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  1. Kikokugai - The Cyber Slayer and Subete ga F ni Naru ~The Perfect Insider~ are masterpieces, but only the former is the winner. I'll be reviewing Donor - Onna Tantei Ryoujoku 1. Sister Angel しすたぁエンジェル [020301] TerraLunar Main character loses his memory in an accident. After being discharged from the hospital, he starts to live with his self-proclaimed sister. Hero regains his memory while in contact with her. And at some point the feelings of the two go beyond the scope of the brother and sister. However, their peaceful life gets interrupted when a girl from the rich family and a Maid Robo girl move in... A very funny comedy. Routes with all four heroines move in a light fantasy way. There are four heroines and six endings. There is not much seriousness in the game. A must have in sister lover collection and a worthy candidate if you like comedy. 2. Donor - Onna Tantei Ryoujoku DoNoR 女探偵凌辱 [020308] FlyingShine 1 Futaba Kawana is an attractive American detective, who recently uncovered the whereabouts of her sister, who disappeared in Japan some few years ago. Once she arrives to Japan, Futaba hurries to the hospital where her sister was last seen. The hospital is one of the best hospitals in Japan, but many strange rumors are floating around. People have seen dead people coming back alive, lost people found, and so on. As our heroine searches for clues, she finds out that the hospital is actually a huge whorehouse controlled by some organization. To find out about the organization, our heroine becomes a nurse at the hospital, but... This game runs on a system called, "The Buddy System." This means that there are multiple characters and multiple scenarios, where each character has it's own story. In order to understand the complete story, you have to go through each character's story. Besides our heroine, you will meet Chiya, Aya, Shihomi, and Mio. Take out your sexual desires on these beautiful but strong girls. I know it's an early FlyingShine game about insults, but it's woman with a gun! That rule can not be easily overlooked, so I'm reviewing it myself (party because it's EVE like world and system) 3. Sakura no Ki Shita de 桜の木下で [020308] Words Main character loves to watch Hanami - Sakura petals fall - with his mother every year. But his mother dies, and he sits under sakura tree alone in grief. A girl approaches him asking what he was doing. From that encounter protagonist's mind started to heal. Ten years have passed. He and that girl Suzuna attend the same class. He receives a letter from Suzuna telling "I want to love". He's puzzled by the contents and former sadness returns to him. It's time for new memories to be forged under a sakura tree. Four heroines. Each route is smaller than usual. Scenario is slippery in words and leaves only dissatisfaction and weirdness feeling. At least it's not a full price game. 4. Maokko Crisis まお~っ娘クライシス [020315] Scramble House Main character was relaxing on the grass when a girl descended from the skies. "I'm a demon, can I destroy this world?" It was his first encounter with Miu. Love comedy with four heroines. Each day demon king Miu gives girls artifacts of the doomsday. Successful intimacy with the needed girl in the night allows to acquire artifacts and destroy them preventing the end of the world. Such situations continues eternally until clear conditions are meed, and those conditions are very severe, so not many players were able to fulfill them. 5. Valentine Memories ~Mai Furu Yuki no Naka de~ Valentine Memories ~舞い降る雪の中で~ [020315] Sight Lively main heroine studies diligently in order to enter the same school as her beloved calm brother-in-law. Finally she succeeds, and it's time for rest on Valentine's day. Lots of typos and no voicing, so it's usually not clear who's talking. Horrible system and low quality graphics (though event CG are good). It's easy to get in endless loop. Text render speed is slow, so common route gets tiring, then there's sudden climax and the end. 6. Sakura Taisen 4 ~Koiseyo Otome~ サクラ大戦4 ~恋せよ乙女~ [020321] Sega 1 2 3 4 Oogami Ichirou returns to Japan after having defeated the evil that threatened Paris. Something is once again wrong in the Imperial Capital, as two street cars go berserk without any reason, saved only by the mech-commanding girls of the Hanagumi Brigade. The girls from Paris Kagekidan return to join forces with the original cast, to help Oogami Ichirou to defeat evil one more time. There are English reviews. 7. In White [020322] LiFox Main character returns to his hometown for the first time in three years. He could not save a favorite girl in the traffic accident, and that wound lingers since then. His wish to get back to past is so strong that he is able to get there guided by a voice in the cherry blossom. This time he needs to protect the girl no matter what. Five heroines with an average play time of two hours per route. Standing character sprites are great, but event CG quality is unstable. There is no voicing. BGM quality is low. System is bulky and stressful. 8. Senryaku Musume 戦略娘 [020322] Blue Gale Continent drowned in battle for territory. In this world only women can become military personnel since men are intelligently and mentally inferior to a women. But one day a savior appears in one country, and the problem is that he is a man. That savior is you. Good luck! Strategy + H scenes. There are only 38 CG. There are seven heroines - two in allied country and five in enemy countries. However, protagonist is an elder brother from a good family, so H events aren't dark. Strategy part is quite simple, and there's no need to worry about supplies. 9. Subete ga F ni Naru ~The Perfect Insider~ すべてがFになる ~THE PERFECT INSIDER ~ [020328] KID 1 The player has to investigate and discover who was the murderer of a genius that was murdered in her private laboratory isolated from the outside world with the doors closed and the only clue was a mysterious message that was left. The player controls Kiryuu Wataru, a young fourth year university student in the faculty of engineering and architecture who is into mystery novels. To solve this case he will have the help of Nishinosono Moe (a first grader girl in the University Department of Architecture & Engineering) and Saikawa Souhei (University Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Architecture) and other characters. This game might resemble both Ever17 and Never7 that came later, but actually this work is based on a novel, and game scenario is created together with the author. Mystery is good, and there are 11 endings. Price tag is higher than usual. The only strange thing in the game is that there is there is no tension among the characters even though there are murders occurring nearby. 10. Angel Core ANGEL・CORE [020329] Rune A young military officer, Captain Ralph Maskenval, was sent to Nortland, to fulfill a mission, which was to keep a close watch over the Angels. The Angels were coerced into believing they needed to have sex to nurture the "Angel Core" inside. Ralph starts to feel awkward about his mission. Then Ralph learns the reason behind the Angels' sex-craved behavior. Ralph will have to make a big decision... Unique game with a solid military world view. Heroines are diverse and each root demands that you both interact with the favorite heroine and get information about her from other heroines. Development is a bit hasty in the second part of each heroine route, but still each story is quite long. Erotic part is not as strong as the story. 11. Angelic Serenade AS〜エンジェリックセレナーデ [020329] Kuroneko-san Team 1 You are a teenage boy traveling to find the angel that stopped you from aging. You don't remember it very well since it was what, ten years, twenty years ago? Maybe even longer. Other than the clothes on your back, you carry a magical, musical instrustrument and the feather of the angel you are searching for. One day, you come across a girl. This girl is very different. She can't talk and has different colored eyes. Her left eye is dark blue and her right eye is fire red. This is how the game begins. There is an English review. 12. Comic Cafe コミックカフェ [020329] Girl's Software Main character is a regular of a certain manga cafe that hires only cute cosplay girls to work here in maid outfits to rise the sales. There is a ticket system here that allows to exchange tickets for a cosplay event of the favorite girl. Until the middle of the game the shifts of girls aren't known, so it's all about save and load. There's no real common route, just individual routes. System is quite painful, so the further you go, the more stress you accumulate. 13. Gaia -Save the Earth- ガイア -Save the Earth- [020329] Xai Pollution levels hit their limit in the 21st century causing water, air and soil contamination, as well as global warming. At such time goddess Gaia appears in the sky with the power of love to save the Earth. She chooses a savior who must bring together powers of heroines from five different countries. And that savior is you. You're not explained anything, so it gets confusing what to do - that hurts pace a lot. Even though you need to travel, you need to choose destination among choices, not on the map. There's only very painful skipping. Volume is small. 14. Genmukan ~Aiyoku to Ryoujoku no Inzai~ 幻夢館~愛欲と凌辱の淫罪~ [020329] Aias You play as Satoru, a detective that smokes 40 cigarettes a day. He and his lovely lady assistant come upon a mysterious parcel at work with an address and the single request of "Protect this family". When he scouts out the address he finds an enormous estate with an equally breathtaking European-style mansion. He heads to the building to further investigate. There he finds the steward, the maid, the manservant, and even the young-lady of the house along with her tutor. However, the master of the premises is nowhere to be found. He then realizes that he's in too deep, but finds out that he's locked within the pavilion. He will soon witness the wicked perverted secret behind the mansion. Actually an eroge with mystery stronger than H motives. Tony's art is a great plus as well - I adore detective assistant Nakayama Mei for a long time, actually. All routes can be beaten in 5 hours overall. Difficulty is easy as there are almost no branches. 15. Hyakki ~Inmoku Sareta Haikyo~ 百鬼 ~淫黙された廃墟~ [020329] Elf Once, "Ohka Island Island" I had ... a vibrant. But a little one kilometers surrounding islands, flourished by coal production, building a 10-story Class line the heyday, I was proud enough to surpass the population density of Tokyo. Includes parks and shrines, to schools and hospitals, but small scale, "Ohka Island" is a splendid town. However, by main force of energy has shifted from coal to oil, the closure of coal mines of the island. Because there is no other than the coal industry, the island residents would no longer have much in months. Now the buildings became ruins ....... Story unfolds on the ruins of "islands Ohka" that has been sealed ...... even the weathered storage. Stunning hidden truth and eternal love ......... the drama joy, anger, and sorrow is! ? There are 15 routes hidden inside the island, but they demand exploration and thus are easy to miss. Routes are absolutely different varying from pure lot to erotic, from mystery to ghost stories. Each route takes only one day. Too many elements are introduced at once - exploration, 3D animation, point-and-click during H events etc. Boring conversation kills the middle game. 16. Kikokugai - The Cyber Slayer 鬼哭街 The Cyber Slayer [020329] Nitroplus 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 A tale of revenge set in future Shanghai, where crime syndicates and cyber-warriors rule the city. The schools of martial arts can be largely divided into two styles - Waijia, the external schools that concentrate solely on the development of speed, strength, and powerful forms and techniques - and Neijia, those that use control of breathing and blood flow to master the internal energy - qi - that flows through the body's meridians. Because of these methodological differences, the two styles have vied time and again for supremacy. Although practitioners of Waijia were far greater in number, in the end not one of them could stand up to a warrior who had truly mastered the secrets of Neijia. For centuries, this was the unchallenged law of the martial arts world. However, the advent of cybernetics changed everything. Freed from the yoke of their physical limitations, Waijia schools discovered an entirely new world of possibility. The Neijia schools that had reigned over the martial world with their secret techniques, suddenly found themselves obsolete. In this age where technology is changing the face of combat, heirs to the ancient martial traditions have developed anti-cyborg techniques for the sole purpose of defeating cyborgs with one's bare hands - at great cost to the wielder. Kong Taoluo, one such master and former asssassin in the Qingyun Society, returns to Shanghai from a year in recovery after being betrayed by the syndicate and assumed dead. Discovering the horrible truth of what has happened to his sister during his absence; Taoluo swears an oath of vengeance and sets out to murder those responsible. Game is localized and has lots of English reviews. 17. Mayu ~Yuki no Knife~ 繭~雪のナイフ~ [020329] Gipsy A letter arrived to main character from a childhood friend asking to return to his hometown. At the station he is met my a maid and guided to the mansion. At night one of the guests of the mansion is found dead. Then another one. What's the motive of the criminal? Period is 7 days. Lots of mystic concepts are piled together in this game. Lots of hints are scattered around in cryptic notes. Thin scenario and small number of CG are the main weak points. 18. Missing Link -Actual Facts- [020329] Altacia A middle-aged man's dead body is found on the rails at Nakano Station in Tokyo. Is it a suicide, murder or an accident? Ukyo meets with the widow with three children and starts to move. However, during investigation he starts to feel that the family is about to be incorporated into a “multi-edged whirlpool of organized crime”. Can Ukyo protect the family from the impending crisis? Case is based on real events, but according to the genre rules there's a proper ending here. During game release in 1996 such ending was not possible since lawsuit was still not finished. This particular works deals with sufferings of Ukyo as a human being rather than focuses on women. Realist and feelings depiction shine here. 19. Mugen no Zero 夢幻のゼロ [020329] Studio B-Room Main character is blown into a mysterious space one day leaded by the voice of the girl asking for help. He has no other option but take the sword and slay monsters in this ever-changing labyrinth to recover his memories. RPG part is quite easy and fun. Text is quite rich, and there's some loli girl waiting by the end. Lots of meaningless battles, but it does not irritate too much. 20. One Night Heaven ~Aka to Kuro no Hitobito ni Sasagu Hommage~ One Night Heaven ~赤と黒の人々に捧ぐオマージュ~ [020329] Black Butterfly High school at Shinjuku, Tokyo, but in imaginary world created by human brain. Fates of 18 people are intertwined there. A girl is in love with a boy, but he only plays with her heart. One day illusion of the girl appears at school, and rumors about her suicide start to spread. At the same time Ryusei creates "Misuzu" and tries to infest people's minds with "Misuzu" through the internet. Nagase starts to investigate the connection between the illusion girl and the "Misuzu"... Game is sometimes called Odeon 2, because of the same developers and no less difficult world. It's really difficult to identify the words of all 18 people without the portraits and relations chart given in the game manual. The wall of text and absence of voicing don't help either. The outcomes here can be absolutely bizarre like resurrection of Christ that triggers destruction of nuclear power plant with the whole world. There aren't real reviews for this modernistic thing. 21. Pokopoko Gunsho 2 ~Its a Real World~ ぽこぽこ軍将2~いっつ・あ・りある・わ~るど~ [020329] Yui Koubou Select opponents in military shogi game and defeat cute girls! There are both familiar faces of heroines and new ones. Difficulty is up due to doubling the board size. Surprising... but still not interested. 22. Seishun 18 Radio 青春18ラヂオ [020329] Ark There is a community radio station "Seishun 18 Radio" located in the former elementary school building in Kubota. It is a radio station loved by the youth for its sincerity. However, hospitalization of the leading producer forced the station to shut down due to confusion and financial difficulties. Protagonist starts reconstruction of the station. Will he be able to overcome difficulties and build human relations with his colleagues? First half is ADV, but the second half is a board game. There are 15 game episodes and, sadly, they are disjointed. In order to move to the next board round it's needed to expand your team and fulfill a certain condition. The development is sudden, and no conclusions are prepared. There's no such thing as mutual help - just individual H paths with some girls. Game's a total mess. 23. Sky SKY ~スカイ~ [020329] Cherry Soft The sun darkens and casts shadows, and the wind clears her hat. Summer sea glimmers. White clouds run across the blue sky. She waves to me a lot. That's something I like in her. Period is one month. You need to solve various troubles in your studies and grow love feeling with some heroine. Thanks to introduced hint system walkthrough is not really needed. Everyday sweet talk helps the relations. Weekends are for date events. There are multiple animated H scenes for each heroine totaling over 30 minutes of real time. Development is without any ups and downs, so feels boring. Surprisingly ordinary game for Cherry Soft. 24. Tokimeki Nya no☆Getchu! ときめき にゃの☆げっちゅ! [020329] Com Channel Comu-chan and Mike have moved. They don't know this town and have no place to live, so they stay at the inn and start searching for the suitable place. In the meantime they learn that the formerly joyful and lively Akiba Kingdom is now embraced into sinking atmosphere. The reason is that the main prize for the "Golden Compete" festival has been stolen, so there will be no celebration. Comu-chan and Mike swear in the sunset to return happiness to the people of Akiba Kingdom. Wow, game is actually made by getchu in collaboration with Circus. It's a rare case of shameless self-promotion. 25. Mukou no Yume 向日の夢 [0203] Treasures 1 2 For reasons completely unknown, Chisato Mikogami kills herself. She comes back as a ghost and wanders the earth, meeting the many interesting spirits and ghosts that make up the afterlife. Like Fishman, a fish spirit with a grudge against Chisato; Chisato's crazy sister who experiments on her, Chiyu; and their insanely powerful Mom. There are English reviews. BLOCKED 1. Kannagi 巫~かんなぎ~ [020301] Black Rainbow Two families with psychic abilities fight each other since ancient times. Main character is from one of those families. He is brought up as a God. His human part gradually fades away, but continues to pursue him. Unknown past, mysterious child and woman that must have died. Nukige 2. Private Room [020301] Jelly Bean Private Room is an animated chat simulation. Nukige 3. Pure Drain ピュアドレイン [020301] Chiffon Main character is suddenly fired. A fairy appears in front of him promising to fulfill a wish in exchange for finding fairy world's treasure "Jousyu". This treasure is cultivated inside woman body, and making love is required to excavate it. Protagonist decides to infiltrate theater club of a certain academy as adviser to get the required results. Will he keep to his plan or find true love there? Nukige 4. Tenshi ni Dakarete Shousetsu "Tenshi ni Dakishimerarete" Yori 天使に抱かれて 小説「天使に抱きしめられて」より [020301] Gaia Main character is an angel apprentice who is given task to find the true love on the Earth to become a full-fledged angel. Protagonist borrows a certain male body and starts his quest. He tries domination, destruction, coexistence, dedication, subordination and even has relations with a demonic woman - will that all help him find true love? Nukige 5. Tokubetsu Settai ~Gokuraku Joudo e Youkoso~ 特別接待~極楽浄土へようこそ~ [020301] Waffle Main character graduates from the National University and has all doors open before him, but he actually has to inherit hot springs resort after his father. On his hidden side he likes to prey on women. When a family of four people - mother and three daughters - arrive to the resort, he makes sure to prepare all his devices and traps to provide an enjoyable pastime. Nukige 6. Tsukikagerou -Senshuu Renka- 月陽炎 -千秋恋歌- [020301] Studio Miris Tsukikagerou's fandisc. Requires the original game to be installed. Includes 2 side stories, 2 new songs, a new character voice system, mini-games and desktop accessories. Fandisc 7. Nana-chan to A-so-bo ななちゃんとあ・そ・ぼ [020314] Sol-fa-soft Nana-chan is your childhood friend and classmate. One day you went to play at her house. Nana's family is not home and you and Nana are alone. This is a story of that one day. ■"Playing House" I will be playing house. ■"Food, Bath or Me" Which one do you choose? ■"Playing Doctor" You must be a doctor and see Nana-chan. Palpations, tongue diagnosis (?), And injections. Play with Nana-chan as you wish. ■"Taking a Walk" We both go out to the neighborhood park. Nana-chan is running around and does not wear any clothes. Please look at the unprotected Nana-chan as much as you want. Nukige 8. Himitsu 秘密 ~ひみつ~ [020315] Dark Side Main character is a temporary lecturer who picks up girl's notebook and photo at school. When he tries to return them to the girl, she asks his cooperation to avenge bully girls in class in exchange for her body... Nukige 9. Kaitou Apricot 怪盗アプリコット [020315] Takuyo You take control of Anzu. She is a high school girl during the day, but she becomes a mysterious thief, Apricot, at night. Your mission is to steal someone's heart... Otome 10. Tsumamigui 妻みぐい [020315] Alice Soft 1 What can a widowed woman do when she gets that itch? Invite a nubile man over to help her decorate! It has been a year since Chiho became a widow and the nights are getting lonely. It’s a good thing that her friend Kanae is there to help. Kanae is experienced, she’s been married for eight years and she knows just what Chiho needs. A little spice, a little color and some new scenery is what’s missing from Chiho’s life. Nukige 11. Yuuwaku 2 Tsume Ato 誘惑 第二章 爪痕 [020315] Scoop Main character is a new teacher at a girls' school. One of his students Masaki sets up perversity situations around protagonist and records them on video. Then she blackmails teacher into insulting her classmates... Nukige 12. Bokura no Triangle ぼくらの三角形 [020316] Dennou Oroshidonya Three boys have been friends since elementary school. Even though they attend different clubs now, their friendship is the most precious thing in their hearts. Boys Love 13. Power Pro Kun Pocket 4 パワプロクンポケット4 [020320] Konami Main character moves to Hinode Island and accidentally breaks island's memorial on the way. He enrolls in school baseball club which is very poorly organized and is prone to constant failures. Then local priest tells protagonist that club's misadventures are results of the broken island memorial curse. In order to break the curse the team must achieve national level. GBA exclusive 14. Maiden☆Breeder めいでん☆ブリーダー [020321] Teatime Main character is a trainer of girls with beast ears called "maidens". He's limited in resources, so he needs to train them a few tricks fast so that they could bring money home soon. Nukige 15. Haitokusha no Serenade 背徳者の小夜曲 [020322] Deep Blue Main character is the second son who is jealous of his excellent older brother. He has a sympathy towards his music tutor, but soon she announces engagement with his brother. Seeing their happiness, black desires start to overflow protagonist... Nukige 16. Jaku-Niku 弱肉~Jaku-Niku~ [020322] Berserker Main character is locked up in old school building. He needs to interact with girls and find items in order to find a way to escape. However, monsters lurk in the dark... Nukige 17. Mahou no Shippo na Dai Ichi wa 魔法のしっぽな 第一話 [020322] Sith 1 In this cutesy world of fantasy and magic lives a young woman named Emiru. Emiru has come from a long line of magicians and she’s dreams of getting to the best magical schools. She has mastered several difficult spells spent many a night on the roof of her house; dreaming of better things. That is, until she fell off! Upon colliding with the dirt she used powers she never even knew she had. She then begins her adventure on discovering these untapped powers. The first in this fully animated Hentai adventure. Nukige 18. Onna Kyoushi Saeko ~Biniku Jugyou~ 女教師冴子~媚肉授業~ [020322] Riddle Soft New English teacher Saeko, 20 years old. She is enthusiastic to become a good educator, but faces merciless violence from men very soon. Saeko is stripped of pride and dignity... Is this the only future that awaits her now? Nukige 19. Saiinjutsu 2 催淫術2 [020322] Beenyan A boy bullied by women receive a pendant that can produce a distorted hypnosis, the saiinjutsu, sexually-charged hypnosis. With it he takes revenge on those that harmed him. But will he stop there? And what will happen when a girl come to get back the pendant whose original owner has mysteriously disappeared? Nukige 20. Seisai ~Hakudaku no Misogi~ 性裁~白濁の禊~ [020322] Blue Gale A horrible murder has been committed on the grounds of Nankai Academy. Professor Yuko, one of the school's most popular teachers, died when she was pushed off of the roof of one of the school's buildings. Her death has left her students with feelings of confusion, pain, and above all else anger. Four of her male students, Masayoshi, Daisuke, Mitsuru and Shinya, are determined to uncover the truth. They soon discover an important clue: Professor Yuko's planner had been marked on the very night she was killed... marked with the names of seven girls. With this evidence, the boys begin their investigations and they'll use any method required in order to find the murderer. Through rape, manipulation and torture, they uncover important details, but piecing the puzzle together won't be easy. And the longer their search draws on, the more they feel themselves being overtaken by their own dark desires... Nukige 21. Aoi no Kokuin ~Blue Tempest~ 蒼の刻印~BLUE TEMPEST~ [020329] Marine Heart Boys all over the country yearn to join Saint Sirius' Knights and Saint Capella's Knights. Alf, who wants to be a knight, traveled to the Holy City from the country in order to take the test to become a knight which is held once a year. But he's had a childlike face since birth and is small, so he's turned away at the door. The tests begin while he disputes it with reception, and just when he doesn't know what he's going to do one of the leaders of the knights calls over to him. Wanting to become a knight by any means possible, he's told that if he helps the five leaders with their official duties and improves his skills under them, they will add him in the next year's test. Boys Love 22. Dennou Gekidan Muu Ichiza Dai 4 Kai Kouen Geten no Hikari wa Subete Hoshi 電脳劇団ムー一座第4回公演 下天の光はすべて犯人 [020329] Artifact Main character with short-term memory problems is invited to a detective office. Woman Machiko, who seems to be director here, listens to his problems and goes to another room. She calls protagonist to proceed there, and there sexually assaults him. She explains that he was possessed with evil spirit and needed ejaculation to get rid of it. Now they need to restore memory about where that evil spirit could be contracted. Nukige 23. Dennou Yousei ~Cyber Fairy~ 電脳妖精 ~サイバーフェアリー~ [020329] Apple Pie Main character is a student in a pubertal period. He saves money for an erotic game, and from the disc box pc fairy shows up. She asks what wish he's willing to fulfill. He has only one wish... Nukige 24. Hime Zanmai ~Ochiiku San Shimai~ 姫三妹~堕ち行く三姉妹~ [020329] Tomato Main character lives with his three sisters happily at daytime, but at night time training goes on. Depending on the progress of this training, new items and cosplay costumes are revealed. Nukige 25. Ingyaku Joshi Kangoku 淫虐女子監獄 [020329] Vega 2020 AD. Population has bursted increasing crime level. Prisons are functioning at 180% capacity. Government issues Article 59 called "Prison Private Property Law", according to which prison personnel can take prisoners home to take care of them. Main character is a part of this experiment giving shelter to five women prisoners. Nukige 26. Inran OL ~Modae Naku~ 淫乱OL 〜悶え泣く〜 [020329] 13cm Three hot ladies work in this trading company. They have different personalities, but what unites them is desire for indecency. Nukige 27. Onna Kyoushi 女教師 [020329] Atelier Kaguya Yuichiro Dake intervenes in his teacher's rape, but gets framed as rapist himself and is expelled as a result. He changes schools, but this time does not want to see kind-hearted nurse bullied and double faced teachers ignoring this fact. Protagonist makes three female teachers his sex slaves to fight the injustice at school. Nukige 28. Raspberry 1/3 Stay With Me ラズベリー 1/3 Stay With Me [020329] Momo Gumi One day main character returns home and sees a pretty girl waiting for his return. She introduces herself as celestial being who needs help in collecting "happy power" from seven girls by having intimacy with them. Nukige 29. Love Impact [020330] Akane In this game, you play Tsuzuki-san and you must spend a day in Hisoka-kun's house. EVN 30. Milkyway 1.8 [020330] Witch A kinetic mini adventure to show what happens between Milkyway 1 and Milkyway 2 Fandisc
  2. 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.
