Happy New Year, I guess. Kind of doing this post as a formality, so I’ll keep it short. Usually I’d post a list of everything I finished this year, but that would be 105 games long. Which is quite a bit more then most years, though a lot of that was short nukiges and partial games.

January’s post will go up in a few days when something for it is actually done. News wise nothing is happening with me, life is still mostly calm. Not a lot announced in the year has me exited, though I’m sure I’ll enjoy stuff like NekoNyan’s new stuff and Trails Horizon is apparently the best game in the series in a while. So some fun will be had.

Stay safe, enjoy what you can/ Back up what you don’t have time for, you might need it later.

Decembers theme is demons. Yep. Mainly succubi, but I needed a few more options for ecchi and possibly visual novels that aren’t nukige, so demons.

It was a toss up for either demons or yuri, and I had more demon related games I wanted to clean from my backlog. There’s also an avalanche of moege + some indie stuff coming out I will be playing.

Edit 12/22-

So January is basically already planned out, with isekai as the theme. Hatsumira as one of the only non nukige visual novels with isekai, two Orcsoft isekai nukige, an 18+ game, and maybe Conception 1 depending on time. Thing is, Trails into Horizon comes out like halfway through the month and that’s a big release for me. Everything other then nukige will likely take a back seat at that point.

Edit 12/28- Final update of the year. The actual January post will go up when a game finishes for it, though I’ll probably put up a New Year’s post looking back on the year between now and then.

18+ Game

Demon’s Sperm– Fullflap 2d Soul’s style game. It’s more of a platformer then a straight combat thing, though you do both plenty. You really only get lewd content when you finish an area and turn in the boss’s remains, otherwise it’s just busty girl running around fighting. It was fine, needed controller support and I’d probably would have enjoyed it.

Edit 12/4 Succubus Forest – Roguelike deckbuilder with pixel art perv content. It’s short and a bit random to unlock everything, but I think I did it. The merchant might have a second variant to unlock? I didn’t want to rerun the whole game hoping on luck to test that. Anyway, I enjoyed it. A lot of deckbuilders are either way to grindy or long, this one was just right. I played only on hard by the way, easy makes it a breeze I imagine. Bit weird that beating the game didn’t unlock anything, meeting the final boss is the farthest you have to get.

Edit 12/22- VS Oppai Succubus Enano Edition– A single boss fight deck builder? You pick some relics aka equipment that decides your skills and the game random picks from your whole list until you win or lose. So the prep is the key to the game. It’s interesting at first, boring when you are speeding through fights to see if your new build was enough or just winning for the sake of it. Save has everything except one sellable item in the item list, and the non base save is a version the translator made that adds the updated game’s scene(cheerleader cosplay) to the game. Beyond the boss fight, it’s 100% a paizuri game with a bratty succubus. It does weirdly end with a romance though.

Ecchi

Edit 12/4- Gal Guardians: Demon Purge – A call back to the original Castlevania with some -vania level design stuff thrown in and that annoying knockback. Only 2 parts of the game were really hard, the rest was mostly a bit repetitive as you basically need to replay each level 3 times to get everything. No cg gallery so I made sure to setup a bunch of achievements were easy to get with the save. All endings should be available to get. Overall it wasn’t bad but it’s only barely in the spirit of Gal Gun, in fact it’s really not an ecchi game it’s only under this banner since it’s related to Gal Gun.

Edit 12/15- Queen’s Loyalty – A save to a finished game, not much to do other then play as all the girls for a bit(a scene replayer was added the day after I wrote this, though the only scenes really worth watching are the summon and girl ending scenes). The game is basically a single player Korean MMO, lots of grinding very simple enemies. It’s not mindless since ranged enemies will tear you apart, but generally it gets old very fast. Most story progress bits are locked by kill 100 enemies quests, it could have been worse but it’s still just very grindy. It works, but there’s not much here other then hot girls.

