Monday, September 27, 2010

Crazy★Rabbits ~Wakaresaseya no Usagiri Jimusho~ / First Impression



Just for the record, I love the OP!!! They showed it 4 times throughout each route at the beginning of each mission and I sat through it every single time. Usually I just skip the OP but this is just too cool to skip. I love how the animation match the beat of the music. ♥

Plot

You play Mochizuki Aoi, who is sadly out of job and lodging and found this crummy piece of paper advertising for a position and decided to take it even though she had no idea what it's about because the pay is good and free lodging is provided. Turns out it's a wakaresaseya i.e. a company that helps to break up relationships (within a week) for a hefty sum of money. It also turns out that her co-workers consists of a cool jiji, a smoking hawt guy and a ikemen, who call themselves Crazy Rabbits.

There are 4 missions in this game. Each time, a client comes in to request Usagiri Jimusho to break up a relationship, such as with an unwanted fiancee or between their cheating boyfriend/spouse with the cheating partner. Each mission lasts for seven days and your relationship with the character you're pursuing develops as you go through these missions.

Main Characters

Unoya Kyousuke: Member of Usagiri Jimusho. Pairs up with Inaba and does the front-end work i.e. making the girls/cougars/guys(!) fall for him by charming and sweet-talking to them. Super confident of his good looks and talent in charming ladies. Finds women a nuisance. Apparently. Well I do find him pretty good looking when I was viewing his profile on the game website and his red and black outfit makes him look hotter. なんか俺様で強引なタイプにも見えるんだけど。

Inaba Takumi: IKEMEN OMG!!! I love this guy to death. *ahem* Also member of Usagiri Jimusho. Pairs up with Unoya and does the back-end work such as collecting information on the target, setting the stage for Unoya to "coincidentally" bump into the target and create opportunities for Unoya to charm the target. This guy is a genius hacker. Emits a cool (cold would be a more accurate description though) aura.

Inukai Makoto: Lawyer. Cho-majime. Kanari OCD. Despises Usagiri Jimusho (I guess he thinks what they do is immoral???) and vows to crush them one day. 鬼畜眼鏡とのイメージがある。 I think it's kind of sad that glasses characters in otome games are (almost) always seen as the kichiku type. And the thing is, it's almost always true. ALMOST. Because Kanade (from Sumire no Tsubomi) wears glasses but he's NOT kichiku! Instead he's a raburii raburii tsundere~ ♥ Anyway, Inukai doesn't look that attractive compared to the previous two. Maybe if his chin was shorter... Also, that blue hair reminds me of Souichiro from Brothers ~Koisuru Oniisama~.

Karasuma Reiji: Owner of a cafe(day)/bar(night) that sells awesome coffee and 3972782 types of cocktails, and is frequently frequented by Crazy Rabbits. Has a rabbit called Hana-chan which acts as a mascot for the cafe. 優しいお兄さんタイプ。 他のキャラより、ちょっと印象が薄いかな。(因幡さんのこと気になりすぎるから?ふふふ。)

Other Characters

Usagiri Ginji: Boss of Usagiri Jimusho. Non-catchable thank god because I have no interest in pursuing an ossan character kthx.

Koizumi Erina: OKAMAAA!!! She (he?) is the owner of an okama bar and also takes on the role of an information provider, selling information to Usagiri Jimusho to aid them in their missions. Oh well, she's pretty at least. XD

Kagamine Kiriko: Boss of a rival wakaresaseya. Unoya's ex-boss (I think). I like the shade of purple they gave for her hair. ^^

(Add on 08/11/2010: I've decided that instead of an overview which doesn't have much added value (hey it rhymes hahaha), I'd add my first impressions of the game in various aspects. It should be quite interesting to compare and see if and how much my views change when I do a concluding post of the game upon completion.)

First Impressions

I have no idea why but the first time I went to the website I got a "military" vibe from the whole thing lol. And the CG gallery further made me think that there is some sort of military spy theme going on. Ha. But maa, at least I got the spying part correct! \:D/

Based on the character profiles, I like Takumi the most. Which is quite out-of-character for me since I always prefer "hotter" type of guys (think Kyo over Yuki from Fruits Basket and Doumyoji over Hanazawa from Hana Yori Dango). But や~~~ん!イケメンはイケメンだもん!にゃはは。 Anyway, yeah, since he catches my attention the most, I plan to start playing his route first.

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Sunday, September 26, 2010

Welcome!

I hate first posts since it's always so awkward don't you think?

But anyway, the long and short of it is that I've finally decided to open up my own otome gaming blog. I have been stalking some otome gamers' blogs for a while now and reading their reviews makes me want to write my own too. I started playing my first otome game in the second-half of 2009 (so it's been around a year now) and due to reasons such as laziness and procrastination, I've never really gotten around to writing any reviews yet even thought I'm like halfway through quite a few games already.

That said, I'm not actually that heavy of a otome gamer. I tend to drift around and rotate between my multiple interests including j-pop, j-dramas, manga, anime and other games (like the Pokemon, Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest series). So I'm widening the scope of this blog to include my manga, anime and other game fandoms. I have another blog for my j-pop and j-drama fandom but that one is pretty much in a coma now so I may just start over on a new blog and create an affiliate link or something. But that's another discussion for another time (and place).

With that, I thank you for wasting your time reading this self-introduction shit. I'm actually in the middle of an otome game now, and since the game is quite short (thanks to the overly-recycled plots and lack of different endings), I should be able to get a few reviews up in the next one or two weeks. So till then. :)