April is at its end so I’m giving my quick takes on all of the debuts and comebacks we got from K-Pop!
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Category: Reviews
First Look: LudoNarraCon
LudoNarraCon is a global, digital convention celebrating narrative video games, the talented people who make them, and the fans who love them, hosted on Steam. I had the honor of getting early access to the event and all of the featured games, and I am sharing what I think you should check out for yourself!
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Daebak Box Review
The Daebak Company releases a quarterly subscription box filled with tons of goodies from Korea, ranging from beauty and lifestyle to K-Pop and K-Dramas. I got their recent spring box and wanted to share a review of it!
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Rhythm Hive Season 1 Review
Rhythm Hive is officially out and having its first season! They made quite a few changes and added a bunch of new things since I did my pre-season first look, so I’m now giving a full review of the game in the current season!
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Aroma Review
Aroma – A Game of Essence is a board game that utilizes essential oils in its gameplay to create a new experience for gamers. With four different game modes at varying player counts, there are numerous ways to put your sense of smell to the test.
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Don’t Get Bit Review
Don’t Get Bit is a turn-based strategy game set in the zombie apocalypse. You play as the sarcastic 18-year-old Cassie who is armed with only her own wits and a kitchen knife as she starts her journey to reach her uncle’s farm for safety. Turn-based strategy is one of my favorite genres so I happily tried this game and am sharing my thoughts on it.
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First Look: Rhythm Hive
BigHit has finally released their rhythm game featuring their artists including BTS. As a frequent player of K-Pop games and a fan of BTS, I knew I had to give this a try and share my initial thoughts on the game.
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First Look: Swim Out
Swim Out is a relaxing puzzle game where you play as a swimmer trying to swim to the pool’s exit while avoiding other swimmers and pool-goers. I gave it a go and wanted to share my first impressions.
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MonsDRAWsity Review
MonsDRAWsity is a drawing-based game where a witness will have to memorize as much about the monster they see in a short amount of time. The witness then has to describe what they saw without a reference to the sketch artists. The artist whose drawing is closest to the mysterious creature is the winner. I got to play this game over the holidays with my family and want to share my experience with you!
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First Look: The StoryGraph
The StoryGraph is a new site and app for book lovers and avid readers to catalog their reads, review books, follow others in the community, and more. If you are familiar with Goodreads, StoryGraph has a similar concept. I’ve been poking around the site and decided to share my initial thoughts with you all.
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Superstar Mobile Games Review
Not too long ago I did a first look at a specific Superstar game. I have now been playing more of them and fairly frequently so I wanted to make an all encompassing review of the series.
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DIG! Review
DIG! is a two-player quick play game about uncovering items at a dig site to get more valuable items than your opponent. But watch out as there are bombs hidden about as well that can low you, and all your items, to pieces.
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First Look: SubZero
SubZero is a popular Webtoon about two clans ruled by dragon-bearing individuals that have been at war for many years. But that war will end with the alliance created through the marriage of Kyro and Clove, the prince and princess of their respective clans. Years of boiling hatred, growing dissent from assassins, and a secret may break it all if they aren’t careful.
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First Look: Paradise Killer
Paradise Killer is an open-world detective game where you play as Lady Love Dies, a formerly exiled master detective, as she tries to solve the numerous murders that have happened on Paradise. I was given a key for the game and have some thoughts to share with you all.
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First Look: Love Me Knot
Love Me Knot is a Webtoon about a girl named Avery who can see the red string of fate, which is said to connect soulmates together. But her string leads to no one and she thinks she will be forever alone until she meets others who can see the strings too.
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First Look: Superstar JYP Nation
The Superstar series of games are rhythm games you can play on mobile. Each individual game focuses on a specific K-Pop company such as YG, SM, and JYP. I specifically played the JYP Nation version and wanted to share my thoughts.
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The Most Beautiful Moment in Life #2 Review
花樣年華 HYYH The Notes 2 (The Most Beautiful Moment in Life #2) is the sequel book of the Bangtan Universe which continues following the story of the seven friends facing many challenges and struggles, and the one with the power to save them all.
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Villainous Review
Villainous is a board game all about the villains of Disney. You get to play one of these villains and are competing to finish your objective before the other villains, but heroes can block your way. I have had this game for a long time and finally played it so here is my review.
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Meeting in the Flesh Review
Meeting in the Flesh is a horror-themed visual novel about building a relationship with other monsters by a solar eclipse. I learned about this game from the Racial Justice bundle on itch.io and knew it was perfect to review in October.
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The Haunted Mansion: Call of the Spirits Review
Disney and Funko have released a new board game all about the Haunted Mansion! Since I love this attraction I knew I wanted to play this and share my thoughts.
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Odessa Review
Odessa is a graphic novel set in a dystopian California after an earthquake literally tears the state apart. Ginny was a child when this happened, and her mother left her along with her two younger brothers back then. But a mysterious package shows up on Ginny’s 18th birthday that leads to a whole adventure.
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First Look: Lovingly Evil
Have you ever wanted to be a villain? Maybe date a villain? You can do both in Lovingly Evil, a dating simulator for the wicked at heart. I gave the demo a play and have some thoughts to share.
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First Look: Neon Future
Neon Future is a sci-fi comic series created by Steve Aoki and Impact Theory about a future cold war between the Augmented, those who have integrated technology into their bodies, and the Authentic, those who haven’t. I have read the first few episodes and want to share some thoughts with you all.
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Blackpink The Album Review
Blackpink has finally released their first full album. I’ve enjoyed a lot of their past music, so I knew I was going to listen to this album and decided to write a review.
