Caught in a web of laughs and lusts
I haven’t been blogging much recently. Partly it’s because the new school term has just started, but mostly it’s because I’ve been too busy playing games and getting distracted by various new and shiny objects.
This picture of Yuki has nothing to do with
what I am going to blog about today.
Here’s a little recap on just what the hell I have been wasting my life on for the past two weeks…
GADGET TRIAL
Moé level: High
Official site:
http://www.kogado.com/html/kuma/gt/
Genre: Turn-based strategy
Description: Turn-based strategy game ripped unit by unit from Advance Wars, but instead of tanks, planes and ships, you get cosplaying bio-engineered girls. Each girl represents one category of units. Izen is infantry, Nei is armour, Souka is air, Yuri is artillery and Hisoka is sea. You score points for winning battles and you can use them to unlock new costumes. Different costumes give different stats.
Verdicts: AI is not too smart. Once you learn the rules, it’s pretty much impossible to lose. Bombers are overpowered. That said, it’s still quite a challenge to achieve Rank S for some of the later levels. Nei-san and Hisoka = love <3. P.S. Nei-san is voiced by Shizuka Itou (Tamaki from TH2).
Time wasted: 10 hours so far.
グリンスヴァールの森の中 ～ 成長する学園 ～
Greenvale no Mori no Naka ~seichou suru gakuen~
Moé level: Medium
Official site:
http://shchara.co.jp/04develop/green/
Genre: Simulation
Description: School-building simulator with lots of girls. Balance stats, make money, construct buildings and fight battles. Fulfill certain criterias in order to access the story paths of the various girls.
Verdicts: Gameplay isn’t very well-balanced, but still fun. Making money is a pain. Art and voice works are not bad. Not much replayability for a simulation game. P.S. Herue’s seiyuu is Yuki Matsunaga (Nerine from Shuffle!).
Time wasted: 12 hours.
彼女たちの流儀
Kanojo-tachi no Ryuugi (Kanogi)
Moé level: High
Official site:
http://13cm.jp/130cm/games/theirstyles
Genre: 18-kin AVG
Description: You play a girl guy who looks like a girl, is voiced by a girl and, on numerous occasions in the game, is forced to cross-dress as a girl. I guess that isn’t what the story is about but I had to get it out of the way… Anyway, you return to live with your loli elder sisters, Tobari and Akane, after years of separation only to find out that they are actually vampires. Blood-sucking, rape and hilarity ensue, usually at the main character’s expenses. Sort of like Tsukihime except loli-er.
Verdicts: Quite a short game. Predictable scenarios. Cheap-looking interface. Music is around doujin quality (“acquired taste”). Voice overs range from average to horrible. Too much loli and incest. Akane is funny sometimes when she’s not raping you. P.S. I like Suzutsuki more than Tobari.
Time wasted: 5 hours.
Scarlett
Moé level: Low
Official site:
http://www.din.or.jp/~nekoneko/game.htm
Genre: 18-kin AVG
Description: 17-year-old Akito takes a one-year break from school and travels around Japan on his own. While practising with his airsoft M92F Beratta on the Okinawa beach near the US military base (I know, he’s not exactly very bright), he meets Shizuka, a mysterious girl with a slightly tsundere personality. Various incidents take place, involving everything from CIA, B2 bombers, US Aegis cruisers, a former Israeli intelligence agent, a gunfight in Canberra, a bank in Lichtenstein and a presidential election in a fictional African state suspiciously similar to South Africa…
Verdicts: The story is not typical of AVG and it’s a refreshing change. Production value is quite high. Great art. Interface is well-designed and the in-game encycopedia is hilarious. Story is somewhat unbelieveable if you are used to Tom Clancy-style realism.
Time wasted: 7 hours so far.
SummerDays
Moé level: High
Official site:
http://schooldays.0verflow.com/sd_index.html
Genre: 18-kin AVG
Description: Based on the 2005 game School Days and takes place in an alternative timeline before the events of the first game. Setsuna is now the main character. Plagued by a premature release, numerous bugs and too many patches to count.
Verdicts: After the 1.05 patch, the game is mostly playable now. The first half of the game has been radically revamped but the second half is still painful to play. Animation is less used and of a lower quality as compared to the first game. Parts of the game were outsourced to China. Story lacks the punch of the original. New characters are annoying and useless. Setsuna rocks. Not enough Setsuna. Waiting for everything to be patched up before doing anything else with the game.
Time wasted: 6 hours so far.
舞-HiME 運命の系統樹 修羅
Mai-HiME Unmei no Keitouju Ashura
Moé level: High
Official site:
http://circus.nandemo.gr.jp/common/maihime_top/maihime_top.html
Genre: AVG
Description: Finally, the PS2 game is now available for the PC, and with new paths and scenarios to boot.
Verdicts: Shizuru forever. All other comments withheld until I finish a significant portion of the game.
Time wasted: 20 minutes so far.
Now you see why I haven’t been getting much work done…
July 7th, 2006 at 11:54 pm
Wow ,…nice…..is these game you buy it during the trip to japan?
July 8th, 2006 at 1:22 am
Woah~ Did you download em or bought em all?!
July 8th, 2006 at 4:31 am
@bj0rn’ let’s assume he bought’em. ^^
Anyways, Scarlett seems promising (mainly because I love Tom Clancy xD). Shame on me who knows just a little of Japanese…
July 8th, 2006 at 11:54 am
I need to try and play this games…. esp. the Hime one.
July 8th, 2006 at 1:15 pm
OMG ROFL im playing Gadget Trial now XD. its a damn nice game…problem is i dont like to stick to the “rules” of the map. I try not to but i realised that it was futile cause if u dont take advantage of the situation, the enemy wins (chapter 5 where you are first introduced to heavy infantry.)
I was trying to win without taking the middle bases…(i couldnt do it)
July 8th, 2006 at 1:20 pm
oh yeah, of u like Greenvale no Mori no Naka ~seichou suru gakuen~ kinda of games i recommend suzukuri dragon made by the same company…dunno whether u played it yet or not. its much more challenging at least…
July 8th, 2006 at 5:31 pm
Hmm.. FOR ME, I’m really interested in Scarlett because of KOTOKO singing loose and the Mai HiME game. Not to forget Summer Days because School Days rocked too!
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:36 am
Don\’t waste your monrey on cheap BB\’s. Get the best and your shot will be accurate.
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