Ways of saying hello
Human society exists in great part thanks to the power of empathy. Empathy is the capacity to share and understand another’s state of mind or emotion. “Putting yourself in another’s shoes,” is a common descriptor. To feel what others are feeling. And empathy works because there are commonalities between you and another, which is why it’s easier to feel for a dog or a cat than a fish or a cockroach. Hence society exists in good part due to commonalities we share amongst one another. It’s hard to relate to someone who is too different, which is why society instills in its members a common set of behaviors, expectations, and codes of conduct. That’s why people can meet each other in the street and interact easily because they share the same method of communication, mannerisms, and social expectations.
But that’s out in society, where sameness is a necessity that keeps people together. This is a different world. Where the power of the message is more important than the way it’s delivered. Where you can wave greetings to a beautiful bishoujo or take her body with the force of a hurricane, fettered only by the sounds of mixing body parts and her voice howling in ecstasy, and both could be ways of casually saying hi.
This is the dark beyond night. The invisible beyond the unseen. The chaos behind the unpredictable. This is a special place, and only those with their heads screwed on in special ways tread here. Are you special?
I am Newprimus, and as you can clearly see Hemisphere kidnapped me from my idyllic school life, took me to his dungeons, raped me with and in all manner of ero-cliches until I was brainwashed, and then installed me as an author inside his little kingdom of lust and madness. Maybe he’s the lust, and I’m the madness. Time will tell, if it’s still around later on to say anything.
Today I will discuss a number of web trials I played recently as my first post as an author of this blog. The games ツンな彼女 デレな彼女 by PeasSoft, スズノネセブン！ by ClochetteLumie, and W.L.O. 世界恋愛機構 by AkabeiSoft.
Tsun na Kanojo Dere na Kanojo (my limited Japanese thinks so) is a high school romance game with a tiny spice of…I’m not 100% certain but am fairly sure what it is. The tsundere ideal is what defines this game, as the title would imply. Half the heroine cast are dere, or mostly dere, and the other half are mostly or entirely tsun. The game starts and progresses fairly normally, with the deredere osanajimi who wakes you up in the morning, the tsun tsun osanajimi/little sister figure, and the male best friend. There’s also a genki female friend trying to get the deredere osanajimi closer to you but secretly has a crush on you. There’s another osanajimi who you reunite with, but hates you for some reason yet to be explained (in the above picture), plus the other tsun and dere girls. Then there’s that mysterious meteor that crashed one night. It’s like a small bucket of special in an ocean of generic. It should turn most people away, but there’s that little bit of uniqueness that retains a grip on your curiosity. In the end it’ll probably inflate your backlog and consume your time but not much more. Malicious little thing, isn’t it? Don’t let those deredere girls fool you. They’re all ticking yandere time bombs ready to explode in a shower of blood and sawblades.
Next game is Suzunone Seven, by ClochetteLumie. Clochette did Kamipani, and at least one seiyuu returns for their second game.
Recall Happiness? Pretty much the same kind of setting here. A modern world with magic and magic schools. Suzunone Gakuen is the one the game takes place in, and the story is that the male protagonist, his female best friend, her older brother, two upperclassladies, a semi-shy girl, and the school director’s eccentric grand-daughter are selected to be this year’s “Suzunone Seven”, each of whom are one way or another problem students of some kind. Their mission, given to them by the school, is to cohabitate together in a single room within the school complex for one month and individually accomplish something to clear themselves of their problem status. The male protagonist has a particularly complex mission, which I believe is “Realize someone’s wish,” or something like that. That’s deep, dude. Good luck.
Everything about this game is better than TsunKano, if you had to compare. Characters, plot, humor, voice-acting, perhaps even art. Amane’s seiyuu returns to voice Minato, the female best friend I mentioned, which is also what Amane’s role happened to be in Kamipani. In fact, both characters are very similar and could be said to be the same character type. The differences are:
1. Amane is smart and is a student council president. Minato is dim-witted and is a problem student.
2. Amane is energetic at times. Minato is HYPER at times.
3. Amane is skeptical of magic and supernatural. Minato goes NUTS over magic.
4. Amane has a 88cm bust. Minato’s is 92.
5. Amane has no problems being naked in front of Tomoyuki. Minato has no problems demonstrating a good morning handjob to a sheltered ojousama upperclasslady by using a magically-pinned Yukimura as the model (though the sempai faints before Minato starts so nothing happens).
Basically Minato is Amane. But better. Which means a good thing, but even better. Hence win.
For the rest of the cast you have Nino, the semi-shy girl whose magical powers have a tendency to go berserk and nuclear at inopportune times and Sumire the school director’s grand-daughter who is…….. strange. There’s Yuzuri-sempai, the aforementioned sheltered ojousama, and a top-class magic student, and her constant companion Riri, also a sempai, who is probably a lesbian and has romantic feelings towards Yuzuri. There’s Shin, Minato’s older brother, who is just as crazy as she is. Kujo Kaname, the group’s hilarious, often-depressed and underpaid teacher who is undergoing the cohabitation together with her charge as a supervisor (note the same last name as Amane from Kamipani). There’s also that other teacher who is a celebrity in the world of magic and whom the students can’t decide whether she’s a sadist or a masochist, and also Sumire’s older sister Momoka who has a hobby of taking embarrassing photos of unsuspecting students. And lastly Yukimura, the male protagonist. Hard to get a bead on this guy. I guess sarcastically or sardonically straight-laced but relaxed would be the phrase to describe him?
