I’ve recently completed Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights and it was a great experience, so I wanted to share it here. Ender Lilies is a metroidvania with excellent atmosphere and world-building. It’s a dark, gloomy, and tragic game right from the get-go. The kingdom, once lively and peaceful, was overrun by a mysterious rain that blights people and animals, turning them into mindless, violent monstrosities. Read More…

A good game for cat lovers and dystopian cyberpunk lovers alike, Stray tells the story of an orange tabby cat that’s living peacefully with their companions, until one day they slip into a dark city populated by humanoid robots. You meet different robots and slowly understand what happened, all while finding your way back to the Outside where you came from. Read More…

In a nutshell, Battle Angel Alita tells the story of Alita, an amnesiac cyborg who is taken in by a kind doctor in a dystopian scrapyard city where cybernetic implants are common and life has little value. Alita unravels her past little by little, discovers she is a ferocious fighter, faces many challenges and setbacks while trying to help her loved ones, all while fighting against her own doubts, insecurities and destiny. Read More…

It’s almost Christmas again, yikes! In the Christmas spirit, here’s a photo of last year when I was at a shopping mall and saw this interesting arrangement on a bookstore’s display window: Read More…

Hey, it’s been a while! I didn’t post anything in October because I decided to take on a personal challenge. I have always enjoyed drawing, but I didn’t do it consistently for the better part of the last 20 years or so. When I was a kid I loved drawing and entertained the idea of becoming a comic book artist, but decided to follow my other passion which was programming. Read More…

A short review for a short and sweet anime that I watched some weeks ago. So from time to time I like to watch something that’s simple, heartwarming and unassuming, just to feel a little warm and fuzzy inside, especially while having lunch. Read More…

Momodora: Moonlit Farewell is the last installment in the Momodora series, which started all the way back in 2010. All the games in the series were created by Brazilian game designer Guilherme “rdein” Martins and his team, Bombservice. I always like to bring that up because we Brazilians are still very underrepresented and peripheral in the global game dev world. Read More…

When you look at the promotional art for Rabi-Ribi, you might mistake it for an eroge, but it’s not (I swear). If I had to define Rabi-Ribi in a short sentence, it would be: what a Touhou Project game, a bullet hell shooter, would look like if it were a 2D metroidvania. Read More…

The Messenger was the first game by Sabotage Studio, released in 2018. Its plot takes place thousands of years after the events of Sea of Stars, which I played earlier this year. I loved Sea of Stars, so I was very curious to see how The Messenger would compare. Read More…

I actually played this in February, but only got around to writing a review now. I like old-school JRPGs. There’s something about their simplicity, straightforwardness and honesty that I enjoy, despite their often repetitive and grindy nature and very simplistic, often irrelevant plots. Read More…