Thank you Peter for answering.

The bold words are our questions and the rest are Peter´s answers.

When did you decide that starting the company JastUSA was a good idea? How did you come up with the name JastUSA?

Back in 1998 we were working with JAST, the now-defunct eroge company that created our first three games (DOS era, woo!). That’s where we got the name for our company. Unlike Japan, there aren’t distribution companies carrying these titles in the U.S., so part of our plan was to also fulfill that role, which is why we carry games by other companies (like the new package versions of MangaGamer’s titles we’ve got on the site, http://www.jlist.com/category/185)

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Why did you choose visual novels/eroge/dating sim games as your product?

Back when the Internet started to get big I was casting around with a friend of mine to see what interesting things we could do with this new thing. Visual novels were something that fans had latched onto through the early web, and it seemed like an appealing idea. Looking back, I’m happy we did something wonky but sustainable unlike so many companies that broke themselves licensing mainstream anime.

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Could you tell us a bit on how you decide what game you try to localize?

We try to make good decisions about what games to tackle based on user feedback, and we also try to do games that there’s demand for that’s not being met (hence our big yuri game last year, http://www.jlist.com/p/p020). That being said, there’s a lot that has to happen for a given company to give us games to translate. They have to be the kind of company that wants to see foreigners playing their titles, they have to be open about doing business with the world, and so on.

It often comes down to the personality of the president of that company — if he likes foreigners and wants to know that his games are being played all over the world, cool. Often the reverse is true — they fear any possible downside. Other factors also come into play, like which companies are in financial trouble (sometimes we are asked to license a game so the company can complete it, as we did with Raidy II).

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Visual Novels, Eroge, Dating simulators. There are a load of different names for this type of game. Why do you think this is?

Back in the day, 1996 or so, we had to decide what to call these games. Visual novel hadn’t come along as a term yet, and a few other names (bishoujo game, gal game, galge) were too confusing for potential new customers, who naturally don’t know the terms of fandom. We locked onto “dating-sim game” because it communicates the core idea almost immediately, even though it’s not totally accurate as dating isn’t always a specific part of the story. We also like to make sure the “game” aspect of these products is emphasized, since that’s easier for customers to become fans of. One term we avoid vehemently is anything resembling “choose your own adventure” since that seems like a book you buy for 99 cents rather than a serious genre of artistic entertainment from Japan that deserves the support of fans.

Currently we use terms like “eroge” and “visual novel” interchangeably for the most part.

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Have your point of interest for visual novel games changed?
In the beginning you seemd to choose only games that had a lot of erotic content. Now you seem to bring in more text focused games that while they still have erotic content this is less than before and overall the games themselves are much longer. Is this because there is a bigger demand for more text and less sex type of visual novels or is it because you want to show that there are more than one type of visual novel?

We’ve always wanted to get a better grade of game, moving from what we can get because that’s all that was available to us, like Gibo or Little My Maid, to more famous titles like the Nitroplus ones. Us having been around for so long, and bringing these games out in a profitable way, has helped more companies come around to working with us.

We’re actually looking for some more “nukige” titles to bring out in the future, titles that are light and fun and not so serious (or hard to translate). Basically if we can mirror all that Japan’s eroge industry has to offer we’ll be happy.

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Are more companies becoming interested in releasing their titles outside of Japan?

A little, mainly because they see that MangaGamer and JAST USA are selling products normally with nothing happening other than happy fans buying games. There’s also increased interest in the market outside Japan because the Japanese industry isn’t very healthy these days, with fewer and fewer package games being made each month and a lot of companies fading away.

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Do you as a company find that the interest in visual novels have grown during these last years? Have the westeners view on the genre changed during these last years?

Definitely, there’s a lot more interest in what the games are, and a lot fewer fans who need us to explain what a “visual novel” is. A lot of that comes from anime series that put visual novel elements in for fun, like Genshiken or Excel Saga or I Have Few Friends.

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As myself is a Xuse fan and I ́ve been waiting for news about Seinarukana, is there anything you can provide us with so we can make the fellow followers of the series happy? Like a possible release date in 2012 or anything?

