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Mystic Messenger, Interfaces, and User Experience
More Mystic Messenger Content: First Impressions | Full Review You don’t need to have played Mystic Messenger to read this article, just know that it’s an otome game primarily using an original phone-like interface to interact with the main characters. Mystic Messenger is quite unique from a user-interface standpoint, especially considering it’s a visual novel. My…
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Let’s Talk About: Pokèmon GO, T-mobile, and Net Neutrality
I don’t know if you’ve heard, but T-mobile has a promotion to have Pokemon Go not count against your data usage. At first glance, especially to a GO player, this is pretty awesome. It’s by far the most popular app in the world right now and despite some isolated “incidents” it’s been a positive experience for…
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Berserk (2016) Episode 3 Review
I gave it a chance… and then THIS happened. Well… what can I say? This has been… quite the experience. I kind of forgot what happened around this point in the story and rumor has it that Miura himself wrote this episode. So putting that into consideration, the writing itself felt fine from a short-term…
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Mystic Messenger First Impressions
I’ll admit it, otome games are a guilty pleasure of mine. But I was also skeptical since it was going to be on smartphone only with in-app purchases. Fortunately, it’s surpassed any expectations I had for it, especially in the user interface department.
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8 of my Favorite JRock Songs
Rock music is fun to listen to, and thankfully there’s a lot of good rock music in Japan. I picked out 8 of my favorite JRock songs, hopefully you enjoy them too! Songs were added in no particular order, anime opening/ending information included as reference: Raise Your Flag by MAN WITH A MISSION Opening 1…
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Pokemon GO – My First Impressions
Everyone knew it’d be big, but we completely underestimated how big it would be. (If we knew, I’m sure we all would have bought stock in Nintendo before it was released.) I’m always late to the bandwagon (even though this time I have an excuse), so this last weekend was my first big experience with the game.…
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Berserk (2016) Episode 2 Review
Episode 1 Review | Berserk Tag I’m very impressed, Berserk managed to partially redeem itself from last week’s episode. For one thing, the action was easier to follow due to their decision to not make as many cuts. Even better, they took the weakest point of the anime (the 3D animation) and were able to briefly…
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Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans Review
Before the review proper, let me give you my basic recommendation for this anime if you haven’t seen it yet. You should definitely consider watching if you like fighting and action and good character development. Bonus points if, like me, you’re still salty over how badly Aldnoah ended up. The rest of this review may…
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Berserk (2016) Episode 1 Review
Berserk Tag | Episode 2 Review I knew after I heard the announcement for the new anime series that I wasn’t going to be impressed with the new Berserk anime. The manga is my favorite, and a huge reason why is how well the atmosphere supported the dark events in the story. Largely, part of this atmosphere was the detailed…
