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1/2 Summer is notable as being one of the better nakige of 2010-2013.  The story is interesting in and of itself, but in combination with the feels, it was a memorable experience.

Colorful Cure was a kusoge, even for a mahou shoujo game.

Dolphin Divers is a good AXL SOL game about a marine rescue team in training.

Erect is notable for being the rare charage/nukige crossover that is actually good to play from either point of view.  The protagonist is a florist and the heroines are all succubi.

Fortissimo Nachsten Phase was the version of Fortissimo that finally brought multiple paths and endings into the mix, instead of just forcing you to go with Sakura.  As a result, is a much better and more complete experience.

Gurenka is a chuunige I'm quite fond of, even now.  It is middle of the road for quality in chuunige, but I always liked the setting and non-human heroines.

Namima no Kuni no Faust... would probably go across well for people who loved Sharin no Kuni's setting.  The island on which the story takes place is a capitalist dystopia of the purest sort, where entire generations have grown up disconnected from the rest of the world while being educated in the harshest and most inhuman values likely to be created by unrestrained capitalism (think debt slavery and betrayal of your own family and friends being a matter of course).

 

 

Root Double - Unlike Code18, Gundam Ace really like this VN so much that he include it as one of his favorite VN alongside Ever17, Steins Gate, I/O, and Fate back at 2012. Of course back then I was look forward to this being translated, and thus Sekai did offer a helping hand to Gundam Ace in which they did perform the KS to get the necessary fund (At 135,000) in order to get localization ongoing. Other than some delay, there's no much fuss happened until this was released back at April 28th, 2016. Anyway the premise is like 999, except that it involve escaping from the nuclear power plan that was about to be exploded and that they only have limited item that was supposed to prevent the radiation, and just like Ever17 there's much more than it looks at the frst glance. Oh yes Gundam Ace also said that it looks like Root Double here is Nakazawa's answer to 999 in that it's his former partner (Uchikoshi's) work, in which there's a lot of nine as the arc number here (The particular ones are nine characters and nine enneagrams).

Astraythem - I see some review that said that this is a nice VN (Especially Joyjason's), so I decided to add this VN as suggestion to Mangagamer at this year survey (Not that I expect them to localize this anyway). That aside, my first impression is that the MC looks like quite a siscon for loving his older sister there, although apparently there's more than it seems. Another thing to note that the graphics is quite nice looking and that the company behind it (Chuablesoft) was already bankrupt, but it's not like it's impossible to localize if we look at Haretaka although with some extra steps.

Aorio - It's nice to see that the graphic here is like anime graphic, although apparently there's no other thing to note other than it's charage/moege VN with some comedy and that the MC is joining the theater club.

Robotic Notes - Poor this VN in that even the staffs didn't believe that this VN can stand of it's own so much that they add Divergence which as we know it's Steins Gate trademark, and as if it's not enough the staffs also ask Daru who's more or less is just perverted best friend character to be one of the MC in the fandisc sequel. The staffs lack of confidence aside, Robotic Notes here is lighter than either Steins Gate or Chaos Head in that we'll just have students building giant robot while at the same time fighting the hidden menace (As per Science Adventure Series). This VN was already localized as well in that they used Elite version, which contain the script improvement unlike Steins Gate Elite in that it's just the staffs milking it with the anime graphic and there's no new content if I remember. Overall I can say that Robotic Notes can be enjoyable, as long as you didn't expect another Steins Gate just like the staffs hoping by trying to baiting Steins Gate fans into expecting the fans to have another Steins Gate.

Evangile FD - Kure decided to add Ruriko's route after he teased it in the main VN, along with other side girls routes as well. Of course as per fandisc, the girls here would dress with the the least material in order to save the cost because Masaya is quite poor. That aside, just like any fandisc there's some nice moment and of course there's after stories for the four heroines in the main VN as well. Oh yes we also have Mangagamer localized this back at 2017, and back then Fuwanovel forum was down for three weeks at around the time of the release.

HatsuKoi - The first translated VN (Out of three) by Tsurezure, and back then they're quite fast completing it. Also this is the first tone work's VNs, in that it's pretty clear with Yuuma here is quite infamous at two routes along with some drama so much that the staffs need to apologize formally. That aside, at least this should be a nice charage if you just need something to read, although beware though that it's quite long here. Oh yes the heroines design here are quite nice, along with that they hire some well known VNs and that it has several nice songs with some of those are the insert songs in the heroines routes. Of course tone work's took the criticism in regard of Yuuma and this VN seriously, and as the result we have Hoshiori which to say the opposite of HatsuKoi to a degree.

Quite a busy month to a degree here, and so that's all for what I can comment in regard of June 2012.