Mirage 2 - Torry x Neat x Roan no Daibouken is the only masterpiece of the month.
1. Mirage 2 - Torry x Neat x Roan no Daibouken ミラージュ２ トリーＸニートＸローンの大冒険 [940309] Discovery 1 2
The sequel to Mirage is set in the same world and features some recurrent characters, although the protagonist and the story are different. The main character is a young monster hunter named Etranze. He needs to slay a certain amount of monsters to reach a higher level, but meanwhile is struggling to be accepted among other heroes. This changes when he befriends Torry, Neat, and Roan, the three lovely ladies who work (of all places) in the local church. Soon Etranze is summoned by queen Irene, who sends him on a quest to find a magical artifact that will save her kingdom from great peril.
You travel with the youngest of sisters Tree only as your support. A very solid user-friendly RPG with a good balance. Quite simple in systems, but that may be only for the best. Story scale is large and there's lots of depth, so the game sets a very high level standard for future RPGs. A masterpiece, of course.
2. Houma Hunter Lime Dai 10 Wa 宝魔ハンターライム 第１０話 [940310] Silence 1
In this episode Lime, Bass, Mizuki and Kokona travel to the countryside. The girls decide to visit the hot tub, leaving Bass outside. A friendly BEM from a previous encounter appears and suggests that its kind may be used by the heroes to further their goals.
More fooling around before the final! And it was high time for a fanservice episode, so here you go a hot springs episode. And the result is three monster jewels at once.
3. LIKE [940311] Ange
Hero is summoned from America by his father and forcibly put into all girls school to find a bride.
After releasing "Kiss" Ange got a lot of attention. And Ange had really cute character designs. There are only three commands to choose from, so system-wise it's a step back from "Kiss". There are all kinds of girls, but need to choose just one and turn everyone else down. But if decision is made, game goes right to ending and that was weird. The only bright point is actually the ending where you get to see the afterstories of each of girls you dumped. So it's a charage through and through, and rather mediocre one.
4. Viper-V10 [940311] Sogna 1 2
The third Viper has the same structure as the two previous entries: three unrelated stories with little interaction, but many animated sex scenes.
The stories this time are:
Northern Lights describes a competition between two young apprentices of kendo. The protagonist, a young boy, is challenging the girl Asuka, who claims to be better than him. He needs to practice in order to win, especially because Asuka promised him she will do whatever he wants if he defeats her...
Children's Play tells the story of a teenage girl named Yuki, who is in love with an older school mate. One morning she goes to school, only to discover that someone has made pictures of her masturbating to the boy's photo...
Read Under follows the adventures of a team of three female soldiers who have to infiltrate the base of an evil robot simply known as "Boss". One of them is captured, and the other two have to save her at all costs.
There is an English review and it's more than enough for a collection of short animated H stories.
5. Fechi ふぇち [940318] Cat's Pro. 1
Feti is a short game that doesn't have a real plot; its entire text is a conversation between two "office ladies" (sometimes shortened in Japanese language usage to "OL"), Eri and Kazumi. They chat mostly about men, clothes, and sex. The conversation develops, until the two young women begin to get intimate with each other.
Game focuses on several fetishes at once including peeping fetish, of course. It's definitely an unusual game, but it's only two diskettes, so the lack of contents does not let it to pretend for something more.
6. Possessioner ポゼッショナー [940318] Queen Soft 1 2
he year is 2035. A series of mysterious incidents began to occur in Tokyo. Young women disappeared under strange circumstances, and returned brainwashed, commanding armies of bionic monsters and assaulting human settlements. Such women were called "Possessioners". A special all-female squad was formed to face them in combat and bring them back to humanity.
Game has a cool SF setting and CG, but actually it feels more like an eroge with the systems akin to Choukou Sennin Haruka. You constantly fight with your 4-girl team and watch lesbo scenes after each fight with the lost side. Fights are actually very challenging, so need to know well the strong sides of each girl and eliminate weaker enemies very fast. So it's pretty much a lesbian eroge, but the first to originate from battle rpg mix.
7. Injuu Gakuen ~La Blue Girl~ 淫獣学園 ～Ｌａ★Ｂｌｕｅ Ｇｉｒｌ～ [940324] Dez Climax 1 2
Miko was just an ordinary Japanese teenager attending the prestigious private Himenogi Girls High School. Everything began to change when she witnessed two of her classmates making love to each other. While taking part in various sexual activities, Miko gradually realizes that supernatural demonic forces have taken control of the school.
Based on manga by Toshio Maeda.
La blue girl is probably the most famous hentai franchise. There's a good English review of it.
8. Emit Vol. 1: Toki no Maigo EMIT Vol.1: 時の迷子 [940325] Koei 1 2 3
Emit is an adventure game that is the first entry of Shibusawa Kou's "English Dream" series. The purpose behind the projects was to teach Japanese people the English language with the help of a thrilling narrative.
On October 5, 1994, a seventeen year old high school student named Yuri meets a polite yet mysterious elderly gentleman at the crosswalk. Although puzzled by his questions, she answers them honestly to the best of her ability. As Yuri walks across the street, she hears the man mutter the word "Emit" to her. Yuri thinks nothing of the conversation until an oddly familiar yet attractive young man approaches her a month later on the street.
There are English reviews.
9. Yami no Ryousen 闇の稜線 [940325] Illusion
A car fell from the cliff and its driver is heavily wounded. He lies on the side of the cliff bleeding and awaiting his last seconds to tick. The driver wakes up in the house bandaged, but with a light memory loss. He was found and helped by a local family. First thing he gets to remember is that he went on a trip to ask Mayumi's father for marriage permission. But at the moment that he arrived, villa got attacked. Mayumi was raped and killed. He discovers from the newspaper that he is the main suspect and now it's the time to go undercover and find out the truth.
The game actually starts as main hero lies on the cliff and it's by the end of it when he goes to uncover the truth. It's a suspense mystery story so during villa attack memory flash it's important to take notes to take a trail. But at the same time it's also a borderline work with strong NTR motive. Scenario alone has a lot of impact, but the game system here is absolutely outstanding as well. There aren't commands like watch, talk etc. Instead, there is a set of commands unique for each scene. Some of them are needed to be repeated at times. Another surprising feature is animation - it's not just eyes and lips, but also other parts of body, which is rare. At times text takes full screen as NVL, but most of the time it's kept compact in the right down corner. I really wanted to like this first Illusion game, but it ended up a nukige with some plot as side-dish. I struggled through first three scenes during the first hour of play, but when the heavily wounded hero regains consciousness only to see the hostess riding on top of him I lost all the hope in the story.
10. Floppy Bunko 25 - Sadistic Gamers Syndrome - Episode 3 フロッピーブンコ25 サディスティックゲーマーズシンドローム エピソード3 [940326] Sixteens
Remake of Sadistic Gamers Part 3 Telephone Play
No point bothering over remakes, and it is a remake according to link.
11. Emit Vol. 2: Inochigake no Tabi EMIT Vol.2: 命がけの旅 [9403] Koei 1 2
After Yuri's friend Outa Ichirou tells her that he met her the other day, even though Yuri hasn't seen Ichirou for a year, it becomes clear that a dimensional doppelganger is trying to steal her identity.
There is at least one English review.
12. Emit Vol. 3: Watashi ni Sayonara o EMIT Vol.3: 私にさよならを [9403] Koei 1 2
Ichirou and Yuri's mother start getting suspicious of the doppelganger, not to mention that Yuri's return wrecks her plans to steal her identity.
There is at least one English review.
Mime is the only masterpiece of September.
1. Mahou no Princess Minky Momo Fantastic World 魔法のプリンセス ミンキーモモ ファンタスティック・ワールド [950901] Wishbone 1
Momo is a princess of a magical world that has come to Earth together with three companions - a bird, a dog, and a monkey - to help humans regain their happiness and bring the two worlds together. She has the appearance of a pretty, cheerful teenage girl, and immediately attracts the attention of a young boy who lives in a quiet town with his biologist father. Together, the two must solve the mysteries of the town, and perhaps find happiness for themselves as well.
"Mahou no Princess Minky Momo" is based on an anime of the same name.
Almost kinetic novel based on anime. And I did not watch this kindergarten anime.
2. Virgin 2 Hana Hiraku Shoujo-tachi no AVG ヴァージン＾２ 花ひらく少女たちのＡＶＧ [950901] Fairy Dust
Koji is caught at peeping after the tennis girls, so school girls committee stripped him and ridiculed his masculinity. In order to defend his pride school nurse advises him to be proactive with girls and prove his case.
Quite a baka comedy with significant ero element. Game systems are quite shallow and it takes significant time for screen to draw. Saving is also limited to before each chapter.
3. Gakuen Sodom ~Kyoushitsu no Mesu Dorei-tachi~ 学園ソドム ～教室の牝奴隷達～ [950908] PIL 1 2
The protagonist of the game is a teacher in St. Marianna Girls High School, which his sister also attends. One day, a maniac breaks into the school, and, holding the protagonist and the students at gunpoint. He then holds them hostage and forces them to perform violent and humiliating sexual acts with each other. The whole story of the game is basically a long stretch of such acts, while the maniac (and the protagonist) have to deal with new situations, such as arrival of police, journalists, etc.
Game starts as a more or less normal school game and then the criminal destroys the world as students knew it. It's a very specialized humiliation subgenre nukige.
4. Kinbaku no Yakata 緊縛の館 [950908] Xyz 1
Kinbaku no Yakata (meaning "Bondage Mansion") is a sadistic take on the "raising simulation" genre. Two brothers from a decayed nobility lineage live in a dark mansion, specializing in all things gruesome. The protagonist is one of the brothers, who wants to "prove himself" to the other one by kidnapping a young girl and turning her into his sex slave.
The fame of SEEK laid the beginnings of a new bondage museum genre. Game is inferior to SEEK in completeness and thus can only be advised to those who had not enough of SEEK.
5. :Loop ~Izanahi no Kaikiten~ ：ＬＯＯＰ ～いざなひの回帰点～ [950908] Grocer 1
The two young Kodama sisters, Nozomi and Hikari, decided to go for a drive in the countryside, to celebrate the end of Nozomi's brilliant high-school year. They get lost in the woods and are greeted by a handsome young man, who offers to bring them to the nearby mansion, known as the Deer Garden Temple, and to spend the night here. The exciting adventure soon turns into a nightmare, when the inhabitants of the mansion make Nozomi their sex slave...
There are three branches and only slightly more endings with most of endings being sex slave bad ones. Still it's unusual to see girls treated normally, allowing them give birth to children and making plans for their future.
6. Dangel Dangel [950909] Mink 1 2 3
Long time ago, there was balance in the world. Three great tribes lived in peace with each other. Up in the sky, the Heavenly Tribe; down on the Earth, the Human Tribe; and between them, the Demon Tribe. But among the demons, there were some who wanted more power. The members of the Heavenly Tribe were forced to seal the rebellious demons in what they called "Path of Light". But one of them figured out how to break the seal. The demons were now free, and they attacked the Human Tribe. Horrible massacres, ruined cities and villages, exterminated nations - it looked like the End of Days had come to the humans...
...A boy named Anduke was raised in a secluded location by two female elves. It was clear that the boy possessed extraordinary powers: at the tender age of nine, he was already able to sexually satisfy his lovely nannies. But a mysterious force tore the boy away, knocking him unconscious. He awoke ten years later, in a human village. A promise given to a young girl led him to a fateful meeting that revealed his destiny: he had the blood of Heavenly Tribe in him, and was the only one able to save the Human Tribe from the demons...
There is an English review.
7. Glass no Destiny ガラスの運命 [950914] FMC
Main heroine Yuri enjoyed a happy childhood. Her father eventually remarries and two families start to live together while Yuri acquiring a new sister. But after Yuri's father death one by one disasters fall upon the family bringing it on the brink of despair.
Game has a very special shojo manga atmosphere and drawing. It's quite shocking to see this cosy world gets buried to the basement. Then nudity comes to the scene and the impact gets even stronger. It's one of the first works oriented at women, but with unusual yuri genre and emphasis on the story.
8. Mahjong Gensoukyoku III 麻雀幻想曲III [950914] Active 1 2
The third installment of the Mahjong Fantasia series is not directly related story-wise to its predecessors. In the story mode, the player assumes the role of Chris, a guard in the city of Burgund. His mission is to protect the princess at all costs, but once the city is destroyed by members of a cult known as Valms, the two of them have to flee. Chris finds out that the only way to restore his homeland is by finding a sacred ring that had been kept in secret for many generations.
There is an English review.
9. Tamago Ryouri たまご料理 [950914] Softhouse Bonbee Bonbon
There 20 scenarios at locations to choose from. Stories mostly feature parodies to the media.
Specialized ero-centered content.
10. Cyber Illusion サイバーイリュージョン [950922] Pearl Soft 1
Around the turn of the millennium, global warming has become a reality. Abusing energy and the Earth's resources, humanity has driven itself to a point where normal life on Earth could no longer exist. Drastic rise of temperatures caused planet-wide dehydration. The only way to keep existing was through the Cyber Net, a virtual reality system. But soon the Cyber Net began to suffer from continuous assaults by hackers, who programmed lethal viruses into it. Thus, the Cyber Police was born. The protagonist of the game is a high-ranked officer of Cyber Police. With the help of his team, he has to solve the hacker problem once and for all.
SF icon selection type game. By 1995 icon selection was already morally old as it's needed to do two clicks to do anything and it's unnecessary barrier if the volume is big enough. We've got the time before the international summit is held to deal with the hacker. All the hacked characters are girls and they start to behave aggressively. Quite a good SF story with a satisfying true ending if you can get through the clunky "point and click" system.
11. Immoral Study Scenario 2: Iijima Yuka インモラルスタディ シナリオ2 飯嶋由佳 [950922] Scoop 1 2 3 4
You play "Professor" Hitosuji, well-known reputed tutor and teacher for his abilities in turning even the worst students into straight A stars...although it might be just a coincidence that all those girls happen to be very young and beautiful students. His "private tutoring skills" might be somewhat questionable, but it works.
In Immoral Study 2, the task at hand is to tutor one Yuko Ijima, the only daughter of a big time factory CEO. She's been slipping in her grades lately and her father called you to put her back on the right track again. Oh, she has a major attitude problem. Nothing you can't handle though.
Game is localized and has English impressions.
12. Shin Onryou Senki 真怨霊戦記 [950922] Fujicom 1
Hiroyuki Kitahara was leading a rather ordinary life in a quiet Japanese town, and decided one day to take a stroll at night, enjoying the picturesque landscape. All of a sudden, a horrifying monster appeared right in front of him. Kitahara wakes up in the hospital and tries to convince the doctors that he was not hallucinating. Teaming up with a young female journalist, Kitahara begins to explore the city, searching for clues to solve the mystery and seeking meeting with onryou - ghosts of people who were wronged in their lifetime and who are back for revenge.
"Shin Onryou Senki" is a remake of "Onryou Senki".
The story and most of the dialogues remain the same as in the original release. The differences lie mostly in visual presentation and technical quality of the music. A few locations have been added or made accessible at different moments during the course of the game.
It's always good when classic works get a remastered version, but locking it for just one type of console is not that good. I tackled on original Soft Wing Studio work in 1988 year review.
13. Vanishing Point -Tenshi no Kieta Machi- Vanishing Point －天使の消えた街－ [950922] Tiare
Kusanagi is a high school student. Recently, girls started to disappear from the area he lives. A friend of his sister requests to search for one such person.
Game has very primitive RPG system incorporated and there's the need to fight monsters all the time. Apart of that it's just wandering around the town and rescuing girls eventually finding the mastermind.
14. Figure ~Ubawareta Houkago~ フィギュア ～奪われた放課後～ [950929] Silky's 1
An oligarch named Takanashi has built a prestigious girl's high school, known as the Hanatsuki High. Mishima, a young man who has recently graduated high school, is approached by Isao, representative of the Hanatsuki High and his former schoolmate, with a part-time teaching job offer. Despite his dislike to certain school policies Mishima agrees - first, because he is broke, and second, because the perspective to teach the pretty daughters of the wealthiest people in Japan doesn't seem all that unpleasant...
A lesser known Silky's game, perhaps because of ordinary school setting. The features are good psychological portrait depiction and depression as omnipotent theme. There are multiple endings prepared.
15. Marine Rouge マリンルージュ [950929] Discovery 1
A young man named Kenji decides to have a vacation on the beautiful island together with his sister Hiromi. Taking a break from work and worries, the two discover a tourist resort with lovely beaches and high-class hotels. Very soon Kenji finds out that many attractive young women either work on the island or have come there for various reasons. Soon the holiday turns into a never-ending string of sexual escapades - and perhaps one of them will turn into a true romance?
Game branches early. In first branch a conspiracy plot is uncovered. In the second one you and you girlfriend decide to take over the island and subjugate everyone inside to you will. Pretty extreme and leads to harem ending.
16. Metal Fighter Miku メタルファイター ＭＩＫＵ [950929] Feycraft 1
In the year 2061 A.D., Neo Pro-Wrestling, a form of wrestling that allows for armour and other enhancements, is rapidly growing in popularity. In this, Miku, a young flighty girl is set to join her friends as the tag team known as the Pretty Four. However, the competition is fierce and their opponents are ready to do whatever it takes to win. Against this, the Four manage to obtain the services of an eccentric coach who trained their hero, Aquamarine. With his guidance, the four start on their fight for the top as they must train within almost inhuman discipline while their matches become more and more challenging as their opponents rise in the ranks.
Another anime spin-off. There's a nice English impression saying that game's almost unplayable due to fighting element difficulty. There's a good dozen of possible actions during the fight and improper one results in defeat. Game features light yuri elements and full voice with a lot of animation during unskippable talking scenes, so game is targeted on anime fans mostly.
17. Mime 舞夢 [950929] Studio Twinkle 1 2
Once upon a time, there was harmony and balance in the world. Four kingdoms of humans have watched over the four elements. But then a traitor appeared, who has angered the Goddess with his selfish deeds. The balance was destroyed, the elements were no more in harmony, and the world plunged into chaos...
Twelve thousand years later, a young knight named Eagle Windeed has been having a strange dream. Maybe there is still salvation for the human race. Maybe it is still possible to make peace with the higher beings. Eagle arrives at a tavern near the Tree Dungeon, determined to find out what his dream meant...
The whole world in this dungeon crawler is set as a dungeon without open fields. Characters are cute enough, atmosphere is good and events on the road are nice. Four character team makes battles look solid. There aren't weak points, actually. A very solid RPG for RPG lovers. There is very little H element in the game and achieving favor of target heroine only brings a kiss scene. The difficulty curve is very steep as Eagle is very weak and alone at the start, but with a full party it gets to be a breeze. There is also a bonus dungeon just before the end boss and it has monsters that are even stronger than the boss, but there is little sense in exploring this dungeon.
Surprisingly poor for masterpieces December, so my grey horse Lilith is the winner this time.
1. Houkago wa Betsu no Kao 放課後は別の顔 [951201] Ucom
A collection of four short stories featuring sexual experiences of school girls:
1. 「通学電車」
2. 「先輩・・・・・・」 3. 「進路指導」 4. 「非行少女」
A distinguishing feature of the work is the presence of narrator girl who also appears in the stories. But overall it's a very specialized content.
2. Momoko-chan for Me ももこちゃんfor Me [951201] Ume Soft 1 2
Momoko-chan for Me: Minarai Kangofu-hen is a visual novel focusing on a young male aspiring physician, the son of a famous doctor who has left on a vacation and entrusted the son with the management of certain hospital-related affairs. The game focuses exclusively on the relationship between the protagonist and a nurse-in-training named Momoko.
Remastered version heroines look much cuter. The difficulty of the game is high since there are over 10 endings - most of them depend on ecstasy level between the characters.
3. Moonlight Energy 2 ムーンライトエナジー２ [951201] Interheart 1
Moonlight Energy 2 is a sequel to Moon Light Enegy. The game's premise is nearly identical to that of the predecessor: the player controls a high school student named Maki, participating in her lesbian escapades with other students or personnel.
The infamous les chikan is back. So it's a normal Interheart work with many H events.
4. Rance 4.1 ~Okusuri Koujou o Sukue!~ ランス４．１ ～お薬工場を救え！～ [951201] Alice Soft 1 2 3
This is a side-story in Rance series, released shortly after the fourth game, but dedicated to an entirely different quest. All kinds of troubles are happening to a factory where a new Happiness Medicine is being developed. The mercenary Rance is hired by the manager to investigate the source of these troubles. First task: clear the factory of the monsters...
4.1 looks more like introduction to more longer 4.2. Battle system is simplified and few known heroines take part here. The quality is very good for a bonus game given away for free.
5. Reverse リバース [951201] Gloria
Takumi died in a traffic accident when he was young, but his spirit continued to live in his fraternal twin and gained ability to read other peoples hearts. Using that ability he helps people around him to solve their problems.
It's really difficult to comprehend what's going on on the screen since Takumi and his twin change spots all the time. The contents is quite dull and sad.
6. Super Erect Taisen S・EX スーパーエレクト大戦Ｓ・ＥＸ [951201] Dynamic Production
Hero was watching a pop idol live performance when the skies tore apart and idols got sucked inside the demon-faced black whirlwind together with his favorite Ichigo-chan. After than an angel descended from the skies and offered cooperation to defeat demon king and return the girls.
Each enemy turn takes so much time that I did not have enough patience to wait.
7. Ace of Spades Ace of Spades [951207] Love Gun 1 2
Ace of Spades is a casino game with a gruesome twist. The player competes against female opponents in poker or blackjack; every victory leads to an explicit scene of sexual torture. The main mode includes a series of matches and subsequent sadistic scenes against various women.
A primitive stripping card game.
8. Custom Mate 3 カスタムメイト3 [951208] Cocktail Soft 1 2 3
It's Christmas. Hayashi Ryuusuke is walking through the crowded city, feeling sad that he is alone on such a day. Suddenly, he spots a neon sign: Custom Mate. He enters and sees a strange receptionist with elf-like ears and a magic symbol on the forehead. She creates the girl of his dreams and they get married! But this is just the beginning, and Ryuusuke realizes that marriage is not all about the honeymoon...
After the honeymoon, the couple returns to daily routine. The player can make daily or monthly schedule. The wife's behavior is determined by character creation, but also by the choices the player makes. The wife would often ask questions, make suggestions, etc.; the player's reaction determines future interactions and the overall development of the relationship. The couple has various parameters, from love level to monetary wealth.
First two parts were blocked as eroge, but this one is much more "fun". There's a good thorough mechanics English review.
9. Magical Girl Pretty Sammy Zenpen 魔法少女プリティサミー 前編 [951208] AIC Spirits
Mahō Shōjo Pretty Sammy: Part 1 - In the Earth is based on Magical Girl Pretty Sammy (魔法少女プリティサミー) anime TV series which focus on magically transformed Sasami character from Tenchi Muyo! universe. This is a visual novel featuring Sasami as the protagonist. For reasons unknown, she has been chosen as a champion by Tsunami, the next queen of Juraihelm, to fight in her name. But there are people bent on seeing Sasami fail in her endeavors and her tasks will soon prove much more challenging as she fights her way with Misao, her best friend who was chosen as a magical girl by Tsunami's opponent, Ramia.
Anime was pretty popular since there are at least four different visual novels about Pretty Sammy. Game is issued with CG for PC-9821 consoles and thus is not well known.
10. Miwaku no Chousho 魅惑の調書 [951208] Black Package 1
The protagonist, a young man named Shinnosuke, discovers a beautiful mansion, in which apparently a large-scale party is taking place. Determined to meet and enchant some beautiful women, he ventures into the mansion.
The core of the game is nanpa, but atmosphere and girls are luxurious. The pictures using the full screen contribute to its charm. But don't expect much plot here as after targeting three women an ending happens. To get the rest a new game is needed.
11. Never Land Never Land ～ネバーランド～ [951208] Tips 1
You are Jimmy, a child of Never Land which is an island of magic and fantasy. You are always accompanied by May ,a small nymph, and you can fly in the air. Never Land is a world of children who can dream.
One day a boss of pirates gets a magic wand that has power to transform anything. You set out to restore status quo.
There's an English review that gives a rough outline of what to expect.
12. Rance 4.2 ~Angelgumi~ ランス４．２ ～エンジェル組～ [951208] Alice Soft 1 2 3
Rance 4.2: Angel-gumi is the second part of the story that began in Rance 4.1: O-Kusuri Koujou o Sukue! rather than an all-new Rance adventure. The hero continues to investigate the weird occurrences connected to the Happiness Medicine Factory. Since the story picks up directly where it ended in the sequel, Rance begins his adventure already commanding an all-female squad called the Angel Team.
There is an English review.
13. Toushin Toshi 2 - Soshite, Sorekara... 闘神都市II そして、それから・・・ [951208] Alice Soft
Returning from the goddess tournament, Sid is reduced to level 1 by the Demon King. His dojo sent him to a training journey, but Hazuki was so worried about him that she followed Sid and got into trouble herself.
A kinetic novel with rare pictures - mostly it's just clicking through walls of text. Since hero is weak again there is little excitement. But the story is good and well worth reading for the fans of the original game or if there is sympathy to Hazuki.
14. 2 Shot Diary 2 ツーショットDiary2 [951209] Mink 1
This is the first of the four episodic games that constitute the sequel to first 2 Shot Diary game. Unlike the first game with its 12 different scenarios, it only contains 2, and both are very short; however (also unlike the first game), most of the scenes here are animated. Both scenarios consist entirely of depictions of explicit sex.
One of the scenarios is about a girl named Yukari; after her father died, she had to look for a job, and finally became a maid in a mansion of a rich oligarch, who molests her sexually.
The other scenario is dedicated to a very young girl named Emi, who goes with her friends to the beach. Once she finds herself in a secluded place, a young boy approaches, and the two have sex.
Ero-centered short work.
15. Hiiro no Shimai 緋色の姉妹 [951215] Apollon Create 1
The protagonist of the game is a college student named Shunsuke. His mother died when he was five years old. Now his father is marrying again. He and his new wife have departed on a honeymoon; while he is waiting for them to come home, Shunsuke discovers that he doesn't live alone any more: three young sisters of his stepmother have moved in. Shunsuke now tries to get to know them better (in every possible way..), at the same time gradually discovering dark secrets about his father's intimate life.
Command selection hurts the pace a lot. There are several branches, but all the sisters turn out to be M and their stories aren't that different. Characters are quite cute, though.
16. Kekkon Marriage 結婚Marriage [951215] Westone 1
Shizuka, Mika, Kiyomi, Reiko and Mami are all grown up and have one thing on their mind: finding the ultimate husband! From the workplace to automated dating services, there's wedding bells to be heard and love to be acted on, all for the ultimate goal: marriage! With biological clocks ticking and youth slipping away, these girls will do whatever it takes to snag a man, love or not!
A dating SIM with 5 girl candidates. There are some parameters used. The flow is talking - telephone talk - date - proposal - engagement - marriage.
17. Lilith リリス [951216] Four-Nine 1
An intense night battle between kunoichi clan leader and evil biblical spirit Lilith ends with kunoichi falling into coma state.
A cat gets into an ordinary student Koketsu room, transforms into a girl and claims that Koketsu got her master kunoichi spirit and must help her master and defeat Lilith. The problem is that nothing is known about Lilith but the name and together they set to uncover its secrets.
I have a full review prepared.
18. Clone Doll Kagai Jugyou クローンドール 課外授業 [951221] Space Project 1 2
In Clone Doll, the protagonist is a rather "geeky" teenager who is actually a genius: he invented a machine that can make clones of human beings! After he gets a hold on a few hairs that belong to Kimika, his schoolmate and object of his passionate desires, the young scientist creates a clone of her, a young girl who has no other knowledge and wishes but satisfy the hero sexually...
There is an English review of the game. And Space Project confirms his fame as kusoge creator.
19. Fermion ~Mirai kara no Houmonsha~ フェルミオン ～未来からの訪問者～ [951222] Silky's 1 2 3
In the year 2296, world-wide pollution has led to drastic changes in the natural order of things. Human organism, unable to withstand the pollution, was slowly mutating. In the huge city Megalopolis, a group of young female scientists designed a time machine. One of them, a blue-haired girl named Connie, who can mutate into a cat, is sent to the past, to year 1996, to find a way to change the future...
I have a full review prepared.
20. Getsumen no Anubis 月面のアヌビス [951222] Multimedia Intelligence Transfer 1
The protagonist (default name Keisuke) and heroine (default name Kaori) are astronauts living in a laboratory set on the moon. A group of American soldiers are also stationed there. Mysterious incidents begin to occur that threaten the lives of everyone there - there are multiple scenarios, but only one is explicitly horror-themed. Said scenario involves a race of mysterious space parasites that can take possession of anyone, leading the protagonist (and thus the player) to grow distrustful of the other characters.
Yet another NVL "sound novel". Short and horror one, of course.
21. Idol Project 2 アイドル・プロジェクト2 [951222] KSS Inc. 1
Unlike the first Idol Project, the story of the sequel is directly related to to the anime series Idol Project, starring the same characters, with the young and ambitious Mimu Emilton as the protagonist. Mimu finds herself on a tropical island, where she must rise to fame by winning contests and promoting her singing skills. Like in the previous game, the majority of gameplay is dedicated to exploring the top-down city, visiting various places, searching for necessary people and raising the protagonist's parameters. Mimu has a much more detailed set of parameters than the hero of the previous game, including physical attributes as well as popularity rankings. The RPG element has been further enhanced by introducing random character (crazed fans and alike) who would sometimes attack Mimu on the city map and other locations.
Now is an ADV with a lot of town exploration. Still the use of parameters alienated me.
22. Ikazuchi no Senshi Raidy 2 雷の戦士ライディ２ [951222] ZyX 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
"Ugh... desert travel is terrible on the skin, let me tell you!
Why did I ever choose to come this way... If I don't find water soon it's going to be troublesome.
Wait, what's that in the distance - an oasis?! And a town next to it! Civilization at last..." I am Raidy, wandering the continent of Else as a swordfighter. I can freely bend the power of thunder to my will, so people have taken to calling me the "Lightning Warrior". I'm traveling far and wide to improve my fighting skills and search for clues about my past, and my mysterious power over lightning.
After defeating the monsters in the Cubust tower in my last adventure, I left the village of Sadd behind and continued on my journey. My travels have taken me across the desert to the oasis town of Lake Blue. Looking forward to a break after the long and dusty journey, I settled in for the night at the local inn... only to have its peace shattered by the cries of the young, beautiful innkeeper!
I rescued her from her mysterious assailant, to learn that the town was living under constant fear of attack from a gang of marauding bandits led by a cruel woman called Jammy. It seems my vacation won't be so uneventful after all! I set out to find information on the gang's hideout, and a new adventure begins...
Game's localized and has several English reviews.
23. Meisou Toshi 迷走都市 [951222] Tiare 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Runaway City tells the story of Hiroaki, a boy with a mysterious power of Good Luck. It's almost as it some power makes women do whatever he wants. At first it's a great power to have, then as time goes by it scares him more and more. Unchecked, this power will be the destruction of all Japan. Can you find out the nature of your power and find a way to stop it before it goes too far?
Game's one of the first localized ones and has many English reviews.
24. Mesuneko Hishoshitsu 牝猫秘書室 [951222] Melody 1 2
Kurou works in a company that specializes in "headhunting", finding and recruiting capable employees for big companies. A new client representing a company that has recently concluded a trade with an American software firm needs a new secretary. Problem: the last headhunter who was given a similar request has gone missing. So Kurou's boss wants him to get to the bottom of things, teaming him up with the resourceful and pretty headhuntress Tomoko. Naturally, as the partners begin the investigation, dark erotic secrets of the employees become gradually revealed...
An ero-centered work where you need to chase the same character to get to her ending. Game's notable for all the target characters being mature women.
25. Metamor Panic Doki Doki Youma Busters メタモル・パニック ＤＯＫＩＤＯＫＩ妖魔バスターズ [951222] Family Soft 1
Hero is a high school student who secretly went camping in the mountains with his childhood friend Yuki and cousin Ai. They found a suspicious cave and occasionally lifted the curse laid on demon king. The curse shifted to the two girls with Yuki spontaneously occasionally turning into a kitten and Ai into a parrot. Youkai appear in the city and start rampaging. The three heroes stand up to the demon threat.
This playstation game feels more like an ADV novel with light RPG elements rather than a serious RPG. The start is very harsh and punishing for a player. The second part when you learn to control the transformation is easy, so the balance is not good. Graphics are excellent, but game's only partially voiced. The tempo is slow and bgm quite monotonous. Some affinity to RPG genre is required to enjoy, but game absolutely can be enjoyed.
26. Paradise Call パラダイスコール [951222]
At a place where girls phone in, a guy waits. When a girl calls in, he talks with her. If he respond right, he will meet the girl and have fun. This game is a simpler version of Virtuacall 1.
Very primitive ero-centered game.
27. Viper-V16 [951222] Sogna 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
The final game in the V series and arguably the most recognizable. VIPER-V16 breaks with tradition and provides only two stories, instead of three, but both are longer, more complicated, and contain many more options than the prior V series stories, resembling games more than visual novels for the first time. The widely popular Rise story describes the kidnapping and escape attempt of three waitresses, while the lesser known Imagine tells the story of a young technical college student's attempts to attract the interests of three girls.
Game is localized and has multiple reviews.
28. Virtua Call 2 バーチャコール2 [951222] Fairytale 1
Emily has had a crush on Hasegawa for quite some time. A fellow resident of her building, Hasegawa has always been there for her as a friend, though she would like something more than friendship. When Hasegawa starts confiding his woman troubles to Emily, she introduces him to Virtuacall, a service that lets you interact with the girl of your dreams just as you wish you could. Unfortunately, Hasegawa becomes more interested in Virtuacall than her as a result. On the verge of leaving the country for her homeland, Emily is so overcome by emotion that she can neither tell Hasegawa about her feeling or tell him that she is leaving.
Nampage with outstanding difficulty. You really need to make memos during the talks all the time to get by without guide. Game got more user friendly since the prequel and even cuter girls. It's just too difficult to empathize with the nampage nowadays since the genre feels inferior to galge and there are thousands of galge today.
29. Zakuro no Aji ざくろの味 [951222] Imagineer Co., Ltd. 1
The story is set in a five-story office building on a cold winter evening. The protagonist (default name Domon) is working on a story for a monthly science fiction serial. As he goes to visit the editorial department, a series of earthquakes cause the building to collapse and trap everybody inside. Attempting to find an escape, Domon heads into the basement, and depending upon a decision made early in the game, he may run into anything from zombies to demons.
Yet another sound novel. It's released at the same day as Getsumen no Anubis and has references to it. Short horror story again.
30. Doki Doki Pretty League EX DokiDokiぷりてぃリーグ EX [951223] Xing Entertainment
Ayaka and Remy are members of time police "Chronopolis" in the near future. This time they investigate a case of a professional beauty wrestler of the 20th century who got missing.
Game has nothing to do with tennis this time, but has lots of H content. Several more former members of Doki Doki Pretty League make an appearance here. There are some mini-games available. Original creators of pretty league were absolutely against such game with erotic content. Female wrestling organization condemned this game as well. But the sales were ok, so franchise got resurrected at PS with time.
31. Kousoku Chojin 拘束超人 [951224] Foster 1
Haruki is a student at the prestigious private Morino High School, which he attends together with his beautiful sister, and where he leads the drama class. One day, Haruki discovers a strange toupee that transforms his body. Unbeknownst to him, he has gained special powers and comes into contact with a strange violent world that is hidden inside the school. Now he must understand what's truly going on there, at the same time trying to "score" with every girl he meets - be it student or teacher...
A crazy erotic baka-game. H events happen quite randomly. A cheerful Foster game.
32. Dangel - Special Disk Dangel スペシャルディスク [9512] Mink
Contains a parodying story set in the universe of Dangel, which happens at the same time as when Anduke starts his own adventure.
Game has the same intro as original Dangel, but this Plum hero is a mere parody worried about washing his pants more than saving the world. Text is quite good, but I guess playing through the original needed to appreciate the most of it.
33. Only You -Seikimatsu no Juliette-tachi- Ｏｎｌｙ Ｙｏｕ －世紀末のジュリエット達－ [9512] Alice Soft 1 2 3 4
A Japanese teenager named Hiroki is interested in martial arts, and has to take care of his little sister. Their older brother Yoichi had gone abroad; just when he announced that he was coming back he disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Hiroki and his friends eventually find out that an international supernatural criminal syndicate is in cohorts with an even darker power that is about to bring the apocalypse onto Earth.
Another RPG hybrid. First part is quite an ordinary ADV where you get humiliated over and over till the flame of vengeance embraces you, and the second part is a whirlpool of battles. Pure love is promoted in the game as each of seven girls has their own route with own boss and a happy ending while trying to get several girls brings a not so happy one. There are as many as 4 usual strikes and 4 special actions, but strikes deal random amount of dmg and should only be chosen with caution when fighting flying enemies. Special actions are only available on bosses and when at the same time the apocalypse timer is close to expiration. The game was initially made only for subscription fans and included lots of materials from previous works, but had great acclaim and had to be redone into an alternative version with all the legal issues fixed. So it is probably the first normal game of Alice Soft without dark fetishes. Good riddance!
34. Shikimi 樒 [95] Raisin Land
Two girl classmates stay at school after classes. But they aren't going to study. They are in love with each other and dedicate this time only to themselves.
Doujin school love story quickly turns into SM play.
35. Rinn-chan no Tensei Hakusho ~Meido no Miyagebanashi~ Rinn's転生白書～冥土のみやげばなし～ [95] Wanpaku Family
Rinn-chan is a 14-year-old junior high school student who suddenly dies before confessing to her love interest. At the heavens she meets an angel and three other girls. Angel agrees to return Rinn-chan to the Earth due to unnatural cause of her death. She may choose one of the three girls to reincarnate and confess to her love or choose no one and go back as herself.
Choosing other girls leads to inevitable H-scene and death afterwards. Reincarnating as herself gives H-scene with a better ending.
36. Momoiro Sankaku ~Riko & Hikaru Hen~ もも色さんかく～理子&ひかる篇～ [95] T&H Projects
Riko and Hikaru and normal girls who live normal lives. One attends kendo club, the other is a fan of reading. But one day their wolds coincide in one.
Just another short doujin H-game, this time with horrible quality.
37. Hotaru HO・TA・RU -ほたる- [95] Misono Soft
Hotaru gets molested on the train, but to her surprise the culprit is a man she knows very well.
Yet another unremarkable doujin H-tilt game.
38. Asuka Ayako-chan to Hokenshitsu あすか ～綾子ちゃんと保健室～ [95] B.T.B software
Ayako-chan feels bad at a gym and goes to school's health room right in her sportswear. There she meets her classmate who she likes.
A very short doujin game about a sudden passion of two young people.
39. Tantei Imasato Misa Jikenbo Tanpenshuu: Romance wa Shiroku Kiken na Kaori 探偵今里美沙事件簿 短編集 ロマンスは白く危険な香り [95] Maimai
Tokyo, 1960s. Amateur detective Misa takes up a case in secret from her father detective. It starts as a romance request, but soon plot starts to thicken.
A detective work, so no-no for me
There are no masterpieces this month. I would not like to nominate bakage a winner and I have a bad aftertaste from Start Trap and Shizuku, so VN of January 1996 is Ryuuki Denshou Dragoon
1. Bind ~Kinbaku Jinmon Densetsu~ Bind ～緊縛尋問伝説～ [960112] Outou Shobou In Side 1
The content of the game can be easily deduced from its title ("Kinbaku Jinmon Densetsu" means the legend of bondage interrogation). The game contains three "episodes", unrelated to each other story-wise. The first one is set in medieval times and tells about the adventures of two female treasure hunters in an ancient tomb; the second begins with two young girls being kidnapped by a mysterious secret society; the third deals with three school girls being assaulted by a thief.
Ero-centered omnibus collection with bondage as theme.
2. Yaku ~Yuujou Dangi~ 厄 ～友情談疑～ [960113] Idea Factory Co., Ltd. 1 2 3
Five adults return to the elementary school they attended as children only to find that it has been closed up. They trespass into the closed-down building in order to dig up a time capsule they had buried at its courtyard. However, this turns out to be a mistake as bizarre monsters are waiting inside. There are five scenarios available, each one telling a different character's story, but only the protagonist's story is initially available.
It's actually close to a "sound novel", but it was released for ps1 so the volume is bigger than usual. There are couple European languages articles that show the glimpse of this weird weird horror game.
3. Reijuu - Twin Road 麗獣 ツインロード [960119] Apple Pie 1 2
The town of Jester is located near a spring, which is used both by humans from the town and the beast people from their forest village. For years, the two races co-existed in peace. But one day, somebody sets the Jester tavern on fire. The authorities arrest a young beast girl who happened to be in the town at that time. Outraged by the injustice, a young orphan boy named Kein, who was raised by Tyrone, one of the town knights, convinces him to help the girl escape. But that act draws the ire of the town authorities, and the heroes realize that they have to flee...
Some genre experiment here since it's more tactical than usual SRPG, but also definitely not a full strategy or rpg.
4. Snow Memory スノーメモリー [960123] Birdy Soft
Four girls pass the casting to work in a Western mansion. You choose one of the girls and watch the forecoming events from her point of view.
We know it well that even at the time of Cal 3 the staff of Birdy Soft left the company and the director had to hastily finish it himself. And Snow Memory comes years after that as an attempt to play on the brand name. Game's more than average with lots of fanservice and unnatural looking art.
