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Time for Getchu Award 2021, and the winner is Sousaku Kanojo. Also here's all 20 VNs that get the award below, and you can view the source from this link. 1. Sousaku Kanojo no Ren'ai Koushiki - Aino+Links 2. Happy Live, Show Up! - FAVORITE 3. Meikei no Lupercalia - Uguisu Kagura 4. Motto! Haramase! Honoo no Oppai Isekai Chou Ero ♥ Succubus Gakuen! - Milk Factory 5. Monkeys!! - Harukaze 6. Kunado Kokuki - Purple Software 7. Nee Nee Nee - Atelier Kaguya 8. Omoide Kakaete Ai ni Koi!! - Hooksoft 9. 9-nine- Shinshou - Palette 10. Waga Himegimi ni Eikan o - Minato Soft 11. Yubisaki Connection - Hooksoft 12. Madohi Shiroki no Kamikakushi - Lump of Sugar 13. Role Player: Okayu Shimai no Nenmaku Portrait - Gurigucha Live! - Akabeisoft2 This is story about a manga artist who is dissatisfied with his work and draws adult manga under a different name. He finds himself at a resort called "Costaria," where he encounters a pair of sisters who want to act out the scenarios from his adult manga. 14. Venus Blood HOLLOW International - Dual Tail - 15. Amayui Labyrinth Meister - Eushully 16. Homestay A La Mode - Atelier Kaguya HonkyTonk Pumpkin 17. Yukiiro Sign - Wonder Fool 18. Hoshi Ori Yume Mirai - Perfect Edition - tone work's - 19. D.C.4 ~Da Capo 4~ Fortunate Departures - Circus 20. Fuyukara, Kururu - Silky's Plus Once again there's additional awards for each categories, and here's the categories awards below. Best Scenario: Meikei no Lupercalia Best Game System: Senkou no Clarias Best Graphic: Kunado Kokuki Best Soundtrack: Happy Live, Show Up! Best Movie: Sousaku Kanojo no Ren'ai Koushiki Best Character: Ayase Aisa from Sousaku Kanojo no Ren'ai Koushiki Best Erotic Contents: Motto! Haramase! Honoo no Oppai Isekai Chou Ero ♥ Succubus Gakuen! I'll try to comment more on this later on, but if I may something right now it's quite convenient that we have Hollow available in English and that we just got Hoshiori Perfect Edition full translation patch two days ago so at least we already have two title already in English (Coincidentally both of the title are actually re-release). Also I know that I wrote 'Best System' at one of the category in the last year list, although now that I look at it actually the full sentence mean 'Best Game System' so I decided to translate it as such (By the way I'm quite surprised that Clarias is the one that won the award instead of Amayui Labyrinth Meister, but perhaps it mean that GIGA can still make some nice gameplay there).

Are you calling me a cuck? I'm not sure I understand what you mean by that? As for being hot or not - as someone above said really well, I prefer when characters in VNs make love instead of performing porn for the audience. I don't really use VNs as fap material (waiting 20+ hours until a sex scene kinda defeats the purpose...) - to me sex scenes in VNs are just part of the story, so I judge them solely based on whether they make sense in the context of the story or not - this one was extremely out-of-character (in my opinion), used what I believe to be a cheap writing shortcut to justify the out-of-character behavior, and ruined a great setup (again: in my opinion) for a very well-written character (you could take it in any number of directions, and I would have been fine with a lot of non-vanilla options too, such as Reina suggesting being FWBs instead of dating because she had commitment issues, to give just one example - that would introduce a lot of interesting drama into the story while still being believable; but the writer went for pure fanservice and threw just too many things into a single scene, out of frickin' nowhere). If you actually play VNs (mainly) for porn (which is totally valid and no less legitimate than my approach), then I can totally see why you would love that scene. No need to call me names just because I have different preferences - I respect yours. Yeah, like I said above: I'm not depressed because of a fictional story, if that's what you're suggesting. I was just disappointed a fictional story took a turn I strongly disliked and thus I wasn't able to enjoy it anymore. Pretty normal thing that happens to everyone, I think? I've seen bits of Chrono Clock and the entirety of Happymaher; saw nothing wrong with them. Or do you mean a different company? Also, if you're suggesting I can't handle extreme stuff - I played Subarashiki Hibi and was fine. You know why? (spoiler for Subahibi below) Basically, I like it when a story sticks to the genre it communicates early on. I know a lot of people love to be surprised by sudden genre changes, and that's a perfectly valid preference too. Personally, I really don't like mood whiplashes. So, if Kinkoi hadn't established itself as a moege during my first +50 hours of playing it, I wouldn't have been upset by that scene because it wouldn't be unusual for the game. But if you meant that Purplesoft does mood whiplashes / sudden genre changes like that, then thank you for the warning, I'll try not to buy their stuff, then. Definitely not on purpose, but thank you for pointing that out. I was kinda assuming people actually read questions? Too late to change that now, but don't worry, people on different forums made it quite clear that I'm in the minority. Not sure what I would be trying to accomplish if I was actually trying to be underhanded, though? It's a poll to tell me whether my opinion is popular or not, so why would I be trying to manipulate its results? To lie to myself? That would defeat the entire point of this thread.

Yesterday I finished another route in Tenshin Ranman - this time it was Aoi's route. It was good route - perhaps even better than Sana's. I have soft spot for childhood friends, but I think this wasn't 100% typical osananajimi route. I mean, Aoi wasn't the kind of childhood friend that would come everyday to wake him up, bring the homemade school lunch and confess her everlasting love Instead they had pretty nice friendly relationship, with healthy amount of banter. And so they struggled pretty hard to step-up to the lovers level. The thing mentioned in the spoiler above is the story gimmick that could be seen already in various charage titles, but nevertheless they handled it pretty well. Also, when they finally overcome the difficulties, the route has quite good dose of ichaicha - even in All-ages version. Or, dare I say, the making out in all-ages version of this route is even sweeter than the sex in the original version So, all in all, very nice moege route. Now I think I'll try the two mini side-routes for Mahiro and Yukari, and after that I'll tackle Ruri's route (which is recommended by various reviewers to be read last), and then finally Mikoto's route, which is exclusive to all-ages version. It seems that Mikoto is another goddess. Also, interesting fun fact - this game seems to be the first untranslated one to be reviewed on the Joyjason's blog, and there he said that he prefers all-ages version - even though he confused the platform it was released for back then (it should say PSP, not PS2) Judging by my experience with the game so far, I second this I also read Micchi's and Zen's review, and my feelings about routes seem to be exactly opposite. They thought that Aoi's route was the worst, while so far it seems to be my favorite one. Hime's route that I played first wasn't bad, and the "plot/action" part about preparations for school festival was nice, but the romance part felt somewhat lacking.

Yeah, that would make nice reason for reread **************************************************** Today I finished another route in Tenshin Ranman - this time it was Sana's (little sister) route. It was great - much better than Hime's route, at least for me. How to say it... - it had proper tension, and just the right amount of drama. And quite satisfying ending.