We’re hard at work on the game. Unfortunately RPGs take like 3x as much work or more, since there are graphic elements to translate in addition to the huge game text. Unfortunately it will probably not come out this year, though Yumina (not made by Xuse but done by the same team) should. We just posted the official Yumina site, at http://www.jastusa.com/yumina by the way.

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Will we be seeing more products from Xuse? Other than Seinarukana I mean.

Quite possibly, it depends on sales frankly. The more famous the company we work with, the more they are likely to want to know how many units we can sell, and they compare these numbers to the Japan side. Some companies say, “Well, we sold 40,000 copies at $90 per copy in Japan, and the U.S. population is three times the size of Japan, so we can sell triple this amount!”

I jest, but as we get better games, being able to break, say, 5000 copies the first year and 15,000 copies within 3-4 years becomes the target we need to aim for, or else we likely won’t be able to continue with these companies.

This basically means that fans who have played awesome games like Demonbane need to make sure they’re purchasing them so the company knows that future releases are important to you too. Obviously we know piracy is a problem, and an even larger issue for a company that has to make a profit from only a few thousand games sold. Bottom line, all fans of these games really need to make sure they’re supporting the industry, as it’s tiny and fragile. Thanks ^_^;;

(We always offer preorders of our games with free shipping/half price shipping for international customers, so fans who want to show their support can preorder at http://www.jlist.com/category/808 )

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When did the idea grow that grabbing Demonbane and more of Nitro+´s games would be a good idea? Looking at the original release date for Demonbane it took it ́s sweet time to get localized.

We’ve had our eye on Nitroplus a while, and were happy to reach an agreement with them three years ago. A lot of the time it depends on where that company is currently, whether they’re in a position to consider localized sales or if they just want to focus on Japan. Happily Nitroplus has been thinking more and more about the wider anime-related industry.

All games are hellish to translate, as there’s 1+ megabytes of text to translate. Demonbane was a special case because it was a Cthulhu mythos game, which means that every bit of text had to cross-referenced with the original Lovecraft books. Nitroplus had the original writer Haganeya Jin (who speaks English very well) check the translation and he gave it a glowing review.

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Could you tell us some spicy new info on what games you are planning to bring in next? As Majikoi have gotten quite the reception with the anime it might be a good title to bring over next? Or do you have something else in mind?

We announced a ton of titles at AX last year, pretty much our whole 2012 lineup, and we’re chipping away at that. School Days, Saya no Uta, Hanachirasu, and more, are moving along nicely. We hope to have some additional titles to announce around AX, but there’s nothing we’ve got firm news on just yet.

So if you haven´t preordered it yet, what are you waiting for, head over to Jlist and their My Girlfriend is the President productpage and make your order

JastUSA describes the game as follows

My Girlfriend is the President is a fun and wacky visual novel full of cute girls, hilarious parody, and stirring romance. The player is Junichiro Hondo, who wakes up one day to find that the world has been transformed by aliens into a bishoujo paradise where cuteness is the ultimate authority. His childhood friend Yukino Ohama has become President of the United States of Nippon, who rules with overwhelming cuteness and a healthy dose of brainwashing. Will Junichiro be able to set the world right? Will he even want to?

My Girlfriend is the President is a multi-scenario romance simulation game with several endings to explore. Through their actions, players will be able to decide which of four cute and quirky girls Junichiro ends up with. Joining US President Ohama are Russian President Irina Putina (are these names starting to sound familiar?), Chief of Staff Ran Miyoshi, and a mysterious girl called Ell who just happens to be an alien starship in human form!

And since I know that there will be at least one “Yes we can” parody I just can´t seem to erase the smile on my face. Just such a good thing to make a parody of.

I have already made my preorder since the very first time I saw it being released. So many good visual novels are going to be released during the end of this year and the next I just can´t wait.

p.s if you instead want Aselia the Eternal you can grab that one right here!!

There are few things that make me dance on clouds even though I´m sick. As everyone knows I´m eagerly awaiting Aselia the Eternal from JastUSA. When I saw that the were bringing it over my mind started dreaming. What if the first game sold so much that they even would bring the sequel over?

Now that dream has come true. According to JastUSA sometime during the time span of 2011-2012 they will bring Seinarukana. The sequel to Aselia the Eternal stateside.

Words can´t describe how happy I am at this very moment. Even though I have a cold.

