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 – Gameplay

I have so many otome games on my To Play list that if I don’t start playing them soon I’ll soon be left with nothing but otome games to play. The sooner I start clearing them away, the better. First up: Hanayaka nari Waga Ichizoku, brought to you by Idea Factory and Vingt-et-Un Systems, the […]

Games I quit early, 2014 edition

Welcome to the fourth annual edition of “Games I started but realized they sucked and dumped them so quickly that I didn’t have anything to write about!” *canned applause* Happily enough the list gets shorter and shorter every year, partly because I’m more discerning about what I even start, partly because I’ve had all my […]

9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors – I knew I wouldn’t like it

To be honest the odds were stacked against 999 from the start. 1. I don’t like visual novels. I don’t think I’ve made a secret of this dislike or of the reason: they’re really boring to read. The dialogue parts aren’t so bad, but there’s always a lot of description of things that don’t need […]

Last Bullet DS review – Likeable characters, laughable plot (spoilers)

Last Bullet is a visual novel/sniping game developed and published by Furyu Corporation. I know them better as dungeon-crawler developers, but I recently learned that they occasionally dabble in otome games as well, so I decided to give Last Bullet a shot. And you know, it was actually pretty good. I’m not a fan of […]