Simple 2000 Series vol. 90: The Oneechanbara 2

My copy of Oneechanbara 2 arrived the day before yesterday. I’ve only played it briefly, but enough to give some impressions. Really, it’s the same thing as the first game, but better-executed. It looks and feels much, much better. Like Oneechanbara, most of the effort was clearly spent on making the characters appealing and fun […]

Simple 2000 Series Vol. 61: The Oneechanbara

D3 Publisher are honest about their design and business goals: they produce budget-priced software that takes a simple concept – often one already established by full-priced games – and build a game around it that conforms to their very limited production budgets and schedules. Other times their concepts are original and experimental (something the nature […]