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Life updates, my hobbies and a short trip!

Hello everyone!
It’s been a few months since my last random post and many things changed in my life, so… I guess it’s time for a little update!
First of all, I’ve finally moved to another city, which is bigger and a lot better than my previous little town; it took me a few months to find a decent house and moving was tiring as hell (the hot weather made everything even worse), but I’m really happy I made this choice!
Everything is easier here and I’m also closer to my family.
I’ve also started working again! It’s just a few hours every week for now, I’m an apprentice and I’m doing my best to learn, until the new shop is finally ready and I can start for real.
But still, getting into work again, after a few months of unemployment, made me feel really excited and motivated; I also like this new job, maybe I’ve finally found something I can do for the rest of my life. I’m really glad I decided to stop with the previous one, it was a difficult decision, but it was definitely for the best.
It wasn’t easy to adjust my life in this new situation, so I had to give up on my hobbies for almost a whole month; I guess it shows here on my blog, since the lack of updates, compared to the previous months or last year, it’s obvious.
Otome games used to be my main hobby (if not the only one) a couple years ago, since they helped me to relax after a long day at work; but while I was unemployed, I used my free time to find new hobbies and to explore again into things I used to love in the past.
Now, even if my free time has reduced, I’m not ready to give up on them anymore, I want to keep up with my different interests at the same time: watching Japanese dramas, anime, Japanese shows (my dear Arashi!), studying Finnish (and probably German very soon), listening to symphonic metal bands, reading and drawing on my bullet journal are all things I love, I can’t just give up one of them. Which means, I won’t be able to play otome games daily anymore.
I’ll decide in the future, if this blog is going to just keep the updates slowly, or if I’m going to write more random posts about different stuff.
If you want to give me suggestions, or if you’re interested in one of this topics, let me know so I can write more about it! I won’t open a different blog to share my other hobbies, but I’d gladly do it here if someone is curious.

Anyways, I’m going to a short mountain trip tomorrow, I’ll be there for a few days; it’s a really short holiday, but this summer is busy and I can’t to much more.

See you soon, I hope you’re having a wonderful holiday somewhere!

15 Days without social media challenge!

Hello everyone, how have you been?

As you probably noticed, I’ve basically disappeared for a couple weeks; I’ve taken a little break from my blog and social media in general for a while, to focus only on myself and improve my life.

I really needed it.

But why did I make this choice to shut down from technology for a while?

As we all know, we live in a society obsessed with smartphones and social media: we keep checking out notifications and updates all day long, wasting a lot of time that we could use for something better.

I’ve seen random youtubers who were enthusiastic about their sudden lives’ improvements, just by deleting social media apps for a while and focusing on other things they’ve always wanted to do, but “didn’t have enough time for”.

Well, not surprising, but if you ignore completely Twitter, Facebook and whatever social media you use the most, you basically end up having free time to do everything you want.

Learning a language, reading a book, writing, drawing…. trust me, if you don’t keep scrolling your TL all day long, you can focus a lot more on everything else.

Youtube is not a social media, but it’s addicting too, so I suggest you to delete it for a while.

Great, isn’t it? But it’s easier said than done.

Don’t pretend you aren’t addicted, we all are. We can’t just stop when we want.

So I decided to challenge myself with a “15 days without social media detox”, and while I’m at it, I thought I could keep track of this experience and share it.

I hope it encourages someone to try it!

Day 1 was obviously the hardest.

When I woke up in the morning, checking out twitter notifications used to be the first thing I did, even before taking a shower or having breakfast.

But from that day, I only looked if I had important messages on Whatsapp, then I tossed my phone away in another room.

To avoid feeling lonely, I turned on my mp3 player and listened to music or random Finnish sentences to learn while I was doing house chores and my usual morning stuff.

It was almost scary to see how my hand automatically tried to reach my phone, from time to time, to check out notifications or open a random app. I literally had to stop myself and avoid being in the same room with my phone while I was reading or doing everything else.

My productivity on that day increased a lot and without distractions I was able to fully concentrate on my tasks and get them done faster and better.