5. Ryuuki Denshou Dragoon 竜機伝承 －ドラグーン－ [960126] KSS Inc. 1
Gods created humans in a paradise-like world. But as time passed they started to hate each other and fight among themselves. Gods sent a blue start that turned into a blue dragon on the ground. For three days and nights the dragon was burning out everything with a cleansing fire. As the flames disappeared, a huge lake was born. Dragon entered the lake with the words "I shall raise again when foolish struggle arises anew". However, as time passed, this dreadful event erased little by little from human memory.
North-East frontier, Northon. Young soldier Cedy meets a mysterious girl Miu and decides to help her get to her hometown on the other side of the world.
At the same time stripping the barriers of time Gods make their move again...
It's a SRPG with only event battles. First part is particularly difficult with the constant demand of restoration magic. Dangerous events happen one by one and we constantly need to escape so pace is good. In the second part the party gets scattered and our primary goal is to find Miu... but we kinda only find other party members and as the war with the empire breaks out Miu gets totally abandoned. Another inconsistency is that the empire villain minister after defeat jumps out with the cries "I've actually come from the future and I've half of my body mechanically modified!" and it was a pure magic fantasy world this far. Another irritating aspect is the inventory menu as first it's needed to pick an item from the full list of garments and then try to apply it to a character only to find out that it won't suit him. So it's a good game with a nice epic story, but some elements of it leave a sour aftertaste.
6. Shizuku 雫 [960126] Leaf 1 2 3 4
When one of his classmates suddenly goes mad in the middle of the class, the protagonists uncle, one of the teachers in the school asks him to investigate this matter after school. He starts the investigation with the help of one of the girls from his class, an investigation that will lead them to many horrors...
With my review there are three English reviews.
7. Star Trap スタートラップ [960126] Fairy Dust 1
A space ship was sent to the planet Neptune, to investigate strange disturbances spotted on the planet's surface. Some time later, the nearest space station picked up a SOS signal from the ship. An agent named Takuya, in command of an elite team of female fighters, is sent to Neptune. But their ship crashes, and Takuya must fight for his life and the lives of the girls, which are threatened by Neptune's fearsome monsters.
Alternative version of ancient Cream Lemon - Start Trap back in 1986. Game's short hardly reaching 2 hours. There are two routes, but routes are mainly made to distinguish between H events. The number of endings is 5, there is an ending for each of two girls and some neutral ones. So there's hardly a story, but at least it has the craziness of 80s games and beautiful CG.
8. Time Stripper Mako-chan タイムストリッパー真子ちゃん [960126] Foster 1 2 3 4 5 6
You play the character Shinji Nakayama a high school student who has a bad reputation of cheating on his girlfriend, Michiyo Sakagami.
The story starts when your "habit" is eventually found out (again) by your girlfriend, of which you start to fight and end up breaking up. In the middle of your 'sobbing', a girl pops up out of nowhere in your room. It appears she's from the future, with personal reasons that has to do with your present love-life situation. After that, the story is in your hands...
Game is localized and has many English reviews.
9. Yume no Sei 夢の精 [960126] 13cm 1
A collection of three stories.
1.『ONE』is about main character sneaking into the dressing room of cat ear idols.
2.『ミンキーキャット』is an abduction story.
3.『ミッションエイジ』is an RPG game to infiltrate enemy hideout and rescue a girl
Stories differ in styles greatly, but are all short erotic stories that are possible to click through in just 10 minutes.
10. Ningyo -Tsutako- 人魚－蘿子－ [96] Alicesoft
A boy and a girl run away with a mysterious stone and hide in a cave. But pursuers are nearby already.
Game was shipped only for subscription fans and thus is obscure. PC-98 version is not hookable, so I won't be presenting the synopsis. Game is all HCG fest after first couple normal CG.
Rougetsu Toshi is the only masterpiece of the month.
1. Ginga Ojou-sama Densetsu Yuna 3: Lightning Angel 銀河お嬢様伝説ユナ3 LIGHTNING ANGEL [971204] Hudson Soft 1 2 3
The Machine Empress plants a bomb that while surely destroy the Earth. Its up to Yuna and gang to stop her and bring peace to the earth. But soon they will find out theres more to the Machine Empress and her army than her motives of destroying Earth....
There's an English good walkthrough for this game and very fine Spanish review, so there's enough information.
2. Hop Step Idol☆ Hop Step あいどる☆ [971204] Media Entertainment
As a producer at a youth entertainment company you have to go out and scout out guys to become a new idol group.
You have two years to raise a super idol.
Idol otome game. That's enough for me to stop digging.
3. Isle Mystique あいるみすてぃ～く [971205] Azurokusu
Hero became an owner of the island in the vicinity of Okinawa. There was a famous statue of dragon there. But one day it was revealed that the standing statue was a fake. Now it's needed to find the real one sold by pieced around the island.
Game is kind of nanpa and after H event you can check if the girl had the real part of the dragon. There are several locations and three times of the day - by being in the right place in the right time you trigger events. Its "unique character system" is just a gauge during H-event that reacts to your actions - this is actually a very difficult part. Systems are very clunky and graphics is bad.
4. Sanshoku Korokke さんしょくコロッケ [971205] Misty
A collection of three stories:
1. 豪漢生徒会
2. 遠山館乱れ桜
3. 小春夢日和
Ero-centered short stories 10 minutes each.
5. Sonemi ~Houfuku no Shou~ 嫉 ～報復の章～ [971205] Deep Zone
Famous private school. Heroine Mai is ordered to clean the principal's office after school together with a boy as a penalty for bad English grades. Mai has no intention to participate in cleaning, but she enjoys teasing her partner.
Kinetic nukige. The number of forced H events is high. Quite a short one too.
6. Waru!! ~Itazura~ わるっ!! ～悪戯～ [971205] Interheart 1
The story behind Waru is that one day, while taking a train, you, Honda, met a girl named Amano. On the crowded train, she lifted up her cloth on her own initiative and allows you to touch her breast. At first, you are surprised by her action. However, you soon started to enjoy the "wicked play" as Amano unlocks the long forgotten "wicked play" inside you. Once again, you start to haunt lonely girls on the train as your target of the "wicked play."
There is an English review.
7. Yuki Furu Kisetsu e ~Omoi, Anata ni~ 雪降る季節へ ～想い、あなたに～ [971205] Blue Bell
Shinichiro Sawaki is a friendly and sincere boy. All the girls in school think about him this way, but noone made a move to know him better.
Transfer student Naomi Sakura comes to such class and sits next to hero. Naomi has great appearance, excellent grades and is good in sports, so she's very popular with boys. She gets familiar with the hero and that makes other girls in the class think of him in romance sense. Who will he date this winter?
Dating-SIM. One month is the period. You go around school each day and meet six girls. Difficulty is low and it takes just 30 minutes to get to each girl's ending. Scenario lacks excitement and girls aren't particularly charming. Some girl sprites differ drastically from their CG. Even if you don't like any girls, there is no bad end - you get a child from a childhood friend!
8. Suuhaisha ~Toraware no Canaria~ 崇拝者 ～囚われのカナリア～ [971210] K-JOYNT
Idol girl Makihara Karin brings her passionate voice to those who have faith in her. She sings in duet with a dreamy girl Rin Misugi. Entertainment world is full of darkness and craziness. Fans are like worshipers who dye their hearts in darkness for their goddesses to shine brightly. Melody flows from these fallen girls like a sad hymn in preparation for the sacrifice.
Little is known for this H-titled doujin work, to be hones.
9. Maria: Kimitachi ga Umareta Wake マリア 君たちが生まれた理由 [971211] Break 1 2
In this game, you play as a young psychiatrist named Takano. One day a new patient is brought into the hospital you work in - Maria, a young woman who has attempted suicide. She suffers from amnesia, and you try to find out more about her, visiting her and talking to her. Before long you discover that Maria has schizophrenia - a split personality. Her "other self" appears to be evil and threatens to take over her. The fight for Maria's sanity begins.
The game plays like an interactive novel or movie: you read text and from time to time make a choice from two or more available ones. Instead of the standard 2D animé-style graphics the game utilizes semi-realistic CG pre-rendered backgrounds and characters. There are also CG animated movies in the game.
The atmosphere of the game is rather heavy, but characters are played out well, and there is a merit in suspense.
10. True Love Story ~Remember My Heart~ トゥルー・ラブストーリー〜Remember My Heart〜 [971211] ASCII Corporation
A fandisc for the original game that features new heroines.
I have a habit to ignore fandiscs.
11. Koi Tenshi 乞天使 [971212] Pinky Soft
"Angel festival" is held at Christmas time in a certain Catholic school ... suddenly girl students become lascivious at the school festival and forget about that afterwards. Hero gets to the be in the mids of these events.
Game's on a horrible macromedia engine. It just kept repeating the first day over and over.
12. Muku 2 無垢 弐 [971212] Nikukyuu 1 2
You are rich beyond imagination. Over tens and hundreds of countries' fashion design companies are in your control. Money, power, everything are yours. However, there still seems to be something missing in your life. One day, you happened to visit one of yours clothe store and met a girl of your taste. Since then, she becomes your maid in your mansion when she falls in the scheme you have setup. Her father's jewelry store bankrupted (setup by you) and you lend her father a huge sum of money in return for her work in the mansion to payback the money. From this date, you will teach her and train her to be a "good" maid.
There are two English reviews.
13. Shishunki ~And I Love Her~ 思春記 ～and I love her～ [971212] Mint
Hero entered urban art vocational school to become a painter. He is given a task to draw "Adolescence", but he has no ideas about it. His classmate advised him to draw "love", but to draw love hero needs first to know love, so goes looking for girls.
ADV with elements of SIM as there are parameters that change according to choices. There are four young girls to capture. I mean really young.
14. Atlach-Nacha [971218] Alice Soft 1 2 3 4
A long time ago, there lived a jorougumo named Hatsune who gathered enough celestial energy that she was able to take a human form.
One day, a mysterious monk came to Hatsune's nest and nearly annihilated her for taking a villager's life. Severely wounded, Hatsune went into hiding. To heal her wounds, she decided to make Yaesaka High School her new nest and absorb energy from the students attending there. Hatsune absorbs energy by eating the flesh of (mostly male) students or through having sexual intercourse with them (preferably with females).
Game has three English reviews. I used to think of it as a big important game... till tried it myself. There's no story in the game and there's even no good ending. The only aim is see all CG and for that it's needed to play H sequences for about 10 times.
15. Girl Doll Toy ~Tamashii o Kudasai~ Girl Doll Toy ～魂をください～ [971218] Uran
Near future. Hero works in a laboratory developing human-like androids. He picks up an android that was fated to be disposed, upgraded her and named her Erika. At some point he starts to feel romantic emotions for her...
Raising SIM/ADV. The good part is that it's not just fuwa-fuwa - the second part is quite severe as the hero has to oppose the laboratory. Quite an ordinary android raising work, but with good video and voicing.
16. Ningen Gari 人間狩り [971218] Alice Soft 1
Five girls are trapped on a small island with four hunters.
The hunters will have to search for the girls and stop the other hunters from getting to them first by laying traps or fighting them directly.
There is an English review.
17. Universal Nuts ユニバーサルナッツ [971218] Lay-Up 1
Universal Nuts is a sci-fi visual novel featuring two protagonists, Yui and Ai, which get involved in an incident onboard a space station. As the story progresses, the mystery of events that have occurred start to unfold. The game plays in a typical visual novel style by reading through on-screen text and dialogues to progress the story. Character icons are present during dialogues beside the character art over the background image, and the game features both animated cut-scenes and voice-acting.
There is a ghost ship in the open space sending out S.O.S. signals. But when Ai and Yui approach it, all the crew is absent even though all signs of life are present, even the lighted cigarette in the ash tray. A bad scenario with good production values and luxurious voice cast. Don't be surprised as anything can happen any moment here like in the weirdest bakage. There are too many inconsistencies too like meteorites catching fire in space or girl in a towel with a portrait in the suit. Scenario is multi-ending one, but with unskippable text very few would have the will to do it again. There are six "good" endings, but each time there is a a phrase following "Are you sure this is the best end?". And all of six endings have it. And there are lots of bad endings too. So there is no reward for looking for good endings, only irritation.
18. Zero 零式 [971218] Alice Soft 1
In order to find their father who has gone missing, the twins Akane and Naomi participate in 'Chariot Fest', a tournament in which people try and amass the most points by destroying robots in an underground maze.
There is an English review for this game.
19. Aitai Toki ni Kimi wa Inai 逢いたい時に君はいない [971219] Bell-Da
The hero who lives with his father and a young sister Serica. He falls in love with female teacher. And recently a lolicon started to pursue his younger sister.
There are three heroines each with her own ending. Number of CG is good - about 120 pieces. Story is quite nice as both developments happen side by side. Younger sister is charming and does not have a H event.
20. Enema えねま [971219] Manbou Goya
School girl Ezaki Ema meets a space police boy Nema who comes to the Earth to fight parasites laying eggs at the stomach. Together they purify stomachs of school girls and fight parasites with a gravitational vibrator. This is a sad romantic story... oh, wait, it's not - it's a story about enema! There's a great variety of toilet situations in game. And there's also some parody. And now we know the root of enema word.
21. Heart Work Symphony of Destruction Heart Work Symphony of Destruction [971219] Active 1 2 3 4 5
Yuu Asakura was a mild mannered university student until he found a mysterious duffel bag with a gun and orders for an assassination. He was terrified at first, but when he held the smooth metal of the pistol in his hand, he started to become someone else. Capable of anything, Yuu takes the assassination job and enters a world of nonstop sex, blood and guns. When he returns to school with his newfound abilities, he finds it no trouble at all to get any girl he wants. The syndicate and the police want a piece of the new guy, but the one Yuu has to worry about is the gun's original owner.
Game is localized and has English reviews.
22. Jain Juushinden Jevald 邪淫獣神伝ＪＥＶＡＬＤ [971219] Berserker
While returning home from his crappy job, our guy found a girl at the end of a bolt of lightning. It seems she has chased a mad scientist from her planet to earth. She needs his help to stop the mad scientist from collecting earth female energy. How does he do that? Well, a little mad scientist drug does wonders.
Graphics are good... but that's the only good thing in the game. Game's engine is very weird. Not possible to skip anything and it just froze on me in 12 minutes. And according to other people, not just for me - engine tends to freeze very often. There are multiple windows and some tend to disappear or get inactive. Savegame can not be summoned when you need it.
23. Kuroi Shoudou 黒い衝動 [971219] Violate 1
A collection of three short stories: "The Worst Day" in which the protagonist assaults a woman at a video store, "Your Slave" in which they harass a servant, and "Red Mark" in which they tutor a student in an indecent fashion.
There is an English review.
24. Teito Kitan ~Doushi Tantei no Jiken Memo~ 帝都奇譚 〜道士探偵の事件メモ〜 [971219] Space Project 1
Taisho era. A series of kidnappings of young girls have happened in the capital with the aim of selling into sexual slavery. A special detective trained in fighting is sent to investigate the case.
Strategic card battles. Scenario is quite simple, but Taisho era spirit depicted well. CG and voicing are mediocre. Quite an obscure game. There is an English review.
25. Zenyasai 前夜祭 [971219] Violate
A week before the school festival. Soichiro Kiriharais in the festival executive committee. There are five girls around the hero, each with their own troubles. Will his curiosity, kindness and persistence make them open up to him?
ADV where we raise/lower favorability according to the answers given. If you miss even one event to raise favorability, you won't get girl's ending.
26. Ai Doll 哀・奴隷（あい・どーる） [971225] Bags
Hero drove a car and got into an accident. He regained consciousness in girls monastery. Some strange punishment techniques are practiced there.
There is a decadent atmosphere and there are bad endings. The main heroine is sweet and positive against all the odds. Game does have reviews, but from what I saw the plot is the same as in hentai amine with the same title.
27. Mink Daisakusen ミンク大作戦 [971225] Mink
A god brought three heroes to the other world. Will you be able to gather the party, rescue friends and return to the original world?
An RPG. From the start we get to choose one of three heroes from Mink games that have different skills. At the next part we need to switch the choice for one of the leftover heroes, so better save one with the long range attacks for later. There are battles and levels ups. Game boasts of using 3D animation both for small items movement and H scenes occasionally.
28. Rougetsu Toshi 朧月都市 [971226] Softhouse Bonbee Bonbon 1
Tokyo at the end of the century got completely blocked from the outside world due to transformation of Kanto plains and emergence of black fog that blocks radio waves. The raise of shady organizations and appearance of strange dreams make people uneasy. Hero acquires mysterious power to oppose those threats.
There are only fake choices. The settings seems to come from the mail game with the same name. Picture quality is good, but not in the cute way. The "power" of the hero is not explained and even though it should be presented in multiple forms, he only uses it as a gun. The H events are sudden and spontaneous. The characters lack the persuasive power. So it's not a bad story, but not really a deep one. I consider it a masterpiece and prepared a full review.
29. Gensuishou 幻水晶 ～Crystal Fantasy～ [971229] Aquavit
There is a legend that the couple that sees "Crystal Fantasy" in this amusement part will love each other forever. Four friends come to this part at night to try and reveal the mystery. Whatever happens next depends on the choices.
Game is highly influenced by popular at that time Kizuato. It has boys love scenes which was still rare.
30. Osananajimi 幼なじみ [971229] Nirvana Soft
Main character has a childhood friend and a sister-in-law that he loves both dearly. But the day comes when he needs to make a decision and choose between them.
Very short work with just two endings, but well produced one.
31. Angel Lips エンジェルリップス [9712] Lyceen
Two high school girls lead a normal school life at the same class. But after an accident their contrasting everyday life breaks apart in a stream of lust. One more experienced, one more naive, but in the sunset city their purity is lost forever. Command selection ADV. There are two main heroines and one side-heroine. Game uses animation, voicing and is almost entirely devoted to H events, including les and SM ones. There are multiple endings prepared, so it can be called a choose you adventure genre.
32. Joutou na Nichijou 上等な日常 [97] RIKI
Everyone has sex, even classmates and girls at working places. It all starts in elementary school where students masturbate like crazy. There are six fourth grade elementary students to choose from. It's a short game where boys masturbate and girls have menstruation. Real weird stuff
Cross Tantei Monogatari ~Motsureta Nanatsu no Labyrinth~, Double Cast and One ~Kagayaku Kisetsu e~ are the masterpieces of the month, but One ~Kagayaku Kisetsu e~ is the clear winner here.
1. Kimi ni Steady キミにSteady [980605] D.O. 1
Hero is a senior in high school sctudent. He spent summer vacations on part-time job and did not create any memories. Now he intends to definitely find his love by Christmas.
Pure love romance school adventure. Game period is 4 months and you move around the game and trigger events. Game system looks like classmate, but it's made much easier for newer generations. Like triggering events does not advance time and important events are clearly show on the map. But still for newer generation the game remained too difficult. Actually, difficulty varies from very easy to next to impossible. Game relies on minigames a lot since each girl has her own mini-game and there are also games at game center. Still, the characters aren't really cute and the character designs have not gone far from Youjuu Senki. Game was in production for two years and grew old even before release.
2. Tsurushi 吊 [980605] Deep Zone
Ando Reina.. She is my current lover. Cute face and fine body suitable to it. She is also quite popular.
However, recently she has started becoming annoying. If she does not know of my each and every action anyhow, she cannot be satsified. She is a female on the verge of becoming a stalker.
It is troublesome. Actually before Reina, I was going out with Sakakibara Miho. She is pretty unreserved, a good female. She has no desire to monopolize, loves sex and is further my type.
I only wanted to go out with Miho, so I thought...
I consulted with my friend Nakada, to make plans regarding breaking up with Reina. Nakada is an outrageous and inhumane character, even more than I thought. To start off, gets her raped by the homeless guys of the town. He started carrying out various schemes even unthinkable from my standards.
Whoa.. This is awful..
During this opportunity, Reina's friend, a woman named Azumaru Aya got wind of this situation and started giving lots of advice to Reina for the sake of returning to our previous relationship. Because of the fact, I am trying to get Reina's attention and set her up, it is convenient for me.
Once, teacher also joined a number of guys and flooded them with semen. Contrary to Aya's brave co-operation, Reina gradually became miserable.
The covered Aya, looks pretty cute! Eh? Do I like Aya?
Evil Nakada, sex loving Miho, miserable Reina, facing the backfire of her plans Aya and frivolous, I.
The rotten relationships of these 5 people, where will they end up?
Surely...
Single road adventure, but there are immediate bad endings upon wrong choice. And yes, marriage is also a bad ending! Situations are forced to include as much H content as possible.
3. Angel! えーんじぇる！ [980612] Triangle
Hero is an angel apprentice who can not pass the promotion test to angels even though his lover Shirley is already an angel. The chief angel chief decided to impose the final special examination on the hero. Its contents is to go down to the Earth, do good things and earn 100 points in 6 days. If those conditions aren't met the hero will be expelled from the Heavens forever. His powers on Earth are limited to transformation into a strange stuffed animal figure. He appoints two school girls Mikoto and Makoto as his own apprentices and hurries to do the good deeds worth 100 points.
Full voice fun bakage! There are choices during the conversation and depending on those Makoto and Mikoto gain empathy and that directly affects the ending. At important moments Makoto and Mikoto use magic that you pass to them. H-scenes depend directly on the magic you give them. Due to this fact many playthroughs are needed to discover all variations of CG. Slight inconvenience that saving is only possible at the beginning and end of each chapter, but skip function makes it easier. Story is not serious, but moves in a good tempo and contains five chapters stylized to look as anime episodes. It's a big hit among bakage due to high production values and attractive parodies.
4. Misetagari みせたがり [980612] Zero
There is another world where girls who want to show themselves gather. Click on their body parts and let them show to you what they got. Just interactive pickup.
5. Nine Lives ~Hanyafuda Suru Nyan~ ないん☆らいぶす 〜はニャ札するにゃん！〜 [980612] Apricot (old) 1
This is a majong like tile matching game. In the Story mode, our guy found a were-cat that used one of her spare lives to save him. He still has to collect 8 more lives in order not to be turned into a zombie. That and a weird gem makes his life exciting. In the Tournament mode, you can pick one of 8 girls to play with.
There is an English review.
6. Koi no Floating Mine 恋のフローティング・マイン [980618] Active 1
Life is always hard for a student who have to transfer to a new school, especially the fact that you need to start everything over. But there are always exceptions...
Especially if you meet a bunch of pretty girls!
There is an English review for this game. But the review says nothing really relevand apart of the fact that it's short compared to Kakyuusei. I want to defend the game. It's voiced and I found it really amusing. Never got to the girls part though since it's ordinary school setting.
7. Kiwamete! Scandal!? きわめて!スキャンダル!? [980619] Arkham Products
Main hero lives in a luxury condominium and has fun every day.
One time his father got into an accident and his secretary urgently called main hero to take the lead of huge corporation instead of his father for the time of father's hospitalization.
This is how his three scandalous months began ...
SIM. Day is divided into four time zones with lots of activities to do. One of those activities is giving sex instructions to the employees in the education room. There are many parameters to maintain. The main goal of the game is to retain all the female employees and remain corporation's president even after three months' time. It looks horrible at first sight, but in practice it feels more like Rance craziness.
8. Saikai ~Sotsugyou Ryokou '98~ 再会 ～卒業旅行’98～ [980619] Saint
School life is over and classmates go on a graduation trip for four days to Okakura pension house What kind of memories will the hero build over this trip?
First things first - I blocked the prequel for it having a yaoi scenario. Well, here there's also one yaoi scenario, but aestetics is not yaoi-distorted and most of love interests are girls so I'll let it slip. So it's quite a typical romance game. You move around, hit flags for the first days and on the third day you can confess to your love interest with a H-scene following on 4th day. There are 8 heroines to capture (rather 7+1 non-heroine). Each girl has both pure love and eroge sides of scenarios to pick up.
9. Tropical Memories ~Natsuiro no Symphony~ トロピカル・メモリーズ ～夏色シンフォニー～ [980619] h.m.p
Hero is high school 3rd grade student. He can't talk with girls because of shyness and uneasiness feeling. He likes popular girl Erika. It is rumored that she prefers sportsmen. Because of that hero is going to train mind and body during the summer in order to confess to the lady of his heart. He knows that Erika spends the summer at elite Pao Pao resort. It's impossible to get there without prior reservation, so hero applies for a part-time job on the island. And so summer begins.
Yet another 3D SIM by hmp. Did not get far there and there are no reviews to confirm the ending.
10. Cross Tantei Monogatari ~Motsureta Nanatsu no Labyrinth~ クロス探偵物語～もつれた7つのラビリンス～ [980625] WorkJam 1
The player takes the role of a young 18 years old detective (Koruso Ken) aided by his partner, a young girl of 19 years old (Nishiyama Tomoko) that got a detective agency. The game features 7 different cases that take place in different parts of the city and outside the city, with different characters and suspects in each episode.
Since there are a lot of cases to handle the development proceeds in a good tempo with a lot of lively characters around. It's one of the most technologically advanced works of the time, so it manages to astonish all the time. That's a true masterpiece for those who can stand detective stories. I can't.
11. Double Cast ダブルキャスト [980625] SCEI 1 2 3 4 5 6
The game begins with you, the main character, waking up at a fountain to the face of a pretty girl. You are a high school boy, and this girl has helped you out of the garbage where you had passed out in a drunken stupor. (Talk about first impressions!) As it turns out, she cannot remember anything about herself except for her name, Akasaka Mitsuki. Since she has no place to stay, you offer your own, and so begins your unusual relationship with this spirited girl. When your film club finds itself in need of a female lead, Mitsuki joins in, and from there the main story begins to unfold.
There is enough English info, but it's very dry, so let's spice it up. Full voice full animation interactive movie. Game starts as a heartwarming story, but since the middle turns into a suspense horror. Game is all about discovering endings - there are 27 of them plus one special if you discover all 27. Few options and endings are available at first but more and more options are added with discovered endings. Skipping and choosing episode to start with help, but still a guide is almost a necessity to find some of them. Surprisingly interesting game with high production values, but only for PS1 and PSP.
12. High School Terra Story ハイスクールテラストーリー [980625] Uran 1 2 3
Basically, you have about three and an half months to finish the game with one girl. Each day, you start out at school and you have a parameter with three sections: Studies, Athletics, and Art. Depending on how you build up this parameter and how you inter- act with the characters, the story will change. You also receive love points if you answers questions by the girls you interact with correctly. You do not freely move in this game, it directs you by your parameter and how you answer questions with the girls. You can choose which girl you want to finish the game with by using that method. You also earn money and you have a meter that tells you how tired you are.
There are two good English reviews on the game.
13. Mormotte [980625] Outgrid
Serizawa Koichi lost all previous memories after brain surgery. On awakening he learns that he agreed to participate in experiment for 31 day. During that time he's placed in a certain location together with other people. What kind of future will he choose?
Basically Koichi travels around the place and rises likability of girls he likes. The development is aggressive in H department and makes up for half-baked feeling.
14. Ace of Spades 2 [980626] Love Gun
There is a special casino that only accepts customers who bring women partners along. The bet there is not money, but women as the losing side has to pass woman to the winner.
There's no real story, just tabletop games. There is even a mode without H events on winning. The number of HCG is big.
15. Forest In The Dark - Kuraki Mori ni Tsudou Yume フォレスト・イン・ザ・ダーク 暗き森に集う夢 [980626] Speed
The elder of the clan dies and leaves mysterious instructions to determine his heir - to find memory card game and play it to the end till next full moon. There are only several days left till the next full moon and thus hero arrives to the forest mansion to try his luck.
Game takes only four days with first day being arrival, second and third being heroine routes and fourth the ending. Each route is focused on the past of the hero and selected heroine. There's not enough time neither for relationship nor for memories regain, so overall development is hasty.
16. Kyou*shi ~Nerawareta Seifuku~ 狂＊師 ～ねらわれた制服～ [980626] Crowd 1
The story behind the game is about you being hired as a teacher at an all girls school. And because of the pervert you are, you somehow take advantage of the girl students around you. There are three different linear story-lines depending on chosen specialization: P.E teacher, Arts teacher, or a Chem teacher.
There is an English review.
17. Mayaku 魔薬 [980626] Flady 1
Hero is a high school chemistry teacher. Accidentally he produces a powerful aphrodisiac. He indents to test the new medicine on different female students.
There's no real story as we just pick one of the girls pictures and move right to the H mode. Oh, and there's an English review.
18. One ~Kagayaku Kisetsu e~ ONE ～輝く季節へ～ [980626] Tactics 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
One's story revolves around Kouhei Orihara, the main protagonist, who suspects that at some point his current life will change while living a peaceful daily routine. Due to this, he begins to seclude himself in the Eternal World, a world within his mind. The game's main recurring motif is a focus on the Eternal World, a mystical alternate space which is never clearly explained, and the details of which are unknown.
Game is localized and has many English reviews.
19. Ryoujoku ~Suki Desu ka?~ 凌辱～好きですか?～ [980626] Ail
Hero has a debt unable to be repaid. One day he finds a suspicious medicine while working and uses it on girls out of curiosity. Girls become lustful as a result. Hero gets used to such life ... is it suffering or blissful life that awaits him?
Insulting game and insult scenes are voiced which was still very rare.
20. The Grand Hotel ザ・グランドホテル [980626] Janis
Meg and Alice graduated this spring and they are best friends.
They are trying to find job at the Luxury Hotel "Grand Hotel". The final exam is to pick up the debts from long-standing patrons.
However, all the patrons are weirdo. Will they be able to adapt?
Game is ADV with some SIM elements like money. So you wander around the rooms and ... practically anything can be inside. It's a parody game on the verge of sanity. One of the endings even says that hotel was a training ground for space mission and they both go to space. So it's probably an eroge, but a merry one.
21. Update あっぷでーと [980626] Pinpai
Main character registers on the meeting web site by friend's advice. Will he be able to find his love and meet her in real world?
Well you write a letter and choose a topic for beginning, middle and end. And if you mail suits girl's character, she responds. You can keep sending replies of fair, good or best quality. Then if everything is ok there's a meeting of net friends in a real life and then a possible date. There are two H-events for each character. The most fascinating route is of protagonist's ex-girlfriend as the story unfolds her dark net past.
22. Viper-M1 [980627] Sogna 1 2 3 4 5
Sogna combined the best of both worlds in VIPER-M1: a modern, Windows-based interface and a set of three smaller games, reminiscent of the earlier V series titles. Super-heroine story My Mothers features cover girl Mika in her attempt to rescue a prospective boyfriend. Coming of age tale Green Boy follows Natane and her two older sisters as they welcome a strange young man into their home. The May Works focuses on a schoolgirl, Maki, as she flees from an alien invasion of her hometown.
There are English reviews.
23. My Dear Arenaga Oji-san My Dear アレながおじさん [980628] Blue Gale
Five girls have been receiving allowance by a mysterious uncle. Now as they have grown up they are summoned to the mysterious uncle's mansion to help him recover from an old snake bite.
I adore the game's opening. The contents is surprisingly light. There are dozens of endings and in most of them the uncle gets killed. Can't say there's much humor in here, but what happens on the screen is usually very funny. The number of H events is moderate - four for each of five girls. And HCG are too crude as if it's a doujin game.
24. Lady Lady God-damn Night [980630] Hyperspace
Amami Hitoyo is a daughter of huge corporation chief, but she mostly does private detective investigations as a hobby. Akashi Michi is a high school cheerful and attentive student girl who joins Amami as assistant detective. Together they investigate a kidnapping case with clues hidden all over Europe and Africa.
Game is special for being a serious involving experience with number of H events not that big. The difficulty is very high and unforgiving - one mistake or failure investigate all the spots at certain location leads to a bad end. Even though the graphic quality is lacking the charm of the heroines and the curious cases in different cities make up for it.
Kuon no Kizuna is the only masterpiece of December 1998
1. Kuon no Kizuna 久遠の絆 [981203] FOG 1 2 3 4 5 6
This story starts out from the perspective of a high school student. One day a transfer student comes to his school, and tells him she’ll kill him. At the same time, he starts seeing weird dreams and people mysteriously gets killed in his city.
Soon he realizes that them two are incarnated personalities of a man and a goddess that fell in love 1000 years ago. Since then, they have been trapped in a cycle of reincarnation and a battle against an evil god.
Game has English reviews.
2. Boku no Tame ni Kane wa Naru 僕の為に鐘は鳴る [981204] Image Craft
Main hero is a salary-man who is tired of work. He feels depressed and even his lover can't make him relax. As a coincidence, he witnesses a love scene of his boss and office lady which invigorates him with excitement. He starts to push his acquaintance girls to hook with other men.
NTR peeping fetish related work, but there are also ways to advance the story without other men participating. There is even a happy ending.
3. Dragon no Tiara ドラゴンの姫冠 [981204] Pinky Soft
The world where the civilized society collapsed with the appearance of the phantom beasts. You go on a journey on king's request to discover "Dragon's Tiara" item.
An RPG game with map movement, battles, level rising etc. Hero mostly fights lizards and dragons who are actually beautiful girls with different kind of horns. HCG are of specific drawing and with abuse of breast expansion.
4. Injuu no Ikenie 淫獣のいけにえ [981204] Motion
3D dungeon exploration in search for monsters' king while rescuing girls from monsters and tentacles on the way.
Battles are done with cards mechanic. Movement is exhausting since can't control with keyboard. Game's about HCG and animated H scenes, ofc.
5. Kanpai 乾杯 [981204] h.m.p 1
As the title of the game tells it all, it is a game mainly about drinking beer..Typically, you just hang around with a couple of friends either in a bar, karaoke, or a club. During the time you also got introduced to some girls that either was your friends' friend or her friend that was dragged along for having fun.
There is an English review.
6. Kokoro... コ・コ・ロ… [981204] Aaru 1 2
Kuonji Souji seems to have it all going for him. He is handsome, popular and excels at his club activities. His past is another thing altogether -- as a boy, he was raped repeatedly by his foster parents. The years have passed, and he has tried to forget by repressing those memories. They are still there, though, and come to him as hallucinations. Who is the raven-haired beauty he keeps seeing in those visions? Does she hold the key to unlock his past?
There is an English review.
7. Love Seed [981204] Voice
Distant future, another galaxy. There are five star systems each forming a nation. You are a freelance captain of a spaceship and can take missions varying from good transportation to pirates elimination and sometimes even revealing nation scale conspiracies. The whole universe is before you!
This work is very special, because it was the first work to try and imitate the unique Kichikuou Rance system. In Love Seed there are dozens of characters to capture and simultaneous capture is also allowed. There are at least 40 heroines present. There has not been another such global game till Daiakuji in 2001. This game is not as polished as above mentioned Alice Soft games, but it's a huge enterprise.
8. 5th Luna フィフスルナ [981205] Platinum Soft
Hero finally graduated from the university, but his girlfriend decided not to wait for him and was dating another man already.
While walking the streets in frustration he was dragged into a suspicious shop and appeared in another solar system. He was recruited as a pilot to save that Arlheim planet.
"Fifth Luna" consists of movement, adventure part, selection phase and the actual shooting action part. So it's an action game where you move alongside an ally - one from air, another from the earth. There are 5 stages and different difficulty levels so that even newbies could reach the end.
9. Gin'iro no Ki ~Konayuki no Photograph~ 銀色の樹 ～粉雪のフォトグラフ～ [981210] Blue Bell
Hero is afraid of women after drinking party where he was assaulted by one of them. Now he's set to overcome his phobia and get a girlfriend by the Christmas.
Why must hero be raped by women even before game starts... The game has four heroines filled into two scenarios with one being main one and another side one demanding certain conditions. It has SIM elements since there are parameters to reach.
10. Hotaru ほたる [981210] Bell-Da
It's bad luck that our guy got hit by his student's car. This put him in her father's hospital, without memory of his past. Will she or her two sisters be able to help him regain his memory? Or will he regain some memory that has been long buried?
Bell-da works are mostly ero-oriented, so I tend to block most of them. At least this time scenario is ok. Hero thinks of himself as a hero of justice and the hospital as a secret organization hideout.
11. Maid Ikuseikan メイド育成館 [981210] Melty Lip
Hero is invited to educate maids of the house.
Training SIM about nurturing skills like cleaning, laundry, manners etc, but also about giving private lessons at night. System-wise looks very similar to Maid Monogatari by C's Ware.
12. Desert Time Mugen no Meikyuu デザートタイム 夢幻の迷宮 [981211] Software House Parsley 1
One day a huge mystery dungeon appeared in the middle of the desert. A number of hidden treasures were discovered there and the rumor spread all over the world.
As you step inside, you are challenged by girl wizard. A huge explosion occurs and everyone got sucked under the sand. Now you need to get back to ground floor and maybe even further.
Balance is bad. Message speed is too slow and non-adjustable. Story does not develop far beyond synopsis. Girls lack unique approach, capturing is totally the same. So systems are lacking and there's pretty much nothing but gameplay.
13. Flowers ~Kokoro no Hana~ Flowers ～ココロノハナ～ [981211] Craftwork
Ryusei Ryousen is a 2nd year high school student. His school has just recently been co-educated from all girls school. There are only three boys in school and a lot of wonderful girls around the hero. Which one will be chosen by the April?
We attend school and make decisions where to go during lunch break and after school. There's hardly any story besides that, but a great emphasis is put to getting to know characters during conversations. They look like real persons, not just moe abbreviations. Game was advertised with a lengthy description of flowers and that they need the proper soil to grow. Game text is full of comical references. So gameplay is not good, but it's easy to get interested in these nice girls.
14. Lost Memories ロストメモリーズ [981211] Nouvelle
One evening on a rainy day in April Naoto meets a girl who is shivering and looks like a thrown cat. He takes her home. She lost her memory but reacts to the name Alice. As she starts to gradually recover the memory she is confused by memory contents and conflicts. What's the truth behind her past?
It's an multi-end adventure so capturing of side-characters is also possible. There is time urgency and it's game over if you don't click in time. It's actually easy to get stuck and get to a state when there are no more encounters possible due to missed encounters. It's a rare example of the game that's very torturing to move on even with a walkthrough.
15. Medical Fellows めでぃかるFellows [981211] Kingdom
Shimamura Kazito just got a doctor's license. He has never had any interest in girls and his monther and aunt conspired that his medical team would include only beautiful women. Can hero become a fin doctor? Which way will love fly?
There are four heroines and after first few days story falls in the route of the girl with the most favorability. Girls routes follow the same pattern and feel cheap. Heroes try to be funny and fail at it hugely.
16. Nyuuin 入院 [981211] 13cm
A day before entrance to the university hero is hit by a car and hospitalized.
But these three weeks of his life will be an unforgettable experience. Maybe he can even find love there?
There are more than 10 girls to chase. It's possible to focus on pure love story with comedy touch as well as only on different fetish H events. Heroines have lots of emotions that are fun to watch.
17. Omatase! Pai Pai Pie! Christmas Special おまたせっ! パイ牌PIE! クリスマススペシャル [981211] Bags
Mahjong undressing game with three beautiful sisters.
Game's normal mahjong, but without save/load feature, so it's really difficult to clear. It's also buggy.
18. Shamanic Idol Milky Humming シャーマニック・アイドル みるきぃ・はみんぐ [981211] Medusa
It is the story of an idol who fights monsters with the power of singing.
An ero-centered bakage. Game's very short and ends in 30 minutes. It's full of animation, but poor quality one. It resembles old Sogna titles the most.
19. Sonnet ~Kokoro Kasanete~ sonnet～心かさねて～ [981211] Blue Gale
Winder vacations approach and hero gets uneasy. He looks around and finds several girls that he previously considered unfriendly. Will he be able to find a familiar soul from 1st to 24th December or shall he spend Christmas alone?
Looks like Christmas is locomotive of Japanese demography. There are a lot of heroines to choose from. And inside each heroine route there is an angel and a devil path resulting in good end and bad end. Since there is such a big number of routes/paths each story lacks uniqueness. Still, a good quality general product.
20. Tenshi Ningyou 天使人形 [981211] JAST Co., Ltd.
Edepus is a high school student. One day he gets to know that his lord father died and thus he needs to take care of the mansion and the servants himself.
Taking care of servants (who are called "slaves" for some reason) inevitably leads to a spree of H events and I did not care to investigate any further.
21. Tonari no Onee-san となりのお姉さん [981211] Nikukyuu
Haunted by the memory of his ideal woman, Masahiko is determined not to lose his virginity until he finds her again. Too bad his memory sucks and he can`t remember who she is. While Masahiko is dreaming of his mystery woman, he may not have a choice in waiting for her much longer! It seems that everyone wants a piece of him lately. At work, his sex-starved boss is looking for a little action while her husband is out of town. At home, a very buxom childhood friend moves in and leaves him drooling. At college, he`s become the target of both his professor and a sly sexy student stalker who manages to pop up in the most unusual places! To top it off, Asuka, one of his neighbors, is secretly harboring her own fantasies about him! With this amount of sexual frustration swirling around him, can he possibly manage to hold out for the girl of his dreams.
Game proceeds as a strong bakage. There are five heroines as candidates, but oneesan is only one of them. Game has SIM elements as you move around different spots trying to remember facts about oneesan. If a different subheroine is found at the spot, your energy depletes. If subheroine is met when energy is at 0, that heroine attacks and the game enters into femdom H event. So success is only possible by visiting the right places and escaping all the subheroines.
22. Vampire Tokyo e Iku ヴァンパイア東京へ行く [981211] Sweet Basil
Hero is half vampire half human who goes all the way from Transylvania to Japan in order to take revenge on the girls that bullied him when he was young.
