2020 in review

This kind of works for this year. Teetering and unsteady but it happened.

A bit early, but I won’t really have free time for the rest of the year(like maybe two hours a day?) and this is the day the ecchi page when up so I figured I’d just use this for the end year summary.

I’m not going to get into why 2020 really sucked as a year in general. For porn VN’s though, it was pretty decent. All the main publishers pumped out a decent selection, though there were some dry spells. Porn patreon’s went on and mostly didn’t seem that affected by the whole mess the world was in. So as far as my hobby is concerned, Vn’s and porn games were fine. Definitely had worse years.

Ecchi took a big beating this year though, with multiple tepid titles that should have been easy A+’s for ecchi. The Danmachi game, Kandagawa, Fairy Tail, and more. Each set up with a good IP for ecchi and failed at basically every turn. A few decent indies came up though and I’ll cover them sometime next year when my schedule clears up.

As for the whole doing ecchi, I’ve gotten more reaction posts actually talking about the game itself instead of just asking for links or reuploads then I did in years of talking about porn games, so I’m going to stick with it. Few interesting h games are coming out anyway, so I don’t feel like I’m missing much. My best looked at posts are from years 1 and 2 anyway, and I’m never going to topple those with anything I look at now.

As for what I enjoyed this year, the best game was Agarest Mariage, and that bothers me. A spinoff handheld RPG is the best game I played this year. A few things came close but just fell apart at the end for different reasons. It doesn’t help that a lot of the early ecchi stuff was me replaying stuff on PC instead of console, and a lot of those games took a while.

Kyonyuu Fantasy Gaiden 2 was the best VN I played this year, with little else really sticking out to me. There was some decent reads, but I barely remember what I even did read this year. Maybe it was a lot more sparse then I remember? I know MG released something each month as usual and Nekonyan got out like 3+ things… Aokana extra was fun. IxShe Tell was actually kinda boring. Had a fun setup then it just mellowed out to much. A few fun nukiges came out… and the 15th has like three VN’s coming out. Which is a really good close out to the year I won’t be able to touch for a month. Kinda sucks, but eh. Adulting sucks, what else is new?

Following is my current list of ecchi games to play. I’ll add this to the update post at some point.

  • Agarest 2
  • Agarest Zero
  • Akiba’s Strip 2
  • Atelier Ryza 2
  • Azure Lane CrossWave
  • Azure Night 1+2
  • Banner of the Maid
  • Banzai Pecan
  • Bayonetta(PC)
  • Bayonetta 2(Switch)
  • Blazblue(series)
  • Blue Reflection
  • Bloodrayne
  • Bullet Girls Phantasia
  • Caladrius Blaze
  • Catherine Full Body(when its finally ported to PC)
  • Conception
  • Conception 2
  • Cross Edge
  • Death by Degrees
  • Dead or Alive(no idea how many or which ones)
  • Death End;Request(1 only. 2 is a lot less sexual though honestly I think it looks cooler asthetically.)
  • Demon Gaze 1&2(unsure on these do to them lacking in game galleries for whatever reason. I could make them as I play I guess?)
  • DiDNapper(more fetish then ecchi, but why not?)
  • Disidea(one of them)
  • Divinity: Dragon Commander
  • Dragon Quest 8
  • Dragon Star Varnir
  • Dungeon Travelers 2
  • Epic Battle Fantasy 5
  • Fairy Fencer F
  • FF10-2
  • FF13-3(cosplay+jiggle)
  • Fox Eye games
  • Fire Emblem Fates(patched with all features, will probably never actually happen)
  • Gal Gun Returns
  • Gal Gun Double Peace
  • Gal Gun 2
  • Growslancer/Langrisser
  • Gun Gun Pixies
  • Hatsune Miku/Project Diva(one of them, not sure which)
  • Haydee
  • Haydee 2
  • Haunting Grounds
  • Killer is Dead
  • Kotodama The 7 Mysteries of Fukisawa
  • Labyrnth of Refrain
  • Legend of Heroes: Cold Steel 4
  • Lollipop Chainsaw
  • Mary Skelter Final
  • Max Gentleman, Sexy Business DLC
  • Metal Gear Acid 2
  • MeiQ
  • Michigan Hell Report
  • Moero Chronicles
  • Mortal Kombat 9
  • Mugen Souls(censored PC)
  • Mugen Souls Z(Patched Japanese PS3 if I can find it for full game)
  • Neptunia Games(most of them)
  • Neoverse
  • Nier Automata
  • Ninja Gaiden Sigmas
  • One Piece Game(no idea which one, probably Warriors 3)
  • Onnechanbara Chaos
  • Oneechanbara Origins
  • Otomedius
  • Princess Makers
  • Project X Zone
  • Project X Zone 2
  • PN03
  • Rumble Roses
  • Rumble Roses XX
  • Queen’s Blade Spiral Chaos
  • Saboteur
  • Sakura War 5: So Long My Love(I think this is the only one worth playing for ecchi from this series)
  • Saint’s Row 3+4
  • Senran Kagura Estival Versus
  • Senran Kagura Shinovi Versus
  • Senran Kagura Burst ReNewal
  • Shantae
  • Shining Resonance Refrain
  • Suikoden 4(mostly for a single cutscene)
  • Super Robot Wars(the more gainaxy ones)
  • Smashing the Battle
  • SNK Heroines
  • Soul Calibur 4/6
  • SoniComi
  • Tears to Tiara 2
  • Tokyo Tattoo Girls
  • Tokyo Mirage Sessions(Wii U uncensored)
  • Time and Eternity
  • Trinity Universe
  • Trillion
  • Trails of Mana
  • Tomb Raider(one or two of them)
  • Utaware 1 remake
  • Yakuza Zero and Kiwami
  • Xenoblade 2 and maybe 1

+ random fighting games as I feel they fit enough.

4 responses to “2020 in review

  1. I appreciate the hard work and time you’ve put into this and for everything over the years

  2. Thank you so much for save. I really enjoyed reading your review too.
    If I allowed to be nitpick, I wish you would fix your habit of misusing the word “then” for “than”
    I know it’s hard to change a habit, but let’s hope that 2021 is better year thAn 2020!

    • I do know that I use the wrong version. To/too gets messed up a lot as well I’m sure. A side effect of rarely writing beyond here I guess is my language skills have gotten pretty bad. I can’t imagine how bad I would be if I didn’t write here as often as I do.
      Happy New Year!

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