Corpse Party is on my list of games to get to. I think we gave it a 4/5 a few months back when it released. We've got several guys on our team that are massive fans of the virtual novel styled games and they have all raved about it, just about as much as they have about 999.

I work a roughneck job (believe it or not) 10-12 hours a day and then I wade through tens to hundreds of emails from PR everyday for the site. I have so little time to get through RPGs any more. I'm still working my way through Ni No Kuni… well, at least I will once once I finish BioShock Infinite. So much to play and so little time to do so. I've got Ouya and Pandora's Tower headed in my direction pretty soon too!

Oh, yeah. To The Moon is brilliant. If you have a PSP, check out Corpse Party, too — that was originally an RPG Maker project, but has evolved a bit over the years. You can still see its roots, though.

It's funny though, because as I was reading this I kept feeling like I had deja vu… then it hit me – we just had one of our writers talk about his experience with RPG Maker in a feature where he deems that we need more creation tools in our games. I actually think you'll enjoy the read:
http://www.digitallydownloaded.net/2013/03/why-games-need-more-creation-tools.html

I think I'm going to have to track down a copy of "To the Moon" too. I'm not one for developing/creating things (other than with words), but I am up for playing things such as this.

Thanks. I shall endeavour not to disappoint 🙂