  3. The sweet goddess of February 2002 is Kusarihime ~Euthanasia~ 1. Ame ni Utau Tanshikyoku ~A Rainbow After the Rain~ 雨に歌う譚詩曲~A rainbow after the rain~ [020201] Emu 1 Throughout the game you are presented with various flashbacks of a psychiatrist talking with a girl named Ame. At the start of the story the protagonist lives with Chinatsu due to various happenings in his childhood that caused him to become an orphan, and as such mainly sees her as an older sister. The prologue basically starts out with Chinatsu telling the protagonist that 3 of her patients will come live with them for a few weeks as a part of their rehabilitation. There is an English review. 2. Boku to, Bokura no Natsu 僕と、僕らの夏 [020201] light 1 2 A secluded place in the rural mountains. Takao returns to the village where he grew up. However, this summer will be the last time, for a dam is being erected and is to submerge the entire valley. For the first time in 3 years, Takao is to reunite with comrades from his former school. He remembers about a certain treasure they buried a long time ago. Typical nostalgic pure love story, but thanks to change of psychological portrayal it can be read to the end without getting tired. Development is serious, with few gags. Quite satisfactory game for those who like village slice-of-life. 3. Love Letter [020201] Mu Takuya works as an assistant professor in a medical school, and with his talent, he shows promise not only in the academy, but also in the medical society. One day, Takuya receives a letter from an unknown sender. Though he thinks it's suspicious, he still opens it and finds a piece of human skin inside. Then afterwards, the bewildered Takuya continues to receive letters written by "The woman who loves you the most in the world". The contents of the letters gradually continue to escalate, and finally it reaches a point where video recordings of women close to Takuya being brutally murdered are sent to him. It's another brand of Mink, so ero-tilt is inevitable. But such bizarre atmosphere is not something expected. Guro scenes are mostly disgusting rather than appealing, and for that reason game can't be called a nukige. 4. New ~Maid-san no Gakkou~ new~メイドさんの学校~ [020201] Succubus "Maid" has become a profession girls look up to. To nurture maids special school is created. Main character needs to find his love in this maids school. Seven different people wrote the scenario routes, so each route is very different. Some even have only sad endings. There are only 10 days given. Quite original moege. 5. Talk to Talk [020201] Clear Main character is a clone without emotions. As he leads the school life, he gradually deepens friendship with five girls. Will emotions manage to show up in this interaction? Normal school love story. Every heroine gets a good ending, although there are questions about how relations can remain good with such poorly adapted protagonist. Role of protagonist varies greatly from route to route - he can be both proactive and passive pushover. So it's quite an unusual moege, but unusual setting delivers many problems as well. 6. Ultimate Hunter アルティメットハンター [020201] Xuse 1 You are Keith, a hunter of the Hunters Guild and who dreams to become the Ultimate Hunter. In truth you are one of the worst, because you're very lazy, to the despair of your partner Elena. One day, you meet a girl, Serika, who asks you to help her take back a rosary that the bandits stole from her. You help her, she thanks you and goes away just like that... Thats how you start your real hunters life... There are 37 stages that include battles - satisfying winning condition ends battle. Multiple capture is possible and almost all heroines can be flagged with just one playthrough. Second playthrough on a higher difficulty adds new location with several battles prepared. The density of H events is higher that in typical ero rpg. And such scenes are animated. 7. Waitress-san Hai! ウエイトレスさんハイ! [020201] Evolution 1 Our hero, who is really into uniforms, wants to buy a bike and decides to work part time at a restaurant called "The White Plum." The White Plum is well known among uniform groupies. Most of the customers are here to see the girls, so there are hardly any males working here. Our hero luckily has a friend employed at the restaurant, who helps him get a job. However, the manager says, "You cannot have a relationship with any of the waitresses." Our hero refuses to give up. He waits for the right time to get close to the girls. As he protects the cute waitresses from other guys, just what will our hero find awaiting him? A mediocre moege. 8. Himawari no Saku Machi ひまわりの咲くまち [020208] Fairytale Main character is asked by his grandfather to come to home town run a boarding house with a public path for some time. This boarding house is inhabited only by girls. Protagonist starts his everyday chores in hope to find his childhood friend he fell in love many-many years ago. Again a cliche setting and again inviting Carnelian to try to sell the result. Comedy in the main part and short heroine routes. Moege with clear character patterns. 9. Kusarihime ~Euthanasia~ 腐り姫 ~euthanasia~ [020208] Liar-soft 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 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.... There are many English reviews. 10. Memorial. めもりある。 [020208] Bell-Da Main character serves as director of visual media research department of a certain university. He has recently moved in with his lover. One day he is asked to investigate frequent spirited away cases in same section of Rena. He gathers his fellow students and begins investigation. From the start we choose two girls to investigate cases with. Night H events depend on progress and interactions during daytime. Daytime comedy does not really fit regular, but short H night scenes. All the elements feel incomplete. Story is absolutely trampled in favor of ero scenes. 11. Chocolate Kiss チョコレートキス [020214] DigiCube 1 2 The player is a high school student that begins the game in 15th of January. He wants a girlfriend that can give him chocolate on Valentine's Day and has one month to complete his mission. There are 9 different girls to date: Marie, Sachi, Saeko, Yayoi, Miko, Anju, Natsuki, Yuka & Kira. Each day is divided in 3 sections: Morning, Launch break & After School. The player decides what he wants to do in each section of the day. Depending of his decision he will meet one girl or another in that day. Realistic moege. 12. Re.verse ~Kioku~ Re.verse~記憶~ [020214] KIT Main character loses his job and follows a newspaper vacation for a vaguely depicted job. The next day he is picked up by woman Kaoru and taken to a mansion where he needs to overcome girl Elena's phobia of men. Only Elena route is well done. Genre can be described as nakige. Average playthrough per route is 4 hours. Just a single H event per heroine. 13. Daimon ダイモン [020215] LiLiM The "people of the universe" suddenly attack a peaceful town from space! The powerful armored machines are opposed by a colorful bunch of strange girls. Genre is gag comedy with parodies. There are five heroines each presenting some kind of trope. First half determines the heroine, the second half is the actual battles, and this second half is pretty much the same for every heroine. There is just one H scene per heroine. 14. Flugel ~Yakusoku no Aozora no Shita e~ フリューゲル~約束の青空の下へ~ [020215] Tactics Humans divided into two categories - those who could use magic and those who could not. After invention of internal combustion engine the need in magicians waned and two factions began living isolated. One day a certain witch visits technology world... Story is one way road with three endings for each of three heroines. World is depicted well, but second half of the story is forced. 15. Masquerade ~Kamen Yuugi~ Masquerade~仮面遊戯~ [020215] Spiral Main character has the power to manipulate personalities in the direction desired by clients. Among other cases one day he gets a request to get rid of multiple personalities in young man's lover. So starts his adventure to the labyrinth of girl's heart. There are three cases, but protagonist knows exactly what to do right from the start, and that irritates. Game definitely has ero-tilt due to dark personalities of characters. Story is weak. 16. Binary Pot バイナリィ・ポット -Binary Pot- [020222] August Connection with a famous network game "a world", delicious coffee, and network cafe Binary Pot with a famous girl. As a young chief of the shop, a hero will experience various tales with a regular customer etc. Since girls are the players of a network game, respectively, after closing can also meet them on on-line. And the tale which becomes entangled in both of the worlds, the tale which is not involved. Is a hero how to make it put the body on which world? Moege comedy. World is of near future and is described vaguely. There are five heroines, but only three scenarios. All scenarios are basically the same. 17. Flutter of Birds 2 Tenshi-tachi no Tsubasa flutter of birdsII 天使たちの翼 [020222] Silky's The miracle happens again... in another country- The son of an Englishman and a Japanese woman, our main character is Shin'ya. Having grown up in his father's native land, he wanted to visit the homeland of his mother, who died when he was young. White snow covers the town of Kuramachi. His other hometown, the last trace of his mother. That is where his father and mother met and were married. And the time comes when Shin'ya's wish is granted. His aunt Miyu says she'll look after him at her church.. In his mother's hometown, Shin'ya injures his leg and goes to a clinic. As Shin'ya stays in the small, snow-covered town, waiting for his leg to heal, he encounters various young women. His encounter with the girl in the clinic who likes to read, Narumi, becomes one he'll never forget.. Nakige. Each heroine has just one H event in the end. As an individual game it's not particularly interesting. But for those who played the prequel it delivers a lot through references. 18. Juusou Koujo Metal Princess 重装皇女メタルプリンセス [020222] AniSeed School is over for you... Time to look for a job... But what to do now? You realize you are good at nothing. Strangely a double opportunity shows up... A strange group named "The secret society of Evil" seems completely amazed by your shoulder where a hot cup of tea burnt a shape that looks like a dragon... They don't give you a single chance to reject their offer and you are now their leader! The same day, your grandfather, just before dying at the hospital, obtains from you the promise to accept the position of Commander in a secret "Earth defense army"... Soldiers in both groups appear to be lovely girls, pilots of 'mechas', with very different characters and it's clear they are completely opposite groups and fighting each other... Survival implies to play both roles simultaneously in a very subtle way... but for how long can you hide the truth and avoid casualties? Battle is done once a week. Battle difficulty is quite low as it's mostly about gauge control. Developer is famous for wide use of animation, especially in H events. There are 9 endings overall - 6 individual endings, one bad end and two true endings. 19. Kamine no Mori 神音の森 [020222] Active "Paranormal Study Group" university club includes two men and three women. They don't have any regulations - just to visit strange places and have fun. This time they investigate a spirit legend in the hot springs resort. The state of the village is strange - it looks like the group witnesses the past of the village. They investigate it to return to the present age, but the village legend starts to reveal itself... A bakage to the bones. The story is the the same in each route apart of animated H event. Good news is that all male characters including protagonist are voiced. Bad news is that all males voicing is done by the same person. The actual playthrough time is one hour initially and just 30 minutes for consequent ones. 20. Yadokari Typhoon! やどかりタイフーン! [020222] Orbit-Cactus Main character Ricardo is a captain of a pirate ship. His crew is full of energy in search of riches. The jewel stuck in the ship deck hints a way to the legendary pirate paradise with tons of gems. All directions are available for new adventures. The travelling mode is very troublesome since visiting a lot of harbors is required for flagging. Game suffers from the lack of strong vivid characters. There's no violence, and it usually looks more like a comedy tea-party. Four heroines have their endings, plus there is one sub-heroine. 21. Milky Season ミルキィ・シーズン [020228] KID 1 As the newly appointed manager of a female students' dormitory, the player interacts and potentially finds love with 12 beautiful girls. Light comedy. It's a charage, so plot is non-existent. 22. Piece of Wonder ピースオブワンダー [0202] Studio Crossfire 1 2 3 When the new century arrived, so did they. Until now, the Japanese government has managed to keep the mass media from exposing the fact that the future of humankind hangs in the balance... that people are being reborn as a new, evolved form of life. Exactly what triggered the birth of this creature known as "Evolution" is unclear... Kazuya Fuwa, a less-than-perfect university student, and his childhood friend Amane Saionji were leading perfectly happy ordinary lives. But beneath the peaceful surface of their town, Evolution was waiting... There are English reviews. BLOCKED 1. Virgin Oil バージンオイル [020201] Sekilala Main character is a teacher in a girls school. Transfer student Yura confesses her feelings to him, and their relations begin. One day another student Chitose witnesses their flirt and confesses to protagonist later. The next morning main character wakes up to see Yura and Chitose making breakfast together. That was the beginning of their strange relationship. Nukige 2. Lolikko Roshutsu Club ~Mebae Hajimeta Kimochi~ ロリっ娘露出くらぶ ~芽生えはじめたキモチ~ [020207] Sol-fa-soft A short novel collection focusing on the "exposure of girls". Three girls confess embarrassing experiences. ■ Episode 1 "One Night's Adventure" Takes place during a hot summer evening. Aikawa Yuka noticed that the cola she wanted to drink after bathing was gone. Yuki just wanted to drink a Coke right now, and goes out with only a bath towel ... ■ Episode 2 "Sex Education" Takes place at school. Sakuragi Mikari is left alone with the boys and the teacher told her to take off everything ... ■ Episode 3 "Train Person" Takes place on a train. A kind man who was touching Tomoko starts to make her feel good... Nukige 3. Mahjong All Night! Sisters 麻雀オールNight!シスターズ [020208] K'Night! It is a game where you can play mahjong with 6 characters from k'Night games! Card game 4. Nyan Nyan Shichau! ニャンニャンしちゃう! [020208] Trabulance Main character awakens on a fluffy bed in a cat country after breaking up with his girlfriend. It looks like he has a relatively good position of a soldier in here. Thus started his exploration of the cat land and its inhabitants. Nukige 5. Rhapsody of the Fear [020214] Gin no Ken Vampire Kyle lives a quiet forest with a were-cat girl, but one day she suddenly disappears. Strange rumors reach Kyle, so he seeks support in the only person he trusts - his half-brother Larc. But how will Kyle find Larc who is travelling around the world all the time? Doujin 6. Doki! Doki! Oisha-san Gokko Doki!Doki!お医者さんごっこ [020215] Candy Soft Main character is a student who aims to become a fine doctor. Healthcare practitioner suddenly quits, and protagonist is asked to temporarily take his place. Will he be able to treat sick people well and prevent all of the seduce attempts? Nukige 7. Kussetsu 屈折 [020215] Tomato Your reputation is in the gutter, but your best friend has the perfect life, even though he doesn't deserve it at all. This irritates you to no end, and you decide to take every girl and woman from his life, one at a time, to expose what he really is. Nukige 8. Doreijou 奴令嬢 [020222] Cadath Main character lives alone and has too much spare time on his hands. A certain company has a huge debt to protagonist father's company, and in order to repay the debt they send president daughter of the debtor company to use as he desires. And father brings the girl to protagonist's flat to live with him as a pet. Nukige 9. Gedou Gakuen Iinkai 外道学園委員会 [020222] Night Mare Ten years ago there was a rumor of prostitution organization inside the school that never spared its members who leaked its secrets. At present time such rumors have revived with mysterious suicide of one of the girls. Main character who is school president is set to uncover the secrets of the organization. In this war he needs to use his own libido to break mind control of the girls. Nukige 10. Raven ~Inoru Shoujo o Otosu Jutsu~ Raven~祈る少女を堕とす術~ [020222] Aqua House Main character studies black magic at school. An angel sends computer virus from heavenly world and disturbs research. Protagonist becomes an access point thanks to the virus. With that he captures a devil and with her help they beat the angel and inject her with "Anti-Mercy Virus". Nukige 11. Ryoujoku Chikan Jigoku 凌辱痴漢地獄 [020222] Anim Main character is a molester who can change the patterns to reach different endings. Nukige 12. Ura: Jinzai Haken Center 裏 人材派遣センター [020222] Megami Three girls are contacted from the temporary staff center. During the training period girls are being sexually harassed inside the company. After that they hope for a decent job, but is it really what expects them at a new workplace? Nukige 13. Kamineko 噛猫 [020223] Digital Aniki A fan-fiction parody VN based on the manga/anime Azumanga Daioh. Fandisc 14. Magical☆Canon まじかる☆キャノン [020223] Digital Aniki A fan-fiction parody to VN Magical Kanan Fandisc 15. Pearl na Kibun de ~Ashita ni Mukatte Arukou~ パールな気分で~明日に向かって歩こう~ [020228] Jewelry Main character works for a top company in the mids of recession. He's desperate to increase sales. But after work he has meetings with 40 beautiful girls. Working hard doubles his charm! He wants to get both work and love! Nukige 16. Shikkaku Ishi 失格医師 [020228] MBS Truth Dr. Shinji Ishida is a doctor working at a hospital on the brink of ruin. People have heard that this doctor has brought many hospitals back from financial ruin, however his methods are what you might say "unorthodox". After his sessions the patients can't seem to get enough of being treated by him which naturally causes the hospital to be full of money again. Nukige
  4. Foreword: I won't lie, Sollunea is the only game from January 2002 that has nice fantasy setting and is available. So, is it any fun? Title: Sollunea Developer: Luchs Date: 2002-01-25 VNDB link:https://vndb.org/v3189 Youtube walkthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cGFnvGrDnA Synopsis: An adventure novel set in a medieval European fantasy world. A remote village in engulfed in war flames. Village is visited by traders who say that they were attacked by female thieves who kidnapped accompanying daughter of the priest. Main character decides to rescue the girl and leaves the village. Structure: None Length: 4 hours Game type: Fantasy adventurer story Difficulty: Very easy, branches are either dead ends or entrances to routes. Character Design rating: 5/10 Protagonist rating: 6/10 Story rating: 5/10 Game quality: 4/10 Overall rating: 5/10 Rating comments: Game's too short. It desperately tries to prolong screen time, and these efforts are felt by reader. It has nice comedy moments and quite worthy protagonist, but heroines and the story aren't inspiring. Protagonist: Blitz looks a lot like Rance visually, and he's quite a pervert even though his actions are actually usually pretty innocent. He cites wisdom of his father all the time, and he's the only bright spot in this game. Characters: There are three heroines in this game - supposedly main heroine priest daughter Muse, kidnapper chieftain Klenadia and actually the main baddie of the game - sorceress Somua. There's no voicing, no story depth and no time to even start any heroine development. They remain just actors in this very short unenthusiastic story. Story: Story can be described in just one sentence. Blitz saves priest niece Muse from kidnappers, accompanies her to the city and then opposes new kidnappers of Muse. That's it - can such story really be carcass of a game? It certainly can, but don't expect that game to be good. Humor: I mentioned nice conversations with heroines, but humor mostly exists only in the first third of the game, and it's quite crude humor about nudity. Second third is very boring with heroes just travelling in the woods. Then travelling the new morning. And same goes for many days. The last third is supposed to be serious drama, but it's impossible to take this game seriously at this point. Overall comments: Quite naive attempt to produce a fast bright erotic fantasy story and get something from this new pie. But it looks like it did not go well, so they just produced nukige from then on. Bye-bye, Luchs.
