Master Save Archive 4/22/26 Spreadsheet is now included in the archive. There’s two reasons for this. One I don’t want to rely on a 3rd party to keep the spreadsheet up with age verification stuff popping up everywhere. Two, I was basically keeping two separate spreadsheets updated for no real good reason.
Edit- 4/22- I didn’t write this anywhere else, but Majikoi S and the A’s are now in the save archive. Majikoi is probably the most frustrating to 100% visual novel due to the closing comment scenes. We are talking 100+ scenes that play at random when you close the program, many only happening on specific dates. So I finally grabbed saves from Sagaoz for the series, I just don’t have the patients to do it myself.
Edit 4/25- I messed up the link it’s good now.
Edit 4/30– Status report. I had a kidney stone for the last five days of April, so everything is behind. The first post of May will have 3 or 4 saves as basically everything will finish on top of each other. So still alive, just behind.
Just a note, if the site ever goes down I’ll probably keep updating the Master Archive on mediafire.I’ll also be updated it on the 15th of next month, no more random Wednesdays.
So originally I wanted to do a revival theme. Like spring, back to life, I thought it’d work. Then I sat back and actually looked at my options and man did I not have nearly enough of what I wanted.
So I started with literal back to life, so resurrection isekai or vampire/zombie back to life stuff. Heroine or protag, either would work. I think Holy Undead was one of the only options? There’s a couple of zombie and vampire heroines in the VN world but basically none of them are turned into those as part of the story. Even Dracu Riot doesn’t have the protagonist dying and becoming a vampire, his transformation was less life threatening then I expected. As for isekai, summoning is actually the most common VN way to get isekaied + almost all of them are nukige.
So I was going to go back to just undead but that felt bland. Had no inspiration to it, so I’m going to instead use revive in the most abstract ways I can. Reviving old projects, revival in stories and so on. I’m basically abstracting it to be dumb.
That’s the intent, but in reality I’m basically doing like a project for each slot then moving onto new releases. Bunny Garden 2 and Making Lovers First Blush are must plays for me, to the point I’ll drop things to get to them.
The break below is me testing something with site stats.
Edits-
4/7- Eternal Romance Complete Edition
4/9- DRACU RIOT
4/15- Updated Naughty House, Kingdom of Passion, and Zombie Retreat 2. Also uploaded Senran Kagura Re;Newal and Witch on a Holy Night.
18+
Current- Something?
Eternal Romance Complete Edition– This is a futa animation centric beat’em up. One day your caster looking sword chick gets succubi cursed and goes around getting some and beating up others to figure out why. Not to stop the curse, that flies out the window around level 2. Nope, the heroine just wants to understand the succubi. Turns out basically everyone is just enjoying themselves and it indeed just ends as a romance of sorts.
The main gimmick is tied to the curse, you have two levels of turned on. Not, and on. If not, enemies grabbing you just does some damage and turns the heroine on. If on, an animation starts which drains health. If the enemy is downed, you can do these to them and if you do the On state, you get health and basically one shot the enemy. So your main goal is to knock enemies down to get through animations. It ends up pretty boring to play, though enemies do try. Counters, blocks, satellite lasers. They do fight back at least. Still, this is a game for the scenes, the combat is a nice attempt.
Edit-4/15-
Updated Naughty House to V1.4, Kingdom of Passion to V.9.5.1, and Zombie’s Retreat 2 to V.27
Ecchi-
Current- Bunny Garden 2. About 3/4’s done.
Edit 4/15- Senran Kagura Burst Re;Newal– With this, Senran Kagura is done save for the gacha and mobile games. I guess Skirting Shadows is still not done but pretty sure that is still Japanese only, and is just the first half of Burst anyway.
Anyway, 3D Burst. It changes the story from visual novel esque cutscenes to 3D models talking, so more jiggle. Beyond that, it redesigns Orochi to having tits. The story is the same with maybe a few different small bits.
It’s better then Burst in basically every way. If it had the full roster I’d say it’d be a better game then Shinovi. It’s amazing what having a proper defense system does for game feel. Biggest issue is the gameplay length of levels, most are just a one on one fight, so short. Even the longest missions are only 2-5 minutes if playing well. Anyway, it’s not bad. As the technical start of the series they did a good job porting this to a new engine. It’s also nice to have a proper beat’em up be the end of the series proper instead of Peach Beach Splash. I do wish we’d gotten 7even in some way.
Visual Novel-
Current- LoveJuiced + Making Lovers 2. I really wanted a pure vanilla nukige after the avalanche of Orcsoft I’ve read so LoveJuiced(3/4 done). Making Lovers is about 3/4 done.