Introduction is nice, but upon arriving to Japan it's the case of bullying and reverse bullying. Some women are so fierce that vampire can only obey. Girls backgrounds are weird like exorcist, a nympho, a warwolf etc. There just aren't proper girls to take revenge on. There are a lot of endings prepared, but those mostly have to do with some H fetish.
23. Young Shakti ヤングシャクティ [981211] Shakti
A collection of six short stories.
1.「Sweet Love」 2.「Bunny's Love」 3.「SF･饅頭こわい」 4.「夏日和」 5.「くそゲーのすすめ」 6.「あゆみガッツ！」
Stories are done as manga strips and are inevitably ero-focused.
24. Magical Kanan まじかるカナン [981217] Terios 1 2 3
A magical creature went to the normal world to retrive some seeds. He lost his power and fainted. A girl found him and took him home. Well, this creature became a man after gaining back his power, which surprised the girl some. An incident happened and she became a magical fighter with his kiss. Things start to get complicated as they try to get the seeds and with most people not being what they seem.
Light comic work with great CG. It starts with few choices but as routes are cleared new choices become available. There's no parody in game text and watching Magical Canon animation would probably bring a comparable experience as playing the game, save for HCG. It hugely lacks in the story department though.
25. P.S. [981217] Uran 1
You play as a college student named Hiroyuki, and the story centers around an internet site called "P.S.". The site consists of five different women who live dual lives, as they each have a darker side to them that reveals their true sexual identities. There is Akane, an elevator girl who is into exhibitionism; there is Aoi, a secretary who likes to be raped; there is Haruka, a sports instructor and Kaoru, a flight attendant, who are both into heavy and public masturbation; and finally there is Sakura, a TV newscaster, who is into something called "scat"(you may find that very disturbing and offensive). There is also Jun, who is Hiroyuki's tomboyish girlfriend. Hiroyuki plays as "master" of the P.S. site and to the five women.
There is an English review.
26. Bibou Vintage Kaikan 2 美貌ヴィンテージ 壊館2 [981218] Hyperspace
Hero is approached by a beautiful woman dressed in leather. She offers one million yen for training some pets. Hero agrees since in worst case the pet would be a lion and he has enough courage to do such job for a million yen. But it turns out that the pets are women...
Miltiple ending insult SIM. There are four women to train. There are parameters to raise on talking and on actions.
27. Bus Girl ~Geki - Dai Enkai Ryojou Hen~ バスガール～激・大宴会旅情編～ [981218] Interheart
One year ago main character abandoned his hometown and his lover to chase his dream in a Tokyo company. As the season of travel comes the company employees go on a bus trip.
Game lasts for 4 days and 3 nights with the flow of banquet - after banquet - sightseeing spot. H event takes place after banquet. Happy ending is only possible if the same woman is chosen for all three nights. Hero hardly talks at all and scenario is non-existent. It's just a H-focused game, after all.
28. Corsage コサージュ [981218] Studio Folio
Main heroine Yumiko has heart wounds due to tragic past love experiences and is afraid to open her heart. She holds a photo studio where she organizes nude shooting sessions for girls in need of money. Will Yumiko ever be able to get close to someone again?
It's basically a whirlpool of H events. There are four endings prepared depending on the choices taken. Quite an ordinary ero-focused game with the only distinguishing feature being woman viewpoint.
29. Hanketsu 判決 [981218] Speed
Hero is a prosecutor in a trial held for a consecutive rape case. To prove the case women testimonies are needed. You need to delicately take them out of their state of shock, heal their heart wounds when possible and reveal the truth, of course.
SIM mainstream gradually changes for ADV mainstream and this studio works are a good example of it. It's very different from normal court games in that main events happen out of the court and many H-events are shows as flashbacks. Drugs are also involved. Volume is quite small and girls stories get crumpled by that. It's a rough work, but with a fresh look.
30. Haru Aki Fuyu ni nai Jikan はるあきふゆにないじかん [981218] Trabulance
The long title means time that is not in Spring, Autum and Winter, which is Summer. Anyway, it's another year of no girlfriend for our guy. While thinking about why, which is that his first love met badly with a car when he was 8 years old, he got hit by a car and woke up near a weird mansion. Girls and people that he can't remember know him. It turns out that he is 10 years back in the past. Since this game messes with time, things are a bit confusing. He can chase after 4 girls(or so), some in the past and some in the present. If he can save his first love, things are even more confusing.
The synopsis is intriguing, but in practice the stage of the game is not described properly, situations change frequently and information is clustered to tiny bits everywhere. Text is not good and that all makes things very confusing. That resulted in poor reception by the gamers followed by oblivion.
31. Kekkou Suki Kamo けっこうスキかも [981218] Lip
Harassment of girls by invisible hero in interactive manner. Not hookable and the title and CG row don't leave any doubts that it's an ero-focused title.
32. Maid in Heaven MAID iN HEAVEN [981218] PIL
The protagonist has a dream to have a maid someday. One day, his childhood friend, Nagisa, visits him. When they were children, he told Nagisa that he liked maids. Nagisa remembered his words and came to him as a maid. Finally his dream came true and he begins to enjoy his night life with her...
PIL ero-focused maid SIM with some comedy. It seems to be really popular, but I could not care less.
33. Satsuki no Kimochi さつきのキモチ [981218] Optimist
Satsuki who is one year younger than the hero starts taking moves towards him. Hero is busy with approaching exams and has a hard time noticing that increased attention.
There's hardly a synopsis to the game. The first play-through takes... just 18 minutes. But with each playthrough new branches appear adding development to the story. The time for total capture hardly surpasses an hour, so it feels more like a CG collection loosely connected by sentences. Satsuki is totally missing attraction points and developers never bothered about her character.
34. Shoujo 少女 [981218] Curott
Hero becomes a tutor for three sibling girls.
Game deliberately puts up a simplest ever title and synopsis. But it has its charm. Initially you're given a set of questions and those determine the number of CG. Characters managed to feel unique.
35. Triangle Heart とらいあんぐるハート [981218] Janis 1
Triangle Heart's story is basically a normal school life. You have time from December to your graduation to find a girl you can love. There are six girls, two of them are your childhood friends, but there isn't any "love triangle" between them. There is also a secret special character.
Game has an English review.
36. Wish Well ウィッシュウェル [981218] Agumix
Distant future. Interstellar navigation is common and humankind together with alien races populated most of the known galaxies. Galactic Integrated Space Army was created to protect confederation. A young man transferred to its academy in order to join this elite military unit.
Raising SIM + tactical SIM. We raise stats during the classes and have lunch and date after school. On holidays there are various events. There are five girls to date. Once per month there is a mech tactical combat with its own rules.
37. 6 Inch My Darling 6インチまいだーりん [981223] KID 1 2
The story follows a high-school student, named by the player, who lives with his parents and a younger sister. During his time off of school he is helping his mom by part-time working at the liquor store. One day, upon returning from school, he stumbled on a buried box while taking a path through the woods. Inside was a strangely shaped figuring with a message on the inside of the box lid. Not sure what it all was about, he left it on the desk and went to sleep. The next day, he heard a voice in his room, and while trying to determine the source of the voice he stumbled upon a small girl by the name of Etosera. And by small, it means 6 inches in size. But she wasn't the only one that appeared due to the mysterious box, two more girls, Minty and Pim, just as well, also became his secret roommates. Thus his next couple of weeks filled with surprises and getting to know each other commence, all the way while they are trying to build trust and assess the relationship with humans, namely, the player.
There is an English review.
38. Lord Monarch -Shin Gaia Oukokuki- ロードモナーク -新・ガイア王国記- [981223] Nihon Falcom 1 2 3 4
You are prince Alfred, the son of the great king of Monarch. Since you have been a rather fresh and lazy boy, the king decides to strengthen you by sending you to battle. You are now sixteen, and you must prove you are worthy of being the prince of Monarch!
This is a strategy war game. You command an army and can perform various actions, such as sending troops, fortifying your position, allying with another ruler, etc. There are time limits to your strategic operations during which you'll have to defeat the enemy.
I'm not really sure why it's here (since strategic part is much bigger than dialogue scenes), but there are some reviews.
39. Precious Love プレシャスLOVE [981224] Black Package
End of November. Ogata Kosuke is a third year high school student who has been studying hard to get employment. From a trivial quarrel with his sister he makes a bet that he finds a girlfriend before the holy Christmas night.
Raising favorability through repeated contacts, inviting on a date, through skillful conversation enter exchange diary stage or H-event. Exchange diary is not as cool as it sound since it's done via selection of choices. The good part of it is that it contains some H text. Conversation simulation part is the hardest one since there are lots of random subjects and it's difficult to keep guessing good answers. But overall quite good atmosphere is created and impression is good as well, but nothing special.
40. Hana no Kioku Dai 4 Shou 花の記憶 第4章 [981225] Foster
Collection of five short erotic stories. 1. Boss leaves office lady for overwork 2. Model girl gets seduced right during the promo gig 3. Quiet girl either goes home for some lesbian action or gets stopped by some guys 4. Girl either gets stalked in the toilet or gets into SM or lesbian activity 5. Policewoman day ends as erotic adventure
No scenario, just H scenes with a short prelude.
41. Oisha-san to Issho お医者さんといっしょ [981225] Guts!
A fake doctor is playing with mischievous loli girls.
Ugh, I'll skip for comments here.
42. Sanatorium サナトリウム [981225] ZyX 1
The main character of this game is a detective named Ryouichi. He and his assistant, Mizuki, were on a way to a sanatorium, a place of remedy for mental illness patients, for investigation as he received a mystery slip asking to save her before next full moon. Upon the arrival of this sanatorium, he realized something strange about this place: everything is too calm. As he begins to investigate, a horrible scheme will survive little by little until the next full moon.
There is an English review.
43. Ruriruri るりるり [981229] Lime Green
A parody on Sega Saturn hit Kidou Senkan Nadesico: The Blank of 3 Years. Its heroine Hoshino Ruri will know lots of love and insult over these blank three years. The secret of energy transfer between main characters is given original explanation.
Doujin crap parasiting on a great story.
44. Eien eien(永遠) [981230] Stage-nana
A doujin game based on Tactics' "One ~Kagayaku Kisetsu e~", with Kawana Misaki as main character.
No info
45. Tenshi no Sumu Yakata 天使の住む館 [981230] Nirvana Soft
Main characters loses parents and in order to calm down goes to a trip abroad alongside two maids. The rest of the staff resign, but why do these two girls stay loyal until the end?
Surprisingly decent quality level for a doujin game made by three people.
46. Pureprime -pianissimo- [9812] Usagi Club
One day main character suddenly has to live with his three sisters. Every day is full of laughter now. And every night sisters visit his room and talk about lots of different things...
Ancient forgotten doujin
47. Densetsu no Ato de LoveLove no Shou 伝説の後で・ラブラブの章 [9812] G-Work@mi
This is a story about how Ryosuke and Makoto became lovers. They meet during spring, play at the sea during summer, participate in the sports festival during autumn and warm up at boy's room during winter. In the last chapter it's possible to request the girl to fulfill sex fetishes.
Another ancient H-tilt doujin.
48. Kaijin 怪人 [98] Guilty
Player can choose to become either a monster or Akechi. As a monster, humiliate Rina as much as possible. As Akechi, help Rina and enjoy your reward.
Doujin crap released in 1997-01-09, actually, but it's discontinued from dlsite RJ007426 for quite some time, so why should we care.
49. Mako-chan to Asobo マコちゃんと遊ぼっ [98] Nyannyan Club
Feel free to come in and play with Mako all you want. Of course, H things are allowed. H-tilt doujin that's surprisingly still available ad dlsite
50. Black Album [98] Yoshy Teikoku
One year after the music festival, Yuki Morikawa is nominated for the music festival again. Main character is in good standing with her, so one week before the festival he starts to help preparing. How will festival fare and who will be alongside the protagonist by the end of it?
Never like parasitism on others stories
51. Via Bianco -Yumi no Baai- ビアビアンカ ～ゆみの場合～ [98] Angler Soft
Please play through all kinds of likely and unlikely laughable situations and reach one of the endings with Yumi.
Dojin
52. Roots [98] OKOJARA-C
Sion is a swordsman of the rank Blood Knight. He does not want to scare people with that title, so she hunts monsters rampaging near towns. Inside the down there are all kinds of facilities for adventurers. But there are also nine different cute girls, including lively girl Dahlia who has a habit of chasing Sion. Why does he stay alone then? Furthermore, he starts to suffer from terrible nightmares as of late...
Finally a doujin game that aims for smth bigger that just H events.
53. Slaughter Gate スローターゲート [98] Studio K2
Berserker stalks humans who slaughtered Berserker's home galaxy and escaped to the Magellan Nebula ... New battle is destined to take place at the Slaughter Gate. The whole fleet depends on your actions. What will be your command, captain?
Berserver is a series of space strategy games, but this side-game is pure ADV mostly for those who appreciate the series.
There should be no two opinions about this, Comic party rocked May 1999. It's very difficult for a SIM to gain my approval, but all the elements fit here perfectly. So far there have not been more than a couple of doujin games released, but this game has woken the devil of 2000s.
1. Girl Doll Toy Gaiden Azami Girl Doll Toy 外伝 AZAMI [990514] Uran
Protagonist is a Treasure Hunter who comes to a foreign land to get Miron 's treasure, but is reported and arrested by archaeologist Yuki. Hero agrees to cooperate and gets released - together with Yuki they get on an adventure.
Story is good, but system is troublesome so it can't be really recommended. You need to move around the map yourself with a keyboard and check every square. Uran got turned on Doll Toy and he's getting the third game in this franchise just in July 1999. That's all that's known about this game and it's a pain to get, actually. In order to run it needs both data cd and the diskette with execuatable file - the latter one especially rare.
2. Gogatsu no Koro 5月の頃 [990514] Hyperspace
One hot May afternoon hero has some free time after school to flirt with girls inside school or outside of it.
Game's on a really horrible engine akin to macromedia flash. I did not find a way to adjust speed or skip, so it's been very painful for me. The first BGM contains a song which was very nice. Game tries to create animation effect by changing perspective a bit. But after all it's just a nukige.
3. Otona no Omochaya-san 大人のおもちゃ屋さん [990514] Desire
Hero's uncle got hospitalized uncle asking his nephew to change him at the adult store. Hero got unemployed and kicked out of the apartment recently and thus needs money, so can not turn such offer down. Various types of women visit the shop and ask consultation regarding their sexual problems. Now what's hero going to do?
There are three heroines each with own ending. Just talking is not enough, it's most important to choose the right instrument for the woman in need. Anyway, it's a HCG game through and through.
4. Venus Revolution ヴィーナスレヴォリューション [990514] Art-Club
Once per several hundred years the Gods summon a human to their domain for eight days to study human nature. Main character is such a summoned man. Different Gods represent different elements and main character is given cards representing different elements to use wisely in conversations.
It's plain horrible. It's just a hundred megabytes in size, ugly, with only mouse control, no skipping or even instant text drawing and with zero options at all... After small introduction you're thrown on a map where you can visit different Gods and use conversation cards... That's basically it, with clever use of cards and diligence you should gain any God's trust.
5. Marionette Company マリオネットカンパニー [990520] Micro Cabin 1
In Marionette Company your character happens to come across a broken android girl (called "marionettes" in the game) weakly crying for your help inside a cardboard box abandoned in dark alleyway. You of course decide to pick the poor thing up and repair her to the best of your ability. However there's still much work to be done on her to make her as "human" as possible.
There's an English review of this game.
6. Nureginu ぬれぎぬ [990520] Take
Two years ago there was a series of killings with rape going on for two months, but police never found the culprit. Main character witnessed at that time how a middle-aged man was violating his acquaintance, but was paralyzed with fear and could not do anything and that woman was found dead.
Nowadays the killings have started again. Hero wants to protect everyone he knows, but will he be able to do that?
Game does not have reviews, just one impression that it's an ordinary suspense game with bad save system and BGM disappearing at random. Indeed, you choose the save slot only once when you start and there's not menu to call during the game, so I guess it's just one save which really harms the replayability. There are about 10 choices to make and I only played it to the end once and in the end just died from... something since did not do the right things to prevent future crimes, I guess. Game system is really not nice. Only operation with mouse possible and if you press skip - it goes all the way to the next choice selection without the ability to manually stop where you want. It takes some time for the line to draw and I could not find speed adjustment. So it's a really nice game, but game mechanics killed any motivation to explore in anyone, I guess.
7. Collector コレクター [990521] Noise
A few years after the big breakthrough in space navigation a gorgeous space cruise ship was hit by space pirate ship "Ganymede". Their purpose was to insult the beautiful women until they got bored and to store girls in frozen capsules. It seemed like collecting beautiful butterflies. Among the frozen hostages was Queen Julia... Main character special agent Kazu infiltrates the pirate ship to put an end to pirates dealings.
Game's a mix of everything so that it looked like a movie - opening, fighting scenes, shooting minigame, maze of the ship, four girls to rescue sequentially and of course lots of H events scattered everywhere.
8. Cowboy Baby カウボーイベイベー [990521] Triangle
US wild west. Billy Hickok got into debts and is offered to work as a bouncer at the bar till he repays his debt.
Game's a bakage, but a really funny one and with a good tempo. Difficulty is low and even if you happen to trigger a game over, there's an option to replay just from the last choice or battle. There are also blackjack and poker mini-games, but those are mostly useful after initial game clearance, since after that bonus undressing card game appears. Only main heroine Etta gets an ending, but it slightly changes depending on how relations with her advanced so far. All girls are voiced. First playthrough takes 5-6 hours, but in order to see all the CGs multiple playthroughs are needed.
9. Hikari no Naka de Dakishimete ひかりの中で抱きしめて [990521] Sepia
Hero happens to be in a bullet train that's just been hijacked. He manages to disarm one of hijackers in the toilet takes his mask and weapon. But he's tempted by the situation as he can freely harass any passengers now...
Insult SIM... which is especially funny since the title and the cover are absolutely fitting for a pure love game. There are about 10 characters for capture.
10. Me for You [990521] Aquarium
Software development studio. Main character Hayama Seiichi was appointed to control the department where all the losers are sent and no results are expected at all. Now that there is a person with actual experience in software development things have got lively, but most of personnel lack the skills for serious work. Are hero's efforts wasted in the end? Basically it's a SIM and it's needed both to build relations with each team member and work towards the end goal - game release. Palette of the game is quite dim and character designs are not pretty, just as in previous Aquarium games. Not my type of a game and no reviews to check the ending content.
11. Sakura Biyori さくら日和 [990521] May-Be Soft
Ronji Mizushima failed to pass entrance exams and moved to Sakura Heights boarding house to study as ronin. He chose this place because the rent was cheap and landlord was a beautiful woman. It turned out that it was inhabited only by women and thus his life in an apartment full of women begins.
It's mostly remembered by the description on the box "How much ecchi can SLG contain"? And the answer is a LOT. Even though it's a raising SIM, all the girls are nymphomaniacs. Still it's most unusual for such boring genre as a raising SIM to be H-oriented, so I'll let it slip for now. There are some 8 heroines and also guests who make only occasional appearance. We take care of hero's weekly schedule for 11 months. There are four parameters to worry about.
12. Seikon ~Inbou Uzumaku Byoutou de Tadareta Soukanzu~ 性痕 ～淫謀うずまく病棟で爛れた相関図～ [990521] T・STAFF Software
Hospital is engulfed in conspiracy. Chairman and director parties oppose each other. Main character is a new doctor, so he soon becomes an object of fierce confrontation with the use of even prohibited means of competition.
Pretty bad quality and inevitably H tilt.
13. Corridor ~Meikairou~ Corridor ～迷回廊～ [990527] Picori
Main character lived with his mother till she died. Having no place to, he came to his mysterious father in search of shelter. He was allowed to get inside. But this family has a lot of dark secrets that he will have to face now.
Basically it's a nukige. There are at least several endings, but endings mostly mean a different H event path. No voicing. Dim palette.
14. Onegai! Maid☆Roid おねがい! メイド☆ロイド [990527] Neon
In the future mankind succeeded to develop independent type androids, Maid☆Roid as new workers in place of human servants. The family of main character bought one such android as a maid. Actually I failed to launch the game on any system till read in the only review that game does not launch without official patch. Hero gradually gets in love with android maid in the first half of the game and goes all out in the second one. But there are also lots of other maid girls with full voiced H scenes. Hero's a rich spoiled brat and he can afford going every day to a strip club for some special service. Anyway, game's just for H and maid fetish.
15. Akatsuki no Ganshou 暁の岩礁 [990528] Ume Soft
Main character is a teacher at a private girls' school. One day he and his students set off on excursion to Yokohama port and then by luxurious liner "Ingleb" to Hong Kong. However, they fall into a trap set by someone just before departure. Can they safely survive?
There are nine girls and each has her own unique survival route to follow even though they all start off the same prologue. One route takes roughly one hour. There are a lot of time limit events with bad end prepared. Some routes involve mini-games. The gags are surprisingly mature and best fit for the age of 30s. So it's very difficult to stuff something more than a suspense action scenario and a hasty H-event in one-hour route and that's exactly what this game is.
16. Comic Party こみっくパーティー [990528] Leaf 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Early April, Kazuki Sendō is invited by his friend, Taishi Kuhonbutsu, to come with him to Tokyo Big Sight. He is surprised to see thousands of people waiting in line to get in. Apparently they're at Comic Party, a giant dōjinshi convention. Once inside, Kazuki meets some of the dōjinshi artists and is surprised to find himself enjoying their work. Taishi convinces Kazuki to draw dōjinshi after their visit because he recognizes Kazuki's skill as an artist, but Kazuki's childhood friend Mizuki tries to talk him out of it because she believes otakus are smelly, dirty, and disgusting. Her reasoning doesn't help because Kazuki already made up his mind and begins to draw his first dōjinshi.
Game has lots of English reviews.
17. Flora Festa FLORA Festa [990528] Outou Shobou In Side
A collection of thee erotic manga strips and three mazes corresponding different girls. Every corner in the maze triggers an erotic scene.
This can barely be called a visual novel, only technically. No story, nothing. Each event is either HCG or H event with text only describing H event. It's more like art gallery, but that unlocks only gradually, not all at once. Engine is horrible macromedia flash, operation mouse only.
18. Galfro ~Gal's Frontier~ ぎゃるふろ ～Gal's Frontier～ [990528] Pias
Protagonist is a magazine photographer tasked with taking erotic photos of girls.
Yet another nukige. Choose location, choose one of the directions for search - find girl - ask three questions - BAM - H event - repeat. No story whatsoever, but 39 heroines to see HCG.
19. Hana no Shizuku 華の滴 [990528] MBS Truth
Main character lost parents early, but recently his brother died as well leaving him pension house to manage. Hero has always been in love with his sister-in-law who later became his brother's wife.
A famous novelist was staying at the pension house and he asked main character for inspiration for his new lustful story. Main character persuades his sister-in-law to comply, and the pension house turns into lust feast. I did not expect anything good out of MBS Truth from the start, but that kind of synopsis does not even try to look like a decent game anymore. Full-scale nukige.
20. Ichibatsu Hyakkai ~Onimaru Mahjong Hyakki Yakou~ 一罰百快 ～鬼丸麻雀百鬼夜行～ [990528] Otemoto
Youkai attack girls at school, but in order to draw the beast from a possessed body it's required to defeat the spirit in a mahjong game.
A month is not complete without another strip mahjong game. The quota is filled, moving on.
21. Innai Kansen 2 淫内感染2 [990528] ZyX
From #1, our doctor has collected a bunch of pets, including the hospital manager's daughter. To gain control of the hospital, he still has to deal with the assistant manager and a rival doctor. To do that, he needs to collect more pets. Strange that some of the girls actually love him.
This is a better known nukige, but nukige nevertheless. And this time it's getting even creepier.
22. Jigsaw no Machi ジグソーの街 [990528] Sakura Soft
Hero works as a private detective. One night while investigating a yakuza case he notices a girl he knows from somewhere. He saw her in a mysterious dream. He feels like his past also changed after the meeting. The Jigsaw puzzle started to collect together. To unveil the secret he needs a month. Hero and that girl shared a dream six years ago. Now hero chooses to live a new life in a dream. And with the last piece of Jigsaw puzzle set in place, a new town appears in front of him.
Don't ask. Someone smoked the wrong weed. No new town appears, at least it's indiscernible from the old one. But detective gets to meet more and more girls followed by H events. There are no reviews or even impressions, but the only walkthrough around says there are two routes. The one I got ended with some Yakuza armed conflict and happy end with main heroine. Game's not voiced. Character design is rough. Almost every girl wears glasses - there are two true meganekko and others wear glasses only occasionally. So there just aren't enough appeal points to even try to get to know what's happening with the poor detective.
23. Mujintou Monogatari RR 無人島物語RR [990528] KSS Inc.
Events take place on an uninhabited island around Hawaii. There is electricity and basic facilities ready. Resort love story begins now!
Game's gone pretty far from its origins. There is no superficial element of prequels and there is basically everything ready and it's even a resort... really... it's survival game series, not a vacation rabu-rabu, for god's sake! Battle gets really like jrpg. This is one of the last games in the series and I think everyone got tired reinventing the same setting for the 10th time.
24. Pile Driver PILE・DRIVER [990528] Blue Gale 1
Walking to school in the morning with his childhood girl, our guy isn't feeling too great because lack of sleep. Fainting at the morning meeting and falling into the hands of the school nurse cheered him up some. He now has courage and experience to go after 9 girls. This is mostly a story game, with few choices but will get you to some pretty nice endings.
There is an English review.
25. Pythian ピュティア [990528] Studio e.go!
The world collapsed, before that, people would actively researching Psionics. In the new era, people who with psionics power became decadent aristocracy and dominate the continent for years. Rebellion broken out and took over, soon neighbouring country took the chance to invade.
Protagonist suffered amnesia, believing that artefacts have a link to his memory recovery, come to the capital to investigate surrounding ruins amid the chaos.
SRPG. There are 15 chapters, each with 0 to 3 battles. Game balance is not the best. Story is very difficult to grasp - it's not integral enough and some plot twists look really random. Game features special undressing system.
26. Seisen Ren'ai Yuugi 聖戦 恋愛遊戯 [990528] Rare
Frontier planet "XIAN" far from the Earth. There are no planetary governments and the two major conglomerates of Ron and Zoroa dominate and prosper by free trade. Ryuta graduated from the military academy and came to Shan, the land of memories of his deceased father. He was welcomed by Ron Ron, the general commander of the army, and was invited to the Mayfa Corps Base, which is the headquarters. In the meantime president Ray Long suddenly dies. At the same time unknown identity enemies attack the base. Ryuta picks up three young ace pilot girls and tries to organize defense. From now on they are being swallowed by the war...
Tactic strategy mix. Only one girl pilots the mecha and it depends on favorability. In battle there are three types of robots: proximity type, middle range type, and long range type. Enemy turns take quite a long time. When girl attacks, you gain favorability, when she suffers damage or you're far from her, you lose favorability. One playthrough is about 8 hours.
27. Suzu ga Utau Hi 鈴がうたう日 [990528] Tactics
A small town along the sea. A slight tide smell in the air ... in such a town I met a girl. Girl's name is Suzu. That small incident changed the boring summer and turned it into an irreplaceable season that I won't be able to forget till the rest of my life...
Split with Key was devastating for Tactics. Their new game has the same systems as "One". The text is quite bad, but some gags are ok. You need to choose places on a the map and check if it triggers some event, so it's not really fun. Game period is 20 days. One playthrough is just 3 hours. There's no voicing. Characters are... I don't know, but anything but cute. Only Suzu route has some meaning in it, but it's not good either. A very plain and much more inferior game than "One".
28. Yashoku 夜食 [990528] Telluru
Hiroyuki is the second year ronin now. He starts to lose faith in himself and gets drunk with drink regularly. One such night he descends from the last train at an unknown station and meets a mysterious woman next to a cafe. She invited him to work here as a part-time-job, and hero could not say no to working with lots of pretty girls. Now which one of the will warm his heart?
Game's bright, funny at places and has very cool voicing. But in the end it's just chasing girls H oriented game. At least some girls are interesting enough to actually get to an end.
29. Zoku Gekka Bijin ~Ouka no Koro~ 続月花美人 ～桜花の頃～ [990528] 1
Town in the mountains Totamachi. There is a mountain named Sakura that holds a shrine with the same name. One day wife of shrine caretaker found a child crying at the shrine. She issued a report about the lost child to the police, but child's parents were not found. That child was called "Akito" and later adopted. But after three years caretaker's wife gave birth to a child herself. From that day Akito became a threat for the shrine owner who wanted his own child to inherit from him. And animosity between two men grew fiercer with each passing day...
There is one short review, but it tackles all the main points all right. There is daytime AVG part and night time training SIM part, but the latter one is not really necessary.
The VN of June 1999 is Kanon. Not because it's well known - that's irrelevant. But because I've found a route in it that I totally liked. I'm talking about Mai route, the demon hunter. The main funny part coupled with night school hunt were a cool mix. The three-sided friendship of Mai-Sayuri-Yuuichi was just perfect, because the bonds between the girls were so firm and that they understood each other completely compared to Yuuichi who doubted them often. There are night evil spirits fights, lots of swordplay, cool and always right Mai - what's not to like here? I did not notice forced drama or sleazy relations there. Well, the last hour of Mai route was horrible, because nothing happens apart of childhood memories and desperate attempts to squeeze a tear by endless repeats of the same things. I safely ignored the last hour and thus saved only good memories about Mai route. I'm not going to explore other heroines routes since I'm not ok with their personalities and/or mental health. So hip hip hooray to Kanon, the great devil hunter story or at least so I remember it for. I'm absolutely assured that the main power of Key is in creating very enjoyable drama-free general routes and heroines routes and especially endings fall into being forced nakige.
1. Akogare 憧れ [990604] Foster
The last summer of school life approaches. The building gets empty. Oyukawa Shuichi never took studies seriously, but yesterday he went to an almost empty school with a serious intention. That's because he can finally convey his feelings to the teacher.
All the five heroines are teachers. And since it's Foster, there's not much of a story, just H.
2. Chuu Shite... チューして… [990604] Kur-Mar-Ter
Kiss?
Yup. It means draw one month close to another month.
Why people kiss?
I do not know, but ... I tried it yesterday
Does it tickle?
Yup. My mouth was licked as if it was going to be eaten
Fuwa ...
So, let's try it.
Yup…
- And that girl pulled her lips towards me and closed her eyes.
ADV with map choice. There are five heroines. It's quite ero tilt. Routes scenarios are bad as if they come from a bad Hollywood movie. It's light themed but leaves an irritated feel.
3. Ikinari Mujintou!? いきなり無人島!? [990604] iMAGE CLUB
Uninhabited island. Blue sky, coral sea and white sand beach. Our ship sunk and we were drifted to it. All we can do is wait for help.
But just waiting is boring. There is even a girl who always wanted to live like this once. Anyway, our uninhabited island life begins.
Mujintou Monogatari fame does not let competitors sleep soundly. Here's another work with survival element reduced to minimum and love element increased shamelessly. The routine is done by command selection and there's a lot of routine early on. The number of game events is small. As for H-events, there's only one per heroine who are five overall. Length is small and the aim "to wait" is not the best motivation. Very ordinary game, though a lively one.
4. Kanon [990604] Key 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Yuuichi Aizawa, a high school student, returns to a town that he last visited 7 years previously to live with his aunt and cousin. For a reason he’s not quite sure of, he can hardly remember anything about his last visit, but initially this doesn’t seem to worry him too much.
The day after he arrives he goes into town where he (literally) bumps into a girl named Ayu Tsukimiya, and Yuuichi’s memories slowly begin to return.
Game is localized and has many reviews.
5. Success 性癖 ～サクセス～ [990604] Hyperspace
Main character is a girls' school dorm administrator. It might be that his wishes and wishes of those five girls come together.
Another Hyperspace nukige. Same bad system, rough graphics and uneven character designs. The fetish this time is different unusual objects for self-satisfaction.
6. Taisen Mahjong Yarujan 対戦麻雀 やる雀 [990604] Waffle
A strip mahjong against a single opponent (chosen out of many girls) with only handful of dialogue lines between the matches.
This is not really a visual novel. There is no story mode. But girls say just couple lines between the matches - should that really be enough to qualify? Noone cares about mahjong anyway.
7. Yuuhi no Naka de Kimi wa 夕陽の中で君は [990604] Saba 1
The games story starts when YOU the main character, Male, goes into a town for a vacation. During the Vacation wild things started to happen and from it you find the person that you loved for soo long.
There is an English review.
8. Ganrou ~Omoi no Mama ni~ 玩弄 ～思いのままに～ [990611] Optim
Hero wakes up in a hospital after he is hit by a truck on a road. He feels well now and is very interested in nurses garments. Surprisingly, he can now emit sound waves that makes nurses itch with lust.
Nukige. Not sure I can add anything constructive here.
9. Mighty [990611] Hyperspace
Main character arrives to a huge space station on his small space ship and is warmly greeted by five female member crew. But the peace of the station gets disturbed by a tentacle monster attack.
So now Hyperspace is going to defile even SF theme. Game's on same shitty hyperspace engine and is not hookable. I played it once to an end, and it actually seems like it's main character who grows tentacles and attacks girls, or it's just a huge coincidence that after a normal H event there's tentacle entrance on the stage. Game's not voiced, poorly done and really short to care.
10. Shanghai Maid Monogatari 上海侍女物語 [990611] Light Plan
Our guy's father's Will order him to train 5 maids under his secretary's supervision. He has to work them day and night. All 5 maids love him, but will he be able to forget his lost lover (maid shot in street riot) and love them back?
Typical training SIM. It's possible to get to any girl's ending after getting confidence with her over 80 points and watching all her events.
11. Stay With... ~Karen ga Kureta Kisetsu~ Stay With… ～カレンがくれた季節～ [990611] Tenshindou
Kazuya steals an android girl that was going to be disposed of. In couple days android suddenly starts to move and talk - so they start living together. However, android Karen 's secret is is concealed in the depths of a mysterious organization.
Jeez, synopsis copied entirely from Girl Doll Toy ~Tamashii o Kudasai~ from 1997. Music and drawing are beautiful and full voicing is luxurious. But voice sound level is unstable and story is too short and weak. This work is of very low price segment. 3D backgrounds are used.
12. Lost Mind ~Yuganda Sekai~ LOST MIND ～歪んだ世界～ [990617] Active
You're Mina, a housemaid. You've lost your memory and serve at a household together with other maids. Which is SLG part, as you need to clean up the house, wash etc. trying to keep everything below a certain dirtyness level (100) without exhausting yourself. The other maids aren't necessarily your friends and with lots of woman around there are plenty of chances for yuri action (but it's not limited to that). Needless to say there is also a secret to uncover...
Events vary according to parameters. Player sees the story from the viewpoint of main heroine. Only the ending is going to explain the meaning behind "irregular world" in the title. Game is divided by chapter and chapters names vary by the decisions made, so there is some replay value. So there is some intrigue in the story, but high difficulty level and monotonous gameplay stand in the way.
13. Adam: The Double Factor [990618] C's Ware 1 2 3
Marina and Kojiroh have returned!
Kojiroh's Scenario- A woman, who introduces herself as the President's Secretary, appeared in Kojiroh's office as a client. The woman's request was to have Kojiroh as her boss's bodyguard, whose life is in danger. Kojiroh took the case and went to meet President Ando... And the daughters Mika and Miki. Kojiroh asks Ando why his life is in danger, but Ando refuses to answer... Kojiroh has been dragged into the problem without knowing the reason.
Marina's Scenario- Marina, who has been reinstated with the Cabinet of Investigation, took the case of investigating the successive murders in Japan by Chief Kono's request. As the investigation goes along, Marina finds a sole survivor, who is the daughter of one of the victims, and went to see her. Her name is Yuka. Throughout Marina's investigations, the time to decide to help Yuka or not to will come... All the while serving to protect Yuka...
Game is localized and has English reviews. If everything goes ok, I'll prepare reviews for the full series of Eve games except for the original well known Burst error.
14. Eclipse -Shingetsukan no Musume- エクリプス -新月館の娘- [990618] Front Hook
Main character just graduated from the university and went to work to a flower shop. While delivering a flower bouquet to one very rich household he's requested by the owner to teach his daughter Yuka sex in order for her to become a skillful spy.
Nukige. Of course it does not end with Yuka repeated sessions and grows into intersection with all the women of the house.
15. Fresh! ~Teens Memory~ [990618] Bell-Da 1
You play the role of Narusawa Daisuke who is now living with your grandfather and just got transferred to a new high school and meets new people. From time to time you will switch perspectives from Daisuke to the girls so you can understand what they are thinking and more importantly how they are feeling deep inside their hearts. This means that not only will you make decisions for Daisuke but occasionally for the girls also.
There is an English review of the game.
16. Maid Hakusho メイド白書 [990618] Sweet
All Japan Maid Championship will be held in 3 months and you need to choose your champion out of four candidates and train her into the best maid Japan ever seen.
Aww, another maid SIM. You set maid's schedule and train them in various maid specialties like cleaning and cooking or more exotic ones like dancing and English conversation. But other three rivals are strong and in the nighttime you also need to obstruct other three maids using variety of attacks killing their motivation to compete. This maid obsession is getting kind of nuts.
17. Toriko Jisshaban 虜 実写版 [990618] Toriko
Alternative version of Toriko with real life photos.
Not cool. Nukige. System is the same as in Toriko.
18. White Pants ホワイトパンツ [990618] Segue Laboratory
Futaba has just moved to a new place with her brother. Her kitten ran away and Futuaba got lost. She was found out by seller of pants Rika and delivered to the brother. Choices determine in which direction the story goes from there on. Daaamn, seller of pants Rika again? Well, Rika has grown up quite a lot since last time. The structure basically stays the same - every choice is branching to see different development and ending. Very short stories.
19. You & I [990618] JAST
Hero was absent at school due to traffic incident. Now with a new semester he finally comes to school and starts to feel interest from girls in his class. A new feeling is being born.
There are six girls. All of them are school students, so it is normal school love story. Last galge of JAST.
20. Present Play プレゼントプレイ [990624] Digi Anime
In this game, you pick a costume and an actress, then a story starts. In the beginning, there is only one girl and few costumes. In stories, you can fine two other girls and more costumes. If you make it far enough in a story, you will see an animation of the girl getting rid of her costume.
Kanno Hiroyuki is at the lead, so it's fairly entertaining to try and get girls far in the story, but in the end it's not an integrative work.
21. Room with Lina ルームウィズリナ [990624] Episode
Lina Kanzaki helped main hero when he was got drunk under the rain. She continues to live in his house with some purpose. By becoming friends he will know the secret of Lina.
Some innovative SIM that introduces lots of excessive instruments like all kinds of schedulers, address books, notepads etc.
22. Twins Story: Kimi ni Tsutaetakute... ツインズストーリー きみにつたえたくて・・・ [990624] Fujitsu
Sixteen years age is an unforgettable time of school life full of chatting with friends and searching for love. At such time hero has to start living with his annoying twin sister while parents stay abroad. The best year of life begins now!
System-wise quite a typical D-SIM, but with PS1 title animation charm. There are 12 heroines to capture which is a LOT. In addition to usual parameters there are internal parameters that change according to conversations. So clearing is very difficult. At least there is not BAD END and even if you fail miserably you're forced into ending with Nami girl. One playthrough is slightly over 10 hours. Twin sister is the main attraction of the game but her story is not really special.
23. Ren'ai Kouza Real Age 恋愛講座 Real Age [990624] Imagineer Co., Ltd. 1
Game is about going around the town to meet different girls and after that use the phone to date them. Reaction to each player choice is shown with a different sound - a small sound for the right choice, a stronger one for a so-so one, and loud sound for bad choice...
Nanpa SIM
24. Amai Kankei 甘い奸計 [990625] Logg
Hero is given an envelope by a mysterious woman in front of school. Inside is a handgun ... He is surprised and hides the gun for the time being. If there is a gun involved, it's destined to shoot sometime...
Basically this is further degraded variation of Heart Work Symphony of Destruction. Same gun involvement, same short scenarios with same multiple ends. The major difference is that Logg work is weaker in H department.
25. Chikan Kenkyuushitsu 痴漢研究室 [990625] Pinpai
4th year university student Takashi Okita is given a special task by professor to do at vacations. The task is to research the psychology of pervert and the method must be field work based on actual experience. Being a diligent student, with the help of internet main character narrowed down his targets to six virgins suffering from some sexual trauma. He steps into the labyrinth of distorted desire and can no longer turn back.
Finally a science project in visual novels... but a really bad topic is picked up.
26. Escalation ~Aoi Houyou~ ESCALATION ～蒼い抱擁～ [990625] Melody
Our girl is a student at a private girls school. Day dreaming about the girl she loves during class isn't too wise. During a special lesson, she found out that there are pets in this school and she is invited to be one. Well, if she gets friendly with the girl she loves and her room mate, she will be fine, maybe even be happy.
Ok... pass...
27. Genjuuya 幻獣屋 [990625] Pinky Soft
One year after events of Dragon no Tiara. The Highlandy Republic is a democratic country blessed with mountains and forests and as such desired by its neighbors. It managed to retain its form, but the chaos of phantom beasts outburts around its borders influenced it a lot. "Fighters" guilds spread to undertake various works for states and individuals. "Hunters" guilds specialize in hunting phantom beasts for bounties. And "Gentelmen's shop" trains phantom beasts to satisfy sexual needs of population. Main character becomes administrator of one of such shops.