  5. Princess Knights is the only masterpiece of the month. This short month has literally nothing of interest, so I'm reviewing Sollunea 1. Princess Knights [020111] Mink 1 2 3 4 In a kingdom faraway… the royal family was dethroned overnight by its own general. The king tried to escape with his son, whereas the princess who was left behind was captured by the enemy. Alone, the general gave chase and managed to catch up to the king and the prince. The king fought the general, telling the prince that he had to run away, otherwise he’d be killed and the lineage of dragon would be eliminated. When the prince hesitated to run away, the king was mortally struck… and used his last energy to teleport the prince elsewhere, so that he was saved from the general. The prince was found by a girl and her father, and was nursed back to health. However, everything that happened had crippled his spirit, and he didn’t have any wish to go and reclaim his kingdom. He was content to live with the girl and her father. But the general’s soldiers were still looking for him. One day they happened upon the house, and the girl’s father tried to protect the prince… and was killed. Before the soldier could go and kill him and the girl, he unleashed a power which killed all of the soldiers. This power was something he had for being of the dragon lineage, and is not something he could freely control. Afterwards, they buried the girl’s father… and the girl begged him to travel together. She wanted to get revenge for her father. Soon after, girls from various places and status joined him in his quest to reclaim the kingdom… to ultimately fulfill an old prophecy. Because there was an old prophecy that said that when the kingdom was in peril, it will be saved by someone of the dragon lineage and his queen…. There is an English review. 2. MissingParts the Tantei Stories [020117] FOG 1 2 3 Missing Parts is a detective game that drives the story through logical deductions and natural plot developments. Unlike games where you figure out the culprit by debating over all the evidence available, your job is to talk to people, gather evidence, and remember not only what people say but pay attention to small things that you are expected to remember. There is an English review 3. Gakkou ni Ikou!! -Lose One's Heart- 学校に行こう!!-lose one’s heart- [020118] Sight Main character works for a personal computer division at work, but there are only enough devices for one third of workers, so protagonist is sent to the school with personal computers. He needs to prepare for qualification tests or he's going to be fired. It's a nice time to go to school again! Not a single comment is found. 4. Ikinari Happy Bell いきなりはっぴぃベル [020118] Terios Main character is a student who has just received inheritance from his deceased father. But instead of huge assets all he gets is a mansion bought with mortgage and many debts. When he attends the mansion, there is a maid who claims to be here to handle his engagement and five girls that are prepared by father for his son... There is both pure love and devil route for each girl, but both feel half-baked. Story is comical, with a good tempo. 5. Exor ~Maria no Yurikago~ EXOR ~マリアのゆりかご~ [020125] Digi Anime Player becomes an instructor in a demonicist school for six new students with the purpose of bringing up fine demons. It's not a SIM, just the girl you teach the most gets an ending. There is some comedy. Every girl follows the same pattern, so it becomes boring very fast. 6. Fortuna フォルトゥーナ [020125] ZyX You're a man now. You want to become a 'free person'. Free people are adventurers, fighting monsters around the world for their own pleasure. They defend innocent people but don't have to obey orders from anyone. Rena, is quite upset that you decided to leave your village... But she understands you are extremly bored and she gives you a few healing potions she stole from her father's shop. You will make friends and enemies on your journeys... Of course, Rena won't resist the temptation to leave village as well, in order to join you... Some strange side scroller view RPG with wide use of animation in H scenes. Battle system is very easy, but there's almost no story, so there's little satisfaction as RPG. 7. Mei☆Puru めい☆ぷる [020125] 1 2 3 This game tells the story of a family that lost the mother in an accident when the daughter was a young child. The father of the child is a robot technology genius. Time passes and the young girl (Hiiragi) goes everyday to study at school, and someone hires her father to make a maid robot so first he decides to create a prototype and see how it will work in his own house. He got one month to collect the data for the job, so this is where the game begins. The player has to educate the robot maid or even help her with the housework. The robot maid will react different depending of the player choices and he can also choose to go to the town and make different activities with her. Pure love game with very carefully drawn characters. But despite heroic work of voice actors, game is desperately boring. 8. Sollunea ソルネア [020125] Luchs An adventure novel set in a medieval European fantasy world. A remote village in engulfed in war flames. Village is visited by traders who say that they were attacked by female thieves who kidnapped accompanying daughter of the priest. Main character decides to rescue the girl and leaves the village. There are three heroines, but their routes are very short. Scenario overall is not too interesting, but conversations with protagonist are quite fun. 9. Matica マティカ [020126] eelcom Castle floating in the sky is the place to worship goddess Matika. Main character is a worshiper who sets on a journey with a friend who receives a curse mark to save the world. They are accompanied by a colorful bunch of adventurers. Protagonist has doubts about his mission, but the world is in danger, and it's no time for hesitations. Did not find any comments. BLOCKED 1. Hontou ni Atta Kowai Hanashi. 本当にあった怖い話。 [020107] freeidea A collection of 12 ghost stories experienced by real people. Antology 2. Pictural Story [020108] Higashi Shin'ya A boy wants comes to the artist city Almit to learn professional painting. In such a place he looks for a model and falls in love with her. Doujin 3. Zaiakukan "Onegai... Konna Sugata Minaide" 罪悪感 「お願い…こんな姿見ないで」 [020111] Lune Main character is a young businessman who can only get excited with someone else's wife or bride. So far he has never been caught, but these occasional acts can not satisfy him. His relative is getting married, and protagonist decides to trample the bride in front of the groom. To do that he invites the couple to his luxury liner for honeymoon... to the place with no escape... Nukige 4. Asa made Issho ~Dousei Monogatari~ 朝までいっしょ☆~同棲物語~ [020118] Trabulance Main character is a university student who just succeeded in finding a room to rent nearby. One day older sister Mari just comes there with a big luggage claiming that she needs to live here as a part of social studies. But why her hands tremble so much then... Nukige 5. Eraburu ~Erabu + Love x Double de~ えらぶる~えらぶ+らぶ×ダブルで~ [020118] May-Be Soft Main character is a freelance editor. He is forcibly brought as an employee to a company where he needs to edit adult works. With his new female manager he needs to finish each piece with good results. Whether he can find his love at such work or not, depends on the player. Nukige 6. Bondage Game ~Shinsou no Reijou-tachi~ ボンデージ・ゲーム ~深窓の隷嬢達~ [020125] Ail 1 Yuu is a girl who has lost her memories. She is mailed into a sadistic house of bondage where she and others are forced (or not) to serve their master, but there are serious consequences for those who fail. Nukige 7. Capsule Maid Alice カプセルメイドありす [020125] Adonis Main character is hired as a temporary clerk of antique shop "LA SAISON". When he throws a capsule from this shop against a wall during an argument, maid girl appears from it... Nukige 8. Gakuenjuu ~Ryoujoku Shidou Youryou~ 学園獣 ~陵辱指導要領~ [020125] Pochette Main character is a part-time lecturer. There is a female teacher there who allows to anything with her body. But he grows tired of it and starts to gather information about weak sides of girls in order to insult them. Nukige 9. Genjuu Ijiri 幻獣いぢり [020125] Pinky Soft Phantom Beast Ichiri is a card game using "Breast feeding system" from the previous works. Nukige 10. Ikenai Kankei いけない関係 [020125] TinkerBell Main character is a newly appointed science teacher. He happens to see female student Saeki being bullied, and helps her. From that day she trusts protagonist and seeks his attention. Whether he wants do develop pure love or insult relations, depends on him. Nukige 11. Kuro Mahou Shoujo Sadistic Youko 黒魔法少女サディスティック妖子 [020125] Hayashigumi Yuko is a weak girl with black-magic study as a hobby. One day a transfer student protects her from a bully. Yuko falls in love with the boy and summons a demon to insult all the girls that seek transfer student attention. Main character is that devil who preys for these girls. Nukige 12. Negapoji Fandisk ~Hitotsu Yane no Shita de~ ねがぽじファンディスク~ひとつ屋根の下で~ [020125] Active Among other goodies there are three short stories: ● Scenario A: 「ひとつ屋根の下で」 Under one roof. ● Scenario B: 「やり方を教えて」 Tell me how to do it. ● Scenario C: Too late. Fandisc 13. NekoNeko Fan Disc ねこねこファンディスク [020125] NekoNeko Soft Contains omake (bonus) material related to NekoNeko's earlier games. Fandisc 14. Nikuyoku Gangu Takuhainin 肉欲玩具宅配人 [020125] Cromwell Working for a moving company, Shouji is invited to a party by a girl named Yuika. However, he is drugged, and multiple women take advantage of him, and rape him repeatedly. When he recovers his memory, he finds himself stuffed in a cardboard box on the railroad tracks, with a suicide note stuffed inside. Shocked, he frantically escapes from the cardboard box. Vowing revenge, he sets off to Yuika's residence. He pretends to be a delivery man, and enters her apartment. There, he stuffs her in a box and takes her to a hideout where she will be used as a lure to contact the other party members that violated him. Watch the depravity of Shouji's revenge as he hunts down and boxes up the women for his carnal revenge Nukige 15. Ryoujoku Saiban 陵辱裁判 [020125] Chiffon Certain girls school is chosen as a place to grow up ladies responsible for tomorrow. At the third year of study competition grew stagnant, and co-ed with male students was introduced. Main character is a seemingly great boy and football player, but he also serves at the ethics committee that insults girl students caught up in sexual disorders. Nukige 16. Shi-Ka-E-Shi シ・カ・エ・シ [020125] Foster Main character is forced to dress as female since the childhood. Now he attends girls school. One day his classmate discovers his manhood, and three girls start to bully him each day. Eventually he explodes and swears revenge over his offenders as well as mother and aunt who made him dress as a girl. Nukige 17. Yuugenjikkou Angels 有言実行エンジェルス [020125] Vega A certain private school has an unusual club that exercises real experiences. There are five girls with distinct personality. In the last club activity before the winter vacation director sets the task to have sex with at least two males in unusual situations. As the vacations end, they start confessing the results of their studies... Nukige
  6. Year 2001 is a year of lost opportunities for visual novels, at least for chunige. The matured industry failed to produce breakthrough works. Of course there are lots of new cool openings Visual Novel Openings 2001 with songs. My list of masterpieces in 2001: Renaissance Yougen Tennyo Vampirdzhija Vjedogonia Silent Hill: Play Novel Gensou Suikogaiden Vol. 2: Crystal Valley no Kettou Mizuiro No Reality Chain Ushinawareta Ashiato Cosmos no Sora ni Kimi ga Nozomu Eien Ashita no Yukinojou Kagetsu Tooya Eve: The Fatal Attraction Memories Off 2nd Green Green Jisatsu no Tame no 101 no Houhou Kazoku Keikaku Daiakuji Nijuubako Izumo I can only settle with chunige as VN of the Year, and it's going to be Eve: The Fatal Attraction as the only long thrilling story-centered work. I also choose this work that is a remake of on old Eve game to show how secondary and muddy industry has become in 2001 for chunige. Too many disappointments and false hopes this year including Lipstick ADV.4 , Sayonara o Oshiete ~Comment te Dire Adieu~ , Bittersweet Fools , Rije ~Saisei no Ubugoe~ , Assassin Ann , Virus and Faust . But everything may change in 2002 , my peek into it already proves resurrection of story-centered games.
  7. Foreword: Virus... mystery... girl with a gun... I liked these setting elements and just dived into it without reading anything about the game. Here's my honest impression. Title: Virus Developer: Celt Date: 2001-12-07 VNDB link:https://vndb.org/v17856 Youtube walkthrough:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q6Lq5QEyqE Synopsis: Main character is separated from his older brother and sister due to parents' divorce. A few years later sister asks him to check on brother who does not come to contact. Brother is found dead with a tattoo all over his body. Protagonist starts his own investigation with the help of some friends. Structure: 17 days Length: 8 hours. Game type: Mystery investigation Difficulty: Quite easy since bad choices usually lead to premature end Character Design rating: 5/10 Protagonist rating: 4/10 Story rating: 5/10 Game quality: 5/10 Overall rating: 5/10 Again, not enough affinity to the game to write a proper structured review. Game is voiced and has proper true ending, so it's not total trash. But, as usual, without any strong elements to focus on. Story is weak. All the routes are based on the fact that virus can affect anyone. So in each route we with the favorite girl face some other familiar character affected by virus, and that's it. Fortunately, there's a true route with our sister Mika where the mysteries get revealed. But it's also quite forced and short resolution, so it's not satisfactory at all. The only thing I liked is composition of routes. There were couple routes branching off early, then couple routes branching from the middle, but just one route leads you the further and turns out to be True route. Heroines totally lack charm even though they all are voiced. There are some 6 heroines here. Protagonist is the worst. He does not have his own opinion, but forces us to make convenient decisions. Like after witnessing death from virus he says he needs body warmth and all we get to decide is which of two girls to call... It actually looked that the same BGM was sounding all the time. The girl with gun charm is not realized. She just breaks to the flat with the gun where we find dead brother. And she owns a gun just because she's some kind of detective. There are couple more fighting scenes with a knife in a certain heroine route, but that's it, no special affinity to weapons. Game does not have strong points, so I consider it just to be a setting for H events. Another disappointment.
  8. Foreword: I did not have much hope for this game until I found a Japanese review calling this game a hidden gem and praising its atmosphere. Title: Faust Developer: Tail Date: 2001-12-14 VNDB link:https://vndb.org/v9803 Youtube walkthrough:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAn6MX7Tj6U Synopsis: In a peaceful city, a series of strange "vampire" murders happened. As if to ridicule people who don't believe in the existence of such monsters victims appear one after another in a swift succession. Meanwhile, the hero who works in the university encounters a girl. Upon that encounter, he feels "something" that can sacrifice even a precious and sacred life in that girl. Structure: 7 chapters Length: 7 hours Game type: 19th century vampire murders story Difficulty: Moderate Character Design rating: 6/10 Protagonist rating: 5/10 Story rating: 5/10 Game quality: 5/10 Overall rating: 5/10 I don't have much to say about this game, so I'll keep informal review style. I mentioned that I found one positive Japanese review of this game and based on that decided to check it out myself. But there multiple negative Japanese reviews of this game, and, looking back, my impression is closer the second side. Protagonist is some guy with glasses, Edward. He investigates nothing, he is not capable of standing against a vampire. All he can is go around and talk with everyone. Typical. There are four heroines, but only one story. The choice of heroine does not really affect the story. The actual branching to see new H events only starts very late in the game. One of those four endings does not even progress to the last 7th chapter - should we praise developers for innovation of just giving an abrupt end? The story is not particularly interesting either. Vampires keep insulting girls on full moon nights, and noone can do anything. At one of the crime sites Edward meets Fee who is actually the main heroine, but not because she has the most breathtaking route. She's just the only person who can actually fight and oppose vampire. All the guys in the game are just worthless weird detectives with smiling faces. Town is under a huge threat, but these guys just joke around in a really relaxing atmosphere. There's an explanation to this - assaults only happen on full moon nights, and such nights happen only roughly once a month. So between the chapters game can easily skip a month. Overall comments: I did not really understand what was the point of the game. Just like any steampunk game it only can boast of the saturated atmosphere of the 19th century. I know what the atmosphere was like in the end of 19th century without this game, so what's the point? If it's supposed to be a charage, then I failed to see attractiveness of any heroine here. It's not a bad game, just a game without a single strong element.
  9. Izumo is the only masterpiece of the month. I'll be reviewing both Virus and Faust this month. 1. Kakuriyo 幽冥-カクリヨ- [011207] Cage Main character receives a request as a member of mystery club to investigate change in the behavior of classmate's older brother. At the same time beauty transfer student comes to the class, and a series of bizarre incidents starts to happen. Old school building, moonlight on the shrine and fate from the previous life - with that the sky trembles and Kakuriyo appears in this world. A dark ero-centered story, but at least with some plot. There are guro scenes and deaths of heroes at bad endings. Difficulty is high, so walkthrough is a must. 2. Platinum プラチナ [011207] Giga Main character transfers to a school in the mountains of the neighboring prefecture just half a year before graduating. He leaves behind his girlfriend who promises to wait for him till they can enter the same university. But new town presents new encounters. What will he choose? Wow, Giga started to produce poor visual novels as early as back in 2001... and Puchi Cherry unsuccessful example did not teach them a thing. Here is another generic moege with forced ending. 3. Rasetsu [011207] Kogado Studio The story is set within a futuristic world where mankind, fearing overpopulation may be a danger, made settlement at locations away from Earth. Two powerful organizations formed: The Governing Galactic Federation of Earth and the Dick Planetary Alliance, and since then they've been engaged in war against one another, which in turn has dealt considerable damage to mankind. Your goal as the leader of a mercenary's guild is to simply profit by taking jobs from either of those forces. The Rasetsu series play simililarly to any other real-time strategy title with an isometric view and common point-and-click interface, and also toting somewhat of a Front Mission-esque as you'll often find yourself switching over from battles to intermissions (where you'll be able to talk to characters) and so on. Not a visual novel, so no point discussing. 4. Virus ウィルス [011207] Celt Main character is separated from his older brother and sister due to parents' divorce. A few years later sister asks him to check on brother who does not come to contact. Brother is found dead with a tattoo all over his body. Protagonist starts his own investigation with the help of some friends. Those who watch me for some time already know that I'll be reviewing this game myself. A woman with a gun is the bait I always swallow. 5. Q [011208] Cross 1895. Main character is a representative of Meiji government sent on culture inspection to the United States. Upon his arrival inexplicable series of mystery murders start to occur. Story is inconsistent and full of H events. There's a mystery meter that moves some 5 cm with each new ending (mostly bad ones) revealed. Thus reaching true end requires playing 20 times making the right choices. Not much is explained, so story often develops itself without acknowledgement of what's happening. 6. Doki Doki Pretty League - Lovely Star ドキドキプリティリーグ Lovely Star [011213] Xing Entertainment 1 2 In the game the player takes again the role of a baseball coach that is going to coach the Kasumigaura high school female baseball team during a one year period of time. The task is to decide the training (battling, fielding, etc.) that each player is going to make each week and see their progress. Can't stand SIM games. 7. Kokoro Toshokan Communication Library Visual Drama ココロ図書館 コミュニケーションライブラリー ビジュアルドラマ [011213] Broccoli A short visual novel included as part of the "Kokoro Library Communication Library" library cataloging software. Chapters are unlocked as books are entered into the library software; approximately 120 books are required to unlock the entire story. Some strange moe collection game. 8. Cafe La Sunset CAFE LA SUNSET [011214] BeF Main character ran a restaurant for five years before it went bankrupt. One day he's invited by his uncle to be a manager of "Sunset" cafe that is about to be closed in a month's time. What encounters await him during the time left? Quite a generic Pia Carrot clone, but with BeF traditional graphics. The girl we visit the most gets her story to progress. There is also a SIM part. 9. Faust ファウスト [011214] Tail In a peaceful city, a series of strange "vampire" murders happened. As if to ridicule people who don't believe in the existence of such monsters victims appear one after another in a swift succession. Meanwhile, the hero who works in the university encounters a girl. Upon that encounter, he feels "something" that can sacrifice even a precious and sacred life in that girl. I think I'll review it myself. 10. Konoha Challenge このはちゃれんじ [011214] FlyingShine Main heroine is homunculus created by Mad Alchemist. She is implanted memory of younger sister. She exists via sexual energy and needs daily masturbation to survive. If she resists this urge, her body gets more and more aroused. Her bright school life begins! This is a totally nukige setting, but game is actually a bakage and is praised a lot for comical character depiction. It's also FlyingShine game. But it's also a SIM game developing over a month's time. Various events occur depending on school behavior and self-training sessions at nights. There are three happy endings and four normal ones. Still it's everyday conversation laugh that makes this game so highly evaluated, not H events. 11. Megami-sama ☆ ni Onegai!! -Mayonaka no Boukensha- 女神さま☆にお願いっ!! -真夜中の冒険者- [011214] Studio Ryokucha A certain Tokyo high school is an ordinary school during daytime, but at nighttime it changes into a labyrinth that seals the ultimate treasure that can make any wish come true. Main character is one of its students joining in the treasure hunt accompanied by classmate girls. It's mostly a comedy with a good tempo, even though parody often feels old. First half is the same, then we pick a heroine and go exploring the dungeon only with her - the final wish fully depends on the heroine chosen. 12. Pain Pain -ペイン- [011214] Studio Neko Punch In a rural town a young boy stares at the night sky. Black shadow approaches him and takes the shape of a succubus woman. Succubus searches for a fresh soul, and boy does not value his life at this point anymore, so they make a deal. From this day environment around the boy changes little by little with every day... Somehow it's more of a pure love story, but with some insult side-scenes. The number of choices is very small. The mystery plot between succubus and protagonist is lost with time, and game proceeds just as a normal charage. Hetare protagonist is not nice to see. Lots of people were disappointed by the fact that this Studio Neko Punch game does not have lolis - succubus is the closest to loli from all the heroines. Lots of bugs don't help with evaluation either. 13. Sweet ~Hanjuku na Tenshi-tachi~ Sweet~半熟な天使たち~ [011214] Silky's Main character just graduated from medical university. He finds work at "Saint Angels Hospital" managed by his uncle. He grows up as physician and deepens his relations with various girls - nurses, students, female doctors. patients... Since this game is an alternative version of Candy Stripe, it's mostly a pure love story. But it's not a direct port, but with H scenes included. The gameplay is same boring. 14. Tokimeki Memorial 3 ~Yakusoku no Ano Basho de~ ときめきメモリアル3 〜約束のあの場所で〜 [011220] Konami 1 TM3 is set in Moegino High, a private high school built over a hilltop. Besides the usual path students take to school, there's also an abandoned footpath leading to an old shrine called Onokoyashiro (male's shrine)--said to be have been built to compliment the Ominayashiro (female's shrine) located around the school's premises. These two paths, old and new, meet along a legendary slope, where "on that fateful day, under the falling cherry-blossoms, should two lovers' confess their love, they will forever be bound together". So goes the legend of Moegino High. The aim in the game is similiar to the past two games: you play a male student in Moegino High, and for their next three years you'll be studying there while meeting (and dating) various girls. If eveything goes well, one of them will meet you at the legendary slope come graduation day, and both of you then confess your love for each other. There is an English review. 15. Hermina to Culus ~Lillie no Atelier Mou Hitotsu no Monogatari~ ヘルミーナとクルス 〜リリーのアトリエ もう一つの物語〜 [011220] Gust The young alchemist Hermina has created an homunculus by the name Culus. The homunculus cannot show many expression or say many words, but Culus learns new words from the people of Salburg. Eventually the player can use the words Culus have learnt to become Hermina's friend. An spin-off of the Atelier series without RPG elements and focusing on communication between the characters. It's basically fandisc for RPG series 16. Akairo no Utage 紅色ノ狂宴 [011221] Aaru One day main character Yuya is invited to take care of the mansion while his brother is away. There he needs to contact his two sisters Aika and Kurumi, maid Sumire and mysterious woman Aoi on everyday basis. At the same time he starts to see very realistic and nostalgic dreams that he forgets upon awakening... Heroine paths depend on the level of awakening of protagonist (weak-medium-strong) increasing the overall number of patterns with choices to astronomical numbers. Due to these dreams the number of H events reaches double digit numbers for some heroines peaking at 25 for Aika who Yuya has always been secretly in love with. There is actually some story here as Yuya is the guardian of the holy sword from his previous life, and he can either fight demons of become demon himself. 