Rensou Relation and VN of the Month Announcement
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This is the newest title from Lump of Sugar, and as is typical of their recent productions, it has a needlessly complicated system for story progression that would have driven me insane inside ten minutes if I hadn't dled the patch that removes the gimmicks from their site.
From what I've heard, LoS finally heard the screaming of their fans, that they didn't want anything to do with the pointless gimmicks that plagued Unmei Senjou no Phi and Magical Charming. Kind of sad that it took them a few years to figure it out though.
That said, this VN... is not something worth writing home about. Oh, it is as pretty as any other LoS game, and it does have a decent setting and characters... but - when the gimmicks are stripped away - it is a bare bones second-rate moege. The only route I played that I can say was completely worth the time I spent on it was Ichika's, which is probably why she was the main heroine.
The biggest downers of this VN are:
1. The gimmicks
2. The protagonist (think 'the one true idiot')
3. A lack of any sort of details of what goes on with the heroines outside of the actual relationship with the protagonist. This makes the heroines much flatter than they really needed to be and weakens the overall attachment to them.
I'll be blunt. This VN will please a crowd of those who just want a sweet romance leading up to H-scenes and very very mild interpersonal drama. However, it will be immensely dissatisfying to anyone who likes to get to know the characters in full. There are lots of tidbits dropped along the way, but the lack of details just makes that more frustrating.
VN of the Month, May 2015
Ayakashi Contract
My reasons are very simple... no other VN from May's releases even approached Ayakashi Contract in one simple area... a sense of completion and satisfaction when it was complete. While Sumire succeeded in breaking out of the 'box', Ayakashi Contract manages to use everything in the box to its best effect, which is something that should be praised, even if it falls short of kamige-level.
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