At night, I always used to sleep kinda late: I went to bed around midnight and stayed awake for about an hour watching random youtube videos.

Since I couldn’t do that anymore, I went to sleep as soon as I felt tired. It was 11 pm.

On the 2nd day, I obviously woke up early without any effort.

But my impulse of checking out twitter still was there. I realized I needed to physically touch my phone from time to time, with random excuses, like checking out the time at least.

So I went back to my dear watch, which I haven’t used since college days.

From that moment, I gradually started to detox from social media and it became easier each day.

The biggest problem came when I was out waiting for someone and I couldn’t scroll twitter or random apps to kill some time while waiting; but it was easily solved, I just listened to music as I used to do when I was a teen and twitter didn’t even exist. Yeah, I’m that old.

After a few more days, when I felt satisfied enough to give myself a short break, I’ve decided to jump back on twitter for a little while, just to read if I was missing out something great or if I had urgent messages to answer; after I replied, I backed out immediately and decided to make my social media break longer. I wasn’t missing anything important at all, but my productivity increased a lot in the past days, so I knew the best way for me.

This led to a total of 15 days without social media of any kind, and I can say proudly it was a great choice to make.

I can’t go as far as saying “it changed my life”, but it improved it a lot, that’s sure: my free time increased, my eyes don’t hurt anymore (spending hours in front of a screen will damage your eyesight, be careful!), I read a lot of books and overall I just feel better.

So, here I am to encourage you to try it, at least for a few days, and see if you feel better and your productivity increases too! I swear it works, it may be hard, but it’s definitely worth the effort.

I’m not here to say I won’t use social media anymore, but after this break I’ve realized how addicted I was and how it damaged my life; but now I’ve changed, I can control myself and draw a line.

I’ll still go back on twitter from time to time and I’ll still update this blog, of course; but you may not see me around so often anymore. Don’t be sad, I’m not disappearing!

I’m still playing games, so reviews and updates will come soon.

See you in my Starry Sky After Summer review!

A random post about bullet journal and music!

Hello everyone!

It’s been a while since my last personal post and I was in the mood to share my random thoughts, so… sorry if you were looking for an otoge related update, you’ll have to wait for a little longer!

But many reviews are coming soon, don’t worry. You know I always play too much.

Lately, I felt inspired and creative, so I dedicated most of my time and efforts to a new hobby: my bullet journal.

I’ve never heard about it, but apparently its been popular for a few years already! It’s really useful to organize appointments, increase productivity and track progresses in every field possible.

But most of all, it allows creative people to draw, decorate and have fun with art while doing something useful to improve their lives, which is something I’ve always enjoyed.

If you’ve never tried it, but you’re that kind of person who loved writing a personal diary or having an organized agenda to have a perfect control of your life, I’m sure you’ll love it too!

While decorating, I listen to music.

My taste is vary, I appreciate many genres, even if they are mostly niches ones; you know, when people ask you “what kind of music do you listen to?” and you suddenly panic, because you already know they will look at you weirdly and they probably have no idea of the bands you’re mentioning with shining eyes.

My all time favorite bands are 80’s english post punk/newwave bands, like Joy Division, The Cure and Sisters of Mercy, or Symphonic metal bands, like Nightwish, Epica and After forever.

I also love J-pop, mostly Arashi. And don’t forget my past in K-pop, sometimes I listen to old Super Junior songs and dance by myself. Oh, I almost forgot, I also listen to Finnish bands like Uniklubi and Happoradio to study the language.

So yeah, if you know at least 3 of them, I already admire you.

Now you know why the average italian person gives me a weird look, I can’t even blame them.

But I have a lot of fun, while drawing and singing in every possible language, so who cares?

I hope I canlearn some German soon, cause Rammstein look like a cool band.

Yeah, it was a random post. But I told you it didn’t make sense, I was just in the mood to write.

See you soon with a (hopeful interesting) review!

Random post: how many 2D boys I’ve dated so far? The good and the horrific moments

One day I randomly woke up thinking: “I wonder how many routes I’ve played… I guess I’ve dated about 600 2D boys, but maybe they are actually more?” and since I love writing these kind of random and useless posts, I actually counted them!

