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Damatte watashi no muko ni nare was the first of Ensemble's 'ojousama-ge', and it tends to get somewhat mixed reviews.  Compared to some of Ensemble's more recent works, it is a good VN.  However, it suffered from pacing issues in the heroine routes that bothered me greatly at the time.

Bloody Rondo was 3rdeye's first game.  It wasn't a particularly good chuunige, and it drew a bit too much from Draculius without having the kind of character depth that game had.  If you are just playing one of the routes, Luna's is the only way to go.

Gokudou no Hanayome is a really, really weird game.  It is of a small genre of 'over the top setting' charage/plotge hybrids that were briefly common at the beginning of the decade.  It was no better than decent, in my opinion (mostly because the protag was a total drag on the cast).

Smile Shooter - I can only say that the story is obviously lighter compared to Symphonic Rain, and apparently it has idol theme.

Oreimo - At least the original creator did involve in the creation. The premise here is that the MC will have the romance with the other heroine, in which it might be good for Oreimo fans who didn't like canon heroine. As for Oreimo itself, well I only know that the little sister heroine there did has fragile ego and act harshly towards her brother and yet she like to play little sister eroge. You can play this in English because we have the full translation patch for this as New Year gift (The patch was released back at December 31st, 2020).

Bloody Rondo - The debut VN from 3rdeye that was focused on vampire, and it's pretty apparent that they like to use high resolution graphic with the result that the HDD size for this was at 4.2 GB. Other than high resolution graphic that 3rdeye keep it until today, no much to say other than it might be possible for Mangagamer to localize this seeing that we have Sona-Nyl, although the chance of it might be small. Oh yes unlike nowadays back then 3rdeye still using single MC for their VNs.

Canvas 4 - I did remember that out of four Canvas VNs only Canvas 2 was translated, and back then it's one of earlier charage that was available in English. While Canvas 2 has the MC as the teacher, in Canvas 4 here the MC is just usual high school student. No much to say here other than nowadays Canvas here is more or less just usual charage, and that Canvas 4 here is the sequel of Canvas 3 while at the same time it merely share same setting as the first two Canvas. That said, I don't really know if Canvas 4 here is really the sequel of Canvas 3 or not seeing that both VNs has different MC and different heroines (It might be like Da Capo trilogy though in that while each series has different heroines the story is still connected to a degree).

Time Paladin Sakura - Da Capo spin off with Sakura become magical girl with Circus somehow decided to recast the VAs for the main characters, with the notable one Sakura here is voiced by Suzuko Mimori instead of Yukari Tamura (Sakura's VA in all age version of Da Capo).

Overall no much that I can say in regard of the releases, so that's all for my comment on January 2011.

Edited February 21, 2021 by littleshogun