Why do this training SIMs need so elaborate synopsis? Anyway, there are 70 days to establish a prosperous enterprise. The feature of the work is that phantom beasts morph and evolve.
28. Hyakka Ryouran 百花繚乱 [990625] Nihon Plantech
Hero was about to live the last months before graduation peacefully when he was forced to transfer to all-girls school where his father was a chairman. What will happen to the only male student in all-girl school?
A hundred flowers... quite a shouting title. There are only four heroines though, each with 2-3 endings. This is a comedy with strange not really funny jokes. The characters are very eccentric. Hero is an imbecile whose hobby is to sleep and whose super ability is to sleep anywhere with any circumstances. Oh, and he's mega rich. Game's short - 2 hours for first playthrough.
29. Jii ~Nozoki no Houshuu~ 自慰 ～覗きの報酬～ [990625] Candy Soft
Junya Akechi is a student who tutors girls preparing for entrance exams. He invites five such girls to study at his uncle's cottage for a week.
There are 28 rooms in the building. The gameplay is looking for girls, picking up items and triggering events.
30. Kana ~Imouto~ 加奈～いもうと～ [990625] D.O. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
You have a sister by the name of Kana, who is 2 years younger than you are. You are an important figure to her; you have always watched over her. You have always taken care of her and loved her.
Kana is also an important figure to you.
It's not love or like, but it's something special.
You care about her a lot and you feel that you have to protect her.
You wish for her eternal happiness, but you just don't know how you feel about Kana.
Yet. . .
Game is localized and it got a large number of reviews.
31. Love Works らぶ★わ～くす [990625] Sizz
Main character is in intimate relations with five girls at once. He needs a month to figure out which one satisfies him the most.
I know, it does not look like a nukige, but it its one. Prologue briefly introduces each girl and how she got acquainted to main character. Then it's just a straight month of choosing which girl to comfort each particular day. Some new modes open up occasionally. So it's game just for H, nothing else.
32. Maid Gari メイド狩り [990625] Evolution
Main character wins the main prize of "Maid mania" challenge and gets 100 hours together with cute maids in a mansion. is living in a mansion with four maids. But his attitude was so cruel that maids tried to escape the mansion. He caught them, locked in a room and continued his play.
The game is about insulting, beating and torturing maids. The main parameter to maintain is physical strength since if it expires there's game over. So frequent rests in his room are must have.
33. Seek 2 -Sadistic Babylon- SEEK2-SADISTIC BABYLON- [990625] PIL
Kitahara Masayuki is a photographer of a third-rate SM magazine. One day he got contacted by his sister-in-law Marion saying that his mother died. While attending the funeeral, Marion was kidnapped. Kidnappers demand either the masterpiece painting of his mother's deceased husband or 100 million yen. A woman calling herself Li Lang appears in front of him and promises to fund him 100 million yen if he agrees to train some women... Is it the last SEEK game already? Finally. There are five girls ... and lots of traditional perverted stuff.
34. Shanghai Gensoutan ~Teito Kitan Gaiden~ 上海幻想譚 ～帝都奇譚外伝～ [990625] Janis
Several months after events of Teito Kitan ~Doushi Tantei no Jiken Memo~. Kudo was staying at Iwasaki residence in Shanghai with Aya when they were assaulted and Aya kidnapped. Iwasaki tells Kudo that the attack was done by members of "The Legion Party", a secret society that appeared in Shanghai lately. Kudo takes maid Masha as assistant and starts investigation.
This work is same obscure as its prequel. There are three scenarios plus a bonus one after all cleared. Game system is same bad as of the prequel. Memory leak noticed. Game was made as a result of the call to create more beautiful works with beautiful music about Taisho era - aesthetic side dominates here. Story lacks excitement, but atmosphere of Shanghai before the Second World War is quite lovely depicted.
35. Shimai Ijiri ~Chiru Hana, Nirin~ 姉妹いじり ～散ル花、二輪～ [990625] Nikukyuu
Our guy is ordered to train two sisters for high price sale. Training them is easy as giving them experience, but will he fall in love with one or both while doing it?
Can't wait till the training SIM games period is over. Yes, another weird nukige SIM.
36. Teasobi 手戯 ～てあそび～ [990625] Mink
A collection of screensavers, CG, sound files, BGM and a mahjong game.
Mahjong game only technically can be considered a visual novel due to just several lines of dialogue between the matches. But for me it's absolutely not enough to be called a visual novel. Boo.
37. Warning! [990625] Telluru
Turning on pc as usual. Some strange man appears on the scree. "My name is Desktop Master. Please accept the challenge". The next thing I notice is that I'm at school at night and need to find the password parts to return to original world as soon as possible. Only three hours are given.
Seven girls run around the school and hero needs to catch and insult them so that they give away the parts of a password.
38. Soreike Majokko Serika それいけまじょっこセリカ [990627] Multies
ToHeart doujin game focusing on one of its heroines Serika as if she were a full-scale witch.
Doujin
Foreword: Game's totally obscure and there just one quite shallow Japanese review exists, so I'd probably miss this wonderful game unless saw Four-Nine as developer. And I'm really happy I did!
Title: Lilith
Developer: Four-Nine
Date: 1995-12-16
VNDB link:https://vndb.org/v8949
Youtube walkthrough:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_1nGf0P0-M&list=PLENAECnNmAq8obEJUzYJkNq8XOxyNZ-0s
Synopsis: An intense night battle between kunoichi clan leader and evil biblical spirit Lilith ends with kunoichi falling into coma state.
A cat gets into an ordinary student Koketsu room, transforms into a girl and claims that Koketsu got her master kunoichi spirit and must help her master and defeat Lilith. The problem is that nothing is known about Lilith but the name and together they set to uncover its secrets.
Structure: One route
Length: 11 hours
Game type: Command selection adventure
Difficulty: Challenging since there are gameplay elements introduced with walking on schematic map and triggering events including traps, some of which result in game over. Once I even managed to trigger game over during a H event! And there is no scene replay - you'll have to replay from the last save game.
Character Design rating: 7/10
Protagonist rating: 8/10
Story rating: 9/10
Game quality: 8/10
Overall rating: 8/10
Rating comments: I can't praise this game enough. Lilith came a year after Gao Gao 3rd and it fully inherits the spirit of Gao Gao series, just with a slightly different setting. The story is surprisingly solid and long. Protagonist is the strongest compared to all the Gao Gao series games. Characters serve the story purpose mostly, but they spend so much time with Koketsu that we get to know everyone very well. The gameplay elements are really annoying when encountered, but those get easier and easier as story goes on, so the impression gets balanced. Being PC-98 exclusive, game is not voiced and can feel monotonous at times and only for that it's not a perfect score.
Protagonist: Koketsu is a normal student proficient in Kendo. And I can only admire how he manages to beat all kinds of beasts, demons and undead all by himself with his wooden sword! That kitten girl is absolutely useless in battle and strong allies join up quite late in the game. There are strategic retreats at times, but mostly he just beats crap out of anything! It's been a while since I encountered protagonist that strong. He's funny, cool and takes decisions himself. He reminds Wolfy from Gao Gao 3rd-4th a lot.
Characters: I'm not really sure for transcription, but cat-girl is Miya. There is also childhood friend Minoru. Eventually a fox girl comes into stage and kunoichi Sasame comes out of coma, so we get quite a harem here! And most of enemies are girls, of course. What actually delighted me is that not every female enemy gets a H event unlike Gao Gao series. There are also numerous neutral/episodic female characters in the game, so there's not enough time to devote to separate heroines.
Story: I absolutely liked the story since it was absolutely unpredictable and full of great enemies, battles and blood. There are so many civilians and enemies killed violently that Gao Gao does not come into comparison even remotely on the matter. I also liked that at some point story got some structure as heroes needed to get all three spiritual stones. So each of these spirit stones parts and next fighting parts have each a beautiful legend in the core. Some of those stories are even about our enemies which totally blasts. Since I divided the videos by structural parts, it's well worth to mention those when talking about the story, but without too many spoilers, of course. So Koketsu with Miya just gather information about Lilith from various sources and work out a course of actions in introduction. Then gathering of three spirit stones follows. And second half of the game is devoted to numerous encounters with old and new enemies. That's the gist of it, but there there is a lot of content for 11 hour story.
CG: Relatively big number of CG, but as usual for Four-Nine, only HCG are full screen size. What I especially liked is that there aren't many H events in the game. And H content is filled by inserting many random H events that are peeped while investigating some locations. Quite a lot of H events with Koketsu are packed by the end of the game since he needed to restore a lot of energy and we know an absolutely best way to give an injured bleeding hero energy!
Sound: About 10 tracks, but those are totally different and very nice non-mechanic. BGM really adds to the charm of the game.
Themes:
1) Lilith is the supposed first wife of biblical Adam, so religion has an important role in the game.
Humor: I was surprised to see so much mild humor in the game. It's totally the Gao Gao type. Some cases that come to mind to get a taste of it:
1) Christian priest says he studies Japanese culture and he already knows of ninja, geisha and hara-kiri!
2) One heroine was found in the bushes and she just can't excuse Koketsu for stealing her first breast! As it turns out it's the the same thing as the first kiss, but about touching a breast.
3) An exchange student is asked if she knows something about Lilith. It's a girl who went through a mirror to the wonderland (No, it's "Alice")! It's a game where you turn blocks and stick them together (No, it's "Tetris")! It's a fighting game between monsters where king is the mummy (No, it's "Anakaris")! It's shameful to say it as a girl, but it's what men have between the... (PLEASE STOP RIGHT THERE!)
Overall comments: This is a masterpiece and the exact kind of hidden gem that I would like to find in visual novels. A rich event-driven story with very unusual, but appealing characters (most of characters are half-bests as in all the Four-Nine games). So why is it so obscure then? There are many versions: command selection gameplay, trap/puzzle sections, bad endings, slow start of the game. But I also blame December - there are so many visual novels issued each December that it's sometimes difficult to find the place in the top 10 and the rest are deprived of attention.
Foreword: It took me a while to get interested in this grandfather of all modern charage and moege. It took even longer to finish all the routes. I doubt I will ever pick a moege for review, but I need to see fundamentals with my own eyes. There are quite many reviews found, but only one of them (7nightstranslations) actually was reviewing a finished game, but still it was too short and only touched a few heroines. I'll have a word about each heroine at least.
Title: To Heart
Developer: Leaf /Aquaplus
Date: 1997-05-23
VNDB link:https://vndb.org/v18
Youtube walkthrough:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLENAECnNmAq8UD0quvrBnBr1LySRroX7Z
Synopsis: In this game, you play as Fujita Hiroyuki, a high-school student who seems to have more interest in romance than in his studies. In his school there are several pretty girls, and his goal is to be nice to one of them, to make the right decisions when talking to her, and ultimately to win her heart.
Structure: Game lasts roughly two months from beginning of March to beginning of May with events happening almost daily.
Length: Took me 34 hours for all routes.
Game type: Map selection ADV.
Difficulty: Only the two main heroines routes are tricky, the others are easy.
Character Design rating: 8/10
Protagonist rating: 5/10
Story rating: 5/10
Game quality: 8/10
Overall rating: 7/10
Rating comments: Let's say honestly - from modern point of view game is trash. It's a very generic school moege without plot or any interesting character development. It's a torture to go through and there's little satisfaction in beating the game. So why did I rate it as masterpiece? The whole point of charage and moege is in characters and this game indeed has two very nice character stories. About that in proper section.
Protagonist: Fujita Hiroyuki is a very generic high school protagonist who can't sneeze without our command.
Characters: There are 10 characters for capture. I rate the routes from best to worst in the following sequence: Multi > Shiho > Ayaka > Aoi > Tomoko > Lemmy > Akari > Kotone > Rio > Serika.
Serika is our ojousama with interest in magic. Her route is one of the most boring ones, but what actually makes it unbearable is that she does not talk. Well, as I counted, she said 8 phrases overall with most of them being one word phrases. Her final like included as much as three words! "Fujita-san, suki...". It's surprising how she even continued to stand up after such long phrase. Really, her seiyu should be omitted from credits. The whole route I was feeling that I read 1997 year original work without voicing.
Rio is a poor girl who has to earn money for mother's operation and to take care of her younger brother at the same time. It's the weakest story plot-wise since Fujita did not actually move a finger to help her, only encouraged her to work harder at all her jobs. What a bastard!
Kotone is our esper. Fujita first tries to persuade her that she's a normal girl without powers and when fails at that wants her to teach him to gain same powers. He fails at that either the very minuscule drama resolution of the route really leaves unsatisfactory feeling.
Akari is the main heroine, but she's too much of a failure. First of all, her sprites aren't all beautiful. Secondly, it's kind of a rule that childhood friend should be of genki type, but Akari just nags and cries. The main feature of her route - drums, drums, drums - is changing hairstyle! What kind of drama move is that? Akari does not have her own will and that leads to pretty ugly resolution.
Lemmy is totally cool half-american heroine, but her route is one of the weakest, it's basically not about Lemmy, but about her big crazy family.
Tomoko is our diligent class representative megane type. It's pretty cool how her snobbish attitude averts class members from her. Even Fujita only gains bad gazes in return at every move. But as her circumstances become evident there's quite a lot of sympathy towards her in the end.
Aoi is our cute martial artist. There's nothing even to add here. Route is full of cuteness and trainings resulting in impressive match.
Ayaka is our cool martial artist, sister of Serika. Ayaka is the mature version of Aoi and is the only character not available from the start - first Aoi and Serika routes need to be beaten. Ayaka route is pretty cool is there's a change of pace from the school grounds - heroes spar daily at the riverbank. Ayaka is both genki and free spirit. Her sprites are often weird, but voicing is perfect. So Ayaka takes the third prize.
Shiho is our second main heroine as her presence pierces all the other routes and because she's main friend of Akari. Shiho route is also very tricky to trigger since it's the route that has little to do with love and is entered upon meeting seemingly illogical prerequisites. Shiho is of genki type. She also is a rumor house and the queen of karaoke. The three songs she sings during her route are very impressive - those are old opening theme, new opening theme and totally new song. The main feature of Shiho route is love triangle and she's the total opposite of Ogiso Setsuna from White Album 2 if you know what I mean. But what delivers the most is the ending - absolutely cool and mature one.
Multi is the true queen of the game. Her route is compressed to just 8 days and thus feels the most integral. She's an android of new type. Almost every scene with her has some cute element or situation, so it's the only route that I could read without distractions. It's the only must have route to play, so would not want to spoiler here.
Story: None. Choose the portraits of the target heroine and give good answers when needed. The rest depends on the route.
CG: Each heroine has about 10 CG in PSE version which is quite enough.
Sound: BGM is fine and praised a lot, but after so many routes it really started to irritate. Voicing is mostly great.
Overall comments: Now that was a short review. Can't say I enjoyed the game, but I definitely feel like I understand eroge history better now. Could not get it before why Comic party anime had so many references to Multi doujins. It's the first fundamental charage and there are some inevitable mistakes made, but at least two routes are worth reading to get to understand the media better.
Finished updating old posts. Nothing really interesting is added, so added games comments are very scarce. Main changes are mostly about descriptions for games that did not have one, over 500 new descriptions. Some review/opening/image links changed. Finally, I can move on now. This is the early draft of changes, stopped updating it midway.
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https://vndb.org/v26068 - Eberouge 2
VN of the Month February 1998 - Doukoku Soshite...
https://vndb.org/v25110 - Tour Party: Sotsugyou Ryokou ni Ikou
https://vndb.org/v26605 - Yuukyuu Gensoukyouku 2nd Album
VN of the Month January 1998 - Machi
https://vndb.org/v26103 - Datenshi no Sumika
https://vndb.org/v24635 - Mix Candy 3
https://vndb.org/v26102 - Amandine
VN of the Month December 1997 - Universal Nuts
https://vndb.org/v26326 - Maria: Kimitachi ga Umareta Wake
https://vndb.org/v27083 - Gensuishou
VN of the Month November 1997 - Moon.
https://vndb.org/v10382 - Toriko 2
VN of the Month October 1997 - Sweepers!
https://vndb.org/v22868 - Dear Princess
VN of the Month September 1997 - Comic Road
https://vndb.org/v23479 - Eberouge Special ~Koi to Mahou no Gakuen Seikatsu~
VN of the Month August 1997 - Kaeru nyo Panyon
https://vndb.org/v26576 - Koi no Summer Fantasy in Miyazaki Seagaia
VN of the Month July 1997 - Tokimeki Memorial Drama Series Vol. 1: Nijiiro no Seishun
https://vndb.org/v23769 - My Dream ~On Air ga Matenakute~
VN of the Month June 1997 - Zoku Hatsukoi Monogatari ~Shuugaku Ryokou~
https://vndb.org/v26130 - Kakutou Cosplay Ojanko
https://vndb.org/v26511 - Ami ~Shoushin no Tenshi~
https://vndb.org/v26929 - Digital Ange ~Dennou Tenshi SS~
VN of the Month May 1997 - To Heart
https://vndb.org/v27573 - Kojiin ~Kyouki no Ketsuzoku~
VN of the Month April 1997 - Canaan ~Yakusoku no Chi~
https://vndb.org/v26711 - Critical Blow
VN of the Month March 1997 - Ruriiro no Yuki
https://vndb.org/v26565 - Ayakashi Ninden Kunoichiban
https://vndb.org/v24298 - Stand by Say you!
https://vndb.org/v24007 - BOYS BE...
VN of the Month February 1997 - Yatsu no Na wa Diamond
VN of the Month January 1997 - Rookies
VN of the Month December 1996 - Kono Yo no Hate de Koi o Utau Shoujo YU-NO
https://vndb.org/v24366 - Alice In Cyberland Yamiyo No Madoushi
https://vndb.org/v23457 - M ~Kimi o Tsutaete~
https://vndb.org/v26381 - Ars Amatoria
https://vndb.org/v27402 - Instant Clarity
https://vndb.org/v27570 - Minako no Suiyoubi
VN of the Month Noveber 1996 - Mashou no Kao
https://vndb.org/v26522 - Jun'ai Monogatari - Shuugaku Ryokou no Yoru
https://vndb.org/v8979 - Muppet Box
VN of the Month October 1996 - Bounty Hunter Rudy
https://vndb.org/v23481 - Eternal Melody
https://vndb.org/v23324 - Heroine Dream
https://vndb.org/v14583 - Toriko
https://vndb.org/v14512 - Katei Kyoushi
https://vndb.org/v15162 - Ikumoto
https://vndb.org/v21972 - G no Kyokuhoku
https://vndb.org/v27401 - Hokenshitsu no Akuma
VN of the Month September 1996 - Sakura Taisen
VN of the Month August 1996 - Be-Yond ~Kurodaishou ni Mirareteru~
VN of the Month July 1996 - Kizuato
VN of the Month June 1996 - Es no Houteishiki
https://vndb.org/v26521 - Moderate Party
VN of the Month May 1996 - Rouge no Densetsu
https://vndb.org/v26325 - Hanafuda Graffiti Koikoi Monogatari
VN of the Month April 1996 - Harlem Blade ~The Greatest of All Time.~
VN of the Month March 1996 - Mujintou Monogatari 3 - A.D. 1999 Tokyo
VN of the Month February 1996 - DIES IRAE
VN of the Month January 1996 - Ryuuki Denshou Dragoon
VN of the Month December 1995 - Lilith
https://vndb.org/v20887 - Doki Doki Pretty League EX
https://vndb.org/v25169 - Shikimi
https://vndb.org/v25074 - Rinn-chan no Tensei Hakusho ~Meido no Miyagebanashi~
https://vndb.org/v25101 - Momoiro Sankaku ~Riko & Hikaru Hen~
https://vndb.org/v27010 - Hotaru
https://vndb.org/v27022 - Asuka Ayako-chan to Hokenshitsu
https://vndb.org/v27406 - Tantei Imasato Misa Jikenbo Tanpenshuu: Romance wa Shiroku Kiken na Kaori
VN of the Month November 1995 - Eve: Burst Error
VN of the Month October 1995 - Trouble Chaser Dai 4 Wa - Saishuukai
VN of the Month September 1995 - Mime
VN of the Month August 1995 - Isaku
https://vndb.org/v23921 - Shin Youjuu Kyoushitsu Ecstasy Adventure
VN of the Month July 1995 - Kuro no Danshou: The Literary Fragment
https://vndb.org/v9004 - Perfect Blue
VN of the Month June 1995 - True Love ~Jun'ai Monogatari~
https://vndb.org/v9139 - Trouble Chaser Dai 3 Wa - 2 Do Aru Trouble 3 Do Aru
VN of the Month May 1995 - Koihime
https://vndb.org/v27160 - Nana Eiyuu Monogatari
https://vndb.org/v18299 - S.A. 3
VN of the Month April 1995 - Mugen Yasoukyoku
VN of the Month March 1995 - Cybernoid Alpha
VN of the Month February 1995 - Doki Doki Pretty League Dai 3 Wa - Minami no Umi no Kai no Maki
https://vndb.org/v10902 - Poison ~6 Nin no Majo~
VN of the Month January 1995 - Doki Doki Vacation ~Kirameku Kisetsu no Naka de~
VN of the Month December 1994 - Xenon ~Mugen no Shitai~
https://vndb.org/v25076 - Rinshitsu no Chikubi
https://vndb.org/v27158 - Para PARA Paradise
https://vndb.org/v24488 - Bomber Quest
https://vndb.org/v24991 - Dennou Mahjong Tsuushin Tacet
VN of the Month November 1994 - File: Kokubou Soushou Jouhoukyoku Jouhou Rouei Taisakubu Josei Jinmonin
VN of the Month October 1994 - Gao Gao! 3rd ~Wild Force~
https://vndb.org/v24450 - Jikuu Sousakan Pretty Angel Misty Flash
VN of the Month September 1994 - Ai Shimai ~Futari no Kajitsu~
VN of the Month August 1994 - Shinsetsu Ooedo Tantei Kamiya Ukyou
VN of the Month July 1994 - DESIRE - Haitoku no Rasen
VN of the Month June 1994 - Necronomicon
https://vndb.org/v24990 - Adirate
VN of the month May 1994 - Tokimeki Memorial
VN of the Month April 1994 - AmbivalenZ -Niritsu Haihan-
https://vndb.org/v24448 - Cherry Bomb: Chou-ojou-sama Sayaka-chan Nanpa Daisakusen
VN of the Month March 1994 - Mirage 2 - Torry x Neat x Roan no Daibouken
VN of the Month February 1994 - Dragon Knight 4
VN of the Month January 1994 - Fuzoroi no Lemon
https://vndb.org/v8652 - Bell's Avenue 2
VN of the Month December 1993 - Demon City
https://vndb.org/v25109 - LEX Kyonyuu Monogatari
https://vndb.org/v25104 - Gegera no Joshikou Indoka Keikaku! Part 1
https://vndb.org/v25077 - Anna Midaller's
https://vndb.org/v27404 - Tantei Imasato Misa Jikenbo: Itoshiki Onna yo, Satsui no Bishou o
https://vndb.org/v27405 - Tantei Imasato Misa Jikenbo: Sonzai Shinai Futatsume no Shinjitsu
VN of the Month November 1993 - Ooedo Tantei Kamiya Ukyou Vol. 2
VN of the Month October 1993 - Nooch 2 Remy no Gyakushuu
VN of the Month September 1993 - Youjuu Senki -A.D. 2048-
VN of the Month August 1993 - Houma Hunter Lime Dai 03 Wa
VN of the Month July 1993 - Bunretsu Shugoshin Twinkle Star
VN of the Month June 1993 - Can Can Bunny Extra
VN of the Month May 1993 - Nova
https://vndb.org/v18297 - S.A.
VN of the Month April 1993 - Quintia Road 2
https://vndb.org/v25075 - Mahou no Shougakusei Clit-chan
VN of the Month March 1993 - Marine Philt
VN of the Month February 1993 - Cosmology of Kyoto
VN of the Month January 1993 - Mamono Hunter Youko: Tooki Yobigoe
https://vndb.org/v23902 - Fushigi no Umi no Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water
VN of the Month December 1992 - Koroshi no Dress 3
https://vndb.org/v25088 - Beyond the Wall of Stars
VN of the Month November 1992 - Dracula Hakushaku
VN of the Month October 1992 - Ginga Ojou-sama Densetsu Yuna
VN of the Month September 1992 - My Eyes!
VN of the Month August 1992 - Kiss
VN of the Month July 1992 - Phobos
VN of the Month June 1992 - De-Ja 2
VN of the Month May 1992 - Kurutta Kajitsu
VN of the Month April 1992 - The 4th Unit - Wyatt
VN of the Month March 1992 - Sotsugyou Shashin / Miki
VN of the Month February 1992 - Joker II
https://vndb.org/v23259 - Abunai Bunkasai Zen'ya
VN of the Month January 1992 - Himitsu no Hanazono
VN of the Month December 1991 - Gidyy
https://vndb.org/v27021 - Mana
https://vndb.org/v25129 - Momotarou Gaiden Momoko-chan Fight
VN of the Month November 1991 - Psychic Detective Series Vol. 5: Nightmare
VN of the Month October 1991 - Rance III - Leazas Kanraku
VN of the Month September 1991 - Cosmic Psycho
VN of the Month August 1991 - Kimi Dake ni Ai o..
VN of the Month July 1991 - Nike
VN of the Month June 1991 - ELLE
https://vndb.org/v23235 - Crystal Chaser: Tenkuu no Mashoukyuu
VN of the Month May 1991 - Ginsei Senshin Guynarock
VN of the Month April 1991 - Psychic Detective Series Vol. 4: Orgel
https://vndb.org/v26292 - Imadoki Junjou Monogatari
https://vndb.org/v27006 - Sadistic Gamers Part 5 Burusera Play
VN of the Month March 1991 - Jesus II
https://vndb.org/v27000 - Watashi o Golf ni Tsuretette
VN of the Month February 1991 - Akagawa Jirou no Yuurei Ressha
https://vndb.org/v27035 - SAP Tokushu Koudou Keisatsu File:M661-51
VN of the Month January 1991 - Dragon Eyes
VN of the Year 1990 - De-Ja
https://vndb.org/v27004 - Sadistic Gamers Part 2 Otanjoubi Play
https://vndb.org/v27008 - Nenriki Momoiro Yuugi
https://vndb.org/v24736 - Mitsubachi Gakuen
https://vndb.org/v27145 - Yamamura Misa Suspense: Kyoto Zaitech Satsujin Jiken
https://vndb.org/v27002 - Sadistic Gamers Part 4 Rumi no Climb Play
https://vndb.org/v27009 - Angel Commander 2 Gaiden
https://vndb.org/v27007 - Sadistic Gamers Part 1 Shinjinkyouikuteki Play
https://vndb.org/v27003 - Sadistic Gamers Part 3 Telephone Play
https://vndb.org/v27011 - Suijaku Sakusen 2 Moeyo Dragon
VN of the Year 1989 - Imitation wa Aisenai
https://vndb.org/v9383 - Hero Syndrome
https://vndb.org/v22078 - Nishimura Kyoutarou Mystery: Blue Train Satsujin Jiken
https://vndb.org/v27144 - Yamamura Misa Suspense: Kyoto Hana no Misshitsu Satsujin Jiken
https://vndb.org/v26992 - Tenboudai
https://vndb.org/v23495 - TM Network: Live in Power Bowl
https://vndb.org/v27005 - Sadistic Gamers Part 1 Kateikyoushi Play
https://vndb.org/v25543 - SD Toki no Kagi
VN of the Year 1988 - Lipstick. ADV
https://vndb.org/v26991 - Fushigi no Kabe
VN of the Year 1987 - Hiatari Ryoukou!
https://vndb.org/v9450 - Anjela
https://vndb.org/v26978 - Las Vegas
https://vndb.org/v25149 - Yamamura Misa Suspense: Kyouto Ryuu no Tera Satsujin Jiken
VN of the Year 1986 - Gall Force - Eternal Story
https://vndb.org/v26979 - Mahoutsukai no Deshi
https://vndb.org/v27639 - Shoumakyou no Densetsu
VN of the Year 1985 - Shiro to Kuro no Densetsu ~Hyakki Hen~
https://vndb.org/v26956 - Saiyuuki
https://vndb.org/v26954 - Juggler Stone
https://vndb.org/v26959 - Asteka
https://vndb.org/v26957 - Time Zone
https://vndb.org/v26958 - The Count
https://vndb.org/v26997 - Doukeshi Satsujin Jiken
VN of the Year 1984 - Hokkaido Rensa Satsujin: Ohotsk ni Kiyu
https://vndb.org/v26994 - Kuronekosou Souzoku Satsujin Jiken
https://vndb.org/v26983 - Chouhou Buin
https://vndb.org/v26984 - Ginga o Sukue
https://vndb.org/v26985 - Mission Impossible
https://vndb.org/v26982 - Emmy
https://vndb.org/v26980 - Ningyo no Namida
https://vndb.org/v26955 - Southern Cross
VN of the Year 1983 - Portopia Renzoku Satsujin Jiken
https://vndb.org/v26975 - Dasshutsu! Shi no Aokigahara
https://vndb.org/v26965 - Date Adventure
https://vndb.org/v26970 - Mission Asteroid
https://vndb.org/v26967 - Genma Taisen
https://vndb.org/v26968 - Happy Bushman
https://vndb.org/v26974 - Icarus
https://vndb.org/v26996 - Kagiana Satsujin Jiken
https://vndb.org/v26963 - Ninja Adventure
https://vndb.org/v26964 - Puzzle Adventure
https://vndb.org/v26966 - Seiko no Adventure
https://vndb.org/v26969 - Mystery House
https://vndb.org/v26973 - Wizard and the Princess
https://vndb.org/v26975 - Dasshutsu! Shi no Aokigahara
https://vndb.org/v26977 - Nehan no Mori
https://vndb.org/v26971 - Orly Kuukou Satsujin Jiken
https://vndb.org/v26976 - Wonder House
Foreword: I really can't stand multiple stories visual novels. But this is C's ware work and the first story was really sweet, fast (just one hour long) and only included several non-significant choices, so I went for other two stories as well. And I promised myself that I would write a review on any game visual novel that I play to the end and that takes me over three hours to finish. So here it is - my first and hopefully last multiple stories visual novel review.
Title: Ai ga Mie Hajimetara
Developer: C's Ware
Date: 1997-06-27
VNDB link:https://vndb.org/v2014
Youtube walkthrough:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sV_PLFkOIo&list=PLENAECnNmAq91tN-XYUjNz3EOx6KQw6s0
Synopsis:
1. Vice. Katsuyuki is a vampire detective who is a big fan of beautiful women. One day he saves girl Azusa from nanpa guys and she clings to him temporarily as she has nowhere to go. At the same time Katsuyuki is offered a new case by a hot babe. Even thought the case looks like an easy one, there is something fishy about it...
2. B.B. Bridal breaker is the profession of Shin. He specializes in ruining other people weddings for money. There is little demand for his specialization and he accumulated quite a debt. Finally a new job shows up and he dives into a whirlwind of complex human relations during the wedding ceremony.
3. Kyoto love affair. Kyoto, 2052. Kagura is a demon hunter serving in the Department of the Temple government, Demon specialization Section 1. She's in love with a noble Hayato, but his social position is too high for her to have any prospects for him. One day Miyano, one of shrine maidens to goddess Amaterasu, telephones Kagura and offers an opportunity to participate in a divine test with a chance of becoming a goddess as an outcome. Kagura grasps the chance immediately as it's her chance to gain superior social status and confess her feelings to beloved Hayato!
Length: Took me 7 hours
Game type: First story is normal visual novel with fake choices, the other two stories are command selection visual novels.
Difficulty: First story is a breeze. Second story is a horror as there are at least 7 endings and with command selection formula and lots of locations to visit it's very difficult to notice any branches and there is NO walkthrough around... Third story turned out to be one-way road with command selection and fake choices, so easy.
Character Design rating: 7/10
Protagonist rating: 7/10
Story rating: 6/10
Game quality: 6/10
Overall rating: 6/10
Rating comments: Stories aren't really bad, but length is unsatisfying. You just get comfortable with characters when the new story starts. There are three protagonists and while Katsuyuki and Kagura make great protagonists, Shin from the second story is a sore loser and he's plain miserable at times. The same stands for characters - some are superb, some average and some have too little screen time to shine. I rate quality as average for the too loud BGM that has only two states - on and off - as well as for relatively small size of pictures and just for format of multiple stories. Impressions: So here I don't really get how to make a proper formal review for three stories, so I'll just write of my impressions as I moved on.
First story is called Vice and that title does not look appropriate. Well, from the very beginning we see how Katsuyuki pays for women and his inner voice constantly tells him to attack Azusa, but the story is not really about it. The story is about tender relations of a mature detective and a mysterious girl who has nowhere to go. It really looks cute how Katsuyuki constantly tries to send Azusa to her home town and how she finds dozens of reasons to prolong her stay or to return back to his apartment under various pretexts. The whole situation looked VERY much like that of Koriroh and Pudding in the beginning of Eve Burst Error. Also the drawing looked so warm and so familiar as it's something in-between Eve Burst Error sharper style and Eve Lost One smooth animation style. I had to turn off BGM after the first 10 minutes since I wanted to hear Azusa cute voicing properly. But Vice is also a great action story from the second half of it. The whole story only takes one hour, so I see no reason spoiling it. First story really hooked me and I thought that if the other two stories were same fast, bright and easy, then why not seeing it to the end!
Second story started plain horribly. For first 20 minutes the guy just stays at his littered flat, sleeps, dreams and has pretty paranoiac thoughts. Then he finally gets a call and gets to the wedding and here I discover that it's suddenly command selection now and I need to click through all the look, speak, think over and over again as well as to pick the locations that I want to visit manually. I'm no stranger to command selection, so I pressed on. Then after some talk with couple characters I just went back to the dining hall, filled my belly with delicious food and upon returning to the corridor I was told that the time was up and I failed which followed with a bad ending. And that ending was saying ending №7! I was hugely shocked by both the fact that there can be time limit on my actions and by the huge number of endings in just one of the three "short" stories! Tried to find a walkthrough and there was none! And I know how horribly difficult it is to try and find different endings in command selection game. Eve ZERO taught me that all right! So I decided just to do things right and not waste time and get at least one good ending. And that was no easy feat. I stumbled into bad endings couple more times before grasped the happy ending with the bride girl. But there are two more girls who you make H with during the main route and who are destined to have their own endings. I've no idea how to get to their endings though, so it ended for me with the bride ending. This second story also required quite a lot of bruteforcing as only visiting all locations and exhausting all the options allows to move further and that must be repeated multiple times. So even though the girls were much to my liking in the second story, the gameplay and the horrible protagonist definitely weren't.
I was quite sure that the final third story would be just a one hour breeze since the second story was supposed to be the main one. And C's Ware managed to turn everything upside down once again. The third story turned out to be the main one out of the three and it also lasted the record 3.5 hours. C's Ware no baka-a-a! So third story is more like a mix between first and second story. It has few, cut very cute characters and easy to understand plotline just like Vice story, but at the same time it's of command selection type and you need to go through the same five locations over and over exhausting all the options to move forward. Then finally the day finishes and the next day the routine continues. There's no aim in Kagura actions. We just go around outside of the Amaterasu yashiki. And only on the 7th day or so suddenly the trial time arrives followed by game over. But the third story is the main one not just because it's the longest. It has two absolutely fabulous heroines - protagonist Kagura and shrine maiden Miyano. Both are fully voiced with just a gorgeous voicing. They fool around all the time creating a really top notch comedy mood in the air. The talking demon sword and gossiping maidens make up for a huge number of comedy situations and comments. Third story is a great pleasure to read if only not for the constant checking the same areas over and over. The only good japanese review just skips the first two stories entirely and gives a thorough analysis on all the references on other works found in this third story.
Overall comments: So overall I enjoyed the stories united by the love birth theme, but just can't approve the short stories format where many elements have to be sacrificed and H events must be stuffed up tightly. C's Ware again managed to produce a superior game that was too difficult for the general public to like and had faults not in the game elements, but in systems. That BGM that can be either ON or OFF really hurts the game evaluation as you either have to sit in the silence waiting for the characters to speak again or to listen to fantastic BGM that roars and suppresses all the brilliant seiyu work. But it's the C's Ware I love - with bugs, system shortcomings and really challenging gameplay, but nurturing real gems inside that stay hidden from the general public and show up only for you.
Foreword: CGs of this game look perfect, so I decided to check out why evaluations are so different.
Synopsis:
There is a mysterious phenomenon that some people are given a divine power, but cursed instead. Yes, those people are found all around the world.
Yashiro is negative and withdrawn. One day, a girl suddenly appears and gives him a sword called "Laevatein". Like this, he gets involved in a battle. As being in a battle, he gradually gets to know what's going on around the world.
A battle for the mysterious island.... A guerrilla group called "Banner".... A mysterious girl called "Iris".... Yashiro's new life starts when meeting Yuzuka, who is a member of the new Japan army. Mitsuba, a member of the Banner, plants herself in front of Yuzuka... Yuzuka, Mitsuba, and Yashiro. What will happen to them in the end...?
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs4Gp5VU4Fv_MbMHhm_eh5a7TFMvFd2kb
Character Design rating: 8/10
Protagonist rating: 6/10
Story rating: 7/10
Game quality: 7/10
Overall rating: 7/10
There are English reviews (1 2 3), and Micchi review is so detailed in all aspects that's it's seriously difficult to add anything new or say it better. With that in mind it's going to be a very short impression trying to sum things up.
Concept is rather interesting as orphan protagonist goes to school while at same time participating in battles at nights during sleep with the same heroines from his school life. Eventually it's time to decide the side and make the other heroine an enemy - Yuzuka vs Mitsuba. These two routes are basically the same with just the outcome observed from the different point of view. Iris is half-human dweller of the island, but a big chunk of her route is the same repeating parts of previous routes with a new perspective opening up in the second half. Grand route is continuation of Iris route, but with an alternative detail that got changed during Iris route. I actually liked both the story and the concept, that's why I consider Heliotrope a masterpiece. But there are multiple concerns that can easily ruin this experience.
So, the downsides. Orphan hetare protagonist can irritate, but we know already that weak protagonist is often necessary. This time super-protective Mitusba personality would not be able to shine without it. There are huge chunks of repeating scenes in three routes, but - again - this effect can be nullified if you only read common route and Iris route (you have enough of Yuzuka and Mitsuba during long common route, anyway). There are a lot of plot inconsistencies. Starfish character ruins all the atmosphere of seriousness. There are a lot of meaningless battles that end with no result. In battles characters are constantly crying out names of their weapons and strikes which makes it look like a cliche anime. From the middle of the game sub-characters without faces start to show up, and it felt absolutely ugly to me. All the endings are variations of open endings and thus feel unsatisfying.
It's possible to find much more flaws here, and each one of them can ruin personal experience. But I urge to look at it differently. Despite the perfect graphics (except for faceless characters!) Hatena is a new brand, and it is prone to many newbies mistakes. If you come here to find mistakes and get offended - that's one thing. But I come here for the story and characters. And Heliotrope has seriously attractive heroines personalities and nice complex story. A bit of forgiving mood and focus on strong sides can make miracles there. Hatena's greatest fault is it made such cool beautiful heroines, world and story that we inevitably want to compare it with the best chunige done so far, and Heliotrope can't stand the comparison due to quality dent. It was a great experience, and haters gonna hate anyway.
I consider Renaissance , Yougen Tennyo and Vampirdzhija Vjedogonia to be masterpieces of the month, but chuuni always wins.
1. Renaissance [010112] JIN
Koji is a would be artist, living alone under his aunt's, who is a genius in Art, support. He hates his father because he didn't take care of his mother when she was sick. His father tries to repair their relationship and Koji's hate starts to thaw and decides to go back to Tokyo to enter a university. However, it seems that triggered by his decision, mysterious incidents start to happen around Koji....
Watercolor graphics and special language are the features of this work. I don't like the structure here as we need to choose our next day activity each evening, and if school is chosen, there's the need to choose lessons to attend as well - I believe such structure hurts narration. As for language, it's so called intellectual and exquisite. As a result, much is not explained and should be guessed. The great thing about the story is that even though routes are seemingly unrelated, all the stories get together in the end. Game is of masterpiece level, but not for everyone due to specific language.
2. Fuuraiki 風雨来記 [010118] FOG 1 2 3
In Fuuraiki the player controls a photographer that got an assignment to take the ferry to Hokkaido region and there he will start a journey in which he will take photographs of places and will meet different kind of people (most of them girls). The game features a photograph viewer in which the player can view all the photos that he took during the game.
There are lots of different places to visit and different characters to talk to and take photographs. The game takes place in the far northern Hokkaido region. Contributions to a writing assignment await the reporter at the end of each day which requires suitable photos taken during the day and an online bulletin board is available for making contact with the home office.
There are English reviews.
3. Angelic Concert エンジェリック コンサート [010119] Success 1
You're a DJ, if DJ's existed in the medieval magical setting that the story is based on, who happen to be the 'music' behind the voice of the main character. Now, her aim in life is to aim higher in her musical career by entering the Angelic Concert. The winner receives fame, fortune and adventure on the short but well-drawn way to the concert.
The game mixes AVG-style text with musical minigames.
Not even going to look at this child game.
4. Cheerio! ちぇりお! [010119] Tactics 1
Our main character is a senior in high school. He's a student studying his hardest to get into the same big city-high class university as his girlfriend, who is one year ahead of him.
A high school student and a college student. The big city and the country. Because of their different situations and the distances involved, they are slowly drifting apart. Around our main character, we have inseparable relationships with girls, cute cousins, a quiet class mate, and a new clumsy teacher. With these natural relationships with these girls, our hero could not help but feel that the rift between him and his girlfriend is mending.
