General Eroge Impressions & Discussion

[johnishida]

The longest is has taken me to finish an Eroge is 4 days but, that was because it was pretty short... I can't imagine just how fast you need to read to finish Little Busters! EX in 4 days when I took around two weeks to finish he original version. BTW, my average time to finish a Eroge is two weeks. Stupid college >_>

[Sterling01]

Well after watching this it seems I have some new eroge to play... See how many you can identify.

[Mueti]

4 days? The last game I read through was Lovers～koi ni ochitara～, which I started in August and finished today.
And when I say "finished", I'm just talking about one route. Usually I move on once I saw an ending. I just somehow don't like reading though parts I know again until that choice comes up which splits paths....maybe I'm missing out but it just doesn't feel right.

[ZODDGUTS]

Looking forward to Silky’s new game, looks like I'll have the same theme/genre as BlackRainbow Saimin Jutsu games.

Sigh doesn't look like Starless will be release this year eventhough it was suppose to be released around fall.

[Varion]

Originally Posted by HashiriyaR32

If you're a fan of minori's works, keep an eye on THIS page for the next few days. It's the page for their upcoming release, called "eden", and info for that will be available on November 10th. It's slated for released in about a year.

Had this issue for ages but forgot about this thread Oh well, no one else posted anything so better late than never.



Sion is moe. The story, basically, is set many, many years in the future when mankind knows the planet has about a hundred years left. So they start the フェリックス (Fellix? Romanise it how you like) Project to create a race of perpetually youthful and long lived humans via genetic engineering, the main one being Sion, who always gets used as a symbol in the government's propaganda campaigns. Anyway, 99 years later everyone's on their way to another planet Sion decides she wants to stay on earth to live out the rest of its life, and our young protagonist takes on the responsibility of protecting her, because she's spent her whole life in a mansion and doesn't have a clue about the world outside.

[Sterling01]

"eden" sounds so so SO very generic... but at least Sion is really moe so I guess I have to check it out.
On another front I'm enjoying 漆黒のシャルノス to it's fullest

[Varion]

Originally Posted by Sterling01

"eden" sounds so so SO very generic... but at least Sion is really moe so I guess I have to check it out.

At least it's not set in a school.

[Sterling01]

Originally Posted by Valdra

At least it's not set in a school.

You know there's going to be a scene where Sion says "I was never able to go to school" and a few things latter voila there at a school

[Dagger]

Originally Posted by Sterling01

On another front I'm enjoying 漆黒のシャルノス to it's fullest

I'd be enjoying it a lot more were it not for the horrible gameplay. And here I thought it wouldn't be possible for them to come up with anything more tedious than the trading/travel system in Celenaria...

[Sterling01]

Originally Posted by Magus IX

I'd be enjoying it a lot more were it not for the horrible gameplay. And here I thought it wouldn't be possible for them to come up with anything more tedious than the trading/travel system in Celenaria...

It doesn't seem to bother me that much...
I think it's because I've played games with much worse gameplay

[Autumn Demon]

my favourite is x-change alternative.

are there any other ero games where you play as a girl?

[Sterling01]

Depends on what your definition of a "girl" is

[Eczema]

Originally Posted by Autumn Demon

my favourite is x-change alternative.

are there any other ero games where you play as a girl?

There's all the other X-Change games (1-3), and the Lightning Warrior Raidy series (1-3). There's probably more, but I'm new to Eroge too and only play ones that have been translated to English.

[Utau]

x-change.. now that;s a game i never thought of ever playing..



anywho, if it's the opposite of what Sterling01 is trying to imply () I say, D.C. Girl's Symphony.



come to think of it.. I never did notice how CIRCUS is trying to milk the fans with their D.C. games, i guess this is what pulled the last straw for me to finally notice



..and I blame myself for falling for it

[Shinova]

Because clearly trying to add to Hemi's already ginormous backlog will bring about moeggeaddon, hence solving all of the world's woes and problems in a wave of love and peace!








