September 2015 Eroge Releases

It took 10 years, but makura’s Sakura no Uta is actually coming out. Those that can’t get enough of Sayori’s art can enjoy SMILE’s Boku to Koi Suru Ponkotsu Akuma.. Take initiative and find yourself a girlfriend in GIGA’s Ren’ai Phase. If you still have your Juukishi disc, you can get AkabeiSoft3’s knight maiden drama Seikishi Melty☆Lovers for free!

Another month filled with disappointment, mediocrity, and backlogs. Yet at the bottom of it all there is some hope for a few enjoyable games, at least more than usual that’s for sure. Most will at best be enjoyable time wasters which already makes it a pretty good month, but one or two may actually end up being good. Not that I expect it but hey you never know when a game may turn out to be a diamond in the rough.

Magical☆Dears

Company: Navel honeybell
Game site: マジカル☆ディアーズ
Release date: September 18, 2015 Delayed to November 27, 2015
Comments:
During the current age of science, magicians don’t exist except in fairy tales. It is not for another 20 plus years before their existence became known. No one believed in them at first, then when it was shown that magic does actually exist, magicians were viewed with disdain from the public. However, it was thought that no one could defeat them. The general public surrendered to the magicians, but all the magicians wanted was to have a place of their own to govern. Thus, the magic school city Arcadia 5 was founded.

Currently, the gender ratio of magicians has reached 10000:1 with male magicians nearing extinction. Tomohiro is one such male magician, raised under close watch apart from the outside world. However one day, the chairwoman of Arcadia 5 sent him an invitation to attend the magic school. So, he decided to go with his imouto Minazuki in order to see the outside world.

But he was the only boy at the school and curious eyes followed him whenever he went. Amidst this situation, he had two goals to achieve: to fall in love with someone and to become a great magician.

There’s an imouto and magic is involved, so that’s enough to make me interested. However, I feel like I need to play the trial before I can judge it as anything more than a harem chara-ge.

I like to imagine the discussion that resulted in this magical last guy in the universe baby making simulator went something like this:

Douche A : “Everyone listen up, we have to make a new eroge. Which means it must be set in a high school somewhere as the stubbornly smug douchebags we are have our heads stuck so far up our own asses we can play hockey with our own tonsils. But as we all are aware, our ability to write would make a chimp cringe, thus we need to use some gimmick that would convince a high enough percentage of the horny mental patients that make up our target demographic to buy our game! So what are your ideas?”

Douche B : “Oh oh, I know, I know, we will have magic! Everyone likes magic! Plus we don’t need to explain anything since a wizard did it!”

Douche A : “Brilliant Douche B! I like the way you think, extra blowjobs and coke for you! Anyone else!?”

Douche C : “Yeah, I have a great idea too! Lets make the ratio of magical fairy men significantly less than women so our protagonist is automatically important cuz, penis! Plus this will guarantee him a harem since he is basically the only white magic wand in the world.”

Douche A :”YES! Gentleman we have a game, now let’s all go get drunk while snorting our magic pixy power powder to get in character for our “writing”. Leave the rest to the intern after he’s done extracting the magical power from our wands!”

Douche chorus : “Yaaay!”

And lo came this horrible deformed monstrosity called an eroge, born from a union that had to be incest. Thus we have irrefutable proof that little sisters should be avoided as heroines. The End.

But doesn’t everyone love magic and imoutos?????

If by everyone you mean overweight 40 year old virgins and bandwagon weebs, then yes! No arguments there!

Ya know, you could write a pretty good eroge. Since you’re such a big douche (¬_¬)

But I am also a lazy douche without magical motivating pixy dust power.

Sangokuhime 4 ~Tenka Ryouran Tenmei no Koi Emaki~

Company: げーせん18 (Gesen18)
Game site: 三極姫4 ～天下繚乱 天命の恋絵巻～
Release date: September 18, 2015
Comments:
Countless man-made and natural disasters have driven people mad and the continent into chaos. In the midst of the Yellow Turban rebellion, a few brave warriors declared their desires to take supremacy over the nation. Akito is a young man, wandering in search of his purpose in life. Only he has a mysterious ability – a kind heart unbefitting of these troubled times.