Visual Novel

Edit- 12/10- Iku Iku Succubus– This might be my least liked Orcsoft thing so far? Mainly because you are in the head of an actually unlikeable guy. Unless you pursue the tanned succubus, he’s kind of a jerk at best. On the other hand, the game has some good body variety like an actual chubby girl and not a girl the game calls chubby but isn’t even vaguely chubby. Anyway, the real plot was kind of interesting and I liked that Lima was basically always beating the main dude, but I just don’t like being in the head of the perv teacher..

Edit- 12/15- Marshmallow Imouto Succubus– Decent. I wish Saki’s voice actor had been better? I didn’t like her much for the role, though the innocent voice with the succubus acts is just a fetish I don’t have. It does feel like you could remove the Succubus stuff for a parasite or mind control or possession and the plot wouldn’t really change…

Also included saves for Everyone Wants My Girl and My Life as a Cult Leader. These are the two official Orcsoft releases I had no intent to play, so I skipped through them as something of an early Christmas bonus. For the first one, I don’t care for NTR. For the second, creating a harem then sharing your girls is just not for me. Cult does have an interesting premise though. It’s just not for me.

Edit 12/28- Succubus Sessions: Mami Mamiya’s Sweet Slice of Hell – One of those episodic heroine release things, though one with some interesting stuff going for it. The main guy is recruited into a Succubus village as he has a lot of life force. His job? Get the girls used to guys so they can find guys without killing them. This episodic release is a linear story and only episode 1 of 3 is out, and the other two don’t seem to be coming. Which kind of sucks, this one ends on a cliffhanger. What story it has is interesting and it really uses the succubi nature stuff a lot, I also like the heroine thoughts during intercourse bit even if her thoughts felt very basic at times. Mami is a decent heroine for a first entry, not as boring as most episodic sets tend to be as her yandere succubus side peeks out pretty often.

Unthemed-

Edit 12/5- Homesweet Homecoming– A very safe VN. It’s basically Furereba but calmer. You start with 7 girls you are basically on friendly terms with after moving back to Japan and rush a relationship before summer break. The most annoying issue for me was that the 3 sub heroines all had way more interesting ideas then the 4 main ones. I really want a bodyguard’ed heroine where you get chummy with the guard and win over the girl alongside/after. The closest to that would be Rewrite with the butler. The Medusa thing with Rin was also hilarious in concept but went nowhere. Erina was the safest, calmest teacher route ever. Those three would make for a way more interesting VN then childhood lazy friend, goody good girl pres, energetic senior, and shy sports girl. They weren’t bad, but the sub heroines were just way more interesting in concept then the 4 main ones.

Edit 12/4- Pocket Sweeties 1(V1.6.4) + 2(V1.0.3)– Something I felt like doing. Short clicker with some puzzle content to unlock everything. 2 is 3d and really early content wise, 1 is basically done.’

Edit 12/14- Koikari- Love for Hire + After Hours– Finished the fandisc… Tsubaki and Emi are fun. The twins are silly and work really well to add chaos, but as heroines they aren’t really interesting. I really don’t care for Hasumi, though it was a bold choice to have Emi see Hasumi and protag banging in Hasumi’s after story. In general After Hours is just more fun, though I would have preferred solid Saki/Momoka routes over after stories. Love for Hire in general is my favorite Asa Project VN to date. It’s also just a better version of Rental Girlfriend. It actually goes somewhere, there is actual chemistry between all the characters, and it’s funny.

Edit 12/25- Princess Loves Goblin– A puzzle game of sorts. Every move shifts the NPC’s, and you are trying to sneak into the Princess’ room for a night of fun. You have a time limit and the first few runs will be just learning the way to get through screens. Once you reach the Princess the timer ticks down to 0 and you probably don’t have her entire gallery since there wasn’t enough time for them to frolic under the sheets enough. You basically need an almost perfect run to get the entire gallery. Then find the other two girls and do the same for them. It’s pretty short, was a decent hour or so.