17. Izumo [011221] Studio e.go! 1 2 Touma Hikaru is a student at the prestigious Izumo private academy. Recently he is troubled by dreams that always has the same woman trying to tell him something. One day, following the steps of the dream he had last night he goes to the abandoned building at the back of the school. When he touches a mirror there, there is a flash of bright light followed by an earthquake. He rushes out to the new school building only to find Nanami being attacked by a giant spider. At that moment a bird appears and everything stops. But this is only the beginning of the strange events to follow those two... Studio e.go! finally returns to normal RPG games. And Izumo series becomes the main one in company history spawning multiple continuations. A clear masterpiece. 18. Kemono Gakuen けもの学園 [011221] Tactics Main character enters Veterinary high school only to find out that it's fool half-humans half-monsters as students. Will he adapt in this curious place? Warmhearted comedy. There are four heroines representing different monster archetypes + a secret character. The only shortcoming I can think up is volume shortage - common part takes just one hour and heroines routes another hour - at max two hours. 19. Kasumisan# -Manatsu no Refrain- Kasumisan#-真夏のリフレイン- [011228] Gastro On the first day of summer vacations main character's female friend dies in a traffic accident. That was a huge blow for him. When he awakens the next day it's again July 31st, first day of summer vacations. Two worlds of past and present form an eternal cycle to reveal hidden heart strings. Loop elements are encountered in previous games as well, but Kasumisan Sharp makes loop the centerpiece of the game. There is just one heroine in the game and just one H event late in the game. The beginning and the ending of the game are good, but there's not enough efforts exercised to make middle part exciting or at least less boring. 20. Snow Radish Vacation!! Snowラディッシュバケーション!! [011228] 0verflow 1 Snow Radish Vacation is the prequel to Summer Radish Vacation 1 and 2 and as such, also of School Days. Chronologically, it is the first in the "Radish continuity." These girls are considered to be studying on the 4th grade of university, but it's rather 4th grade of the school tbh. And protagonist here is a pregnant girl... so everything goes hopsy dopsy. There is a map with 10 locations and girl icons on it, but it's absolutely useless to chase girls and try to raise favorability with them. Instead, what's required is to search for hidden events on the maps with no girl icons. BLOCKED 1. Yami No Romance [011201] Akane In the game the player is Tsuzuki-san. You go to an amusement park with Tatsumi, Watari and Hisoka. Your objective is to get the romantic ending with the character you like, but you must take care of the things you say to them. EVN 2. Kimochi e ~Zecchou Kansenshou~ きもちe~絶頂感染症~ [011207] Xyz Main character is a pimp in charge of three women. One day he gets infected with a disease that can only be countered by having sex with women with antibodies. But he can't afford that with the money he has, so he needs to make a lot of money with the three women he controls now. Nukige 3. Rising Beat ライジングビート [011207] Marine Heart Main character gets appointed as a manager of a new boys idol group 'Rising beat'. Will he aim at success or at someone's heart? Boys Love 4. Tsukushite Agechau 3 ~Watashi no Goshujin-sama~ 尽くしてあげちゃう3~わたしのご主人様~ [011207] Trabulance Shuichi Takada is disappointed because he lost the last baseball game of his high school career. Yuki, the school nurse, cheers him up with her body. Shuichi loses his virginity. Many female students come to Yuki for advice, and she has sex with some of them. Shuichi is shocked to find this out. Furthermore, Yuki asks him to become these girls' master. While he's having sex with Yuki a few days later, she tells him the girls will come to see him. After passionate love making, three girls walk into the room! This is part 3 of a very popular series. The theme of this game is 'sex-slave training!' However, this is not about hard-core sex and violating girls. You have to gently train the girls and make them awaken to sex. You'll train four girls: 'Kaname Ida,' the class chairman, 'Chiaki Kasai,' the manager of the baseball team, 'Miko Karaku,' Shuichi's best friend's sister, and "Miyuki Kaeba,' a very high-handed and rich girl. In the previous episodes, one girl devoted her body to you, but this time, you'll be able to have sex with all the girls! Train them and enjoy! Nukige 5. Happy [011210] Fairy Dust Main character starts to date his girlfriend "Yume", and they are happy together. They agree to enter the same Tokyo university, but protagonist fails exams. The night before Yume departure they get intimate, but protagonist fails to perform as a man. Their next meeting is going to happen only in six months. Will he be able to polish his sex skills before the next meeting? Nukige 6. Sister Princess ~Pure Stories~ シスター・プリンセス 〜ピュア・ストーリーズ〜 [011213] STACK software Pure Stories is a fan disk that complements original Sister Princess visual novel game. Two visual novels included here are the "Valentine Story", where one story for each of the 12 heroines is available, it acts mostly through reminiscing of past events, with occasional player choices which branch the outcome. The "Christmas Story" acts as a single slightly longer story which starts by the player reading an e-mail from one of the heroines which decides the direction in which the story continues. Additionally, the game includes a town map which lets you visit various locales which advances the time. The map also shows which heroines is at which location which will prompt for a dialogue if you visit a location with someone present. Both visual novels require the player to enter the protagonist's name by which one is addressed to in the stories. Mini-games include a memory game where you can play card-memory game against each of the heroines, matching pairs of portraits from the female characters. A puzzle game is a single-player 4 by 4 tile matching witch one missing tile starting with the image you need to put together, then shuffling the tiles randomly. Beside the picture, the tiles also feature numbers on them which help you decide which tiles goes where. Additional bonus content include fully unlocked BGM player, CG albums with over dozen of stills for each of the 12 heroines, and Christmas message to player from each of the heroines. Fandisc 7. Archimedes no Wasuremono アルキメデスのわすれもの [011214] Circus Contains bonus material from Circus' other games. The first story is an omake to the original Suika, about a boy, with a disease, who is visiting a village suffering from water shortage and the girl he meets. This story is included in Suika A.S+. The second is a "what if" short story about Kamishiro Moe's dream. Also included in Suika A.S+. The third is an preview to the original D.C. ~Da Capo~ taking place during Christmas. The game also contains other extra material from Circus. Fandisc 8. Gekkoukyoku ~Clair de Lune~ 月光曲~Clair de Lune~ [011214] Sarang Main character suddenly gets a mansion as inheritance left after some distant aunt death on condition to marry one of four women of the house. Girls are ready to do anything in order to be chosen for marriage. Thus his strange obscene days began... Nukige 9. Merutomo! Himitsu no Site e Youkoso めるとも! ヒミツのサイトへようこそ [011214] Miyabi Main character receives wrong email and overcome with curiosity heads to the meeting place written in the email. There he learns the address of the site where girls who secretly like molesting gather. He is eager to satisfy the desires that can not be spoken outloud. Nukige 10. Oira wa Bandai オイラは番台 [011214] Interheart Main character is an ordinary office worker who gets to inherit a public bath house after the death of his father. One day he discovers peepholes used by his father. He decides to renovate the building to become more popular with young girls. After that he peeps every day, but at a certain point develops a careful rape plan... Nukige 11. Rasen Kairou 2 螺旋回廊2 [011214] Age 1 EDEN is a land of pleasure. It's an urban legend, and no one knows where it is or whether it really exists. Some have opened up their own web sites based upon available information and call them EDEN. No one knows for sure if these web sites are real or not, but in any case, the name EDEN is a symbol of immorality and anti-socialism. . . Hiroki Okamoto lives with his sister Yori. He likes his sister's tutor, Arisa, who is beautiful and rich. One day, while Yori, her friend Kaori, and Hiroki are on a trip during summer vacation, Yori ends up missing. Later, Hiroki receives a porno videotape that shows Yori being sexually slave-trained!! Every savage gamer praised the previous episode of Rasen-Kairo since its release in Jan. of 2000. Now, it's back with even more immorality and abnormality! This game features a whole new playing style. The player chooses one character per game, and every time the player completes the story, he/she can move up to the next character's point of view. All the characters' views cross over each other and spin many layers of stories. For example, the player can choose Hiroki's route, the department girl Touko's route, the musician Keiichi's route, or even others. Whichever you choose, you're guaranteed to get caught up in the horror of this psycho thriller!! Nukige 12. Shiroki Tenshi-tachi no Rondo 白き天使達の輪舞 [011214] Black Package Try Date General Hospital is a place unlike any other. The staff is equipped with "special nurses" that aim to meet the needs of any willing and able patient around. This hand selected group of sexual girls are taken under the wing of Dr. Date who upon giving the women his secret stamina drug lets the patients, nurses, and even himself feel pleasure like they have never have before. Nukige 13. Shitsuren Ristorante 失恋リストランテ [011214] Gaia Main character is currently in relationship with five girls. He finally decides to focus on one girl and dump others. He sets dates in the "Broken Heart Ristorante" to deliver the news. This facility has all the required equipment to ensure breaking up process. Nukige 14. Ura Kagyou 裏稼業 [011214] REALDEAL Main character works as a salesman. One business partner company fails to repay 10 million yen. Protagonist does not want to involve police and decides to solve this problem himself - by preying on his targets in all possible ways. Nukige 15. Yuuenchi 誘縁血 [011214] Sugar Main character's mother remarried three months ago bringing new sister Rika to the family. Rika has male phobia and she can only talk to protagonist using kansai dialect. Rika starts to have strange phone calls and gets signs of being followed by stalker. One night she gets stuck at the amusement park. Protagonist is in the same place due to meeting with his student pals. Can protagonist prevent his sister's rape? Nukige 16. Chaos Baby Yoshimi #2 Tomimochi Natsuki Hen カオスBaby義美#2 富持奈津姫編 [011220] Scoop Main character Shinichi saves a girl from a molester and now wants to keep platonic relations with her. However, girl herself wants to devote both her mind and body as a gratitude. Yoshimi can not miss this "funny situation" and meddles their relations as the head of "psychotherapy club" she hosts. Nukige 17. Gomennasai... Atashi no Sei de ゴメンなさい・・・アタシのせいで [011220] Winters Main character is depressed because he believes there can be no girl to like him. One day such girl appears. He does not believe in her sincerity, so he sets a series of cruel tests to try her love. Nukige 18. Shintaisou (Kari) 新体操(仮) [011220] Panda House A P.E. teacher, Nikusuke, happened to obtain a brief of "Dark Rhythmic Gymnastics Project". It is a competition that the players compete with others their lewdness. Following the project, Nikusuke looked for the players with Tomomi, a granddaughter of the board chairman. Their first game was Miku. Tomomi deceived innocent Miku, and she invited Miku out at night. Nukige 19. Bell Sensei no True Tool Box ベルせんせいのトゥルトゥルBOX [011221] Rune Contains 2 short novels: "Yupia Dairy" "Zutto... ne" Antology 20. Gakuen Ren'ai Chuuihou 学園恋愛注意報 [011221] D.O. 1 How is everyone doing? My name is Takayuki Kazami. How are things going at your school? I'm a senior at Shinonome Gakuen, and I'm on the track team. Everyone has worries, right? I'm still pretty young, but it's time I started thinking about my future. That's why I'm a bit depressed. My mother died while I was an infant, and my father works overseas. My younger sister, Kasumi, lives with me. She won't listen to a word I say, and it's really stressing me out. It's my last year of high school, and maybe it's making me a bit sentimental. As I look back on my high school days, I can at least say I've done my best in track. It seems as though time has really flown by. Reflecting on the past isn't going to help me decide on my future. I've really got to settle down and get serious. There are two reasons why I decided on this school: 1. I could get in with my GPA. 2. It was the closest school to my house. I'm always worrying about my future plans, but school sure is a lot of fun! You ask, "why?" Well, it's because all our teachers are babes with fantastic bodies. They listen to my problems, as well as offer themselves to me. This is not comparable to the track team in any way! Are you a bit jealous? If so, get out there and start having affairs with your own teachers!There have been a number of games involved with teachers, but this is probably the first game, where all the heroines are teachers. Getting it on with teachers is how things ought to be. And if this is the case, this game is here to stay for a good many years!! Nukige 21. Injuu Genmu III ~Nasty Angel~ 淫獣幻夢III~Nasty Angel~ [011221] Ringerbell In addition to the three familiar girls there are eleven more girls this time as preys for the beasts. Winning in hanafuda matches results in developments and triggering of tentacle scenes. Nukige 22. Maid no Yakata ~Zetsubou Hen~ メイドの館 ~絶望編~ [011221] Maid Club Momoko is having major money trouble. After the untimely death of her parents, she finds herself strapped for cash to pay for her college tuition. Desperate, Momoko even considers selling her most precious possession - her mother's ring... But everything changes when Takaaki, a charming young man in her class, generously offers to pay her tuition if she simply agrees to work off her debt by serving as his own, personal, live-in maid. At least, the offer sounded generous at first... Now completely under Takaaki's control, Momoko has no choice but to satisfy his every twisted sexual fantasy. Yet Momoko isn't the only one he's drafting into this new maid service. Using blackmail and bribery, Takaaki's staff continues to grow with gorgeous young maids who are willing to serve him on their hands and knees. But even with all of this beauty surrounding him, for some inexplicable reason, Momoko still remains the target for his ever growing sadistic experiments. Could his unhealthy fixation lead to disaster? Nukige 23. Saiminjutsu 催眠術 [011221] Black Rainbow Naoto Aoki is a high school student living with the family of his recently married brother. Following a venerated eroge tradition, his life changes when his grandpa teaches him a secret (and POWERFUL!) hypnosis technique, but tragically also a creepy classmate named Shinta Murakoshi gets this secret... Nukige 24. Uta Christmas ~歌~+αKURUSIMIMASU [011225] Eno Yamamoto Ten A short side story to Plain Song. Fandisc 25. Mune Kyun! Yunikko Mahjong 萌キュン!ゆにっ娘ま~じゃん [011227] Unison Shift Main character decides to participate in mahjong competition to help Chiyori. According to the rules, the winning side can do anything to the opponent. Can protagonist win in the competition? Card game 26. Hajimete no Orusuban はじめてのおるすばん [011228] Zero 1 Shiori and Saori are twins, and they have a secret crush on the "oniichan" that lives next door. Recently they developed an interest in H. "I'll have "oniichan" teach me various things." When summer comes he is asked to look after the house and the girls by their mother.Since its summer vacation there is a lot of free time. How fun can house sitting become? Nukige 27. Maid-san wa Aishiteru メイドさんはアイシテル [011228] Sekilala Main character is brought up by step-sister and maid. One day he gets a mansion as inheritance from his deceased grandfather. Just after that a truck almost hits him on the road. His life is in danger, so he locks up in the safest place - his new mansion - with the servants. Nukige 28. Sacrifice ~Seifuku Gari~ Sacrifice~制服狩り~ [011228] Rateblack Era of crisis. There is a school that helps fired girls to gain new skills. Main character becomes director of this school so that he can insult any girls transferred here. Nukige 29. Twilight Dual [011228] Touchable Main heroine who studies in girls school follows Internet ad to realize female dreams. She becomes a member of the site "The Twilight House". What looked like a fortune-telling resource turned out to be a pornographic site about various situations of insults. That night she dreams about the contents of the website. The next morning she's surprised to learn that the scenes of her dreams are uploaded to the site... Nukige 30. Yakata no Oku-sama 館の奥さま [011228] Aqua House Main character visits a large Western-style building to deliver a parcel. Noone comes out to him, so he comes in only to find out a girl wearing just a towel. The next day he decides to visit the mansion again since the girl looked so cute. Thus his living in the mansion together with hostess and maids began. Nukige 31. Apocripha/0 FANBOX Happiness Cage [011229] STACK software 1 An angel falls from Heaven to the Abyss, and here he cultivates a kingdom, the kingdom of Hell (Naraku), becoming the King of Hell. He tries to build a beautiful land, but it can never reach the beauty of Heaven: the demons live in troubled times, being attacked by fallen angels who survive the fall to the Abyss, fearing the bloodshed caused by these insane former angels against them. The King starts to become weak and tired, and with his last power, he gave birth to two new hopes: a prince with golden hair born from his red right eye, and a price with silver hair born from his blue left eye. The King decides that the two twin prices, Alex and Platina, are to fight each other, and the winner who proves his power will become the new king of Hell, while the loser will face death. As such, Alex and Platina, who never even knew each other, are thrust into a battle against each other, and the future will change depending on the outcome. Now find out what happened behind the scenes, before the battle for succession was to take place... Boys Love 32. EverLoyalty ~Eien no Chuusei~ EverLoyalty ~永遠の忠誠~ [011229] CORE The main character, Uliss, leaves for the capital in order to enter the service to his majesty. He buys a very strong horse, Kayana and enters the qualifying period. Here he has two likable teachers: Gill and Ryan. Boys Love 33. Shinnyuusei 新入生 [011229] Chinsoft Main character is a teacher of an irresponsible class. Three new female students arrive today. Nukige 34. Kubiwa Toshokan 首輪図書館 [011230] SPT Collar library holds a big number of physical competitions. Nukige 35. Pokopoko Imouto ぽこぽこ妹 [011230] Soft Circle Courreges Play H games with sister. Nukige 36. Pray to Snow [011230] Milk Cafe Main character is a high school student who spends days lively with his childhood friend Yaya, junior Umi Shibata, and friend Kazuto. One day another childhood friend Luna, who moved five years ago, gives a calls and says that she returns back. All the friends gather at the friend station and wait for Luna to arrive. Doujin 37. ForkTrain -the gloom traveller- [011230] SRO Software Main character has been travelling alone his whole life. In a rural town he finds a deserted station building. Surprisingly, there are two people inside, and train arrives soon. Train does not have clear destination, so protagonist boards it out of curiosity. After a long tunnel passengers appear in another world without morals applying to love, hate, life and death. Abuse, rape and death govern this place. Doujin Nukige 38. Crescent [0112] Ritz software Yuki was supposed to help his uncle with the store management, but the store turned out to be host club for men! Nukige 39. Otose ~Toraware no Eien~ 音瀬~囚われの永遠~ [0112] Soft Circle Courreges Main character is a shy student who is ridiculed by girl students. However, he is attracted to a girl who once touched him gently. But his thoughts gradually become dangerous ... Nukige 40. Sweet 19 Pain [0112] Shinonome Main character is a college student and is drawn into relationship with the classmates. Boys Love 41. Air Maid AIRメイド [0112] Digital Aniki A fan-fiction VN featuring A*r characters. Fandisc 42. Canon Gaiden - Kitagawa de Ikou!! Canon外伝 北川でイこう!! [0112] Digital Aniki A side-story fan-fiction VN featuring Ka*on's characters - Sayuri and Mai. Fandisc 43. Karisuma カリすま [0112] Digital Aniki A fan-fiction VN featuring Lo** Hina's characters. Fandisc 44. Yodomi 瀞 よどみ [01] My Rascal No info found Doujin 45. Claire Hikari no Densetsu Meisou no Hanged Man クレール光の伝説 迷走のハングドマン [01] Ohimesama Club In a fantasy world a beautiful princess El Claire travels together with a lewd middle-aged mercenary Bright. They hunt the monster "Ogre Hunter" in a remote countryside. A clergyman notices two suspicious travelers and comes by. Doujin 46. Karen 夏恋 -KAREN- [01] RGB Main character meets a young girl in the school courtyard. She makes him feel closer to death in a strange way. She makes him experience sex like never before. In this whirlpool of Eros and Tanatos the city itself forms an invisible "cage" to isolate them. Doujin 47. White Knight ~Shiroki Kaze no Yukue~ ホワイトナイト ~白き風の行方~ [01] LGS A success female knight encounters her first love in a western castle. But tender feeling turns into insult horror... Doujin 48. Yozakura no Utage 夜桜の宴 [01] Takahamaya A chained girl is brought to the feast party. Another girl in maid clothes conducts first girl's training. Doujin 49. Water Dragon Knight ~Anata to no Yakusoku~ ウォータードラゴンナイト~貴女との約束~ [01] Jac Lantern Main character is a cute girl. This is a story of her promise with the yearning person. But it turns in a lewd direction... Doujin 50. Datenshi no Ryouiki / Kuro no Otome 堕天使の領域/黒の処女 [01] LGS It is two short adult parody stories on Angelic Layer and Noir anime series. Doujin 51. Triangle Hunter とらいあんぐるHUNTER [01] Critical Heart A simple adventure game where Kyosuke from Triangle Heart 3 searches for heroines on the map and attacks them with radio waves. Doujin 52. Koukou Kyoushi ~Memories of Summer~ 高校教師~Memories of Summer~ [01] CyberGeo Yamashina Shiroh is a high school teacher of physics in a private boys' school, which has just let out for summer vacation. Many attractive men and boys appear around Shiroh: former students, fellow teachers, a neighbor... Can Shiroh find a love over the summer vacation, or perhaps regain the memories of a past summer romance he's long forced from his mind? Doujin Boys Love
  10. If ITH/ITHVNR does not find the thread, hongfire AGTH thread is the one that helped me a lot of times as it has lots of hcodes on those hundreds of pages. Textractor seems to have built-in manual hook search. Tutorial here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eecEOacF6mw I myself use Hook Any Text to find threads https://mx-futhark.github.io/hook-any-text/
  11. Google hongfire ITH, it has lots of versions. Might also try ITHVNR, not sure for Win7 compatibility, though.
  12. Foreword: I don't review anthologies and fandiscs, but this time I have to deviate from this tradition for the fandisc of the game of the year 2000. Title: Nijuubako Developer: KeroQ Date: 2001-11-30 VNDB link:https://vndb.org/v6247 Youtube walkthrough:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwioMkDCF88&list=PLs4Gp5VU4Fv9AcuZZF8nvm-DbGt0ZKEI3 Synopsis: Among other accessories there are two stories: 1. 『イルとスイの日常』"Il and Sui everyday" is about Il and Sui exploring outer world and own sexuality. 2.『砦に帰す』"Return to the Fort" is about Aya group expedition sent by Iga ninja to investigate an ancient Yagyuu fort five years before events of Nijuuei. Structure: None Length: 1 hour + 2.5 hours Game type: Mythology samurai horror mystery. Difficulty: None. Just one fake choice. Character Design rating: 6/10 Protagonist rating: 7/10 Story rating: 9/10 Game quality: 8/10 Overall rating: 8/10 Rating comments: "Return to the Fort" story really impressed me. It restored several loose links in the original game and developed some existing themes. "Il and Sui everyday" is a banal fan-service story, I won't touch it in any way in this review. Protagonist: "Return to the Fort" has very curious approach to protagonist. Main protagonist is experienced expedition leader boy Kiriha. It's a convenient position since we can talk to everyone and coordinate their activities. But when the story dictates it, protagonist can be changed. Sometimes we don't even know who is our current protagonist hidden behind generic "Man". Characters: There are several female heroines, but most of them don't get enough screen time to even remember their names. Aya is the main heroine, and it's especially wonderful that her mystery from the original game gets solved here, even two mysteries. Can't even hint, though. Story: The very beginning is a group of ninja sent by Iga ninja clan getting to the fort in the wilderness with a lot of losses. Something's killing them one by one, presumably something from the fort. But as they sneak into the fort, it turns out to be empty... that's literally the very beginning. There's a lot and lot of development from this point. CG and Sound: Great CG and finally voicing. Manga strips for action scenes are as cool as ever. Thoughts: 1) Both Nijuuei and Nijuubako are released on the same day, 30th November, but the years are different. I seem some playfulness in releasing both games on the same date. 2) Aya is not the only character from Nijuuei in "Return to the Fort", so it feels totally like a prequel, not like an individual character story. 3) "Return to the Fort" not only tells the story of Aya and another character from Nijuuei, but it's also a detective story, a horror story, an action story and the story of cursed sword Muramasa. Overall comments: Surprisingly lovely game as a result. Good mix of genres and lots of references to the original game. That's the way fandiscs should be - additional story-focused piece rather than worthless fan-service.
