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VN of the Month October 2024


I feel like developers actually started to put effort into settings to at least remain memorable.
 
1. Putrika 1st.cut プトリカ 1st.cut [Totometori]
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--I'm not human. They call me a devil.
The story begins with a shocking confession between Remi, a boy who works as a jewelry engineer who was raised by demons, and Lazriel, a girl who loses her memory.
She follows Remi's guidance and begins to live her peaceful life, but soon she is plagued by inexplicable dreams. In her dream, she was called Ilsa and was a devoted believer with deep faith in the Archangel.
You're lying! Pretending that the devil exists!
People doubt the existence of witches, and an insanity trial begins.
A drama about a girl's crazy pure love that is finally revealed as innocent people are executed due to false charges.
Even though I know this love is forbidden...
And you will know the truth.
Android girl is a popular concept for kinetic novels by amateurs.
 
2. Natsume Ryouran -High-Spec Noukin Youko no Renai Kitan- なつめ繚乱 -ハイスぺ脳筋妖狐の恋愛奇譚- [CyberStep, Inc.]
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The fox spirit "Natsume Kamishiro" is both your partner and a long-time childhood friend with a complicated history.
As demon hunters you both bear the significant responsibility of "exorcising demons" to protect the town.
However...
Natsume, under the guise of a "patrol" around the city, will drag you all over the place.
A shopping district with an amusement park!? A park with a pool!? A card shop!? For Natsume, dealing with monsters is of no concern!
High-spec and bewitching! Even while being tossed around by the carefree Natsume, you’ll still carry out your duty of monster extermination…
Vtuber something
 
3Tsubame no Sedai つばめの世代 [PECOLIEN]
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Hundreds of years after the fall of human civilization due to a large-scale war. A rational and cold-blooded young man who has been living on the battlefield all his life, is attacked and injured by bandits.
Wounded, he takes refuge in an abandoned shelter. There, he meets a certain person. A babysitting android girl manufactured a long, long time ago. Because of her overly meddlesome personality, he gives in and decides to stay with her while recovering from his injures.
This a joyful and emotional story of a human who has forgotten his heart, and an android girl who feels more than a human.
Android girl is a popular concept for kinetic novels by amateurs №2.
 
4. Harukanaru Nirai Kanai 遥かなるニライカナイ [Navel]
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On the eastern edge of this ocean, lies the Nirai Kanai.
Agarikata────
One of the eleven cities in Okinawa Prefecture, it is the only city that does not have police forces, instead, a vigilante group called Ookmiza, takes up their duties. But Ookmiza is just a front for the group, its members are made up of descendants of the Ryukyu Kingdom, which was dissolved in the past.
To eradicate the Majimun, a demon that has been around this region, the power of the Kaminchu from the Ryukyuan people is necessary. Without this spiritual power, the Majimun cannot be destroyed, and for this very reason, the Ryukyu Kingdom is specially allowed to be restored by the Government of Japan.
At the top of Ookmiza, stands the third King of Ryukyu of the third dynasty, Tsukishiro Ichito, during a time of peace, he runs a café named Kijimunah, occasionally operates a food truck as well.
One day, as a matter of course, Ichito protects a runaway girl calling herself Misaki. In order to reach Nirai Kanai, the Land of the Gods and the Land of the Dead, Misaki arrives at this eastern city. Nirai Kanai is merely a legend, even Ichito, the King of Ryukyu, does not believe in its existence.
However, Ichito.
His encounter with Misaki as the start.
Beginning with the authenticity of Nirai Kanai, Ichito gets caught up in a major incident that affects the survival of Ryukyu Kingdom.
Okinawa speech seems to be the main attraction point here, but love story in exotic circustances and atmosphere with enough humor is a safe enough bet for an above average game.
 
5. Minagoroshi no Otome. 鏖殺ノ乙女. [metalogiq]
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— A revenge tragedy of the black-haired noblewoman, who burns sins to ashes with black flames —
Suddenly appearing, the invaders known as "Celestial Beings" pushed humanity to the brink of extinction.
These grotesque and massive beings ignored all calls for help and brought destruction everywhere. Human cities were burned one after another, and Earth was ruthlessly ravaged. Forests were burned, fields were poisoned, and the seas became a death world covered in an oily film.
In that moment of despair, a light appeared to save humanity.
"Magical Heart"
A miraculous gem that only the chosen maidens can possess. With its power, these maidens, who defeated the Celestial Beings, came to be known as the "Jewel Princesses."
Eventually, the academy city "Seika Renaissance Polis Fukkou," symbolizing the revival of humanity, was completed. Known as "Fukkou Academy," it became a new light illuminating humanity,where chosen maidens from around the world, selected as candidates for the Magical Heart, gathered.
However, all of this was a lie—
The black-haired noblewoman, Misogigahara Towa, who lost everything
was the true discoverer of the Magical Heart, her mother, the creator of the academy city, was killed, and her sister, who was turned into a monstrous experiment, begged to be killed by Towa herself.
— The enemy is the "Student Council" that controls the academy city.
— The successor of the traitor who took everything, the Student Council President, Akatsukinomiya Eris.
Clad in the black flames born from the Magical Heart, Towa plunges herself into a pitch-black revenge drama. As the Black Jewel Princess, she engages in a magnificent "dance battles" with the maidens who possess the Magical Heart.
Until the day she avenges her mother and sister and reclaims all the Magical Hearts
It's girls love H-centered action work in the frist place, and whole revenge story is more of an exotic setting for that. Can't also be considered story-centered work because of a large cast of characters that come and go without much meaning put into it. But half-naked girls fighting is not necessarily a bad concept. 
 
