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Got some games from Hit.co.uk this weekend. Nioh 3, Dead Space (Remake) and No Sleep for Kaname Date - From AI: The Somnium Files. I’ve much enjoyed the Nioh series so far and the more I played the demo for Nioh 3 the less worried about it I was. I thought the core gimmick would make the...

Probably a big story on a technical side: Nvidia showed off their new technology and it is the fastest and angriest my feed has been in years. DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) is Nvidia's software designed to force games to run at higher resolutions and faster frame rates. In theory it's...

Got the Nioh artbook from Amazon America (the box must have been ripped open at customs and re-sealed because it was in bad shape).

That's cool. I'm going to give it another few months. Pragmata: Storybook Demo - This was great! I have been hopeful for Pragmata since it was announced and even though the constant delays. There’s a sinking suspicion that whatever the original plan was fell apart and Capcom re-worked whatever...

I decided to quickly play through some demos this week. They have been clogging up my PlayStation for too long and I play way too many long games. Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo - This was delightful. I was smiling not just at the jokes but also how clever the puzzles were and how you could...

Grab bag of different things. Vermeil in Gold from Anime-On-Line. Lupin the 3rd: The Mystery of Mamo and Hulk Epic Collection Volume One from eBay. Sandman Mystery Theatre Compendium 2 from Amazon (with all the bangs and dents you’d expect from an Amazon delivery). Most importantly is flower by...

Have a mix of titles to try. Veil by Kotteri (Udon have been terrible at stocking these so I grabbed them when I saw them on Waterstones). Tokyo Babylon by CAMP and Haunted Hot-springs.

I watched about 8 episodes of the modern Baki series. It's very brutal and creative in its different powers - you can't call them techniques really. Something about the pacing felt off to me though. It's probably because they started adapting form the middle of the original manga (they had some...

Yoko Taro is very big on the interactivity of his stories. People liked the Nier Automata anime but it was always a very odd project, because a lot of stuff that makes that game and Nier interesting is very hard to translate. My takeaway from Taro's work is that he is perfectly willing to work...

Homunculus Volume 1-2: A really strong start for a psychological thriller. Some of the explanations go on for a few pages too long so that you know what symbolism means. But it still has some interesting ambiguity with how you interpret the main characters. Neither of them are especially...

Yakuza Kiwami 2 - I started this on 22nd February. It's the most fun I've had at the beginning of a Yakuza game (I've played bits of 3, 5 and Kiwami but never got further than Chapter 7). Something about the movement fells much better to me and the story has more immediate hooks. Kiwami felt...

It’s an inexcusable ‘High-Risk Zero-Reward’ plan. They hired someone, multiple people in fact, who can’t: use his real name, attend any industry event, talk to other writers, be photographed in public etc. And when any of these things happen the scheme blows damaging everyone involved and...

That sucks. Seven Seas have released a lot of stuff I like. Some ongoing like Soara and the House of Monsters and some that have finished already. Media Do is making reference to wanting to increase their output and that is a complete misreading of the company. Seven Seas arguably publishes and...

I went to Anime Con in Manchester yesterday. The lay out was very poor so I don’t think I’d go again (MCM and others were much better) but I got Choujin X 5 and 11 along with some mini prints of Nier and Nier Automata characters by the criminally under utilised Korean artist D.K. I also got...

I’d be very happy with a separate thread talking about the EVA news and Yoko Taro in general. He’s had an interesting career but it be better to have a dedicated place for it.