Vaporum

It always begins with a man and a lighthouse… We play as a man with no memories who washes up on at a tower in the middle of the ocean. Upon entering, he finds a retro-futuristic steampunk dystopia that, based on audiologs scattered throughout the facility, appears to have resulted from the study of a mysterious miracle substance gone wrong. In other words, it’s… Vaporum!

Operencia: The Stolen Sun

Operencia: The Stolen Sun is a first-person grid-based dungeon crawler, which readers of the blog may already know that I love. While Legend of Grimrock is focused purely on exploration, combat, and puzzles, Operencia is a bit more well-rounded, with actual characters and story, and a more fleshed-out combat system. Unfortunately that doesn’t mean Operencia was better. It was fun, but it wasn’t great—it held itself back. But we’ll get to that.

Legend of Grimrock II

Legend of Grimrock II is a masterpiece. Go give the developers your money.

Mind Zero / マインドゼロ

Today, I'm going to be talking about a JRPG about a group of Japanese high schoolers that each bond with a unique magical being, allowing them to fight alongside said being, prompting them to venture into an alternate, twisted version of our own world to fight other magical beings and get to the bottom of what's going on. And if the title of this post and image right above this paragraph didn't give it away, I'm not talking about Persona. No, I'm talking about the Persona knock-off, Mind Zero!