This is one of those weird games I know of, but have been kind of dodging. This was on a good sale, is short, and I wanted a match 3/puzzle game before the end of the year.
Kotodama is a match 3 puzzle game where the characters(5 girls, 1 guy) lose clothing as you win. It’s also a Groundhog Day esque mystery. Eventually.
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Qureate’s sequel to Livestream 1, with a new cast and a new haunting. It’s mostly a straight improvement to the first game. So a horror/thriller game with 3 college girls being hunted by a bloody mascot when all they wanted to do was make a video for their tube channel and hit it big.
Continue readingYeah, Rewrite isn’t really horror. It does have monsters, searching for ghosts and the school’s seven secrets and even an apocalypse or two, but it’s not horror. It’s a comedy that slips into shounen action with a strong environmentalism message.
But before I talk about Key’s attempt at hiring a bunch of famous writers to make something good instead of using their own, I should talk about that + in the title, and how silly they append that to the English version.
Rewrite+ is suppose to be the updated versions of Rewrite, Key’s 6th main project. It had 3 things that made it different then the standard release. The first one, and the only one they kept, is the ending was changed to be happier. Not more satisfying, and honestly I didn’t consider the original true ending sad, but just happier. Kinda like they did with Tomoya After where they gutted the point of the story for a happy ending.
The other change to Rewrite itself was a small number of cgs were altered to be more lewd. These were reverted for the Steam release in fear of the game not being releasable with these lewder cgs. I get the logic, but no off site patch or anything. The final change is likely taking the longest time to release because they have to censor the hell out of it to get it on Steam. I of course mean Harvest Festa, Rewrite’s fandisc. Which came packaged with Rewrite+ in Japan, as they were only sold together at first.
I don’t know much about Harvest Festa, other then it’s not a a sequel only fandisc. Not a surprise really, considering the MC becomes a tree in one route. It has an RPG mode and definitely is lewder then the original game. So the delay was likely a combination of translation priority for fandiscs being low, and having to censor the art.
Anyway, that’s not really what I wanted to talk about. Don’t really care to talk about the read itself at length either though I will at least give my general opinions on it. Really I played a Key thing to talk about the real horror in Key’s stuff, their h scenes.
Continue readingYes, Date A Live. It’s not actually horror? Are you sure? Positive?
You’d be right. It’s a cliche harem comedy with some shounen battle bits as it goes. The main character has to date and basically seduce spirits, who are always girls, so that their powers go down and they stop basically exploding entire cities and countries. That last part is the one where this could easily a horror story. Think, if you make the wrong comment during a date, boom! Everyone you know and love is dead.
The first of three Vns in this collection does kind of have that happen. Some of the bad ends are you made the wrong comment, boom. Everyone in town died because you suck with women. That’s not really the focus of the story in any bit of Date A Live, but is a very easy what if of the whole setting.
Also, this is made by Compile Heart/Idea Factory and Sting and in my quest to finish every pervy Compile Heart game I had to read this Vn collection at some point.
Continue readingThe Neptunia and Senran crossover! 5+ years too late.
Hack and Slash, doesn’t really play like any Senran game or the other Nep hack and slash types.
I wasn’t intending to do this game for another 4 years or so, but due to probably not finishing Senran Burst and skipping finishing Nep 3 this year, I figured I’d do this so one game in both those franchises would at least be done. Plus it’s short and to the point, and decent as a game.
Continue readingGame 10 in the Trails of series, the finale of the Liberl, Crossbell, and Erebonia arcs. This is a goodbye to a majority of the cast for maybe ever in game form, and honestly in that context it’s exactly what it should be. A silly mess of a game, with a good plot that follows through and ends a bunch of character arcs at places where we really don’t need to see beyond where they are at.
Never thought I’d call one of these an ecchi game without the “Not really” thing in front of it, but with this one it feels like it fits. This is a fanservice game in all accounts of the word, though still light on the sexy stuff.
Not really going to go into depth on much here, just thought I’d do a more proper write up then the Cold Steel ones.
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Switch version is the best version, as it’s the only version that’s not missing any content.
Mugen Souls is one of the more censored games from the PS3/Vita era of games. The company in charge for the PC wanted to release it uncensored but was shot down by Steam. That was about the extent of my knowledge for the game before I played it.
Honestly it’s a very lacking game and the actual lewd stuff is dwarfed by a decent number of games I’ve played. It’s really the character design aka loli count that got this censored.
It’s a turn based RPG with Disgaea levels of power creep and a bunch of complicated stuff thrown on top.
Continue readingqureate came back to life and tossed out a relaxing summer vacation esque sim game. Just a simple country romance themed one this time.
Honest- I haven’t actually finished the game. Thanks to a hack someone made I got the last cg in my save, but I honestly can’t find the fifth ending, the Sage ending. I know it’s horror themed from that cg and the one other clue I’ve found about it, but I can’t find how to do it. I’ve done three whole extra runs of the game and spent 2+ hours going through Japanese and Chinese sites trying to find some discussion and nothing.
Note, I played basically the whole game while I was sick, which might have made me like it more. It was the perfect calm game for when I felt terrible.
Continue readingThe Neptune spinoff I played for 2023. It’s basically Action U 2. Or more like Action U: Another Take.
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The remake/remaster whatever of Fairy Fencer, one of the serious RPG’s from Compile Heart and Idea Factory after fans liked Neptunia 2’s darker ending. It contains the whole original game but also adds two whole new paths which basically doubles the game.
It’s mechanically very similar to Neptunia, just with a male protag, some romance, and a bigger focus on character development and a “darker” story.
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