The Sangokuhime series completely changes with the appearance of the protagonist Akito, who has a special ability. This 4th installment features a new world, characters and story, with 8 different routes. Similar to Koihime, there are around 40 different heroines from the three factions (Gi, Go, Shoku). The SLG system has also been improved. I never had much interest in this series, but with the total remake and some attractive characters, I’m keeping my options open. Doubt it’ll come close to Koihime though.

From the creators that brought you such amazing titles as Sengokuhime, Sengokuhime 2, and even Sengokuhime 3, comes something the world would never expect! Presenting Sengokuhime 4! A whole new world of ripping off a popular idea, for the fourth time running!

While maybe not entirely fair since the gameplay is different I suppose. Equally pointless though so hardly winning points for originality there. Sengokuhime suffers from the same problems that Koihime does, too many heroines to feel any attachment to the characters. Honestly I would be fine with the ripping off if they made a proper game of it, or properly cared about the characters at least. As is the game is a somewhat half hearted attempt to cash in on the Koihime niche without adding anything.

Well, to be fair, Koihime is still cashing in on itself.

Yeah but when a ripoff of what is basically a ripoff is milking it just as much, and in an even more reptetive fashion it does leave a rather sour taste.

Seikishi Melty☆Lovers

Company: あかべぇそふとすりぃ (AkabeiSoft3)
Game site: 聖騎士Melty☆Lovers
Release date: September 18, 2015
Comments:
In Ederant, the greatest honour regardless of gender is becoming a knight. Till enrolled in the knight-training school Equites and must find a partner for the knight examination. He met the smart but naive Sefi, the motivated cool beauty Frey, the mysterious gun-toting Lil, and the foreign giant sword-wielding Canon. His pure admiration of knights would soon change into a greater wish due to these girls with the same aspirations.

They’re still at it with this knight theme. Those that bought EffordomSoft’s utter failure Juukishi can send their game disc to AkabeiSoft3 in exchange for the game, if it’s still in one piece. But nothing will make me try another such game. Nooooooooooooooooooooope.

I blame Ricotta and that terrible Valkyrie Romance series for this flood of crappy knight games. All the other companies saw that they made shit shine so jumped in line to copy. Problem is I’m pretty sure no one who liked Valkyrie Romance cared about the knight garbage in that setting. After all that was the only thing that made it a terrible game, since it was a poorly made and horribly thought out gimmick which cheapened the series. Without that Valkyrie Romance would have been a better series. On the other hand the knockoffs seem to have missed the entire point and decided everyone would like them too if they followed the lead of Bobo the drunken hobo clown. At least copy the good things people, or maybe play those games first so when you dress in drag alcohol without the roofies are enough to get in your customers panties.

Hime-sama LOVE Life!

Company: Princess Sugar
Game site: 姫様LOVEライフ！
Release date: September 18, 2015
Comments:
Due to his father’s work, Yahiro began living together with his imouto Io. Walking home after wrapping up the enrollment procedure at their new school, they noticed a large truck stopped outside of their house. Since they had already moved everything in, they wondered what it was doing there. They found the door unlocked and nervously went upstairs worried that there might be a burglar. Instead they found a girl pushing a giant piano with all her might… while in her underwear. They stood dumbfounded at the absurd sight. Why was there a half-naked girl in their house? Soon she noticed them and yelled at them to get out. A few minutes later, she came out in a beautiful dress.

“I am deeply sorry for my earlier actions. My name is Ruria Fondina. I have come here to live with you as family.”

She was a princess from a certain island nation, and his imouto Io was also a princess. That was only the beginning as many other princesses showed up at their door one by one!

Sharing the same roof as four princesses… what a royal harem! I’m fine with all of them, although I’d spoil my imouto princess the most of course! The cast is quite nice: Arisugawa Miyabi, Momoi Ichigo, Aoba Ringo and Ogura Yui. This could be a decent pick up for some mindless ecchi comedy.

If I get sent stuff I don’t want in the mail I typically send it back. Spam these days has gotten so bad that the even the Russians send you their free trials. Sure you may have fifty hours or a month of free use but they just want to get you hooked so you pay. Remember to read the contracts before use and demand they pay for the return postage.

Aneyome Concerto

Company: CandySoft
Game site: あねよめコンチェルト
Release date: September 25, 2015
Comments:
This is a fandisc for Aneyome Quartet which contains after stories for the 5 main heroines (Yurina, Momone, Saori, Anzu, Minamo), plus an ‘if’ story where he did not choose any of the Hanabishi sisters as his fiancée. Two new foreign heroines Maria and Sylvie appear; they were adopted by the Hidaka family and are now his older sisters.