Come this December, on a medoly of fire and ice, FrontWing comes bearing a song of the sky and stars...

Right, something cute in the world just died. Maybe one of Hemi's kittens. Or one of his waifus caught a cold. ;/

No that line above isn't a blurb from one of FrontWing's promotional videos. However they are bringing a song of stars. Hoshiuta arrives in stores and torrent sites late December, in time for a new year's splurge of eroge.



Getchu link (NSFW): http://www.getchu.com/soft.phtml?id=530125

Official Site (also NSFW): http://frontwing.jp/product/hoshiuta/index.html



Be warned that I haven't found an AGTH code that works for this trial so I'm running on somewhat limited knowledge.

Spoiler for space:

This game, in similar fashion to its predecessor Sorauta, takes place in a small oceanside town called Miyoshi, with a peacful, idyllic high school setting. A very common and much-used setting, but if it's anything like Sorauta there will be a twist of some kind to give life to the cliche. The predecessor's special thing was that the male lead could see and interact with ghosts. I don't know yet what Hoshiuta's distinguisher is.

Here are the cast of characters:



Suoh Kazuhiko

Our esteemed male lead, one who will lead us to victory and conquest over young and nubile bishoujos everywhere through his nose-picking. I think that's what the line in moonspeak said, but it's a weird habit of his where he, without knowing, starts picking his nose. Aside from that oddity, he's a normal guy. Pretty serious and straight-laced but not anal, and enjoys some fun what he wants.

He and his little sister Nanano live together in their house. In the past their grandmother had looked after them and Kazuhiko wanted to repay his debt to her in some way in the future but before he could she passed away. Now he looks after Nanano on his own, hoping in some way that he's repaying his debt.

He also holds a part-time job at the inn Yui's family owns, doing whatever work is at hand and delivering stuff.





Kuroda Yui

She and her mother moved into the town from Tokyo about ten years ago. They had some difficulty early on but their inn is now prospering. Yui has grown up with Kazuhiko since.

Yui is feisty, to say. She's easily roused to anger, especially by her classmate Arisa, who's a decent girl but has no idea why Yui's getting so worked up every time she points out something wrong with what Yui's doing..... or when she starts flirting with Kazuhiko. lol.



Unlike most osanajimis Yui does not wake Kazuhiko up in the morning or cook his meals. Also unlike most osanajimis she has a fascination with bananas and eats them whenever there's a chance. She's also a good hand at table tennis and softball.





Suoh Nanano

Kazuhiko's adopted little sister (oh yeah ) who was brought into the family after her parents died. She used to be a depressed crybaby in the past, but thanks to Kazuhiko she has become a cheerful and energetic girl who enjoys life, waking Kazuhiko up to the sounds of melon bread being succulated on, cooking him breakfasts of turtle stew, and has a pet turtle named Kameshiro, whom she almost accidentally cooked into aforementioned stew at one point. Reminds me of that little turtle in Love Hina; no mysterious and baffling capabilty of flight however.



She's a happy girl now, but whenever Kazuhiko or anyone else teases her a little too far she goes over to occupy some random vacant corner and draw circles on the ground. You can spot the Nanano's unique behavior in its natural habitat if you are vigilant, and mask your presence with the pheromones of a nameless background extra.

Here we have the Nanano at a sidewalk:



And here at the MGM Grand after finding out that the chances of winning big on the slot machines is equal to the distance between Hemi and the nearest picture of San, which is roughly near-zero:







Amamiya Kurara

The gentle, cat-loving, and well-mannered only daughter of the Amamiya family and heiress to their enormous business conglomerate. She moves to Miyoshi from Tokyo for reasons no one can imagine and transfers into Kazuhiko's school only a short while before school break. She's the super-rich ojousama of this game, and unlike the typical cliche she's not an arrogant princess who flaunts her status in the faces of the plebes. What a novel concept!



It also seems that she's visited Miyoshi in the past. (Dun dun, I can see the plot speculations forming now, YEYYEEEEEAAAARRGH!!!)





