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Sorry, but I have to disagree with Kvan.  Sakura, Moyu is by far the better of the two VNs worth playing above.  If there is one game by Favorite any nakige lover should play, it is Sakura, Moyu.

Sorceress Alive is what I like to call a 'chuunige-lite'.  The battle narration is poor quality (though not nonexistent like in Raillore) and the protagonist is pathetic for much of the game.  Moreover, there was way too much wavering between making the game a harem-because-everyone-is-happy-that-way and a true plotge depending on what point in the game you were at.  In all honesty, given the writers involved, I would have expected a bit higher quality prose, given that they had part of the team from Shugotate and the writer from several of Lass's chuunige and plotge involved.  I gave the game a decent rating for the story of Alive, but presenting it as a masterpiece is going overboard.

Looks like we getting catch up with the present here when it come to Japanese releases, so let's see what I can comment in regard of January 2019 releases.

Robotic Notes Dash - I feel like that I said enough on how the staffs didn't have enough confidence with their own Robotic Notes can stand on it's own so much that they asked Daru of Steins Gate (They also add Daru's initial (Dash is short form of 'Daru Super Hacker') in the title) who more or less is a perverted best friend character to be the MC and let's just say that some didn't like it, so let's write on what I like here. Some did say that both of Akiho and Subaru stories are the best part, and I like Airi's route in that I know the writer want to make a joke from her VA (Kugimiya Rie) role back at DDPC when she act as a Precure who is a child that can transform into the adult in her Cure form, and in here we have Airi turned into adult along with the convenience that there's also an idol with the same name as her. Well overall rather than sequel Dash here is more or less like the fandisc, in which it's not the first time for the staffs to do fandisc disguised as sequel (ie Chu Chu series).

Sorceress Alive - We have this VN at Johren along with Shinsou Noise, so it make me think that Shiravune may also localize this along with Shinsou Noise in the future (And I hope that they can do that). As for the premise, we have the MC who somehow transported into the other world and having a lot of battle. While granted that mod Clephas did say that the battle is not that good and that the MC might be not that good, at least this VN itself is a proper isekai VN which is rare enough as of now (So far I only see a lot of isekai short nukige which obviously not count lol).

Sakura Moyu - I also wish that this VN would be localized, although unlike Sorceress Alive I don't know for sure who has the chance to license this. As for Sol Press, I afraid that they're not in the condition to license this although Sekai might be possible, but if I may say something it would be that I hope Nekonyan is the one that license this. As for this VN, while one shouldn't be surprised that this is a nakige seeing that it's from FAVORITE and all, my interest here goes to the magical girl aspect though in which three of the four heroines here are the retired magical girls. Anyway while mod Clephas did say that Sakura Moyu is better compared to Sorceress Alive, I would say that both VNs are good on their own and obviously in different aspects.

Sugar Style - Smee VN that has setting the MC was stay in the female dorm thanks to have relative work on said dorm, and that the MC is not high school student but instead the university student. No much to say other than you should expect comedy and romance when it come to Smee VNs, and you can read this in English thanks to Nekonyan's hard work in that they'd release it back at April's end.

That's all for my comment on January 2019 releases.

Edited November 4, 2021 by littleshogun