Review Plans for August-December

Having a bit of a big margin here since I'll be starting school next month, but it's been awhile since I've written about Review plans!

I've gotten a new phone, so I will finally get to reviewing After School Affairs once I reacquaint myself with everything by replaying the story's I have and getting caught up on everything else. No small task I assure you but I will try to speed through so I can play more Hidetake stories lol

I've also been playing Mystic Messenger, but seeing as I wanna see everything the game has to offer and it's Real-time based, it might be awhile. I've gotten everyone's good end except for 707's who I haven't started, and haven't done any bad endings or DLC stories yet.

I also went on a bit of a Steam Spree for summer sale, buying among other things, Backstage Pass. I've also played Period Cube and have CollarxMalice preordered but I'm not sure if I'll be reviewing those two yet out of pure laziness.

So here's the TL;DR version!

After School Affairs (finally!)
Mystic Messenger

Potentially Period: Cube, Backstage Pass and CollarxMalice

(Quick Look) The Masquerade Killer Kickstarter Demo [Otome Game Demo Review]

The Masquerade Killer is an otome game set in the Victorian Age with mystery elements by the studio Ebullience Games. If that name is familiar to any, that's because they have worked on titles such as AIRIS and Red String of Fate, as well as featuring members that worked on the game Lads in Distress. They've certainly had a history with making otome games. This is my first foray with the group with this game. And I'm very impressed from what I've seen of the demo.

(RAGEQUIT) A prince, a house steward, and an assassin. [Otome Game Review]

I've played my fair share of shitty mobage games in my time. Whether it's using babelfish to translate the text, or their engine is bullshit and crashes every other second, I've experienced a good amount of shitty games. Fast forward to now with me trying to play this game. WEW. At least with the others I could play through them in their entirety if  I just stayed determined, but this game goes as far as to frustrate you. This is less a review of the game and more a review of the insane practices HuneX has done for this app.

[Otome Game Review] A Foretold Affair Review

A Foretold Affair is a Steampunk Visual Novel game created by GB Patch, in it you play as an Abnormal, Buffalo Seer who lived in a closed off area called the Sanctuary where only Abnormal's live. Buffalo Seer is a Seer, meaning, they have the ability to look into the future. In order for the Seer to actually see the vision though, they require another abnormal called a Reader, so it's more like Seers show other people their future without being able to see it themselves. I guess Buffalo Seer is really a Buffalo Show-er! Buffalo Seer gets permission to do a reading on themselves one day, as long as other members of the Sanctuary Counsel get to see the vision as well with a Reader, and Seer looks three years into the future.

Skip to Final Thoughts to avoid spoilers

Status of After School Affairs Review

So... I've gotten through Main Story for everyone but on The Second Season, I always get a glitch. I kept thinking I'd wait for an update to come but with the two bug fixes that came out in that time, nothings fixed it. I can't buy Kenzo or Kiyonori's stories. When I click on either of them and scroll to get to their Second Season, it never loads the page, and then when I click to change guys, all the portraits go black. I can't really have this as a reason to report though, since my phone is so old it isn't technically compatible despite the fact I've played many of the stories. For that reason I won't be reviewing After School Affairs until I get a new phone, probably in January. My phone was already very old so this is just one of many reasons to buy a new one. Maybe then can I play Mystic Messenger too.

I know technically I can review for Main Story, but like with my other Voltage games, I want to give recommendations and  warnings for certain stories. That said If anyone is curious on which are fine enough to buy, I have played some of the Side Stories.

What's coming next then? Anything really, I downloaded Alice Love And Labyrinth, but the game lags to high hell. I bought Dandelion Recently as well. It might be awhile until a new review comes out, so I apologize.

[Mobage Review] 10 Billion Husbands

10 Billion Husbands is an idle game mobage, in a similar vein to games like Cookie Clicker, or Crush Crush. In the game your goal is to marry every man on earth (And then some) by submitting Marriage Registers. Think of Marriage Registers as kind of, your cookies in a sense. If you're a madman enough, you can upgrade love points so that the amount of Love Per Second (LPS) you get increases with each manual tap, though I usually just had the app running while I was sleeping or doing something else.

This is also a male counterpart to 10 Billion Wife's, but I noticed the guys in this game were much less original than the wife's, there were at least 3 Joke characters I could think up, 4 if you count the guy with a flamethrower. The CG's you get for leveling your characters high are nice, yet kind of dull looking in a way? The best CG was for Lap-Dog, but I may just think that cause Lap-Dog a cute. There is a bit of an LPS curve around either Scientist husband or Samurai Husband which makes you feel like you don't make enough LPS', at least, thinking if you're a casual player, it might take you a long time to clear. I downloaded the game on a whim and it took me 2 weeks to get every achievement, and that was with me usually running it for hours on end. I'd say for regular players it might take 2 months to beat. Also, there are in fact in game purchases to increase the rate of points you get,but it's very useless for a free idle game to have, so I didn't bother buying any. You can get free gifts randomly, or by sharing a post on twitter anyway, which will triple the amount of LPS you get per tap for a few seconds.

It does feel very lackluster in comparison to another Idle game I play, Crush Crush, but Crush Crush is more of a pseudo Idle game dating sim type game, meanwhile 10BH is strictly Idle. The guys designs were very bland or at the very least, something you see everywhere. And on the gameplay itself, it may say that it continues to rack points while outside the app, but I noticed you have to have the app open and running for it to accumulate points.

All in all, 10 Billion Husbands isn't something to write home about. If you want to kill time, you could potentially become addicted to getting all the achievements, like I did. But other than that, there's not really anything going for it. The main incentive is to do all the achievements to unlock the special illustration pretty much.

[Otome Game Review] Memoirs of an Angel

So, this game took me awhile to just sit down and play. Not really a bad thing necessarily, but the main character, Zuleika, reminded me of a friend I knows OC that they RP with, right down to her weapon being a scythe. Not really that weird just.... threw me for a loop as I played, thinking I was playing as my friends OC instead (that happens to date one of the characters I RP to add to the weirdness)