Can you guess how many are they?

Let’s talk about my most memorable routes, before looking at numbers.

You already know my best boys, since I made an husbando Top10, but there are a lot of unforgettable routes and characters who never made it into any list, so I think they deserve a mention now, for bad or good reasons.

Obviously, this might contain some spoilers, be careful!

MOST MEMORABLE ROUTES FOR WRONG REASONS:

Talking about horrific moments, obviously Moshikami’s Masato is the first one who comes to everyone’s mind.

But there are many characters twisted in different ways, whose routes made me think “who the hell decided this stuff was appropriate for an otome game??”.

One of the most terrible experiences I had was Seri, from Dynamic chord Liar-s.

Well, that series had abuse in many routes, but Seri was the most disgusting, since he was even guilt shaming the poor heroine for not falling in love with him and deserving rape for this reason. A fine gentleman we have here. Not that Tokiharu’s route in Kyohso was that better.

Rapists aside, there’s another shocking character who has absolutely no feelings of empathy, which makes him an emotionless creep: Chouchou Jiken’s Riitomo.

Wow, that man was really something.

But I think the route that got stuck in to my mind as the most annoying and painful to sit through was Ayato’s in More Blood: he kept sucking blood from the poor Yui, insulting her and leaving her alone after she fainted. The whole route just kept showing similar scenes of abuse, she felt so weak and fragile, all alone… I’ve never felt so much pity and sadness for an heroine. I couldn’t like Ayato from the moment, even if his personality changed a lot in most recent games.

MOST MEMORABLE ROUTES FOR GOOD REASONS:

You’d probably expect me to talk about good boys here, but…. you know, my tastes are terrible and maybe not conventional.

I could explain to you how Shinnosuke’s route gave me a sense of fulfillment and pure happiness, when I completed Glass Heart Princess Platinum; I could tell you how my heart started racing wildly when I was playing Ikki’s route in Amnesia Later; I could show you all my love for that sad, lonely creature called Kagiha, from Kokuchou Psychedelica.

But it’s something you can also read in my TOP10 husbando.

Here I won’t judge their actions.

Here’s the place where even bad boys like Mejojo and Auger are loved, since their personalities are so strong and powerful, but at the same time fragile and complicated, I couldn’t help but pity them, instead of hating; they were probably the greatest villains I’ll ever met in an otome game.

They were so amazing, they managed to crawl from the status of cruel villains to main characters.

You can love every single character of Black wolves saga, you can feel empathy for Julian, you may want to heal Rath’s sadness, you may want to devote yourself to your perfect oniichan… but you can’t stop fearing the wolves. You can’t pretend they don’t exist, no matter which route you’re playing.

Same goes for Piofiore’s Yang. Just by looking at characters like them, you can feel their special aura.

Another route I’ll never forget, is Bad Medicine’s English teacher.

I imagined myself confined in that punishment room, alone with him and his whip, in fear for my life… if only his route was longer and better written. It’s sad to see such potential wasted.

Can we also take a moment to appreciate Haruma from Blackish house?

His route was a roller coaster of pain, despair and sadness; but most of all, I can’t forget how he was somehow always observing the heroine in every other routes, being also present in many bad endings.

I’ve played a lot of great routes, with happy endings and weddings, but somehow the characters who are still carved deep in my memories are the most desperate ones, the tortured souls.

I wonder if I’m the only one? I bet most of the players expected me to talk about Lupin from Code realize, or Aiji from Collar Malice. Or Hijikata.

Well, they were good too, I can’t deny it. But their personalities are not that impressive for me.

Somehow, I feel I could write a book just analyzing every Diabolik Lover’s character instead, it would be more interesting; but I’m sure someone already did it and wrote some kind of never ending Bible.

Now, let’s go back to the question which led to this post in the first place: how many characters did I play? Since I’ve recently reached my 100th game, I expected them to be around 600/700.

But since there are many series, sequels and fandisks (I obviously counted every character only once, even if I played more routes with him), they were actually only 469!