Story oriented game, but I don't like the format. The period is long (about half a year), there's the need to pass qualification tests each month. Heroines do not have a distinctive individuality. After all, for me it's a game with graphics being the only appeal point.
5. Five Years [010119] Air Plants
Five years after school main character becomes a suspect in a murder case after return from overseas. The group of his school friends offer cooperation in resolving the case to clear his charges. But as investigation approaches the core, it becomes evident that one of the friends is the culprit.
There are almost no choices concerning investigation. The composition of the incident and the suspense are weak. Much more attention is paid to heroines and especially to flashback memories. There is basically just one H event at the end of each heroine route. So not a bad game, just weak in most sections.
6. Kaiun Sentai Miko Sanranger Revenge 開運戦隊 巫女サンレンジャーりべんじ [010119] Aqua House
"Seifuku Master" organization is dismissed, and colonel An-an travels to a foreign country to wrap things up there. At that time one of the Miko-san Rangers attacks the base to avenge her comrades. "Seifuku Master" gets hastily restored, and the new spiral of confrontation begins.
I refuse to look into this bakage all over again.
7. Moonlight Sonata [010119] eclair
A country torn by war. Adventurer Rian walks around it earning his living with swordsmanship skills. He meets a mysterious girl Lilu. What's hidden in her past and what adventures await them?
Oh wow, orthodox fantasy is a rare guest in visual novels. The background of the main character is not explained, so it takes time to get involved in the story. There is not much of the story from the start, basically we just choose icons of new girls on the map and start travel with more and more girls. Individually heroines aren't developed much as characters, but each one has her ending, and that's the gist of the game.
8. Tentama てんたま [010125] KID 1
Tentama tells the story of an angel in training that to become a full angel. He has to visit Hayasegawa Shiina and his schoolmates and helps him to be happy, and to do that he has to find a girlfriend in this adventure dating interactive game.
In this game, Kid introduced a very interesting system, where you can see the Tentama world from different characters' perspective and their thoughts/feelings at the moment. The player will see most of the time the world from Hayasegawa Shiina perspective, and the angels just tell him if the girls like him or not. The main female character of the game is Enoki Rikako, a first year highschool student that goes to the same highschool as Shiina. She hates ghosts. If the player wins Rikako-chan's heart, he will unlock an omake scenario for Eri-chan that will tell Eri-chan's side of the story.
The number of characters is large, but many routes feel just unnecessary. The core routes are well done. A cheerful school slice with loli-like heroines.
9. Yougen Tennyo 妖幻天女 [010125] Scoop 1
Prince Raziel is the successor to the demon throne, but his interests vary wildly from whatever his father keeps in stock, not to mention actual marriage. When his soon-to-be fiancée turns out to be an angel - a mortal enemy of the demon kind - Raziel takes a liking for the girl and decides to make her his bride, much to Demon King's disapproval. After a heated argument, king promises to approve of their relationship, but only if Raziel manages to bring her back to the demon realm. Clueless on how to begin, prince Raziel joins forces with his ever profit-hungry childhood friend Rosetta and together they embark on a fantastic journey through mystical realms, full of glorious dickings and endless hopes for treasure troves ready to be taken. In this realm, your future half is revealed through divination, the rest does not seem to matter that much. In order to reach the heavens above, our duo has to traverse through Hell and obtain four elemental stones, which will allow them to open a magical portal leading to the mortal plane. From there onwards, they will have to pass through the Machine Country and Country of the Beasts, before they reach entrance to heavens. A seemingly simple task, if not for the fact the stones are being kept away within four great towers and each of them is supposedly protected by a powerful guardian. Obviously, the stones themselves contain tremendous powers that allow it's bearer to control the elemental energies and as such, shouldn't ever fall into anyone's hands, especially demon. No one really knows what lies beyond the mortal gates, but they're confident to push onwards. Such is their fate.
There is an English review.
10. Aoi Tori ~L'Oiseau Bleu~ 青い鳥～L’Oiseau Bleu～ [010126] Panda House
Main character suddenly leaves his town and returns to his home town Haraiso. There he meets his childhood friend girl Nagi. Together they travel to the dream-like world to chase blue birds of their dreams.
Story is quite abstract, it's rather a set of relatively comical stories loosely connected with reality. When one dream develops to the middle of it - there is shift to next dream and so on. Game is similar to previous creation SPARK in absurdity and flow, so evaluation is difficult.
11. Card of Destiny [010126] Abel Software 1
This is a battle between 2 countries in the middle of an unbearable war.This takes place in an old continent called Recena.
The 2 countries: 1. ROANA... A country whose people believe in the god of charity. 2. VOLD ... A country whose people believe only in power. They are plotting to rule the entire continent with their powerful army. The people have been demanding for someone to appear to declare an ending to this unbearable turmoil. A boy from the ranks comes and makes that stand. Art had always dreamed of becoming a knight. He makes his dream a reality in order to bring peace back to the world... With its multiple dream-like colors, this RPG game is the first piece of work to be released in the 21st century in digital animation. This highly polished system has been developed for unlimited potential in strategies.Depending on the way you fight, you'll enjoy going up against a stronger enemy than yours on equal terms. Furthermore, by fulfilling certain conditions, one is able to acquire a special "Layer Card", which really makes the 2nd and the 3rd game exciting to look forward to. Because different original artists, and illustrators drew the pictures of characters and the cards themselves, the quality of the computer graphics is remarkably clear.This is one card game that you'll really enjoy, with its beautiful girls.
Well I like Abel Software, but this is again some weird genre mix, mainly a 3D dungeon type RPG with card battles. The encounter rate is obnoxiously high, and whatever advantages game may have is crossed out by these battles at every third step.
12. Dousoukai Again 同窓会again [010126] F&C FC01 1
The members of the tennis club at Sakura Junior High School. Have a class reunion on New Years Eve. They’re all twenty, and Mizuho is happy to get to see Tatsuya again, her secret love. At the reunion, they plan to stay at Mizuho's mother's lodge in the hot spring resort for a ski trip. Unfortunately, however, Mizuho's mother's become ill. She doesn't know whether she should care for her mother or finally give her self to Tatsuya.
There is an English review.
13. Fukushuu ~Ryoujoku no Yaiba~ 復讐～凌辱の刃～ [010126] Crowd 1
Yuichi Nakazawa, the protagonist, has been subjected to "bullying" without reason since childhood. He goes to another school in order to change the circumstances and escape from the bullying, but this time he is being subject to bullying from girls.
Amid such a miserable life, a ray of light is shinning to Yuichi. He is protected by one of his classmates, a girl. However, they both start to be subjected to bullying. They become intimate with the hope that there is no bullying someday, and both encourage each other by email. However, the modest happiness Yuichi was having did not last long. Yuichi is surrounded by a group and humiliated. With his men's pride smeared and his eyes full of tears, Yuichi has decided to take revenge ...
There is an English review.
14. Infantaria [010126] Circus 1
As the scars of the 'Dragon War' continue to plague the lands since ancient times, the isolated 'Hiver' kingdom is trapped in an unnaturally long 'Winter'.
Because of the kingdoms natural environment and isolated location, 'Hiver' has been able to maintain peace for a long time. Princess Sofia, the heir to the throne, I's worried about her inexperience and wishes to go to the outside world to get to know more about her people's way of living, while concealing her royal heritage. The protagonist, a Knight of Imperial Guard, petitions the king for the princess sake and his majesty graciously permits Sofia to go to the "Canary Kindergarten" as a teacher under the protagonist's protection.
There is an English review.
15. Koisuru Oukoku 恋する王国 [010126] Giga 1 2
In a mythical age, a young man seeks to become an adult. He leaves his farm home to face the frontiers of the kingdom. He comes to a town where one can seek any apprenticeship freely. This is so one can find his own purpose in life, and perhaps his own lover as well. Jobs include: border guard, educator, various magical schools, fisher, and more. With each job there appears to be a respective woman in the same profession to charm. Will the hero be able to find and woo the girl of his choice in time for the town's festival?
Game is localized, with English reviews.
16. Shippuu Dotou! 疾風怒濤！！ [010126] Zombies Paradigm
Main character is the prince of Woodland country. After reaching adulthood he follows an ancient tradition and goes on a journey to train as a warrior. He has a girlfriend, but on his way there are a lot of women to rescue. Will he become a king and find his queen? 3D dungeon crawler. The mechanics is quite simple. Only bosses can be struggling and require preparation. Story is one way road and consists of 5 chapters. There are eight heroines suitable for H both by hero and the monsters.
17. Tsuki no Shizuku 月の雫～ツキノシズク～ [010126] Cure Light 1
Youhei Amano has been lazily wasting his time away at home during summer vacation. One day, he happens upon a want ad in the classifieds for a part-time job as an employee for the Amaba Family. Youhei jumps at the name; the Amabas are prominent millionaires in his hometown, Hirano. Curious about this wealthy family, Youhei applies for the position. He is hired! Residing at the Amaba estate are 3 sisters: Shizuka, Kaoru, and Mayo. Hitomi the maid and Genjuro the butler also live there. Genjuro's existence is nothing but a hindrance, but life is exciting being surrounded by beautiful girls. With enough said about that, Youhei begins to get curious about a certain door within the mansion. No matter whom he asks about the door, he gets the same evasive, negative response. "What is on the other side?" he asks himself. There seems to be some connection between the history of the Amaba Family and their grip over the town of Hirano from way back...
First half is comical while working in the mansion with maids and occasionally triggering H events. The second one is serious after the identity of the mysterious girl is revealed. Ending is quite painful. Game with a good atmosphere.
18. Vampirdzhija Vjedogonia 吸血殲鬼ヴェドゴニア [010126] Nitroplus 1 2 3 4
One night the protagonist sees a beautiful woman in distress; he tries to help her but she bites him. She turns out to be a vampire! And now he will turn into a vampire too, unless he finds her again and destroy her first. So he joins with a group of vampire-hunters...
There are English reviews.
19. Yuki no Nioi to Kaze no Iro 雪のにおいと風のいろ [010126] Ripe
The last school weeks of three boys and three girls. Soon they will be blown apart. But while there is still time, there's a perfect opportunity to create memories for the future.
Surprisingly ordinary setting for Ripe. Development is sluggish as there are few chances to talk with the girls. Only after Christmas party it's finally possible to hit after one of the girls. Scenario writer lacks the ability to explain. Heroine ending is quite sweet, but the other two heroines automatically get bad ending. Scenario is thin and lacks excitement.
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1. Vampire Hunter [010104] Gin no Ken Chris is a hunter who seeks only for one prey - the vampire Lark who slaughtered all his family. There are six possible outcomes of this confrontation.
Doujin
2. Kara: Suzuna Hen 殻 鈴菜編 [010115] CresCENT BLANK
Company president is blessed with status and health, but he life looses its colors for him. The only thing he can enjoy is to train his recently remarried wife and daughter-in-law.
Nukige
3. Gimai ~Haitoku no Chigiri~ 犠妹～背徳の契り～ [010119] Selen
Main character receives the whole inheritance after his painter father's death. His stepmother makes him indecent offer to have an affair with his sister-in-law Yuna in exchange for sharing inheritance. He has feelings for Yuna, but what will he choose in the end?
Nukige
4. Meganekko Bunny ~Key-Pan-chan めがねっ娘ばに～きーぱんちゃん [010123] Soup
There are three typing scenarios featuring meganekko, bunny girl, and maid android: 1. Tomorrow starts from the end「終わりから始まる明日」 2. Chiitomeey「ちいとめーよ」 3. Square sky「四角い空」 Anthology
5. Pachi Moso ぱちもそ [010126] Soubi Kenkyuujo
Main character is visited by a dog-type robot Pachi who comes from a future to save the future Earth by helping protagonist get rid of his virginity. That was the start of long horny dream realization. Nukige
6. Love Hina Party ラブひなパーティー [010126] Marvelous Interactive
Includes anime scenes in the endings.
Gameboy exclusive
7. Swap A For B すわっぷ Aふぉ～B [010126] Optim
Twin brother and sister have been confused since the childhood. Brother suddenly gets directed to a girls school. When he discovers the truth it's too late already - it's time to have fun.
Nukige
Foreword: I already chose another game for review in February... but in the end just could not ignore this huge pillar of today's visual novels. Without Kusarihime there would not be Saya no Uta, Cross Channel, Fate/stay night and Higurashi, so it's significance for the history can not be overerestimated.
Title: Kusarihime ~Euthanasia~
Developer: Liar-soft
Date: 2002-02-08
VNDB link:https://vndb.org/v37
Youtube walkthrough:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J_joeqKri0&list=PLs4Gp5VU4Fv9h7u5e_7ePpWZ28i2PWbxd
Synopsis: After the mysterious death of his father and his younger sister Juri, Itsuki, now suffering from amnesia, moves back to his hometown with his stepmother. There he meets an enigmatic young girl dressed in a crimson red kimono named Kurame, and the two soon become friends. The strange thing is, Kurame looks exactly like his younger sister Juri...
On the surface, Itsuki's family and friends all appear to be rooting for his full recovery. However, deep inside, they also seem to be burdened with secrets and guilt about the past. In the span of four days, Itsuki's memories will slowly return as he struggles between his loss and his fear of the truth, until the fourth night, when the whole world becomes blanketed under a red sheet of snow and wrapped up in the silence of death....
Structure: 10 cycles x 4 days
Length: 10 hours
Game type: Mythology rural human drama mystery.
Difficulty: It's easy to get some ending, but not so easy to get the desired ending
Character Design rating: 10/10
Protagonist rating: 10/10
Story rating: 10/10
Game quality: 10/10
Overall rating: 10/10
There are as many as 5 reviews, plus reddit impressions, plus very curious spoiler theory-crafting thread (1 2 3 4 5 6 7), so pretty much everything is said there already. So what I intend to is to tell you without spoilers what this visual novel is about and why you must read it. And it's very difficult to talk about Kusarihime without spoilers. Let me present an imaginary dialogue of my consciousness after reading Kusarihime trying to persuade my skeptical other self reluctant to try it.
- So, first of all, Kusarihime is neither a horror nor a nakige. It's a rural story about a boy who looses memory and comes to his home town to try to regain his memories.
- How convenient! We've seen dozens of such stories by 2002 already! What's special in it this time?
- One thing is that game is looped over the same four August days
- That's not exactly a new thing. I remember at least three games with loops before 2002.
- But the second thing is that it's not a game about chasing girls. No heroine gets her separate end.
- That's weird. Is it some all ages game or something? What is there if there aren't heroine routes?
- Each heroine actually gets one of those 10 time loops to focus attention almost exclusively on her. That provides ample opportunities for presenting H scenes.
- So there ARE actually heroines routes, they are just hidden inside some of the loops. What makes it different from usual nukige or charage?
- Heroines here are not isolated inside their stories. They pierce all the loops, and each heroine story only helps to reveal the mystery behind the protagonist past.
- Oh, the "mystery". Something about the promise made 10 years ago?
- Absolutely not. First tier of mystery is about stray girl Kurame who looks just like protagonist's deceased sister Juri. Second tier of mystery is about protagonist's family overall - he had a father, a mother, a sister and a dog - all dead by now. The third tier of mystery is about the loop itself that ends with red snow falling, usually after some impactful violent events.
- Oh, so people die in here? Any guro as well?
- Thanks to loop concept it's possible to introduce any number of deaths here and then rewrite everything with another loop cycle. There is no guro.
- Pff, so even deaths happen not in the real world. Why should I bother reading 10 imaginary stories?
- Well, deaths actually affect same characters in next loops greatly. And count the characters - only half of the stories are loosely focused on some character. The rest of loops are focused on past or give hints to the listed mysteries.
- Oh, the "mysteries" again. Btw, what does this weird title Kusarihime ~Euthanasia~ mean?
- Kusarihime is translated as "rotting princess", it's the local legend about a girl in red kimono that causes certain people die. That girl's name is Kagame. And the stray girl that's found in the forest is given name Kagame by protagonist, but he can not explain why. As for "euthanasia", it's also a mystery. Here's dictionary definition: "Euthanasia is the termination of a very sick person's life in order to relieve them of their suffering".
- I know what it means, thank you. So I get the concept of the game more or less. But what makes this game so special?
- Soundtrack, unique graphics style, great directing with lots of flashbacks and insertion of sudden scenes from other times, use of frequently moving figures on the screen instead of sprites, stunning stories of each girl, mystery plot loopholes as basis for replay-ability or theory-crafting.
- Ok, enough! Might give it a look if I find the time in my busy schedule. No promises, though.
Overall comments: I consider Kusarihime ~Euthanasia~ to be the first intellectual visual novel in history. It attracts not thanks to thrilling plot, great characters or superb visuals. It creates a multiple layer mystery where different parts move in their own pace cross-referencing each till sudden resolution. Reader is required to remember or re-read early scenes to fill some parts of the puzzle and make his own guess about the rest. In that way it can also be called the first interactive visual novel.
D.U.O. ~Song for All~ is the VN of the Month Among masterpieces are One 2 ~Eien no Yakusoku~ , Suigetsu and Utawarerumono
1. Trans' ~Boku to Atashi no Kyoukaisen~ Trans’～僕とあたしの境界線～ [020404] Catear 1
Christmas Eve... it's a night when many couples confess feelings to each other and spend this time happily. This story starts on such a holy night. Instead of happy time there is a sudden breakup on her part. Her clothes are left in the room. It was just a small urge. Until then, I never thought about anything like that; if I did, it might be easier. That was probably the case. "I want to wear this clothes ..." But that alone did not stop the urge. "I want to wear this clothes and go out." "I want more clothes that look good." "I want to be more beautiful." The suffering from society condemnation. The cold gaze of people makes the small heart of the person between man and woman shake. “Is it bad to be more beautiful?”
I have not invented a category to block Trans all-age games, but it does not mean I'm going to look into it because of that.
2. Ripple ~Blue Seal e Youkoso~ Ripple～ブルーシールへようこそっ～ [020405] Giga 1
Main character looses a job and applies for an internet ad vacancy to work at a huge leisure park "Blue Seal" with multiple facilities including restaurant. There are many curious girls working around.
A SIM game to raise protagonist's parameters and set dates. Combined to Giga failure as VN maker, game's a total crap.
3. Wish ~Owari Yuku Sekai de~ Wish～終わりゆく世界で～ [020405] Selfish 1
The year is 20xx... A new life form called a "Mamono" has suddenly appeared in Japan.
With great sacrifice, the Japanese government finally succeeds in retrieving a part of this "Mamono." Of course, it's kept secret from the general public and all evidence is eliminated... Soon after, the government takes a few civilian scientists and begins a top-secret mission called "Project HI" (Project Human Infinity). The project's purpose is to somehow inject the unknown virus from the "Mamono," which will give the subjects super powers. The goal is to create a human that will withstand any kind of environment, which will then be used as a lethal weapon. Knowing the project might fail, the government simultaneously creates a militia known as the "Witch Hunters." Minoru Yamanashi's father was one of the scientists involved in this project. He's so crazy that he submits not only himself but also Minoru's sister Chisa to the "Project HI" experiments. Unfortunately, the experiment on Chisa fails, and she falls ill with the virus. Not having the kind of money to save his sister, he decides to join the "Witch Hunters." He ends up killing his beloved sister. Losing the will to live, he wanders aimlessly around the streets and eventually crumbles with hunger. A girl named Yukari Arisa saves him from the streets...
Heroines are unique and lively. The first half is hero gradually healing his mind wounds with a touch of comedy, but in the second part there is serious development. There is only common scenario during first play. From the second play there are heroine scenarios that show up. Surprisingly well done scenario-oriented suspense adventure.
4. Koi Suru Science 恋するサイエンス [020412] Complet's 1
Hiroshi Koizumi is a student at Oshima Private School. One day, he receives an invitation to the science club from a girl named Sakura Sakura. Hiroshi's shy but falls madly in love with Sakura at first sight and visits the club, which is located on the outskirts of the school property. However, as soon as Hiroshi opens the door to the club, he loses consciousness...
When he comes to, Hiroshi finds himself on an operating table. He sees a small girl holding an old book. She's trying to experiment on him! What's going to happen on him!? You will witness mysterious experiments, battles over the old book, and expectations of love in this love comedy.
This game might look like a comedy... but in the end it's still a nukige with everything whirling around it. There are hardly any other advantages.
5. Maid Hunter Zero One ~Nora Maid~ メイドハンター零一～のらメイド～ [020412] Studio Jikkenshitsu 1
Reiichi Satsukido is a noncareer public employee, leading a peaceful life. One day, he is suddenly assigned to become a special national agent called 'Maid Hunter!' His mission is to hunt down and rehabilitate aliens called 'Nora Maids' (Stray Maids), in accordance with Special National Health Regulations.
However, a secret organization named 'Kampfgruppe Nora Maid' stands in his way. This organization is formed to free the Nora Maids, and they are willing to fight in order to accomplish their goals. The Special National Health Regulations are only in effect for the next thirty days. Reiichi must capture and rehabilitate four Nora Maid renegades within this time. Otherwise, he will be demoted and sent to an uninhabited island. Will he succeed in his mission and avoid spending the rest of his life on a deserted island...!?
Parody is the dominating feature of this game. But there are a lot of confusing systems in this bakage, including battle system.
6. Wasurenagusa ~Forget-me-Not~ 忘レナ草～Forget-me-Not～ [020412] Unison Shift
A story about a boy that is destined to die, a shinigami that is given the task of taking his soul and the people he is connected...
Period is 2 weeks. During daytime we deepen relations with the chosen heroine, during night time we entertain the heroine. Period feels too small, relations develop untruthfully, with sudden climax.
7. Dennou Yousei Elfan 電脳妖精エルファン [020419] Noa 1
Elfans are cyber fairies, which live in the "Net World," which exists inside of the Internet. One day, our hero is sucked into this Net World and is forced to fight against evil monsters. With the help of Elfans, he must bring peace back to the Net World!!
The evil Net Kizer sends his monsters and Elfans to attack our hero. He must defeat these monsters and persuade the Elfans to join him. Some of the Elfans will change shapes during the journey! Our hero must gather 30 Elfans from all over the Net World and defeat the evil Net Kizer!! This cyber battle adventure game consists of an adventure part and a battle part. The player chooses one of three Elfans as a companion: The gentle and kind Mei Nyuang The strong-minded Fairy Ann The energetic, yet sad Bloomer Rabbi These Elfans occasionally change shapes. For example, Mei Nyuang sometimes becomes the martial artist, Mei China, or the fighting nurse called Mei Nurse. You'll really enjoy bringing them up! Not only that, but you'll also meet up with more than thirty different Elfans, who have been designed by a variety of artists. What does this all mean? You will definitely find an Elfan to suit your tastes!! Befriend the Elfans and defeat the evil Net Kizer!
Quite a strange bakage with battles and lolis.
8. Hanketsu 2 ~Forget Me Not~ 判決2～Forget Me Not～ [020419] Noctovision 1
The case is not over yet...
A half naked woman is taken into protective custody at Jissoji Park around midnight. She has been assaulted and drugged. Her name is Tomomi Sawada, and she was participating in a 'Blue Aqua' ritual prior to the incident. Blue Aqua is a cult seminar, led by Kirara Rendaiji. It is quickly spreading among the young female population at Jissoji. There is also a rumor that Blue Aqua uses drugs in their rituals, and Tomomi's case seems to back it up. The drug is called 'Blue Seal,' a love potion that shines in blue. The town of Jissoji once suffered from a drug called 'Blue Misty,' but Blue Seal is taking over now. Yura Tojima is the man behind this case, and he tries to reach out to a young female singer, Chiaki Aikawa. Yuji Akagi is a district attorney at Jissoji. With help from his beautiful assistant Misa Sugasawa, he is about to try wiping this blue drug out of his town!! This is a sequel to the real legal adventure "Hanketsu," and more realistic court trials are depicted than ever before. The street musician from the first title, Chiaki Aikawa, is now a professional singer, but she is having problems with her career and with a band member who uses Blue Seal. Aya Shirahama is a lovely girl, who happens to know Yuji, but she often causes trouble for Yuji. Misa Sugasawa is a sharp and beautiful legal officer, who has experience in foreign legal services. Players will find many other beauties, along with many hot scenes. Get the bad guys and bring peace back to the town of Jissoji!!
Of course game is better than it predecessor 4 years ago, but it does not mean it's good. Main character and realism are praiseworthy, but concept, scenario and realization aren't.
9. Nanji, Sono Muku Naru Tamashii de Yoru o Samayou Nakare 汝、その無垢なる魂で夜を彷徨うなかれ [020419] NeoUme
If you walk alone on the moon night, you will meet the witch of the moon.
Such city legend flows in the city of Mahoroba. Main character is a freelancer who also has part-time work at convenience store "New Life". One night he meets a witch...
There are a lot of heroines including moon witch. Each of them has some kind of problem to settle. Characters here are very weak.
10. Wind -A Breath of Heart- Wind -A Breath of Heart- [020419] minori 1 2 3 4 5 6
That summer day. Makoto Okano and his younger sister Hinata sit across from each other in the box seats of a local express heading to that town, underneath a blue sky that seems to stretch out to infinity. The town they are heading to is the very one that they were born in and were separated from long ago -- Kazune City. In the midst of the midsummer wind, bathed in the wind that rushes in from the train window, they head to that town, which they only have vague memories of.
"Say, let's promise to meet again." "I'll keep playing this harmonica, okay? Because even if I can't reach you, the sound of the harmonica surely will." The harmonica, which was handed over together with the promise to that girl. And within the shaking cabin of the train, Makoto wakes up, dimly but surely recalling that memory ...
Game is localized and has English reviews.
11. Yuki no Tokeru koro ni... 雪のとける頃に… [020419] Studio e.go! 1
Your character, Dr. Hoshino, iis transferred from central Japan to the New Hokkaido General Hospital, where he reunites with his underclassman, Mikage Ayumi, and academy days nemesis, Shinowara Tsukasa. As a doctor in the late 20's (he is 28 years old), he faces the trauma situations of the E.R. (Emergency Room) and treats his own clique of long-term patients.
Every successful man must have his woman behind him, and Masato's wife, Hoshino Mizuki, supports him in every way. Life seems to be the usual...or is it? In this foreign part of Japan, covered in snow and ice, what will happen to Masato and his surroundings?
There is an English review.
12. Ouma Petit ☆ Kaitouden 逢魔ぷち☆怪討伝 [020424] Sakuraneko
Demons are actually real. They can take human form and infiltrate human society.
Main character studies at a mission-based school in Yokohama that's rumored to contain hand of a legendary demon in its basement. There are various forces trying to revive the demon. Can protagonist prevent that?
School love bakage. Scenario is of not high quality, gags are rarely funny and heroines lack attractiveness.
13. My Merry May [020425] KID 1
This VN tells the story of Kyosuke, a high school student, who lives a normal student's life in a dormitory until one day he receives a strange device from abroad. Inside the device is a female replis, an artificial human being. Kyosuke decides to awaken her, but before her personality is fully loaded, a thunderstorm briefly cuts the energy in the dormitory, creating a bug in Leu's system. Instead of his own personal servant, Kyosuke now has to take care of a teenager with a childlike mind. The remaining cast of heroines include Hitoe Haruna, Yasusuke's childhood friend, Motomi Agatsuma, the girlfriend of Kyosuke's best friend, Ryo Hagimoto, 21-year old Tae Kizuki, and her friend, 13-year old high school student Misao Yuki.
Careful character depiction is the main attraction in this work. Even though it's love comedy, it's explained why and how each girl starts to love protagonist.
14. Shine ~Kotoba o Tsumuide~ SHINE～言葉を紡いで～ [020425] Vridge Inc. 1 2 3
One day, the protagonist decided to chase after the dream of becoming a cameraman. To become the student of his famous upperclassman (senpai) cameraman in his university, he headed towards an island in Okinawa area where his upperclassman cameraman lived. On the way to the island, the protagonist met his senpai luckily and was given a very hard assignment to complete. If he complete the assignment, then he could become his senpai's student. That assignment is taking a picture of all SIX girls who he met on the ship by chance. And for some reasons, all SIX girls hate camera. But, there is nothing he can do about it because if he doesn't take their photos, his road to become a cameraman is closed.
With that, the protagonist met and parted with those girls repeatedly at the island. And with each of them, conversations are being spinned into stories.
There is enough English information.
15. Azrael アズラエル [020426] Frontwing 1
After being saved by the god of death, our hero becomes a messenger of death for girls who are destined to die. Working as a messenger, he has to go through a lot of heart-rending experiences and anguish.
Most of us enjoy our lives and don't think about death until something happens to us. Through this game, you'll realize that death is always just a step away...
The best scenario out of three 426 works, but it suffers from the lack of volume, so it's difficult to empathize with characters that weren't given enough screen time. There are several endings. Game was sold for just 1/3 of normal price.
16. D.U.O. ~Song for All~ [020426] Panda House 1
It happened on December 25, 2001, right after the new century began.
It was the biggest and worst disaster in human history, "Apoptosis Crisis." A virus called "apoptosis" begins to destroy human cells. 80% of the Earth's population is killed and the people who survive try their best to revive civilization. A century has passed, and it is now the year 2099 in Tokyo. Something is happening in this big city, where many kinds of ethnic groups reside. The network junkies, called "jugglers," suddenly die an unnatural death. The cause of death is still unclear. However, it is apparent they were all on computer networks when they died. Takuya Takahashi, who is a professional investigator, a "Runner," is asked to investigate the case, and he starts investigating this dangerous disease, without even knowing much about it?
Looks like my type of game. I'll review it myself.
17. Happy Breeding はっぴ～ぶり～でぃんぐ [020426] Purple Software 1
Our protagonist (Takashi) has taken the opportunity of working away from his parents home and started living by himself.
One day, a strange girl enters his house and eventually comes to stay with him since the house is too big for one person to live in. The girl seems to be searching the person who tended an injury of hers when she was a child, and the protagonist offers his help. New girls gradually show up and starts living in the protagonist's house, each with their own purpose that he will try to help them fulfill.
Nice heartwarming story, but short - 5 hours is enough to clear. Only one heroine route is special, all the others are unnoticeable.
18. Kin no Hitomi x Gin no Hitomi 金の瞳＊銀の瞳 [020426] Uncanny! 1
The latest title from UNCANNY! This is a fantasy adventure game, where the stage is set in a world of swords and magic.
The story unfolds following the war between humans and monsters. The humans are lead by a brave man with golden eyes. Eventually, they win the war against the monsters, but humanity is still far from peace. The player will become a boy named 'Cych.' He is a 'gladiator' with no memories of the past, and he will challenge the death tournament at the coliseum. The tournament will last two months. Going through many things, such as the training to survive and encounters with various heroines, a player will become strong and learn about love. Will you choose to pursue physical strength, or will you choose to go after girls? It's all up to you!
Self-training SIM with parameters. Period is 8 weeks. Every 1st and 7th day of the week there is event and every 4th day there is combat. The overall difficulty is low.
19. One 2 ~Eien no Yakusoku~ ONE2～永遠の約束～ [020426] BaseSon
I was away from home during the summer vacation, when I returned I found out that my father has moved away. No one in the school knew my name, not even my classmates. I started my new life like that.
I never expected those things, to miss the everyday life, going to school... and to love...
BaseSon had a difficult task to make a remake worthy of famous original, and they actually succeeded at it. There are 5 + 1 secret heroine routes, and each route has something to do with vanishing or loosing. The whole concept of eternal world is focused too much here and there are questions about length, but it's definitely a masterpiece as a pure love game with a good scenario.
20. Sekai no Subete 世界ノ全テ [020426] Tama-Soft 1
Hiroshi returned to his hometown after 8 years in Tokyo trying to attain his childhood dream and failing to do so. Feeling powerless and lacking support from his family, he could only think about giving up. He felt that a poor student like him was unneeded and there was no longer any place for him. That was before he met Tomoko at the light music club and realized that he was not the only one in the same situation.
Main features of this work is depressed protagonist, kansai dialect girls and great music. There are many heroines, but only Tomoko route is deep enough.
21. Suigetsu 水月 -すいげつ- [020426] F&C FC01 1 2
On a summer afternoon, I woke up in a hospital bed without any recollection of the past. I was suffering from severe amnesia, and the ones who saved me as I trembled with doubt and fear through the night were my friends and my maid, Yuki. Through their kindness, my life began once again. A new life filled with joy and happiness.
However, the nightmare that haunted me ever since I woke up that day continued to torment me. In my dreams was a woman with pure white skin and black hair so lustrous it seemed to fade into the dark night. And within a few weeks, on the night of the Star Festival, I would meet this beautiful girl. Makino Nanami... The girl whom I killed with my arrow each and every night ...
There are English reviews.
22. Sweet Legacy スイートレガシー [020426] Frontwing 1
Satou Mamoru has always dreamt of becoming a famous patissier. However, the famous school he wanted to enter in... is actually an all-girls school! Mamoru will have to disguise himself as a girl in order to enter and starts meeting some interesting girls.
Game's short and of relatively low quality, that's why it's sold several times lower than normal price. Still as a charage or a game about shemale it's quite good.
23. Utawarerumono うたわれるもの [020426] Leaf 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Hakuoro, a man who wakes up in a tiny backwoods village near the mountains with heavy injuries, no memory, and a mask he cannot remove. After being nursed back to health by Eruruw, the girl who found him lying at the point of death in the forest, he starts to view the village as his new home. But when an oppressive ruler threatens the peaceful life of Hakuoro and his newfound friends and family, they find themselves hurtled towards war, chaos, and a destiny far greater than any of them imagined.
Game's localized and has lots of reviews.
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1. Fukushuu no Susume ~Gyakuten no Catharsis~ 復讐ノススメ～逆転のカタルシス～ [020405] Kamen Shoukai
Main character and his sister are adopted by Kamishiro family after loss of parents. Kamishiro family abuse siblings to the point that sister gets destroyed and brother gets daily humiliated and insulted. One day the head of Kamishiro family dies leaving huge debts. Now it's time for protagonist to have his revenge.
Nukige
2. Idol Janshi Suchie-Pai III アイドル雀士スーチーパイIII [020405] Harvest 1
The third arcade entry in the Suchie-Pai series, Idol Janshi Suchie-Pai III brings more strip mahjong with Misaki Kyoko, better known as Suchie-Pai. But things get strange when a second Suchie-Pai appears. This game features some returning opponents and some new opponents. Graphics are vastly improved over those of its predecessors, released several years earlier.
Card game
3. Itaike na Tenshi-tachi ~Akumu no Byoutou~ いたいけな天使たち ～悪夢の病棟～ [020405] Megami
Hospital full of desires of rich and powerful people. Girs are being insulted here in exchange for promises of bright future or money. But playing with innocent girls proved not enough. The clients started to catch and drug enthusiastic idol fans to make them dirty their paragons with their own hands.
Nukige
4. Onna Kyoushi Nijuusan-sai 女教師二十三歳 [020405] GuiltyN
English teacher is attacked by a molester on the way home from work. She cries for help, but molester has a menacing look and turns out to be from a powerful family, so no one dares to interfere. But that is only an overture to the tragedy ...
Nukige
5. Suki Suki Onii-chan ~The Pretty Little Sister~ すきスキお兄ちゃん ~The Pretty Little Sister~ [020405] Aqua House 1
A girl named Miyuri lives near you. She looks so young that she can almost pass as your little sister. Miyuri seems like the strong type, but she is a super, shy girl, who is very naive. For some reason, Miyuri has total trust in you and calls you, "Brother." Even Miyuri's mother has total faith in you. One day, Miyuri sneaks into your room, and you later find her taking a nap. You try to wake her up, but she tells you, "I love your blanket. Every time I wake up, I can see you." Miyuri tells you this and blushes. Then you have dinner together and watch T.V. Well, this is what you guys go through on a normal, routine basis. What kind of relationship will this turn into? Since this is an 18 and over game, it's obvious where it's heading, if you get my hint...
Nukige
6. Maimu まいむ [020411] Squadra D
Apparently, Tomoe Misaki is just another nerd mysteriously popular with beautiful women, in the true eroge tradition. But maybe he's hiding something...
Nukige
7. Deep 2 [020412] Selen
Main character is dormitory supervisor of a girls academy. He makes one room a punishment room where he sends girls suspected of impure heterosexual exchange.
Nukige
8. Kyousou no Nie 狂想の肉宴 [020412] West Vision
One day protagonist receivers a letter from his sister-in-law inviting him to ryokan "Mykoshi".
The encounter reminds him of forgotten past events, and gets overcome with lust. Black desire pushes him to make a feast of insult in this inn.
Nukige
9. Mayonaka wa Ware no Mono 魔世中ハ我ノ物 [020412] Touchy 1 2 3
Ogata Seishirou is a man whose power exceeds more than mere wealth or temporal holdings: his might and influence dominates the supernatural. Demon Lords bow before his presence, and it is even whispered the Devil himself fears Seishirou’s authority. Yet for all the power at his command, there remain threats deadly enough to unseat him. Nonetheless, Seishirou is not one to avoid danger, and the same individuals who would dare remove him from power, could easily serve as tools to cement it… but only if the opportunity is seized.
Nukige
10. Pine House ~Onii-chan Oshiete!~ ぱいんハウス ～おにいちゃん教えて!～ [020412] Tomato 1
There is a dorm called "Pine House," filled with dropouts who need to be straightened out before they return to regular academic activities. Unlike previous years, the dorm is now filled with lots of cute girls! You are hired as a tutor for the students at Pine House. The girls start to call you "Bro" as you become close to them. Not only that, it seems they really like you a lot! Will you be able to hold out on these flirtatious babes? This is an ADV+SIM game, in which you'll have to discipline girls who have taken wrong turns. First, you'll try to talk with them and make good impressions. Once they start calling you "Bro," take their virginity away and train them to become your sex slaves!
Nukige
11. Ryoujoku Salesman ~Akutoku Shouhou Toranomaki~ 凌辱せぇるすまん～悪徳商法虎の巻～ [020412] Interheart
Main character gets experience at a trading company and then becomes a self-employed salesman. He gets excellent in skills to sell something even if it is not needed to the potential buyer. When confronting women, he uses their weaknesses and desires to come to a beneficial result.
Nukige
12. Siesta ~Susuki Nohara no Yumemonogatari~ Siesta ～すすき野原の夢物語～ [020412] Amedeo
Our protagonist is a mundane high school student, but suddenly she develops an uncontrollable habit of sleeping at random times... and it interrupts her daily life to a large extent. She lives in a fairytale in her dreams, sometimes she is a princess, at other times she is a magician or a nun. One common aspect that is always present in her dreams is that she encounters men of all kinds. Furthermore, what's bizarre about this is that in reality, she knows men who are very similar to the ones she have met in her dreams, and if she arranges a date with one of them to a particular place in her dream, she will run into him at a similar dating spot that they had agreed on in reality. Is this merely a dream? Or is it a premonition? Maybe, a memory from the past.... Although it seems extraordinary, the protagonist develops feelings for "him" in her dreams, and naturally starts to get closer with his counter-part in reality.. Eventually, she discovers that he shares her dreams.... One day, the protagonist and he enter the dream together, becoming one with their counter-part in the "dream" world... What will their future be like in such a surreal world?
Otome
13. Toga ~Kegareta Shizuku~ 咎～ケガレタシズク～ [020412] Ankh
Main character's past of abuse by his father keeps pursuing him. One day a girl who claims to be his sister shows up, and they have a confrontation. Then his former tutor who is also his first sexual partner, shows up. Protagonist's heart gets violently disturbed - what will he do?
Nukige
14. NekoNeko Soft Okaeshi CD 3 ねこねこソフト おかえしＣＤ３ [020413] NekoNeko Soft
A collection of short stories: ■つばめママと理沙美沙 ■カンナねーちゃんの春 ■由梨子さん腐女子伝 ■？？？ ■佳奈子ちゃん○6才 ■三重野サイドストーリー ■対の片方 ■その他いろいろ
Fandisc
15. Tamayura たまゆら－霊響－ [020414] Studio Air
Main character lives with two cousins and their appointed teacher. At school he is forced to join sorcery club to study occultism. There he undertakes a dark-hearted supernatural case pushing him in the middle of two forces.
Nukige
16. Yukibana -Kira- 雪花 -きら- [020415] Tinsmith 1
A town covered in snow, a man, a mysterious little girl, and their entanglement.
Doujin
17. Enrai 遠来 [020415] Team Nagikaze
It has been 30 years since human beings abandoned all conflicts on the Earth and advanced into outer space. With the membership in the Galactic Federation came universal peace.
Time is year 353 by the space calendar.
It was a sudden event. An accident that occurred in the deep space on an unknown planet. We met. On this star far from the Earth. Infinitely under the blue sky. We met.
Doujin
17. Eguchi Kenkyuushitsu エ口研究室 [020419] Rasen
Main character is a volunteer to text a machine that makes dreams real. He will need to hold many experiments to help with the research.
Nukige
18. Himekagura ~Kurutta Jouen~ 姫神楽～狂った情炎～ [020419] Chiffon 1
Takato wakes up in a female's room, and he has no recollections coming here. Why is he here? It seems he has lost his memory. He tries to remember about his past, but a voice keeps bothering him, saying, "Rape girls..." Not being able to resist this voice, he begins to rape a girl. As he is raping her, he suddenly remembers a piece of his past: a scene where he is brutally killing someone. He learns that he's from an assassin group called the Kagurazaka. He remembers his past as he rapes girls... Who or what is the mysterious voice!? What will become of Takato?