Finally I can become a follower of Narukana-sama as so many has been before me. Now all I have to do is wait for it to arrive and I can be a happy man.

It´s a whole new world for Ryouji after a scene that could only be called imaginary. With his two cousins he made a jump trough into a new parallell universe when they were almost struck by lightning. Here the girls wear what could only be described as perverted clothes that show a lot of skin. Teachers at school wear bunny-suits and when people are dating the girl usually just wears a tiny tiny bit of clothing to cover her private parts.

The less clothing, the less to hide

In this alternative universe it´s said that if a girl wears a lot of clothes she has a lot to hide from everyone around her. So to show that they don´t have anything to hide they wear little to no clothes. For Ryouji this is like heaven. His wildest fantasies have come true where the girls don´t call him names if he takes a look at their revealing clothes.

To Shana, one of his cousins this is no big deal and she gladly takes on the new clothing type. Shana´s twin sister Yuki on the other hand has some trouble and she even faints the first time when she sees her new school uniform. The game itself explains it pretty well: Yuki is the honor student of the school and has never once violated the dress code for the school. It takes some time for her to get used to the new dresscode. But since she has to go to school after a while she adapts.

The usual choices

I don´t know why the basic setting is like this. For love interests you have your two cousins, another classmate that´s into sewing and your homeroom teacher. With some short indulges with your older brothers girlfriend.

Depending on what choices you make during the game you end up in one of the different routes. You have multiple endings for each scenario, with your two cousins you either end the game in “your” world or you stay back in this alternative world where she chooses a lot of classy outfits to say the least.

In true classic fashion there is also a harem ending that is available when you have played every other route. It´s fun to see how it all starts and the reason they have such activity on school grounds.

What drove me into playing this game

When I read the title I was not that pleased with it. But when watching the image quality and how the girls were designed I just had to play it. The design is glorious and everything is well made. What I didn´t expect to find were the humour. Watching Yuki´s face when she sees Ryouji´s mandom for the first time is priceless. It´s the small details that make the game interesting to play.

I know I shouldn´t do this but I have to spoil one of the endings: Imagine that you are a boy and are well equipped. In one ending Ryouji ends up in a world where the guys have to cover up their mandom with just a tiny piece of clothing. It´s the boy version of the universe the whole game is set in. I laughed so hard when I read everything and saw the CG there. So well worth not getting any of the girls to watch that ending.

So if you´re interested in watching glorious images, design and artwork and can handle a somewhat standard storyline and characters then by all means give this title a look. It´s well worth it. It has some comedy value as well. Calling 911 to ask for the cure of a swollen penis is hilarious

Otherwise it´s the basic setup for a visual novel. Which is both good and bad. Good since it´s no rape or such things. But bad since you´ve probably seen it all before. I´ve said it once but I´ll say it again, what brings this game up from being mediocer is the graphics and the comedy value. These two bring the game up from mediocer to being good.

After what feels like 40 long years one of the most anticipated visual novels is now finished and is shipping(or at least it says it´s ready now). The game is Deus Machina Demonbane and I´ve been waiting for this title for a long long time.

A bustling hub of commerce and industry, Arkham is also a center of eldrich lore: home to Miskatonic University, an institution of higher learning with one of the most complete libraries of arcane literature in the world. In the span of two generations the town was built up to the status of prestige it now commands, an expansion helmed by the Hadou Group, an industrial complex and family dynasty currently run by the young Hadou Ruri. She pursues the peace and prosperity of Arkham diligently, against the forces of darkness threatening to plunge the city, and the world, back into a second dark age.

With inspiration from the Cthulhu mythos I´m looking forward to this title as hell. After having watched the anime I knew this was a game I wanted to play. But as happy I was to hear that the anime was based of a game it hurt me to know that the game was available only in Japanese language.

This was soon after the anime had been aired. Fast forward to a couple of years ago and Jlist announces that they will be bringing Demonbane to the English language. I cannot say how happy I was when I first read the news.

Then the waiting began. Which took some time, a couple of years to be exact. But now finally after having Nitro+ upgrading their own engine for displaying everything, adding some weird notice about how certain scenes are for the “international version” only and what not the game is finally here.

