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So, I played that Otomate mobile card crossover game thingy I mentioned in the last post. I used my Japanese Apple ID to download it off of the App Store. It seemed to have quite good reviews from other users. I literally understood like 10% of what was going on, so I probably won't be playing this very often.

I turned it on and I met this original character guy, his name was written in Katakana characters and it said "Areddo". It's probably meant to be some Western name but I can't figure out what name it's supposed to be.

Then he said some stuff and asked me my name, then I had to pick a card to play as or something. There were so many cards from so many different Otomate games, some had original artwork and some just had CGs. I picked one with an original drawing of Saito because I thought it looked pretty. I dunno how good the stats were or anything because I didn't look at them. The game said something like "Choose your partner".

Then me and "Areddo" got transported into the actual Hakuoki world, the background was even ripped directly from the game. And we met Amagiri, and his sprite was also taken from the original game. Then he said something to us and I think Areddo was getting pretty angry or something, then a boss battle started and it told me to click this red button, then another card with a picture of Shinpachi on it popped up and I clicked on it to recharge my Saito card's health or something, I'm not really sure what happened.

The battle music sounded like it was ripped directly from a Pokemon game. Basically the battle screen (I never screenshotted it, sorry) was Amagiri's sprite with my Saito card underneath it with three buttons with some difficult Kanji on them. I clicked the one in the middle and it made Hijikata pop up and say something, then I pressed it again and the battle ended.

Then it went back into a visual novel mode and I think Amagiri smiled and said something to compliment my fighting style, then it took me onto this page saying it was my world or something and there was a picture of Hijikata on it I could tap, then I locked my phone to write this post.

I can't really recommend this game yet because I've hardly played it, but I suppose it's worth picking up for the original artwork and partial voice acting. It's free to download but I don't know if there are any in-app purchases yet, but I expect there will be. Since this is really just a card game, I don't think there's gonna be any dating or anything. There's a high chance that I'll forget all about this and end up leaving it to rot on my home screen.

That's all I have to say for today, goodbye.