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By Hemisphere, 27 February, 2010 3:08 AM

Ikusa Megami Episode 4: Verita, Eushully’s next installment in the Ikusa Megami series, is shaping up to be one absolutely excellent game. You can check it out yourself by downloading the trial here! And trust me when I say that downloading and subsequently playing the trial is very much worth your time. Not only does it give us a peek at the reasons behind the crossover between Serika and Riui, but also the gameplay. Man…I can’t believe I went grinding-crazy over a trial alone. That’s how much I got into it.

Putting the story aside (as I can barely make a decent impression of the game’s story from a freaking trial alone), the one thing that really jumps out at me and grabs my attention is how the game looks. That’s because it looks freaking GORGEOUS. The sprites, effects and fields used for battle and exploration are now more detailed than the ones used in Ikusa Megami 0, looking absolutely vibrant. As for the CGs, they’re very pleasant to look at, especially the ladies. Rawr. Man, these ladies are absolutely hot – a fact that will repeat itself over and over in your mind as you look at them in their wondrous glory in CG.

While the gameplay remains fairly reminiscent of Ikusa Megami 0′s system, there’s some additions (though most of them are out of the trial’s scope). You can now take on sidequests from Inns, providing more distractions and options to enjoy the gameplay unlike in Ikusa Megami 0. You can also capture certain monsters and put them on support duty (and strictly ONLY support duty), and they’ll help you out with various passive and active skills while in combat.I would have liked to see how the army battles went, but too bad it’s not included.

So to sum it all up: gorgeous CG, lush detail, enjoyable gameplay, and a promising story that looks to be epic (seeing as it’s a crossover of Genrin and Ikusa Megami, that’s kind of a given). Which adds up to having no reason to not want this title at all, and every reason to temper one’s patience as April 23 is kind of fucking too far away from more Serika and Riui plus gorgeous hawt ladies goodness.

Now for another title’s trial which I’ve just played recently as well would be Makai Tenshi Jibril 4′s trial, available here. It’s not a very extensive trial, as it covers only the prologue of the game – the incident involving the three student council members and how they became henshin heroines. Regardless, it’s worth a look just for some laughs.

Thanks to the devil sisters Meimei and Maimai (who turned one of their classmates into a tentacle monster), the student council (consisting of Momo, Aoi, Yuzuha and the lead) gets caught up in the whole thing, with the lead getting supposedly stabbed through the chest – because he’s a dude, and tentacle monsters have no interest in dudes, especially ones who hours ago was his male classmate. Love (you know, the loli angel who’s always in every Jibril game) shows up to free the three girls from the tentacle monster’s grasps and give them the power to transform into henshin heroines via the use of special hair accessories. Using the power of Amore, the three ladies then turn their classmate-turned-tentacle-monster back to normal, sending the devil sisters scurrying off in fear.

The whole thing’s actually funnier than how my synopsis makes it sound like. If there’s anything that the Jibril series is good at, it’s not taking itself seriously (and fetish fulfillment among other things). With that, the three girls are tasked with the duty of protecting the school by Love; who, as it turns out, is the school’s president. Oh, and the lead is tasked with the job of “replenishing” their “energy”, because their Amore power is powered by love, and every time they use it up in battle they will need to have it “restocked” – willingly, or unwillingly. And Love’s already made some arrangements in order to ensure that they stay in close proximity to one another should the “need arise” by making all four of them reside in a very luxurious dwelling, all paid for by Love’s divine counterfeit – detectable by God, but not by the police!

So…Ikusa Megami Verita for sheer awesomeness, and Jibril 4 for crazy hilarity. Damn you April releases!

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By Hemisphere, 21 January, 2010 8:04 PM

And that, my friends, is HUMOR! I don’t know about you, but I found my romp through both Akatsuki no Goei and Tenkuu no Yumina memorable thanks to the hilarity in both titles. While the former had the Kaito x Tsuki comedy dialogues as its highlight for humor, the former had wacky high school hijinks and a bubbly heroine who can be just as goofy as she is serious. Ah, hilarity, how I’ve missed you so much. ;_;

Yumina FD‘s ADV trial starts off with the fight between Yumina and Nayuta ending in a stalemate, with both sides evenly matched in votes. Nayuta, with the right to vote as student council president and therefore break the tie in her favor, puts forward a proposal instead: that in exchange for her voting right, they have a rematch instead, during the summer holidays. Attached to her offer, however, is a condition: that Yumina’s club must surrender Akashima Ayumu to the Student Council! Ayumu is shocked, while Kirara and Ai decide to leave the decision to Yumina. Surprised, Yumina finds it hard to choose between the rematch or Ayumu…

…Until she remembers that it was his fault that she got into this whole mess in the first place, and that if she forfeits this chance then she’ll have to repeat the year. NO CHOICE THERE, so off Ayumu goes! And thus begins a new life for Ayumu, with the Student Council.

The trial ends once the full 8 days preparation before the finals have passed, and Ayumu has done all the recruiting he can do. My thoughts? Omg, I loved Nayuta the moment she appeared in Yumina – there was just no way in hell I could resist Shizuka Ito + tsundere character combo! – so seeing more of her is definitely a BIG plus with me. I also liked the miko sisters a lot, so more scenes involving them were yay!

From what I’ve seen, Nayuta is DEFINITELY gonna be my heroine pick come Yumina FD. Ah, Nayuta~ That, and I’m hoping for more Beldadia and Eupushira (WHAT THE FUCK ARE THEIR ROMANIZED NAMES?!? I DON’T KNOW!), because more of them is ALWAYS good.

On to Akatsuki no Goei’s next installment’s trial. It starts off with something pretty serious, then shifts to Kaito, then the trial goes on until you see this bloodied girl with a sword voiced by Shizuka Ito, then it ends. Talk about an enlightening summary of the trial, eh? Well that’s because I pretty much prioritized the scenes with Tsuki over anything else, mostly because I missed the humor that abounds from such scenes, and also because I needed to hear more of Tsuki’s sarcastic exchanges. TSUKI IS BEST!

Oh yeah, and the trial hints at some pretty serious stuff that’s about to happen, and various shit is about to go down. Tons of foreshadowing, you know how it goes, though personally I’d rather not get too intrigued and involved seeing as the release for this one is FUCKING APRIL. I CAN’T WAIT THAT LONG YO. So I decided to instead have my fill of Tsuki from the trial. YAY PRODUCTIVITY!

Also Syangrila’s still got that “all you foreign IPs are blocked from our website hahaha go fuck yourselves” thing, just like Yuzusoft, so I can’t exactly link to their site and shit. What I can do instead is link you here, to the title’s getchu page, where you can download the trial yourself! Wheee!

Last, but not least! Ha! Bet you didn’t see this coming. Demo trailer for Ikusa Megami VERITA! IKUSA MEGAMI VERITA, MOTHERFUCKERS.

Thoughts? FUCK YES!

The main site also updated, so go check it out! It’s also slated for a 4/23 release…HOOOOLY SHIT APRIL IS GONNA BE EPIC. Check out the Character page! Check out the System page! Check out the Sample CG page! And the Download page! HOLY SHIT JUST CHECK IT OUT, GODDAMMIT!

I wanted more Ikusa Megami ass kicking, and this looks like it’s gonna fulfill that desperate itch, and then some MORE! And widescreen too! OHGAWD THIS IS JUST TOO EPIC *faints from sensory overload*

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By Hemisphere, 25 August, 2009 1:59 AM

So I haven’t updated for a while now with anything even remotely eroge-related. Time to remedy that little thing. And what better to post than my favorite thing – LOLIS mahou/henshin heroines! Or however the fuck you categorize them. Even I get confused by that sometimes, but it doesn’t diminish my totally uncontrollable raging fetish total love for them!

First off on the list is Eternal’s Nega0. I, uhh, don’t have much to say about this one because I just checked it out now and didn’t bother going into the finer details like story and stuff am terribly reminded of Yumina with this one because it pretty much uses the same battle system, despite a few minor changes. You can check out the download for the trial here, and check out the gallery here or below! Your call.

Yeah, you’ve probably noticed by now the vastly different art over the one featured in Yumina. DON’T ASK ME ABOUT THAT ONE OKAY. All I know is that they have a different artist on board for Nega0. Personally, the new look takes a while to get used to.

Then you’ve got Triangle, who’s decided to take a break from their Mahou Senshi series for now, but is coming out with Kleinhasa! It’s got delishuz bishoujos in armor, and…that’s all the reason as to why I’m all fawning over it, really. I mean, come on. They’ve got stuff like:

Which is enough to send me into a frenzy. <3 them mahou/henshin shoujos. They don’t have anything much on their site at the moment, but I DO love the CG samples available. So much.

Yeah, I don’t really know why but I love Triangle’s stuff. It’s just totally appealing to me. For some reason. Yeah. Let’s go with that.

Then there’s LiLiM’s upcoming Ai Kyan, or あい☆きゃん…look, fuck the romanization of that. It’s got the same artist behind Houousenki Maimu and Shouryusenki Tenmu, though this time around I’m having reservations about this one thanks to how Tenmu was. Sure it had hot CGs (and Tenmu was adorable, in my opinion) but the game was just a mishmash of things from Maimu with some crap added in, and I don’t think I’m really up to going through Maimu v.3/Tenmu v.2 a third time.

Maaaaaaaaaaan…if it’s any consolation, you can at least look at the CGs below.

And last but definitely not the least…MOTHERFUCKING IKUSA MEGAMI EPISODE 4 VERITA.

THAT’S RIGHT MOTHERFUCKERS.

IKUSA MEGAMI.

EPISODE 4.

Site’s here btw.

Man, there’s totally a lot of titles I’m looking forward to now.

PS.

ALL HAIL EUPHORIA-CH-wait that’s not her FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF-