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. […]
Final thoughts on Harukanaru Toki no naka de 4 (spoilers)
Final roundup. Sorry to keep going on and on about Harukanaru Toki no Naka de 4, I’m just so irritated by it all, and writing helps me get it out of my system. This is the last post, I promise. The Good 1. Lovely art. The character designs, monster designs, the backgrounds, the CGs, all […]
Harukanaru Toki no naka de 4 – Tooya, Nagi, Futsuhiko, Oshihito GET! (spoilers)
Following the previous post, it’s time to cover the guys I did get in Harukanaru Toki no naka de 4, also in order of increasing desirability. Major route spoilers ahead, stop now if you plan to play this game. Nagi – Chihiro’s childhood friend with the terribly-explained story. I should at least credit him for […]
Harukanaru Toki no naka de 4 – the undesirables (spoilers)
It took a while but I finally managed to get into Harukanaru Toki no naka de 4. Enough to get a couple of endings, at any rate. There’s a function that allows you to skip around the chapters, and you can “multi-task” characters for the first 4 chapters, so that helps. I still have a […]
Harukanaru Toki no Naka de 4 – Hmm…
This is shaping up to be another one of “those” games. Those games I spend hours playing and then can’t write anything about because they didn’t make an impression on me at all. After 7h 40m, very few things have happened and even fewer of them have been important. I’m probably asking for too much, […]