• Guilty Gear X2 (PS2)

    ...like you’re playing a very tasteful Japanese animation spin-off game. I can’t rave about the game’s animation enough, but I think I’ve already got that covered. But what’s beautiful art...

  • Carbonated News (October 2003)

    ...stars the adorably cute slime character in his very own action RPG. This will undoubtedly be only released in Japan, because they get all the cool stuff. Oh well, at...

  • Secret of Evermore (SNES)

    ...have been spared at least some of the disappointment. However, to compare Secret of Evermore to Seiken Densetsu 3 (the Japan-only sequel to Secret of Mana) years after the release...

  • Inside the Guide: Anticipation and Backgammon

    ...only in Japan. All I had to do was copy/paste my previous instructions on how to play Backgammon, add in a few notes specific to this game, and I had...

  • Uselessly Belated Comic-Con 2010 Report

    ...played some Versus Mode of Suguri, which features 2D sprites and flying little girls and bullets and explosions and Japan. I liked what I saw and fully intended to come...

  • Hamlet (PC)

    ...application. Another puzzle required me to press color-coded buttons to follow along with something that was randomly changing colors, and any mistakes would destroy all my progress and force me...

  • The Ten Reasons: Decade Edition

    ...Japan. Also, the second and third Phoenix Wright games hit the non-Japanese countries. Multiple entries for popular handheld series in the same year? Ah, those were the days! 2008 In...

  • Carbonated News: December 2009

    ...don’t know promoting games I’ve never heard of. Most news stories look something like this: Company A Thinks Game X Will Be A Best-Seller Company A’s Vice President of Marketing...

  • Carbonated News: January 13th, 2010

    ...as I type. Or not. The game is being release March 6th in Japan. They’ve probably finished it by now, in that case. Among the new Pokemon featured in this...

  • Final Fantasy VI Advance Blind Playthrough

    ...FFVIA is a Game Boy Advance re-release of the strangely popular SNES game known in the United States as Final Fantasy III and in Japan as Boy, Those Americans Really...