Category: Reviews
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Review: Volontés

魔女と亡霊のヴォロンテ Completion date: July 31, 2025 The game currently only has Japanese download version. After an initial unsuccessful attempt, they have met their Kickstarter goal for an English localization and will be targeting end of 2025 (but latest end of 2026) for an English localization. They have plans of porting the game to Steam as…
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Review: OVER REQUIEMZ

Completion date: July 24, 2025 After finishing some older titles I decided it was time to try an anticipated new release this year. It exceeded expectations. Translated Director Review PROS: CONS: My play order (hyperlinks to jump to each route also included): Molly > Claude > Noil > Kaize > Dorothy Recommended play order: Molly/Claude/Noil…
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Review: BUSTAFELLOWS Season 1

Completion date: July 20, 2025 Along with Gensou Manege, I started this game in early 2025, January to be exact. This is a long review. Quicklinks: Mozu/Scarecrow/Limbo/Shu/Helvetica/Final Thoughts I only played the happy endings for this game. As the game advertised, the play order does not matter because you’re experiencing each character’s individual story and…
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Review: Gensou Manège

Completion date: July 17, 2025 This game was played as a group-play/book-club esque Discord project as the game was ported to switch. Yep, the game was started in February, then life and work happened. FINAL THOUGHTS FIRST I’m going to be straight up that this game was not really my cup of tea so every…
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Review: Birushana Senki ~Ichijuu no Kaze~ (Birushana FD)

ビルシャナ戦姫 ~一樹の風~ Completion date: February 27, 2025 Overall rating: 6/10 Worth the time and money (I’d wait for a sale) if you enjoyed the first game. The highs are really high but the quality of writing in different routes is inconsistent as are the CGs. Shana fortunately manages to slay in all of the CGs,…
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Review: Trouble Magia

トラブル・マギア ~訳アリ少女は未来を勝ち取るために異国の魔法学校へ留学します~ Completion date: February 5, 2025 From Wand of Fortune we dive into Otome Hogwarts but in 2024. Like many, I initially bought this game without high expectations given all the hype last year around new J-otome releases are Uchronia, Matsurika, or Mistonia. I am a longtime fan of the artist Suzunosuke, who is…