It has come to my attention that this blog is now FOUR YEARS OLD. Four years is not that long, but it feels like a decade to me!
I know my interest in otome games has dropped significantly, and that I haven't been writing much. I plan to write about other things, I just haven't had the time for it. Like I have said a million times, this blog isn't dying yet!!
Here's to another four years! Hopefully this blog will last for at least a decade before I abandon it.
I finally got to download Ikemen Prince and play through the prologue. I have a few thoughts on the game that I am going share down below. Please beware of spoilers!
So... I started playing Ikemen Sengoku again. They released a new route that I was extremely curious about. Finally we are able to date Motonari Mouri, the pirate bloke who appeared in a few other routes as a villain. I was in the middle of another route but I decided to leave it just for Mouri. Sorry, Kennyo.
This blog hasn't recieved many updates lately, so I decided to share with you all my initial thoughts on Mouri's route! I think I'm almost halfway through it now, I would be further through if I didn't forget I was reading it for about a week.
(Obviously there are going to be spoilers down below!)
After previously being denied Google AdSense on this blog, I have now got it working! At least I think I have. This blog can now make money!
I am having trouble getting the advertisements to work. The AdSense gadgets won't show up in the layout manager even though I added them a billion times. I went on another browser to check if they were there, and they appeared as blank spaces. Maybe they'll work on someone else's computer?
I know, I hate adverts just as much as you do. But I need to make money off of this site somehow.
All I am trying to say is that I am currently in the process of trying to get Google AdSense to work. If you see a massive stack of five adverts in a row, that's probably an accident. I'm not trying to litter the page with ads. I just want a few scattered here and there, that is all. If you don't like them, just use an adblocker.
I hope they don't give the site those awful ads like "DOCTORS HATE THIS WOMAN!" or "TOP FIVE WAYS TO LOSE BELLY FAT!".
It looks like another Ikemen game is being localised. I heard about this one ages ago from someone else's blog post. The title is: "Ikemen Prince: Beauty and Her Beast". I do love games with a fairytale theme!
I was going to embed the trailer here, but apparently Avex (this massive record label who I presume own the rights to the trailer's music) have blocked the sharing of their videos on third party sites. Go and search for it yourself if you really want to see it.
IkePrince's art does look quite gorgeous. I like the character designs a lot. My favourite character (just from looking at them) is the blonde one who reminds me of IkeSen's Kenshin. Apparently his name is "Chevalier Michel". Why do I always like the cold ones the most? I can already guess what his route is going to be like...
Do people still read this blog? I seem to be getting views, but they could just be bots.
Last night, I was bored. I decided to boot up Love 365 for the first time in months so that they wouldn't delete my account. Before I knew it, I was playing Kissed by the Baddest Bidder again. It's one of those titles that feels a lot better when read in the dark. I decided to play Soryu's sequel this time. I read his epilogue last year and his route the year before that, so my memory of his relationship with the MC wasn't exactly the best, but I got through it fine. I actually powered through it in about an hour. I'm glad I managed to get the Happy Ending on the first try this time. Usually I'm terrible at picking the right choices in this game.
(One of the reasons why I played it was to have something to write about again. I miss writing about otoge.)
So here are my thoughts on the route, given to you in a very random order. The post's probably going to be a lot more brief than usual, cause there's not as much to talk about.
Every Spring I seem to get back into my doll obsession again. So I end up taking out all my dolls and brushing their hair. Then I listen to a lot of Barbie film soundtracks and read a lot of doll blogs. I used to even make movies with my dolls (I stopped because I was scared people would think I was too old for that). Then I forget about everything and repeat it all again next year.
I realised that I haven't been writing much on this blog recently. I haven't been playing otome at all, except for last month when I replayed Ron's route in Norn9 and read his after story twice in one week. I did download the demo for "EPHEMERAL - FANTASY ON DARK-" onto my Switch Lite, but I deleted it after playing it for one second because I was feeling too tired to play it.
