Have you checked out Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers? Audra sure has! I’m playing it as well. I haven’t played the first game, but Alana did, and she likes it a lot! I promise you our site’s SEO practices haven’t morphed into some strange need to add a hyperlink to every sentence that does not end in a period, though I recognize that, as of the end of this first paragraph, you have no reason to believe me.

I’ve also been playing a ton of Xenoblade Chronicles. Y’know, gotta get in the mood for July 29th’s big thing! I set Shulk and friends to auto-run and had them take off swimming from the far side of the Eryth Sea, and then I went and made popcorn, and I got back, and I’m opening up the bag of popcorn, and Shulk’s still out there swimming. Not even halfway to the other side of the map. I’m still impressed with this game’s scale.

But let’s get down to business. This week, RPGs are coming. And you know what that means — RPGs are coming this week.

Corpse Factory – May 31st (Windows)

Well, we’re certainly starting things out rather aggressively. Our voyeuristic narrator doesn’t seem to remember stoic, unflinching Noriko, and without having played Corpse Factory, a suspense-driven new visual novel out this week on Windows (with a Switch version en route sometime soon), I can’t say I remember Noriko at all.

Picture it. You want someone dead, and all you need to do to make it happen is to send a photograph of the would-be victim to a shady website and await the results. Your target is then sent a pic of their own corpse, timestamped to their near-future fatality. It’s a grim and zesty recipe for a VN, that’s for sure, and it can be all yours on PC tomorrow.

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