Orcsoft Company Save– This has Chii Chan and Pero Pero Princess added, and that’s a rap for Orcsoft for a while. While I really like some of their games there was a lot more duds then I expected. I don’t for for NTR or whatever the newest one was, nor swapping so for the foreseeable future I’m just going to sit on what I’ve finished. AKA I’m moving on to other nukige’s.
Akai Ito HD Remaster– Reading Yumeustustu made me want to read this, I figured out why pretty quickly. The playable character in this is really similar to Ai from Re;Master. A ditz with little actual skill but some determination. Though going from a business story to an action/horror thing with that kind of protag is a very big switchup.
Story basics is a girl lost her last remaining parent and finds out about an inheritence of a house out in the middle of nowhere. She goes to check this out and by the second night is attacked by some Oni at which point she is caught up in a bunch of old grudges, history, and her own past memories that are sealed away. There’s 5 heroines that each add to the overall plot.
Akai Ito is one of those games that is fairly hard to get right in English, as it relies heavily on Japanese word terms and history for it’s exposition of which there is a lot. Especially in Sakuya’s route, which doesn’t have a fantranslation version to fix the pretty bad official translation. The rest of the read was fairly fun, if not as exciting as I wish it could have been. Akai Ito and it’s sister game Aoishiro are what I’d call shoujo ai in genre, or barely girl’s love. They are about mostly female casts and you play a girl with the routes being about growing closer to another girl, but little actual romance actual occurs and it’s hard to say if any actual couples come out of the routes. Both tend to use blood drinking to replace kissing or any other kind of romance scene.
Still I got what I wanted out of the read, a ditz/airhead of a protagonist through a fairly okay story. I do wish the flowchart the game uses would let you move through it like Yuzusoft’s flowcharts tend to, it would make hunting scenes down easier as Akai Ito is a visual novel that actually needs a flowhcart.
As for the whole revival theme idea, Akai Ito was suppose to be a March game anyway, so revivng last month + it’s the only Japanese game I actually own in physical. This was me finishing a very old project. Like 15 years I think?
Edit- 4/9- DRACU-RIOT– Newest English Yuzusoft release, I think it was their 4th or 5th actual release. I enjoyed it more then Tenshi Souzou overall, but I’d put it lower then the rest of their stuff, mainly cause I don’t find the constant perv comedy that great. If it wasn’t a story thing, it was a perv joke of some sort, the game is just constant with that. I found the protagonist fine, he was annoying in Miu’s route and kind of dense in some of the others but I’ve read a lot worse. Girls were okay? Honestly they were often my least enjoyed part of a route which is odd. It’s probably the perv comedy which is like half their personalities? Again, it’s constant and they don’t stop talking about that kind of stuff.
Routes in least favorite to best-
Azusa was fine in a vacuum, but her route is noticeably paradoxal with the rest. Basically her route changes backstories to justify stuff and it’s the only one that does it. I also don’t care for her body type.
Miu- Route was fine, but Miu’s jealousy debt stuff really hurt my enjoyment especially in her afterstory. Also protag is the most resistant to a relationship here, which ragged the story a decent bit.
Nicola- Kind of funny and that’s about it.
Elina- I like when a route happens directly becasue of the actions of the hero and heroine. Also Elina was decently fun the few times she wasn’t going overboard with her perv stuff.
Rio- Felt the most complete. It’s probably the most similar in atmosphere to Meguru from Sanoba in terms of relationship. It’s the best romance really.
Save has both fan trans and official English saves.
Edit 4/15- Witch on a Holy Night–
Why does the FGO collab event spoil so many random bits of what I imagine would be in the sequel?
Anyway, read this because of Fate Grand Order. I enjoyed a decent chunk of it, but if you aren’t already invested in Nasuverse it’s just a high budget visual novel with a lot of exposition. It didn’t really elaborate on much I didn’t already know about the setting, I inferred most of the magic/magecraft stuff a long time ago. I was told this was the place to learn about magic and such in the franchise and it is the most outright, but I also feel it doesn’t cover much you couldn’t have figured out. I also remember Touko having blue hair in Kara no Kyoukai, though maybe I was just hallucinating.
I felt Aoko was kind of boring in combat. I’ve long gotten bored of protag gets really strong simple power thing almost every shounen protag gets, like Bleach he just has a bigger sword and more forms and a sword laser. Or Yu Yu Hakushu where he just gets more bullets. Or Goku.
Anyway. Alice was more fun but the way she was treated as second fiddle to Aoko’s fights was disappointing.
I ship Alice/Sizuki. They are hilarious and honestly fit each other way better then Aoko/Sizuki.
Family Friendly-
Might Switch Force Collection- I really wanted a platformer but the remaining ecchi platformers all leave something to be desired. I already owned this so I started playing it, first game is done.