Kinoshita Midori

A third year sempai who is part of Kazuhiko's circle of friends. She had an accident a few years back that crippled her left leg below the knee, reducing her to walking with a cane or putzing around on a wheelchair she named "Hayate." While she has lost the ability to walk, she has not lost any of her capacity for energy, cheerfulness, love of teasing other people, and enjoyment in life in general. She also likes swimming and apparently does some work with disabled people and swimming. She has also gained the power to crush apples with her bare hands.

While she's not doing school stuff or teasing one or all of Kazuhiko, Nanano, and Yui, she spends time attempting drifts and powerslides with Hayate, or trying alternate methods of getting from one floor of the school to the other without using the elevator. Her wheelchair, by the way, has three modes of stopping. One is her handbrake. The second is probably managing her way onto an uphill. The third, when all other method and hope has failed, is the fade and skid-resistant, carbon-ceramic, world-stopping, Kazuhiko body brake, operable seemingly whenver Midori needs it. Available as an option on your 2009 Hayate for the price of one melon bread (Shana-tan preferably included), banana, and a dose of nonononononononononono~...

PS: She's also voiced by Aoyama Yukari. I can hear the seizures from Hemi already.





Yamabuki Renge

Niyari~ A mysterious girl who lives in a mansion at the end of the cape. Niyari~ She has a mysterious, doll-like air to her, and wields a devious and rebellious personality. Niyari~ As of the trial, she has been shown to frequently play pranks on people, or swindle storeowners of their goods, and then leave a "present" of some kind afterwards. Niyari~ Weird thing from my personal observation seems to be that all of this only started very recently for the people of Miyoshi. I do wonder what is going on with this girl. Niyari~

Did I mention yet that she says "Niyari~" a lot? Yeah. Niyari~



And here's the picture of the support characters:



Because as we all know a picture speaks a thousand words and that's a thousand words I don't have to spend describing what little I know or what little there is to know about these people.




That's that for the characters. Niyari~. Now onto what the trial covered, which wasn't a lot really, making this one of the shorter trials I've ever run through:

Spoiler for Events in trial:

When you press the Hajime-whatever button the first thing you see is a flashback through a dream Kazuhiko's having. It's in his past, and he's on the beach, a particular spot of rocks he likes to frequent. Sitting there is a young girl doodling on a sketchpad. He asks her what she's doing and clearly she's drawing, and she claims she likes doing it from time to time. When asked whether she lives in Miyoshi she replies that she's only here to visit. She asks him his name and he tells her "Kazuhiko," so she's now calling him Kazuhiko-kun. When he asks her for hers she's about to tell him when the flashback conveniently ends for the sake of story. But it's probably just cause Kazuhiko doesn't remember. Maybe that Niyari~ girl has something to do with it. Hnn hmmm....

But whatever. He's having a hard time waking up so his loving sister comes him to do it for him. When he's proving uncooperative, she decides to take measures and tells him that this is all his fault.

Kazuhiko starts hearing sucking and slurping noises and starts to stir from his sleep. Wha..no..can't be.. it can't be, not this early in the story, not before the "let's take a bath together oniichan" scene, and the "let's have a date" scene, and the ring, the genokiller references, the t-shirt sniffing, that time and place in space and time when one's sister looks different than usual and not in the manner that's safe for a Sunday church gathering although Nanano's a pettanko but that's probably even worse, and the oniichan, the oniichan! THE ONIIIIIICCHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNN!!!!!



Yeah. Turns out she wants to stir him awake by eating a priceless and treasured piece of mango melon bread. Which I don't think Kazuhiko's really into even, but Nanano is. And yes I did think all those thoughts above when I encountered this scene, although in a more subliminal and less verbal fashion.

