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Ouka Sengoku is a weird game full of non-killing swordplay, cute mascots, and way too many heroines.  It isn't awful, but it can be a bit overwhelming if you are a completionist.

Sacred Vampire never gets beyond decent because of certain incoherent aspects of the setting and a decision on the part of the maker to stick with the gakuen setup from beginning to end.

Lovekami is the original on which a bunch of crappy sequels have come from (seriously, I don't know how they could have gone so far out of their way to ruin a perfectly good setting).  Lovekami is an extremely solid plotge/charage hybrid with a number of excellent non-human/deity heroines from Japanese mythology (Sakuya and Iwana, Inari's bunrei, Tsukuyomi).  Unlike its sequels, it isn't a cheap half-assed charage with a bunch of excess moe thrown in, which is probably why it pisses me off that those sequels exist at all.

Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate is a pretty famous early-era charage that got a disproportionate amount of attention due to getting an anime.  It isn't a great game, despite how it is pushed, but compared to a lot of the 'empty' charage that started popping up between 2014 and 2018, it is good.

Kisaragi Gold Star is one of Saga Planets' less serious, more moe and character focused games.  As such, it maintains a certain level of quality but doesn't leave me with anything special in the way of impressions.  

 

Personally, my recommendation for generalist readers is Lovekami.  Sacred Vampire is fine if you want cheap, low-quality gakuen battle stories.  Ouka Sengoku is good if you want moe battles and tons of heroines.

Quite a number of well known releases here.

Hoshizora Kakaru Hashi - It did get anime adaptation, and that people did think that Sekai better pick this instead of Seiiki trilogy (In which they still didn't work on that as of now) when it come to feng VN. My condolence in regard of feng company in which the company was declared bankruptcy back at 2019.

Seinarukana Gaiden - The second part of the gaiden game that feature the live of the crystal before their fate in Seinarukana. Speaking about crystal, while their power is obviously weaker compared to human party member at least they should be quite useful if you want to get SS Rank at the mission on the earlier part in original part.

Lovekami - While the original version of it is admittedly good in it's own way, the sequels here are more or less Pulltop's answer to Sakura series by Winged Cloud (And yes I refer MoeNovel as Pulltop). Granted that while Pulltop did re-release all of their Lovekami short VNs series with sex scenes in Japan with them obviously didn't translate the sex scenes, in the end the sequels are just like I said earlier so nothing lose with them censoring it. Too bad though that Miagete was censored along with Konosora FD, but at least Pulltop start to develop their own all age VN so good for them even though they're a bit late for that. Also I won't expect Pulltop to localize original Lovekami here without some controversial censorship, although then again I won't expect them to localize 10 years old VN anyway even with censorship.

Kisaragi Gold Star - This is the autumn representation of Saga Planet Season series, and as for how the title represent the autumn representation one must see the kanji of 'kisaragi' in which it did contain the kanji of moon (Not quite obvious in the title because it was written in katakana). And looks like Niijima Yuu did a research for the title alone, although admittedly it's hard to see the connection so he decided to add moon viewing CG in which it's one of Japanese tradition in autumn (For more info moon viewing tradition in Japanese is originated from Chinese mid-autumn festival). As for Kisaragi itself it's more or less quite underrated compared to both of Natsunagi or Hatsuyuki, although of course it's still quite good on it's own. By the way I remember that my roommate was set his laptop wallpaper with one of the heroine from this VN.

Koichoco - One of the people did talk about this is Chisato in which it's sort of divisive in the VN, either it's because her fragile ego, her route is the most bland compared to the rest of four routes, her roles in the other routes are quite controversial, the staffs force the player to play her route first (In which it make me think that the staffs may not like her and afraid that the player won't play her route if they didn't force the player to play Chisato's route first), or the combination of each factors. That said, looks like sprite staffs know Chisato's bad reputation and decided to fix the problems in Aokana, although it's more or less my conjecture and thus I can't say if it's right or not. As for the VN itself, it has some school politic in which it's more or less reflect the real life politics if exaggerated a bit. We also already have this translated from back at 2015 thanks to Basic Translation who've been working on this for around three years since 2012.

That's all for my comment in regard of October 2010 releases.

Edited January 28, 2021 by littleshogun