I've been playing some PC-FX again. I started First Kiss Story which I am enjoying quite a bit. I can follow the Japanese quite well in this, maybe due to the reading level, or perhaps it's just so similar to Welcome to Pia Carrot. I wasn't sure what to expect from this exactly. I don't like the character designs right from the start. I feel the stylized forehead proportions draw too much attention and make the girls look like Frankenstein. Not one to judge a book by it's cover though, I find everything else about the game so far charming and endearing. In fact I was quite impressed with a scene I'd like to describe though it will spoil it:
You may uncover a scene where you can do karaoke with a girl. She started singing and my impression was to maybe stop and listen to her whole song but I was like "whatever" and kept going with the dialog. Then she asks you if you liked her singing. I said "Yeah, it was great!" (it was not) and she called me a liar and said she saw me not paying attention. Curious I reloaded and this time listened to her whole song and chose it again and she appreciated the complement.
This is the kind of thing that turns your expectations on ear and shows some real creativity and willingness to experiment on the part of the developers. Perhaps it's just the relatively small number of ADV games I've played, but I've never encountered this before and it was refreshing. I'm interested in playing some more and finding out what else the game has in store.
I also am interested in playing some more Megami Tengoku II. My issue before was that I was not sure what the goal was. I've since read that you are trying to win hearts and minds to get people on your side over a period of time (like 6 months or a year or something). I'm not sure exactly how you do this, or how you can tell how well your doing, but I'm interested in giving it another shot. I did read that wearing various outfits can help and I ran across a somewhat disturbing term Burusera shop which is where you can buy one of your outfits from. I think the reference in the game context is purely comical, but it's still a little creepy. At any rate I'm interested to check out a little more of the game. I'll try to do some more videos sometime soon.
