March 2019 Eroge Releases

Do you believe in angels? Maybe you might meet one in Whirlpool’s pieces/Wataridori no Somnium. For something a little more normal, how about GIGA’s Aonatsu Line or PULLTOP’s Sakurairo, Mau Koro ni? Purple Software also has a title that revolves around a mysterious social game called Realive. The story might remind you of another game where an app suddenly appears on your smartphone…

Another month has come and gone. Emphasis on the gone this time. A few interesting games this month though nothing revolutionary. Unless you count elves raping orcs that is.

Itsuka no Memorajo ~Kotonoha Amrilato~

Company: SukeraSparo
Game site: いつかのメモラージョ ～ことのはアムリラート～
Release date: March 15, 2019
Comments:
New release date after being pushed back from January. This all-ages game elaborates on their previous title Kotonoha Amrilato, focusing on Rin, Ruka and Rei. There is a backstory, as well as an additional story. It’s pretty cheap for those that want more from the story.

Continuation and stuff I guess.

ALPHA NIGHTHAWK

Company: ライアーソフト (Liar-soft)
Game site: ALPHA NIGHTHAWK
Release date: March 29, 2019
Comments:
A giant beautiful rose, called Consuelo by humans, blooms in the night sky 300,000 km away from Earth. Its dark red tentacles extended towards Earth once in a blue moon in the form of ‘thorns’ that have the power of destroying entire cities should they strike the world. The STX Space Force created the ‘battle sheep’ mobile suit as the last line of defence against the Consuelo. It draws its power from the mental energy of its pilot.

However, their efforts were in vain as a thorn struck Tokyo, devastating the surrounding area. The thorn took root and sprouted a smaller Consuelo, which attacked the people nearby and spread its sphere of terror. It was decided that the area be sealed from the outside, even though there were some that were not able to escape and were trapped inside, subject to the threat of attacks as they went about their daily lives.

One lone man continued to fight in the sealed area. His name was Ichizou, a former colonel in the STX Space Force and one of its finest pilots who was admired by all. Why did he remain even after the other soldiers had fled?

“I am responsible for the rose! As long as I am human, my fighting spirit will continue to burn! Forever and ever!”

This new title from Liar-soft is illustrated and written by Nanahoshi Dentou. The SF aspect makes it more interesting to me, but be warned that there’s furry in there.

Of course it is tentacles trying to rape the Earth. Honestly the whole thing feels a little like DMC, and more specifically DMC 5. Which if done intentionally I can only applaud their timing of the release. In fact it feels as though they took the idea to copy DMC then just filled in the blanks with random terms to describe anything that could give this away. When something new had to be added they just used the first thing they saw. I imagine their meeting would go something along the lines of:

“So we know DMC5 is coming out soon and we are going to copy the idea. Grab your dictionaries and pick out random words we can use.”

“But Boss, we can’t just use demons right?”

“Good point Employee A, we need something fresh so people won’t notice!”

“Boss! I have an idea! The rose bush outside has inspired me! Lets have an alien rose bush be our demons! With tentacles! Thorny tentacles!”

“Brilliant Employee B! Anyone else have some good ideas?”

“I do Boss! I have this Gundam model on my desk, so how about we use mecha instead of demon transformations?”

“I like the way you think Employee C! No one will expect a Science Fiction setting to be based off of demons…”

“Oh Boss me too! You see I’m actually a furry so instead of having friendly demons lets have furries, this would let the game appeal to all my furry friends and increase sales while giving me an excuse to partake of high quality furry art!”

“I’m not one to judge people Employee F, especially when it’s an idea that helps cover our tracks and increase our sales. A raise for you good sir.”

Essentially what I am trying to say is, the core setting idea feels very suspiciously copy pasted. Where they go from there is up to them of course as there’s no way it could be exactly the same through the entire story. At least I sure hope not. Unfortunately protagonist seems less about over the top snarky cheese and more of a chuuni Monkey D Nakama.

Too much effort put into the gimmicky side of things sums it up rather nicely. Sure that may be a tradition of Liar and Rail, but just being slightly less pretentious would lessen the need for exposition with more focus on story and characters. Which in turn would make their games more fun to read, as the main problem I have is just ending up kind of bored despite liking a lot of aspects other than the writing itself.

pieces/Wataridori no Somnium

Company: Whirlpool
Game site: pieces/渡り鳥のソムニウム
Release date: March 29, 2019
Comments:
There’s an odd folklore in Mittebel where an angel sings a lullaby each morning to fall asleep and this wakes up the townspeople each day. But it is not only angels that have strange dreams. Tsubame can enter the dreams of others by thinking of them. He doesn’t know when he obtained this ability, but he spends most of the day sleeping as a result of seeing others’ dreams.