Nanano almost ends up cooking Kameshiro in her stew but all's safe afterwards and the turtle's still kicking and happy. I forgot to mention that this little reptilian seems to posses the capacity of understanding human speech. Perhaps Nanano's ancestor was a lizardman because she looks like she can also grasp what Kameshiro's saying in return. So perhaps the two are distantly related, and a long, long time ago, in the age after the dinosaurs but before man, a monkey and an iguana fell in love and.... but that's a different story, and we want this review about an EROGE trial to be safe for work, right?

The two, after having a normal, non-turtle stew, set out for school. Along the way they pass the Kuroda Inn, where Yui is tending her own little banana republic in front of the inn.



They say hi and are about to leave when Yui's mom comes out.



"Aren't you forgetting something?"

"Don't worry, I've got today's banana harvest with me right here for today's lunch! Yaay!"

"No you dunce of a daughter you forgot your schoolbag."

"O__O. -___-. XD"

Yui then retorts why her mom didn't come out with her bag and the latter replies with some reason I'm sure only parents can understand, and even then probably only those who live in small, idyllic Japanese towns who have a daughter who's an osanajimi to a future harem pimp that can almost rival the likes of Hemi. I say almost, because the said harem pimp is imaginary, as are his harem. But so are Hemi's waifus. So yeah.

Along the way some bastard of a truck nearly clips Kazuhiko. Inside is a blue-haired girl looking down at him in the same way one would look at an interesting patch of dirt.



Kazuhiko launches a tirade, and in return,


"Niyari~"

And drives off.

Moving on. If you meet the osanajimi, clearly you have to meet the sempai as well along the way.



Kazuhiko Body Brake in action, Formula 1 style!!

They say hi and stuff. Now somewhere in the above Nanano does her first instance of the whole find vacant corner and carve egg-nests out of the pavement thing. Along with mention of something about Kazuhiko only really smiling when he's teasing someone or watching a comedy of some sort.

Following the intro of these characters, we get a bunch of generic events, along with a few special ones, like Midori attempting to escalator down a flight of stairs on her wheelchair. She paid for Kazuhiko carbon-ceramic brakes but got Kazuhiko sport seats instead:



We're also enlightened to how Kazuhiko's grandmother took care of the Suoh siblings in the past and how much he wanted to repay that debt. We also get introduced to Kazuhiko's male best friend and Arisa, a female classmate of his who teases Yui a lot, who's also in the same class. There's the super-hot homeroom teacher too:



There's Kameshiro callistenics, some more grandmother flashbacks, and this, where Kazuhiko gets called into the inn for some extra work and afterwards he has a furious table tennis match with Yui.



Yui's clothes get aboved in the process. Clearly she's ecchi in the inside, exhibitionist, and wants to iccha iccha Kazuhiko or maybe that appetizing tennis paddle. Haha, I see what your little banana republic is for now, you scoundrel of a female!

Also rumors have been flying around of a strange girl who plays pranks on people and steals people's stuff. Nanano had one such encounter when said girl told her to close her eyes, and then pressed a cold soda can onto the back of Nanano's neck, going "Niyari~" after the deed's done.

The interesting part of the trial happens near the end, when Kazuhiko has to go out on a scooter to deliver some stuff. He spots that blue-haired girl who almost ran him over swindle another shopkeeper of some of his goods with a healthy Niyari~.



She spots Kazuhiko staring at her and she makes off with a "Hmph!" Clearly this is one of those tsundere things in the works.

He runs into a maid who can go from meido mode to scary I'm-gonna-eat-your-heart-in-front-of-you-while-you-watch mode with a single phonecall.



Afterwards he gets a delivery job and is going around town on his scooter when he spots a girl he hasn't seen around town before:



He asks her if she's looking for anything and she asks him if there used to be a particular store here. Kazuhiko tells her that the storeowner died about five years ago, and the girl remarks to herself that indeed time has flowed. She then thanks him and apologizes for taking up his time, and leaves. Kazuhiko goes back on his delivery route.