Are you surprised? I was, but it’s still a pretty high number of confessions, first kisses, happiness and pain! But still, there are many memories that will stay with me for a long time.

I wonder if someone else will get curious and start counting too… let me know your number, if you try!

SPECIAL POST: celebrating my 100th otome game!!!

I can’t believe I’ve reached this number, but somehow I managed to fully complete 100 otome games, yay! I don’t even know if it’s something I should be proud or ashamed of honestly, but here we are! Looking back at all my memories now, it was really an amazing journey, filled with epic moments, crazy fangirling, but also sadness and rage. Nothing’s perfect.

I wish I could talk about every single game, but I guess this post would become too long and boring; at least, I want to share my most important steps in this awesome fandom.

My first otome game was Brothers Conflict Passion Pink.

I watched the anime in winter 2013, I fell in love with Tsubaki and immediately descended to the deepest hell: you have no idea how much I loved that boy, I can’t even explain. All I did was searching for his pics and sticking them everywhere, I was literally obsessed! (which makes my poor boyfriend look like a sad person, I feel guilty now).

When I discovered there was a game and I could date him for real, my heart was exploding!

It felt like a dream coming true! Of course, from that moment I had to start learning hiragana and the awful system made me ragequit his route a lot of times, but that’s another story.

I’m so grateful to this game, because it made me enter this fandom and meet great people. Also, despite it being quite plotless and predictable, it gave me great memories and I felt a lot of emotions.

I’ll try to replay it soon, because it’s really special for me.

The first otome game I’ve played on my own, without relying on someone else’s translation, was Diabolik Lovers More Blood. My love for that series was so deep, I was ready to learn even the weirdest kanji to understand what was going on.

It probably wasn’t the best game to choose, maybe I got wrong many parts, but I enjoyed it a lot and the feeling of being able to play on my own is one of my best memories.

I felt fulfilled, even if I was very far from understanding everything.

I plan to replay the first game and More Blood soon, so I can see if I made progresses in these past years… I hope so!

After a few years, I finally gathered the courage to start writing my own blog.

I was shy and embarrassed of sharing my opinions, because I’m not confident at all in my English skills. But I’m glad I decided to take this important step and I still remember my feelings when I posted my first review, Code Realize. Thank you for staying with me and encourage me to keep going.

The most shocking otome game I’ve ever played is Moshikami and I don’t think something will ever compare. Still, even if some scenes were disgusting, I’d recommend it for players who enjoy some kind of pain. Same for Black wolves saga.

I appreciated the horror elements and creepy scenes in 7’scarlet too, the plot was interesting and I was really surprised when I discovered the truth.

The game that make me cry harder was Kokuchou no Psychedelica, which is also my favorite game ever; it left me a feeling of emptiness, but also fulfillment.

I loved Haitaka no Psychedelica too, but I think it was a step behind, so I can’t consider it a masterpiece. But it’s a great series and I still hope for a 3rd game.

Despite my love for dark themes, there’s a colorful game I absolutely loved and I’d recommend to everyone, even beginners: Glass heart Princess.

Shinnosuke stole my heart, I’ve became weak to KENN’s characters and butlers since I met him; it was love at first sight. I highly recommend it to everyone who wants a funny but also romantic story.

The most annoying system I’ve ever sit through, was Wand of fortune.

I still wonder how I managed to reach the end without ragequit and I’ve never dared to touch any other game of that series. It’s a shame cause the art is beautiful and the setting could be interesting, but that crazy system completely ruined my experience (and it comes from a person who can handle annoying games like Reine des Fleurs without being bothered).

My favorite historical game was probably Nightshade, since I felt deeply involved with the story and I really appreciated the heroine’s strong will to live and fight for herself.

But I also loved Hakuoki a lot.

The most memorable route for me is Ikki’s in Amnesia Later: even if it’s been 5 long years since I’ve sit through that game, I still remember every single dialogue and CG.

There wasn’t any kind of deep plot, it was just a romantic sequel of the first game, but sometimes the simplest scenes are more touching than complicated plot twists; it made me fall so hard for him, I don’t think I’ve ever felt so emotionally involved in a 2D love story.

