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 […]

Hanayaka Nari Waga Ichizoku Kinema Mosaic review

I wasn’t too happy with Hanayaka Nari Waga Ichizoku Kinema Mosaic when I did my first route, but I said I would do a few more routes and give my final thoughts, so here we are as promised. First I do have to eat a tiny bit of crow and admit that the new work […]

Hanayaka Nari Waga Ichizoku Kinema Mosaic – Sometimes a bad sequel is worse than no sequel at all

Disappointment, thy name is Kinema Mosaic. But in retrospect I shouldn’t be surprised. The original Hanayaka Nari Waga Ichizoku was all kinds of fun not because it has the best graphics or the greatest story but because it had a great cast and very strong comedic writing. That kind of feat is hard to repeat, […]