Nukige
19. Hitozuma Mahjong 人妻麻雀 [020419] Rouge
Main character participates in multiple mahjong tournaments to get money from men and get intimate with women. He's only interested in married women.
Nukige
20. Kango Shichauzo 2 ~Joshi Ryou wa Moeteiru ka~ 看護しちゃうぞ２ ～女子寮は萌えているか～ [020419] Trabulance 1 2 3
Eiji is a priest at a catholic school for young nurses. Well, he's not really a priest -- while traveling in Europe, he learned how easy it was to impersonate the clergy and what fun it could be. Ever since those days, he's enjoyed the unique life in the Church, even after returning to Japan. When a panty thief helps himself to the underwear in the girls’ dorm at a school for young nurses-in-training, Maria asks him to help put a stop to it by moving into the dorm himself. Although he tries to be the best person he can be, the thought of living alongside all those young nurses-in-training is enough to really get his juices flowing.
Nukige
21. ShiKing Kimusume no Chisui 失KING 生娘の恥水 [020419] Tamachi Yudou
Main character suffers from mysterious disease. He can only suppress these attacks with virgin pee. His daily quest for survival begins now.
Nukige
22. Warudakumi Nugi Nugi Nen Shooting 悪だくみ ぬぎぬぎ念シューティング [020419] Arkham Products
Fan disc includes 24 games in variety genre and also a story mode.
In Story Mode girl clothes get stripped and “Evil” parts of body get cleansed with psychic power. Fandisc
23. 501 [020426] Frontwing 1
This is a violence adventure game made by the tag-team of "Frontwing" and "Soft House Dew." "501" is the name of a popular darts game. In this title, the name refers to the murder game, which looks a lot like the "501" darts game. Three guys and one woman make a team, and to win, they have to capture a woman from another team. It sounds like a simple game, but what you will find is unbelievable! They can kill to catch a woman, and they can rape a woman they capture. Our hero happens to take part in the game. Is he going to choose to kill his enemy? Will he rape the girl after the victory? This game will shake a player's sense of ethics.
Nukige
24. Hajimete no Oisha-san はじめてのおいしゃさん [020426] Zero
Main character has maid fetish, but he does not mind hospital examination of two twin girls as well.
Nukige
25. Harumi Sou Monogatari はるみ荘物語 [020426] Studio Neko Punch
Main character takes a part-time job to get residents out of their homes prior to building demolishing. He pretends to be apartment keeper and uses any means possible to expel residents who are all pretty girls.
Nukige
26. Kiss x 200 To Aru Bunkou no Hanashi KISS×200 とある分校の話 [020426] Winters
Main character is a new teacher who just graduated from college. He gets directed to a village with just 32 inhabitants and only 4 school students. These four students are all cute girls, and they don't even know what "kiss" means. But with protagonist arrival that's bound to change.
Nukige
27. Make Love! ~Slave Love~ メイクLove！～SLAVE LOVE～ [020426] Kiss next 1
Our hero has always dreamed of becoming a high school teacher. With his internship[ close at hand, his girlfriend suddenly breaks up with him. He heads to the high school buried in grief. The story begins as one of the female students confesses her infatuation with him This is our newest title from the custom slave series. With our Make Up! System, you can customize the heroine, choosing her hairstyle, shape of eyes, her boob sizes, eyebrows, hair color, eye color, skin color, her personality, and even her profile. Have fun with your dream girl and fulfill all those desires you've been hiding!
Nukige
28. Obbligato オブリガート [020426] Crowd
Main character falls in love with a girl and starts dating her. One day he hears an outrageous humor about her sleeping with anyone willing. Still... can protagonist love her and change her mind?
Nukige
29. Onii-chan Yamete お兄ちゃんやめて [020426] Gaia
Main character lives with his female relative who calls him onii-chan. They live alone, because his parents travel a lot. Protagonist is an ordinary young skeptical man who has discovered a loli fetish in himself recently...
Nukige
30. Oni Isha 鬼医者 [020426] Saga Planets
Main character works in a large hospital with 22 females co-workers or patients. His distant uncle is the director of the hospital, so protagonist decides to act on his free will when personnel starts to criticize him. He searches for his next prey...
Nukige
31. Ouma no Mori ~Inouja no Gakuen~ 逢魔の森～異能者の学園～ [020426] Marine Heart
A boarding school for boys in secluded forest has an unusual committee. Main character in invited to participate in this committee by a bad friend and a mysterious transfer student. One day a request comes to investigate a rumor about disappearances in the dormitory.
Boys Love
32. Shoka no Miko 初夏の巫女 [020427] Soft Circle Courreges
A revival of spending five perverted weeks with a shrine maiden, brought back to life again in this SLG novel. Doing things to the horny shrine maiden, becoming lovers, everything depends on your actions! The status depends on your actions with the shrine maiden and others, and it goes up and down depending on how you go about your business and go out and play. Purchase various items with your "money" earned from your job, and set all kinds of events into place with different items and by adjusting the status level.
Nukige
33. Imbalance アンバランス [020428] Strawberry Argyle
Main character participates in occult school club. When rumors start to spread about strange events at night, he volunteers to investigate them. Boys Love
34. Lolikko Ryoujoku Club ロリっ娘陵辱くらぶ [020430] Sol-fa-soft
A short novel collection focusing on rape. ■ Episode 1 "The price of forgetting" Kawamura Natsuki forgot her homework, making her teacher angry. As a punishment, she has to stand naked in the classroom. After that, she's called to the teacher's room... ■ Episode 2 "145500 yen" I lent 144500 yen to a man named Kijima Yohei. When demanded a repayment, he gave me his sister Yuuko instead of money. Well, what shall I do... ■ Episode 3 "Adventure is not over" Aikawa Yuka has a exhibitionist habit. One day, when she came back from her "adventure", her brother Takashi was waiting at the front door with a a digital camera...
Nukige
Foreword: A bad-ass cover and cyberpunk setting is all that it took to interest me.
Title: D.U.O. ~Song for All~
Developer: Panda House
Date: 2002-04-26
VNDB link:https://vndb.org/v2235
Youtube walkthrough:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttjs7mdDS3Q&list=PLs4Gp5VU4Fv_0xb07WK6DgqoNosWs_kET
Synopsis: It happened on December 25, 2001, right after the new century began.
It was the biggest and worst disaster in human history, "Apoptosis Crisis."
A virus called "apoptosis" begins to destroy human cells. 80% of the Earth's population is killed and the people who survive try their best to revive civilization.
A century has passed, and it is now the year 2099 in Tokyo. Something is happening in this big city, where many kinds of ethnic groups reside. The network junkies, called "jugglers," suddenly die an unnatural death. The cause of death is still unclear. However, it is apparent they were all on computer networks when they died.
Takuya Takahashi, who is a professional investigator, a "Runner," is asked to investigate the case, and he starts investigating this dangerous disease, without even knowing much about it?
Structure: 12+1 chapters.
Length: 7 hours for one route, but second route is almost the same.
Game type: Cyberpunk detective mystery
Difficulty: Easy, we move on if exhaust all options
Character Design rating: 9/10
Protagonist rating: 10/10
Story rating: 9/10
Game quality: 10/10
Overall rating: 9/10
Rating comments: The only question for me is whether it's 9 or 10. I totally like the game, but story overall and the heroines in particular appear to me with flaws.
Protagonist: Takuya is great. He has face and hard-boiled personality. At the same time, not everything is clear about his personality that happens to content quite the depth.
Characters: Hitomi and Itsumi are main heroines of the game. These is also mysterious girl Sophia that exists for plot purposes. Can't say anything bad about Hitomi or Itsumi, it's just sad that the difference in their "routes" is just choice of who to H, not much character development.
Story: Synopsis actually covers all I could tell. I can only hint that story tackles genetic and cyberspace a lot. I'd really like it to be more focused on actual virus and deaths, but most of the time we just hang around with girls stumbling upon important events at times, so resolution feels forced.
CG: Loving CG here. Lots of motion in the interface. I especially appreciate those several animated moments used for underlining charm of the heroines, and NOT in H events.
Sound: Game is called "song for all" not for nothing. There are a lot of vocal parts in here. Very enjoyable. Everyone but protagonist is voiced, and that includes all the male characters.
Thoughts: The title "D.U.O. ～song for all～" contains two spoilers itself, but luckily you only get to know why late in the game, so there is that "a-ha" moment. No idea what "D.U.O" stands for, but the word "duo" already gives an important hint. I really appreciate when title gets to say so many things about the game.
Overall comments: Absolutely magical game. Great direction and use of interface make an impression of a futuristic world, can't really believe game dates back to 2002. I was treating Cat's Pro quite favorably, and it's joyous for me to see Heart Heat Girls concept being reborn in such way by the successor Panda House. Game's very nice while it lasts, but it's quite gentle-minded and lacks impact, so it gets average or poor scores by the Japanese. I absolutely can't understand how the Japanese manage to bury the best representatives of the genre with their own hands.
Blocked games surpass normal ones three times this month. Baldr Force is the only masterpiece of the month. I'm true to my fetish and thus reviewing Gunsister
1. Baldr Force [021101] Team Baldrhead 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
As a hacker of the renowned hacking group "Steppenwolf", Tooru Souma and his partners earn their living by hacking into servers and selling the information they steal.
As the last hacking before disbanding their group, they hacked into a military server, but soon they find this is a setup by the military to lure terrorists, and they were drawn into battle between two factions. At the end, one of Tooru Souma's friends was killed by an unknown Simulacrum, while most of other group members have been arrested. To investigate and avenge his friend's death, Tooru Souma accepted the offer to join the military.
Game is localized and has many English reviews.
2. Soukou no Shiro 蒼煌の城 [021101] Octave
Main character comes to a castle where princess is taken away by demons. Together with his childhood friend they managed to rescue the princess, but another person got captured. No more half-hearted measures. What kingdom needs is the assault on demon territories.
Typical dungeon crawler. Just attacking and using special actions is enough for any boss. H element is thin, just once per heroine. Game is rather short, around 10 hours long.
3. Re-Laive [021108] Klein
Main character gets to the same class as his childhood friend Kazue in the new school year. By a twist of fate they even get to share the same dormitory room. One day she confesses to protagonist, but he only sees a childhood friend in her. This year is going to be unlike any other.
Quite a meaningless setting without any explanation. Protagonist lays down multiple girls from school, but keeps on pushing childhood friend Kazue away endlessly. Can't really find any appeal points here apart from graphics.
4. Thread Colors ~Sayonara no Mukougawa~ スレッド カラーズ ~さよならの向こう側~ [021114] HuneX
Childhood friends and new mates are met in high school and the town hospital when the main character of the game interacts with four teenage girls and a leggy guidance counselor. As the game begins, the player wakes up at a hospital with memory loss and struggles to remember a life lived and friendships from the past. The game takes place primarily at the hospital and the local high school where the girls drift in and out of the player's daily life. During the hospital stay, our hero befriends a girl who tends to be sickly and naïve to the ways of the world but perhaps the two will help each other recover from their respective ailments.
Routes are different for each heroine. Story feels a bit heavy and sometimes dark involving human death. Memory loss feels too commonplace at times. Overall quality is high.
5. Kimi no Moto e... 君のもとへ・・・ [021115] D-Angel
A new company "Virtual World EXP" provides a revolutionary simulated experience with all five senses. Main character is going to test the system for 21 day. Will he choose virtual avatars of real girls or try to build relations with artificial intelligence girl "Anon"?
SIM with additional systems like feelings. There's the need to input answers "to produce sense of more realistic conversation". Of course it ends up being crap as a result.
6. Shibuya Days@ ~Shibu Digi Tantei.com Series~ 渋谷DAYS＠ ～渋デジ探偵．COMシリーズ [021115] Splash
Main character is a detective. One day a girl that he admires applies to his place to search for her missing brother. She tried to investigate the case herself together with detective club friends, but they got attacked themselves as a result. With the appearance of a thief stealing paintings case expands. Where will investigation lead?
Game's too short, too disoriented and too prosaic. There's no energy in writing and even H element is thin while scenes being vicious. It's definitely a wrong work for those seeking detective mystery.
7. Omoide ni Kawaru Kimi ~Memories Off~ 想い出にかわる君 ～メモリーズオフ～ [021128] KID 1 2 3 4 5 6
Shougo is an ordinary if somewhat lazy university student. Instead of studying he prefers to hangout with other regular visitors in a place called the Cubic Cafe. Several years ago his girlfriend Kanata suddenly left him, disappearing without a trace and giving him no message on why she ran off. One day, completely by chance, the two happen to meet each other again in that cafe.
The story takes place in summer, a year after the events of Memories Off 2nd (Memories Off 2nd)
There is an English review.
8. Gunsister ガンシスター [021129] Silver Co., Ltd.
250 years from now. Human race is reduced to 2.5 billion due to fierce confrontation with the fairy race. Many secrets of lost civilizations are lost in the chaos. Main character is a travelling gunman. One day he gets into bitter rain and regains consciousness at a monastery with his right arm and left foot injured. He starts to live there with a priest and five sisters and gradually gets involved into the battle they lead.
I think I know what to review this month.
9. Harumachi Kagerou 春待蜻蛉 [021129] Noctovision
The protagonist, Asami Teruhiko, has a young sister. His parents are already dead, and he lives alone with his sister, whom he loves more than anything else in this world. He works hard to make her happy.
Unfortunately, she dies of leukemia. The protagonist spends several days at home crying by himself, until he decides that since he cannot live without her, he must join her. Teruhiko goes on a trip to search for a beautiful place to commit suicide. He climbs to the precipice of a very beautiful hill. Right before he jumps, a girl screams for help. Her crippled older sister almost falls from the precipice in her wheelchair. After Teruhiko saves the life of the girl, the younger sister asks him to stay a night in her home, since that small town doesn't have a hotel. The protagonist doesn't have anything to lose, so he agrees. This is just the start point of the game. The protagonist meets: Miyuki: the sad and lonely, crippled girl Shizuku: the cheerful and cute girl who loves anime and manga Sayoko: the lonely mother of Miyuki and Shizuku Satoko: the girl who manages a shop and lives with her grandmother Ai-chan: the energetic and cute loli girl who has a “suspicious” relationship with Kazuo, a policeman By interacting with all these girls, the protagonist finds a new reason for live, and finally finds his true love.
Quite an orthodox ADV. Scenario is not integral enough, and hardly anything happens here. But it's not my genre to begin with.
10. Kajitsu 夏日 -kajitsu- [021129] Studio Ryokucha
Main character's parents divorce, so he has to move to a rural school. After the initial week he gets disenchanted with the school and his classmates. One day he notices a shadow in the school building. Protagonist decides to investigate it and finds a girl sitting alone in a classroom dyed in the red sunset. She does not notice protagonist and leaves the classroom. The next morning he learns that girl is a local mentally ill weirdo Chihaya who is of school age, but does not attend school. He starts to get interested in this girl.
There are three heroines, and Chihaya route does not really stand out that much. All three heroines are involved deeply in each of the routes, so characters are the strong side here. Great voicing adds up to the feeling. Quite a solid read as a representative of pure love genre overall even with below average production values and excessive emphasis on slice-of-life.
11. Sweet Season すぃ～とし～ずん-SWEET SEASON- [021129] Tarte
Yoshinori Asamiya is a high school freshman who is in the shogi club. One day, he meets a girl while she was walking her dog. She's from a different school, but she's on the shogi club as well...
That girl was Ayumi Jinguuji, and Yoshinori can't help but be intrigued about her. Even if at first it was difficult to be her friend, Ayumi seems to have taken a liking to him. Love can be fun, but also painful at times.
First comic part is quite fun, but relationships development looks sudden. Protagonist is a complex character, but some his actions just make him weird. Play time is about 6 hours per route. It's funny that a new special route opens up if you manage to answer all of shogi quiz answers correctly.
12. Uso x Mote ~Usonko Motemote-shon~ うそ×モテ ～うそんこモテモテーション～ [021129] Studio Neko Punch
Main character moves to an academy with boys to girls ratio of 1:9. One day he meets a self-proclaimed flower fairy "Momo" who promises to make his dream come true. Without much thinking, he says he wants to be super popular with girls. That wish is granted on the condition that he can only say lies from now on.
Not a masterpiece, but definitely a game with a funny scenario. The setting of the need to always lie is fully exploited to produce lots of gags, including confession scenes. Momo accompanies protagonist and participates in the gags as well.
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1. Cosplay Jansou Go! Go! コスプレ雀荘 GO!GO! [021101] Ringerbell
Undressing mahjong with earning undressing points and returning in cosplay outfit after clearing.
Card game nukige
2. Kabe Nuki Animation vol.1 壁 ヌキアニメーション vol.1 [021101] Devil's Works
Women of different professions like stewardess, waitress, maiden are caught by the camera during indecent acts.
Nukige
3. Moe yo Baka ~Watashi wa Baka no Kachuu e Yuku. Yo no Baka ni Akita Mono dake wa Tsuitekoi~ 燃えよバカ ～私はバカの渦中へゆく。世のバカに飽きた物だけはついて来い～ [021101] Liar-soft The main story of fandisc: Hijikata from Gyousatsu♥Shinsengumi acts as student detective and infiltrates girl school filled with heroines from Sapphism no Gensou in order to find and defeat evil.
Fandisc
4. Ryoujoku New Town ~Hitozuma Gari~ 凌辱ニュータウン～人妻狩り～ [021101] Maika
Main character knows a secret of magic fist that can touch secret spots inside female body. But to inherit ancestors truly he needs to compete with another guy about who can make more married women do indecent things.
Nukige
5. Sensei 3 せ・ん・せ・い3 [021101] D.O. 1
Shotaro Kondo is a senior at Yumigaura High School. From the day is homeroom teacher, Nanami Seno, saved him from being bullied; he's had feelings for her. One day, Shotaro feels the urge to kiss Nanami. His chemistry teacher witnesses the whole thing. From that point on, Shotaro's life changes, and his feelings for his teacher turn to overpowering lust...
Nukige
6. Zanjinden Shiki no Mura 斬人伝 屍鬼の村 [021101] narratif
A martial artist on a journey comes upon a village attacked by ghosts. He vows to protect the village and its inhabitants to the best of his ability.
Doujin
7. Jewel Garden [021108] White Plum
Kinosato Keichi is your average loafer, who after losing both his job AND place he lived in, with a stroke of luck discovers a part-time job that would provide a place to live in as well! Said job, is to gather data for two weeks by looking after and educating the two humanoid robot [DOLL]s, Ruby and Sapphire. Of course, there is a lot more going on behind the scenes than Keiichi thinks, be it the complicated soap opera relationships going on between his colleagues OR the possible disposal of the DOLL deemed to have ‘inferior data’ when the time limit is up…
Boys Love
8. Kizu Darake no Tenshi-tachi ~Maid Kenshuusei~ 傷だらけの天使たち ～メイド研修生～ [021108] Blue Heaven
At the mansion of shadow cardinal of Japan politics four maids are being trained. But after two weeks of training the owner gets to a hospital. Mansion secretary has to employ protagonist as a temporary instructor. One night some drug is released in the rose garden, and one maid goes missing afterwards. At the same time remaining three maids get insulted by a figure in the mask of a demon. Chaos arises at the mansion, but the missing maid returns. She conveys the truth that has been revealed to her...
Nukige
9. Ohime-sama wa Tokkun Chuu!! ~Seinaru Mahou Shugyou~ お姫様は特訓中!! ～性なる魔法修行～ [021108] Lusterise
Kingdom second princess Celestina is chosen as competitor at a magic tournament where only girls can participate. She is able in magic art, but she can not refill and control the source of magic by will. Main character is hired as her instructor to teach her various sexual pleasure techniques and thus self-control.
Nukige
10. Onna Kyoushi Mesu Dorei 女教師・牝奴隷 [021108] FlyingShine
Class gathers for bathing at the sea, but one girl goes missing. Female teacher and another student follow missing girl's steps to the offshore island. There they encounters a fugitive murderer, and a horrible night starts for the two females.
Nukige
11. Utau Ehon 1 2 3 Hai!! うたう絵本1・2・3 ハイ！！ [021108] Circus
Released by Circus and distributed to the users who registered for it. It's contents could be best described as omake content to some of Circus' earlier titles, namely Aries, Infantaria & Suika.
Fandisc
12. Suzaku no Namida 朱雀の涙 [021111] Tomo & Yuri GAMEZONE
You are the only daughter of an old family in Misaki city. You get a letter of challenge from a certain Phantom Thief Silver Night stating that he is going to steal the Suzaku Manuscript. Knowing that the thief is really real, you informed the police but they brushed it off thinking that it's just a prank. You then contacted a senior from your school whose brother is in a detective agency. Together, you can either look into the matter or enjoy a romantic life; the choice is yours. There are 8 endings and 5 dead-ends.
Otome
13. Aniyome 兄嫁 [021115] Selen
Main character lost his parents in an accident and was brought up by brother as a result. Now protagonist has inferiority complex over his brother. Brother marries kind and gentle girl Miwa. Jealousy burns up to the point when protagonist desires to rob his brother off the happiness in life starting with his beautiful wife. Nukige
14. Hitozuma Hime Club 人妻姫倶楽部 [021115] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
It's amazing how small a world it can be at times. On the first day of his new tutoring job, Issei realizes that the student's mother is the beautiful woman he had a fling with on a vacation in Bali. She recognizes him, too, and soon approaches him with an interesting proposition. “These are my two closest friends,” Chisato says, introducing him to her two best friends, who are also the wives of rich men, ladies of leisure. They admit to Issei that they are bored and want more excitement in their lives. Almost before he realizes what is going on, they have made a pact: Issei will secretly teach them the pleasures of sex and indulge their fantasies.
Nukige
15. Kusabi 楔 [021115] Dark Side
Main character is an unemployed, shy young man. He has no luck in finding a job, so spends his days in a villa given by his father with father's secretary. Protagonist starts to lust for father's secretary and insults her one day. Father starts to bring young girls to the villa with no known reason, but protagonist drowned in lust does not need a reason anymore.
Nukige
16. Rinjin 隣人 [021115] Waffle
Main character has uneventful school life apart of the fact that each morning he rides in a bus together with his attractive neighbor. He gets drawn to her. As he gets in physical relationship with another girl, he starts to seek sensual pleasure with his cute neighbor.
Nukige
17. Ryoujoku Guerilla Choukyou 凌辱ゲリラ調教 [021115] Liquid
Originally a free gift for the buyers of the original release of Ryoujoku Guerilla Gari that mailed to Liquid the survey postcard coming with it. This add-on makes the connection between the moment when Haresu was brainwashed by two cups of tea and its harem ending (incorporated as it is). It adds an alternative ending with Sharumi.
Nukige
18. Ryoujoku Guerilla Gari 凌辱ゲリラ狩り [021115] Liquid 1 2
The anti-government guerrillas are fighting against the government's military forces in the country that is at political unrest. Suddenly, there is an incident in which a woman was raped and murdered in a small village. Guerrillas are the suspected culprit of that incident. Mr. Prosper, the Lieutenant of the military, was sent together with his men to this small village to investigate the incident and hunt down the guerrillas. But the incident was actually all planned out by him so that he could have a gang rape party for himself. All women who were suspected of being guerrillas were arrested. That was the beginning of the insane gang rape party.
Nukige
19. Semishigure 蝉時雨 [021115] Noa 1
This story begins towards the end of the Taisho Era. Kotaro is the third son in the Miwa family, head of one of the largest financial groups in Japan. He is born a weakling, and he looks weird with strange gray hair and red eyes. He was brought up living in a padded cell, but his oldest brother, hoping for the best, has arranged for him to live in a villa. He finds life at the villa pretty boring, until he meets one of the maids, Mika Sakuraba. She's beautiful, but she looks very unhappy. He tries to accept her as she is, but to his astonishment, she comes to his room and asks him to spend the night with her! Being the gentleman he is, he of course turns down the offer, but she insists that it's her job, and she forces him to do it!!! Ever since, they spend their nights together...
Nukige
20. Discode-2 Niretsu Haihan DISCODE-2 二律背反 [021116] Soft Circle Courreges
For as long as I've lived, I've had something I shouldn't have between my legs. A man's sexual organ. And lately, it has begun to itch. I don't know how long this situation will last, but I have to cover up until it settles down. The player takes control of the hermaphrodite girl Futaba (name can be changed). It is the player's task to relieve her of her sexual frustration so that she can hide her condition from her environment. There are three stats in the game: stamina, lust and money. Depending on the stats and items, various events will occur!
Nukige
21. Kichiku no Matsuro 鬼畜の末路 [021116] Skyhunter
Boring repeated everyday life and unsatisfied desire pushes ordinary school teacher to assault female students.
Doujin
22. Chaos Queen Ryouko 4 Moriyama Yuri & Ikumi Shimai Heidon Hen カオスQueen遼子4 森山由梨＆郁美姉妹併呑編 [021122] Scoop
Shinichi works as a temporary lecturer in a private school. He stays at a private family keeping a glamorous, but unstable position. It's summer now and the family he stays in goes overseas. Suddenly a cute girl Yuri shows up in his life certainly aiming to marry him.
Nukige
23. Gematria: Code [021122] Forst 1
The hero of the game awakens in a office of a seemingly abandoned building. He doesn't remember much, his past is blurred. He knows that his name is Hinoe, and that he was brought to the building by a secret organization that fights demons. A monster has invaded the building, and your task is to vanquish it. As you begin your investigation, you realize that your arm contains powers similar to those possessed by the demon. You are determined to find out more about your past, and to reveal the truth behind your mission. Gematria: Code plays similarly to Savior, being an adventure game with real time movement through 3D environments. Story-related events are mostly depicted as still CG sequences. There are no puzzles or action elements, and the gameplay consists entirely of exploration.
Nukige
24. Kizumono no Gakuen 2 ~Case of Saint Spica~ 傷モノの学園2～case of saint spica～ [021122] Rasen
School life is uneventful till one day when earthquake breaks out. School gets cut from the outer world, and madness feast begins in the school with no escape.
Nukige
25. Mitsu 密 [021122] Rouge 1
Our hero lost his parents in an accident when he was small. He's a very depressed and poor college student, and worse, he's still a virgin. By fluke, he gets a managing position at the dorm of a famous all-girls school. He's pretty excited to be around so many pretty girls! But of course, he chickens out and can't do anything. One day, he finds an old well near the dorm. He encounters an evil spirit who wants to unite with him. He concedes and the evil spirit is revived. With this evil power, our hero begins hunting for sacrifices. Naturally enough, his prey will be the pretty dorm girls!!!
Nukige
26. Ogeretsu Daihyakka オゲレツ大百科 [021122] West Vision
Main character is a researcher. He finds drawings of a robot in the rubble of a collapsed wall of the mansion. He manages to attract an investor for robot creation project, and now he needs to send progress reports at regular time intervals. But cute robot girl is worth it.
Nukige
27. Peeping Web [021122] Sweetpain
Main character is a popular student, but with a peeping hobby. He starts to live alone and now can experiment with peeping devices as much as he wants. As he learns secrets of girls, he starts being obsessed with them beyond limitations of peeping.
Nukige
28. Shinjin Kangofu Miho ~Juukyuusai no Kutsujoku Nikki~ 新人看護婦・美帆～十九歳の屈辱日記～ [021122] Anim
Nurse Miho notices panties in her locker dirty with semen. As she tries to find the culprit she gets assaulted and gradually turns into a sex slave.
Nukige
29. Tsumishiro no Wa ~Yakata ni Himerareshi Shinjitsu~ 罪しろの環～館に秘められし真実～ [021122] Happy West
Main character has been separated from his mother in the childhood. Now he gets a telegram about his mother funeral. He reunites with his sister and the maid of the mansion. However, cursed memories of the past linger in this place. One day sister brings him a collar asking to put it on her...
Nukige
30. Yami no Koe II 闇の声II [021122] Black Cyc 1
Sayoko sends K off the island to a secluded private academy, where she makes an ally of the principal and begins to influence the students and faculty, slowly degenerating the entire school. However, one of the students is a miko who resists K's influence.
Nukige
31. Dr. Rin ni Kiitemite! ~Koi no Happy Four Season~ Dr.リンにきいてみて! 〜恋のハッピーフォーシーズン〜 [021128] Hudson Soft 1
A dating sim where you get put in the shoes of Meirin and can go for four different boys.
Otomege
32. Caliz [021129] Cronus
One day protagonist confesses his feelings to one of the maids that brought him up. The feelings are mutual, and two young persons get involved into passionate relationship. It's two more weeks till father arrives from the overseas trip. Let's have fun during this time.
Nukige
33. Dokusen Kango 独占看護 [021129] Empty
Main character gets hospitalized after an accident. When he wakes up he sees a smile of an ideal nurse over him. He does not know how dangerous his trauma is, but he is ready to act proactively during his hospitalization.
Nukige
34. Ecchi na Bunny-san wa Kirai? 2 エッチなバニーさんは嫌い？2 [021129] ZyX 1 2 3 4 5
Wanting to forget bitter breakup with his dear Sumika, Takatsuki Kazuma chose the farthest place he could to run to: Europe. There he learned about wine and how to serve it with style, and eventually became employed as an expert sommelier at fine restaurants. After several years of this lifestyle, he crossed paths with his former love. Sumika had grown even more elegant and beautiful since they had been together. Their meeting brought back all the old memories of their love. When she told him that she'd been made manager of a new high-class restaurant, he found himself agreeing to work there before he knew what he was doing. Upon his return to Japan, he prepared himself for his new employment at "Platinum: Oceanside", a very special restaurant which offers superb food, an elegant atmosphere, and to his surprise -- incredibly cute waitresses who dress in sexy bunny girl costumes! Luckily for him, these aren't just your average bunny girls. They're extremely horny, and aggressively approach Kazuma to have their desires fulfilled.
Nukige
35. Gezamushi 下座蟲-ゲザムシ- [021129] Flady
A scion of a rich and powerful family gets a vacation that he plans to spend chasing girls and committing them to sensual pleasures.
Nukige
36. Itazura 4 ~Ore-tachi no Sentou Sharyou~ 悪戯4～俺たちの戦闘車輌～ [021129] Interheart
Main character is a molester with multiple arrests. His jail time really decreased his enthusiasm. One day he witnesses a group of molesters on the train who coordinate their actions on an internet bulletin board. With a group of four people it's much easier to conduct mischief and hide the traces of it, so protagonist joins them.
Nukige
37. Ore no Shita de Agake 俺の下であがけ [021129] Alice Blue 1
You are Kurosaki the president of a large company. Your hobby is to entrap guys and make them your slaves. You meet 3 guys and decide to 'blackmail' them into becoming your slaves by putting them into as much debt as you can allowing you to buy them.
Boys Love
38. Sensei Da-isuki 先生だーいすき [021129] Score
Kazuya wants to be a teacher and he is in the middle of job hunting. But it doesn't go well.... One day, his aunt offers him, "Do you want to work for my school?" He immediately accepts her offer and comes to her school. He joins the school dormitory and starts his new life at the school. His love romance with girls is about to start....
Lolicon
39. Tanjoubi ~Kayoizuma (Jishou) Nikki~ 誕生日～通い妻（自称）日記～ [021129] Ivory
Main heroine is a lively student who looks up to her painter older brother. But as her body matures, she starts to have strange dreams about her brother while body begins to feel weird.
Nukige
40. Tobira Nuki Animation vol.2 扉 ヌキアニメーション Vol.2 [021129] Devil's Works
A practical collection of looped animation for releasing some steam.
Nukige
Year 2003 proved to be profound in every way. Great variety of masterpieces suiting everyone's taste.
New portion of Visual Novel Openings 2003 with songs.
My list of masterpieces in 2003:
Ashita Deatta Shoujo
Clover Heart's
Cross†Channel
Eien no Aselia -The Spirit of Eternity Sword-
Gin no Hebi Kuro no Tsuki
Interlude
Konata yori Kanata made
Kurenai
Lovers ~Koi ni Ochitara...
My Merry Maybe
Moekan
Natsuyume Yawa
Routes
Saya no Uta
Sayonara
Tenshi no Inai 12-gatsu
True Remembrance
Uchi no Imouto no Baai (Heart)
Yukizakura
Yumeria
Zanmataisei Demonbane
I consider only a handful of visual novels to be 10/10. And among this whole list only Cross†Channel has an honor to be present in it. It's an eternal masterpiece. The rivals are prominent, but only worth 9/10 at best for me.
I intend to make the poll for extra review of the year a good tradition. There are always more games that I'd like to review, but can't due to review per month limitations or a very strong opponent in particular month. I'll try to limit the choice to 5 untranslated candidates at max to not water down the results (since there are plenty of videos and reviews on translated ones already). So I kindly ask to choose among the following visual novels:
Daikuuji Kiki Ippatsu!
Kattobi!
Lovers ~Koi ni Ochitara...~
Routes
Shiki to Hitsuji to Warau Tsuki ~Cry for the Moon~
Paradise Lost and Fate/Stay Night are the only masterpieces of the month, but Paradise Lost wins almost almost in every field in comparison.
1. Paradise Lost [040116] light 1 2 3
Paradise Lost takes off in a dystopian setting that comes off as much more blatantly dark than its successors’. The stage is in a city known only as Sodom, which is separated from the outside world known as “Zoar”. Ruled by the gang known as the Infinite Viper, the law of “the strong eat the weak” is rampant throughout Sodom to the point that if you’ve lived beyond the age of 20, you most likely have murdered someone in order to do so. It is widely believed that outside lies a peaceful world free of the everyday violence so frequently seen in Sodom, but there is a closely guarded Gate that prevents residents of Sodom from leaving so no one has actually left and returned to confirm.
There are English reviews.
2. Stellvia: Uchuu no Stellvia stellvia 宇宙のステルヴィア[040116] Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc.
In 2167, a supernova explosion engulfed the Earth with a wave of electromagnetic energy, turning the sky green and causing countless disasters. After recovering from that first wave, humanity started putting up defences to protect itself, and by the year 2356, a network of six orbiting space stations, the Foundations, now guards the Earth from a second supernova wave that is expected to arrive later that year. Each Foundation houses a high school for promising young space cadets, and eager 15-year-old Katase Shima has just been accepted to Stellvia, the second Foundation. Making friends, going to class, learning to pilot a light spacecraft — it is all part of the high school experience, hundreds of miles above Earth aboard space station Stellvia. In the PlayStation 2 game, the player assumes the role of a new student who has enrolled at the Stellvia Space Station Foundation. Each day he assigns various commands on what to do such as studying or resting in the same type of gameplay that Tokimeki Memorial has except for weekends since there is no school then. At the weekends he may invite a character on a date. There are various events to be seen in the game and there are 10 multiple endings. The game resembles the aforementioned Tokimeki Memorial game series in many ways (though in Tokimeki Memorial the player only assigns various commands for the coming week and not for each day)
Of course, another SIM...
3. Gyakuten Saiban 3 逆転裁判3 [040123] Capcom 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
This game is the last of the series featuring Phoenix Wright as the main character, and through its course, gives more details on the past of important characters such as Mia Fey and Phoenix Wright, while tying up the loose ends on the storyline set up in the previous games.
The gameplay in Trials and Tribulations remains the same as both previous titles, including the use of Psyche-Locks introduced in Justice for All. A minor change is that the player will take on the role of different people other than Phoenix Wright for certain cases within the game, but this does not alter the game mechanics.
Game is localized and has English reviews.
4. Marebito ~Soshite Sekai wa Hairo o Ushinau~ マレビト～そして世界は色を失う～ [040123] Juno
1980s. Main character Kensuke lives a normal school life and prepares for a cultural festival. However, one day he starts to see a mysterious man hiding from him, and that changes his peaceful life. He remembers tales of Marebito which is either a production of unshaped human fantasies or a demon. Will Kensuke get it all from his youth or get trapped in a strange incident?
We basically must determine what nature Marebito has and get development depending on that. This whole concept felt weird to me.
5. Moke Moke Taishou Dendou Musume Arisa もけもけ大正電動娘ARISA [040123] Mixwill Soft
A strange android girl falls from the sky and crash-lands into Shinichirou's cafe, causing her to register him as her new master. Helping with chores isn't Arisa's niche, but she manages to fit in with his sister, Kotomi, until a new girl shows up looking for "Fire Bee". Through a series of sexual encounters, Arisa is found out to be the weapon "Fire Bee" Shinichirou's father was working on before he disappeared. Now the military is desperate to get her back at any cost.
A slapstick comedy with absolutely useless scenario, because of contradictions and bakage direction. It may be a curious game among kusoge, but it is still a kusoge.
6. Ensemble ~Maioriru Hane no Ensemble~ ENSEMBLE～舞降る羽のアンサンブル～ [040130] DreamSoft
Fifteen years ago, Hiyoshi Kaede got separated from his sister after the divorce of his parents. They planted a maple tree on their house's garden as a way to remember each other. Now, he returns to the tree once again...
Game is quite long, but without any twisted scenario turns or excitement. Some heroines from previous F&C games are featured casually. A typical F&C game without individuality.
7. Fate/Stay Night [040130] Type-Moon 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
----The one who obtains the Holy Grail will have any wish come true.
The Holy Grail War. A great ritual that materializes the greatest holy artifact, the Holy Grail. There are two conditions to participate in this ritual: to be a magus, and to be a "Master" chosen by the Holy Grail. There are seven chosen Masters, and seven classes of Servants; beings akin to superhumans with incredible fighting abilities. There is only one Holy Grail. If you wish for a miracle, prove that you are the strongest with your powers. Emiya Shirou is a high school student who has learned rudimentary magic from his father and uses it to fix objects. He finds himself engaged in the Holy Grail war as he gets attacked by a Servant. As he gets cornered, he somehow summons his own Servant and manages to stay alive long enough to compete against the other Masters.
Game is localized and has English reviews.
8. Ouritsu Nekomimi Gakuen ~Anata No Tame No Hatsujouki♪~ 王立ネコミミ学園～あなたのための発情期♪～ [040130] Dress
There is a mysterious school far to the east that is attended by students and teachers with animal ears. These are fake ears, but it's an important tradition of the school. But protagonist recognizes in a new transfer student a real half-human girl. He gets culture festival executive committee member position to get to know various student girls better.
Game is a moege with neko-girls. Truth be told, girls are strangely realistic. Scenario is usual humorous one. It's only uniqueness of characters that makes the story and the jokes passable.
9. Shuffle! [040130] Navel 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Shuffle! follows the romantic life of Tsuchimi Rin a Japanese high schooler, who finds himself being sought after by a variety of girls. The world of Shuffle! consists of humans living in harmony with gods and devils. Despite their respective positive and negative connotations, both races are equally kind and good-natured. Your task is to choose a lover from the five girls the game offers.
Game is localized and has English reviews.
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1. WW&F ~Taishou Teito Denkitan~ WW&F～大正帝都伝奇譚～ [040109] MBS Truth
Taisho era. Main character is a detective who gets a strange request - to replace water in the body where water level decreases. At the same time an incident happens in a mansion concerning philosopher's stone. What's the relationship between the two incidents?
Lolicon
2. Tsuki no Nai Michi 月のない路 [040112] Suisen
Consequent disappearances start to happen in a neighboring town. Four people witness a suspicious person on the way home from school. Main character decides to investigate this incident.
Doujin
3. Black Pencil [040115] ATP Projects
You are Kiyoshi. Living a normal life, only a dream has been haunting you for a long time. In it, you see the death of a young woman. You then find out that she really exists.
Doujin
4. Yakin Byoutou Ni 夜勤病棟・弐 [040115] Mink
The elite doctor Kuwabara couldn't forget his feelings towards Nanase Ren, whom he had loved in his youth. He changed the hospitals he worked at, one after another, to look for her, and finally he met her again at the St. Cattleya Hospital. However, her attitude was remote and his love couldn't be fulfilled. To make matters worse, he received photographs depicting Ren being molested. Ren had been turned into a lewd woman by Hirasaka through the woman body experiment when she was at the St. Julianna Hospital. He was disappointed and he lost his mind...
Nukige
5. Eden Final [040116] Forst
Glen's capture puts an end to the war, and "Caucus" returns the the Earth's orbit. However, aliens sitting in Glen's body manage to separate from the body and infiltrate the ship. Ship's crew forces Glen to collaborate to find and eliminate the aliens on the ship.
Nukige
6. Komokyun!! ~Heart ni Yureru Tamashi no Fandisc~ こもきゅん！！ ～はぁとに揺れる魂のＦＡＮディスク～ [040116] Unison Shift
Crossover fandisc with side stories featuring heroines from Komorebi ni Yureru Tamashii no Koe and Mune Kyun! Heart de Koi Shi-te-ru ~Onii-chan Motto Daisuki~. There is also a mahjong minigame and Uno-styled card game where the points earned can be used to unlock extra CGs and BGM mode, as well as various other extras including wallpapers, system voices, desktop icons and a clock application from the in-game shop.
Fandisc
7. Honoka-chan no Abunai Orusuban 穂乃花ちゃんのあぶないお留守番 [040119] Studio-74
School suddenly announces closure for a week, and a group of children get to stay at home taking care of each other while parents are at work. What kind of experience awaits Honoka-chan?
Doujin
8. Hard Love ハードラヴ [040123] D.O.
Main character grows a strong distrust for women after losing mother as a result of divorce. But living with a beautiful aunt and younger cousin gradually helps him to open his heart. However, a shocking incident happens that strengthens his distrust again. Protagonist starts to fantaically seek his cousin's love as the only person he can ever trust.
Nukige
9. Kateinai Choukyou 家庭内調教 [040123] Guilty
Main character lives alone after losing his parents. But one day his less than lover more than friend Tomomi's parents go bankrupt. To save his friend from sacrificing herself he needs either a huge sum of money or fulfilling several creditor's conditions. One of them is to train girl of the family as masochist in just two months before her marriage.