Edit 12/28- Pixel Call Girls– This doesn’t really fit anything other then VN, though it really isn’t a novel either. It’s a sprite h scene gallery with few steps. It does have some interesting design stuff, with the core game being more of a platform. So for example, currently Rei and Sana are completely separate characters in the game. If you download just 1.1.2 you get only Sana, but if you drag Rei’s files from her version into the current one with Sana, you get both as options. Currently it’s only those two and they are both Touhou girls, no idea where this will go but I like how it’s designed.

November Nut Burst

I’m trying to be silly, but I kind of cringe at that title… Anyway, all the 18+ stuff I finished in November-

Busty Ninjas– Parody RPG Maker game, focused on Sakura and Hinata of ninja fame though all kinds of characters how up. Save is in the bonus room, but all three towns have content not found in the gallery. There’s a lot. It’s a short nukige esque romp with a somewhat high difficulty.

One Pump Chump V1.0– The game is “done”(got updated like a few days later, I’m not caught up with that yet), so I finished it. Superbosses were fun. Kind of wish Fubuki got a bit more content. overall a pleasant and unique idea.

Amairo Chocolate 3– It’s basically a nukige with two moege routes attached. This is because they added 3 h scenes to each heroine from the previous games along with super short after stories, giving them 6 total h scenes in the series each. Kohana is the new heroine, she basically fills in a bunch of lore stuff while being the silly lord type. She’s also the only shortstack. AmaIro was decently fun overall, wouldn’t mind more stories in the setting with more beastfolk types and other non human stuff.

Funbag Fantasy 4 -Brother Astor- Funbag is such a fun series. 4 is the best entry, Astor is the best protag of the four game so far. He actually gets mad! That shouldn’t be a praiseworthy trait, but Lute and Julianas and I think Ruin just float through a lot of their adventures. Astor doesn’t rely on supernatural powers, he plans and takes actions when called for and in general is great. There’s still a lot of silly over the top luck in how he wins, but it’s not done through magic, just Astor rolling with and making the best of the situations. I wish I had time for the gacha game on Erolabs, but I don’t. Apparently it’s actually another entry in the series writing wise instead of a tacked on money machine like most of these types.

So I’m going continue doing themes for months for a bit at least, and November is No Nut. Kind of.

I’m actually going to be reading Funbag Fantasy 4, but with long nukige I tend to lose focus on other things or go super slow if I’m still reading other 18+ stuff, so I’m going to mostly stick to ecchi and all ages when I’m not reading Funbag 4. This was more or less always the plan, it just got pushed back 2 months.

So the idea for this November is while I am going to be playing 18+ stuff, I won’t be putting them on the blog until December starts(with the exception of any of October’s projects finishing up). Current plans are as follow

Edit 11/18-

November is basically done for new games. The last week gets a bunch of personal stuff so I have no time for gaming, and for whatever reason every moege publisher decided to fill every other week with a new release. HomeSweet Homecoming, AmaIro 3, Renai Kilometer, the Smee thing, LoveR, and H9 are all things I’m interested in so I have no time to continue the all ages theme. Decembers theme will be demons, any suggestions or requests I’ll take but I do have most of my choices already picked out. As for Funbag 4, it has 9 scenes left, so it’ll be done on time. Apparently the gacha game is coming to English on Erolabs and I’ve heard good things about it.

Family Friendly Games-

Currently Playing- Fields of Mistria- I play Stardew with some friends, and I wanted a solo Stardew that was a different game. I ended up on this.This won’t finish any time soon, it’s a game for when nothing else really fits time wise.

FF1 PSP- For at work. I ran out of new things to read, so I wanted to play something and ecchi doesn’t really work at work.

Ecchi games-

Current- None.

Edit- 11/10

Magical Nut Ikuno– Pac-man stlye. Was decently fun, though not very pervy. Didn’t use it’s boob/ass expansion gimmick much at all.

Merry Bunny Garden– Toss the romacne from the original and crank up the sex appeal. Dating sim got replaced with more pervy minigames and drunken walking. It was an experience.

VNs-

Current- Complete

Time Tenshi Remake– Finished, I rushed through this just to finish the whole series. I just don’t get why this is a thing? It’s still pretending to be an ecchi thing while cutting back the bust sizes and breast expansion that was the big draw to the original. It was never going to work.

