Moonlight Basket – Too many limitations, and yet…

Moonlight Basket is a trading simulation game from inutoneko, an indie game company whose library I have been steadily working through for the past couple of years. Tico, the mean and lazy alchemist from Lemuore no Renkinjutsushi, is still up to her no-good profligate ways and now has to resort to trading goods from town […]

Finished Atelier Totori Plus long after running out of stuff to do

Or, more accurately, long after running out of stuff that I actually wanted to do. You will remember that Atelier Totori Plus is about an alchemist who wants to become an adventurer. For that reason, alchemy is de-emphasized and adventuring is prioritized in this game, meaning you will run out of recipes to synthesize long […]

Atelier Totori Plus – Starts slow then gets really good

I’m not sure how to check my playtime, but I estimate I’ve been playing Atelier Totori Plus for about 15 hours now. I’m in the middle of year 2, Adventurer Rank 6. Unless I mess up horribly I’m certain to avoid the bad end so that’s a load off my mind. I’d still be playing […]

La Corda d’Oro 2 – Hihara true end, Shimizu, Tsukimori and Yunoki GET!

I have been a busy little gamer, haven’t I? In addition to doing all these routes I also started Atelier Totori Plus, played it a little, wasn’t feeling it and started Sorcery Saga instead, which is right up my alley. Plus it’s a roguelike so I’ll be done soon, just as soon as I die […]

La Corda d’Oro 2 – Tsuchiura & Hihara GET!

Obviously I got the normal endings for both of these guys, since I lost the thread for their true routes pretty quickly. In Tsuchiura’s case I seem to have answered a question wrong somewhere. In Hihara’s case I either raised his affection too quickly or too slowly and missed some critical events. But the nice […]