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September 2018 Releases That I'm not Playing [Edited}


Clephas

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This is a list of next month's releases that I'm not playing (that aren't nukige) and my thoughts on each, based on the Getchu and official pages, as well as my experience with the writers and companies involved.

Raspberry Cube

This is from the makers of Wagamama High Spec, one of the most average charage in existence *Clephas sticks out his tongue defiantly at the inevitable protestors, accidentally allowing several demons he was eating to escape*  First, the good signs... this game's initial presentation is that of a comedy charage.  The heroine character profiles are wacky, the initial description is also goofy, and the CGs presented are not 100% h-scene material.  On the negative side, however, they rather blatantly avoid any real description of the protagonist beyond his position as a 'former delinquent'.  It is generally not a good sign that the heroines have about the equivalent of three paragraphs of detailed info and the protagonist has one short one.  In addition, there is a general sense I get from the official site that they are trying to impress you with their moe-moe atmosphere... but they did that with Wagamama High Spec and their other games as well.  As such, my initial impression of this game goes in is a 'probable 6, maybe 6.5'.

Hime to Otome no Yakimochi Love

I'm going to be blunt, the company and its obsession with princess/ojousama-themed games doesn't really do much for me.  Oh, I do have a fondness for ojousama-ge, but this company never hits the right notes and it tends to go for the 'standard' themes with its paths for the rich girls involved, regardless of the writer.  The writer, in this case, is the same person who wrote Primal Hearts and Primal Hearts 2, so there is hope for the comedy aspect.  However, he is also very inconsistent as a writer, sometimes showing flashes of sheer genius, at others stumbling over his own feet in attempts to make poorly-chosen tropes work.  The heroine descriptions are all a standard templates for various princess and ojousama heroine types, so it is hard to get up much of an interest in them, at least for me.  The protagonist in this one is described well and seems like he might be a strong presence... at first glance.  Unfortunately, it is rather evident just from the material available that he is probably going to spend much of the game being as dense as the lead used to shield nuclear reactors and stumble at all the right moments to make him seem like an idiot despite being supposedly a highly intelligent jock.  I'd probably predict a similar rating to the game above, if for different reasons.

Another thought about the two above

It is never a good sign when two charage come out in one month using the same writer. 

Sono Hana ga Saitara, Mata Boku wa Kimi ni Deau

This is the latest game in Campus's now-massive series of kinetic novels based in its two-faced school of normals and hidden magical beings.  I'm going to be a bit blunt... if you played Hatsukoi Syndrome, you will figure out from just the character description of the heroine exactly what is going on.  Magicians/sorcerers in this setting have one serious peculiarity that plays a role in their love lives (curses them, pretty much), and it is pretty clear what is going to happen based on that fact.  While Campus has yet to make a bad game in this setting, it is something of a buzzkill (at least to me), that they went out of their way to pick a mage heroine and immediately gave you big rotting fish of a hint before you even play the game as to the central conflict. 

 

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19 hours ago, Jartse said:

What about CharaBration from Akabei Soft3? Though it feels like an average Love-Comedy with Trap Protag reading the summary.

I should have clarified... games I'm not playing for September 2018.  These are the ones I cut off from the beginning.

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