Indie games have been a big thing for quite some time now, but exactly how long is something frequently lost on Westerners who do not participate in any form of Japanese pop culture – which is a big chunk of the Western gaming audience, thanks to the torpor of Japanese gaming during the explosive 7th Generation. But it needs to be stated that Japanese nerds have been making Indie products for a very, very long time. These independent, self-published projects ran the gamut of media, from manga to anime to videogames, all living under the blanket Japanese term, doujin. Of course, with many Japanese doujin projects taking the form of hentai, it should come as no surprise that the two terms are nearly always conflated in the West, when doujin implies things like ... |
Rating of
4/5 |
