Please No More

I can't take it anymore.

WARNING: MAJOR SPOILER AHEAD

Poisoned

Okay. So, like, I really really liked Chou no Doku Hana no Kusari after playing the trial game and am playing the full game now. Just completed Osaki Hideo's route today (f**k the bad endings I actually cried okay *sobs*) and started on Shiba Junichi's. And I just have to say I LOVE SHIBA-SAN!!!!!! Like even though I was playing Hideo's route, I was ogling at Shiba whenever he appears. Despite the fact that I do like Hideo as well. Tsundere osananajimi characters have always been one of my weak points. But...Shiba is just tooo charming for words. *swoons* Oresama characters are another of my weak points. *double swoons* XD

I actually wanted to save Shiba for the last but decided that ugh, I really can't wait. I have a feeling that if I start on other characters first, I'd probably end up ogling at Shiba and not pay attention to the main stories. So yeah, doing Shiba's route first. *makes excuses*

Also, I've checked the walkthroughs and it looks like there's only one good ending per character. Why???!!! T_T

On another note, I've been feeling quite guilty about neglecting my Ijiwaru My Master review for the last few weeks. Shall force myself to return to it...after I finish Shiba's route. :P

Chou no Doku Hana no Kusari / Trial Version

The trial version for Chou no Doku Hana no Kusari is out! This is one of the upcoming PC otome games I'm keeping my eyes on. The other being Akazukin to Mayoi no Mori (Mr Big Bad Wolf ohohoho).

Downloaded and played through it over the weekend. Decided to do a spontaneous flailing commentary post. This is NOT a review.

This is a story about a girl named Lucky Yuriko, a daughter of a viscount. It's her birthday and her parents are throwing a big party for her. However she's not excited at all because she knows that her family is having money problems (thanks to her spendthrift mother) and can't afford such luxury so it baffles her as to why they are doing this. Plus she's not really fond of all the socializing with the ~upper class~ society and shit.

Turns out that the reason for the lavish party is to find her a suitable husband so that she can quickly get married to some eligible guy before people find out that her family is all but an empty shell and she gets left on the shelf (rhyme not intended).

Then her father gets shot for no reason (or is there one?) and her mother fell ill. Money is slowly but surely dwindling. Her older step-brother who took over the role of the head of household couldn't care less and continued his libertine ways. (God is this some kind of English historical romance novel, what with viscounts and libertines and shit.) Things are looking truly dark for Yuriko when along came a suave-looking and obviously rich businessman who says that he will save her family and in exchange she will have to marry him YES PLEASE. Insulted, Yuriko angrily asked him to gtfo which he did but not before saying he'll return lol.

Yup. That's about it. For now. Oh, by the way, this story takes place in the Taisho period, which I find really interesting since I haven't played any otomes games set in the "olden" times before. Unless you count the "past life" arc in Hoshi no Oujo 2.

On to the individual characters:

Upcoming Game from Aromarie

Was hopping around the different otome game makers' websites yesterday and saw that Aromarie has posted voice samples of some of their characters in their upcoming game Chou no Doku Hana no Kusari (are they going to use this "A no B C no D" format for all their game titles or what) and realised that the main guy (an oresama character) is voiced by 茶介, the seiyuu who did Unoya in Crazy Rabbits! XD Oh yeah, the voice sample reeks of Unoya all over lol.

AND! The seiyuu who did Mutsuki and Hayata in Sumire no Tsubomi is in it too! He's voicing the manservant character...tte again??? Lol.

AND! AND! It seems like they have an elder brother character...INCEST???!!! :O

AND! AND! AND! A 37 year-old butler... Uh. まさか...ね？

AND! AND! AND--- *gets hit on the head* And an osananajimi character woot!

*drools at the variety of characters available*

On another note, I wonder if they'll actually give the heroine a voice this time. I really hope they would. And I also hope they keep the feature they had in Gin no Kanmuri Aoi no Namida whereby the other characters will call the heroine by her name if you keep the name default.

では、このゲームをゲットするまで、お楽しみ～～～