I won’t say “review” because I dropped it after about 3 hours. Magical Houshin is a Japanese GBA game very loosely based on Chinese novel Fengshen Yanyi (Houshin Engi in Japanese). The game tells the story of a young boy named Sora who goes up a mountain to study to become a hermit. On his […]
Tanbi Musou Meine Liebe – Love your frenemies
Bad game was bad. I didn’t enjoy it at all. I see what Konami tried to do there (create a girl’s version of Tokimeki Memorial, which they eventually managed with the Girl’s Side series), but Meine Liebe just sucks. You play a girl in a high-school in the fictional country of Kuchen around 1937. The […]
Oujisama Platonic Keikaku+ – Not bad for a free indie game
I downloaded several free Japanese otome games and demos while doing research for my otome game list, and now I want that hard drive space back so everything must go. First on the chopping block, Oujisama Platonic Keikaku+ (王子様プラトニック計画+), a free indie game made by someone from a doujin otome game creation circle known as […]
Kaeru Batake de Tsukamaete Portable – Didn’t click with me
Kaeru Batake de Tsukamaete is an otome game about a girl and a bunch of her schoolmates (all bishies) who defile a shrine on their school grounds and are cursed so they turn into frogs. A mysterious three-tailed cat turns them back to normal, but under one condition: that they all work together to purify […]
Done with Ore ni Hatarakette Iwaretemo Otsu
Some games you finish, other games you just shrug and go “I guess that’s enough.” I’m not sure Ore ni Hatarakette Iwaretemo Otsu even has a proper endgame even if I wanted to finish it. All you can do is unlock all the dungeons and kill all the monsters and that’s the end of that. […]