In the afternoon he goes to the beach with Yui but she has to go to the bathroom so leaves early. Convenient too because Kazuhiko spots someone on the rocks he used to frequently visit in the past. It's that girl from earlier:



He introduces himself as that guy from earlier. The girl's confused at first but then realizes who he is, since earlier he had some headgear on, obscuring some of his face. She starts a formal show of thanks but,



She finishes her thanks and apologies and says that these particular rocks are very nostalgic for her, leading Kazuhiko to note that this girl's must've been to Miyoshi before. She continues to stare at Kazuhiko's face. He wonders what's going on and unconsciously starts picking his nose. The girl recognizes that habit and asks him if he is "Kazuhiko-kun."

Our guy wonders how she knows his name and admits. Girl is shocked.

"No way. To meet him again...in this place...."

Cliffhanger!! I'm so looking forward to Kurara moving into Kazuhiko's school and how that's going to stir things up for the rest of the heroines. There's not a lot of material in the trial so I don't know how they're going to spice things up in the full version. Hopefully like Sorauta it's going to have something special to enliven a generic small town high school setting.

Look forward to the game come late December!

And that's my summary of Hoshiuta's trial. Now with more screencap-spam!

[Sterling01]

Wheelchair moe

[Shinova]

Originally Posted by Sterling01

Wheelchair moe

Suddenly reminds me of those cripple or disabled tans, lol.

[Hemisphere]

Originally Posted by Shinova

Because clearly trying to add to Hemi's already ginormous backlog will bring about moeggeaddon, hence solving all of the world's woes and problems in a wave of love and peace!








Come this December, on a medoly of fire and ice, FrontWing comes bearing a song of the sky and stars...

Right, something cute in the world just died. Maybe one of Hemi's kittens. Or one of his waifus caught a cold. ;/

No that line above isn't a blurb from one of FrontWing's promotional videos. However they are bringing a song of stars. Hoshiuta arrives in stores and torrent sites late December, in time for a new year's splurge of eroge.



Getchu link (NSFW): http://www.getchu.com/soft.phtml?id=530125

Official Site (also NSFW): http://frontwing.jp/product/hoshiuta/index.html



Be warned that I haven't found an AGTH code that works for this trial so I'm running on somewhat limited knowledge.

Spoiler for space:

This game, in similar fashion to its predecessor Sorauta, takes place in a small oceanside town called Miyoshi, with a peacful, idyllic high school setting. A very common and much-used setting, but if it's anything like Sorauta there will be a twist of some kind to give life to the cliche. The predecessor's special thing was that the male lead could see and interact with ghosts. I don't know yet what Hoshiuta's distinguisher is.

Here are the cast of characters:



Suoh Kazuhiko

Our esteemed male lead, one who will lead us to victory and conquest over young and nubile bishoujos everywhere through his nose-picking. I think that's what the line in moonspeak said, but it's a weird habit of his where he, without knowing, starts picking his nose. Aside from that oddity, he's a normal guy. Pretty serious and straight-laced but not anal, and enjoys some fun what he wants.

He and his little sister Nanano live together in their house. In the past their grandmother had looked after them and Kazuhiko wanted to repay his debt to her in some way in the future but before he could she passed away. Now he looks after Nanano on his own, hoping in some way that he's repaying his debt.

He also holds a part-time job at the inn Yui's family owns, doing whatever work is at hand and delivering stuff.





Kuroda Yui

She and her mother moved into the town from Tokyo about ten years ago. They had some difficulty early on but their inn is now prospering. Yui has grown up with Kazuhiko since.

Yui is feisty, to say. She's easily roused to anger, especially by her classmate Arisa, who's a decent girl but has no idea why Yui's getting so worked up every time she points out something wrong with what Yui's doing..... or when she starts flirting with Kazuhiko. lol.



Unlike most osanajimis Yui does not wake Kazuhiko up in the morning or cook his meals. Also unlike most osanajimis she has a fascination with bananas and eats them whenever there's a chance. She's also a good hand at table tennis and softball.





