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To me, this month is a competition between Tiny Dungeon 2, Tenshi no Hane o Fumanaide and Irotoridori.

Tiny Dungeon 2 is my favorite of the first three entries of the series, for various reasons (well, mostly Hime being badass and Fon being awesome).

Tenshi no Hane o Fumanaide is Shumon Yuu, which should make it the game to play for any sensible person.  It really is about as good as it gets in terms of quality, even stepping onto the level of a kamige.

Irotoridori no Sekai is... the game that turned Favorite from a curiosity to a dominant nakige company.  Some people will argue that it was Hoshimemo that did this for Favorite, but Irotoridori is far more likely to be referred to by fanboys in general.  

Ikinari Anata ni Koishiteiru is a mediocre game that tries and fails to bridge about a half-dozen genres with its eccentric cast of characters but falls on its face (at least partly due to the protagonist being too bland).

Kimi ni Aogi Otome wa Hime ni is another mediocre game from this month... sadly my memories of it are blurred by time, but I do remember being unsatisfied with it, in the end.

Princess Evangile is translated, so most will be familiar with it... but I'll just say that I never understood why this got a localization when it did.  If I was going to pick a VN from this year to localize in 2015, when VN localizations were on the verge of beginning to release at a rapid pace, it wouldn't have been this one, considering how mediocre it is.

Shikigami is a kusoge of a conquest strategy-rpg based in an alternate history of the pre-Genji era of Japan, when Onmyouji were supposedly in charge of everything.  As a concept for a game, it wasn't horrible, but the actual execution was abominable.

Some of well known VNs here I see.

Tokikana - The sequel of Sorakumo with one of side character from previous VN was grew up, and the MC along with his dragon girl going on an adventure. Too bad there's no translated version here, but then again Sorakumo's sales might not enough to warrant the sequel to be translated. Might be for the best seeing that the sex scenes was censored in the prequel translated version.

Ikikoi - Common route here was written by SCA-DI, so if you didn't like his writing perhaps you may consider it several times before reading this (Of course he won't write like back at both of Tsui no Sora and Subahibi here). Even if you can get behind the writing, the heroines here are quite ferocious (So-called) to say lightly in which all of them are abusive to the MC with variable degree. That said, if you can get over the heroines attitude you may find Ikikoi here is quite nice charage. We have this fully translated since back at 2013 with the patch that was said still not edited yet, although apparently it didn't matter much. For a bit trivia apparently Ikikoi here has some trouble back when it's in production before SCA-DI interfere or something like that, and three of four Subahibi VA did come back to voicing the heroines in Ikikoi (Too bad though that Zakuro's VA in Subahibi didn't voiced Ryou here, otherwise it might be nice seeing that both of Zakuro and Ryou share same hair type (Long black).

Kimiaogi - This month we have both of Peasoft and Moonstone apparently did try to take a clue from Yuzusoft in regard of Noble Work, so both companies decided to make ojou-sama VN (Keep in mind in that it's just my speculation). As for Peasoft, the VN in question is Kimiaogi in which the premise is obviously a poor male MC was get a scholarship to high class school, and in this case the MC want to be a doctor following his father footstep (Now that I think of it the MC family setting here is really resemble Nariyuki of Bokuben). This VN was available in English thanks to Sol Press in that they somehow manage to release it back at 2019 after some controversy, although in light of their recent happening the controversy here is not too bad.

Irotoridori - What I can say is that I'm not exactly fond of FAVORITE decided to make the FD as the continuation of the main game so that it's like FAVORITE tell us that we must play both parts to understand the heroines, which to say not the most ideal way to present heroines story. Anyway as for this VN I've been waiting for this to be translated since way back at 2011, when an individual did manage to translate 90% of it only to be stopped and some times later he come back after said that he recover from his sickness only to have him abandoned the project again after he said that he'll editing it (I admit that back then I think that his being sick and editing the VN as the excuses to not released the patch). Some time later somehow Sol Press manage to get this, and back then they've sort of capable so naturally I have high hope for this to be released on reasonable time. Only for that hope to be crushed seeing that Sol Press KS on his was going awry with them asking for 85,000 and that they delayed the release until today, and not to mention that they'd retire from VN localization so the chance to see the FD being localized here is very small.

Evangile - Moonstone's answer to Noble Works, and if Kimiaogi MC setting there is like Bokuben in here the MC premise here is like Hayate in that the MC was sold by his father to paid the latter debt and somehow he manage to enter the former all girl school thanks to his heroic action to the granddaughter of the school chairwoman. Another thing that I can recall is that the environment at the school is very harsh seeing that the MC is only the lone man in the school, and that the communities was united to dislike the headmistress who is pretty much the sources of almost all of MC's misfortune in the new school, although at least she's still quite sane compared to a certain mother character that the writer (Kure) wrote at Suika. I guess Kure here really like to write in a dramatic way (And it really shown in heroines routes) even though it's quite excessive seeing that Noble Works here didn't have much family issues, and that Kure here did like to write more in regard of a certain heroine who didn't get the route in the main game (Ruriko) in which he'll repeat the writing with Madoka at Sakuramori later.

I guess that's all for what I can write in regard of July 2011 releases.

Edited February 19, 2021 by littleshogun