It’s February, and you know what that means…
MUST GET:
Grisaia no Kajitsu - FrontWing: Hang on a sec, wasn’t this on the last list? Well, yes, and it was delayed. Not looking forward to it any less though.
Nekonade Distortion - WhiteSoft: The writers of great eroge from 2000 (Sense Off and ELYSION) teaming up to produce this very unique eroge. Catgirls and quantum mechanics. Is anyone NOT looking forward to this?
Artemis Blue - Applique Sister: Trial was enjoyable, entertaining and quite different. Written by the scenario writer for elf’s famed Ashita no Yukinojou series. Female protagonist. Practically guaranteed to be good.
MAYBE GET:
Sisters - Jellyfish: Hard to tell if it’ll actually be good or not, but it’s exceedingly pretty and has unsurpassed production values in eroge.
White - Nekonekosoft: I dunno what Nekonekosoft is trying to do here, but it’s going to be different; that’s pretty much guaranteed. I think it might be illegal in my country, though; like, really illegal.
MAYBE NOT:
Souykuu no Soleil - Skyfish: This could be alright, but I haven’t played the other Soleil games, they haven’t got good enough reviews to convince me to and I’m not much of a Skyfish fan.
Sweet Robin Girl - Chuable Soft: Yes, it’ll be a good eroge; yes, it’ll get good reviews, BUT- I don’t really want to spend that sort of time on a single eroge and this is virtually guaranteed to be a timesink. The day of dating sims has passed.
Taiyou no Promia - SEVEN WONDER: Marutani Hideto, you’re a crazy writer, but it looks like this project is going to be largely dominated by the weaker PULLTOP team and nothing about it really convinces me that it would be worth preordering.
Hatsukoi Time Capsule - Citoron Soft: Citoron Soft stuff is too risky to preorder in general.
Lover Able - SMEE: Iffy / unsettling character designs. I’ve never been that interested in Hook games anyway. Nothing too remarkable about the plot. Doesn’t really do anything for me.
With Ribbon - Hulotte: This, too, was on last month’s list and I’m still not interested in it.
Kyonyuu Fantasy Gaiden - Waffle: This will probably be good, but I generally don’t get fandiscs and in any case I haven’t finished the original Kyonyuu Fantasy yet. I can wait for DL release anyway.
OH HELL NO:
Time Paladin Sakura Latter Chapter - Circus: Pretty much repeat what I said about the first chapter.
Hinata Terrace - GIGA: JACOB BOGAN JACOB BOGAN JACOB BOGAN (translation: yeah this looks pretty bad)
Fortissimo EXA//Akkord:Bsusvier - La’cryma: Anyone who preorders this deserves what they get, honestly. La’cryma has an untarnished landmine record, releasing nothing but horrible games in the ~5 years they’ve been around, and this doesn’t look like it’s going to change any time soon. Improvements to it won’t shake the fact that it’s a shallow Fate/stay Night ripoff that might have looked good in 2005.
Princess Limited - Princess Sugar: Princess princess princess princess. Princess princess, princess princess. By the Princess Lover writer, this princess is probably more princess than I can princess princess princess ???@#@#(@
Flyable Candy Heart - Unisonshift Blossom: I’ve already played Flyable Heart’s fandisc, Kimi no Nagori wa Shizuka ni Yurete, and it was better than the original game; however, an eroge only gets ONE fandisc. You can’t make two. And no, you can’t make a fandisc of a fandisc either. Pass.
Moe Moe Daisensou Gendaibaan - System Soft Alpha: ahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha