I’ve been so caught up actually playing games I haven’t been following game news as much as I used to. Nothing too big going on right now, but an upcoming PS2 otome game caught my eye on Famitsu just now. It’s called L2 Love x Loop. If I tend to focus on PS2 and DS games in this blog it’s because those are the two main things I play on, though I also own a PS1 and a Wii.
Anyway, Love x Loop’s premise is like this: the heroine Nanami lives with her older sister in a futuristic setting where robots are at war with mankind and humans have been reduced to living in ruins. On Nanami’s birthday her sister is kidnapped in a robot attack, and she finds a mysterious robot just lying around. Now through the powers of this special robot she resolves to go back in time and change the past so that the future won’t have to be so crappy any more.
I remember someone with a plan like that, I think his name was Trunks and it didn’t work out quite as planned. Then again it did work out for someone else named Crono so we’ll see how things turn out 
Anyway, this wouldn’t be a real otome game without bishies, would it? Yup, so somehow Nanami finds time out of her very busy time-traveling sister-saving world-changing schedule to romance a few cute guys. What I’m really worried about, though, is that old guy in there.
See him? Right in the top right corner with the beard. He’s creeping me out. I can’t 
imagine…you know…even though I did hook up with the headmaster in Tokimeki Memorial Girl’s Side, but that’s different! Really! *ahem* According to the official blog he’s the man who gave the robot to the main character, so maybe we’ll be spared the geriatric kissy face.
Old guy worries aside (or maybe because of them) I’m really looking forward to this game. The story sounds fresh, the bishies look fresh and different and screenshots I’m seeing look lovely.
L2: Love x Loop
[…] L2 Love x Loop is one of the earliest games I wrote about when I started this blog. Back then I honestly intended to play it. Then it came out and the reviews were not very flattering, to say the least. So I put it off and put it off and put it off and before I knew it 5 years had passed. I had completely forgotten about it, actually, until I played Kamiyo Gakuen Something-something Kurunuigyaaah earlier this year. Like Kurunuiga, L2 Love x Loop is by Idea Factory, features character designs by Minako Iwasaki of Rune Factory fame and was thoroughly panned when it first came out. Since there’s no way on earth Love x Loop could possibly be worse than Kamiyo, I have finally mustered up the courage to try it. […]
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