Suoh Nanano

Kazuhiko's adopted little sister (oh yeah ) who was brought into the family after her parents died. She used to be a depressed crybaby in the past, but thanks to Kazuhiko she has become a cheerful and energetic girl who enjoys life, waking Kazuhiko up to the sounds of melon bread being succulated on, cooking him breakfasts of turtle stew, and has a pet turtle named Kameshiro, whom she almost accidentally cooked into aforementioned stew at one point. Reminds me of that little turtle in Love Hina; no mysterious and baffling capabilty of flight however.



She's a happy girl now, but whenever Kazuhiko or anyone else teases her a little too far she goes over to occupy some random vacant corner and draw circles on the ground. You can spot the Nanano's unique behavior in its natural habitat if you are vigilant, and mask your presence with the pheromones of a nameless background extra.

Here we have the Nanano at a sidewalk:



And here at the MGM Grand after finding out that the chances of winning big on the slot machines is equal to the distance between Hemi and the nearest picture of San, which is roughly near-zero:







Amamiya Kurara

The gentle, cat-loving, and well-mannered only daughter of the Amamiya family and heiress to their enormous business conglomerate. She moves to Miyoshi from Tokyo for reasons no one can imagine and transfers into Kazuhiko's school only a short while before school break. She's the super-rich ojousama of this game, and unlike the typical cliche she's not an arrogant princess who flaunts her status in the faces of the plebes. What a novel concept!



It also seems that she's visited Miyoshi in the past. (Dun dun, I can see the plot speculations forming now, YEYYEEEEEAAAARRGH!!!)





Kinoshita Midori

A third year sempai who is part of Kazuhiko's circle of friends. She had an accident a few years back that crippled her left leg below the knee, reducing her to walking with a cane or putzing around on a wheelchair she named "Hayate." While she has lost the ability to walk, she has not lost any of her capacity for energy, cheerfulness, love of teasing other people, and enjoyment in life in general. She also likes swimming and apparently does some work with disabled people and swimming. She has also gained the power to crush apples with her bare hands.

While she's not doing school stuff or teasing one or all of Kazuhiko, Nanano, and Yui, she spends time attempting drifts and powerslides with Hayate, or trying alternate methods of getting from one floor of the school to the other without using the elevator. Her wheelchair, by the way, has three modes of stopping. One is her handbrake. The second is probably managing her way onto an uphill. The third, when all other method and hope has failed, is the fade and skid-resistant, carbon-ceramic, world-stopping, Kazuhiko body brake, operable seemingly whenver Midori needs it. Available as an option on your 2009 Hayate for the price of one melon bread (Shana-tan preferably included), banana, and a dose of nonononononononononono~...

PS: She's also voiced by Aoyama Yukari. I can hear the seizures from Hemi already.





Yamabuki Renge

Niyari~ A mysterious girl who lives in a mansion at the end of the cape. Niyari~ She has a mysterious, doll-like air to her, and wields a devious and rebellious personality. Niyari~ As of the trial, she has been shown to frequently play pranks on people, or swindle storeowners of their goods, and then leave a "present" of some kind afterwards. Niyari~ Weird thing from my personal observation seems to be that all of this only started very recently for the people of Miyoshi. I do wonder what is going on with this girl. Niyari~

Did I mention yet that she says "Niyari~" a lot? Yeah. Niyari~



And here's the picture of the support characters:



Because as we all know a picture speaks a thousand words and that's a thousand words I don't have to spend describing what little I know or what little there is to know about these people.




That's that for the characters. Niyari~. Now onto what the trial covered, which wasn't a lot really, making this one of the shorter trials I've ever run through:

Spoiler for Events in trial:

When you press the Hajime-whatever button the first thing you see is a flashback through a dream Kazuhiko's having. It's in his past, and he's on the beach, a particular spot of rocks he likes to frequent. Sitting there is a young girl doodling on a sketchpad. He asks her what she's doing and clearly she's drawing, and she claims she likes doing it from time to time. When asked whether she lives in Miyoshi she replies that she's only here to visit. She asks him his name and he tells her "Kazuhiko," so she's now calling him Kazuhiko-kun. When he asks her for hers she's about to tell him when the flashback conveniently ends for the sake of story. But it's probably just cause Kazuhiko doesn't remember. Maybe that Niyari~ girl has something to do with it. Hnn hmmm....