So what are you waiting for? If you want a good visual novel with robots, good story, and what not along with splendid graphics and characters then by all means take some time to stop by to pre/order Demonbane at Jlist.

I know you will not be dissapointed.

This might be one of the hardest reviews I´ve ever tried to write. Considering how the content has affected me I can say that most of the spectrum has gotten trough with despise, laughter and amazement.

I present to you all Catgirl Alliance.

Being the new kid (or a short story introduction)

Is never easy. And this is something that Eiji Tachibana really understands. Thanks to his parents he had to change school midway and he is now in one of the best schools in the country. Sports? Having fun? What are those things the students here ask you. Everything that counts is that they have to study study study. Eiji isn´t that good at studying, so changing schools midway means he has little or no time to make friends.

The only student in the class that makes time to be with Eiji is Shizuko Azumi as she helps him out a lot. As class representative Rumi Takahata encourages Eiji during recess to make friends as that is the one thing he is missing. Except for Rumi and Shizuko all the girls ignore him and the guys are to busy with studying.

To make this easier, Rumi suggests that Eiji joins a club in school. Deciding to take a look around at the different clubs Eiji finds himself close to despair. There is not one single club at the school practicing. They are all badly driven and once again, the members are more interested in studying than to get better at any sport. Almost in despair another class representative gives Eiji the nice idea. He can take a look at different areas in school and ask if they need help. Like maybe the school nurse.

Full of energy Eiji goes to the school nurse after school to ask if he can start working there. But as he approaches the door he starts hearing weird noises. Curious about what he might encounter he takes a sneak peek inside.

What he encounters is truly a sight to behold. Rumi, the class representative is banging one of the schools students. And the poor girl is enjoying it!! Confused, dazed Eiji does whatever a man has to do when he sees some girl on girl action: He sits down and starts to jerk of. Unleashing his climax at the same time as the girls, then feeling shame and leaves.

He missed one thing though. Rumi had been smart and installed a camera to perfectly catch what goes on in the area just after the door. So she knows that Eiji jerked of to her having sex. So she and the other student Natsuki forces Eiji to join their little club.

Which drives Rumi to gather courage to take the next step in her plan. For a long time Rumi has had her eyes on Shizuko. But she hasm´t had any real chance to “aquire” her. With Eiji´s help they manage to trick Shizuko into coming over to Rumi´s place to study where Shizuko is druged and Rumi and Natsuki gives her some pleasure and forces her to join.

So now they are a small little club that wants to enjoy anal sex and search for their destined one to have a “cermony” of becoming real ladies and men.

Standard notice

This is in many ways a standard eroge.

• Sex training is the whole game where “love” comes at the end
• Choosing your route is easy pie. Just choose the girl you want to end up with. Mixing some choices with obvious ones to get Rumi.
• Multiple endings. Good and bad I´d say. Having Shizuko greet you wearing nothing but a dog collar, ears and tail while being pregnant didn´t appeal to me.

So you won´t be surprised there.

The Good

At best though Catgirl Allience is a funny game and might even make some people happy since it does include futanari. The game is light on story and focuses a good deal on comedy.

• Character portraits when used in the normal mode are cute and look stunning
• You will laugh when the girls crossdress and Shizuko “wants to eat him up”.
• Rumi wears catears and tail and acts like a human cat. So cute.
• Comedy accurs with the censur. Sometimes the word “penis” is censured and sometimes not.
• Why Rumi isn´t taking the swim classes: She gets and errection to easily
• What could be considered a trap: Rumi´s step brother with his female looks and puppy eyes

The Bad

While the story is standard. Get forced into a club consisting of largely females. Getting your virginity used up like some sort of cermony and all that is fine with me. What I don´t like with this game on the other hand:

• I have something against parts of this game. Usings drugs to “force” someone into getting their nipples sucked on and breast squeezed is wrong. So wrong.
• In one of the routes Rumi “accidentely” takes Shizuko´s virginity against her will. Why include this when up to that point everything has been anal sex?
• When the image used is drawn like the one above it feels more as if a child has drawn it. Sometimes it can be comical yes but for the most part the design and artwork just change to much in this game.
• Some parts of the translation seems not to know what it wants. As Rumi explains at the beginning before the sex training begins all sexual activity will be anal. But sometimes it feels as if this is a misstranslation and that the characters really do have sex.
• It seems as if all Rumi wants is to have a boytoy and she already uses her step little brother for this. But she wants more toys to play with.
• Characters are not consistent. I doubt that just watching someone having sex will make you change your feelings for that person. Natsuki clearly hates Eiji at the begining but if you choose her route she just opens up. It feels as if we are missing scenes that made them get closer to eachother.

