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Magical Otoge series (free otome VN review)


Plk_Lesiak

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The western otome scene offers a decent amount of hidden gems – small, often obscure titles, that nonetheless offer impressive artistic qualities and/or interesting, unique ideas. It also never stops being surprising to me how many of those games are published for free, sometimes even without any Patreon support or other direct forms of monetization on the part of their creators. 

            Magical Otoge Ciel and Magical Otoge Anholly, developed by Batensan and published for free on Itch.io in 2015 and 2016, are among many high-quality, free otome VNs produced by the booming indie scene in recent years. Still, their author was able to establish a fairly interesting, distinct style both when it goes to art and the storytelling, very consistent between instalments and likely to be continued this year with the upcoming Magical Otoge Iris (with major hints at other, future projects). As both games are fairly short and simple, I've decided to review them together – the very similar writing, art assets and even shared elements such as UI structure and parts of the soundtrack make it justifiable to treat them basically as episodes of a single game. But what are they really about?

Read the full article at evnchronicles.blogspot.com

 

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You sure like to give us POLISHed reviews. :mare:

Pun aside, Magic Otoge been on my never-ending Backlog for a while, so It is always Nice to know more about games I want to play one day.

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11 minutes ago, SeniorBlitz said:

You sure like to give us POLISHed reviews. :mare:

Pun aside, Magic Otoge been on my never-ending Backlog for a while, so It is always Nice to know more about games I want to play one day.

Heh, that's a randomly accurate pun for a review that somehow never wanted to turn out readable and went through an unreasonable number of edits, which, as it always is with over-edited things, only partially helped with anything. ;p For the games themselves, they are really nice when you need something chill and fluffy. And the author seems to be improving with every game, so I'm actually quite interested in how the newest part turns out. :)

1 hour ago, MaggieROBOT said:

Good review!

I'm halfway through Ciel at the moment, but the one I was really interested was Anholly. Good to know that one improved over the first!

And yeah, Yvin best boy!

Oh, and I managed to butcher Yvin's name in the weirdest possible way... Really, this post just didn't like me. :wafuu: Well, still thank you and I'm glad you enjoyed it! At least with next week's review, I'm very satisfied with how it turned out and it will be something quite unusual. :3

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On 02/03/2018 at 9:10 PM, Plk_Lesiak said:

Heh, that's a randomly accurate pun for a review that somehow never wanted to turn out readable and went through an unreasonable number of edits, which, as it always is with over-edited things, only partially helped with anything. ;p For the games themselves, they are really nice when you need something chill and fluffy. And the author seems to be improving with every game, so I'm actually quite interested in how the newest part turns out. :)

Oh, and I managed to butcher Yvin's name in the weirdest possible way... Really, this post just didn't like me. :wafuu: Well, still thank you and I'm glad you enjoyed it! At least with next week's review, I'm very satisfied with how it turned out and it will be something quite unusual. :3

I was rummaging through some files on my computer and found this from last year:

https://youtu.be/uw26N82-SD8

Sharing it since I can. Have a that.
(Supposedly a video. Might not work. Oh well.)

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3 hours ago, Mr Poltroon said:

I was rummaging through some files on my computer and found this from last year:

https://youtu.be/uw26N82-SD8

Sharing it since I can. Have a that.
(Supposedly a video. Might not work. Oh well.)

Yes, yes, I see that my unpronounceable nickname still works perfectly against foreigners of all skill levels and backgrounds. :nico:

The one thing that I find rather disturbing is that the playthrough didn't become a thing. I'll take the playlist with that never-finished OELVN, but that amount of content feels highly inadequate. :notlikemiya:

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36 minutes ago, Plk_Lesiak said:

The one thing that I find rather disturbing is that the playthrough didn't become a thing. I'll take the playlist with that never-finished OELVN, but that amount of content feels highly inadequate. :notlikemiya:

I'm not sure I understand what you mean here.
I think I recorded like 20 minutes of the game, but it was grating on my voice, and I used a grating voice for the main character, so it'd be enjoyable for no one.

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39 minutes ago, Mr Poltroon said:

I think I recorded like 20 minutes of the game, but it was grating on my voice, and I used a grating voice for the main character, so it'd be enjoyable for no one.

 

We can't know for sure. :nico:

And what I meant, is that I really like finding playthroughs of obscure VNs and the fact there's only one on your channel... Regrettable. Shameful even. Record more.

 

 

 

If you ever feel like it, that is. No pressure. :<

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