Nukige
10. Kurobara wa Yoru ni Saku 黒薔薇は夜に咲く [040123] D-Angel 1
It is the end of the 19th century in the British Empire. Nefas is the last of an influential and wealthy bloodline that has slowly perished from an incurable hereditary illness. Growing evermore jealous of the generous health others take for granted, his anger once threatened to selfishly lash out and harm everyone it could reach, a situation suddenly changed upon his chance encounter with a young girl named Malizia. Feeling emotions he thought long forgotten, Nefas now faces the dilemma of giving the object of his desire everything he can… both in pleasure and misery.
Nukige
11. OL Gari ~Nureta Office~ OL狩り～濡れたオフィス～ [040123] West Vision
Main character is an ordinary employee in a fashion company. He is denied promotion and eventually fired. He finds a job at a rival company, and this time he intends to use his grim experience to mercilessly manipulate co-workers and get to the top.
Nukige
12. Succubu ☆ Soon! さっきゅば☆SOON！ [040123] Score 1 2
The protagonist's father makes a deal with a devil. Shortly thereafter, a succubus visits the hero's home. She was there to fulfill his father's contract. However, she falls in love with our hero at first sight, and decides to live with him and his sister-in-law instead. Soon the succubus' mother comes knocking, and even she wants to move in on the action! Of course, being succubae, they need to get laid once in a while to keep going--might as well give them what they want!
Nukige
13. Sweet Hearts [040123] Sweet Hearts
Main character is a second grader who leads a decent school life with his three female friends and one male friend. He starts dating Haruka, but relations develop slowly. One day the whole company decides to go on a hot spring trip. However, only Haruka comes to the meeting place. Overcome with shyness the two people start their romantic vacations.
Nukige
14. Under Ground ~Chikarou de Naku Kohitsuji-tachi~ Under Ground～地下牢で泣く小羊たち～ [040123] Deeper
Main character starts to live with his uncle after parents' death in a traffic accident. Uncle is a pastor who has close ties with the underworld. Under threat of losing life protagonist follows uncle training for three years, and now it's time for him to teach cute lambs the teachings of God by himself...
Nukige
15. Yuukyou Gangu 2 遊狂玩具2 [040123] Nigred
Main character has reputation of a hooligan in a school of free spirits. He insults his home teacher and makes her sex slave. Under threat of breaking up he forces her to lure female students to his net...
Nukige
16. Mai Season 妹し～ずん [040124] Haikara Kissa
Main character spends his day lazily when the door bell starts to ring. The visitor is his younger sister who comes to live together with him for a while. What a bother... but maybe it turns out fun.
Doujin
17. Revenge ~Yuganda Fukushuu~ Ｒｅｖｅｎｇｅ ～歪んだ復讐～ [040125] Studio Sepia
Main character gets out of prison after sentence for failed rape attempt. He swears to have revenge over the victim woman and prepares the worst imaginable insult.
Doujin
18. Heian Onshijo Koi Emaki 平安御子女恋絵巻 [040125] Aya no Kuni
A fanmade visual novel inspired by the novel "Heian Onshijo Souranki".
Doujin
19. Shoujo Taimashi Misato ~Ingoku no Fukushuusha~ 少女退魔師美里～淫獄の復讐者～ [040126] Palette Enterprise
Masuzu, the brave little girl fighting against evils by herself ends up screwed with swollen big tentacles! Cums again and again, they are finally penetrated anal, and have an explosive orgasm!
Nukige
20. Wings Innocent [040126] Blue Crescent Moon
A story about dormitory students that share a room and gradually get closer without being able to convey their feelings. Until one day...
Boys Love
21. Gimai - Hitomi 義妹・仁美 [040130] Mercure 1 2 3 4 5 6
Things were going just fine until my father suddenly announced he was getting re-married, and his new wife and daughter were going to live with us. What am I supposed to do now? My new step-mother is beautiful, but my new step-sister, Hitomi, is fascinating. She is so fragile and gentle. The way she smiles at me and tries to please me….I think she wants me. I….I think I want her. Whenever she is around me, I just want to possess her. How far can I push her? What will she allow me to do to her? “Please, Brother, I'll do anything for you. Just please don't hate me…..”
Nukige
22. Haa Haa Telepath ~Hajimete na no ni Chou Binkan~ はぁ・はぁ・テレパス ～はじめてなのに超BINKAN～ [040130] Saga Planets
Main character crashes with a transfer student Mio at the staircase, and after that he starts to hear her voice. One day he hears her calling to come to the backyard, and that encounter makes them lovers. He decides to try his acquired knowledge on other girls as well.
Nukige
23. Himitsu no Houkago ~Abunai Dousei Seikatsu~ ひ・み・つの放課後 ～危ない同棲性活～ [040130] Vitamin
Main character works as a teacher. Director's daughter crashes to his new mortage flat and suggest cohabitation. Protagonist can not go against director's will with all the debts acquired, so two young people start to live together.
Nukige
24. Kyrie ~Blood Royal 3~ Kyrie ~Blood Royal 3~ [040130] Cherry Soft
After the beginning of the age of the white princess, in this world is always snowing. The protagonist has lost the momories of his past, after having joined to the army he is soon called "Silver Wolf". He receives the order to go the capital of the celestial maidens to rape the white and the blue princess. The white princess is the actual virgin consecrated to the deity and the blue princess will be the next one. Will the snow go on falling? What will the protagonist do to make the summer to be back?
Nukige
25. Maple Colors H [040130] Apricot
Compared to the original, Maple Colors H is more for fun (i.e. “H”) than character development and gameplay. You play with the familiar characters from the original in a series in some random plots.
Nukige
26. Midorigafuchi Yotogi no Mura no Oyome-sama 碧ヶ淵 夜伽の村のお嫁様 [040130] Nel
Main character's mother dies, and relatives arrive for her funeral. That evening niece comes to his room and starts hugging. Due to special air in the room protagonist can not resist and robs her of virginity - that in addition to an affair with another relative he was having. Then comes the third girl, and all of them turn out to be bride candidates. Protagonist needs to live with the for seven days to determine the best bride for himself.
Nukige
27. Nyuukan Nurse! 乳感ナースっ！ [040130] SQUEEZ
Main heroine is a rookie nurse. Her main problem is A cup breast size. One day she confuses orange liquid in the laboratory for juice, and her breast becomes G cup due to excessive development of hormones. That transformation also affects her sensuality.
Nukige
28. Oshiete Agechau 2 教えてあげちゃう2 [040130] Trabulance
Main character is a first grader with no confidence to confess to the loved one. While his brother is away, he starts to live with brother's wife who soon invites another girl to the flat. One day brother's wife proposes to use her body to practice and gain confidence. As naughty lessons start, more people get involved.
Nukige
29. Pink Haze [040130] Hanjuku Nora
Main character wakes up from fever symptoms in the middle of the night. He makes a call to the nearby clinic in search of consultation, but doctor unexpectedly suggests coming over. What will happen at this six tatami space at night?
Doujin Nukige
30. Puriimo ~Please Teach! My Sister~ プリいも～Please teach！ My Sister～ [040130] Petit Pajamas
Main character witnesses an angel coming down from the sky in a nearby park. Surprisingly, she turns out to be the new school teacher who needs teaching practice on Earth to become a full-fledged instructor in Heaven. If her angelic heritage is revealed, she is going to be disqualified, so she suggest to live together with protagonist and his sister. Teacher is a disaster at doing house chores, and sister wants to make memories with her brother before going to study in Vienna. Another summer story starts here.
Nukige
31. Ryouki ~Midara ni Hibiku Fukushuu no Rondo~ 凌姫～淫らに響く復讐の輪舞曲～ [040130] Psy-chs 1
he main character is Van Renbork, a fallen noble that, together with the elder sister, was abused throughout his youth for the pleasure of the royal consorts of Estoul, a 1700's France-like kingdom. It's only after causing the horrible suicide of Van's sister that the royal family decides to definitely shut Van into the palace dungeons, under the (true and proved) charge of conspiracy against the Crown. Ryouki's story begins many years later, after the death of the royal consorts, when a truly unusual visitor goes to see Van: Eldia, the late king's arrogant and snobbish elder daughter. Plotting against her own little sister for the succession to the throne, Eldia reaches an evil agreement with Van, freeing him. But Eldia (and many others, too!) will be VERY sorry for this foolishness, because Van, driven from a lifetime of hatred, can now implement his own plans, turning the royal palace into a den of iniquity and causing the ruin of the kingdom.
Nukige
32. Soshite Bokura wa, そして僕らは、 [040130] Spray
A group of people goes to an island to shoot a video. While filming, they discover a mystery about the island.
Boys Love
3days ~Michiteyuku Toki no Kanata de~ is VN of the Month. I'm intrigued by positive reviews of MinDeaD BlooD ~Shihaisha no Tame no Kyoushikyoku~ . I'm going to review it and develop an opinion on it.
1. Cosple Tea Party こすぷれ☆ティーパーティー [040604] Softhouse Dew
Main character gets drag, ged to an alumni assotiation meeting by his two friends who wish to temporarily revive high school cosplay club consisting of six pretty girls. Protagonist gets attracted by their charm, especially by "rabbit" girl Yuka.
A moege with dozens of spontaneous events rather than an integrative story.
2. Dice-ki! ~Koi wa Un Makase~ ダイス・き！～恋は運任せ～ [040604] Studio B-Room
Main character advances to a new school and falls in love with a woman at first sight. However, childhood friend and classmates notice the change and are eager to change his view on women. Is love just a dice throw or it's possible to shake off annoying love candidates?
A really bad board SIM game.
3. Koyuki no Aka 小雪の朱－コユキノアカ－ [040604] Discovery
School is closed due to raging snowstorm. Main character manages to get there due to a promise given to his girlfriend. But weather deteriorates rapidly, and there is no way back anymore. A group of students and a teacher get trapped at this empty building in the sea of snow. There is not much to do, so students organize to pursue legendary school wonders. It's not mystery that they find, but something totally unexpected...
Love story in hindered conditions won't get old, not after those KID games. Transformation of characters is depicted well even though sometimes it feels that some text is missing to describe motivations - actions feel sudden at times. There is fantasy element, but it feels natural in the school wonders setting. It is a nice change from the usual school romance games.
4. Majipuri -Wonder Cradle- まじぷり -Wonder Cradle- [040604] Purple Software
One day, the protagonist Makoto Himekawa was going to his school, Shiroha Academy, when he came upon a girl going crazy by a vending machine. He went to help her, but ended up drenching her in soda instead. After a light argument, the protagonist christened this girl "Trouble Woman". Due to this he was late for school, and barely made it to homeroom. And there, it seemed that there was an exchange student. But that exchange student was ... the "Trouble Woman"!
Thus, with the appearance of the exchange student Yuuri Ashitaba, Makoto's ordinary school life took a sudden turn for the decidedly non-boring, and through the athletic festival, the cultural festival, and even the autumn leaf festival, the chaos of his life quickly increased. And then, he was swallowed up in an unexpected incident ...
Kind of onii-chan game. Someone counted that onii-chan is pronounced 997 times here. Quality varies from one root to another. Game's definitely not for scenario-oriented people.
5. Natsu no Tomoshibi 夏の燈火 [040606] 1
One day a young boy arrived at this village, holding a letter in one hand and his sister's hand in the other.
They had no place left to go but the address written in the letter he was holding. Since they traveled with one-way tickets, there was no way back. In the end, they were accepted as a part of the family living at the address written in the message, and started their new life in the village. A village full of spirits and protected by gods summoned into mirrors...
It's a doujin game, but since it's first Looseboy scenario I won't block it. It's a straight nakige with only two heroines for capture, about 6-7 hours per heroine. There is just one H event for each heroine. Game has to do with sickness and is not really interesting per se, especially with the rural monster introduction. But game text is really good. Only length actually reminds that it's still a doujin game.
6. MinDeaD BlooD ~Shihaisha no Tame no Kyoushikyoku~ MinDeaD BlooD ～支配者の為の狂死曲～ [040611] Black Cyc 1 2 3 4 5
Just off the coast of mainland Japan is the island of Chisakura, home to a city of the same name, where the heralds of darkness are slowly gathering. Host to a prosperous economy, with a nationally renowned academic institution for young women and an equally upstanding medical research facility, the community has unwittingly attracted the attentions of dreaded supernatural creatures with few equals: vampires. Yet even these immortal predators have daring individuals who hunt them, and a secret war between the two powers is quickly racing to an apocalyptic conclusion. At the center of this nightmarish struggle is a man who has the potential to tip the scales in favor of one side or the other. His choice of allies - the hunters, the vampires, or none at all - may very well determine the fate of humanity and the undead.
There are English reviews.
7. Oratorio ~Umi yori Aoi Natsu no Kanata de~ ORATORIO～海より青い夏の彼方で～ [040611] Unchain
Main character studies at geophysics faculty. He receives a report mentioning his native island being in danger of volcano eruption this summer. He arrives to his native town and meets a lot of relatives and childhood acquaintances there. Strangely, volcano shows no signs of activity yet besides slight shakes...
Game shines for its directorship and animation. Both protagonist and heroines are depicted very realistically, but there's not much in the story department, to be honest. There is unique charm and fresh ideas in this game which alone qualifies for a masterpiece.
8. Tantei Jinguuji Saburou Series No.03: Kiken na Futari 探偵 神宮寺三郎 Series No.03 危険な二人 [040623] WorkJam 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Detective Hunter and his assistant Yulia have been invited to watch Yulia's friend Sabin participate in a motorcycle race. It doesn't all go too well when he crashes in the race, but when the racing team checks up on him it turns out to be Thomas, Sabin's apprentice, under the helmet. The mystery deepens as another friend of Yulia is found murdered in a hotel room.
There are English reviews.
9. DearS ディアーズ [040624] Vridge Inc. 1
A visual novel based on the manga and anime series "DearS". A "game original" character, not seen in the manga or anime, makes an appearance.
Takeya Ikuhara is a temperamental seventeen-year-old Japanese student attending the fictitious Koharu High School with a strong prejudice against the DearS. Due to a childhood scare, he believes that the aliens are fake, worthless beings that have generated nationwide overhype and are secretly plotting to take control of Earth. On his way home from school he discovers a homeless DearS who, after fainting and much to his annoyance, he feeds and shelters in his apartment. The girl, who he nicknames Ren, is infantile and friendly, and grows obsequious and dependent upon Takeya, a responsibility he tries to disassociate himself from. Her oblivious tenacity keeps her around, however, and over time, realizing Ren's genuine care and empathy for him, Takeya has a change of heart. Unfortunately, because Ren is deemed defective, DearS headquarters orders her arrested.
SIM games are just no go for me.
10. Memories Off ~Sorekara~ Memories Off ～それから～ [040624] KID 1 2 3
Inori was looking forward to go to the annual Ashikajima Fireworks Display with Isshu this summer. They had made a promise to always go to the fireworks festival together, since that was the place that they orginally became a couple. But Isshu said he wouldn't able to go because of his part time job. That day would fall on their two year anniversary. Inori went alone to their memorable place, the church... and she began to recall the previous two years.
Fourth game in the Memories Off series (subtitled "Kakeganai Omoi wo Norikoete"). It takes place one year and a half after Omoide ni Kawaru Kimi ~Memories Off~ (Omoide ni Kawaru Kimi ~Memories Off~)
There are English reviews.
11. 3days ~Michiteyuku Toki no Kanata de~ 3days～満ちてゆく刻の彼方で～ [040625] Lass 1 2
The game revolves around the main character's 3 days repeating over and over again, where he is constantly being killed in the third day of the story (in various ways) but magically being brought back to life in the first day to repeat his 3 days. Your goal here is to solve the mystery behind the death of your senpai and also to find the identity of the murderer.
There is an English review.
12. Angel Egg [040625] You & I
You're a high school student who's secretly an accomplished writer.
All the upperclassmen of the drama club suddenly decide to quit due to a conflict, and the remains of the club need to do a play for the upcoming school festival. You end up being responsible for the script.
Everything is painful about this game. Text depictions, boring characters, inconsistencies... It's a light work, but can't really be recommended.
13. Doko e Iku no, Ano Hi 何処へ行くの、あの日 [040625] Moonstone 1 2
I killed a girl. Who was she...?
The protagonist, Kunimi Kyousuke can't remember the memories of his distant past. Even the details are vague, merely appearing as flashes in his heart. "I am certainly the one who with this hand did that to the lone girl", he keeps thinking, but can't even remember the time or place it happened. But the memories are slowly entering his mind. He remembers the corpse... How will Kyousuke deal with his supposed sin?
There are English reviews.
14. Innocence pain ~Michiru Yami Kakeru Tsuki~ Innocence pain～満ちる闇 欠ける月～ [040625] Ankh
Main character is a new teacher at girls academy where witch legend is popular. He pays little attention to this story, but one day occult-looking events lead to student injury. Similar incidents continue while the culprit remains unknown. Protagonist starts his own investigation.
Game is described as a suspense story, but it's mostly normal SOL in girls school. There is very short story involved, so they have to pour lots of water and insert insult scenes at random. Game produces rather weak impression.
15. Miko-san Hosoude Hanjouki 巫女さん細腕繁盛記 [040625] Studio Ryokucha
Main character receives priest education and returns from Tokyo to his home town. But the local shrine is on the verge of bankruptcy. Protagonist needs to work hard alongside cute shrine maidens and childhood friends. Who will be his girlfriend during the festival?
Light comedy game, but of mediocre quality. First half is somewhat saved by gags, but there is no charm of the heroines. The hinted conflict with the enemy has thin presence.
16. Night Wizard Mahou Taisen ~The Peace Plan to Save the World~ ナイトウィザード 魔法大戦～The Peace Plan to Save the World～ [040625] Rune
Peaceful school life is interrupted by a transfer student arrival. Newcomer vows to kill main character who has his abilities awakened shortly afterwards. With the power of science and magic protagonist needs to defeat demons and save the world in card battles.
You need only wins, so upon losing in battle game just restarts the card battle. World is based on tabletop RPG Night Wizard released in 2002, so is rather rich in detail. Each route takes some 10 hours, but it's impossible to skip battles, so it get bothersome from the second lap. Each heroine has two H events, plus there's a number of sub-heroines. There's nothing that stands out here.
17. Rakuen ~Ai Kawarazu na Boku no Baai~ らくえん～あいかわらずなぼく。の場合～ [040625] TerraLunar 1 2 3 4 5
The player takes the role of a nameless protagonist that the script refers to as Boku. Boku is a ronin that moves to Tokyo in hopes of being able to study and prepare himself for the university entrance exams. His hobbies as an artist and the myriad of temptations of the big city have kind of caused him to waste his time away, playing games and watching anime instead of focusing on studying. His need for a job eventually landed him a job at MoonEarth, an eroge studio that at the time was needing a character designer. The studio's fate takes a turn for the worse when the scenario writer decides to entirely drop out just as the crew is producing their first title.
Seeing as the fledgeling studio is under a lot of scrutiny from its parent companies, this turn of events places MoonEarth in a very sticky situation. As such, the story focuses on MoonEarth's budget problems (the project director likes gambling budget money away by playing pachinko), scheduling issues (the lack of a scenario writer means EVERYTHING from character designs to CGs to BGMs and Voice Actor casting is delayed as well), and eventual crunch-time (since as of the game's start, MoonEarth has one month to create a game from scratch) as they trudge their way to releasing their first title, a game called Ai kawarazu na boku.
There are English reviews.
18. Sora no Iro, Mizu no Iro そらのいろ、みずのいろ [040625] Ciel 1
Asa & Natsume are both in love with Hajime Saisho. Instead of fighting over him, they both promised to share him equally. However, both girls have to leave him by the end of the summer. As the summer days go by, they each spend their precious time with Hajime, while the day of their fated departure draws near.
Game was in many people's wish-lists, but upon release it could not really boast something more than just another Tony's works graphics borderline nukige. It failed to please pure love fans because of its NTR tilt. It could not please nukige fans because of long exhausting monotonous routes without letting any steam out.
19. Suzukuri Dragon 巣作りドラゴン [040625] SofthouseChara 1 2 3 4 5
The setting is Middle Ages Europe style.
A dragon male (the protagonist) must, in order to marry, amass a lot of treasures and wealth in his dungeon. For that reason, the protagonist went alone and lived in an area where human lives, constructed a huge nest and started amassing treasures. However, soon after the nest got built, gallant heroes wanting to exterminate dragons, townspeople that see the dragon as a nuisance and adventurers and thief out to get the dragon's treasure came. With this, he couldn't gather treasures at ease. Therefore, the protagonist hired monsters, added traps and threatened the neighboring area to not approach his nest. With his nest's defense strengthened, the protagonist started amassing wealth. He searched for a gold mine all over the place, started farming, deforested the forest to build drawers out of it. Of course, the foolish invaders that's successfully repulsed are stripped of all their possessions. Incidentally the women are used as sparring partner to gain experience for the honeymoon. Will he succeed in amassing treasures and marry his fiancée? Or would he meet some other woman...?
There are English reviews.
20. Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito Typing Traveller ヤミと帽子と本の旅人 タイピングトラベラー [040625] Livedoor
Main character's librarian sister got sucked into some book. Protagonist dives into different book worlds in order to rescue his sister.
Typing episodic game, not in my interest league.
BLOCKED
1. Kokuin Waltz. 刻淫ワルツ。 [040601] Sponge Teikoku
I had a childhood girl friend Rinka, who I always stayed together. One day her cousin got killed in a car crash. She told me that she'd been in love with him but trained as a sex slave..... Hot sizzling 10 days with her!! Adventure game with voice.
Doujin Nukige
2. Lo-Devi ~Koakumateki Hen'airon~ ろーでび ～小悪魔的偏愛論～ [040604] Black Light
Main character is a lower class demon who comes to this town to store human arousal power. However, she gets compelled to sex acts herself which is bad for her as she can not gain energy this way. Can she become a high-level demon?
Nukige
3. Mirai Daughter Musuemon 未来ドータｰ ムスえもん [040604] ZyX
There are four stories about main character's daughters coming from future to live and laugh with him.
Lolicon
4. Moteasobing ~Moteasobaretai~ 弄ing～もてあそばれたい～ [040604] Yamikumo-Communications
A mistake put Nagase Izumi, a boy and the protagonist of the story, to the girls dormitory. Head of the dormitory, Ayame, acknowledged her mistake and decided to let him live there. She even made a move on him and they had sex right there. But on the next day, she gave him a videotape of them having sex; which was edited to make it look like Izumi raped Ayame. As it turned out, Ayame had a hobby of peeping on her tenants and there were secret cameras in every room of the dormitory. In return for not spreading videotape all over, Ayame told Izumi to have sex with the tenants and sexually train them, including her own daughter.
Nukige
5. Yokubou no Ori 欲望の檻 [040604] Double Soft Cream
The lead character accidentally obtained two tools: contoll someone's mind, and make someone's desire visible in the shape of tentacle. By using the tools, control guys as you want, and lead the beautiful young chick into the world of sensuality!
Doujin Nukige
6. Yume Shokushu! 夢触手! [040609] BANANA BLUE SOFT
A package was sent to me one day, a panties was in. With the "dream" panties on in bed, anyone can have a dream whatever it is. A glasses girl tries to see the effect, but...
Doujin Nukige
7. Houkago no Love Beat 放課後のLove Beat [040610] HuneX
The main character is a high school girl trained in classical piano who has just transferred to a new high school, Aobadai Gakuen. On her first day, she gets lost and meets 4 boys there who are secretly practising as a band. She eventually becomes the songwriter for the band, using her classical background to create fresh melodies for the band to build on.
Otomege
8. Hanazono no Musume 花園の娘 [040611] Dark Side
Main character breaks up with his girlfriend and goes to the sea thinking about suicide. He calms down a little and turns back when his leg slips dragging him in the den below the cliff.
He wakes up in a Western-style mansion inhabited by three young women and one housekeeper. He has to stay there till he recovers. What secret is hidden inside the building?
Nukige
9. Haruiro Toiki ~Kinroku Suimitsu Momo no Shimai-tachi~ 春色吐息～禁録・水蜜桃の姉妹たち～ [040611] EXtry
Main character wants to be seen as a man, but childhood nurtured the girly side of him. His parents' business partners insisted on protagonist staying at the house with only women bullying him every day. The harassment continued till the day he broke the seal during shrine visit and gained great physical and mental power over women.
Nukige
10. Moekasu モエカす [040611] KeroQ
Among other goodies there are two stories based on the extended world of Moekan's Kirishima route and Tsui no Sora.
Fandisc
11. Marukon まるコン [040611] Danco Main character leads a normal life until the day he picks an object from the devil world off the road. He starts to have mischief with the girls around him, and bizarre incidents start to happen one after another. Fate makes him travel to the devil world with different girls.
Nukige
12. Bishoku 美喰 [040618] Gage
Kenji Asama has returned to his home city to exact revenge on Douzan Kanzaki, his hated father. And all the girls somehow involved with Douzan will become the instrument of Kenji's revenge, willing or not...
Nukige
13. Oshikake Mahou Shoujo Yui おしかけ魔法少女ユイ [040619] Lilith Soft
Shacking up with a puni magical girl! The source of her magic is energy of men!! Inject sperm into her pussy without hesitation!
Nukige
14. Azazel アザゼル [040620] Akabei Soft
Main character loses after an accident two years ago. Life goes on peacefully till he notices a shadow of a woman with a gun followed by receiving an injection. All his senses improve immensely, but so do his desires. Standing in a pool of blood he hears her say: "Finally your powers have been unsealed".
Doujin
15. Gyakuten Ryoujoku Angel Online 逆転陵辱エンジェルオンライン [040624] Trinitron CG
Various girls come to the insidious man's house. What actions will he undertake towards the sweet scent of innocence?
Doujin
16. Ane Ore Imouto ~Kyoushi, Doukyuusei, Kouhai no Kankei~ 姉・オレ・妹～教師、同級生、後輩のカンケイ～ [040625] MBS Truth
-The protagonist Kousuke attends school while living with his 3 stepsisters. The oldest sister is his homeroom teacher, the second sister is his classmate and the youngest sister attends the neighboring girls school. Kousuke starts developing certain emotions towards the sisters... Mixing in a childhood friend and a student council president an exciting school life is about to begin.
Nukige
17. Boku to 4nin no Onna Kyoushi 僕と4人の女教師 [040625] Take Out
Shun is a high school student. He has a regular head but looks weak and he is prissy. That is why he is sometimes teased by other students. However, he is living a peaceful life at school. But his peaceful life is destroyed by a new teacher Kasumi, beautiful and pure. He gets stiff when she is around and can't move even his tongue. When he knows Kasumi is engaged to Yoshio who is the worst teacher at school, the story starts to ....
Nukige
18. Chijoku no Gakuen ~Toukou Sareru Onna Kyoushi~ 恥辱の学園～投稿される女教師～ [040625] Euros
Main character gains pleasure from putting women in shameful exposing positions. But girls get used to it with time. Then he makes up his mind to spend shameful sessions outdoors...
Nukige
19. Crime Rhyme クライミライ CrimeRhyme [040625] FlyingShine Black
Aida Masaki, the leader of the newspaper club, has been investigating the rumor of ghosts with Kaede and Hinoki. Meanwhile, Shion, who lives with Masahi, is invited to the psychic treatment club's anniversary party by her classmate. However, the psychic treatment club is actually a group of rapists.
Nukige
20. Hanamaru 3 Shimai はなまる3姉妹 [040625] Honey Soft
Main character is a university student living alone in Tokyo. As he returns to his home town, he reunites with three neighbor girls. However, these girls aren't same innocent girls anymore - they are well aware of men as opposite sex. They suggest having relations with them simultaneously at the same time. So starts their secret.
Nukige
21. Immoral [040625] Blue Gale
A school doctor comes in possession of a sexual hypnotic spray that inhibits girls to succumb to sexual desires. One after another, high school girls fall prey to the school doctor's sex schemes turning them into sex slaves.
Nukige
22. Inran Byoutou 24 Ji 淫乱病棟24時 [040625] Tryset
The protagonist is a horny young guy involved in a motorcycle accident whose stay in the hospital is spiced by 4 nurses, a female doctor and 2 female patients just as horny as he is turning his stay in the hospital to every day a 24 hour sexathon.
Nukige
23. Kimi ga Nozomu Eien ~Special Fan Disc~ 君が望む永遠 ～special FanDisk～ [040625] Age 1
"What would have happened if that accident never took place?" Kimi ga Nozomu Eien Special Fan Disc explores this concept by retelling the first chapter of the original game. Also includes radio shows, puzzles, wallpapers and other fan materials.
Fandisc
24. Kuro Ai ~Ichiya Saikan Inkou Rannyuuroku~ 黒愛 一夜妻館・淫口乱乳録 [040625] Clock Up
Gojo Testsuya visited his distant related aunt, Kojin Rikka, to borrow money for the operation of Utsumi Ayaka. She is his childhood friend, and she took care of him like his sister. However, in return for lending money, Rikka ordered him to take beautiful women into the house to train them as prostitutes. Assaulting maids and female students, his hidden power was awakening.
Nukige
25. Love Fetish ~Ashi Fetish Ashikoki Hen~ らぶフェチ ～脚フェチ・足コキ編～ [040625] Erogos
After an accident Kouji bumps into the local school idol and ends up with his head stuck between her legs. This triggers a fascination and Kouji starts on his newest fetish conquest.
Nukige
26. Nee, Chanto Shiyou Yo! 2 姉、ちゃんとしようよっ！2 [040625] Candy Soft
Sequel to the first game. One year after the events of the first game, Kuuya Hiiragi finally finished his training at some distant relative's house, the Inugami family. After so much time, he is finally allowed to go back to the Hiiragi house and live together with his six older adopted sisters who love and dote him. But little he knew, his two adopted sisters at the Inugami house where he was training himself also loved him, and came after him. Now Kuuya has eight adopted sisters fighting for him.
Nukige
27. Ryoujoku Hitozuma Onsen 凌辱人妻温泉 [040625] Strikes
This is a historic Japanese style hotel, but after Yuji began to work part-time, everything has gone wrong. First, the young landlady and a waitress fell victims to him. Not being satisfied with them, the next games he aims at are three young married women staying at the hotel.
Nukige
28. Tsui no Yakata ~Ningyou~ 終の館 ～人形～ [040625] Circus Fetish 1
Released under the Circus brand division 'Circus Fetish', the Tsui no Yakata series mainly focuses on maids. It's a winter's day and a second-hand dealer by the name of Akihiro pursues a clue he hopes will help him find a valuable doll by the little-known but skillful doll-maker Holst. The clue leads him to a certain European-style mansion, currently used as a brothel. Akihiro, meeting the mansion's mistress and the maid Melissa, decides to search the house in order to find the missing doll...
Nukige
29. X Change 3 [040625] Crowd 1 2
You are Takuya Aihara, the hero/heroine of the story. You've been blessed with a very interesting life: several years ago you were changed a girl through bizarre chemistry accidents, not once but twice. Now as you approach your final year of university with faithful girlfriend Asuka at your side, you almost get nostalgic thinking about those crazy days you spent as a girl. Until it happens again, that is: that troublesome Kouji, still madly in love with your female persona, secretly gets Asami-senpai to whip up some of the sex-change potion and tricks you into drinking it! It'll be harder than ever for you to change back into your male self this time, but you've got no choice: you have to find a way to return to normal before your female body becomes permanent. Although Asuka is one of the most understanding women in the world, there's no way she'll stay with you as a girl -- that's just not her thing. As you start another round of bizarre sexual adventures in your female body, virtually all the characters from the past X-Change games are back: your twisted sister Natsumi, who loves to tease you; the ingenius Asami-senpai; the endlessly experimenting Chisato; and a host of others from the first two games. With an even richer and more complex game story than last time, you'll have loads of fun exploring college life in your new female body, with many rewarding story lines to discover. Where will it all end?
Nukige
30. Erogeteki ni Imouto Suki! エロゲ的に妹好き! [040626] Sansai Soft
Brother continues playing eroge while staying numb towards feelings of his real sister. One day his friend confesses his feelings to the sister. What should brother do in this situation?
Doujin Nukige
31. My Pet Alchemist マイペットアルケミスト [040627] MOON GODDESS
Alchemist Michelle sells illegal glaze to a shady merchant. How is it possible to stop her? One option is to drawn Michelle into the abyss of insult ...
Doujin Nukige
32. Have Relations With... ~Maho to Kataho~ have relations with… ～真帆と片帆～ [040630] Soft Circle Courreges
I have a strong desire that I have never told anyone before...... I want to be humiliated and used like a slave by men...... Maho is a submissive woman indeed, while her younger sister Kataho is free-spirited and sexually active.
Doujin Nukige
33. Milkyway 2.5 [040630] Witch
Game observes the process of coupling and producing the new generation of heroines to come in Milkyway 3.
Fandisc
34. Departures Second Engine [0406] Ochanomizu Electronic Manufacturing
With dream and courage main character sets off for an adventure. He has to come over numerous trials to discover the secret behind the maritime Empire.
Doujin
Remember11 -The Age of Infinity- is VN of the Month. Symphonic Rain is an honorary masterpiece. I got tempted by Japanese reviews praising story of Sora-iro no Organ , so I took it for review.
1. Oshikake Princess おしかけプリンセス [040305] Giant Panda
Warring states era.
Local daimyo Asakawa is killed in an enemy state assault. His real daughter manages to secretly escape with five vassals. But she fails to give birth to a boy, and hopes for house revival remain only hopes. When boy with Asakawa blood finally is born, it's already modern times. The descendants of the largest five vassals are all girls studying at one school. It's finally the time to fix historical injustice!
The setting looks super funny to me. But since girls are vassals and not rivals - they all easily start to live under one roof together. The individual scenarios are above average, and history parallels are thought of seriously. The whole revival thing gets lost as individual scenarios start, but there's no clear emphasis on either scenario or routes. Most of game's elements are good, but there's no integrity to produce an impact.
2. Remember11 -The Age of Infinity- [040318] KID 1 2 3 4 5 6
Fuyukawa Kokoro, a third-year sociology major, boards a plane bound for Hokkaido to meet a research subject in the Specified Psychiatric Hospital for Isolation and Aegis, or SPHIA. For unknown reasons, her plane crashes in the mountains in the middle of a snowstorm. Of the 31 passengers, only she, Kusuda Yuni, Yomogi Seiji, and Mayuzumi Lin survive unharmed. Unable to establish communication with the outside world due to the fierce snowstorm, the four decide to take shelter in an empty cabin and wait until the storm passes.
Yukidoh Satoru, a graduate student in the field of quantum physics, falls from the SPHIA clock tower. He later awakens with some memory loss and the realization that someone is out to kill him. Unable to leave the SPHIA facility due to a snowstorm, Satoru's only chance at living is to find that person among the three other residents (or perhaps the hidden culprit) of SPHIA. Shortly after, Kokoro and Satoru realize that they are somehow exchanging bodies and Yuni appears to be at both of their locations...
There are English reviews.
3. Angel Maid エンジェルメイド [040319] Carriere
Main character wakes up in an unfamiliar house and with no memory. He is taught the work from the maids and starts to work on a regular basis. However, his judgment ability is lacking and he ends up creating more work for the maids to tackle. He spends his days in such activities while trying to regain his memory...
Scenario is a mess, mostly for maid-lovers... H element is strong. Even a small mistake leads to a bad ending, but you need to get to the end to learn it
4. Fortune Cookie フォーチュンクッキー [040319] Smart
Main character is an ordinary boy with a pretty face. Mother is extremely unlucky, so it's elder sister who supports the family.
One day mother gets premonition of "a great misfortune" during next month. Is it possible to avoid it? Can it really get even worse?
Full-scale incest game with mother and two sisters. There is a complex explanation of family circumstances in order to show it as non-blood related incest. There are 7 to 10 H scenes for each heroine, which is A LOT for a pure love game.
5. Happy Planning ~Shiawase no Souwa~ Happy Planning～しあわせの総和～ [040319] Juno
The amount of happiness on the Earth is always kept constant, and becoming happy makes a lot of people unhappy. So says the cheerful childhood friend of main character.
Protagonist loses track of her, but reunites with her at school. Her personality becomes grim as she does not want to steal other people's happiness. Is it possible to break out from this depressing theory and bring light to her heart?
The rapid development in the latter heart and the stupid resolution as "miracle of love" really drag this game down. Character settings are slightly different from one route to another just for the sake of writer's convenience. That all puts Happy Planning in the kusoge area.
6. Jewels Ocean ジュエルスオーシャン [040319] Escu:de 1 2
On a cold and mysterious night, five precious stones fell from the sky, each unintentionally discovered by five innocent girls. Unbeknownst to them, chaotic forces seek to retrieve these jewels, for they are the Demon Stones: apocalyptic artifacts capable of imbuing great power, yet at the cost of one’s sanity and soul. But all is not lost, for there is an individual who seeks to protect these gems and their bearers from these antagonists, regardless of the cost.
There is an English review.
7. Steady x Study ステディ×スタディ [040325] Idea Factory Co., Ltd.
You play as Makoto, a transfer student attending a school in Harajuku. You're not sure of what you want to do with your life and are given many choices, from entering the performing arts club, to going hardcore with your studies. Your choice will determine the path the game's story follows.
Steady X Study makes use of the "ASV" (Around Search View) system that allows you to look around your environment. While sitting at your desk in class, you can press a button on the D-pad to look at the girls sitting next to you. While waiting to meet someone at the train station, you can look around and will likely find new things, including secret movies and events.
Yet another console generic SOL visual novel with some another revolutionary system for only additional frustration. Scenario is a mess, and I can't think of target audience of this fraud.
8. Yomigaeri ~Refrain~ 黄泉がえり 〜リフレイン〜 [040325] Tomcat System
Based on the novel and movie of the same name. One summer, in Kyushu and Kumamoto, strange rumors spread about dead people who come back to life. Hayato Saeki of the "Menushi Daily News" is a journalist who is investigating this phenomenon, where all people who came back felt the same emotion: they have the same memory and remember their previous lives but with certain details being different. They are called Yomigaeri because they came back from Yomi, the Japanese hell. Saeki continues to interview them, and will deeply engage in their respective lives. But Saeki does not expect that one of these people will be Akane, his ex-girlfriend who died four years ago...
Game is basically an anthology consisting of 10 stories.
9. Rasetsu 2 RASETSU 2 〜羅刹 弐 [040325] Tomcat System
The end of the 50th century AD. Mankind has tried to seize a huge galaxy, but eventually civil war broke out. At this time first contacts with alien civilization Trit are made. But first conflicts soon evolution into coexistence. But the treat comes from the outside. Unknown alien civilization Vader in liquid form devours all the intelligent forms of life. The battle for survival unites all the conscious sides.
Hardly a visual novel, as usual.
10. Filnansis フィルナンシス [040326] Emu
Mother warns main character to return home straight from school on his birthday day. Day passes just as usual, but he is delayed on the way home by the conversation with his childhood friend. He find only wreckage on the place of his home with a note that makes no sense. Three girls suddenly appear and claim that protagonist is the successor of their country Grandfold where only girls live. He does not believe them until they take him to this country...
Bakage with a meaningless scenario, horrible sound tracks and useless protagonist. Game is universally marked as a kusoge.
11. Sora-iro no Organ 空色の風琴 [040326] The Lotus 1
You and I are an octave apart. Will we be able to harmonize...? The night the ocean wind blew, your organ reflected the moonlight. Our fingers came apart, a four-leaf clover broke into pieces, and I saw a lamp shining through the door... Our hero tutors his cousin Sarasa, a beautiful young girl. One night, as Sarasa begins to play the organ, they are covered with a strange light. When our hero comes to, he finds himself in a small town called Alcio. He learns that any stranger discovered in town will be executed. Can our hero find Sarasa and return where they belong? Will he succeed in filling the emotional gap between Sarasa and himself? The story progresses with a variety of colorful scenery and beautiful organ sounds. The scenario contains painstaking details of the strange world of Alcio, such as festivals and religious ceremonies. Utmost attention has been paid to character creation. You will experience the fantastic, yet realistic world of Alcio and the relationships of characters there
A decent-looking game. There is no better candidate for review this month, so I'm taking it up for review.
12. Symphonic Rain シンフォニック＝レイン [040326] Kuroneko-san Team 1 2 3 4 5 6
Symphonic Rain takes place in a fictional city of apparently Italian heritage, where rain falls everyday. The locals there have adapted to this peculiar phenomenon, and carry on with their lives as if the rain was never there. No one takes an umbrella, no one wears a rain coat.
The main character of the story is 17 year old Chris, a Fortelle student of the famous Piova Communal School of Music (Scuola Comunale di Musica Piova, in Italian). Separated from his childhood sweetheart Arietta when he left his home town for the city, he keeps in touch with her through the means of weekly letters. Penning their thoughts on those letters, Chris treasures and keeps her weekly writings, for he had promised her that should his drawer become totally filled with them, he would return to her. The game starts during Chris's third year as a student, a few months before he has to take the school's final graduation examination: a staged performance. As an instrumentalist, he is required to search for a vocalist partner before he is eligible for the examination.
There are English reviews.
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1. Goth ごす [040305] Meta-Doll
Main character fails to enter university of Tokyo and stays there to go to preparatory school. Parents object to this idea and cut the funding. Protagonist sees an advertisement that provides a job in a Western style mansion just because free meal is included. However...
