Galacticon | Nintendo Switch Review

Flynn Arcade's "Galacticon" is the echoing answer to the ZX Spectrum's Jetpac. More or less. It is a spiritual successor to that early 80's platform shooter, and while there's obvious similarities everything that Jetpac achieved in the retro gaming realm back in the day was improved upon tenfold in Galacticon. With Galacticon you'll find a very retro looking experience that pays homage to the source material, but in an incredibly updated way. In a way that is centered around collecting species trapped by humans, and dropping them off in multiple teleportation pads. A contrasting effort to Jetpac's fueling up, and constructing of a rocket to get to the next level. 

In a similar fashion Galacticon also grants the player only three lives initially with which to make it as far as possible while completing objectives, shooting enemy craft, and using a species combo system to score bonus points. This is all done via an alien God/Machine hero who gets around on a jetpack that gains power from power-ups. 

Divination | PS4 Review

Divination. The seeking of one's future through fortune telling. It's a practice as old as time, and as humans we always seek that advantage of knowing even if it harms us in the end. For who would not want to be able to control their fate, their destiny? 

Mojiken's "Divination" tries, like the real practice of divining, to bring forth future predictions and enlighten those involved in the story using it's own brand of fortune telling. A brand involving disembodied robotic hands, and runes. Through guest visitations with a series of inquisitive questions, and the divination itself the ones seeking answers get the answers that the hands provide. For better or for worse. Through these sessions also unfolds a series of events tied to the suicide death of a governing A.I. known as Mother, and the domino effect her death and insight has brought upon the trans-humanist population of the given future dystopia. Having A.I. robots contemplating life, and humans struggling alongside them. Each trying to come to terms with their roles in life, and what life has afforded them.

Seven Pirates H | Nintendo Switch

Compile Heart and EastAsiaSoft seem to be a match made in horny heaven. Ever since the companies have decided to go rogue and against the grain by offering lewd content on the only modern gaming platform that will allow it they have gotten away with some rather controversial releases. Seven Pirates H is no different in that regard though it pushes the boundaries of decency a bit further than previous EastAsiaSoft titles. This touchy touchscreen release that is "Seven Pirates H" is all about breasts. Boobies, if you will. That and ill gotten pirate booty. 

It begins with the introduction of female pirate Parute Kairi, and her sailing misfortune. As fate would have it she bumps boobs with the infamous panty thief or monster boy Otton who actually hails from other Compile Heart titles. This time around though Otton is selling to the leading ladies his cure for flat chests. Booby training! Through booby training the girls of the game can raise RPG attributes, and learn new skills. Empowering them to take on the monster girls and boys of their world. Growing their breast size, cleavage, softness, and perkiness in the process. Through perfected party management in a turn based battle system these boob obsessed pillagers of pirate fame face the odds, loot, and plunder to their hearts content for all that they need to fulfill their perverted pirating fantasies. All at the promise of bigger, and better things ...

Ravenous Devils | PS4 Review

Paying homage to the infamous Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and his crazed female accomplice the developers over at Troglobytes Games have created a cooking simulator with a similar premise. A blend of murder and mealtime spearheaded by sinister shop owners Percival, and his beloved wife Hildred. These con artists, and partners in crime who have a bad habit disappearing their customers for product and moneymaking sake try to hide their dirty deeds through the guise of a multi-floor fashion boutique and indoor cafe wherever they set up shop. Their customers serve as cannibal cuisine as well as a means to gather the fabrics needed for Percival to tailor some fine threads for male and female patrons. Whereas Hildred acts as the resident chef. Honing her culinary skills as she learns new recipes to whet the appetites of those who are unknowingly addicted to the taste of human flesh. 

While they may have narrowly escaped their first failed attempt at this lucrative endeavor they have found themselves elsewhere doing the same dastardly thing, but this time at the beckon call of a mystery man who seemingly knows their secret. A man of wealth and taste, as it were. Caught between a bloody business scheme, and trying not to get outed by the mysterious Mr. J, Percival and Hildred must not only outwit their customers, and make bank doing so, but must also tend to their mystery manipulator as well.

Sorrowvirus: A Faceless Short Story | PS4 Review

Sorrowvirus is perhaps one of EastAsiaSoft's most haunting releases yet. Visually impressive, and audibly unnerving this walking simulator that takes place in purgatory has the player, as Wyatt Heyll, trying to break free from his paranormal predicament. Haunted by dolls from the 1940's, and the voices of those he left behind Wyatt tries desperately to discover the clues needed to escape his perpetuated torment. That torment taking place in a disjointed realm where locations, and people are represented by symbols of sorts. Ranging from ruinous rooms, curious corridors with furniture oddly placed amongst debris, humanoid figures draped in sheets, and a host of creepy puppet dolls. All bearing hints of a past existence mashed together like some twisted Wonderland labyrinth. A place where time passed means death by age, and the only thing to stave it off being safe rooms, and grandfather clocks happened upon along the way. 

Hints of an otherworldly apocalypse are made known the deeper Wyatt delves through found files within his altered reality. Details that reference various patients time in purgatory as well as his own. That and information surrounding the Sorrowvirus itself, and a desperate hunt for a cure.