i’m not usually one to do firsti mpressions or reviews, but I am really impressed with Casual Romance Club after my first play-through, so here I go
I have yet to finish with any girl or see any H-scenes, so this is a very very early first impression, but i am so impressed with this game…i get the feeling that it won’t be really easy to get any perticular girl, since i thought i pursued Charlotte (yes, i kept the americanized names) pretty doggedly, but i didn’t end up with her at the end…i have yet to see any repeated conversation during the course of the game…obviously there will be repeats when i play therough again, but what i mean is that unlike some games like this, every timei had a private chat with a girl, it was a different conversation…i loved that!
the game engine is a little odd, since it sits right on top of your desktop with about four different windows, so you can still see the desktop under those windows, but you get used to it before too long
the girls are all real individuals and have different interests, and even the girls that sort of fit the ‘cookie-cutter’ stereotypes (the lolita char, the older char, etc) don’t end up being a stereotype, since they all seem like real people with their own quirks and such
the graphics are really pretty, and the english translation is surprisingly good, although there are definately hiccups in grammar sometimes…it is much better than i thought it would be for an english translation done by a japanese company, though, very easy to understand what is being said
it works perfectly fine on my computer running Windows ME at 1024x768, and it seems the game defaults to english, because it was always in english for me, i even had to change the voices to japanese (i didn’t like the way the english sounded with a japanese accent) because it defaulted english voices…the manual is hard-bound (!!!), full-color (!!!), and has both english and japanese text, although the English is written first
i am going to go and play through the game again…it’s such a wonderful sim, and I WILL make Charlotte mine!!!