One day, he saw a girl by the window of an old mansion and was taken by her beauty. Wishing to know more about her, he tried his best to use his ability on her, but failed to do so. The girl Yua revealed that she also had the same mysterious ability to see others’ dreams. However, she was unable to choose which dreams to see, and only sees nightmares each night. As a result of the constant nightmares, she grew to avoid sleeping at all.

A girl who doesn’t sleep and a boy who wishes to continue to sleep. When their dreams cross, the legend of the past starts once more.

Games about dreams aren’t too common. The last one I can recall would be Hapymaher, but Whirlpool games are generally more focused on the characters than the story. Of course, the reason why I have my eye on this is kouhai and self-proclaimed ‘everyone’s imouto’ Alice who looks like Sana. She has dreams of being an idol but is tone-deaf just like Kana. Hau omochikaeri~!

While Whirlpool does focus on characters as Micchi pointed out they do try to vary things up a lot. Which is both good and bad. Sometimes I want them to focus a bit more on the ideas for their setting and characters, but then other times I wish they would focus less on everything other than the characters. Bit of a mixed bag that tends to leave me feeling rather unsatisfied either way. In this case I could go either way as it depends how things play out. Personally I hope for a mild and somewhat fun yet simple story about mixing reality and dreams, blurring the lines between them. At least then I would be entertained enough while reading assuming the characters themselves were interesting enough.

And as a side note it’s okay Alice, that’s what autotune is for.

Sakurairo, Mau Koro ni

Company: PULLTOP
Game site: さくらいろ、舞うころに
Release date: March 29, 2019
Comments:
Shinya returned to Japan after five years abroad and met the second-year student Mina, who asked him to be part of the graduation ceremony planning committee. She had been appointed as the planning committee leader, and her eyes sparkled as she expressed her wish to hold a memorable graduation ceremony to send off all those who had helped her. She always tried her best for everyone, although her ideals and efforts often led to nowhere.

Since he had been living overseas for so long, he didn’t know what to do as he had never experienced a graduation ceremony. He was joined in the committee by Chloe, Rin and Mariko, each of whom were there under varying circumstances. Even though they were initially reluctant to participate, they were gradually won over by Mina’s passion and kindness. Before long, this feeling soon spread throughout the school.

It feels like an ensemble game, with many scenario writers (one for each route) and a long list of sub-characters. Graduation is a sentimental moment in our lives and a suitable theme for an eroge. What better way to make memories than get a girlfriend and have sex, right?

Perhaps my biggest issue with most eroge protagonists lies in how they have no real desires, goals, or personalities of their own. Everything is simply handed to them and they go along with it. Sometimes this is achieved by building it into a setting where the girls are forced to sleep with the protagonist for whatever reason the writers can come up with. While others the heroines or other characters drag the protagonist into whatever the central theme is against his will only for him to slowly end up invested in their goals and or bodies.

Now this doesn’t apply to all eroge but certainly does for most. What bothers me most about it is the laziness on both the writers part and the consumers part. Letting the writing staff get away with easy templates by continuing to accept things just creates more mediocre eroge. In this particular case Pulltop should have had Shinya already be part of the school and slowly bring things together through a gradual build up. Not just throw everyone together in a sad excuse for sexy times.

Protagonists for chara-ges certain fit the bill, probably not so much for other genres.

Even for other genres they often are just caught up in things and go along with the flow. Almost never do protagonists take a decisive or at least proactive role. Another way to put it is the settings shape and enslave the characters rather than the characters defining the setting. Makes them feel like puppets without any thoughts or direction of their own. Or though I hate to use this term, supremely “Beta” type characters.

Love Commu

Company: ましゅまろそふと (Marshmallow Soft)
Game site: らぶこみゅ
Release date: March 29, 2019
Comments:
This is the first game by Marshmallow Soft, a sub-brand of Candy Soft.

“Sensei, please teach us how to love properly♪”

Love communication studies was added as part of the compulsory curriculum. After graduating from university with a degree in ‘love commu studies’, Tatsuyuki was placed as a teacher at the ojou-sama school Aogahama Girls’ Academy. As part of his position, he is permitted to have relationships with his students. He entered the school with excitement and discovered that the girls all had slightly skewed views of love! Of course, their grades in love commu studies were not great and they had to take supplementary lessons.

It is up to him to show them the proper way to love, so that they can become respectable adults. However, while he knew a lot about relationships, he had not actually experienced it himself! Would a virgin like him be able to teach the girls and show them the right way to love? Actually, what does that even mean!?

Students at girls’ only schools often have skewed views. Actually, now that I think about it, why did a guy get appointed as a teacher at a girls’ school and be allowed to have relationships with his students? Some things can only happen in eroge…

So Micchi questions a male teacher at a girls school and the relationship part of it, fine, I get that. But why not also question the very idea of “Love communication studies” as the very foundation of this pointless waste of time? Lets be honest here it is impossible to care about this story. All it amounts to is you play a teacher whose job it is to take your pick from the ojou-sama bakery and eat them. Nothing else to it. Aside from being a clone of that uhh Shomin Sample I think it was called series. As such I would have appreciated it more with a simplified setup. There is no need for the love communication garbage, nor the permission to seduce the students. Just teacher plus school. He can teach whatever while the extra drama from student teacher relationships would spice up the story and characters a little. It’s not hard guys so try harder. As for this attempt well little more than a CG set with sound effects, treat it as such and you won’t go wrong.

Aonatsu Line

Company: 戯画 (GIGA)
Game site: アオナツライン
Release date: March 29, 2019
Comments:
Tatsumi and his childhood friends Miki and Chihiro talked every day about what they would do during the upcoming summer vacation. By chance, they befriended the overly-honest ojou-sama Yui, who transferred to their school since she admired the co-education system, as well as kouhai Kotone, who had failed to make lasting friendships after trying too hard to fit in. This new group of five friends (?) began to plan for a memorable bittersweet summer vacation that happens only once in a lifetime.

I love the art and feel of the game. However, I’m still uneasy about the quality of the writing. I hope it doesn’t turn into another Hatsukoi 1/1.

Yet another bland Giga game. From my perspective It really feels like there is one of these roughly every month. Which kind of makes sense as they all blend together and are probably mostly copy pasted from each other.

Boku to Joi no Shinsatsu Nisshi

Company: プレカノ (Prekano)
Game site: ボクと彼女（女医）の診察日誌
Release date: March 29, 2019
Comments:
This is the sequel to Boku to Nurse no Kenshuu Nisshi. Takuya just finished medical school and started as an intern at the hospital. The preceptor who was assigned to him was his senpai that he looked up to, Ryou. He had strived to follow in her footsteps, but she was always a couple steps ahead. Reunited with his childhood friend Mio and subject to Ryou’s temptations, how will he proceed against the obstacles that he should overcome?

She’s kind of a sadist against male patients. Just letting you know if you’re into that stuff. Pass.

Yep. I’ll take one Ryou please. That said I prefer M to S. Sadists somewhat conflict with my own inclinations… 

Maid-san no Iru Kurashi

Company: あざらしそふと (Azarashi Soft)
Game site: メイドさんのいる暮らし
Release date: March 29, 2019
Comments:
Every day Yuuma does the same routine, travelling between his home and work. There were no opportunities to meet someone and fall in love, and only loneliness awaited him when he came home from work.

One snowy day in early January, Yuuma found an older girl in a maid uniform collapsed in front of his house. Her name was Eve and she told him that from that day she would be there to comfort him from the stress of daily life.

It sounds like those mama games where they pamper and spoil you, except it’s a maid. Personally, I’d just want an imouto to cheer me up.

I mean sure, who doesn’t want a slightly older well proportioned pretty maid falling from the sky to take care of them? I mean besides Micchi, he’s weird.

Realive

Company: パープルソフトウェア (Purple Software)
Game site: リアライブ
Release date: March 29, 2019
Comments:
Chihaya didn’t recall much of the accident in his past and spent carefree days despite being bossed around by his osananjimi Satsuki. He heard a rumour about a social game called ‘Alive’, which no one could confirm the existence of. He didn’t give it much thought and continued on with his life. But then one day, he noticed that there was an app on his smartphone that wasn’t there before: ‘Alive’. He didn’t know that it was the key that would greatly change his fate and those of the persons around him.

This sounds awfully like Cocoro@Function!. Well, I did like that game and this one is written by Nakahiro, so I’ll play this too. Is it just me or is Purple Software edging closer to Clochette territory?

Once upon a time Purple soft competed with Giga as to who could release the most crap faster. Then Purple made a halfway decent game and now I almost forgot they existed. Feels like it has been so long since they made a game. Popularity has not worked all that well for Purple as a company though sadly. Working hard at making lightning strike twice has pushed their effort in all the wrong directions sadly. Focusing too hard on trying to create mysterious gimmicks rather than a good story. So I can’t help but wonder if the company will regress back to mass fodder or manage to pull out another hit due to a visit from the RNG fairy.

Clochette territory? Godrealm?

Shogun-sama wa Otoshigoro Fandisc -Gosanke da yo! Zen’in Shuugou-

Company: ALcot
Game site: 将軍様はお年頃 ふぁんでぃすく -御三家だヨ！ 全員集合-
Release date: March 29, 2019
Comments:
This is the fandisc for Shogun-sama wa Otoshigoro, with after stories for the four heroines, plus a route for new heroine Mitsukuni.

Fandisk the beginning.

Aoi Sora no Camus

Company: KAI
Game site: 青い空のカミュ
Release date: March 29, 2019
Comments:
Rin and Hotaru were friends who attended the same school located in a river valley. After shopping in town, they boarded a train to go home but overslept. When Rin woke up, they were already at the last stop, the village where Hotaru lived. Since she had missed her stop considerably, she decided to stay over at Hotaru’s place for the night. However, she soon noticed that something was amiss. Even though it was only 8pm, there was no one else around…

While I like the look and premise of the game, I know that KAI games ultimately end up in tentacle rape, so I’m not gonna look any further here.

I mean to be fair, what use do tentacles have besides rape? I can’t think of anything to be honest. Just look at Alpha Nighthawk. Can’t fault them for using tentacles as intended.

Shirokoi Sakura＊Gram

Company: NanaWind
Game site: 白恋サクラ＊グラム
Release date: March 29, 2019
Comments:
This is the fandisc for Haruoto Alice＊Gram, containing after stories for each of the five heroines. The main story concerns the arrival of new character Lilyetto and her proclamation of dissolving the Tasogare-bu. There’s also a route for sub-heroine Kozue, a side story where they visit the ALIA’s CARNIVAL! school, and a fantasy story where they end up in another world. This fandisc has many other goodies (short stories and gags), so you’ll be getting your money’s worth of balloons.

Fandisk returns.

Hentai Elf Shimai to Majime Orc

Company: WAFFLE
Game site: 変態エルフ姉妹と真面目オーク
Release date: March 29, 2019
Comments:
Mishra and Eimi were two perverted elf sisters who wanted to be raped by orcs. Deep in the remote forest, they found the last orc in the world and aggressively seduced him by all means. However, he had pledged to not assault anyone to atone for the rape of the elves in a past war. Moreover, he was cursed with a spell that would kill him if he ejaculates to an elf.

If he falls for their temptations, he would surely die. That is unless he could make them climax before him. Will he be able to follow his vow and protect his life?

Normally I don’t include nukige, but how can I not add this one with such an amazing plot!? This is based off an ero doujin series by Tomokichi. I’m cheering for you, Mr. Orc!

Sigh, Japan. Not really complaining but it is funny how there are basically two things Japan loves to do. One is establish a template then get stuck in a rut of repeatedly copy pasting it. The other is to turn black to white and completely flip a template or well flip anything really once they feel it gets a little boring. Welcome to the flip of Orc rape.

Koi wa Sotto Saku Hana no You ni ~Futari wa Eien ni Yorisotteiku~

Company: ensemble
Game site: 恋はそっと咲く花のように ～二人は永遠に寄り添っていく～
Release date: March 29, 2019
Comments:
This is the fandisc for Koi wa Sotto Saku Hana no You ni, with after stories for each of the six heroines. I like the fact that ensemble makes fandiscs for their games without fail.

Finale of the fandisk trilogy this month.

Micchi’s Top 3 for This Month

1. pieces/Wataridori no Somnium
2. Aonatsu Line
3. Realive

Zen’s Top 3 for This Month

1. Boku to Joi no Shinsatsu Nisshi
2. Realive
3. pieces/Wataridori no Somnium
4. ALPHA NIGHTHAWK

Can’t trust those elves.

Getting to be you can’t trust anyone these days. Poor orc.