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Hakuoki: Demon of the Fleeting Blossom

Status: Completed Hakuoki’s “Alone” ending and all Souji Okita endings My weakness for feudal Japanese tales always gets the best of me. Slap in the “Choose Your Own Adventure” twist and a bevy of hot samurai and you have won my love. Set in the late 1800s, Chizuru sets out from Edo to search for her …

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Brave Story by Miyuki Miyabe

Fifth grader Wataru Mitani’s world is on the verge of a major upheaval when he first starts investigating the abandoned construction beside a local shrine. Students in his school are rumoured to have seen ghosts here and Wataru is intrigued. One evening, he sneaks out of his family’s company apartment to meet up with his …

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Japanophile

Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai (Haganai)

Some people just don’t make friends very easily, especially when you are a blond Half transfer student who looks like a Yankee. So when said transfer student, one Kodaka Hasegawa, walks into a classroom and witnesses another social outcast, Yozora  Mikazuki, talking to her imaginary friend, he quickly finds himself a founding member of the …

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Ben-To

All Yō Satō wants is to eat food that isn’t ramen every night after school. With what meager funds he has as a boarding student, he heads to a nearby convenience store hoping to pick up a discounted bento box. But when he gets there, he finds himself beaten up as people battle one another for …

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Gears of War: Jacinto’s Remnant

With no other choice but to destroy the last city still standing, Delta Squad and the other remaining COG officers must take care of the survivors while they search for a new place to call home. Hoping that the last of the Locust has been buried beneath Jacinto, Chairman Prescott decides that their best course …

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Gears of War: Anvil Gate

With the Locust pretty much gone, rebuilding the COG on Vectes is going rather well for the remaining Gears. They’ve opened their home to the last of the Gorasni people and have the native Stranded and a few pirates to deal with, but other than that, things are pretty good. That is until a Leviathan …

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Fallout New Vegas Dead Money DLC

Status: Completed Dead Money and unlocked all 5 achievements Achievements: 51 of 75 Gamerscore: 1035/1655 Of the two bits of Fallout New Vegas DLC I have played so far, Dead Money had to be the dullest and most pointless of them both. Hell, I wouldn’t doubt if it ends up as my least favourite of all the DLC …

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ICO: Castle in the Mist

Undeniably one of the best games from the Playstation 2 catalogue, ICO: Castle in the Mist was a game I had rented but never finished and then fell through the cracks of my very growing game backlog.  So when I saw that Viz was publishing Miyuki Miyabe’s novelization of the game under their Haikasoru imprint, …

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PixelJunk Monsters Deluxe

Status: Finished all levels on Casual and Regular (unlocked Hard-core mode), finding that I am awful at earning Medals (I have 2 of 24) PixelJunk Monsters was one of the first PSN demos I gave any time to. Thanks to my time as a part of Sony’s now defunct Gamer Advisory Panel, I’d been aware of …

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The Baconing (DeathSpank)

Status: Completed the Baconing! Achievements: 10 of 12 Gamerscore: 155/200 DLC Purchased: None Things seemed to be all well in good in Spanktopia after DeathSpank collected all of the Thongs of Virtue and vanquished Sandy. But the peace didn’t last forever, as DeathSpank soon discovers his wearing of all of the Thongs at once has created a new evil: …

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