Finished my second playthrough of Ragnarok Hikari to Yami no Koujo, doing Trenet’s route. Along the way I did about 90% of Yuri’s route as well, using the A.I.Z. function, but Yuri is a whiny twit so I decided not to finish his. I hate those “My country, right or wrong” characters, especially when it […]
Shinigami to Shoujo – Boring, even for a visual novel
Is it legal for a “game” to be this boring? Like, don’t you have to meet some minimum standards of quality before they let you release something? Oh boy. Umm, well. I haven’t really made a secret of the fact that I don’t like visual novels. Still there aren’t that many otome games with gameplay […]
Shining Hearts – Glad it’s finally over
Finished after 52 hours and 55 minutes. I got sick of it pretty quickly and had been trying hard to finish it for the past 5 days or so, but the harder I tried, the longer it dragged on. I’m really, really glad it’s finally over. Thinking back, I went through the same 3 stages […]
Shining Hearts – Much better now
I’m well over the 30 hour mark (35 hours in, to be precise), I just didn’t feel like writing anything more about Shining Hearts until now. It happens. Reading over the previous post, I don’t think I fully articulated what was bothering me about the game, so I’ll try to spell it out more clearly, […]
Shining Hearts – I like the idea, but…
Shining Hearts is billed as a turn-based RPG, but it’s more like a slice-of-life game with random battles. In my last post I called it a cross between Rune Factory and Atelier Iris. It’s not an exact analogy, but that should give you some kind of idea of what this game feels like to play. […]