[PS Vita] Photo Kano Kiss - Mai
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Since they are giving this game in this month's Free-to-play games for PS Plus subscribers, I decided to give it a shot.
This is a dating sim in its purest sense I guess. You basically have to find girls, talk to them well, and then go towards their route, having somewhere around 49 days, 4 slots per day to do so. Another plus point about this game is that it has a component of taking pictures of the girl you like. I found myself guilty pleasure in this, and enjoyed it quite a bit. However, since this is not an 18+ game, but rather 17+, it's a good thing for me. The gameplay is done well imo, since you can vary your angle and position quite flexibly, and there are different poses. Apart from that, the PS Vita can be rotated physically to get an angle and distance. They use the Gyro sensors in the Vita for this, and hey, it's quite nice. I preferred the traditional analog sticks approach more comfortable though.
Now onto the route I cleared: Mai's, and my advice to anyone wanting to try this out would be: Don't go looking for a deep story with this. Just enjoy your days in the world being the main character. It provided a very nice break from the usual VNs for me. However, given the route's depth, it's quite well-written, I feel. Especially the last parts, where they wrap things up nicely. I personally was emotionally attached enough and enjoying the game to read it for 11 hours straight, including cooking and eating in between.
Oh, and the little sister is not a heroine, for once. Phew. Scratch that. Apparently she is unlocked as a heroine if one gets all the other heroines' ends. While I am not against little sisters as heroines, I would like to see more of them as support characters, which is drawn out quite well here.
The only qualm I have is the lack of number of save slots... it seems to have only 9 of them, which I used up in the course of the ending. Oh, and the fact that you cannot take screenshots normally. You can turn the photos you took into screenshots though.
Well, I doubt I'll read any other routes in this VN cos it's just so much work, and the other heroines don't really appeal to me, except Hikari, maybe. Some others are stereotypes I detest, especially glasses+senpai+cool. Ugh.
The one thing that feels really different about these gameplay-oriented dating sims is that you have more control on your actions, rather than selecting a choice while going "Oh, this definitely leads to X Heroine's route" and being done with it. And for me, it feels slightly more personal, for some reason (which is why I enjoyed it so much, as well as highly doubt I'll be reading the other routes).
All that being said, have some pixelated awesomeness that is Mai-chan, shot by yours truly:
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