6. MOON GHOST ムーン・ゴースト [Purple software]
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"Welcome, ghost of humans, to lunar base 13, the "Garden"."
2199 A.D.
Progress in sciences has finally allowed androids to observe the soul of humans, also known as "Ghost."
Resolving the ghosts' sorrows and regrets, this role is given to these kindhearted androids.
The protagonist, Da'at, a recently activated android, wakes up in the lunar base "Garden" and takes up their duty.
This story is about a kindhearted android as they form a connection with the Ghosts. A tale following the sound of a bell secretly signaling the end of the world.
Professional companies can't afford to present a kinetic novel about android girl... so they need to put many android girls and even android protagonist instead! Of course exotic setting is needed too. But under that wrapping is a normal charage where no one even really feels like android. Routes are inventive, but nothing that an experienced player would not expect or be surprised of.
 
7. Otome Sekai no Arukikata オトメ世界の歩き方 [Orthros]
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――Spring 21XX.
Due to the rampancy of radical feminists, Japan had become a society completely dominated by women. In accordance with the "Gender Segregation Act," established a few decades ago, immediately after birth, boys were sent to concentration camps, and raised as soldiers to deal with an ongoing war. Savage men were eliminated, the world had truly become a society of women, by the women, and for the women, a Utopia for Maidens!
However, in such a world, there was one boy who tried to survive while hiding his gender. Formerly a child soldier in the defense forces, because of certain circumstances, he hid himself in a remote village under a fake identity, and lived peacefully with his adoptive mother and sister.
Our story begins when the boy is ordered, under the instruction of a social management AI, the "Mother," to attend the training school of the "Security Forces," a women's armed forces.
Along with his sister who decides to come with him, the boy sees the city for the first time, a decaying, yet gorgeous garden of maidens. While hiding his true identity, he attends a girls' school attached to the Security Forces' headquarters, when he is assigned to live in a dormitory, he meets a kindhearted girl named "Akari." Also blessed with a couple of seniors, during his strict, yet enjoyable training, the boy gradually befriends the girl, and develops feelings for her
But the reality remains, there is still the fact that this world is harsh on men. A society where the extremists are demanding the extinction of men. If his identity is somehow revealed, there is no telling what will happen. In fact, even the girl who should have been kindhearted, cheerfully declares.
"My dream, to eliminate all the men!"
A normal cross-dressing game with great production values and better than usual stage. It's not really thought out seriously, so it's primarily a trap game, and story lags behind while being neglected a lot. 

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While you chose newest Navel VN for the possible candidate of VN of the Month for October 2024, actually the most fitting one would be Putrika in which it gather enough votes and rated favourably even though it's the serial VN with only the 1st part (Or 1st cut as the title mentioned) available for now. That said, we have several interesting title released in October 2024, so I'll talk some of it below.

Putrika - Its a new VN by the new publisher Totomeori, although looking from the staffs it's Uguisu Kagura in all but name with their most known VN is Lupercalia (I guess they decided to go as doujin circle to save some money), and by that obviously they're not amateur when it come to making VNs. The story is about a boy who is raised by the demon met with the amnesic girl who plagued with she has the dream being the very devoted believers to the Archangel. Obviously there's much more than that, especially if we see on how dark and dramatic Lupercalia can be (And apparently they still keep the good voice acting performance in here). Anyway, Putrika is available on Steam even if it's only available in Chinese and Japanese, and the developer asked anyone who want the English language support should add this in their wishlist. While the full title indicate this is only the first part, the reviewer did say the story is completed enough, but obviously the writer still have more to tell looking from how they titled it as '1st cut'.

Moon Ghost - Well it's interesting on how Mikage who has been writing most of translated Purple Software VNs decided to write a short work, and Purple Software decided to use the new artist instead of the usual one. My interest is somehow they decided to use Kirikiri instead of their own engine, which if we know is the source of pain for any publisher who worked on this (Especially with on how Nekonyan did their best to port Aoi Tori until Purple Software decided to interfered because how long the engine work is). Oh yes, they also have their other new VN, Lip Lipples, use Kirikiri, so perhaps Purple Software may decide to move on from their old engine, which to say may be for the best in case they still want to localize their own VNs. By the way if I may be honest, I only find Realive as the most interesting one when it come to Purple Sotware remaining VNs, although I understand no publisher want to deal with them in order to get Realive's license.

Otome Sekai - Obviously knowing the writer did write Otome Domain, one would expect him to write another moege with klutzy heroine (We even have Minato's VA return to voiced the MC, Yui). Instead, what we get is the MC live in a world where the male was trained as the low ranking soldier with female took over the important position in the society. Enter Yui who survived after being sent into the battlefield enter the woman military school under a mission. Seeing the story was written by Otome Domain writer, Yui quickly prove himself that he can be as good looking as Minato when it come to disguised as female, and so his mission was going off without too much problem (Of course his identity will be revealed to his love interest). The VN structure is quite interesting, in which it only has one heroine instead of three like in Otome Domain, and yet the writer didn't write this as serial VN so there's no chance to see the other characters as the heroine.

Minagoroshi no Otome - Unlike Otome Sekai, the MC for this, Towa, is explicitly female with she laser focused on avenge her mother who was killed after being betrayed, and more importantly Towa was forced to kill her sister who was forcefully transformed into the monster by the traitor. So she enter the school who has its Student Council President being the descendant of the traitor, and Towa will bide her time until she can exact the revenge. The VN is the second main work of Metalogiq after Dead End Aegis, with it has magical girls. Also compared to Dead End Aegis, there's surprisingly much less rape with the story focusing on GL. That said, there's still rape even though it's lesbian one, and there's still some disturbing sex scenes with the perpetrators are male (So don't expect the sex scenes will be all lesbian). JAST have the license for this, and we still don't know on when they'll release it.

That's all for what I can talk about the release in October 2024.

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