I hope some day I’ll be able to fangirl and go crazy again like that, it was a great feeling.

After so many years, sometimes it’s difficult to find again the motivation to complete mediocre games and I wonder if it’s time to move on and find another hobby. But at moments like these, great games come to rescue me and prove there’s still a lot of enjoyment waiting for me.

That’s what happened recently with Piofiore no Banshou and it was a refreshing feeling.

Well, I guess there’s nothing more to say!

Thank you for following me in my short trip to memory lane, it made me feel emotional and nostalgic.

I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to reach 200 games, but I’m sure I’ll always hold dear all the memories I’ve made so far, with these amazing games and the friends I’ve made through this journey.

When I entered this fandom, I had no idea of the happiness I was going to get: I came here for hot boys, but I stayed for the emotions, the feelings and the people who made me feel a loved friend, while caring and supporting me even in hard moments of my life (something real life friends couldn’t do, sadly). This is almost getting sad, it feels like a goodbye but it obviously isn’t.

Thank you for celebrating with me my 100th game, see you soon with my next review!

Random personal post: my 2018 and my resolutions for 2019!

2018 really ended too fast, it feels like the shortest year of my life; a lot of bad and good things happened, but overall it was nice and enjoyable.

It felt like a peaceful year, especially if I compare it to 2017, while 2019 it’s going to be harder for sure. But it’s too early to worry about it now.

Well, let’s take a look at my past resolutions and see what I was able to accomplish in these past months.

In 2018, I wanted to:

Be positive. I want to wake up in the morning and feel happy just for being alive, instead of sighing and complaining all the time.”

I feel a lot better now, my mental health improved a lot after I quit my job and I was able to leave all the worst feelings behind me; it was hard, but I made it.

Find a better job.”

I haven’t started yet, but I found a place to work from January/February.

I’m worried but happy, I hope this new start will be positive!

Study more Japanese.”

Well….. I admit it, I haven’t studied that much.

My japanese probably didn’t improve, but I’m still playing otoge almost everyday and I keep watching idol stuff and dramas without english subs, so it didn’t get worse. At least, I hope so.

Without a goal of traveling to Japan soon, I didn’t feel the motivation to increase my level.

Learn Finnish.”

I did my best! Well, honestly my level is still terrible, but I can understand many words and even simple sentences. I’m nowhere fluent and I probably won’t ever be, but since I started from the most basic point (I literally knew just kiitos), being able to listen to music and somehow understand the general meaning or at least some words, still feels good to me.

If next year I’ll be able to travel there, as I hope, I’ll do my best to keep improving!

Improve my blog.”

I can’t judge for myself, my readers should tell me if my blog improved… but I updated it at a good pace and I always tried to write interesting posts, so I think I can be quite proud of my work!

Write on another blog.”

I wanted to write on another anime blog, but I only watch like 1 or 2 anime every season, so it didn’t make sense. Well, no regrets!

I’m quite satisfied, I managed to accomplish a lot of my 2018 resolutions!

I guess it’s time to aim even higher and set my goals for 2019:

1- Start a new job

After my needed break, I’m ready for something new! It’s going to be hard, but also exciting and I hope it will be a good experience! I’ve never worked in a shop, my past job was in an office and it was completely different… dealing with customers will probably be hard, but I’m positive.

2- Move to a better city

I don’t like this town and I just lived here because this house was close to my previous job.

But I’m done with that place, so I want to move somewhere else, with a nicer environment!

3- Travel to Finland

It has always been one of my dreams, maybe it’s the right moment to make it come true!

4- Improve my Finnish and Japanese. And maybe even start learning German?

I love languages, but learning is a never-ending process so I can’t stop studying or I would probably forget everything; if I have time enough, I’d love to learn German or Swedish.

5- Read at least 20 books

I love reading and this year I discovered again my long lost love for Agatha Christie.

I want to read all her books, they are more than 80 so it won’t be possible so soon… but I set a goal of 20 for next year!

6- Keep working on my blog to make it useful and interesting

I don’t think my love for otoge will disappear soon, but it would be nice if I could keep up writing reviews despite my busy days.