Nukige
2. Kyouran ~Kurutta Seikatsu~ 狂乱～狂った性活～ [040305] Oume Seisakusho
Reiko lives a happy family life, but it eventually gets boring. One day she sees an advertisement on the site she frequents, and that pushes her back to the days of masturbation with toys.
Nukige
3. Kuroyuri no Yakata 黒百合の館 [040312] Black Package
Postwar turmoil. Millions are driven to extreme poverty. However, there is a place of a dream-like luxury that exist as a mockery. Main character is the second son who returns to this place - a western style mansion. What awaits him there?
Nukige
4. Last Trick ~Saigo no Sakuryaku~ Last trick ～最後の策略～ [040312] Promised Message
Main character lost belief in God together with his mother's death. At the same time a new person appeared in his life - Sphere. He calls himself a God who only needs a final license. He urges protagonist to make a wish. As incidents start to happen around protagonist, Sphere only laughs casually. What's left to protagonist. Only pray and make a wish. And his wish is...
Doujin
5. Make Love Junkies メイクラヴ・ジャンキース [040312] Ignition
Imagine a miracle drug that can turn any self-respecting person into a sex-crazed deviant. Furthermore, imagine the drug has a name as ridiculous as “Make Love Junkies”. In this H-game, this drug is real, and it was mailed to our protagonist after ordering it off TV. It has such a peculiar potency that those affected still retain their mental faculties, but they are hardly in control of their starving bodies. That being said, our hero decides to make a harem consisting of a few women he’s had his eyes on, whether they’d like to or not. Two of these intended are classmates; those two also work as waitresses with another target; and finally there’s the literature teacher. At first our heroines aren’t so keen to get it on with our hero, but soon they’ll be giving themselves into the pleasure. That is, if you play your cards right (not too difficult with a miracle aphrodisiac).
Nukige
6. My Pet Dancer マイペットダンサー [040312] MOON GODDESS
Main character is robbed of the belongings and is helped by a merchant who turns out to be involved in human trafficking. There are beautiful dancers at the bar that are treated like property. Is it possible to set them free?
Doujin nukige
7. Shampoo [040312] Ume Soft
Is your daily life enjoyable? Don't you overwork? Are you a bit tired?
In modern society everyone has some weariness to heal. There is a place that lifts stress when cute girls shampoo your head. It's not about shampoo itself, but about the healing effect it all produces.
Nukige
8. Six Pieces ~Tajuu Choukyou~ Six Pieces～多重調教～ [040312] Juraku
Main character is a magic doctor who performs indecent experiments on his patients with the use of various instruments and even creatures. It's possible to imbue girls with one of six personalities.
Nukige
9. White Birthday [040314] TOKOTON-LOVERS
Atobe x Sakaki fan game.
Boys Love Doujin
10. 24-ji, Kimi no Heart wa Nusumareru ~Kaitou Jade~ 24時、君のハートは盗まれる～怪盗ジェイド～ [040319] Pink Clover
'The Phantom Thief Jade will be paying a visit this evening!' After having magic powers suddenly awaken in him, Makoto is enrolled into the Magic Department at Hakuou Academy. He soon learns of a rumour stating that his cousin Yuki will be the target for an elusive thief whose creed is, "there is nothing that cannot be stolen." While pursuing the mysterious phantom thief, Makoto becomes involved in solving various riddles in an effort to protect his precious cousin Yuki. And so the true identity of the Phantom Thief is...?
Boys Love
11. Asuka Josou Bishounen Ryoujoku Story あすか♂女装美少年凌辱ストーリー [040319] Mocking Soft
2nd installment of Mocking Soft is a sexual humiliation story of a transvestite handsome boy. Kotono Asuka (boy) never settled at a school, because of bullying against him everywhere. He recently transferred to a notable private girls' school, but.... The contained 5 episodes in which the girls totally take the lead on him. Don't you feel like getting dominated for now?
Nukige
12. Clock Up Fan Disc 1GHz くろふぁん1GHz [040319] Clock Up
Among other goodies there are short stories about three heroines of game "Presence" - Sasakawa Ai, Hoshino Kasumi, Mizusawa Kiriko.
Fandisc
13. Dolly Night [040319] Puppet
Shibuya. Boy Junna wakes up in the alley dump with a memory loss. Girl Hina floats before him asking to look for something and disappears. A silver-hair man in the black veil Arstad passes by revoking nostalgia feelings. Detective Tagami chases puppet master Arstad suspected of murder. What's the truth behind the murders, the memory loss and the object searched by Hina?
Boys Love
14. Henshin! へんし～ん！ [040319] May-Be Soft
Sakagami's life was going downhill, especially his love life. Until the day he gained the ability to transform himself...into anything he can imagine. He decided to take this chance and fix everything that was wrong with his life...
Nukige
15. Kakure Ecchi かくれエッチ [040319] West Vision
Main character hurries home from university to read new erotic manga and accidentally steps into his sister-in-law room. She is in the middle of masturbation and invites him to join. Their secret relations begin on daily basis. Soon a lot of relatives arrive for the New Year's Eve, and they join the fun.
Nukige
16. Majokko de Go Go ~Pole to Miracle Daisakusen~ 魔女っこ de’GO♪GO♪～ポールとミラ☆クル大作戦～ [040319] Lucha!
Main character is a normal student with one special ability to see heart marks whenever situations can lead to love. After he confesses to a classmate with a heart mark, time stops and two girls jump out of the alternative dimension. They say that these dimensions are linked, and they need to supervise protagonist with the power to move love between the worlds.
Nukige
17. Shikkoku ni Nureru Seijaku ~Jisatsu Shigansha~ 漆黒に濡れる静寂 ～自殺志願者～ [040319] Haoh
No one knows the pain of the other people. Such decaying souls gather in the virtual space. One day main character reads a post on the forum "I hope to find a person to die together". Protagonist decides to come in contact with such girls and try to use or heal them, depending on situation.
Nukige
18. Shojokyuu ~Kurige no Shiofuki Shoujo-tachi~ 処女宮～栗毛の潮吹少女たち～ [040319] Mini
Main heroine is a mascot-like girl in a catholic girls school. Just before graduation ceremony a new transfer student suddenly approaches and kisses her. There is also a rumor about virgin examination at the graduation. Will heroine be able to graduate safely?
Lolicon
19. Oshigoto → Shachou (Honjitsu Tsuke) お仕事→社長（本日付け） [040321] Ritz software
When Yuuto's father dies in a car accident, Yuuto must take over his company. But he's just an average college student, and feels lost in this new world. With the help of his father's secretary and others in the business, will Yuuto be able to succeed?
Boys Love
20. Sotonure ~Haruka no Roshutsu Ecchi Days~ そとぬれ～はるかの露出エッチDAYS～ [040322] Lilith Soft
Main character is a college student with otaku hobbies. He is visited by a female cousin undergoing exposure training on the internet. Protagonist takes patronage over her with the aim to present her wearing a super exposing dress at the next cosplay event.
Nukige
21. Hitozuma Dorei Kyoushi 人妻奴隷教師 [040323] Team-Tanabe
The car accident happened in the rainy night triggered everything. Loads of sexual violation in the school! But, Honoka's body was awaken of the sexual perversity.
Nukige
22. Ai Shimai Tsubomi... Yogoshite Kudasai 愛姉妹・蕾…汚してください [040326] Silky's
The sister of Miyatsuji Kotono and Suzuyo went to the Ikaruga High School where her mother Kasumi acted as a leader of the trustee. The two beautiful girls adored Kaneshiro Shoichi. However, he gave his concern only to the school doctor, Morisawa Maiko, and he was captivated by her body. Because he would be expelled from school if he didn’t pass the examination, he was tempted by Maiko to break into the principal’s office, and stole the disk that contained the examination.
Nukige
23. Assassin Lesson ~Tsuioku no Youin Shoujo~ Assassin Lesson～追憶の妖淫少女～ [040326] Glastonbury Girl kills her mother and just sits outside in despair. Main character is a British intelligence agent who offers her to become assassin agent in exchange for protection. Her training includes various techniques including sex ones.
Nukige
24. Cherryblossom チェリーブロッサム [040326] Takuyo
Ouse Satsuki, a second year student of Sakurazono Gakuen receives one day on his cell phone a message from a stranger. The address of the sender is from a student on campus, but in the school there isn't any student with that name. Is the sender someone from the student council, or is it someone else?
Boys Love
25. Deepblue Fandisk ~11Nin no Mune Kyun Love!~ DEEPBLUEファンディスク～11人の胸キュンLOVE！～ [040326] Deep Blue
There are five short stories featuring eleven heroines from Lost Passage and 3LDK
・「僕が目指した理由（わけ）～LostPassage 序文～」 ・「Transparent human being～千寿シナリオ後日談～」 ・「HAPPY☆DAYS～のえるシナリオ後日談～」 ・「ロスパ丼おかわり！～コスプレマンシリーズ～」 ・「メデューサの恋～３ＬＤＫハーレムエンド～」
Fandisc
26. Enkaku Sousa ~Mitsuniku ni Umekomareta Remocon Vibe~ 遠隔操作～蜜肉に埋めこまれたリモコンバイブ～ [040326] Guilty
Remote controlling woman vibrator is main character's fetish. Only he chooses the time and place for pleasure outbursts.
Nukige
27. Gemini ジェミニ [040326] Sekilala
Main character lives together with cute twin sisters-in-law. The girls are obsessed by taking care of their onii-chan. They wish to give him their first time.
Nukige
28. Guisard Fandisc ~Bokura no Omoi o Tsumekonde~ GUISARD Fandisc～僕らの想いを詰め込んで～ [040326] SandalDash
Among other goodies there is mini-story collection where heroes talk about their past, future and their feelings towards the series.
Fandisc
29. Hitou Meguri ~Yokujou Juurin Onsen Ki~ 秘湯めぐり～欲情蹂躙温泉記～ [040326] Riddle Soft
School idol has fan clubs and total protection at school. But she goes to the local hot springs resort alone - and it's the perfect place for protagonist to assault her.
Nukige
30. Imohori ~Onii-chan no Funtouki!~ いもほり～お兄ちゃんの奮闘記！～ [040326] Take Out
Main character is half-engaged with another university student, but for formal engagement he needs her father's approval. Alas, father went on a business trip for a week. Protagonist wants to take advantage of his fiance at the winter vacations, so he is limited in time. He decides to live this week at their house. But he could not foresee all the seduction attempts from the members of the family...
Nukige
31. Kashoku no Wana 花蝕の罠 [040326] Ferret
A beautiful guy enrolls at main character's school club. He accepts protagonist's confession with the condition to get an affair with his brother first. Protagonist clenches teeth and agrees as this is the only way to get access to the body.
Boys Love
32. Kuro Niji Short Story 黒虹ショートストーリー [040326] Black Rainbow
Contains a short story for Saiminjutsu & Saimin Gakuen.
Fandisc
33. Love Fetish ~Tekoki Hen~ らぶフェチ ～手コキ編～ [040326] Erogos
Kouji is a fairly average student living a normal life with his childhood friend Suzuka. One day at the pool, he is suddenly grabbed from behind by a mysterious woman and given a handjob. Kouji can't get the experience out of his mind and yearns for more. What will become of him...
Nukige
34. Mayaku no Renkinjutsushi ~Misa~ 魔薬の錬禁術師～ミサ～ [040326] Red Signal
Misa is a rare witch who researches black magic in the 21st century. It deals not with curses, but with body parts transformation. She helps her friend in the same girls' school to get a huge rack. From now on she helps any girl in need to eliminate her body defects. As a result school gets drowned in lust.
Nukige
35. Mousou Nenpa Tsuushin 妄想念波通信 [040326] Zero
Main character sees an unidentified object from the sky. From this day he gains a special ability to see girls naked and experience sexual delusions. The ten girls around him are doomed to become part of his fantasies.
Nukige
36. Omae no Natsuyasumi おまえのなつやすみ [040326] FlyingShine Black
For summer vacation family plans to go to Hawaii. But selfish parents depart alone leaving main character to stay home with his two cousins. Protagonist takes out his anger on his cousins.
Nukige
37. One~san Day by Day おね～さんDAY☆BY☆DAY [040326] Azurite
Main character lives alone and attends art lessons at a vocational school. One day a cousin suddenly arrives to help him around the house. Protagonist has a faint memory of a loving sister doing the house chores, so he reluctantly lets her in. But then four more girls arrive saying absolutely the same. Who of them is his real cousin from the past? His life turns in a mess while he tries to figure it out.
Nukige
38. Rinkan Gakuen "Yamete! ...Okaa-san, Minaide!" 輪奸学園「やめてっ！…お母さん、見ないで！」 [040326] Lune loves K
Main character is in charge of the elite class in the prestigious school. He uses his chemistry knowledge to drug students and turn them into meat slaves forming his harem. This spring there's a new beautiful student who transfers together with her mother as health teacher. Protagonist welcomes a new challenge.
Nukige
39. Shin Keraku no Ou 新けらくの王 [040326] Merlot
Main character lives alone after this parents death. The mysterious sunglasses left by his father allow protagonist to see the aura of females in estrus. A woman in such state is easily deceived and coerced to sex. He finds himself a rich girlfriend and spends days in luxury. One day a group of women is transferred to the male school protagonist attends. He can't stand the new female teacher pride, so he waits for the day of her estrus to have his revenge.
Nukige
40. Suiei Kyoushitsu ~Fuyu de mo School Mizugi~ 水泳教室～冬でもスクール水着～ [040326] Waffle
Main character excels in sports. One day he returns home forgetting about his sister-in-law birthday. He swears to fulfill one her wish as a birthday present instead. She asks to teach her swim and train her in swimming. A promise is a promise, so swimming pool lessons begin.
Nukige
41. Tsui no Yakata ~Futatsuboshi~ 終の館～双ツ星～ [040326] Circus Fetish
Released under the Circus brand division 'Circus Fetish', the Tsui no Yakata series mainly focuses on maids. Since a long time ago, the protagonist Masaki has been living without his mother. The difference in social standing between her and his wealthy father has always caused people to slander his mother and because of his father's inability to defend her honor, Masaki has never had a good relation to him. Now, a pair of twin sisters, one innocent and the other precocious, visits the household and eventually gets hired as maids.
Lolicon
42. Wakan Kazoku 和姦家族 [040326] Hayashigumi
The protagonist's real parents died in a car crash when he was too young to remember. The family he lives with now is actually the family of his late parents' close friends.
Nukige
43. Nozoki Banzai! ~Zenpen~ 覗きマンセー!～前編～ [040328] Trinitron CG
Main characters uncovers the secret of a woman's school with the power of charisma.
Doujin Nukige
Foreword: Routes gets 5 votes cumulatively while closest rival sits at 3 votes, so here is review of this game.
Title: Routes
Developer: Leaf
Date: 2003-02-28
VNDB link:https://vndb.org/v204
Youtube walkthrough:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV1wg2BZOpM&list=PLs4Gp5VU4Fv8K_WdeDpxSgGZzjGORqw_b
Synopsis: The story takes place in 21st Century Japan (approximately at the end of April 2010). The main character Nasu Souichi is a perfectly ordinary high school student, who tries to do as little as possible everyday, and sleeps though most of his classes, only ever to be woken up by his friend Yuasa Satsuki. They believe they are living in a peaceful time, where no large wars are occurring.
However, these peaceful days are destroyed, when a number of large ships disappear at sea, almost instantly, and with no explanation as to why. A strange woman named Lisa＝Vixen suddenly appears and attacks Souichi... however Souichi also has his share of secrets.
Game type: There are two different games here - spy thriller and medieval rural mystery
Character Design rating: 8/10
Protagonist rating: 7/10
Story rating: 8/10
Game quality: 7/10
Overall rating: 8/10
There is already a good review of this game (1), so I'd better present personal impressions acquired during the course of the game. There WILL be spoilers, although I don't consider them to be big enough to really spoil anything - they are needed to present the structure of the game.
Game starts with Lisa Vixen route, and she is the real main heroine of the game. She is both stunning blonde beauty and a great super-agent. There is great teamwork and unexpected resolution there. But unfortunately only this route really resembles spy thriller. Next four routes required to reach true route are less impressive. From second playthrough there is a hint about a strange medieval-looking man as well as two choices - whether to go to school or stay home. Going to school leads us to our osnajimi Yuasa Satsuki route or her best friend Fushi Yukari route. I decided only to play thoroughly through Satsuki route. There is an attempt to fill it with SOL and humor, but it works out so-so. The worst part of it was how it ended up being so much overextended. I was hoping to get a fast H event and move to story already, but this route had as many as three (!) unsuccessful attempts of etching pushing story further and further. In the end, story development stars without getting into intimacy stage, but ends up a degraded version of the same Lisa route, just without the unexpected twist.
The other three heroines routes are even worse, a total bore-fest. Two of them are just an average town girl and an average town lady with their stories having NOTHING to do with the spy theme. The true route is the shortcut of the same Lisa route AGAIN, just with all three main heroines at support - Satsuki, Lisa and Fushi. There's nothing really special about it, and game just could not be called a masterpiece at this point after all the routes and the True route.
But then right after true route a totally another game kicked in - "Roots". That's a samurai rural story about the powerful sword and fighting the greater evil. This story has a bright cheerful scenery and a cast of funny characters with numerous memorable moments. Then the connection between "Routes" and "Roots" was revealed, and game finally could be seen as an integrative complex story above the giri-giri masterpiece level up to the point of firm masterpiece level, or 8/10.
I can't evade discussing technical difficulties here. Only console versions are voiced. But console versions can't be hooked - I tried all the variants possible. Without voicing this game does not really worth the effort. So I ended up running recording high resolution PC version screen and text acquired through hooking, but at the same time running PSP version to get voicing from it. PSP version has auto-reading, but PC version does NOT. So I had to manually click through every phrase following PSP auto-reading tempo. This causes all those un-synchronized lines. As if it's not enough trouble already, PC hooking is same clunky as both Kizuato and Shizuku, which means that lines appear consequently on the screen making hooker tools see it backwards. There was a special hooking script developed for Kizuato and Shizuku making lines be translated in the right order, but not for Routes, alas. That's why translation must be read from the end sentences to the first sentences properly. Leaf games really suck for hooking. Moreover, since I had to manually click through 30 hours of gameplay, I made text appear in full blocks skipping some mid-line animations. Just wanted to noted that, because actual PSP version looks much more alive than what I got as a result.
Routes turned out to be a real challenge for me due to really poor systems of PC version. I spent so much time recording it that it may even affect the pace of my next publications since none are left prepared. Unfortunately, only Lisa route, True route and Roots are really worth playing making the leftover heroines routes feel redundant. Game has a really decent "Roots" story which is difficult to get to due to numerous technical difficulties encountered. I just hope that more people will be able to appreciate the game through my video of it.
Carnival is the VN of the month, but I already have review of it. I'm reviewing Dingir as the only plotge of the month.
1. Carnival [040514] FlyingShine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
After being arrested for the murder of a fellow student, the protagonist escapes from custody when the police car he's in has an accident. Knowing he will one day be caught again, he decides to spend what little time he has in freedom to try and return a handkerchief.
There are English reviews.
2. Waitress Paradise ~Stay With Me~ ウェイトレスパラダイス～Stay with me～ [040514] light
You've become the manager of a school club, which sends out waitresses to work at restaurants. Your job is to circle through the restaurants and check that the girls are doing all right.
Moege with abundance of heroines. Not smth that I expected from light after Kurenai and Paradise Lost, but - oh well - they need to pay their bills as well.
3. Ai no Maid Hotel Monogatari ~Itoshi no Sukumizu Maid~ 愛のメイドホテル物語～愛しのスク水・メイド～ [040521] Psycho
Main character is an accountant hired as a hotel manager. He has much to do since hotel is one the verge of bankruptcy.
Don't see a reason to discuss a moege.
4. Blaze of Destiny II -The Beginning of the Fate- [040521] Talisman 1
A sacred land where many mysteries sleep out of reach of major kingdoms...
Leon is exiled by his brother and declared a criminal. He is chased by armed men, and he only gets saved thanks to Leiria girl.
A much more polished game, but without soul anymore.
5. Dingir DINGIR（ディンギル） [040521] Patisserie
Year 1014 by local calendar. Peaceful life is interrupted by betrayal and assassination in the court. Dying king conveys main character Baal the prophecy and asks him to try and save the endangered world. Girl As suddenly appears before Baal and agrees to help him on the journey to the Tower of Judgment.
Ancient Mesopotamia world setting is not bad and really thorough, perhaps excessively so. We get forced into A route from the start, but B route with much more heroines and scenes is only available from second playthrough. It would shine as RPG, but as a NVL visual novel it's not something impressive story-wise.
6. Kokoro-chan no Himitsu Shinryou File こころちゃんの☆秘密診療ファイル [040521] Sweet Hearts
Main character gets hospitalized as a result of traffic incident on his first day in the university. He has both arms and legs injured. But there's a good point in it as well - nurses in this hospital are unbelievably cute!
Yet another Moege.
7. Lost Aya Sophia ロスト・アヤ・ソフィア [040527] Idea Factory Co., Ltd.
Yuuji learns his soul has been possessed by the devil and investigates why.
Unfortunately, another weird and tiresome console exclusive continuing tradition of previous work "STEADY x STUDY". Right from the start we're asked 12 questions about main character, and those questions ARE important. Parameter called DP ( Dark Point ) is the most important. One readthrough time is just 2 hours, but with so many starting options it may require some 10 hours to read all the variants with all the constantly repeating scenes. There are 7 chapters... but only in chapter 1 characters are voiced - such a ripoff.
8. Ayameiro no Natsu あやめいろの夏 [040528] Runrun Soft
A story based on real events.
On September 18, 1988, the mountain Yamatsu village located on the prefectural border between Iwate Prefecture and Akita Prefecture collapsed due to a large-scale earthquake. The rescue activity was significantly delayed because of a typhoon. As a result over 300 people were dead or missing. Initially declared as an earthquake, the disaster did not involve somewhat strong earth shaking or land slides which posed a lot of questions. Main character is the descendant of the Yamamori clan protecting the village since Heian times. This is a story of him returning to the village as an adult and experiencing this disaster that's implied to have absolutely different sources...
Deities and spirits are made responsible here. There are many heroines available through multiple routes, each having 1-4 H scenes. There are many inconsistencies. Scenario is not good enough having tilt on the not so lovable heroines.
9. Hanamaru! はなマルッ！ [040528] TinkerBell
Main character attends a special school deep in the mountains. There is no dormitory for boys there, so he has to board in women's dormitory. He's quite happy about living with cute sempai, but there is one serious problem - there is no men's bathroom! What's going to happen with his school life? Tinkerbell makes a non-nukige AGAIN? I buried this company so many times already, and yet they are still eager to make moege from time to time. This one also tries to benefit from comedy. But scenario is heavy and crapy, as usual for this company. Needless to say that H element prevails.
10. Like Life [040528] Hooksoft
Like Life's story revolves around Kazuma Kōsaka who had to move into his aunt's house due to his parents always being too busy. He lives next door to his childhood friend Yumi Miyasato, and the two of them walk together to Shitasōno Academy which they both attend. One day at school, many strange transfer students arrive at school: all over town, objects start turning into girls, though they still retain some form of what they used to be on their person. Kazuma's mobile phone is no exception and turns into a girl he names Himeko Kōsaka.
The best thing about Like Life is direction as there are so many screen changes happening. To get this tempo game advances almost ultimately through conversations. Heroines are unique and likable. There are some themes of objects having feelings and people handling things, but not too many. The problem is that no interesting concept is suggested to the reader leaving no room for becoming a masterpiece. It's a good light game, but that's it.
11. Mabuta Tojireba Soko ni... 瞼閉じればそこに… [040528] Lakshmi
There are girls in this world with physical disabilities. They live lives full of hardship. Main character meets such a girl and gradually changes from life for himself towards life for another one.
It's hardly Katawa Shojo. Game is below mediocre in every field.
12. Mofu x Mokyu ~Goshujin-sama no Osewa Shimasu~ もふ×もきゅ～ご主人様のお世話します～ [040528] Witch
Main character comes to Tokyo and manages to enter a university. His parents want to see him back, so they cut the funding. Protagonist is desperate to find a part time job when a girl in maid outfit jumps out before him. She calls him "master" and claims that she comes from future to take care of him.
Terminator maids only possible in Japan. Story is not even nearly good enough to save this Moege.
13. Mystereet ~Fukagyaku Sekai no Tantei Shinshi~ ミステリート～不可逆世界の探偵紳士～ [040528] Abel Software 1
Become Yasogami Kaoru, the youngest class A detective in IDLA, an international detective organization, and solve difficult cases that baffle veteran policemen. Although the game is split into episodes, the plot lines are interconnected and the web of relationships are so intricate that it is a real challenge to find the culprit and his or her motives.
The game is split into four episodes and a prologue. The prologue demonstrates the prowess of the youngest class A detective in action as he solves a murder case on a cruise ship. The main storyline starts at the first episode where Kaoru accepts a case from IDLA's Director Connor, to locate the legendary detective Agyou Sohma who disappeared. To solve the case, Kaoru masqueraded as a class D detective and entered Sohma's Shiawase Detective Agency. To make matters even more complicated, Shiawase Detective Agency has a accepted a case from a Mrs. Toudou to catch the mysterious thief Sapphire. After solving Mrs. Toudou case, Kaoru, still in disguise, is given another case to solve in episode two, he is to find out the truth behind the mysterious fire that burnt people to death in the local church, and at the same time, figure out the cryptic message the pastor left before his own death. In episode three, Kaoru receives a challenge from another class A detective, to find out a murderer amongst five hypnotized persons. The grand final of this game lies in the last episode. Class A detectives from all over the world are invited to Baron Kazamatsuri's deserted mansion to solve a foretold murder case. Sohma Agioh name is in the list and old foes like the mysterious bandit Sapphire shows up. Can Kaoru solve, or even prevent the murder case and find Agyou Sohma in this grand finale?
This is a sequel to Fukakutei Sekai no Tantei Shinshi. This time there is finally a full voice PC version, but detective stories is just not my thing.
14. Pure Pure ぴゅあぴゅあ [040528] Klein
The story of Pure Pure revolves around a young groomer named Jun and his friends that are also involved in his work. The game begins with him training to pass the final examination for his vocational school and follows his day to day life with Hinata, Sachi and Midou. His only concern was passing that test until a tragedy shakes the foundation on which he built his life upon.
Story itself is interesting, but told poorly. The first four hours of prologue are great, but later on expectations get betrayed, and even climax is much worse than prologue. So it kind of falls into moege with cat ears and tails category.
15. Shamana Shamana ~Tsuki to Kokoro to Taiyou no Mahou~ シャマナシャマナ～月とこころと太陽の魔法～ [040528] Caramel Box 1
In a town preserved by the Sun God, where humans and fairies coexist people are preparing for a festival, praying for rich harvest. Under the peaceful sun the whole town is getting excited. The preparation is finished and all people need to do is to wait for the day of the festival to arrive. Mildin, born as a son of the moon who left this town before because of what he had done, now returns on the day of the festival. His friends welcome him home, but it is not everyone who is happy to see him return...
Only two heroines fall under Lolicon category, so I'm inclined to let it pass. Game of a nice atmosphere. Having good friends really helps a lot. Each story is not just some heroine story, it's also the story of the past of protagonist and this land. However, there is no true route to bind all the pieces together or smth. Game takes some time to kick in, and overall lacks excitement.
16. Saki no Love Love Honeymoon 沙紀のらぶらぶはねむーん [040531] D.O.
A sequel story from Snow Sakura (Yukizakura).
The story is about Yuuji and Saki's honeymoon vacation in the beach 6 months after they were officially engaged by their parents before Saki's ending in Snow Sakura (Yukizakura) in the summer holiday
Game has many gags and nostalgia moments. As a sequel to a non-masterpiece game, there's not much to talk about.
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1. Android na Imouto アンドロイドな妹 [040501] Haikuo
Main character loses his sister and grows hatred towards androids. Two android girls resembling his sister appear before him. What are their intentions?
Doujin
2. Teikyuu Yuugi - WonderYellow 庭球遊戯 WonderYellow [040502] Cookie
Select your protagonist and experience wonderful adventure in the relations between different couples. Search for the mysterious witch Yukimura in a Western-style building isolated from the present world. What does it have to do with the dream seen every night?
Boys Love
3. Ryoujoku Katei Kyoushi 2 ~Chijoku no Kagai Jugyou~ 凌辱家庭教師 2 ～恥辱の課外授業～ WonderYellow [040502] Studio Sepia
Tutor guides female students to college by using different insults totaling 43 scenes. There are three heroines with pure love and devil route prepared for each one.
Doujin
4. Hatsuharu ni Mamori no En de Miru Yume wa 初春に守りの縁で見る夢は [040503] permission
Main character is invited to a popular shrine. This is a cozy place, but with one secret...
Boys Love
5. Love Pani らぶぱに [040503] Strawberry Argyle
There are five boys seeking their love and finding different versions of it in the fourteen endings.
Boys Love
6. Okitsune-sama ni Onegai お狐さまにお願い [040504] Tears
Main character's elder brother is moving out. The fox at the nearby Inari Shrine promises protagonist to make his dream come true in return for regular cleaning the shrine. He makes a wish to become older and spend one day with his brother.
Boys Love
7. Ie, Tatemasu! 家、建てます! [040505] Underground Campaign 1
The action takes place in a small village on the west coast of Japan, where the construction workers are called from Tôkyô to build a house for a widower and his two sons.
Boys Love
8. NekoNeko Soft Okaeshi CD 5.5 ねこねこソフト おかえしＣＤ５．５ [040505] NekoNeko Soft
This is a special small fandisc thus bearing title 5.5 instead of 6.
It includes Lamune character introduction and 120 En no Haru summer extra story.
Fandisc
9. Imouto Ninshin いもうと妊娠 [040507] Valkyria
"I want to rape my younger sister" Older brother Tomoyuki and younger sister Rinne are ordinary siblings. They live like normal, get along and fight like normal. But she has become the object of his desire and each night he sneaks into her room. Again and again he masturbates to her sleeping form as she lies there defenseless. This summer they're forced to spend more time together. She's grown more delicate, her arms are softer, her hair is growing longer. His sister, like a sweet flower that's begun to open up and bloom, is becoming a young woman. The summer sun shines brilliantly now and sweat trickles down her neck from the heat. When he closes his eyes he sees her smile up at him. He cannot suppress his lust any longer.
Nukige
10. My Pet Novice & Magician マイペットノービス&マジシャン [040507] MOON GODDESS
Two girls set on adventure and get attacked during assault on a city. They can't escape this carnal feast.
Nukige Doujin
11. Acacia Doori Ichiban Chi アカシア通り一番地 [040509] Fusyro
Kujou and Chizu decide to take off formal suits and spend vacations on Karuizawa villa together with dog Wight.
Boys Love
12. Mika Ganbaru ~Oshiete Ecchi na Obenkyou~ 美香がんばる ～おしえてエッチなお勉強～ [040509] Shiritsu Sakuranbo Shougakkou
Mika is a young elementary school girl with a crush on her "onii-chan" a man in college who comes over daily to help her study. She wants to become the type of girl he'll fall in love with. She'll study hard and do her best to win over his heart!
Nukige
13. Karamemo Ensemble カラメモ アンサンブル [040512] Tomo & Yuri GAMEZONE
A game continuing the karaoke theme with a group of great boys, but this time it's needed to type your story when there is window for input.
Doujin Otomege
14. Gakkou Nanafushigi ~Shougakkou no Hanako-san~ 学校七不思議～小学校の花子さん～ [040513] Gin no Ken
Do you know "Hanako" ? It's a monster living in girls' toilet of the elementary school. But there are rumors that Hanako has been captured by a real demon. Is there a way to help Hanako and defeat the demon?
Doujin
15. Burumania 3 ぶるまにあ３ [040514] Digital Aniki
A fan-fiction VN featuring Koyori Kokubunji from Nurse Witch Komugi.
Doujin Nukige
16. Love Fetish ~Paizuri Hen~ らぶフェチ ～パイズリ編～ [040514] Erogos
Kouji continues his downward spiral of pleasure as Chisato becomes a temporary teacher at his school. This time his friend's little sister, angry at being confused as a boy, mounts a sexual attack on Kouji. Between her flat chest and Chisato's large breasts, which one will he choose as his favorite?
Nukige
17. Blue Lagoon ~Minami no Umi no Manan~ Blue Lagoon ～南の海のマナン～ [040521] Amber
Agi Island is located northeast of the Philippines. The Protagonist Ryoutarou is a young shoemaker who lives peacefully on Agi Island. However, on the night of the next day a ship sinking accident occurred near the island, and on the coast he met a naked girl named Manan who was wrapped in a blue aura. And around the same time, a mysterious unit searching for her (Manan) landed on Agi island.
Lolicon
18. Maiden☆Breeder 2 メイデン☆ブリーダー2 [040521] Teatime
There used to be three tribes here competing over supremacy in constant wars. Through the help of a sacred girl they learned how to reproduce without men. The descendants of that girl are called maidens and treated as pets. In this city of maiden many breeders compete today. Main character vows to become number one of them.
Nukige
19. Milk Junkie 2 MILK・ジャンキー2 [040521] Blue Gale ON DEMAND
Wataru is a young man who moves into an apartment next to Tomoka and Fumie Fusono, two voluptuous sisters who used to know him when he was a shy child. Now Wataru is all grown up, and the Fusono sisters are ready to take full advantage of that fact
Nukige
20. Ryoujoku Ukeoinin Tsuboshi ~Shikumareta Sangeki~ 凌辱請負人 壺師 ～仕組まれた惨劇～ [040521] Studio Ebisu
Main character's occupation is guru. The the system of mail he receives requests. What unites them is the need to scold target humans. He can proceed with the requests growing more and more wild or move on to the next targets.
Nukige
21. Double Reaction! [040521] DAISY CHAIN
Our heroine Yuri, who is a rabid yaoi fangirl, is pissed off that she’s not as good looking as her twin brother Kairi. They find a wishing stone and then Yuri picks it up wishing she was a sexy beast…but then she drops the stone and breaks it. About 18 days later, on September 1st she starts her new school life with Kairi, but one morning they find that stone she broke back on top of her bed. When Yuri touches the stone, she and her brother end up switching bodies. While her brother isn’t too happy being a girl, our heroine Yuri can’t wait to spend her time being a bishounen and yaoi it up with some dudes. The body switching seems to be on and off and so the twins’ adventures begin!
Boys Love
22. Fetish 2: Omote no Kioku フェチ2 表の記憶 [040521] Ume Soft
You are a famous producer working at a television station.
Nukige
23. Fetish 2: Ura no Kioku フェチ2 裏の記憶 [040521] Ume Soft
Main character is a producer on the national internet TV station. He smells women and feels the heat coming from them. As company prepares to abandon old building in favor for a new one, protagonist decides to have his revenge over these women.
Nukige
24. Hobo-san no Apron ~Yuzuriha Hoikuen Funtouki~ 保母さんのエプロン～ゆずりは保育園奮闘記～ [040521] Actress
Main character in an unemployed freeter. One day he witnesses his female school friend getting hurt at a convenience store. As he delivers girl to the nursery school, he is confused for the staff member. He is invited to work here for real till the girl recovers, and he can not say "no".
Nukige
25. Innyuu Danchizuma 淫乳団地妻 [040521] West Vision
Main character takes caretaker job at his uncle's apartment complex. He is stunned at the sight of women inhabitants at first, bun soon recovers to make these women his own.
Nukige
26. Tayutau Toki 揺蕩う刻 [040521] Marine Heart
A transfer student comes to main character's school. Somehow it pushes protagonist to realize his ambitions. Which of students or staff members will it be?
Boys Love
27. Tayutau Toki Tokubetsu Hen ~Hamon no Zanzou~ 揺蕩う刻 特別編〜波紋の残像〜 [040521] Marine Heart
Prequel protagonist's brother becomes main character here. He is a much more vigorous young man bold with his wishes. But there are only candidates seeking his attention.
Boys Love
28. Ui-chan no Niizuma Diary~ 憂（うい）ちゃんの新妻だいあり～ [040521] Xuse
When they started to date, Yosuke and Yuu promised to get married when they ended school. Those days pass in the blink of an eye, and they get finally married. A young's couple love life, suddenly interrupted when Yuu's cousin burges in. Still, Yosuke and Yuu live a peaceful married life...
Nukige
29. Angel Wish ~Houkago no Meshitsukai ni Chuu~ Angel Wish～放課後の召使いにチュッ!～ [040528] Favorite 1
You are an average high school student that has just moved to a new town. Suddenly, a girl in a maid outfit comes in front of you and says you are the prince of the country of Stella. Thus, you go with the girl to the country and you start living your life as a prince, attending school with cute girls!
Lolicon
30. Futago no Haha Seihonnou 双子ノ母性本能 [040528] G.J? 1 2 3
One day, Minoru received an e-mail sending to the wrong address. It was the first accident. It was sent by a woman named Akane. Somehow, he felt as if he knew her, but he couldn't understand why he felt so. The next accident happened. When he and Tomoe went home after shopping, they happened to see Akane. Looking at Akane, Tomoe put on a grave face. Putting him between them, they looked at each other. Their encounter is just an accident or intentional? Being disclosed their relations, Minori lost his calmness, and couldn't help devouring their sexual bodies.
Nukige
31. Kiss x 300 Konna Sekai KISS×300 こんな世界 [040528] Winters
Main character works as a publisher until he gets fired. He goes on an interview for the visionary revitalizer job to the "Purple Powerful" company. Astonishing beauty interviewer says that "only kiss matters". She only asks questions about favorite kinds of kisses and then invites to kiss her...
Nukige
32. Kokoro... 0 コ・コ・ロ… 0 [040528] Aaru
Main character attempts a suicide on the street. But there a woman there who extends her hands to him and gives him energy to live. However, his dark past haunts him, and he starts to get interested in possessing bodies of people around him.
Nukige
33. Love Fetish ~Nozoki Onani Hen~ らぶフェチ ～覗き・オナニー編～ [040528] Erogos
After staying late at school for certain reasons, Kouji hears sounds coming from the faculty office. After looking in, he discovers one of his teachers talking on the phone while masturbation. The image is such a contrast from her usual innocent self that he is shocked. He wonders if all women have this side to them, and begins a quest of peeping.
Nukige
34. Onegai O-Hoshi-sama お願いお星さま [040528] Pulltop
A "wish star" able to fulfill any wish falls down in a meteor shower. However, it has so many wishes that there is no room for new ones. Moreover, all these naughty wishes seek a way to be realized. Three friends are chosen for this purpose. What will happen with them and horny girls coming from the star?
Lolicon
35. Pochitama ポチタマ [040528] Nel
Main character is born in a noble family and is presented with a dog ear and cat ear girl as pets for his birthday. Father has high expectations of the boy, but first protagonist needs to prove that he can handle training slaves.
Nukige
36. Pussy Cat ~Mesuneko-tachi~ PussyCat～牝猫たち～ [040528] Alster
Main character is the biggest power in Yokohama City, president of a huge corporation. Under the glorious facade he is actually a man greedy for money and women. He receives a task from his chief to organize a special force "Pussy Cat" to perform secret missions. What's the true purpose of this mysterious unit?
Nukige
37. Suzuna Nikki 鈴菜日記 [040528] Root
Main characters of Kao no nai Tsuki continue co-habitation after the true end. This is a glimpse of their naughty life. Winning in a card game provides lots of opportunities for cosplay sex.
Fandisc
38. Tsui no Yakata ~Orihime~ 終の館 ～檻姫～ [040528] Circus Fetish
Released under the Circus brand division 'Circus Fetish', the Tsui no Yakata series mainly focuses on maids. One day, the protagonist meets a cheerful, positive girl with brown skin. When his pet dog dies the brightness of the girl alleviates his loneliness and a bond of mutual trust develops between them. Their daily life passes bit-by-bit and the connection between them deepens. However, the passing of time gradually drives the human mad...
Nukige
39. Zoku Mama Club 続・ママクラブ [040528] Complet's
Main character is a boy who lost his mother early. One day he is invited to visit night school by his school friend. There students have sex with adult women. Secrets meeting continue in the similar mama club as in the prequel, save for the different city.
Nukige
40. M.C. -duet- M.C. -duet- [040529] #define
The protagonist tried to make a girl called Yanase Mashiho his girlfriend, but she refused him, which usually never happened to him. As he investigate what she is doing, he end up intercepting a package containing a pocket watch with hypnotic powers. Because the girl known as Fujimiya Rokka caught him doing suspicious things, he make her his test subject to see how powerful his item is.
Doujin
41. Tokyo Romantica ~Ai wa Megane to Tomo ni~ 東京ロマンチカ ～愛は眼鏡と共に～ [040531] GalElectronica
Two boys decide to organize a junk shop. They are in for a lot of fun, but also for the hell of deliveries.
Doujin Boys Love
42. Collage [0405] Komineto 1
Three ordinary people are thrown together, and each retells events in his or her own voice in this unconventionally told, uniquely presented, and ultimately very human novella.
Doujin
43. Imaginary Realm -Alternate Memory- [0405] Zeiva Inc
Orem is the Prince of Demon. One day, he was sent to earn some money in Human World to rebuild their castle by Dornick. In Human World, he was invited to be a cook by a mysterious girl, Rosey. Your task is to help Orem cook the best meal to please the customers. You will get different ending depending on what you cook.
EVN
44. Koori no Tsuki 凍りの月 [0405] undo
Handyman member of "SHUTTLE SHIFT" heads to a Western-style building in response to a request. He is to dwell in its strange atmosphere and learn the secrets exchanged in its depths.
Doujin Boys Love
