Personally, given the timing, I don't feel like Murder Report would have felt all that great this year. I'm sure it would have been funny, but things were awkward enough with game publishers talking about standing with Orlando, I'm not sure we needed to draw even more attention to it.

Both also prominently feature modern-day Shibuya, Tokyo, and a wide variety of sodas, ramen dishes, and other foods for various stat boosts to your party. Coincidence? I think not.

The prologue introduces two female characters, each one with a camera pan up from their feet and stopping at their bust, holding for a second, and then cutting away to a new shot of their face as they talk to you. The second woman, the adult manager for your team of teen-to-twentysomething idols, has her blouse…

It's a computer program that sings, like a "vocal-android". If you're familiar with Hatsune Miku, it's that. Just a "virtual" pop star that fans at home can program their own music for.

Nintendo was kind enough to send me the special edition. You've got your standard Atlus art book (fits in perfectly with the ones I have from Catherine and Persona Q), a soundtrack CD that only has a small handful of songs and a few tracks of Japanese dialogue that I imagine would make okay ringtones if I understood…

Yes, the title read aloud should be "Tokyo Mirage Sessions Sharp F E"

I'll probably focus on other issues in the review, because I don't like referencing other games when reviewing new ones, but it is trying extremely hard to be Persona: Nintendo Edition, which is fine since it's from Persona developer Atlus. It never gets as dark or deep as Persona games tend to on personal…

I admit, my expectations for Nintendo were pretty low when they announced there wouldn't even be a Nintendo Direct presentation like there had been the past few years. That said, they really impressed me far more than Sony or Microsoft did (the highlight of Sony being our AVC livechat instantly embracing pop culture…

The Mario 64 backwards jump analogy is spot-on. It makes sense to me that Faith would "acquire" stronger armor/health through upgrades, or do more damage against specific enemies by "researching" them (though that was still incredibly vague), not so much with having a whole upgrade dedicated to "now Faith lifts her…

Considering both Nintendo's home and portable consoles this generation have screens in the controller to use as a viewfinder, accelerometers for tilting and panning, shoulder buttons for shutter control, and cameras for AR support, the absence of a new Pokémon Snap is mind-boggling.

Have you checked out Peter Panic on mobile from Adult Swim Games? It's a WarioWare-alike collection of rapid-fire minigames, but the framing device is a musical about a kid wanting to open a theater to put on a musical. Also, there is absolutely nothing demonic or otherworldly about it. Nothing at all like that.

Every time I get that glorious Jinba Ittai I pump my fist in the air a little bit.

My monthly D&D game is this weekend, so I'm looking forward to that. I had to bail on our last session at the last minute for a family thing, so I'm befuddled by the scribe's notes I received, something about pirate ships and astral projection. Not enough knife-stabbing, so it's a good thing my rogue will be back in…

I'm going to the student show at NYU Game Center tonight, let's see how far that attitude gets me (definitely not doing that).

This is the sweetest thing anyone has ever implied about me. Truth is, I'm just a weirdo who likes art galleries, already lives in NYC, and just happened to write about it this time. I don't feel that we have any real sense of seniority 'round these parts.

Were there an affordable home version of Line Wobbler, I'd absolutely snatch it up. It was really a lot of fun to play, to watch other people play, and it's just aesthetically pleasing. I overheard that it's a whole new type of fun to play before installation, while the five-meter strip of lights is coiled up, trying…

Oh no, there were great minimal electronic noises to go along with every action. You can hear a couple of them if you click the video above (admittedly not great, it was shot on my iPhone and there's some ambient sound from the surrounding games, but at least it was early enough in the day that there weren't a hundred…

Reminds me of that fake Kinect game from Sifl & Olly.

It might crib a few style beats from Persona 3 & 4 in terms of HUD and UI, but beyond that and teens in a school, they're nothing alike. If anything, I'd compare the Danganronpa games to the Ace Attorney series, only with a significantly more dark and depressing story. Most of the game is talking to people and…

Even more recently, he was attached to the Future Quest book at DC that was going to bring Johnny Quest, Space Ghost, and the Herculoids together. His name alone was drawing a lot of excitement to that project.