  13. Kazoku Keikaku , Daiakuji and Nijuubako make the masterpieces of the month, but the winner is Nijuubako 1. Deep Voice [011102] Apricot The story is set in an old Western-style hospital where Takumi was confined after he was in an accident. Since then Takumi has experienced an odd condition where he can see the "deep voices" of the past events bound in different parts of the hospital. He seems to be able to also slip into other people's consciousness while being asleep. Together with Amano Aki, a journalist, he wants to investigate about the mysterious past of the hospital. Suspense hospital story. The structure is quite complex and directing is good, but story is not special at all. Forced H scene only subtract from attractiveness. 2. Kazoku Keikaku 家族計画 [011102] D.O. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Tsukasa, a fiercely independent youth who lost his parents at an early age and now spends his days working at a Chinese restaurant to make ends meet. Reluctant to form interpersonal ties lest they be shattered, Tsukasa is nonetheless unable to abandon the illegal immigrant girl he finds collapsed in the alley behind his workplace one day. Confronted by her utter helplessness he takes her in, an encounter that opens the door to a new life - one where he faces the challenge and wonder of being no longer alone. Tsukasa soon finds himself at the unwilling nexus of even more lives, attracting a band of misfits and social outcasts around him that swell beyond the confines of his small apartment. They find shelter in an abandoned house, where despite Tsukasa's lingering doubts a pact is formed: the "family project", an alliance of mutual convenience and utilitarian support that despite the mistrust and antagonism among its members soon comes to mean much more. Game's localized and has English reviews. 3. Puchi Cherry ~Anata to Iru Kisetsu~ ぷちチェリー~あなたといる季節~ [011102] Giga Koichi returns to home town for the first time in ten years. Ten years changed characters of his old friends, but memories of the past remain the same. Will he find his loved person till school festival? Charage with not so good scenario (many contradictions), but lovely characters. Text is not emotionally transferred. Three of heroines are old friends, and game features some nice reunion scenes, and the last heroine is a newcomer. 4. Memories Zero ~Aoi Hikari no Yakusoku~ Memories Zero~蒼い光の約束~ [011109] Euphony Production A group of friends live in the neighborhood and study together. At the end of the midterm test there is finally time to stretch feathers and spend time going to camping trips, participating in school events and enjoying everyday life. At this time Satoru starts to have feelings for one girl... Timetable SIM without serious advancements in any field. 5. Sister☆Boy しすたぁ☆ボーイ [011109] Sequence 1 Your parents are going to leave you behind due to their work. You are Shun Miyama. You find out about this one day before their departure, and you also find out that they have already picked out your school and a place to live. You are waiting for Kasumi Sagara, a girl from your apartment to pick you up, but you feel strange. Well, guess what... The apartment you're going to be staying in is restricted to girls. They think you're a girl! Since you were little, people have always mistaken you as a girl. However, you're all man inside; face it, you're in heaven now!! Surprisingly orthodox love story. The girl with the highest favorability at the time of decisive branching gets her route. Psychology is depicted truthfully, but drama lacks impact. 6. Sister Heart ~Kokoro no Kakera~ Sister Heart~ココロのカケラ~ [011109] Ciel Main character is able to hear the voice of people hearts. One day his younger sister gets into a traffic accident resulting in a coma state. Returning home from the hospital protagonist encounters three angels who claim that sister's soul is in disintegrated state. He agrees to cooperate with the angels to restore the soul of his sister. For that he will need to oppose fallen angel mischief. Three angels are of different personalities and balance is set to tilt to one of the sides. So game is kind of SIM-heavy with the whole heart voice system and different angels stats. One playthrough is just two hours, and it's mostly about the capturing souls gameplay. 7. Twins 2 -Ren'ai Miman- Twins2 -恋愛未満- [011116] Discovery 1 In the previous "Twins," Kureha was able to hook up with Tsubasa Honami. This story takes us 6 months later down the road. Kureha's twin sister, Nao, is depressed because her brother takes all the girls she likes. As she's walking down the street, she sees a cute girl jump out in traffic during a red light. Nao runs over and saves her just in time. Nao looses consciousness, and when she wakes up, she's on the girl's lap. Before she is able to thank the cute girl, an ambulance comes and picks her up. The next day, Nao changes identities with Kureha to sneak into the school. She finds out that her name is Nami Sakanoue, and that she is one of the triplets in love with Kureha. Kureha is a lucky guy, but how will Nao's love end up? What will Kureha do? Not only will you find the girls from the previous "Twins," you'll find 6 new girls appearing in this powered up version! Lets get wild and get it on with many beautiful girls! Game resembles Sapphism no Gensou atmosphere in some routes as here boy has to pretend being a girl. Conversations and tempo are the strong sides, length and scenario aren't so good. Genre is close to moege. 8. Yukigatari 雪語り [011116] Tarte The game takes place in a snowy mountain area, where the protagonist takes part in a skiing course. Of course he isn't alone and, conveniently-enough, ends up with a lot of female company. Tarte first game ends up being a bugged moege, and a short one as well. First playthrough is 5 hours, but subsequent playthroughs with skipping only take some 40 minutes. 9. Hooligan フーリガン [011122] Frontwing 1 2 Yukito Nogi, a high-school student living by himself in the city, was out walking one night when a strange object fell from the sky... crashing straight into him. This object turns out to be a cosmic force, its power so great that it splits Yukito into three different entities, each composed of one part of his psyche. It also happens to give each part enormous psychic powers! However, he's only just started arguing with himself, when three different factions converge on him all at once. A trio of aliens, led by the self-aggrandizing scientist Olga Mengele, want to steal Yukito's power for themselves. Yuki and Yuka, a pair of sister demon hunters, believe Yukito to be a demon that must be sealed. And of course Hiromi Togo -- alias Trigun, defender of justice -- wants to use these events to prove herself as a superhero. There are three scenarios each consisting of 6 episodes. Each episode has its structure, so we can speak about 18 stories. By atmosphere game resembles Captain Love the most. Text is very simplistic to imitate superhero anime, genre is bakage. Card battles are short and easy enough not to hurt the overall pace. There are 2-3 H events for each heroine in PC version, some are animated. 10. Meippai Athlete めいっぱい☆あすりぃと [011122] Active Let's open a joint college festival for three schools! Such was the suggestion of main character to the student council. Somehow the plan is carried out and now the girl school, the geek school and the celebrity school are in the midst of joint preparation. Card battles are deployed at the end to beat other teams in cultural festival. Otherwise a common moege with too many pregnancy endings. Each route is very short. 11. Metamor Fantasy メタモルファンタジー [011122] Escu:de In this world; fairies, witches and all kinds of strange creatures live in a peaceful coexistence. Protagonist is Hatayama, he is a kind of monster that looks exactly like a small plush bear. He enrolled in the magic academy to study magic but lately his interest switched more towards the girls in the school than the magic studies. His magic allows him to transform himself to any monster he previously met. But to learn the magic to transform himself to a real human, he first has to master that divine magic called "love". Raising SIM + card battles + insult H scenes + magic girl. Somehow I don't like either element. 12. Pandora no Yume パンドラの夢 [011122] Pajamas Soft 1 2 The story starts on a summer holiday training camp for members of the arts club. As they are exploring the basement of the European-styled school building, they find a nursing robot called Suu, albeit non functional due to a used-up battery. After being brought back to life by the main character, Hirano Yuito, the robot, of female appearance, recognizes him as her new master. On the final day, the protagonist prepares to leave after spending an enjoyable week. An earthquake occurs, but he dismisses it as a casual event. However, before Yuito knows what's happening, all of them are warped back to a week earlier, memories altogether. As the pattern keeps looping, Suu seems to remember faint traces of the week period, and uncannily starts depicting traits of humanity. There are English reviews. 13. ReNN ~Another Story of Works Doll~ ReNN ~Another Story of Works Doll~ [011122] TopCat Five years have passed since puppeteer Senjo formed the complete body of "sub-doll". The dolls evolve each year, but the price tag remains sky high. Main character works at a plant and can't believe his luck to have found a sub-doll Renn... Not sure why we need another story if pretty much noone liked SIM part of the first game. 14. Yuurei wa Doukyonin!? ゆうれいは同居人!? [011122] Yui Koubou Tatsuya is a white-colar worker. One night after work he went back to his apartment, and found there Akane, a strange highschool girl, who is actually a ghost. And she wants to live with him as his new roommate. Even worse, she starts to follow him to his work, too. What he will do?! Ainos in the new Sogna, and this game looks totally like a Sogna game would. However, after a single road development there are four branches here with different heroines. Game's a bakage with animation as main attraction. 15. Shinsetsu Kamiya Ukyou ~Shokuzai~ 真説神谷右京~贖罪~ [011123] Altacia Ukyo is registered as a resident lawyer at Lithuania Law Firm. His division does arbitrage over reduction of excess debts of companies. One day two detective ask Ukyo to cooperate with finding manager of such company Okita who is suspected in bills fraud. Ukyo protects his client from detectives pressure, but one day Okita suddenly admits the crime and wishes to go to police. The night of the same day Ukyo spends a night with a girl. Five years later they get to meet again at surprising circumstances. This is the fourth work out of six visual novels dedicated to Kamiya Ukyou. Game's based on real events, so it's more about reality and impressions and not so much about a coherent story. There is no good ending, and the best variant you can get is be following exact actions of the hero that day. Since there's a big map to decide where to go, difficulty to get a proper ending is very high. Very unusual work for visual novels media, but unusual does not necessarily mean good. 16. Ajimu ~Kaigan Monogatari~ あじむ~海岸物語~ [011130] Arpeggio Seventeen year old Nakaido Hirosuke is just your average high school student. One morning as he arrives at the train station on his way to school, he catches sight of a beautiful girl, Ajimu Yasuna, and immediately falls for her. The two of them get to know each other and become friends, but he can't confess his feelings and she is unsure of hers. As events and other people present obstacles for the potential couple to clear, their relationship begins to develop and their feelings become clear. Pure love story, but with abrupt end. 17. Daiakuji 大悪司 [011130] Alice Soft 1 2 3 4 5 In a parallel universe, feminist "Womenrica" (a group called WIME) won World War II, and forced a female-centric constitution upon the defeated Japan. Japanese city governments "outsource" the task of peacekeeping to local organizations, all lead by females. Former juvenile delinquent, Yamamoto Akuji was one of the POW's who fought alongside Japan, only to end up having to become a prisoner of war for a year after losing against WIME. Once he is released from prison, Akuji heads to his home for the first time in three years, the grand city of Osaka where he is heir to the largest gang called the Wakame Gumi, in which his grandfather, Yamamoto Ippatsu, who was a legend among others "properly" inherited after sleeping with the daughter of the former landlord many years ago. While initially unhappy with how much the war has affected the cities setting, Akuji plans on visiting the love of his life, Haku Minka, and figures that she has grown to be a beautiful, and much more mature woman from the last time he saw her before being deployed to the war three years prior. As this warms his heart, he happily lingers to his home in hopes of having a celebration for his return. Akuji's moments of relief due to his house being still in one piece gets cut short when he finds that one of his grandfather's former lovers, Ichihashi Ran, has become the new boss of the Wakame Gang. He gets informed that he is no longer allowed to stay within the household of the Wakame Gang due to his gender, and the fact that only women can be at the ruling position of factions, due to WIME winning the war and changing many laws. Akuji is also told that his father passed away during the war and that his grandfather was absent from Osaka for a large amount of time in order to find and battle someone more powerful than he was, meaning that there was no other decent choice but to make Ran the leader of the Wakame Gang. Akuji, angered by the fact he no longer has a place to reside in, attempts to fight back as Ran orders the gang's lackeys to subdue him. Thanks to having his body worn out from jail, Akuji loses the fight and is thrown out of his residence. Akuji then shortly wakes up after only to become more infuriated, and takes out his frustration on an old drunkard bothering him, he gets stopped by the two Vice Leaders of the Youth Service Group, and is taken captive by them, Akuji then later manages to trick the both of them into liking him after lying about making his gang's most notable recipe, and instead treats them both to an amazing session. Due to how easy it was for him to subdue the two Vice Leaders, Akuji plans on using the Youth Service Group to rebel against the Wakame Gang in hopes of retrieving his household back. He shortly afterwords sleeps with the main leader of the Youth Service Group and makes careful preparations. Thanks to his past grudges against WIME, who have most of the power in Osaka, and the stress with having to deal with a corrupt woman taking his household, Akuji takes it upon himself to dominate Osaka, so that the city can be in proper hands once more. Soon after, his associates and personal trainers find word that Akuji has come back to Osaka, and end up joining the Youth Service Group to support Akuji, not only them, but a young girl who was a reserved, but powerful student by the name of Takega Satsu claiming to be Akuji's own aunt joins him as well. With multiple territories, blood to be split, and the management of his slowly rising company on the line, will Akuji be able to fulfill his dream of conquering Osaka all the while maintaining a genuine relationship with the choice of one of five different women who can potentially become his wife in the future, all while having different types of fun with multiple other women at the same time? It's a kill or be killed, high-stakes conquest as Akuji and his gang head straight to the top of Osaka! There are English reviews. 18. Ekiben 駅弁 [011130] Uran Main character Kentaro travels the country in search of stations not visited and station bentos not tasted yet. He does not have money to pay for station bento, so he pays with body and attacks the sales girl. It turns out that Kentaro is being watched by a mysterious "Senior upper alliance" organization. They are outraged that Kentaro was doing that right at the station depot, so now they are sending thugs after Kentaro one by one. A weird ero-tilt bakage. There is a stupid minigame for the fights with thugs. There are 6 chapters enough for 4-5 hours of play time. 19. Emblem Emblem ~エンブレム~ [011130] Malt Main character Shiro Kogetsu is an ordinary student who somehow gets elected as yakuza clan leader after his distant relative dies. He wants an ordinary school life, but his classmates start to evade him, and clan business gets in the way. Will he be able to find a girlfriend in these circumstances? Love comedy with comedy occupying first half and love second part. There are 5 heroines and 6 endings. The degree of fun and eroticism varies from one character to another to a maximum of 3 H events. Characters are of moege level, but yakuza comedy is decent. 20. Iris イリス [011130] Penguin Works Main character and his partner Seti helped two adventurers who were attacked on their way back from friend's wedding. The innkeeper asked them to find the attackers, and that marked the beginning of their journey. Iris is the fairy of protagonist, but she does not get her route or ending. Game resembles Slayers anime the most. Genre is RPG. Territory is limited just to inside the town. Number of battles is small. Game ends after finding the criminals, so it's more of a detective mystery than a might and magic fantasy adventure. 21. Nijuubako 二重箱 [011130] KeroQ 1 Among other accessories there are two stories: 1. 『イルとスイの日常』"Il and Sui everyday" is about Il and Sui exploring outer world and own sexuality. 2.『砦に帰す』"Return to the Fort" is about Ayu group expedition sent by Iga ninja to investigate an ancient Yagyuu fort. I'll write a full review. 22. Pia Carrot e Youkoso!! 3 Pia♥キャロットへようこそ!! 3 [011130] Cocktail Soft 1 2 Is the second true sequel to "Pia Carrot", set one year later than "Pia Carrot 2". There are English reviews. BLOCKED 1. Nurunuru -Joshi Ryou no Tsuyagoto- ぬるぬる -女子寮の艶事- [011102] Noise 1 Katsumi Ozaki is a journalist for a magazine. Miyuki Yoshino is his girlfriend, but they haven't even held hands yet. One day, Katsumi's boss tells him to sneak in and take some exotic pictures in a girls' dorm. At first, he doesn't want to do it. His friend is the building supervisor, and his girlfriend also lives there. However, curiosity eventually kicks in, and he decides to go. Your goal is to successfully sneak in and take pictures of these cute babes. This game has full polygons, just like most games from NOISE. You'll also meet up with the broken hearted Rikako Nishikura, and Yu Asakura, whose weaknesses are known by the building supervisor, and many more! We're confident you'll get excited listening in on girls' private conversations and secretly taking their pictures. Sneak in and enjoy!! Nukige 2. Tsuki 憑き [011102] ZyX 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 We are all not what we seem to be. Although we don't want to consider the possibility, there is a certain darkness lurking inside the hearts of all of us. If it is brought out through great pain, then terrible things can happen. Mizuno Yousuke is a young Japanese man. His life hasn't been very happy ever since his mother's untimely death while he was still a child, his father's remarriage and then again his untimely death in a recent car accident. Yousuke now lives with his beautiful step-mother and her quiet, reserved daughter, and although he has known great pain, it seems that all the women around him are striving to do all they can to ease his sadness. Perhaps it was all these sad events that caused his darkness to come out... Nukige 3. Yoku Dekimashita. よくできました。 [011102] Triangle Lovely tutor comes to main character for a 90 minutes study session. With clever approach it's possible to use these 90 minutes in various ways! Nukige 4. Para Para 2 ぱらパラ2 [011102] Studio B-Room Christmas is drawing closer. Girl's mother suggests part-time job at her family restaurant to earn money for girl's present. Main character agrees without giving it much thought, but it turns out to be family restaurant full of women and temptations... Nukige 5. Kagerou かげろう [011109] Usagi Software A story of four men and five women in a small village in the mountains. Game is divided into four chapters, each being a separate zapping adventure. Nukige antology 6. Koishigure ~Happyakuya Chou Yume Monogatari~ 恋時雨~八百八町夢物語~ [011109] Marine Heart Kazuya, a highschooler in the drama club, dreams of being a famous actor in a TV drama someday. One day, when he was searching through the supplies room, he hears someone calling for him and sees a bright sword. He touches it and suddenly finds himself transported to ancient Edo timeline. Soon, he is saved by a beautiful samurai named Iori. Why was Kazuya brought here and what role does he have to play in this ancient drama? Boys Love 7. Kyabate Bakaichidai キャバ手バカ一代 [011109] Chime 1 Our hero enters a cabaret club for the first time; he gets hooked on the nightlife and pays frequent visits. He's an ordinary guy with an ordinary salary, although he has limits on how much he can spend. With these limitations, it is your mission to visit as many cabarets as possible and get hooked up with your favorite girl. The special feature in this game is the composition of cabaret hostess interviews. In order to reproduce the fun of cabarets, we not only have the orthodox parameters of impression meters, we also have unique meters to check intoxication levels, lie detectors, and more. You'll feel like you're part of the game, where you can select which girl will sing karaoke. You will find that club prices are very similar to the real thing. This story will progress according to your bargaining powers. By the time you clear this game, you'll be a full-fledged cabaret expert! Nukige 8. Midara na Tsumi ~Etsuraku no Shuujitsu~ 淫らな罪~悦楽の終日~ [011109] Crime Christmas Eve of 2000 AD. Everyone is sure that the Earth is going to be destroyed the next day. How will this last night pass? Nukige 9. Shinnin Eigo Kyoushi Yumiko to Tennis Club Nureta Underskirt no Chouhatsu 新任英語教師・祐美子とテニスクラブ 濡れたアンダースコートの挑発 [011109] Guilty 1 Mikihiko is the captain of the tennis club. On one particular day, Mikihiko volunteers to clean up the tennis court and stays late at school. The truth is he wants to sneak into the girl's locker room after overhearing that the lock is broken. Mikihiko is infatuated with the new English teacher, Yumiko. She is also in charge of the tennis club. Once he enters the locker room, Mikihiko finds Yumiko's panties and ejaculates on them. The next day, Mikihiko sneaks into the locker room again, but Yumiko catches him this time. Mikihiko begs for her forgiveness. However, nothing could prepare him for her reply: "Be my sex slave." This title is a digital novelization of a Japanese romance story. A new feature called "Flagrant Fetitopia System" has been added. The player utilizes this system when the fetitopia button appears on the screen during erotic sequences. Once the player clicks the button, he/she can watch the actual images of featured lingerie and learn about fetishism in order to enjoy the story even more! You will enjoy this amazing and shocking story of Mikihiko, Yumiko, and the beautiful exhibitionist, Kumi. . . Nukige 10. Doll ~Uroboros 2~ Doll~ウロボロス2~ [011116] Forester Doll: Ouroboros 2 continues directly the story of the first game. The evil vampire earl from the first game has tricked our heroes once again, and the assassin Noel, the protagonist of the game, finds himself thrown into a dungeon. Will his superb skills as a swordsman be enough to defeat the enemies and solve the complex net of intrigues and to save the medieval land of Ouroboros? Like the first game, Doll: Ouroboros 2 is basically a huge 3D movie with occasional interactivity. At certain points, you'll be able to make a decision (such as for example have sex with an evil-looking girl or attack her), or choose one of the several available paths. During some of the sex scenes, you can view the movie clips in a desired order. Nukige 11. Dragon Penance ~Ryuushu Enbu~ ドラゴンペナンス-龍珠演舞- [011116] Zepher Four boys calling themselves dragons suddenly appear before the protagonist Shirasawa Aki and say they are here to protect the princess. Her classmates who didn't know the details of the circumstance became jealous of her handsome hangers-on. It's a little troubling, saying these words Aki still spent everyday having fun in her own way. However, one day suddenly one of those so-called dragons disappeared. That's were this story really starts. Otome 12. Lalka ~Tsukurareta Tenshi-tachi~ Lalka ~造られた天使たち~ [011116] KT Factory Main character encounters prototype software with heart "Elfalia" while travelling the cyberspace. She says she loves him and needs protection, but then disappears in a flash being hacked by someone. Protagonist creates a cyber idol "Elfi" from the backup data of "Elfalia" in order to raise "Elfalia" out of backup program. Nukige 13. Mini Teens -Zettai Himitsu! Onna no Ko Counseling- Mini teens-絶対ヒミツ!女の子カウンセリング- [011116] Libido Sensei is a doctor at a school. When girls come to him with medical problems or questions he tricks them into sex. Nukige 14. Cosutte! My Honey コスって!My Honey [011122] Blue Gale Main character quits previous job because of sexual harassment. A passing woman invites him to work together. However, it's a work in a female collective where some women resent to work with men. Protagonist agrees to dress as a woman for this job. Will he be able to get along with the girls? Nukige 15. Elf All Stars Datsui Jan 2 エルフオールスターズ脱衣雀2 [011122] Elf Same as 1st. Nukige card game 16. Himekaribito 姫狩リビト [011122] Xuse France, end of 18th century. Provincial lord Gaston gets a request to investigate identities to three candidates to become wives of high official's son. In case some problem or disobedience is found, Gaston gets a Carte Blanche to use any means necessary. Nukige 17. Itsudatsu 逸脱 [011122] Tomato Protagonist with deviation hunts for innocent girls in order to train them and then win prizes for publishing peculiar photos with them. Nukige 18. Kurui Uta 狂い詩 [011122] White Main character meets former lover's sister after five years at his new job at the university. One night the girl comes to his place with a request to give her shelter as she is on the run. So starts their cohabitation. Nukige 19. Kyouin Gakuen 狂淫学園 [011122] Atelier Kaguya In the doctor's office professional teacher forcing schoolgirls to the shameful things. Secretly, this guy makes a series of sites with child pornography. They contain jeopardize videos and photos of girls in the school. Besides the hero found out all the secrets of the girls have threatened them to disclose their raped them. Nukige 20. Mikan 蜜柑 [011122] C's Ware 1 2 In a mysterious bookstore with the name of Mikan, a novelist is reunited with his own incomplete novel. Spinning once again this story, he himself become the protagonist when reality, fiction and his own past begin to merge. Anthology 21. Miss You [011122] Crowd Father of the main character remarries a nurse who is a widow with two daughters. However, there was an important secret that father did not tell the hero about a new family ... Nukige 22. Tokumei Kyoushi Hitomi 特命教師 瞳 [011122] Colors Schools experience crime level burst. Strict measures are established to counter that. One day ministry of education gets a call claiming that a normal private school actually operates in prostitution and gains tremendous profits. Ministry starts an investigation of the "Fang" organization inside school in order to destroy it. Nukige 23. Virgin Bride ~Ochita Hanayome~ Virgin Bride ~堕ちた花嫁~ [011122] Riddle Soft The protagonist, Kudou Shin, works for a famous Bridal Salon. He is a professional who handles receptions of celebrity weddings. The story is about four virgin brides one month before their weddings. Nukige 24. Elf All Stars Datsui Jan 2 エルフオールスターズ脱衣雀2 [011122] Elf Main character is free to walk around town and challenge girls in strip mahjong. Compared to prequel there is more animation here used for both undressing and sex scenes. Card game 23. Scarred Gem - Jeongryeongseok eui Guae 스카드 잼 - 정령석의 구애 [011123] Artlim Media Due to an unforeseen accident, our protagonist ruins his university entrance exams. As our protagonist makes up his mind to re-take the entrance exams, a mysterious girl appears and hands him a broken pendant while speaking in an unknown language. Although suspicious, he brings the pendant home with him. This awakens the spirit in the pendant and with her support, our protagonist has to find his significant other. (... what happened to re-taking the entrance exams?) Non-Japanese 24. Kannagi no Tori 神無ノ鳥 [011129] Studio Miris 1 There is a place known as "Kannagi-san" (or Kannagi Mountain), which connects the world of the living with the world of the dead. Here, beings called the "Kannagi no Tori" (or Birds of Kannagi) live, and it is their job to take the souls of the people who die to Kannagi-san, where they can then pass on to the world of the dead. The "Kannagi no Tori" get sent out just before someone dies to retrieve their soul and bring it back. However, one "Kannagi no Tori," Ikaru, is different. He feels wrong about death, and typically when he is sent out instead of letting the death take place and retrieving the soul, he usually interferes with fate by preventing an accident, convincing someone not to commit suicide, or rescuing the person in danger to save their life. He still has not retrieved a single soul. He is given a "final mission" to prove himself as a "Kannagi no Tori," and if he fails, he will cease to exist. His mission is to retrieve the soul of a young boy, Watanaki Ruu, who is to die in a car accident on the first of June, in about one month. Over this month Ikaru has several interactions with Ruu and his family, and feels an usual tie to Ruu, and doesn't want to take his soul... but his fellow "Kannagi no Tori" friends are trying to make sure he gets his mission done because they don't want to see their friend cease to exist, and at the same time, they have missions of their own involving people around Ruu as well. Will Ikaru be able to finish his mission, or will he be unable to claim this soul as well...? Boys Love 25. Onna Kyoushi Mania 女狂師マニア [011130] Chiffon Main character Shinji has feelings for his female teacher. In order to satisfy his desires, he invents a plan how to insult and train teachers and students in the school. Nukige
  14. Just for the sake of historical justice, this
  15. I like necroposting here. It's not rare that some irrelevant post from 2012 or so gets a new life. There actually used to be chat here, and it only had to go after some recent Fuwapocalypse initiated by mandatory php upgrade. If Tay is poked long enough, reestablishing it might be possible.
