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 […]

Hanayaka Nari Waga Ichizoku Kinema Mosaic review

I wasn’t too happy with Hanayaka Nari Waga Ichizoku Kinema Mosaic when I did my first route, but I said I would do a few more routes and give my final thoughts, so here we are as promised. First I do have to eat a tiny bit of crow and admit that the new work […]

Hanayaka Nari Waga Ichizoku Kinema Mosaic – Sometimes a bad sequel is worse than no sequel at all

Disappointment, thy name is Kinema Mosaic. But in retrospect I shouldn’t be surprised. The original Hanayaka Nari Waga Ichizoku was all kinds of fun not because it has the best graphics or the greatest story but because it had a great cast and very strong comedic writing. That kind of feat is hard to repeat, […]

Updates on all the games I’m playing

I haven’t gotten far enough in any one game to write a full post about it. Or maybe I’m just lazy. You figure it out. Bravely Default – Got out of the Miasma Woods and to Florheim (?) with relatively little fuss. I haven’t played any more in a long, long time, but I did […]

Storm Lover Kai!! – I don’t like the guys

Actually I suspect D3 Publisher intentionally made them not-so-likeable because of the kind of game this is. Unlike most otome games, Storm Lover offers a lot of flexible (or should I say ‘loose’) dating options so you can date guys without actually being locked into a route until the game ends. You can date Kyosuke […]