Cute penguin. Here you go Zen: all the onee-sans you want!

At this point it is no secret I prefer the older sister types to the younger ones. That said though I cannot for the life of me remember the original game here, so it must have been bad.

Besides I don’t think I have ever seen a wedding dress with exposed boobs. This makes it hard for me to believe in the sincerity to the realism I demand from fictional works~! I mean really, who the hell wants to marry a girl with a self removing dress, where is the fun in that? People so devoid of a man’s romance should never be allowed near a pen.

Sure, I’ll be waiting for your review~☆

The end. There review over.

Tincle★Twinkle Festival!

Company: Digital Cute
Game site: ちんくる★ツインクルフェスティバル！
Release date: September 25, 2015 Delayed to October 30, 2015
Comments:
Situated on an expanse of land in a corner of the city, Saint Maradonna is a girls’ school with a long, storied history dating back to the early Showa Era. One of its traditions is a festival which is not known to outsiders: Chinkousai. It is a holy ceremony performed every year so that the girls at the school may be blessed with children with the greatest man in the future. The top student is chosen as the worshipped male deity Vernis and bestows the best genes upon everyone.

However, this year’s chosen one, Sena, refused to be put in such a shameful position. Instead, she ordered her twin brother Seiji to take her position. So, he was forced to dress as a girl and to live in the girls’ dormitory. His cover was quickly blown and his manhood was shown to all of the students. He thought that this was the end of his life, but they all thought that he was a true form of Vernis and greatly respected him.

What’s with Japan and dick-worshipping festivals? It’s a twist from the usual ‘guy ends up in a girls’ school’ story. I like Kouguchimoto’s art, which is both cute and ero. They promise lots of fetish H scenes and animation. There’s also some hidden scenes, so good luck with completing the game! Do you have the chinko fever?

Uuuuuuh…. Hooookay then…

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Yeah, so uhh the game kind of makes fun of itself. How do you even make fun of a game with a protagonist who is essentially a big throbbing penis being worshipped in an all girls school?

Well hopefully it’s funny. If so I’ll go with it. If however it tries to be even remotely serious I would chop this festival off my list so fast this girls school would never even know it was there in the first place.

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Valet☆Style -Loyalty of valet-

Company: CroixSoft
Game site: ばれっと☆すたいる -Loyalty of valet-
Release date: September 25, 2015
Comments:
This is the first title by CroixSoft. There are two kinds of students at the prestigious Konoe Gakuen: the children of wealthy families (masters) and those who study hard to become the best butlers (valets). Their school life is one full of grace and dignity. Kazuma, an extremely poor guy who constantly works part-time jobs, was thrust into this different lifestyle after it was discovered that he was actually part of a noble family. He even had his own personal butler. Surrounded by valets and ojou-samas, what kind of encounters lie ahead for him?

Pretty much the entire staff is rookies. There’s a 10 year reunion with your imouto and she’s still 110% bracon. Art’s not particularly great and I’d rather have maids than butlers. Pass.

Well, that’s dumb.

Sakura no Uta -Sakura no Mori no Ue o Mau-

Company: 枕 (makura)
Game site: サクラノ詩 －櫻の森の上を舞う－
Release date: September 25, 2015 Delayed to October 23, 2015
Comments:
After the death of his world-renowned artist father and without any relatives to rely on, Naoya was taken in by the family of his best friend Kei. There he met Kei’s sisters: his new homeroom teacher Ai and actress imouto Shizuku. Then, with the start of the new school year, his osananajimi Rin, who had changed schools long ago, reappeared before him. As the sakura petals blow and the promised reunion unfolds, a torrent of emotions cascades down at that moment of time.

It’s been over 10 years since it was first announced, but SCA-Ji’s planned romance title is seeing the light of day with some staff changes. You didn’t think this would actually come out, did you? As opposed to the Wittgenstein-inspired philosophical Subarashiki Hibi, Sakura no Uta portrays the happiness that exists in normal days, elaborating on the “live happily” notion from Subahibi. They claim that it will not be philosophical, but I wouldn’t take that at face value. It couldn’t be just a normal love story, right?

Boohoo daddy died like every other eroge protagonist. But unlike the other protagonists who take inspiration to launch operation panty invasion, I’m gonna whine and drama all over your face about it.