  16. Reddit drives me mad as it's not individualistic enough. Flairs are repeatable, and posts have to get lost in megathreads. New topics get buried in news and useless steam sales in just one day. It all reminds a busy anthill. Fuwa is for punks of visual novels. We hardly ever agree on anything, and just as punks, we're not dead despite our golden days long gone.
  17. Truth be told, I already finished year 2001 and there's indeed nothing noticeable ahead. No reality is too short to take it seriously. Eve: The Fatal Attraction is actually a safe bet, just no so cool to bother a dead man's corpse. Kimi ga Nozomu Eien I respect, but just not my material. Maybe it's indeed time to give Tsukikagerou another look...
  18. Foreword: Assassins... hackers... I expected the second luv wave or Phantom of Inferno from this game. It proved to be quite different... Title: Assassin Ann Developer: Active Date: 2001-10-19 VNDB link:https://vndb.org/v6056 Youtube walkthrough:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvGMXxkzdsU Synopsis: Four young people have the dream to stand on American stage. They set up dance team "J-RAP" and practice each day. of wanting to stand on the American stage, home of dance. They set up a dance team "J-RAP" and were striving for lessons every day. One day main character gets to know that another team member Ann is actually an assassin of a mysterious organization "Gopher". She asks protagonist for help, but he refuses due to strong sense of justice. He gets caught up in the struggle between "Gopher" organization and emerging religion "Tsunoda kai". And direct danger approaches members of "J-RAP". Structure: 3 days Length: 1.5 hour for first playthrough, 30 mins for consequent 7 ones Game type: Pseudo-action erotic thriller Difficulty: Easy, only three choices for two variants each, and each branch leads to a different ending. Character Design rating: 1/10 Protagonist rating: 1/10 Story rating: 1/10 Game quality: 1/10 Overall rating: 1/10 Rating comments: Game's a joke. Protagonist: Kensuke is a protagonist whose presence is not felt at all. Characters: There aren't heroine routes. Characters here have very little screen time, and they manage to waste a large portion of that time for spontaneous H events. Story: First thing that surprised me in synopsis is rap-band. Does such thing even exist in real world? Rappers don't really need a group, and a group of rappers can't read rap together. This is definitely not a rap band in the game. But we get to see in the opening and the ending the gigs of this band played by real life actors (and maybe even real musicians). And those are one of the most sore gigs I ever seen. Horrible song sung with hypocritical looks. But as game goes on every trace of story gets lost in spontaneous H events every odd minute and just absurdity of everything happening. Half of that little time devoted to the story protagonist just investigates dossiers of his future enemies via pc. The rest is a super forced development with some crazy characters like the monastery nun. When I tried to think what this game reminds me ... it's LIGHT MY FIRE by Take in 1998. Same musicians as main characters, same new religion threatening to conquer the world, same total absurdity of everything happening and same flood of H scenes. I recorded only one "branch" because other branches are totally the same except for H event with a different heroine or routes with just Bad endings, branches purely for additional H events. CG: There are quite a few cool ones, but they can't mend anything. The ratio of non-HCG to HCG are 1 to 4... Animated multi-staged H encounter with Ann only adds to the one-sidedness. Overall comments: I can only repeat that game's a wicked joke. It tries to mimic luv wave and Phantom of Inferno with lowest level content and not a single element to enjoy.
  19. I move in chronological order and read Japanese reviews found via egono.com to single out notable works for me to read. There aren't exactly millions of VNs, just a few thousands with just around 1000 of worthy ones.
  20. Oh, come on, you stole my glory! Now I'll have to apologize for every single Key work since they are all shitty. I'm even sure they managed to ruin the perfect Angel Beats anime. Key is the company that managed to fail 100% of works and anime they were involved in. I really had to force myself to watch Little Busters, Rewrite, Kanon, One and Planetarian anime while the the rest including Clannad and Air are just appalling. It's the most over-valuated company that ever existed.
  21. Green Green and Jisatsu no Tame no 101 no Houhou are the masterpieces of the month with the latter being the winner, but I'm reviewing Assassin Ann . 1. Green Green グリーングリーン [011005] Overdrive 1 2 Green Green takes place in Japan’s countryside, in a non-descript region with forests and an isolated boarding school known as Kanenone Gakuen (鐘ノ音学園, literally translated as Sound of Bell Academy). The academy boasts of an entirely male population, and prides itself of the tradition of men growing amongst other men without any external influences to disturb them. The protagonist is named Yuusuke Takasaki, a second year student that is indifferent to the lonely, girl-deprived atmosphere that surrounds the school. His three friends, Tadatomo “Bacchiguu” Ijuuin, Hikaru Ichibanboshi and Taizou Tenjin, however, feel as if they are being denied their youth by having no females to interact with. As the summer session at Kanenone begins, Yuusuke and friends wonder what the change of season will bring to them, when Bacchiguu brings news that a bus full of girls has arrived on school grounds. As luck would have it, Kanenone’s current administration is considering making the academy co-ed, and in order to see how the change would affect the student body, first and second year girls have been brought to live on school grounds for one month. Though Yuusuke takes the change in stride, his three hormone-driven friends see this as the true beginning of their youth. There is an English review. 2. Jisatsu no Tame no 101 no Houhou ジサツのための101の方法 [011005] Duke 1 2 3 Torabishi Takuji hears a noise he has come to label "grey". He doesn't know the true nature of the noise, and finally has started to lose the ability to discern between "delusion" and "reality". "Delusion" and "reality", "life" and "death". Caught between those, he has started to seek proof that he "lives in reality". A stepsister that hides things from her brother. An energetic childhood friend. A beautiful girl with a coolness in opposition to her cute appearance. A mysterious classmate with an conduct soaked of the occult. A beautiful female teacher that lavishes her adult charm. A male student of whom several dark rumors talk about... These different characters will see their psyche cornered to the limit. This is their story. There are English reviews. 3. Taisetsu na Uta ~Koi Suru Yume Utahime~ たいせつなうた~恋する夢歌姫~ [011005] Q-X Naoya has a broken heart when he moves to a new town. New school life begins, and he's able to find another love. came over to a new town. And a new school life begins, and I know another love. In his dreams he starts to meet unfamiliar girls in unfamiliar clothes, and he does not know which reality is true - they both look so real. Moege from a new brand. Heroines are of diverse characters. Dream world is medieval European fantasy. It's not clear why dream world is introduced. Dream world does not help to solve problems of real world - they are solved exactly in real world. Story would not hurt by removing fantasy world. It's more life a flavor to make game more memorable. Ending is a bit forced in each route. 4. Tsukuyomi ~Marebito no Uta~ ツクヨミ~稀人の唄~ [011005] Ivory Main character leads a happy school life when school gets acquired by some emerging religion <Tendo Zen> organization and shrine maiden comes to his class as a transfer student. Protagonist starts to wander the world of dreams and reveals ancient ability "Lara Shrine" hidden in himself. With an ability to move between worlds wonderful encounters and miracles await him. Game starts as stalker type comedy and gets serious with time. Other world story only reaffirms relations with the heroine, but has no big influence on our world. Scenario feels incomplete. 5. Viper-M5 [011005] Sogna 1 Japanese mythology tells of youkai, supernatural forces of good or evil that inhabit human beings. Those that can tap this power can cause great changes in the world around them, whether through the good deeds they perform or the bad. Tsubasa, visiting his cousin and fellow youkai, Saori, discovers a plot at her school where the teachers are influenced by evil spirits who plan to demonize the entire student body. With the help of other good youkai, Tsubasa and Saori plan to defeat the teachers and restore peaceful order to the town. Video can be easily be found with words Viper M5 gamerip, so I won't record it myself. I was initially very surprised by the characters of this game - characters are absolutely new and quite different from usual Viper games. Two youkai who encounter other youkai and humans. But during the play it all became clear - these are remade characters from Houma Hunter Lime from their previous brand Silence, just youkai instead of demons. Even their hair colors are the same. Their roles are almost identical. Boy is an eternal pervert who can't miss any skirt, and girl is here to beat him every time that happens. That's basically it. Game consists of 6 episodes, and each episode is a small piece with its structure, enemy, H event and resolution. The story is more complex this time and and really interesting to read even without animated H events. Don't expect a real story though, just good youkai uncover plots of bad youkai and fight them. 6. Gyakuten Saiban 逆転裁判 [011011] Capcom 1 2 3 4 5 The game takes place in an urban city set in 2016 and later; for the Japanese versions, this city is somewhere in Japan, while the English localization places the games in Los Angeles, California. The fictional future justice system is such that when a person is accused of a crime, they are immediately given a bench trial presided by a judge, a prosecuting attorney from the state, and a defense attorney that must completely prove the accused innocent of the crime. Trials last 3 days at most, due to the large number of cases that the courts must deal with; if the accused cannot be found innocent after this time, their case is consigned to a higher court. The majority of the work during a trial is on the shoulders of the defense attorney who must cross-examine the witnesses brought forth by the prosecution to find contradictions in testimony to clear their client. The playable character is Phoenix Wright. He is a rookie lawyer fresh out of law school in the first game, taking a position at Fey & Co. Law Offices run by Mia Fey, a defense attorney that helped to acquit Wright of murder several years prior to the events of the first game. When Mia is murdered, Wright takes over the offices with the assistance of Maya Fey, Mia's younger sister, and renames the office "Wright & Co. Law Offices". The Fey family have the ability to channel spirits, which sometimes allows Maya to channel Mia's spirit for Wright to help in court. Wright develops a rivalry with prosecuting attorney Miles Edgeworth as they oppose each other in court... There are lots of English reviews. 7. Cosmic Man コズミックマン [011012] Soubi Kenkyuujo 1 A mysterious space creature, 'The Cosmic Man,' tries to save the earth from bad space monsters. In the year 21XX, Bad monsters from space threaten our peaceful life on earth. The Cosmic Man suddenly appears and beats the monsters. Cooperating with the earth defense organization, 'CAT (Cancer Attack Team)', Cosmic Man begins to get rid of the damage. People start to see the fighting Cosmic Man and space monsters on a daily basis. One day, a bad monster comes from space and destroys a city. Pushing his way through the crowd, a boy arrives at the center of the city. His name is Hironobu Kugami. He makes his living by stealing things at fire scenes. The Cosmic Man appears as usual, but the monster beats him. Cosmic Man decides to entrust his powers to a boy. That boy is Hironobu Kugami! From here on, Cosmic Man's attitude really undergoes a change. He starts to request 'girls' and 'money' in return for his efforts. Will the earth remain peaceful? Everything is now on the new Cosmic Man's shoulders... What would you do if the hero were a bad person? What will happen if the hero requests something in return for his work? These are the 2 concepts of this game. This game consists of 14 stories. Players advance through the game by talking with people, but you'll see the cool system of board games when you gather information and fight against monsters. Battles are just too boring. H event's aren't really exciting either. The gag parodies aren't enough to justify playing. 8. Lagnalock Lagnalock -ラグナロク- [011012] light 1 Our hero lives with Alpha, a childhood friend, in a small village in the kingdom of Faldeata. This is located on the west side of the Grandeek continent. Our hero has no friends except for Alpha and the priest who brought the two of them up. His father left him one item at his death: The mighty sword of Lagnalock. The hero and the priest share a secret regarding Alpha. The girl's true identity is a Diverse (DIV), a child of god. DIVs were born when the evil "Foreign Over" started showing up on this world. The army has been looking for DIVs because of their special magical abilities. Therefore, in order to protect Alpha, the priest gives her a new identity and has her working in the temple. It happens on the night of the village festival. Faldeata's prime minister orders their army "Black Dragon" to attack the village. The whole village is torched and the priest is killed. Maxim, the Black Dragon's commander, attempts to kidnap Alpha. His attempts are thwarted, when our hero starts fighting back with his new-found and mysterious powers. However, the defeated Maxim succeeds in implanting a seed in Alpha's chest. This seed is able to foresee the coming of God, and Alpha is to be sacrificed. Our hero can only hug Alpha and reassure her. He decides to set out on a quest with Alpha in search of a way to rescue her from her fate... Main problem in this game for me is the SIM part which actually feels more like a board game. You roll the dice and move around the map. Good squares make you acquire items and technologues, enemy occupied squares trigger battles. There are three heroines to capture, and their routes are short. 9. Love Semi ~Koi no Tokubetsu Shidoushitsu~ ラブゼミ~恋の特別指導室~ [011012] Gaia Main character enters a private academy with "priority guidance system" and emphasis on interviews. But what "priority guidance system" actually means? All of the seven capturable heroines are teachers. Period is just two weeks, so volume feels insufficient. Without some affinity for teacher heroines game looks boring. 10. Mix★Max Kimi to Boku to Nomaru wa... MIX★MAX キミとボクとの間には・・・ [011012] Zenos Main character is a member of microcomputer club which mostly includes ghost members. In order for the club to survive he must demonstrate achievements in culture within a month. With that the fight for club survival began. There are four heroines to capture. System is poor. Game soon becomes ero-tilt with H events coming out of the blue. 11. Assassin Ann ASSASSIN Ann~アサシン・アン~ [011019] Active Four young people have the dream to stand on American stage. They set up dance team "J-RAP" and practice each day. of wanting to stand on the American stage, home of dance. They set up a dance team "J-RAP" and were striving for lessons every day. One day main character gets to know that another team member Ann is actually an assassin of a mysterious organization "Gopher". She asks protagonist for help, but he refuses due to strong sense of justice. He gets caught up in the struggle between "Gopher" organization and emerging religion "Tsunoda kai". And direct danger approaches members of "J-RAP". I absolutely need to play this myself. 12. Dokidoki Princess どきどきPrincess [011019] Cronus Main character is an aspiring swordsman. One day he gets to help a girl while practicing in the mountains, and since that time girl starts to visit him. At first protagonist is irritated by such bother, but with time understands that desire to protect important people around him is his true strength. Comedy. Five heroines, quite an orthodox development. At least this time it's really pure love with just two H events per heroine, very unlike previous works of Cronus. Heroines lack development and aren't memorable. 13. Houkago no Maid 放課後のメイド [011019] For Protagonist becomes the manager of the newly created after-school "Maid Training Club". First half is choosing who to talk to, and second half is individual routes - in the latter part any answers other that correct ones result in bad end. H content is higher than average, 2-3 scenes per heroine. Quite a boring maid fetish work. 14. Inner Palace ~Shiroki Koukyuu~ インナーパレス~白き後宮~ [011019] Noa Stagnating kingdom of Punea is succeeded by emperor Tokina. New emperor has many wives who gave birth to six sons. Main character is the sixth son Leon. He's the last in the line of succession, so needs to execute enormous efforts to ever wear the crown. A SIM game to train yourself in order to be able to choose a correct wife. There are eight heroines, and since polygamy is wide-spread in the country, it gets H intensive and falls into harem state. 15. Pretty Monsters プリティーモンスターズ [011019] Nampurrow After collapse of an anti-matter conversion furnace 400 years ago, science-based civilization was almost completely annihilated. However, humanity was able to regain former prosperity by domesticating and utilizing flying Primon as means of transport. Fuami is a healthy girl who aims to ride Primon. For that she sets on a journey of practice. It's a suguroku game to gather monsters, but game is actually a nukige despite the neutral synopsis, and with pretty dark H events. Insult scenes show up spontaneously. 16. Tsukikagerou 月陽炎 [011019] Studio Miris 1 Taishō era. The interval between Meiji and Shōwa. A season where yellow and red petals swoop down from the trees. A young man comes down from the Imperial city, clinging to a large trunk, faintly smiling at the sight of the streets, a suitable young man indeed. Just as told by his father, he reached to this town to help for an autumn festival. Walking down the streets brings a surge of nostalgia. Encounter with a girl. Two girls. As days drift by, the young man soon links with one of the girls. Not a love by chance. It was a fated love. Was it the reason this young man was made to come to this town? There is an English review. 17. Candy Stripe ~Minarai Tenshi~ Candy Stripe ~みならい 天使~ [011025] Sega Set on a hospital, where the protagonist is a doctor and interacts with the nurses there. What does doctor do with nurses? Oh, he interacts. That's a very bold resolution from Sega. Honestly speaking, it would be too easy to make just a fun game. Sega introduced lots of elements like skills and background knowledge to make this game a real SIM. GJ, Sega. 18. Beside ~Shiawase wa Katawara ni~ Beside~幸せはかたわらに~ [011026] DreamSoft When I was young, I fell in love. I loved her from a very early age, and she was like a big sister to me. Her mother died when she was little, and her father was always working. But, she went to college, and had to move. I confessed my feelings to her, but the train's noise took her answer away with the wind. A few years later, I went to university, and forgot the events that happened then. I had trouble finding a job, and my brother got married and moved to Hawaii, so I decided to go back to my parents' house. However, there was something I didn't expect... To meet with her again, under the same sky, while she smiled as always. Orthodox love comedy. There are six heroines, but story stays the same in each route. One playthrough is just 2-3 hours. Enjoyable work for those who like the genre. 19. Coda -Toge- Coda-棘- [011026] Over 1 Our hero, Manabu Kusaka, lost his love years ago in an accident. The accident happened right after she broke up with him. Manabu thought it was his fault that she died, so he tries to kill him self, but fails. Having no other choice, he leaves home. On the anniversary of her death, Manabu receives a letter. His heart jumps as he finds out who sent the letter. The letter is from his lost love. It talks about how tired she is with love, her emotions, and her friends. After reading the letter, our hero goes to the school's garden to bury the letter under a tree; this was not a good idea. . . Long ago, this tree was used in sacrifices. Our hero and his friends are now chosen as the next "sacrifices." They get warped into a different dimension. What awaits them? Will they ever be able to return? This story has two scenario routes, which include, "A Happy Story" and "The Worst Story." Also, depending on your character, there are many different scenarios to experience. This brand is actually reincarnation of Rock Climber, so it should be clear that psychological insult is the focus of the game. And I'm not discussing shades of nukige. 20. Kekkai ~Aru Rinshou Shinrishi no Kiroku Yori~ 結界~ある臨床心理士の記録より~ [011026] Simple Plan Kyoko was found at the scene of a brutal murder by chief inspector Kaoru. Due to the shock of the incident, Kyoko has lost her memory. Kaoru has asked Junichi, a suave psychiatrist, to help cure Kyoko, only to find out that she has multiple personalites. Suspense adventure with erotic tilt. Multiple personalities of the heroine is the main feature of the work. Story has no twist and text level is low. 21. Low Devil! ローデビル! [011026] Black Light Main character starts to have special feelings for his childhood friend, but it seems to be an impossible dream. One day a devil girl appears before him. She is looking for a certain stone and persuades protagonist to help her. There are 10 chapters with distribution of favorability and creating strengthening medicine at the end of each chapter. In the end everything comes down just to H. 22. Mahiru ni Odoru Hanzaisha 真昼に踊る犯罪者 [011026] SofthouseChara When you need "Anything" done, you can turn on our protagonist and his three companions. "Anything" goes from babysitting to investigation of extramarital affairs, even criminal acts such as kidnapping or robbery. Whatever it is, it will be done, as long as there's enough compensation. Of course there's a downside to this business. Everywhere you look, danger lurks in every corner. While he didn't want to see it, the protagonist saw the dark side of a corporate giant. And thus begins our protagonist's fight... SofthouseChara youth is full of weird strategy games. Not my story. 23. Pretty Crisis 2nd [011026] Inspire Princess of the neighboring country Olivese arrives to the country where knight Rudel leaves. He needs to collect a certain amount of money to be able to send her back. Game is just from a totally different genre from first Pretty Crisis. It's now an economic SIM which angers auditory a lot. 24. Prime Girl プライムガール [011026] TRIFACT Memories of prime everyone has in heart. I like to share the pain and sorrow with you. Game from creators of Refrain Love which results in SIM elements abuse, wide use of animation and very generic story. The style and lip sync are uncommon for adult games. Heroines are realistic and only with dark hair. Game is praised for relaxing adult atmosphere. 