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Grisaia no Meikyuu I believe everyone is familiar with, so I won't bother with comments.

Hatsuyuki Sakura might be controversial (some people love it, some people hate it), but it was the game that put Saga Planets on the map.

Kaminoyu is a monster girl VN focusing mostly around Japanese youkai and deities.  It is pretty enjoyable, especially if you are familiar with Caramel Box's style from the early part of this century.  

Shinigami no Testament is considered, at least by some, to be the best of 3rdEye's games (others say Sorcery Jokers), and it does have an interesting story.  It suffers from abuse of the ladder-style storytelling and the fact that not every heroine is treated equally or well (not to mention that the true ending is a bit frustrating/bitter).

 

Photo Kano - The VN with a focus on photography and it get the anime adaptation, and that's all for what I can remember.

Shinigami no Testament - The 2nd VN from 3rdeye and also their last VN with single MC, because from their next VN up until Raillore their VNs will have dual MCs.

Meikyuu - While I know some of Grisaia fans think that it's a sequel, I prefer to call it as fandisc because the contents here are also have heroines after stories in which it's the usual feature of the FD. You may say that the main route here is more than qualify to call this as sequel, although if we look at both of Akagoei and Sharin FD it shouldn't be surprising to see the FD tell the stories about the past of the important characters, and in this case the main route here did tell the story about Yuuji's past. At least Meikyuu here is quite a good fandisc for Kajitsu's fans as long as you didn't mind the cliffhanger that definitely set up by Frontwing thanks to their need of money so that fans can be hyped for eventual Rakuen release, and at least it's not as bad as back when it's still freshly released in that we didn't need to wait a year for the conclusion. I still say that Kajitsu is quite conclusive anyway, but at least Yuuji's past here is nice additional bonus for understanding his character in Kajitsu. By the way my roommate also like to play the opening of Meikyuu here.

Hatsuyuki Sakura - Like Natsuyume, Niijima here did use 'yuki' (TL Notes: Yuki mean snow) as the indication for the season and in this case it's obviously winter in which as we know snow is always associate with the winter. Yes, Hatsuyuki here is the winter representation of Saga Planets Season series and out of those four it said that Hatsuyuki here is the best. My roomate here also like to play the opening of this as well, in which now that I remember it's about the time when Little Busters English patch (Minus EX contents obviously) was released. As for Niijima here while granted that Hatsuyuki did make him sort of famous, recently there's talk that both of his recent VNs (Einstein and Clarias) were not quite well written so perhaps he might be not quite capable to write sci-fi (Both of his recent VNs are have sci-fi element) and his capability is writing something like fairytale (Which Majokoi did emphasize it with Cinderella motive). Anyway as for Saga Planets here, we finally have one of their VN was translated by Nekonyan (Kirikoi/Kiniro Loveriche) and it'll be released at May later.

Quite a nice month in regard of February 2012 here, and that's all for my comment in regard of this month.

Edited March 18, 2021 by littleshogun