Ok being an asshole for no reason aside this is one of those games I am a little interested in. Why? Because while there is nothing especially good about it, there are likewise no major stop signs slapping me in the face from the start. This is a huge improvement over most games these days so there is a lingering hope for it. That said long development times usually result in bad ends, and staff changes even more so. Don’t hold out too much hope but might be worth a try with a grain of salt and a healthy dose of skepticism.

Boku to Koi Suru Ponkotsu Akuma.

Company: スミレ (SMILE)
Game site: 僕と恋するポンコツアクマ。
Release date: September 25, 2015
Comments:
Ren’s virginity is in danger! His osananajimi Riria was frantically trying to pull down his pants and begging to touch his dick. The truth is that she’s actually a succubus and was embarrassed not having any sexual experience at her age.

He was suddenly pushed into the school’s special dormitory. It was a girls’ dormitory full of ponkotsu (affectionately useless) demons: Yuu, the yuki-onna who was extremely sensitive to the cold; Arle, the mummy girl who is uncomfortable with tightness and loves the feeling of freedom; Emiri, the hopeless angel who has no sense of modesty; and, Miyabi, the witch who passionately develops a love drug to bring happiness to the world. The dormitory was built to rehabilitate them and since he was mistakenly moved there, he was assigned as an assistant to watch over them. His happy and troublesome days as a teacher for these cute but incompetent demons has begun.

Are useless girls cute? I guess it depends on how they’re depicted. The art by Sayori and Hirose Madoka, along with the varied fantasy cast combine to make this ponkotsu-only title show greater promise than the recently-released Sakura Nikagetsu, which was rather pedestrian. It’ll make you laugh, charm you, while still being ero enough to rival a nukige. I’m quite a fan of the artists, so that alone is enough for me to put this on my list. I don’t expect too much from the plot. It’ll be kinda like Nekopara, but longer. Imouto angel Emiri can be my cupid any day! Hau~ omochikaeri~!

A little on the simple side setting and plot wise, but as long as the game remains lighthearted and funny should be an enjoyable read. Games like these are good to read either between more serious titles or when there is nothing else. This is however assuming they don’t completely botch it the way YouGaku did.

Ren’ai Phase

Company: 戯画 (GIGA)
Game site: 恋愛フェイズ
Release date: September 25, 2015
Comments:
Jun hasn’t ever had a girlfriend and was chastised by his online friend AMATERAS for planning to spending Christmas alone. He never gave it much thought until now, but it made him concerned that he wouldn’t be able to date a girl all his life. His friend told him not to be such a worrywart and just take the first step or he will remain a virgin for life. Motivated by these words, he decides to get a girlfriend by Christmas Eve and enter the first love phase.

Tsundere ojou-sama, pampering onee-chan, tennen iincho and pet-like osananajimi. How will they change when they become your girlfriend? It’d probably be slightly awkward, but sweet and adorable! Especially kouhai Kokoro (CV: Fujisaki Usa) who loves sitting on your lap! She has claimed your lower half, that’s not such a bad thing~ It’s a simplistic view of romance where you are the only guy and all the girls have the hots for you. The set-up with starting out as friends to becoming lovers is pretty much like Fureraba. Lots of dokidoki!

Let us be honest with ourselves here. Giga has a horrible track record outside of Baldr. Which means you should approach any game outside of their Baldr series with the attitude of an engineer clearing a minefield, great trepidation and lots of careful probing.

I will admit that this seems to be a step in the right direction for them. A game that is not trying too hard to be gimmicky or amazing in any way shape or form. A simple game that focuses on the characters and their interactions should be doable for them, or at least I hope so. Good luck Giga, like an abused wife I am still tearily rooting for you despite the beatings.

Micchi’s Top 3 for This Month

1. Boku to Koi Suru Ponkotsu Akuma.
2. Sakura no Uta -Sakura no Mori no Ue o Mau-
3. Ren’ai Phase

Zen’s Top 4 for This Month

1. Sakura no Uta -Sakura no Mori no Ue o Mau-
2. Boku to Koi Suru Ponkotsu Akuma.
3. Tincle★Twinkle Festival!
4. Ren’ai Phase

Gimme DA-TENSHI!!!

Ha! I beat Micchi for a month!

By wanting to play a game that worships dicks.

I’d rather worship a penis than magical incestuous pedobait. Besides at least it’s hilariously stupid, not just stupid stupid.