7- Make more friends!

Moving for my job and life problems made difficult for me to meet real life friends and after college ended our lives became busier.

I’ll do my best to meet new people and become more extrovert.

Well, that’s all.

I set a lot of goals, maybe I’m too optimistic, but I can’t just stay still and expect miracles to happen without efforts. I’m going to work hard next year to become a better person.

Thank you all for reading my blog and bearing with me through these years, I hope your 2019 will be wonderful and your wishes will come true!

My 2019 gaming schedule (aka I’ll finally try to clear my backlog)

Hello everyone!

This year is getting closer to the end, and since I’ve already written my Otome games awards, I thought: “Wouldn’t it be a good idea, if I’d take a look at my backlog and plan some kind of schedule? maybe it could be my chance to finally clear it!”.

I also thought it could be nice for my readers too, so you kinda know what to expect from this blog in the next months.

I really admire fellow bloggers who have a regular schedule, while I basically write whenever I feel in the mood to share my weird tastes or opinions…. but bear with me!

Ok, time to dig in the black hole of my old games and see what I can do.

As I wrote a few months ago, I’m not planning to buy a Switch until April.

Since Otomate didn’t announce release dates for other Switch games and not even many details about future releases that interest me, at this point I think I may delay my purchase even further, until my birthday in June or so.

I decided to buy Cendrillon Phalika anyway, probably next month, but it’s going to sit there unplayed for a while.

Now, let’s look at my PsVita backlog.

I’m halfway done with Nil Admirari FD, so you can expect a review soon.

After that, I’ll probably try to play something older: you know that feeling, when games have been sitting on the shelf for so many months, you almost think they are staring at you and judging you?

Re:Viced, Bad Apple Wars, Vamwolf Cross and Norn9 Last Era are giving me this vibe.

I want to beat them all next year! I still don’t have a clear playorder, I’ll go with the feeling of the moment.

For most recent games, I’m really curious about Charade Maniacs, so I’ll definitely prioritize it and I’ll try to play it around February. Usotsuki shangri la could be good too.

I have a few other games, but I’m not confident enough to say I can clear them all… let’s stick with these for now.

When it comes to PC games, you know how slow I am.

But after I’m done with Ephemeral, I’d like to play Taisho Alice FD.

If Steam Prison gets released on Steam soon, I’ll take this chance to try it, since I’ve always been curious about it and it seems interesting.

Psychedelica of the black butterfly was also released in english and replaying this amazing game has always been a dream of mine; at least, after years, I can write a review.

Believe it or not, I also have an old PSP backlog.

Well, it’s almost dying, but before I say goodbye completely to this console, there are a few titles I can’t miss: Utapri After secret, Beyond the future and Hanasaku Manimani.

Then, I guess it should really be the end, even if someday I may decide to replay old games I really loved.

Well, it should be enough for a few months, then I’ll decide what to do: my plan is to buy a Switch and keep playing otome games, but it also depends on the future releases.

The price has decreased a lot, but it’s still high, so I need great games to change console.

Only time will tell….

Thank you for staying here with me in 2018, I hope you’ll keep enjoying my reviews in 2019!

Time to celebrate: happy 2nd anniversary to my blog!!

It’s that time of the year again……………….

You know what it is……………………

It’s my blog’s birthday today!

Happy 2nd anniversary!!

Somehow, it feels like I’ve been running this blog for my whole life and thinking that it didn’t even exist two years ago makes me feel weird.

Anyway, thanks to all my readers and friends who have been here from the start, and thanks to everyone who joined this mess just recently too!

It’s been a crazy year in my life, but somehow I managed to keep up and it’s time to look back and figure out if I was able to write something decent in these past months.

Let’s take a look at my posts this year, starting from the good achievements:

  • I wrote 17 otome games reviews

They were mostly games I’ve played this year, but also random old reviews I still wanted to translate from my old blog. My writing style is not that great since my English is far from perfect, but I did my best as always and put my passion in each one of them.

I hope they were useful to someone and I’ll try to keep this pace until I can!

