Started playing 零 ～月蝕の仮面～ the other day. It’s already absolutely beating my ass. Idk why I thought this game would be doable for me, but we’re probably going to struggle bus all the way through. 
The amount of specific vocab that I would have never run into before this is ridiculous.
If anyone would like to join in, over at the Wanikani forums we will be playing Xenogears starting in two weeks (November 1st)! Come join us, we have giant mechs. 
I haven’t had much time for visual novels lately, but I think I made the right choice in starting ドトコイ, a dating sim where all your love interests appear to be…正方形!
Transfer student [insert name here] starts off their first day of school, psyched and ready to meet their new classmates and begin a new school year, when suddenly they run headfirst into someone!! Just like a manga!!
You brush it off as just “there really are different types of people in the city” and hurry to class. Luckily, looks like your new homeroom teach is the school hottie:
Now see, when someone asks you why you learn Japanese, it’s so you can play untranslated gems like this one. 
(I’m really looking forward to playing this, haha.)
That’s too hot for the forums! You have to blur that 
Needs some 菱形 to mix things up.
Seriously though, I hope there’s some twist at the end to give a reason for that design choice.
I will report back. o7
I started playing the bara RPG セカイを救うそのモノの名は。 yesterday and I couldn’t stop playing. It’s so good
Edit: finished the game, it’s so good. Finished all endings and all optional scenes too
Started playing Shadow Hearts. Honestly I was kinda surprised that this game isn’t fully voiced
So I finished Shadow Hearts and am also almost done with a bara RPG I started yesterday.
Looking forward to the PS5 version of Ys X Proud Nordics which comes out later this month. Seems like I’ll have to find another game to play until then
Do we have any Ys fans in here? Just found this manga that’s so 80s I did a double-take:
What in the world.
I’ve got a few Ys series games, never thought about checking for thir manga and light novels
This looks quite cool 
How did you like it? I’m probably going to play it this year myself.
It’s definitely a good game. I was very addicted at first. Some stuff annoyed me later on but I’m interested in the second game, too (also I already own it so… Lmao/
I have played the Sega Master system version before (or, more accurately, watched my babysitter play it before 
). I never played any of them myself though, but I hadn’t thought about Y’s since I was about 5 until now
Finally started playing がんばれゴエモン きらきら道中 僕がダンサーになった理由, to celebrate the announcement of the collection. I own all four SFC main games but I’m still gonna buy it to support Goemon
I bought Persona 4 on a whim 
I literally knew nothing about it apart from that it’s highly lauded and has a lot of text.
But so far I’m not regretful, understanding is pretty good and I love the characters.
And non gamers like me can even turn down the battle difficulty without any penalties.
I loved Persona 4, but I think I would’ve waited until the remake comes out next month and get that instead, unless you just want to play the original that bad. My brother did that with Persona 3 even though Reload was already out.
Oh, Persona 4 is great! I hope you enjoy it!
Next month? I didn’t realize it had a release date set.
I guess that’s why it was on sale 
There’s no release date for the P4 remake yet. There hasn’t even been an actual trailer yet. The only thing that was revealed about it is that it’s suposed to be released either in the fiscal year 2027 - which would mean some time between April 2026 - March 2027 - or after
