My valiant pursuit of otome games with actual gameplay continues! Not that I won’t ‘play’ otome visual novels, and not that there aren’t some very good ones out there, but when I pick up a handheld or a controller, I want to play something, not read for 10 hours. And so it is that I […]
Angelique Trois Aizouhen – The beginning of the end for the series
Approximately three years ago, I played Neo Angelique Special and was shocked not only by how terrible it was, but also by how great a departure it was from the early days of the series. It was called “Neo,” to be sure, but to me it seemed the game was Angelique in name only. If […]
Finished Zill O’ll Infinite Plus – Final roundup (spoilers)
40 hours. About 20 hours more than was good for me. Zill O’ll Infinite Plus is a good, interesting game with (apparently) over 50 different endings, but when a single playthrough takes that long to finish, I pity da fools who try to get them all. After all the trouble I spent cultivating Angirdan (dead), […]
Zill O’ll Infinite Plus: Progress Update (spoilers)
No, I’m still not done with Zill O’ll Infinite Plus. 30 hours and 59 minutes in, and I’m starting to despair of ever finishing this game. …Okay, that’s a lie. Actually the final dungeon opened up to me about 2 hours ago. Which means I could have finished the game by now if I’d wanted […]
How NOT to play Zill O’ll Infinite Plus
I mentioned in the previous post that I’d been spending all my time doing sidequests instead of advancing the main story in Zill O’ll Infinite Plus. For the sake of anyone who plays this game one day, let me warn you: do not do this. It is a terrible way to play the game, for […]