Seasonal Anime Checkup OVA

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) see how the final chapter of Xenoblade Chronicles 3 wraps up with some returning faces and why AL enjoyed 80% of the DLC before feeling it began to fall off in the final 20%.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) return to the land of otome where we’ve now found a brand new milestone for AL’s Ranking of Otome.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) finally get to dive into the final chapter of the Crossbell arc of the Trails games. We discuss how bombastic and wild the end of the game gets and how this has made us more excited to play Reverie later this year.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) return to the world of Resident Evil 4 with the remake of the game to see what’s changed and what remains the same. We talk about if the remake retains the spirit of the original game, the new gameplay, and how we feel about Resident Evil 4 now as a whole.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) discuss the short-form anime spinoff of Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club in Nijiyon and how these short episodes show off the girls’ goofier sides and still maintains being a heartwarming series.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) finally get together to talk about Persona 4 after somehow not doing so for nearly six years. We talk about bits of the story and characterizations, but mostly about how we feel about the game after returning to it after quite a few years since our last playthroughs.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) put a bunch of characters from Kotaro Uchikoshi games into a bracket and see which character stands out above all the rest. We get into some debates and talk about some very good characters in our annual March tradition.

If you’d like to fill out your own bracket and see which character you think is the best, you can do so right here!

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) dive into the prequel to Final Fantasy VII to see if it’s still worth playing after its recent re-release. We discuss the gameplay, story, and what parts we’d like to see carry over to the new FF7 remake games.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) discuss the shut down of Love Live! School Idol Festival and the difficulties of preserving digital games in the mobile space.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) travel back to 19th century Japan to see how a Yakuza story could fit into to this time period. We talk about how wild it is this game finally got localized, how historically accurate the game tries to be, and how this stacks up to other games in the franchise.