  • I wrote 19 TOP 10

I won’t lie, I keep writing so many TOP10 because I have so much fun when I struggle to choose the characters and I can’t decide which position they deserve!

I hope you enjoy my weird tastes and I’ll do my best to come up with new interesting TOP10 next year!

After the good results, let’s take a look at the points I have to improve:

  • I wrote 3 drama cd reviews

I know, I should have done better. I always promise to write more, but I actually just listen to drama cds that come with games and they are rarely interesting, that’s why I don’t feel the need to write a resume. But I’ll try to work harder for my 3rd anniversary!

  • I translated 1 magazine interview

I wanted to start this new project, bringing many translations from magazines, but it ended up being a pretty long job and I don’t know if many people are actually interested.

But I don’t want to give up like this, I’ll choose soon other articles about seiyuu or games.

  • I’ve reviewed 1 otome game related manga

Well, I basically completed Diabolik Lovers More Blood Prequel.

Maybe one day I’ll get in the mood for Amnesia or Utapri too.

  • I wrote 14 random posts

I don’t know if it’s a good or a bad point, but this year I started writing personal posts about my life or opinions about various gaming issues. I don’t know if they can interest someone, but since it’s my blog and I opened it for sharing my opinions, I think some random thoughts are not bad from time to time. I hope they aren’t a bother to my readers, but I guess they are still going to appear in the future!

Last but not least, I wanted to talk about special posts, written by my boyfriend when he accepts to watch something otome related!

  • My boyfriend wrote 6 guest reviews this year

I really need to thank him for bearing with my fangirl life and contributing to keep this blog alive with his trolling.

Well, that’s all, thank you for reading this random post till the end!

I’ll keep doing my best and I hope I can come up with interesting posts in the years to come too!

If you have suggestions to help me improve this blog or you want me to talk about other topics, this is your chance! different opinions and ideas are always welcomed, I’d like this to become a useful place for otome games players and a good guide for beginners at this genre, not just MY place.

Let’s try to make it better for the 3rd anniversary!

Random post about Rejet and my backlog!

Hello everyone!

Autumn is coming, but somehow my mood is up lately! This summer was too hot, it’s been a living hell for almost 4 long months, I was waiting for rain like desperate. How is the weather where you live?

Recently, there was a big news in the otome games world: Sony has decided to stop the production of PsVita, which means this console will be officially dead in a few months.

Well, this is not surprising.

If we pretend to ignore how it failed in the western market, we must consider it’s pretty old now and it couldn’t just exist forever. Consoles change and improve, it’s a matter of fact!

I still remember when people were worried or pissed off, when otoge moved from PSP to PsVita; but it’s something we can’t avoid, let’s embrace it.

We already know Otomate is moving to Switch, but what are other companies going to do?

Iwasaki made a twitter poll, asking us to choose how we prefer to play Rejet games in the future.

There were 3 options: Switch, PC and mobile.

I answered Switch, even if I don’t plan on buying it soon: I can’t imagine myself playing games only on PC and mobile was obviously not an option for me.

I wish I could answer Ps4, but I guess it didn’t stand a chance and they ignored it from the start.

Have you voted on that poll too? What did you choose?

In the end, Switch won the poll, followed by PC.

I’m glad mobage came last, but still many people voted for it… too many people, it’s almost scary.

A future when the otoge console market dies may happen in a near future, I hope at that time I won’t be into this hobby anymore, cause it would be a huge pain for me, I’m not even lying!

I hoped Iwasaki would tell us something about it almost immediately, just to let us know what they are going to do with their future releases, but they decided to hold an announcement event in about 2 weeks instead.

I guess we just have to wait and see, I’m trying to keep my expectations low, but I still hope to hear good news: I’ve always loved Rejet games and it would be really disappointing if they just decide to go for mobage. My gaming life would feel empty!

On other news, after Piofiore there’s only one PsVita game left to order for me (or so it seems, so far), which is Shiro Kuro Alice FD.

I guess it’s finally time to take a proper look at my backlog, since I’m going to play all or some of those games in the next months!

I often joke about it, saying it’s terrible or neverending, so I’d like to show every game to you and hear your opinion. I’m sure most of the players are in a similar situation!

