- Wild Romance (PC)
- Secrets of Me (PC)
- Princess Maker 2 Refine (PC)
- Pinball Parlor (PC)
- Gal*Gun: Double Peace (PC)
What a selection of games today, eh?
Wild Romance (PC)
Steam page is up: http://store.steampowered.com/app/493450/
It says it's published by Zoo... hopefully they can do a better job this time than they did with "Let's Eat! Seaside Café" -_-;;
It has an age gate on it, at least, it does for me. Appears to be a supernatural / furry romance VN.
It says the dev is "Norn / Miel" so I tried googling and found two NSFW devs:
Norn: http://norn-soft.com/
Both featuring games that look like this Wild Romance game.... and also found a very 18+ game that looks like this on DLSite by "Norn / Miel / Cybele", so I guess this will be the censored version of that game.
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Secrets of Me (PC)
http://store.steampowered.com/app/505070/
Release date is no more specific than "Coming Soon".
It's another otome game from Dogenzaka Labs, this time it's themed about stalking men.
So now even heterosexual girls/women can get in on the high-creep-factor otaku fun! -_-;;
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Princess Maker 2 Refine (PC)
Decades after Princess Maker 2 was originally translated into English (but cancelled before release), the classic raising game from anime studio GAINAX finally has an official English release:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/523000/
In this game, you are raising a girl from the age of 10 to 18, choosing what she studies, her part-time jobs, free time, and even send her on adventures... and depending on how you raise her, you see a different ending to show how she turned out as an adult.
This is an enhanced version of the original game, by a Korean company called CFK. The graphics are enhanced (but still retain that 1990s look), and the game now features full Japanese voiceover. According to a press release I read, it will be $19.99 and will be 20% off on launch.
I played the original PC version of this game, and later, the Evangelion-themed Ayanami Raising Project on Dreamcast (untranslated), and am a big fan.
(it turns out, in Evangelion, if they had just let Rei live in a room that was all wallpapered and carpeted and had nice teenage entertainment things in it, she'd have been so much more of a happy, outgoing girl than she was, living in a concrete room full of bloodied bandages and hospital equipment...)
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Pinball Parlor (PC)
This has been Greenlit and should arrive on the main Steam store within days.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odlKN6vWxmg
It's VERY retro pinball. It says this is Golden Age pinball, i.e. 1950s style. Before there were such things as ramps, drop targets, and - as the Greenlight page says: "before electronic displays and microprocessors, and even before mechanical scoring reels!"
Basically it looks little more than bagatelle with flippers and pop bumpers. I generally prefer my pinball tables a little more featureful, but I'll never say no to a new pinball experience!
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Gal*Gun: Double Peace (PC)
Is now out on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/511740/
I won a copy, through a sweepstakes from Rice Digital. Not sure exactly how, but I won a copy!
I'd kind of wanted to try out Gal Gun even when it was the first game, raw Japanese, PS3 import. But it was just that little bit too expensive. So to win this out of the blue was really appreciated!
This game, though.... you know I mentioned high-creep-factor earlier? This game has it in spades, and seems to like repeatedly reminding you of it. It's silly game, a very silly game, but I find the humour is relying a little too much on its own outrageousness, rather than on actual funny things.
I've been playing it in short bursts, one level then quit. It seems like a game where it's best to do that.
I really wish I could redo levels to attempt to fulfill sub-missions. Maybe it lets you do that on new game+ or something.
I might write a fuller review when I'm done.
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