Moco Moco Friends

System: Nintendo 3DS

ESRB Rating E

Thank You Aksys for Providing a Review Copy

Moco Moco Friends is a very interesting game. It comes off as a cutesy Pokémon-styled game where you are taking the role of Moco to go on a grand quest to become the Plushkin master.

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Love At First Sight

ESRB Rating: N/A

Platform:PC

Steam Store Page: http://store.steampowered.com/app/353330

A review copy was not provided by Sekai Project

Love at First Sight is a very interesting visual novel. Most Visual Novels I play allow me become immersed into the role of the character I am playing as because I get to make choices based on how I think the character would respond to a situation. The story normally becomes your own story as well as the main character’s. However, Love at First Sight takes a much different approach. You are more or less just in for the ride in this story, you have no real input on how the characters react to a situation. You are just there, a bystander if you will, and you know what? The game pulls it off in such a way that even though I was just a mere bystander to the events unfolding, it still managed to get me emotionally involved in what was going on. The games story managed to hook me in and made me wonder how I would react in the situation provided to me.  However, let me get more into this game’s overall presentation first.

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A late Merry Christmas to you all! We here at the Gaming Gamma hope you had a wonderful holiday! As we look to tackle 2016 we decided it would be best to introduce two new faces to the Gaming Gamma! That would be the twin girls Ariel and Clover. They will be helping us with our reviews in the future, adding their own flare to the reviews.

Name: Ariel

Age: 16

Likes: Video games, reading manga, watching anime, knitting

Favorite Anime Genre: Slice of life, mystery, romance

Favorite Video Game Genre: JRPG, Visual Novels, Action-Adventure, Adventure

Favorite Video Games: Splatoon, Persona 4 Golden, Little King’s Story, Pikmin, Animal Crossing

Dislikes: Call of Duty

Of the two twins Ariel is easily the sweeter of the two. Her sister Clover sees her as a goody-goody two shoes, however despite her sweet and innocent appearance, she can be a bit of a cynic at times. She is very hard to trick as well, taking outlandish thoughts and ideas with a grain of salt. She loves her brother but thinks he can be a bit too goofy at times. She has a love for more laid back video games compared to her sister. She will often spend her nights playing Animal Crossing or Story of Seasons when she wants to unwind. That being said don’t let her sweet demeanor fool you,  she can be a bit of a troublemaker like her sister at times.

Name: Clover

Age: 16

Likes: Anime, manga, video games, sleeping

Favorite Anime Genre: A fan of all genres.

Favorite Video Game Genre: A fan of all genres

Favorite Video Games: The Trails series, Stiens;Gate, Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors,Ys

Dislikes: Your favorite anime/game

While Clover is a fan of all things anime and video games she’s certainly not as friendly as her sister Ariel is. You want to talk about her them? Sure, go ahead you’ll have a nice in­depth discussion on them. You want to discuss favorites? Well, you’re entering a very hot topic as she’ll grill you as to why you like what you like and why something else isn’t your favorite instead. As for her favorites, there are only really two requirements, it must be niche, and it has to be a good game. The moment something is deemed her favorite she’ll promote it too no end even going as far as annoying others about it. No matter how outlandish or prude and stuck up she may seem, she really just wants more people to enjoy what she likes considering her love for the not well known.

I hope everyone has an awesome New Year, we look forward to see what 2016 has in store for us!

Yakuza 5

Developer: SEGA

Publisher: SEGA

System: PS3

ESRB Rating: M

Thank you SEGA for providing a review copy.

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Senran Kagura Estival Versus will be getting a limited first print edition when the game launches next year! The Limited Edition versions will be coming to both the PlayStation 4 and the PlayStation Vita and will be called the “Endless Summer” edition. The Limited Edition will come with a art book, a randomly chosen set of 2.5×3.5 pin-up cards and a two disc soundtrack!

Senran Kagura Estival Versus will be released on the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita for $59.99 and $49.99 respectively, while launching at $49.99 and $39.99 on the PlayStation Store.

Dementium Remastered

Developer: Renegade Kid

Publisher: Renegade Kid

System: Nintendo 3DS

ESRB Rating: M

A review copy was provided to us directly from Jool Whatsam himself.

After a rejected pitch of a portable Silent Hill game to Konami back in the mid-00s, Renegade Kid decided to take their idea of an atmospheric horror game and make it into their own original IP for the Nintendo DS. This game was known as Dementium: The Ward. Dementium easily became a cult classic on the original DS, spawning its very own follow up, Dementium 2. Now, eight years later, Dementium: The Ward returns on the Nintendo 3DS as Dementium Remastered. So how does this remaster stand up to the original? Well, I can tell you right now it’s a much needed fresh coat of paint.

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In the most recent developers blog for Harvest Moon Seeds of Memories, Natsume has finally shared official screenshots of the game.

The game is clearly taking inspiration from the earlier games in the series with its current art style. It is also clear to see that the game looks a lot better than its original presentation at E3 this year. It’ll be interesting to see how Natsume’s second attempt with their own stand alone Harvest Moon game will hold up. After seeing some of these screenshots I am actually a bit more optimistic about how this game will turn out.

Harvest Moon Seeds of Memories will be launching on IOS, Android, PC and Wii U. The game will hit IOS sometime this month or in January, with the Android version to come the following months. The Wii U and PC versions are still listed as “Winter” so hopefully we will get a concrete date about those two versions soon!

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Do not be confused with the original series now under the name of Story of Seasons now published by XSEED, the next installment in that franchise is called Popolocrois A Story of Seasons Fairy Tale.