I have been playing a lot of other games recently. Because I have nobody in real life who is interested in hearing me talk about them for hours, I'm just going to write about them in this post. I have a feeling that I'm going to be writing a lot this time...
UPDATE: Sony decided that they're not going to close the Vita's store after all, just the PSP's. They probably did that because of all the backlash they got online. So this post is just completely useless now.
Everyone probably already knows this, but the PSP and PS Vita online stores are going to be shut down in the summer. (The PS3's store will be too, but because I don't own one of those I don't care as much...) Luckily you'll still be able to download all of your previously purchased games, but you just won't be able to buy new things.
I'm not really that bothered about it, to be quite honest. I just don't understand why the Vita's store is being shut now, when developers are still producing software for it. It had to happen eventually though. A lot of people seem to be upset about it. It is sad that some of the digital-only games might be lost forever. But there are better things in the world to care about right now.
Since this is an otome blog, all I'm going to be discussing is the romance games (English only, I don't know about the JP ones) found on the PlayStation Stores. Luckily, the PSP and Vita don't have any true digital-only otoge. Most of them you can get on other platforms. But if you don't want to play them on PC, it's probably best to pick them up while you can.
In this post, I will try to list all the digital-exclusive otome content on the PS Store that you may or may not want to pick up before it's gone. (I will also be rambling a lot, sorry)
I suddenly feel like writing about character songs on this blog now!
Two posts ago, I wrote about this Diabolik Lovers anniversary video that came out back in December. I was quite interested in the song that played in the background. Until today, I had completely forgotten about it.
I had a bit of money left on this gift card, and was scouting the iTunes Store for something to buy. (Yes, I still purchase music instead of streaming it) Out of curiosity, I typed in "Diabolik Lovers", even though none of the character songs have ever been available outside of Japan. But that song, the song in that video was there! They also had the opening to Chaos Lineage there, but since I don't have the game, I'm not really interested in the song.
(This is the cover art, by the way)
I've had Piofiore since it released in October, and only now have I sort of finished it. I've never taken this long to complete a game. It's not because the game is bad, it's just that I was feeling burnt out by visual novels (I think I've already mentioned this thousands of times before, oops), so I just couldn't be bothered to play half the time.
I actually didn't finish the Finale route (I got a bad ending and was too tired to restart), so technically I haven't finished the game, but I'm going to write this review anyway.
So... what are my thoughts on Piofiore?
(There are a few spoilers below, so beware!)
I would like to bring your attention towards the video below:
It came out two months ago, and I somehow missed it!
Apparently Diabolik Lovers is nine years old now. Well, technically it is almost ten, since it came out in 2011 and now we're in 2021. I literally just watched this video five minutes ago, and immediately ran to make a blog post out of it. There's not really much to say, but I just wanted to share my thoughts on it.
I've been playing so much KOF lately that it made me want to write more about this game. In between battling Krizalid for the 500th time in KOF 99, I've been slowly making my way through the main story of KOFG. The character songs have been stuck in my head a lot lately, because I've been listening to them way too much...
(UPDATE: Apparently this game is closing down. Why? They're still releasing character songs for it, so why are they stopping it? The game hasn't even been around for that long! It's quite sad, to be honest, because I've been playing it almost daily since I wrote this post. The story's actually quite interesting and I was enjoying myself. I suppose I'll have to take as many screenshots as I can before it ends...)
Recently, I got back into my mobage phase again. Even though I have my Switch right there with plenty of unfinished games to play, my brain would rather grind through free App Store games right now. A recent addition to my iPod Touch's small collection of F2P otome is The King of Fighters For Girls. It's a Japan exclusive game that has all of the usual mobage stuff, like gacha and grinding mini-games. You can still download it from abroad if you use a Japanese iTunes/Google Play account, or there are subbed gameplay videos on YouTube.
Hello. This blog is not dead yet!
It is finally 2021. I had written out a post for late December, but I deleted it at the last minute. I don't know why, I think I thought my writing was cringeworthy or something stupid like that. But I'm back for the new year!