25. Sonic Princess ソニック・プリンセス [011026] Software House Parsley 1 During nighttime, the terrain of the Earth is susceptible to inexplicable changes. Human beings called these strange occurrences the Phantom Phenomenon. Soon, with the power of technology and magic, they learned that threat is lurking in the depths of our planet. The underground city Ge-Pang was built to avert it. One day, a SOS alarm sounds in the city. Leila Reifido, who possesses the magical power of levitation as well as technological skills, sets out to counter an unprecedented robotic assault. There is very little from visual novel in here. 26. Working Days わーきんぐDAYS [011026] Studio e.go! Main character discovers that his body is transparent one day. In order to return his normal body he consults different offices and takes various bodyguard, spy and security jobs. There are 16 chapters with different bizarre stories, including ghost and alien stories. There are four couples and it's possible to zap between them to progress simultaneously. Development is quite monotonous. There are heroines with different unusual traits. BLOCKED 1. Chirol ~Mogareta Tsubasa~ CHIROL~もがれた翼~ [011005] Error Main character is a rich bonbon who gets a job as a store manager at a family restaurant. One day he notices deputy manager stealing some money and succumbs her to sexual slavery. Then he directs his poison to part-time workers. Nukige 2. Ingoku Byoutou ~Himerareta Wana~ 淫獄病棟 ~秘められた罠~ [011005] Girl's Software Jyunichi thought he had it made. He was all set to take over his boss' cushy job as President of Misono General Hospital... but then Serika appeared. Serika just happens to be the President's daughter, she had been studying in the same field as Jyunichi and was posed to take over as President of the hospital. Outraged, Jyunichi has come up with a devious plan to take over the hospital,even if it means taking it over one Nurse at a time. Nukige 3. Roshutsu Choukyou Doukoukai 露出調教同好会 [011005] Sekilala 1 One day, Keiichi catch his childhood friend Jun masturbating. After that, she somehow end up asking him teaching her about sex. Soon, 2 others girls end up joining the teaching. Master?Lover?How will theirs relationships turn out after that? Nukige 4. Sold Out ~Seido-tachi no Senjou Hyouronkai~ SOLD OUT~性奴達の船上品評会~ [011005] Prime Soft Marco is a sailor of a trade ship. The ship is registered as a fruit trade vessel, but in fact it deals with a ship illegal slave trade. Marco is making his debut as a trainer of slaves. Nukige 5. Trois Trois~トロワ~ [011005] Remain An omnibus of three stories. Antology 6. Partner [011007] Ritz software Main character works for a top trading company. He is assigned to the Energy Fuel Department which is the main division of the company. However, internal situation in the department is complex and full of distrust and envy. Is it possible for him to survive here? Boys Love 7. Tsukiakari つきあかり [011007] Splatter Hour Main character meets men, forms friendship links with them and sometimes drowns into forbidden pleasures. Boys Love 8. Hitokata ひとかた [011010] Oryu Quiet country town. Main character receives a request to get rid of the cow demon that awakens every twelve years. How can he fight against a cow ogre monster? As he beings to investigate the town, he gets involved into human relationships and mysteries he could not even imagine... Doujin 9. NekoNeko Soft Okaeshi CD 2 ねこねこソフト おかえしCD2 [011010] NekoNeko Soft Second Mizuiro fandisc includes only Oneechan-no Drama CD and one story "ユキちゃん○6才" Fandisc 10. Angelus ~Haitoku no Jokyoku~ Angelus~背徳の序曲~ [011012] Puchi Devil Main character's fiancée dies, and it's presented as a suicide. Main character moves to the pavilion where his fiancée worked and died. He decides to stay at this mysterious place for a while. Nukige 11. Disgrace ディスグレイス [011012] Prima Main character returns to live with father and older brother, but spends most of the time alone. Girl who lives next door takes take of cooking and cleaning for him. There are also old and new acquaintances who he gets to meet. How will his life turn? Nukige 12. Natsu Yakata 夏館 [011012] Pheno Type Main character is asked to manage parents' villa for the summer. Five maids are waiting there ... Nukige 13. Nyuunyuu にゅうにゅう [011012] Ange 1 One day, Shoji Oba asks the woman posing as his sister who she really is. Her name is Erika Chichiski. She is a boob alien from the planet Boob. A meteorite hit her planet and broke it into pieces. She escaped and roamed about space before she came to earth. Shoji doesn't really believe her story, but he gives in to the temptation of having a big breasted chic around and decides to let her stay. However, Shoji soon regrets his decision Erika is really a mad scientist, who starts creating strange creatures using advanced technology from the planet Boob. People around Shoji begin to panic. What will be waiting for us? This game contains both a love story and a slapstick comedy. Shoji's girlfriend, Marimo Kawai, has a warm personality and really makes him happy. However, Erika's big boobs embarrass her. Inaho Watanabe, who grew up with Shoji, is beautiful, smart, and also very rich. Wakaba, Shoji's sister in law, is reliable and does most of the housework. Players will be able to enjoy sex with girls with big boobs. If you're a big boob lover, this game is for you! Nukige 14. Waru Dakumi 悪だくみ [011012] Arkham Products Main character gets a supernatural power to incontinate girls on will. Together with two friends he starts to hunt for the girls. Nukige 15. Hana no Himei ~Kowareta Garasu no Kokoro~ 華の悲鳴~壊れた硝子の心~ [011019] Teatime 1 The protagonist of this game is a bastard son of a rich man. Your father has died, and his legal son, your older brother, inherited all his money and property, including a mansion in the countryside. Knowing that your brother has left the country with his fiancee, you arrive at the mansion and unleash your rage and frustration on those who are left there - several innocent young girls... Hana no Himei follows a linear story, with a chapter dedicated to each girl. After a series of pre-rendered images with text, you enter a 3D exploration mode, during which you'll have to walk around the mansion and find the girl who is hiding from you. Once you find her, you enter a "chase mode", during which you'll have to run and jump on the girl. Pressing and holding mouse buttons will make you attempt to overpower the girl, and deplete her "hit points". Once she runs out of HP, a 3D interactive sex scene begins. Nukige 16. Private Emotion [011019] Ripe 1 Shin Kazahara is living with his girlfriend, Sayaka Nanjo. Actually, they've been living under the same roof for a long time. Sayaka lost her parents when she was little, and Shin's parents took her in. His parents have to leave because of their jobs, so Shin and Sayaka are finally left to themselves. Sayaka teaches at the school where Shin attends. To Shin, she is a girlfriend, a sister, a mother, and also a teacher. Sayaka wonders if she should openly express her feelings to him under such circumstances. However, without his parents around, Shin experiences a new and exciting life with Sayaka. They do have to have some rules, though. Will they live happily together, or will Shin find a new girl? The story is divided into a day part and a night part. During the day, Shin will meet up with three girls: Yui Hasuda, who grew up with Shin and really likes him, Toka Naruse, a selfish classmate, and Kisumi Takase, who is a school nurse and an advisor for Shin. At night, he'll be completely alone with Sayaka to experience many different kinds of sex. Through trying different things, Shin's techniques will vastly improve. Which will you prefer: life with Sayaka, or playing around with girls at school? Nukige 17. Birdie ~Bokura no Ren'ai Shinrigaku~ birdie~ぼくらの恋愛心理学~ [011026] Ein 1 When the dance unit "Birdie" debuted three years ago, it became an instant success in the Japanese idol industry. With the bright and friendly Kazuya Nakajoh, the nihilistic Takashi Kanzawa, and the calm and intellectual You Onozuka, "Birdie" was quick to rise in popularity. The three were recruited through audition with an agency that produces idol groups, led by a shrewed female president who sees to the development of her agency's talents by keeping them busy in a maelstrom of multimedia: song and dance performances, modeling, work in the "CM" magazine, hosting a variety quiz show, and drama performances, among others. The activity has certainly kept "Birdie" at the top of the idol entertainment world, and recently, You has attracted attention from the theatrical industry, as well. "Birdie" is run by three managers that see to its success: Matoba, a veteran manager who is the head manager of the group, Masato, who works as producer, coordinator, and negotiator, and Sakagami, their assistant. Always looking for ways to keep the group on the leading edge, Masato arranges for a famous ballet dancer from New York, Tsubaki Kyouichi, to join the team as their new choreographer, a change which will result not only in changes for "Birdie," but also for the individuals in the unit as they become involved in Kyouichi's bad influences. Boys Love 18. Boku no Himitsu Taiken ボクのヒミツたいけん [011026] Complet's Main character gets to live at his aunt's place. He gets acquainted with many girls there and gets to share secret experiences with them. Nukige 19. Doki x Doki Sasete!! DOKI×DOKIさせて!! [011026] Astrovision Main heroine is selected out of 20,000 candidates to join an idol group of five boys "Astro Bomber". She receives singing and dancing lessons from the boys in order to perform together on a gig in a year's time. Otome Game 20. Dorei Kaigo 奴隷介護 [011026] Silky's Main character gets a part-time job at a nursing home for the elderly. Young and beautiful caretaker as well as fascinating director are waiting for his arrival... Nukige 21. Hotel Ergriffen Hotel ergriffen-ホテル エァグリッフェン- [011026] Maple 1 Man sees three prostitute girls on a street corner and invites them to his his place. This is a story of five intoxicated days in their company. From everyday life sympathy is born, and the image of an ideal woman appears... Nukige 22. Reijougari 令嬢狩り [011026] Chiffon Rena asks protagonist to wear her clothes and infiltrate her academy in order to remain the only virgin candidate and win in the academy competition. Nukige 23. Saishuu Chikan Densha 最終痴漢電車 [011026] Atelier Kaguya In a crowded train, strangers are likely to end up being too close for comfort. But for some people, being too close is a comfort! When a poor conductor witnesses the bizarre yet inviting ritual of anonymous train sex, he jumps on the opportunity to turn it into a business! Every night after the midnight train ends its route, he turns it into a rolling bordello. get ready to climb aboard... the sleazy train is COMING! Nukige 24. Shoya Kenjou 初夜献上 [011026] Giant Panda Main character receives a letter about his grandfather illness. He arrives to the mansion in the mountains and gets to live there for a month in the company of women of the house. Nukige 25. Tokoro Kamawazu… ところかまわず… [011026] Empty Main character has finally entered the college he wanted. Now he needs to find a girl as prey to release some steam. Nukige 26. Flood of Tears [011030] TMS An annoying protagonist, an ordinary school life, a few friends here and there. This is the story of a young man who falls in love willingly, and perhaps of a couple young women who fall in love somewhat less willingly. Doujin
  22. Foreword: Setting is quite cyberpunk'ish, so I expected an enjoyable read. Was I too optimistic? Title: Rege ~Saisei no Ubugoe~ Developer: Sarang Date: 2001-09-28 VNDB link:https://vndb.org/v15317 Youtube walkthrough:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8QF89IDqkM Synopsis: Rosu is a sleepless city where many kinds of people gather seeking fame and fortune. Even though the city is losing its main industry, it's still bustling. It is rumored that the city makes its money by drug trafficking as well as from a secret national arms fund. Kyoichi Koga establishes a private police station in Rosu. He used to be a policeman, but he became a private detective after being dismissed from the police force. One day, Kyoichi receives an e-mail, insinuating that a bloody event will occur. He begins research on a 23-year old tragedy without knowing that it is the beginning of the present disappearances throughout the city. Structure: 3 days Length: 11 hours. Game type: Detective investigation in a decadent city Difficulty: Not quite obvious since you need to choose locations, and it's easy to miss event if wrong one chosen Character Design rating: 1/10 Protagonist rating: 1/10 Story rating: 1/10 Game quality: 1/10 Overall rating: 1/10 Again, can't really write a formal review here. From the start I was kind of worried about NSFW cover and "practicing magician" as one of heroines. What's a magician doing in a cyberpunk'ish setting? But reality is much worse - main heroine is magician. Her teacher is magician. Main enemies are magicians. Main battle is battle between mages! What's even going on here? But focus on magic is not even the worst thing to happen here. First of all - I completed only Kaoru route, but absolutely could not go forth from here, game is absolutely irreparable at that point. Common route takes 1.5 hours and heroines routes only take 30 minutes. During common part we just get to choose locations about 10 times and stumble upon some girls on the streets. On the day 2 it's H scene! Out of the blue! Protagonist was just walking the girl he saw for the second time in life home! How did they get sitting on the bed? Why heroine just started some stupid imaginary drama with weeping? That looked so stupid that I saw only disgust in it. So what do we get as a result? Super-short non-existing story, super-short heroines routes. Forced ending with very questionable action. Epilogue that takes less than a minute. Faceless and thin protagonist. Absolutely non-sympathetic and non-developed heroines. Senseless conflict and drama overall. Zero satisfaction as a result. I try to find at least something to raise my evaluation, and fail at that. It's a shameful game, so it only deserves equally shameful review.
  23. Visual novel = anime + novel for me, and theoretically it's the best medium to provide glorious long stories. I'm mostly fascinated with visual novels because of the amount of efforts the Japanese put into those. I compare the number of Western games with the number of Japanese Visual Novels over the same periods of times, and get absolutely shocked by the results of just one nation in just a single genre. And that goes even for early 80s - VNDB has only a small portion of Japanese visual novels from 80s. I'm absolutely assured in Japanese cultural supremacy in the last two decades. Anime, manga and dorama are too short to my liking and are too well covered, while visual novels offer thousands of worlds for tens of hours of time each, and remain in obscurity for all this time. Every big anime resource like MAL does not want to get involved with visual novels just because they aren't popular enough. Well, that's one thing that can change.
  24. Eve: The Fatal Attraction has no rivals this month. Among other masterpieces I'll call Memories Off 2nd. I'll be reviewing Rije ~Saisei no Ubugoe~. 1. Itsuka no Sora いつかの空 [010907] Sweet Basil 1 Our hero is a sophomore college student living by himself. He has a childhood friend that is a girl, but he doesn't have a real girlfriend. His hope of finding someone special is fading away when his part time job eats up his time. Then he meets Eri, who happens to have lost her memory. The encounter with Eri leads our hero towards his destiny and forces him to search for his true identity... System and town real time change impress, but at the expense of game content. Each of seven heroines has only 4-5 events resulting in short individual routes. Voice actors recompensate for that only partially. 2. Love Hina Advance ~Shukufuku no Kane wa Naru kana~ ラブひなアドバンス 祝福の鐘はなるかな [010907] Marvelous Interactive 1 2 In this game, you take the role of Urashima Keitaro, who’s been rejected from entering Tokyo University for the second year running making him, what the Japanese call, a ronin. To make things worse, his parents have kicked him out of his house. Fortunately, his Grandmother owns the nearby inn and Keitaro thought this would be the perfect place to live and work as the landlord. Or so he thought. He finds out that the building is no longer an inn and is in fact a girls’ dorm making him the only guy around! Most guys would kill to live with six cute girls, but if Keitaro’s not careful, this job will kill him… There are English reviews. 3. Furimuite Cool Eye's 振り向いてCOOL Eye’S [010914] Parade School manga research club is in pinch! It only has three members and will have to disband unless two more members are found within a month. Main character should also recruit only among the girls in order not to repeat last year's mistake when a lot of people had to quit the club due to romantic problems. Is it possible to save the club? Unfortunately, scenario is thin, and it's more like fast confession, then H to imbue desire to participate in the club activities. Graphics are beautiful. 4. Ichigo-Da いちご打 [010914] Witch 1 Cafe Milkyway plans to have an event with dessert dishes called, "Strawberry Festival." Remi Tojo designs the special costumes for this event. However, the costumes she designed are very strange, and her co-worker, Sakuya, makes fun of her and her costumes. To get revenge, Remi orders Sakuya to play an evil character called "Ichigon." The Ichigon costume is made of an artificial strawberry, and Remi will eat up the costume every time Sakuya disobeys her orders. This is a story of fighting between Remi, who is nuts about strawberries, and the other Milkyway workers, who hate her strange costumes and try to stop Remi from taking all the strawberries. In the end everything gets to typing strip battle. 5. Prism Sound プリズムサウンド [010914] Airyu Main character tried to gather friends for a band to make "shining sound" together. That dream was forgotten, but now a year later he repeats that attempt. There are very few choices. Unique character design is the main appeal point. Scenario is just right in order not to get bored, but it's mostly thanks to support cast and not the heroines. 6. Review of Brind Summer Vacation レビューオフ Brind Summer Vacation [010914] Sight Main character is an upcoming manga writer with one magical girl story to receive anime adaptation. He organizes a party to meet offline with the fans. Thirteen people have gathered, but even though nicknames are known, noone knows each others faces. What will come out of this party? It's a pure love story about first experience, so with little H and quite a boring overall. There are as many as 12 heroines. Lots of bugs and graphical glitches even with patch applied. 7. Ame Yadori 雨やどり [010918] E.G.O. Time starts to flow very fast with every day being busy and without a moment to spare. Main character sees a girl stilling alone in the rain and lends her a hand. Girl's name is Mio. This is a heartwarming story about three girls with cat ears (plus two normal heroines), but the quantity and darkness of H scenes easily writes this game into nukige department. First five days are given for common route and last five days for heroine route. Quite a specialized work trying to appeal to different players. 8. Prism Palette プリズムパレット [010920] Broccoli A love adventure simulator that follows the adventures of the main character Masaki Shirai while he lives a peaceful school life surrounded by beautiful classmates. A normal school SIM with everyday schedule and stuff. 9. Igougata Kyokuchi Geigeki Tenshi Nanako ~Kaku Tatakaeri, Otome-tachi~ イ号型局地迎撃天使NANAKO~かく戦えり、乙女達~ [010921] Ape & Frog Humans have built a huge defensive city 3000 meters underground to save themselves from mysterious "vector" enemies. However, as resources get exhausted in constant battles, humankind throws last funds into new type of weapon IMA-01 Nanako. This weapon is given to main character as the last hope for survival. RPG with heroines looking like cosplayers. Each day is divided into four sections to perform commands. And there is also H training of girls ... how else would they learn new magic and skills? 10. Little Monica Monogatari リトルモニカ物語 [010921] Rune The town of Little Monica is famous for its vast culture of arts, especially music. Will is an orphan who used to live with his three friends in Little Monica, however he has long since moved out of the town. Many years later, Will decides to go back to the town to see his three friends: Celia, Mei, and Tina. Upon arrival, Will is surprised to discover that Little Monica is no longer the very cultural city it used to be. Instead, no music is allowed in the city... H event triggers the very first day and pretty much every day after that, so it's a nukige under innocent cover. Stupid incidents happen to the sisters like UFO and the like making up for a comedy. In the end it's nothing but an ero-tilt moege. 11. Eve: The Fatal Attraction EVE: The Fatal Attraction [010927] C's Ware 1 "Eve: The Fatal Attraction" is a chapter in EVE series, and is based on the hentai PC game Adam: The Double Factor. Its scenario was expanded in this game up to the point of being a sequel to "Adam". It adds many Eve: Burst Error and Eve: The Lost One references, lots of new events, 2 more days and proper ending to the game. You control the two main heroes of the game, the young careless detective Kojiroh and the sexy red-haired super-spy Marina. The events of the game are connected to their previous investigation (in Eve Burst Error). Kojiroh's ex-girlfriend and colleague, Yayoi Katsuragi, receives a case: somebody is threatening the life of two young girls, Mika and Miki, the daughters of the owner of the powerful Andou Corporation. Naturally, Yayoi needs Kojiroh's help, and here the investigation truly begins! Like in other Eve games, you control two characters in two "scenarios", and sometimes the cooperation between them is necessary. The game utilizes the same "Touchable View" that was implemented in "Adam": you interact with the environment and with the characters not by selecting menu options, but by moving the cursor around and clicking on objects, like in Western point-and-click adventures. I already reviewed the game earlier. 12. Memories Off 2nd [010927] KID 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 The protagonist is a 17-year-old student, Ken Inami, a soccer loving dude who aspires to go to film school. His girlfriend Hotaru Shirakawa also has high aspirations; having played piano ever since she was a child, she aims to go to music school. Ken and Hotaru have been dating for a spell and are at a rocky juncture in their relationship. This is where the game gets interesting. You can either make decisions to salvage Ken's relationship with Hotaru or chase after another girl. There are English reviews. 13. Z.O.E. 2173 Testament ゾーン オブ エンダーズ 2173 テスタメント [010927] Konami 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 The story is set within the Zone of the Enders universe. It is 2173 and humankind, in the search for a valuable resource called Metatron, has expanded its reaches to Mars and the moons of Jupiter, and full colonies have been established. However, Earth keeps a tight reign over the colonials, known by the derogatory term "Enders", and discrimination is commonplace. Food supplies are short, movement of citizens is controlled, and many Mars inhabitants have tried to rise up against Earth, but to little avail. The game follows the story of a 17-year old boy named Cage Midwell, a worker upon the interplanetary express ship "Bonaparte III" with his close friend (and idol) Ares Enduwa. However, on a routine journey, Cage spots a woman creeping into the cargo holds, and follows her. As he does this, the ship is attacked by a powerful black Orbital Frame. Cage and the girl, who introduces herself as Myona Alderan, climb into a mysterious LEV held within the ship and escape, eventually crash-landing on Mars. They are quickly caught and are accused of being the ones responsible for the crash. On top of this, Myona has completely lost her memory. However, shortly after their imprisonment, they are freed by an "Anti-Terrestrial League" leader called Deckson Geyse. His faction, BIS (Born In Space), quickly come and rescue them, and Cage finds himself caught up in the escalating conflict between Earth and Mars. There are English reviews. 14. Ashita mo Kitto Hare 明日もきっと晴れ♪ [010928] Forte Main character goes to school in a small seaside town. Swimming, sunbathing, culture festival... there are many events to enjoy in summer. Tomorrow will definitely be sunny. Almost zero difficulty, just raising favorability is enough. Genre is comedy. Six heroines overall with short routes and almost no H events. But bonus 7th scenario is unexpectedly good. 15. Crescendo ~Eien Dato Omotte Ita Ano Koro~ Crescendo ~永遠だと思っていたあの頃~ [010928] D.O. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 It's five days before graduation, and Sasaki Ryou is in school, making up the hours needed to graduate with the other members of his class. For Ryou, it's a quiet time to sit and reflect on the past year and all that has happened. As he thinks back on the past year, he remembers all his friends ... Kaho, who dragged him into the literary arts club against his will. Kaho's strange friend Kyouko, who was secretly in love with him. The oddly antisocial Yuka, so cheerful and yet secretly ashamed of something. His step-sister Ayame, who took such good care of him after their parents died. And the sexy school nurse Kaori, who always had a healing word for him. Every day held real experiences leaving real memories ... days he thought would last forever. Now the day of graduation draws near, and Ryou knows that he must prepare himself to make a choice. There are English reviews. 