The third and last game I tried is WLO-something from AkabeiSoft. I played none of these games with AGTH, and this one I skipped through much of with Ctrl due to time so I have little idea what’s going on. I can only give you a partial impression of what I’ve gleaned from this game.
First, AkabeiSoft. If the name of that company isn’t familiar, then how about Sharin no Kuni, Himawari no Shoujo? How about G-Senjou no Maoh? Familiar now? Fairly epic, plot-filled drama is what Akabeisoft is famous for, but WLO, so far as of this web trial, is different. Not different like in a different kind of story or drama, but different in the sense of someone hitting his head real hard or smoking a lot of hard drugs and developing a totally different personality, or a number of them. It’s like the staff of AkabeiSoft all went completely bonkers sometime after the completion of G-Senjou no Maoh. Because that’s what WLO is. Totally bonkers.
You’ve got a mysterious organization called “World Love Organization” and its rival the “Nothing or All”, both competing over our male lead for some reason. A loli robot who spontaneously takes off her clothes in the middle of a bar. The leader of the WLO bribing the protagonist’s parents for his human rights, and getting them. And many more, both incidents and people, but by far the absolute best part of this game so far is this girl:
You should see the parts where these thought bubbles of hers suddenly pop up that cover half the entire game screen in non-stop, near-incoherent, delusional babbling. This trial is unvoiced, so to hear the dialogue in the final game as well….
Again I haven’t gleaned much of what this game’s actually about, but madness, pure unadulterated madness, is at least part of what’s going on at Akabeisoft. How much of that makes it into the final game remains to be seen.
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AkabeiSoft, Clochette, ClochetteLumie, PeasSoft, Suzunone Seven, Tsun na Kanojo Dere na Kanojo, WLO
Themocracy
Welcome to Hemi’s blog. Remember to consult your Penis engine mechanic afterwards :D
So you must be the new O-Riser pilot, Welcome onboard.
WLO is, as you said, very interesting. And it’s this March! O_o
Why can’t all companies be a good buddies and release their products not at the same time..?!
So where did you guys plotting all of this? #Dasaku has been devoid of all life traces for almost two weeks!
Bring on the yanderes!!!!!! >w<b
Suzu7 is definitely a go, but I’m still undecided about WLO. I really don’t care for it much at the moment… too weird.
I had my doubts abut getting Suzu7 but, thanks to this post I think I will give Clochette another chance to impress me. Kamipani wasn’t bad but it wasn’t that great either.
oh and, welcome, i guess
all i can say i have been again busy this week <_< meh… so in respect i havent been in the irc trollz lately
Finally, my 0 Raiser pilot! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
No docking for us, though – that’s BAD BAD BAD. VERY, VERY BAD.
Tell me what title you’d like to have and which bishoujo you’d like to have on your own banner later on.
Also, a bit late (wow this is embarrassing, late at greeting my own author into my own site), but welcome to the club! HAHAHAHAHAHA, NOW THERE IS NO MORE ESCAPE FOR YOU – I mean, now we can fight to protect all the bishoujos from this distorted world and take them under our protective custody (70-30 split though)!
so does that mean you bound shinova’s fate assuming i got the name right for newprimus WAHAHAHA @_@… wait…. bah…. i like legalizing illegal stuff lol
Welcome omboard. Just don´t be to fooled by Hemi. He´s mad :p But on the other hand, so am I so welcome to the world of madness. Or should that be yay, I got a new friend in our world? Can´t decide, must be because of all the lack of Ar Tonelico 2 girls…
And I hope that you´ll continue to write about console games as well you two!! Even if they are few that might peek your should I call it “special” needs?
Looking forward to moar posts with CRAZY HCG TO FAP OVER. Can’t wait!
dude where is Hemi been?
Welcome to the crew filled with whack-jobs and screw-ups! I’ve always had a suspicion about Hemi’s preference for BL and it’s now confirmed! That detailed introduction of yours is pretty creepy and makes me ponder whether or not you’re a closet masochist.
And you can be sure I’ll be all over that hating, tsuntsun osananajimi in the second screenshot.
Both of them aren’t exactly into BL, but specifically Symmetrical Docking
yeah the dungeons stuff is kinda creepy, but then again, everything must be see in 2D in this little circle so every words must be stripped and tenderly (or violently) worked on until they’re fit to be use in relation to the bishoujos from the other side of the screen. By the way, Hemisphere, I don’t think we’re fighting to protect the bishoujos from this distorted world, but rather, we’re the one that distort the world for the sakes of our bishoujos.
Oh, and Newprimus, welcome to the dark that light up our lives, the unseen that visible to the ones that choose to see it, the chaos that bring a new order to us who believe in a new world (on the other side of the screens). I don’t really play trials but I’ll be looking forward to your posts and recommendations.
@Kresnik: I find that hard to believe with Hemi finding a new raep buddy to play with.
Edit: Damn, I mistyped my email address.
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