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Working on a Song Review
Working on a Song: The Lyrics of Hadestown is a book from Anaïs Mitchell, the writer and lyricist of the Tony award winning Hadestown. This book is all about the process she took to create the music in Hadestown, from it’s beginning in Vermont to winning awards on Broadway. I got the incredible opportunity to read it early and share my thoughts with you.
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Mary Review
Mary: The Adventures of Mary Shelley’s Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandaughter is an upcoming YA graphic novel about the teenaged descendant of the famous author who shares the same name. What modern Mary doesn’t know is that she has gifts beyond this world and she is about to fall into a role she wasn’t prepared for.
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Cindr Review
Cindr is a new board game all about the wonderful world of dating dragons. You’ll swipe to find your match and take them on a date to see if you are compatible. Can you take the heat or will you be left burned?
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First Look: BTS Universe Story
BTS Universe Story is the mobile game based on the Bangtan Universe and has officially been released. I have played through the first chapter as well as explored the other stories and I’m going to share my initial thoughts with you all.
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Stray Kids IN生 Review
Stray Kids just released the repackage of their first album called IN生 (IN LIFE). I decided I wanted to get the repackage because I love the original album, wanted to support the artists, and because it does come with some cool extras that American albums don’t do. So here is my review of both the physical good of the album and the music.
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Book Beau Review
Book Beau in a shop that sells, you may have guessed, book beaus. Book beaus are sleeves that you can place your books or Kindle in for protection. I’ve been using one, and other Book Beau products, for a while now and figured it was time to do a full review!
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Legendary Ladies Review
Legendary Ladies: 50 Goddesses to Empower and Inspire You is a collection of stories about various goddesses across cultures and time. From Athena to Pele, Kali to Oshun, this book has them all and some insight into how they can inspire you.
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Cokodive Review
Cokodive is a K-Pop centered store that offers a huge variety of products, including official merch, albums, light sticks, and more. I’ve made a few purchases through them and decided to do a whole store review to give some good info about shopping with Cokodive.
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Spiritfarer Review
Spiritfarer is a cozy management game about death where you play as Stella, the new spiritfarer who must escort wayward spirits to their final passing through the Everdoor. I’ve been waiting for this game for a while so I was very excited to play it and I have a bunch of opinions.
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Fangs Review
Fangs is a comic collection from the creator of Sarah’s Scribbles, Sarah Anderson. It’s the snippets of a relationship between a vampire and a werewolf and I’m going to share my full impressions with you.
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First Look: Frostpunk On The Edge DLC
On The Edge is the third and final DLC for the survival strategy game Frostpunk. I got the awesome opportunity to play the DLC early and share my thoughts with you all.
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BTS Mystery Box Review
Cokodive curates this mystery box for BTS fans filled with merchandise from albums to plushes to photocards and beyond. Since I’ve fallen headfirst into becoming an ARMY, I decided I wanted one and share what I got and think of it.
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Here To Slay Review
Here To Slay is a strategic fantasy card game from the makers of Unstable Unicorns. I was a backer of the Kickstarter and wanted to share my thoughts on their latest game.
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First Look: Eyes On Me
Eyes On Me is a boy love web comic about the growing relationship between Evan, a shy guy, and Marcus, the more experienced one, created by Loonytwin.
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A Fold Apart Review
A Fold Apart is a puzzle game where you play as a couple in a long distance relationship and fold paper in various ways to clear puzzles as they navigate the difficulties of being apart.
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First Look: Unlovable Replacement
Unlovable Replacement is a Webtoon by Nyanla that follows Chiko Dyer after a big breakup and the weird relationship he starts to build with a local delivery girl named November.
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Proslife Joy-Cons Review
I recently started having the dreaded Joy-Con drift happening on my original Joy-Cons and it got to the point that it was very annoying and getting them fixed was a pain. So I did some searching and found this third-party pair that I decided to get and give you a review of!
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Banned Book Club Review
Banned Book Club is a graphic novel following Kim Hyun Sook as she starts her first year of college in 1983 South Korea. This was during South Korea’s Fifth Republic, a military regime that entrenched its power through censorship, torture, and the murder of protestors. And Hyun Sook finds herself pulled into it all because of her love of books.
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First Look: Beyond Blue
Beyond Blue explores the mysteries of our ocean through the eyes of Mirai, a deep sea explorer and scientist. Become a part of a newly-formed research team using groundbreaking technologies to see, hear, and interact with the ocean in a more meaningful way than has ever been attempted.
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There Are Things I Can’t Tell You Review
There Are Things I Can’t Tell You is a boy love manga about childhood friends Kasumi and Kyousuke as they navigate adulthood and their complicated feelings towards each other.
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BTS Graphic Lyrics Review
Big Hit recently released a set of books called Graphic Lyrics with songs from their group BTS. The art and their connection to the Bangtan Universe caught my eye, so I had to get them and see what they were all about.
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Wind Peaks Review
Wind Peaks is a hidden object game where you help the scouts find all the missing objects in this fun and relaxing adventure of treasure hunt. I got to play the game early and share my thoughts with you all.
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First Look: Future You
Future You is a Webtoon about a time-traveling secret agent who is stuck in the current era and her growing relationship with a police officer with a tragic past.
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First Look: Rising Lords
Rising Lords is a turn-based medieval strategy game that is currently out on early access. With board and card game elements along with the turn-based system, I knew I wanted to give this one a try.
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Röki Review
Röki, from developer Polygon Treehouse, is a game I have had my eye on for a while now and I got the opportunity to play it in advance for this review!
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First Look: Devolverland Expo
Devolverland Expo is a first-person ‘marketing simulator’ set within an abandoned convention center after the annual Devolver Digital game expo was mysteriously canceled. Basically, Devolver turned their convention promos into a game! Devolver is one of my favorite developers so I immediately knew I wanted to explore this.
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