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Natsu no Iro no Nostalgia is a decent plotge with an empath for a protagonist.  It isn't a kamige, nor is it really exceptional.  However, it is good enough to be worth playing once.

I dropped Gakuen Butou no Folklore because it was such a crapfest from the beginning.

The Leyline series is the Leyline series.  I dislike it when games are split up in this manner, and I hate the ladder-style story structure.  It also isn't written as well as Purple Soft's games, so it isn't good enough to overcome my distaste for this kind of thing.  

I'm quite late to comment on December 2014 releases, so may as well comment on that as well.

December 2014

Nekopara - Well it might be a nukige with the focus on the catgirl, but at least the graphic is very good thanks to Sayori's effort in which I just recently learnt that she's the one who draw Touhou fanart that I like to use as the sprite in Labyrinth of Touhou. It also help that it's very popular so much that it spawn many other VNs with the focus on catgirl with cafe (Or separated), so at least we can say that Nekopara here is the trendsetter although whether it's good or bad it depend on each other (What I know is that I still not added catgirl with cafe VNs at my best rated translated VNs lists). Lastly I would say that perhaps we should thank Nekopara to make Sekai has more financial security compared to Sol Press, so that we can still have Sekai until now (Despite several blunders that they did in the past).

Himawari no Kioku - Speaking about Sol Press, poor them that they still not find the translator to resuming the remaining 32% of this VN (If I remember right it's been at 68% translated). Also poor the developer that their plan to localize this VN was failed with the first time they pretty much failed to localize it by themselves and the second time they ended up with Sol Press who turned out to have their financial was less secured, which is too bad because the graphic of this is quite good. Here's hoping that someday we can have this VN localized, preferably with Nekonyan.

Tsukiyori 2 - If Clephas did say that it was not as good as first Tsukiyori, then perhaps the sequel was more or less unnecessary to a degree. Although apparently the MC is different from the first part, so perhaps the label sequel here is a bit wrong because we following the different MC. Not that it matter anyway seeing that we still not have this translated, and knowing on how Navel did trust the company who had Pulltop to censored their overseas release to localize Shuffle safe to say that we may have this censored if Navel localize this.

Kanojo no Seiiki - First part of feng's Seiiki trilogy in that each part will be focused on one heroine, and the first part here will be focused on childhood friend who is quite rich and has the ego as fragile as the glass. Sekai already have this since back at 2019, although until now it's still not released yet though (At least it's already has it's engine has been worked on, which mean that it's almost ready for English release (Hopefully)). Oh yes it's also already has Indonesian translation, which mean that Sekai's release of this VN is more or less already redundant for Indonesian lol.

Amakano - It has good graphic, and the sequel did improve the graphic so much that it won Getchu Best Graphic at 2020. Other than that, it's more or less just moege/charage so I don't have much to say in regard of this.

Chaos Child - The sequel of Chaos Head (More like Noah though) in that it focused on the aftermath of Chaos Head, and the MC here is Takuru who can be said has different mindset from most people who he think that most people were wrong. One day Takuru did find out that there's murder cases that more or less copied the same murder cases in Chaos Head, and so Takuru decided to investigate it to the bottom of it which may turned out to be more complicated than it seems. At first we only have this for console, but some people from Committee of Zero did work hard on porting the translation of this to PC version and so we have Chaos Child for PC in English even before the Steam version of this was announced.

January 2015

Kimihane - First part of the duology, and it's not as good as the second part. Other than that, well it's a GL VN that somehow was quite well received to a degree (The second part) and that Mangagamer did localized this so we can play Kimihane duology in English.

Natsuiro - Took the same setting as Sakuramori, only that it has less horror. Should be good VN to play if you only expect charage I suppose, although it's interesting that the MC has setting that he can see the emotions with the gemstone color.

Tokeijikake Morning Mist - The reason on why we have serial VN is because the writer probably still not collected enough material for the complete story and yet the company obviously need to release the new VN as soon as possible, and so both decided to compromise by releasing serial VNs. Whether the format is good or not is up to you, although it would be admittedly suck if one read the first part of the VN only to find out that the story is basically incomplete. Anyway as for this Morning Mist here is supposed to wrapped up the whole Tokeijikake, although too bad that Sekai just finally manage to finished their work with the engine which admittedly quite hard to work if what I seen in Flayable Heart is really applied to all of Unison Shift Blossom VNs in that the VNs might not operated optimally if the English text was inserted (I still can't forget the experience on how I need to insert the DVD to play Flyable Heart and I need to wait for five seconds in order to open the menu).

That's all for my comment in regard of both of December 2014 and January 2015 releases.

Edited June 3, 2021 by littleshogun