Robert Fenner's Reviews
Steins;Gate 0 would be excellent if it was about one-fifth of its length, but its constant missteps make it difficult to recommend to any but the most ardent Steins;Gate fans.
To all the faildaughters and failsons out there who've ever felt like their lives were hecked up forever, Night in the Woods has got your back.
Lieve Oma is a charming little game about how our relatives shape us.
Persona 5 is not nearly as subversive nor as smart as it wishes it was, but it's stylish as hell and a gripping ride. Worth the wait, and worth your time.
2064: Read Only Memories isn't just a gorgeous homage to Japanese-style adventure games of the late 1980s and early 1990s, it's inclusive, positive, and heartwarming.
River City: Knights of Justice has the potential to be a quick and dirty fantasy brawl, but instead it ends up a tedious exercise in frustration.
Ys SEVEN has never felt more at home than it does on PC.
There's a bud of good ideas present in Blue Reflection. Unfortunately, it spectacularly fails to blossom.
Chaos;Child is, for better or worse, a 5pb visual novel.
Abstraction Games have done a great job emulating Kemco's MacVenture ports, just know going in this is a package that knows its audience.
Funny, sad, and with the sharpest teeth, Doki Doki Literature Club is one of the most pleasant surprises of 2017.
Misao may not be a filling portion, but sometimes all you need is a bite-sized parody.
In a sea of copycats, The House in Fata Morgana is a standout visual novel.
The must-skip hit of the winter.
The 25th Ward has a few cool ideas, yet they're almost always held back by outdated ignorance and rampant misogyny, turning what could have been a powerful avant-garde adventure game into a frustratingly juvenile monument to phallocentrism.
Cultist Simulator is a posthumanist spiral that, like its endless card combinations, is greater than the sum of its parts.
Zwei: The Arges Adventure is better observed as a Falcom museum piece rather than a tight, satisfying experience, but I'm thrilled we've access to it all the same.
Chasm's procedural dungeon, though a technical marvel, ends up woefully underutilised and results in a title that does little to set itself apart from its peers.
428: Shibuya Scramble's Western release is a miracle. Don't sleep on it.
Heaven Will Be Mine is the no-bones-about-it queer Mobile Suit Gundam we've always wanted.