But whatever. He's having a hard time waking up so his loving sister comes him to do it for him. When he's proving uncooperative, she decides to take measures and tells him that this is all his fault.

Kazuhiko starts hearing sucking and slurping noises and starts to stir from his sleep. Wha..no..can't be.. it can't be, not this early in the story, not before the "let's take a bath together oniichan" scene, and the "let's have a date" scene, and the ring, the genokiller references, the t-shirt sniffing, that time and place in space and time when one's sister looks different than usual and not in the manner that's safe for a Sunday church gathering although Nanano's a pettanko but that's probably even worse, and the oniichan, the oniichan! THE ONIIIIIICCHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNN!!!!!



Yeah. Turns out she wants to stir him awake by eating a priceless and treasured piece of mango melon bread. Which I don't think Kazuhiko's really into even, but Nanano is. And yes I did think all those thoughts above when I encountered this scene, although in a more subliminal and less verbal fashion.

Nanano almost ends up cooking Kameshiro in her stew but all's safe afterwards and the turtle's still kicking and happy. I forgot to mention that this little reptilian seems to posses the capacity of understanding human speech. Perhaps Nanano's ancestor was a lizardman because she looks like she can also grasp what Kameshiro's saying in return. So perhaps the two are distantly related, and a long, long time ago, in the age after the dinosaurs but before man, a monkey and an iguana fell in love and.... but that's a different story, and we want this review about an EROGE trial to be safe for work, right?

The two, after having a normal, non-turtle stew, set out for school. Along the way they pass the Kuroda Inn, where Yui is tending her own little banana republic in front of the inn.



They say hi and are about to leave when Yui's mom comes out.



"Aren't you forgetting something?"

"Don't worry, I've got today's banana harvest with me right here for today's lunch! Yaay!"

"No you dunce of a daughter you forgot your schoolbag."

"O__O. -___-. XD"

Yui then retorts why her mom didn't come out with her bag and the latter replies with some reason I'm sure only parents can understand, and even then probably only those who live in small, idyllic Japanese towns who have a daughter who's an osanajimi to a future harem pimp that can almost rival the likes of Hemi. I say almost, because the said harem pimp is imaginary, as are his harem. But so are Hemi's waifus. So yeah.

Along the way some bastard of a truck nearly clips Kazuhiko. Inside is a blue-haired girl looking down at him in the same way one would look at an interesting patch of dirt.



Kazuhiko launches a tirade, and in return,


"Niyari~"

And drives off.

Moving on. If you meet the osanajimi, clearly you have to meet the sempai as well along the way.



Kazuhiko Body Brake in action, Formula 1 style!!

They say hi and stuff. Now somewhere in the above Nanano does her first instance of the whole find vacant corner and carve egg-nests out of the pavement thing. Along with mention of something about Kazuhiko only really smiling when he's teasing someone or watching a comedy of some sort.

Following the intro of these characters, we get a bunch of generic events, along with a few special ones, like Midori attempting to escalator down a flight of stairs on her wheelchair. She paid for Kazuhiko carbon-ceramic brakes but got Kazuhiko sport seats instead:



We're also enlightened to how Kazuhiko's grandmother took care of the Suoh siblings in the past and how much he wanted to repay that debt. We also get introduced to Kazuhiko's male best friend and Arisa, a female classmate of his who teases Yui a lot, who's also in the same class. There's the super-hot homeroom teacher too:



There's Kameshiro callistenics, some more grandmother flashbacks, and this, where Kazuhiko gets called into the inn for some extra work and afterwards he has a furious table tennis match with Yui.



Yui's clothes get aboved in the process. Clearly she's ecchi in the inside, exhibitionist, and wants to iccha iccha Kazuhiko or maybe that appetizing tennis paddle. Haha, I see what your little banana republic is for now, you scoundrel of a female!