Let’s look only at the PsVita stuff, cause I’m too slow with my PC and PSP games, it may took ages before I actually get myself to start one of them. Yeah, I’m a bad person.

  • Re:Viced: old but good, or so I’ve read.

  • Hana Oboro: historical stuff with good art, it may end up enjoyable.

  • Yunohana Spring Cherishing Time: the first game was cute, I hope this will be nice too.

  • Tierblade Fragments of Memory: I’ve already played most of it, but it was boring and I wasn’t in the mood to complete it.

  • Nil Admirari FD: I loved the first game, I’m excited for this!

  • Shinobi koi utsutsu FD: I’ve already played half of it and it wasn’t that great, let’s see when I’m in the mood to complete it.

  • Piofiore: this is the game I’m looking forward to playing the most, I can’t wait! It could be my game of the year, I feel it.

  • Charade Maniacs: all those characters are kinda worrying, but I have good hopes.

  • Bad Apple Wars: I don’t expect too much, but it was cheap, so… yeah.

  • Norn9 Last Era: I’m so late for this, I’ll try my best to play it soon.

  • Kurenai no homura Sanada Ninpou Chou: basically an Hakuouki copy-cat, but let’s see if it’s enjoyable.

  • Code realize shirogane no kiseki: I’m getting a bit tired of this series, but I love Saint Germain so I had to get this.

  • Usotsuki Shangri La: Rejet stuff is always welcomed in my life.

  • Hyakka Yakou: probably not that good, but we’ll see.

  • Vamwolf cross: I admit it, I bought this just because it was cheap (about 1200 yen), but I haven’t great expectations.

  • Utsusemi no meguri: sexy oni trash, why not?

Since I’m almost done with Collar Malice Unlimited, I think I’ll complete Tierblade first: there’s not much left, it’s better if I end it now while I still remember where I stopped. But going for something older doesn’t seem like a bad idea too.

What do you think of my backlog? How is yours?

Please, tell me I’m not the worst!

About OtoPa 2018, Switch and random stuff

Hello everyone!

It’s been a while since I last posted something about myself, how have you been lately?

Summer holidays are officially over and I feel a lot better now: I’m finally getting rid of all the stress and the anger I had piled up in the last months.

But let’s talk about something pleasing, let’s forget about that stuff!

OtoPa 2018 ended a few days ago and there were a lot of announcements as expected.

It was a crucial event for me, since I was waiting for the new trailers to decide if buying a Switch in a couple months is worth the money or not.

If you follow me on twitter, you already know the answer: I’ve decided to wait for a few months, at least around March, before I reconsider investing 300 euro in a new console.

I’ll be honest with you: nothing I’ve seen so far really caught my eye.

It’s obviously too early, since some of those trailers lasted barely a few seconds and didn’t show many details, but nothing excited me enough to say “I need a Switch!! now!”.

I’d gladly play Cendrillon Phalika since it looks amazing, but there’s no way I would buy an expensive console for just one game.

Variable Barricade’s release has been delayed until April, which obviously means it’s going to have a Switch release. But it’s too early to tell, I’ll just wait for a few months and see what happens.

So………… what’s going to happen with this blog? Am I going to stop reviewing?

Of course, I’m not stopping at all!

I still have a huge PsVita backlog and I want to review some old games for PC and PSP, since I know there are out there people who still enjoy them.

One of my friends hasn’t bought a Vita yet, I bet she’ll be pleased! (You’re probably reading this, so hello!!)

If you have requests, don’t worry and ask: there might be games I’ve played but never bothered to review, because I thought no one would care.

But I’d happily write something if you are interested, no problem!

Now I’m playing Collar Malice Unlimited, so this will probably be my next review if I won’t decide to write something about Shiratsuyu no Kai before I complete it.

Tierblade Fragments of Memory will be up next.

I’m also working on other TOP10, so you can expect a lot of posts coming soon.

Since my blog’s anniversary is getting close, I want to be proud of my work and try to fix some lacking points… if you have suggestions, they are always welcomed!

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