Edit 11/6-

Fate/stay night REMASTERED– It’s done. Having to basically 100% it twice since walkthroughs don’t mention the one and only 100% missable scene in the game that is blocked off if you unlock Heaven’s Feel was a special kind of treat… Anyway, did this mostly cause I was annoyed I didn’t have any version of Fate, and the flowchart makes it convenient if I ever need to quote stuff for my friend group who play FGO. I am not reading Hollow Ataraxia REMASTERED, I hate Mahjong.

Olympia Soiree– the link is to all my Otomate saves, not sure if they all work. Anyway, it was an interesting read. Olympia was shown strategically nude more times then I expected, and the game allowed her to be horny which few otome titles do. She was annoyingly naive a few too many times, and I got sick of the no one should die mentality of the good ends. It was overall an interesting setting though. Made me want more otome.

Edit- 11/10

Slay the Princess – Pristine Cut– I checked it out since I heard a lot of buzz about this when it came out, I can see why. It’s not really in a genre I enjoy but it was fascinating watching the whole package come together. I ended up enjoying it more then I expected. Also a rare instance of the voice acting not getting on my nerves. Incredibly well done.

Edit- 11/18-

Xblaze Code Embryo + Lost Memories

The Blazblue side visual novels. They have way less to do with Blazblue then I expected, with only terminology and one character really having any relevance to these stories.

Code is annoying. The protag is the hates violence and makes bad decisions all the time, yet wins the girl despite only making things worse the entire time type. It’s basically a gender flipped otome, only with a more whiny and annoying and less attractive protag. Also having each chapter half have 3 summaries you need to load and read through to 100% is just a dumb decision. It killed the pacing so much.

Memories on the other hand is just an Es fandisc that also contains retellings of Code from every other girl’s perspective. The core story of Memories is about getting a happy ending out of Es’s story from the original + stuff with the only actual Blazblue character. It was better then Code, though miss Pink is only slightly better then Code’s protag until the later half. Memories also has these weird dungeon walking bits with no fail state, they just add time to the game and nothing else.

Both games failed by not giving Yuki any fanservice cgs. Not even a swimsuit shot. Such a missed opportunity…

December first 18+ games total- 2

Edit 11/9- Unthemed Extra-

Sani Yang’s Laboratory

Age verification is basically in half of the modern world, and each damn one does it different. So while the blog will stay up for a bit longer, I think it’s about time I prepare for actual doing stuff in the future. AKA, I need to hide behind something that can afford to deal with all the legal nonsense. That and I’d rather take all the time I’ve put into writing reviews into more games.

To that end, I’m opening a reddit and discord under the name AdultGameSaves. I’ll keep the Master Save Archives in each and other then that I’ll hand out stuff based on requests. I’ll also have a list of everything to make that easier. Maybe an actual community will come into existence and people will trade saves? Who knows. Most places that attempt that stay pretty niche. Though porn saves usually have higher value then most other game saves anyway.

As for the blog itself… I’m not 100% sure how long I’ll continue it as it has been. So far other then Steam I haven’t heard of any other site actual being tried under the new laws. I need to keep it up for a while to send people to the discord/reddit, and I paid a few hundred to get a name and some other benefits… After November I might just switch to summary updates? Just a list of what I’ve done and basic opinions? The October palooza update is basically a trial of that. Basically take the VN save page summary stuff and the current list format of the palooza post and do that for the forseeable future. I’ll do actual posts for stuff that actual makes me want to write something up, but the blog is going towards even more minimization in effort then it already took.

As for the theme thing, I want to continue it for the foreseeable future to help clear out the massive backlog I got. I downloaded basically everything I vaguely thought I would ever read, and now have like 80+ visual novels and probably just as many games to go through. Having themes and rules makes it infinitely easier to pick through. I’ll still play new things more or less when I want to, like Renai Kilometer next month will get read as soon as an 18+ patch is released.

Anyway, I’ll probably toss up the reddit/discord next week. I think all the prep I wanted to do is done.