Magical Houshin impressions

magical houshin gba coverI won’t say “review” because I dropped it after about 3 hours. Magical Houshin is a Japanese GBA game very loosely based on Chinese novel Fengshen Yanyi (Houshin Engi in Japanese).

The game tells the story of a young boy named Sora who goes up a mountain to study to become a hermit. On his very first day, he and his friends break the seal leading into a cave with a magical item that allows people to make super-weapons known as ‘paopei’. When the chief hermit finds out, he asks them to go defeat the demons currently rampaging through the lower world and off they go. Do please go on, this is most interesting →

Tanbi Musou Meine Liebe – Love your frenemies

tanbi musou meine liebe coverBad game was bad. I didn’t enjoy it at all. I see what Konami tried to do there (create a girl’s version of Tokimeki Memorial, which they eventually managed with the Girl’s Side series), but Meine Liebe just sucks.

You play a girl in a high-school in the fictional country of Kuchen around 1937. The time setting is pointless because you don’t do anything you wouldn’t do in a game set in 2015. Same with the pseudo-European setting. Do please go on, this is most interesting →

Oujisama Platonic Keikaku+ – Not bad for a free indie game

oujisama platonic keikaku start screenI 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 half who calls himself/herself Harusuke (はる助). They have a lot of free games available on their website, but the one we’re concerned about today is Oujisama Platonic Keikaku+, which you can download by clicking on the “download” link on this site. It’s only about 25mb big. Do please go on, this is most interesting →

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 the land. To help them bond and work together more effectively, the cat also pulls a few strings so girl + 5 bishies end up living together in one hostel. Do please go on, this is most interesting →

Done with Ore ni Hatarakette Iwaretemo Otsu

ore ni hatarake aldebaranSome games you finish, other games you just shrug and go “I guess that’s enough.” I’m not sure Ore ni Hatarakette Iwaretemo Otsu even has a proper endgame even if I wanted to finish it. All you can do is unlock all the dungeons and kill all the monsters and that’s the end of that. If you don’t have the stamina to go that far then you pick a good stopping place and stop. Do please go on, this is most interesting →