-Look: Dead Rising 4’s Capcom Heroes Mode
The whole zombie obsession in current media has been an ironic one to me, as it’s been one that just refuses to die. Doesn’t matter the medium, from... Read More
Mega Man 11 Announced for 2018
Once one of the most popular and prolific franchises in gaming, the Mega Man series has been mostly dormant since the release of Mega Man 10 back in... Read More
XSeed Bringing Original Zwei Title Westward
Just last month, we had the chance to review the latest Falcom localization from XSeed Games, Zwei: The Ilvard Insurrection. That is, if you can consider a game... Read More
Review: Tokyo Tattoo Girls
Picking and Choosing I’ve always wondered what criteria localization companies use when they choose what games to bring westward. Aside from the obvious big names and those with... Read More
Review: Zwei: The Ilvard Insurrection
Throw it All in the Pot You know, at this point, I don’t know if I have much more I can say about the developer Falcom. We have... Read More
Review: Chaos;Child
Continuing the Story When it comes to sequels and series, there are a few options that a writer can take in terms of story. Probably the most common... Read More
Review: Middle-earth: Shadow of War
[Note: As this game is a direct follow up to Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, there will be some spoilers for that game in this article.] It’s a Big... Read More