Also rumors have been flying around of a strange girl who plays pranks on people and steals people's stuff. Nanano had one such encounter when said girl told her to close her eyes, and then pressed a cold soda can onto the back of Nanano's neck, going "Niyari~" after the deed's done.

The interesting part of the trial happens near the end, when Kazuhiko has to go out on a scooter to deliver some stuff. He spots that blue-haired girl who almost ran him over swindle another shopkeeper of some of his goods with a healthy Niyari~.



She spots Kazuhiko staring at her and she makes off with a "Hmph!" Clearly this is one of those tsundere things in the works.

He runs into a maid who can go from meido mode to scary I'm-gonna-eat-your-heart-in-front-of-you-while-you-watch mode with a single phonecall.



Afterwards he gets a delivery job and is going around town on his scooter when he spots a girl he hasn't seen around town before:



He asks her if she's looking for anything and she asks him if there used to be a particular store here. Kazuhiko tells her that the storeowner died about five years ago, and the girl remarks to herself that indeed time has flowed. She then thanks him and apologizes for taking up his time, and leaves. Kazuhiko goes back on his delivery route.

In the afternoon he goes to the beach with Yui but she has to go to the bathroom so leaves early. Convenient too because Kazuhiko spots someone on the rocks he used to frequently visit in the past. It's that girl from earlier:



He introduces himself as that guy from earlier. The girl's confused at first but then realizes who he is, since earlier he had some headgear on, obscuring some of his face. She starts a formal show of thanks but,



She finishes her thanks and apologies and says that these particular rocks are very nostalgic for her, leading Kazuhiko to note that this girl's must've been to Miyoshi before. She continues to stare at Kazuhiko's face. He wonders what's going on and unconsciously starts picking his nose. The girl recognizes that habit and asks him if he is "Kazuhiko-kun."

Our guy wonders how she knows his name and admits. Girl is shocked.

"No way. To meet him again...in this place...."

Cliffhanger!! I'm so looking forward to Kurara moving into Kazuhiko's school and how that's going to stir things up for the rest of the heroines. There's not a lot of material in the trial so I don't know how they're going to spice things up in the full version. Hopefully like Sorauta it's going to have something special to enliven a generic small town high school setting.

Look forward to the game come late December!

And that's my summary of Hoshiuta's trial. Now with more screencap-spam!

Oh my G-Hhhhh-HHHHNNNNGGGGHHHHHH!

Hahaha, this is so definitely in my to-get list now. I'm in the mood for some gakuen/high school comedy/romance/drama, and this looks as if it'll fill up that niche fine.

[Shinova]

Originally Posted by Erhjegel

Oh my G-Hhhhh-HHHHNNNNGGGGHHHHHH!

Hahaha, this is so definitely in my to-get list now. I'm in the mood for some gakuen/high school comedy/romance/drama, and this looks as if it'll fill up that niche fine.

Oh but waaaaiit! Remember how I put Kamipani on your to-get list and you found it not to your liking?


So it's like this Hemi, you have to be thinking, "Is he being an honest reviewer or is he trying to sell me snake oil?"

Am I trying to do you good or am I trying to do you harm and pull your attention away from whatever you're gonna play for some unknown, devious reason?

[Hemisphere]

Originally Posted by Shinova

Oh but waaaaiit! Remember how I put Kamipani on your to-get list and you found it not to your liking?


So it's like this Hemi, you have to be thinking, "Is he being an honest reviewer or is he trying to sell me snake oil?"

Am I trying to do you good or am I trying to do you harm and pull your attention away from whatever you're gonna play for some unknown, devious reason?

NO MAN I DON'T CARE ANYMORE, THOSE BISHOUJOS ARE HHHNNNGGGHHH-WORTHY SO I'MMA GET THIS ONE NO MATTER WHA-

Heyyyyyyy yeah. Now that you mention it...