Sakura Note – A study in parental selfishness (spoilers for a game no one has played)

Sakura Note is a short game, only about 4 or 5 hours long, so I finished it quickly once I put my mind to it. I had some harsh words for it last time, but the story improved dramatically in the last two chapters and the ending was very sweet, so I feel a lot […]

Sakura Note: Ima ni Tsunagaru Mirai – Deservedly unknown

Games like Sakura Note give the slice of life genre a bad name. There’s no point making a game about ordinary life with a mystic twist if the result is going to be less interesting than real life. Heck, there’s no point making any game that’s less interesting than real life. After two mediocre chapters […]

Doki Doki Suikoden – Too many crotch shots

If you read that title and thought, “There’s no such thing as too many crotch shots” then congratulations! You just found the perfect video game. You can die happy now. I first became interested in Doki Doki Suikoden when I watched a video about it on Youtube. This was shortly after I’d finished Motto Nuga-Cel, […]

Doki Doki Majo Shinpan! = Trash

I almost titled this post “Doki Doki Majo S**tpan” but I’m trying to run a clean(er) ship these days. Besides, such a perfectly descriptive name would leave me with nothing left to write about this game, one of the dullest, most joyless things I have ever experienced in my life. Doki Doki Majo Shinpan! is […]

Gamebook DS – Aquarian Age: Perpetual Period = meh

An average, seriously-cliched visual novel that I somehow found myself enjoying. I’ve been reading it on and off for the past couple of months. Characters: Lazy, orphaned slightly perverted brown-haired protagonist, always comes to the rescue of the ladies, who treat him like dirt. Lives with his typically violent, tsundere, terrible cook of a  childhood […]