16. Kanojo no Negau Koto. Boku no Omou Koto 彼女の願うこと。ぼくの思うこと。 [010928] Project-μ 1 Luke lost the vision of his left eye as a child. Although he can't see with that eye, he has the ability to read people's minds. Because of this power, he stays away from society; he gets emotionally disturbed when he reads people's minds. One day however, a young boy named Rickie is reflected in his eye. Rickie is a lost soul wondering around. One day, he meets a girl carrying a black cat. This girl's name is Mikage, and she changes his life. Luke also happens to meet a girl named Mitsuki. He starts to see the world more openly. Luke and Rickie. . . Two boys from parallel dimensions, who eventually merge into one. This is an AVG game using two characters as a single identity. On Rickie's side, there are other characters besides Mikage. You'll find Keri, the girl who looks like Mikage but has a completely different personality, and the mysterious girl, Tory. The new system in this game is called the, "S-Cube system." It's an evolution of digital comics, and it is a completely new system. This is a "new type" of game, not only because of the system, but also because you're using two characters as one identity. If you're looking for something new, this is the game for you! Best thing in the game is theater-imitating ever-changing perspective. Protagonist is divided and main aim of the game is searching for oneself. Game also features many comedy elements even though individual stories are quite dark. An experimental work for those unsatisfied with the state of the industry. 17. Koumaroku 降魔録 [010928] Tama-Soft Legendary spiritual festival "Sekairoko Peak" gathered and sealed a lot of demons in one place. Due to an ancient curse various monster incidents started to occur in the vicinity. Thanks to existence of "demonist" monks curse never spread outside its initial location. Main character is one of demonists who uses his skills to defeat demons. Two women always accompany him in his travels. Any day demon seal may break, and such demon hunters are the only hope of the world. There are only two heroines to capture, but each has lots and lots of H scene patters, including tentacles. The number of endings is four. The actual atmosphere and contents of the game are inspirational and really about demon fighting. Music is great here. It's a chunige, and I like it despite the ero-tilt. 18. Love Negotiator ラブ・ネゴシエイター [010928] Liar-soft AD 2030, place is new capital built at Tokyo Bay. Main character is a romance negotiator who helps shy boys by winning negotiation battles with girls persuading them to pursue romance relations. But one day he gets involved in a huge conspiracy with number of cases piled up and intertwined. It's basically a bakage with negotiation battles. Battles usually have three variants of phrases with some being great choices and some poor ones. Poor choices lead to insult endings, great choices to pure love ones. Composition reminds TV dorama with 7 episodes each featuring a short story. Enjoyable game for bakage enthusiasts. 19. Miracle Twins: Koi no Mahou o Anata ni みらくるツインズ 恋の魔法を貴方に [010928] Future A town engulfed in evil atmosphere. But in the mids of it is a guardian angel girl who protects the town. She is a usual girl who found a magical item to turn into a warrior of justice. For that reason she is targeted by evil forces. Together with main character and another girl able for transformation they fight for the peace of this town. A comedy with crisp H scenes. Battles are made in janken type - attack, defense, magic. There are seven chapters, but overall operation is heavy. First six chapters are complimentary comedies, and seventh is suddenly serious development. Animation is used wisely. 20. Rije ~Saisei no Ubugoe~ リジェ ~再生の産声~ [010928] Sarang 1 Rosu is a sleepless city where many kinds of people gather seeking fame and fortune. Even though the city is losing its main industry, it's still bustling. It is rumored that the city makes its money by drug trafficking as well as from a secret national arms fund. Kyoichi Koga establishes a private police station in Rosu. He used to be a policeman, but he became a private detective after being dismissed from the police force. One day, Kyoichi receives an e-mail, insinuating that a bloody event will occur. He begins research on a 23-year old tragedy without knowing that it is the beginning of the present disappearances throughout the city. You'll be able to play with four beautiful girls: 'Kaoru,' the daughter of Kyoichi's boss, 'Reika,' an executive member of a religious group, 'Maki,' a practicing magician, and 'Chihiro,' a medical student. Try to clear all the girls by going through various situations, such as pure love, rape, gang rape, and so on! This game has multiple endings. You'll be able to play with another character after clearing the first character. The story has an 'investigation part' and a 'truth part.' In the 'investigation part,' you'll go to many places and talk with many people. You have to be careful with your time because certain events happen at a certain time. As a result of the 'investigation part,' the 'truth part' will appear. Your actions in the first part will directly affect the ending! What tragedy occurred 23 years ago? Will Kyoichi be able to solve the disappearances? A hard-boiled detective adventure, but with a definite erotic tilt. Somehow it becomes a general thing that hard boiled adventures have to deal with prostitutes and insults which in the end devaluates the story and the genre as a whole. On the positive side game features film technique of zooming and scrolling which also adds up to decadent world atmosphere. 21. V.G. Re-birth [010928] Giga A visual novel game in which the player plays the part of a reporter working on a story about the V.G. competition. The game also introduces the new character Sakuragi Hiyori. Depending on the choices the player makes, he/she will be paired with Yuka, Tamao or Reimi. V.G. Rebirth Dash: An update to V.G. Rebirth which includes nearly every other non-boss character (Yuuki Ayako is absent as she is a lesbian) as an option to pair with the player. It also introduces the new character Hatano Keiko. For that advances fighting woman theme for sex appeal. It's more like a fan story - to be able to talk to heroines from previous haves. Scenario is very short and is over upon tournament win. 22. Odeon [010929] BOKU 1 One day a girl starts to awaken to her own fate. Even if that fate may be too harsh for that frail body of hers... A woman singing in the Roman-era Odeon (circular concert hall). A secret is now hidden under the remnants of that Odeon that has been exposed to the harsh weather all this time. A mysterious human race that has come to Earth from somewhere else. Can that girl be a reincarnation of the songstress Mirei? In the flow of time an ancient phantasm nobody remembers reoccurs again. Where is humanity guided to? Past and present intersect here... Game resembling Experiments Lain in concept, design and atmosphere. There are many short stories (memories) in each chapter, and player accesses them in random order. But complex composition and darker themes make game difficult to read. Another experiment that can be treated in both favorable and bashing way. BLOCKED 1. MIU [010905] DIGICLA 1 The story of the girl singing inside a birdcage, and the young man who was captivated by her song. With only 7 days left till the man faces his ‘end’, will they reach happiness and salvation…? Doujin 2. Nangoku Aventure 南国あばんちゅ~る [010907] Trabulance 1 You are, Kyosuke Mita. You have never had date with a girl in your whole life. Not only you have never dated before, the girl you ask out dumps you. You're depressed about this incident. Out of nowhere, Aunt Asako Shimura comes to visit you. She is a photographer who travels all the time. You have always looked up to her. Noticing that you are depressed, she asks you to be her assistant and invites you to a tropical island. You go to Hasune Island with her. Your aunt brings along the energetic Mizuki Kasuga, her sister, Yuki, and a girl with a nice body, who is a year older than you, Takami Hibiya. It is up to you to decide if you want Asako or a harem with the three girls. Please fulfill your exotic desires on a tropical island this summer!! Nukige 3. Ohime-sama Dakko ~Tenshi ni Oshioki~ お姫さまだっこ~天使にオシオキ~ [010907] Hadashi Shoujo There were two very beautiful princesses in a certain kingdom. Suddenly a mischievous witch placed a curse on them. Kind summoned his most powerful magician to try and lift the curse. To amateur eyes the magical ceremony would look like violation of princesses. And so the day of the ceremony has come. Will princess recover and live happily? Nukige 4. Scandalous Rhapsody スキャンダラス ラプソディ [010907] Marine Heart On a rainy day, Yui was dumped by his girlfriend. A very pretty girl comes along and offers him a handkerchief and even some "comfort". He was very smitten by how pretty she was and went into a lovehotel with her. Only to find out that "she" is actually a "he". Yui also finds out that his name is Runa and he was conceived in secret by a famous actress. Runa knows that his father is a famous actor and he wants Yui's help to meet with him. But if the media finds out about Runa's existence, there will be a huge scandal. Boys Love 5. Tenshi-tachi no Gogo - Season 2001 天使達の午後 SEASON 2001 [010907] Purple Tenshitachi no Gogo takes place in a Japanese high school. The goal is to seduce the star girl of the tennis club, Shiraishi Yumiko. To do this, the player needs to go around talking with her friends and possibly getting intimate with them as well. Nukige 6. Chobits Adventure チょびっつあどべんちゃー [010908] Digital Aniki A fan-fiction VN based on the anime/manga Chobits. Doujin 7. Shinju no Toiki 唇濡の吐息 [010912] Ichi Hime Main character receives a letter from his sister saying that she is forced to work at some mansion for three years to return father's debt. Main character never heard of the debt and the debt company, so he leaves the house and hurries to the rescue. Nukige 8. Evergreen Avenue エバーグリーン・アベニュー [010913] Vridge Inc. In a huge mansion live a gentle boy and an ambitious poor girl who won't be discouraged by her circumstances. You can choose between these two contrasting characters to interact with the various individual spirits in this raising simulation game. Man and woman, two girls, and two guys combinations are possible, but there are no love developments, to the end it stays a game about friendship. Otome 9. Cushion Cushion~クッション~ [010914] Seiju Main character lives together with Yuki, but such situation starts to annoy. Love is what's desired... Boys Love 10. Hai Kamuri Hime no Yuuutsu 灰被り姫の憂鬱 [010914] MBS Truth 1 There is a prestigious ceremony/festival that comes once a year where a young woman is chosen to be the “Princess” of the event. Our protagonist in this game happens to be the one and only judge, and being thus he makes the girls do many unspeakable things. Nukige 11. ~Ikusei Mahjong~ Mahjong Yuugi ~育成麻雀~麻雀遊戯 [010914] Waffle Main character returns to home town and joins mahjong school club where his old friend presides. They start preparing for the national mahjong tournament. Card game 12. Level F レベル-F [010914] Uncanny! A certain facility built in the back of the hospital. Girls with sealed memories are imprisoned there. Main character is summoned to awaken their memories so that truth is born. Nukige 13. Ryoujoku Kikou 陵辱奇行 [010914] Touchy Main character falls unconsciousness during part-time job and is taken to a hospital. He is announced that he is going to die of incurable disease within a year. After returning home he finds a letter with a special camp trip ticket as a prize won in some magazine. He has nothing to lose, so he sets up a malicious plan how to have fun even if costs his life as a result. Nukige 14. Shizumanai Tsuki 沈マナイ月 [010914] Vega 1 It all started with a brutal rape case somewhere in Tokyo. The chaotic rapists traumatize Akira and Satsuki. The rapists call themselves "the Moon Phase," and are led by Mitsuru, who's obsessed with hurting people. Akira and Satsuki are victimized in simple "playing around." They don't realize that this incident will change their lives forever. The player can experience this story from a total of eight different points of view. A new character choice will be available every time the player clears the story with one character. By playing the eight different characters, the player can collect missing pieces of the puzzle to solve this erotic, yet, suspenseful event! Nukige 15. Velvet Echo ヴェルベットエコー [010914] Angel Smile 1 Junichi's father was a scientist studying paranormal activities. He unexpectedly passes away, leaving Junichi all alone. Junichi is really depressed, but one day, a demon suddenly appears. This demon promised his father that she would take care of Junichi. Her name is Celena. She brings her two extremely sexy daughters along. They barge their way in and begin living with Junichi. No matter how pretty they are, the fact is: they are devils, and devils perform demonic acts. How is this going affect Junichi's normal life? Runa is deeply interested in humans, and Junichi reminds Celena of her long-lost son she loved so much. Soon after the appearance of these sexy demons, Junichi's childhood friend, Itsuki, becomes wild for him. Other characters in the game are Yu, who loves to study paranormal activities, and Runa's little sister, Rona. Junichi and Runa have two totally different personalities, but eventually, the two of them... This game is a "Crazy Love-Comedy Erotic AVG" brought to you by Angel Smile! Please try it out! Nukige 16. Mirai ni Kiss o -Kiss the Future- 未来にキスを -Kiss the Future- [010921] 13cm 1 Due to certain circumstances, my parents are living in a foreign country, and I'm staying with my rich aunt. I'm getting pretty used to life in a new home. My old childhood friend who I've become estranged from, comes back into my life-- her name is Asukai Kasumi. Kasumi is my aunt's only daughter, and I used to play with her a lot. Even though we were the same age, she always called me "Onii-chan". Seeing her now, she's just as cute as she was back then. She's put in the same class in school as I am, and our everyday life begins... About six months have passed since then. My aunt and uncle are going on a trip for two weeks, leaving me and Kasumi alone in this huge house. The first night we were alone, Kasumi comes into my room. She asked to sleep together, and while I was still bewildered just from this, she smiles at me and asks me a question. "Onii-chan, will you make me your slave?" Nukige 17. Under Princess アンダープリンセス [010921] GearProducts Youichi learns about English architecture. One day, he goes to the underground to do some research. Dank and fetid..., suddenly he is struck by a flash flood. He somehow escapes into a cave, and loses his consciousness. When he wakes up, there is a woman looking down at him. Her name is Anrietta, who has been confined in the basement since she was a girl, and insulted by men every day. He decides to save her in return for what she did to him.... Nukige 18. Darling Darling~ダーリン~ [010928] Cherry Soft Jun is a comic artist who is never afraid to put in a hard day of work. Naturally, he authors pornographic comics. He's been given a monumental deadline, but he has a special power allowing him to work at hyper speed as long as he is aroused. Lucky for him, his assistant Miyuki is also his wife and she's ready to give him a hand with work. Nukige 19. Deep Fantasy [010928] Selen Island Seasus stays with the southern part cursed and northern part shredded by the dragon. Southern part grew and developed while north drowned in conflict and ruin. Rulers of the South searched for a maiden to lift the curse and managed to take two royal blood princesses captive during the first war. But the ritual is going to fail unless princesses cooperate, and to ensure that main character is giving them sexual training. Nukige 20. Detection [010928] eelcom Main character is a detective who mostly does cheating investigations and inquiries of malfunctioning office workers. One day he gets an unusual request that he solves in just one day. But that was just beginning of this case .... Nukige 21. Escape [010928] Adel Majima Yamato is a typical high school student. Despite being only in second year of HS, he is living on his own since he couldn't get along with his new step-father. His mother showed no love towards him and his relationship with his kind, older step-brother was awkward. He has been alone for a while. However, there are alot of people out there and a new school year is also starting. Depending on your choice, maybe he will find a new love..... Boys Love 22. Harukanaru Toki no Naka De 2 遙かなる時空の中で2 [010928] Koei Taking place 100 years after the first game, the country of Kyou is in turmoil because of a power struggle going on between the emperor and the retired emperor, and the people of Kyou are falling into desperation, fearing the coming of the end of the world. Karin, a modern-day high school girl, is summoned to be the Priestess of the Dragon God who will save Kyou. However, there is a priestess who has been recognized by the retired emperor, and the eight men chosen as Karin's Hachijou (her bodyguards) do not believe that Karin is really the priestess. Otome 23. Hina ~Ippai Daisuki~ ヒナ~いっぱい大好き~ [010928] Optim Main character lives alone while attending part-time work. One day father brings a clone girl to protagonist's home saying that girl is needed for secret laboratory research and should hide at some safe place for a while. Girl does not know anything about life - what are the first things to teach her? Nukige 24. Kango Nisshi Mania 看護日誌マニア [010928] Chiffon Main character becomes president's secretary and moves to a Western-style mansion. He lusts for chairman's only daughter Hikaru, but can not openly show his feelings. Nukige 25. Princess Memory - True Typing プリンセスメモリー・トゥルータイピング [010928] F&C The after-story includes three modes: 1. "Quest mode" is a short ADV story. 2. "Battle mode" to fight monsters at an arena 3. "Quiz mode" typing answers to quizzes. Fandisc 26. Restrain [010928] spiel Main character gets a butler's job at a millionaire's pavilion through his acquaintance guidance. He gets an opportunity to walk around the house, study weaknesses and insult the girls there. Can he restrain all the preys? Nukige 27. Ryoujoku★Kazoku System 凌辱★家族システム [010928] Surf Main character is asked by a certain well-known company to play into a fake family with three women for five days. The only condition he is set is prevent girls from dying. Everything else is allowed. Nukige 28. Venus Rave ~Kuroki Hitomi no Megami~ Venus Rave~黒き瞳の女神~ [010928] West Vision 1 Our hero is requested to visit the country of Laguna Lake by an old friend. He is to investigate the actions of the ruling princess, Tifaris, and if necessary, restrain her. A truly puzzling request! It is well known that Princess Tifaris is a very wise monarch. However, some suspect that she is actually the wicked witch of Laguna, who had been instrumental in getting the country caught up in the previous continent war. It seems as though our hero is being led by some mysterious force to meet with so many women. During the investigation, he experiences both love and hate situations first hand. Just where will these experiences lead him? What is the real truth behind the princess? Nukige 29. Parfait Fan Box パルフェふぁんBOX [010929] Kogado Studio A fandisc for the Parfait saga. Fandisc
  25. Foreword: I have a very strange history with Bittersweet Fools. I started playing it about two years ago, and finished it only a year later. But the most important question is why this first minori game neglected that much? I believe I know the answer to this question. Title: Bittersweet Fools Developer: minori Date: 2001-08-31 VNDB link:https://vndb.org/v164 Youtube walkthrough:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CYqHFsKP-M&list=PLEJNtz1D9CPU6cTE85DdrBMeNWyN5EEbX Synopsis: The protagonist is Alan, a former mafia assassin. He was required to go into hiding after a job and is now living in Florence, Italy. His days of peace and quiet comes to an end when he meets with the granddaughter of a mafia leader... Structure: 22 chapters Length: Some 30 hours Game type: Mafia in the hiding slice-of-life Difficulty: Easy. There is just one choice that leads to a dead end, and the rest only determine additional scenes and CG. Character Design rating: 6/10 Protagonist rating: 6/10 Story rating: 7/10 Game quality: 6/10 Overall rating: 6/10 After all, I can't write a proper structured review of this game, mostly because I finished it about a year ago and also because I had huge pauses between the chapters. Here's my full story about it. First I read couple chapters in Japanese back then and was totally confused by this game. It was a horrible experience. Ugly sprites, bad game system, no voicing, lack of action on the screen. I just could not get characters seriously. Then I installed the English patch for the first chapter, and thanks to first chapter in English I actually got some charm of the game and could at least start focusing on ugly drawn characters. I could not force myself to play after several chapters, so it was put on hold at my notebook. Then one day I had power outrage, and there was little else to do but to play the only game I had at notebook at that time - Bittersweet Fools. It was also the game that got me drowsy in no time. Then at the next power cut I went on with the story and so on. Just imagine the number and longevity of power shutdowns at my place if I was able to invest about 30 hours into this game! It's unbelievable, but I was still able to finish the game - but I wouldn't be under normal circumstances, because it's a hellishly long story about nothing. Mafia gang just sits at a conspiration flat, and every time they go out for a walk they find some trouble. That's the plot for 21 horribly long chapters! And in the last chapter they try to run away and face rival gang finally. Sprites drawing is appalling, and CG only happen once per several hours. I read some impression somewhere that it's high literature here, so common folks won't be able to enjoy it. And it may indeed be so! Text here is indeed very well written, slice-of-life scenes are pleasant to read. But I'm absolutely sure that it's impossible to enjoy them in PC versions, because without voicing situations here feel artificial. But then I learned that PS2 and DC versions have voicing, and changed my view on the game entirely. With voicing I can finally enjoy slice-of-life scenes that provide for 95% of the game time. So I tried to play this game again with voicing and translation... but miserably failed at that. PS2 version can not be hooked, since there are text threads, but no memory threads for changing text found, and it's totally not worth it to find each phrase manually. With DC version I was able to get text only with Demul emulator. I perfectly see changing text memory threads here, but there's another problem - Demul just shuts down my pc in 5-10 minutes time. I tried different versions, plugins, overclocking, but pc still shuts down when memory threads are parsed by Cheating Engine + Hook any text. Without memory hooking it seems to work normally (but I did not check for longer times). And that fiasco made me include not my video playthrough link, but some Japanese one. I believe that voice version is the ONLY way this game can be enjoyed, thus there are so few reviews. PC version is plain bad, and Repackage version from 2005 is humiliating since it's not a reverse port from PS2 or DC, but the same 2001 PC zero voice version just with music repacked. So it's actually a very sincere good game that's never going to be appreciated in the West, because of minori attempts to have nothing to do with the West ever by keeping console releases only for consoles and suing anyone trying to patch their games. Game title really suits minori following policy.
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