Summary

Catgirl Alliance is a game of many talents. Me myself I got angry, laughed and even wanted to turn the game of multiple times troughout my playtime. Which is really weird. Never before has it happend. There are good and bad parts as well as some standard ones.

As a matter of fact I have to say that this was a first time for me. With all the different emotions filling me up. Just such a weird feeling overall.

Oh my. It´s been a long time since I last made a post here. The reason is simple: I´ve gone trough some harsh family related stuff, my parents got a divorce. When I started to accept that and get up from feeling down then I got struck with my old classic flu light. Muscle pain, sore throat, coughing and just feeling wierd, but no fever.

But now I´m back and it´s quite the news I bring with me.

Finally, and I say Finally since I´ve been awaiting news like this for a long time. The last time I was this happy was when JastUSA announced that they would bring Demonbane and translate it. Now they make me happy again. This time it is one title that I´ve already written about but damn, it is a good title. Eien no Aselia will be getting a translation from JastUSA and they will bring it over to the states in English!!

Sure it´s the all ages version which means no sex or bloody stuff but still. This is great news since from my first impressions post I really enjoyed it.

What makes me even happier is that Xuse finally releases a title outside Japan. I know that it would be a mere slimmer of hope but maybe, maybe I can get to play Seinarukana sometime with an official translation.

So for all those that want to join me. Make a Preorder over at Jlist!!

So, I promised a post about my first impressions of Eien no Aselia – Kono Daichi no Hate de. And here we have it. This is by far the best game so far that I´ve played this year. Hopefully something can top it since it isn´t a game that has been released this year.

Story
Yuuto is somewhat of a jinx, his parents died and he was adopted by his new sister Kaori´s parents. Soon after they also died and Kaori being in coma. As the young child he is he can´t do anything but pray. He wishes for a miracle, that Kaori should be saved and he would give anything for it to happen.

A voice appears in his head, with short and hard to understand words it promises to save Kaori if Yuuto abides to make a contract. To save Kaori and give her a happy life Yuuto agrees to this.

Kaori is saved and they start living together as brother and sister.

They grow older and start going to high school. Yuuto has headaches on random intervalls and he can´t understand it.

These headaches get their explanation the day he himself and Kaori are transported to an alternate world. A world where spirits exists and Yuuto is called an Etranger. Looking for Kaori Yuuto finds himself before the king of a land, Rakios and Kaori is kept prisoner.

To guarentee Kaori´s safety Yuuto has to fight against the other countries spirits as an Etranger.

Characters
There is a great mix of characters and personalities here. Yuuto himself is being torn a part by his mind, is killing spirits alright to save Kaori? What is his other alternatives? He can´t find any. But he still wants to help the spirits that are under his command. They do not have to die if they ask him and he treats them as humans where everyone else is treating them as tools of murder and slaughter.

Espelia, a green spirit in maid clothes is the dorm master one could say and while she is excellent in everything she does she seems to have a dark past.

Aselia is a blue spirit with no sense of living except for battle. It is when she in battle that she is shining the most. Even if she doesn´t speak much and it takes time to get to know her she is full of thoughts and is good at crafting.

Orpha is a red spirit and acts much like a child. She calls Yuuto “papa” and is hyper active. She is a mixed personality, she enjoys killing her enemies as everyone around her will praise her if she does. But she still has a soft side to her.

Lesteena is the princess of Rakios and she does not share her fathers view of controlling the surrounding countries by force. She believes in a world where there is no war and will gladly act the part of the villain to aquire this.

One thing that is pretty cool is that in this game some minor characters, one could call them generic spirits are also given some time in the spotlight if you keep them alive. You get to know them better.

Battles
The battle system is great for a SRPG. So far I am able to have four squads based on: Attacker, Defender and Support.

The attacker is the position where you will attack the enemy. As long as you have a Defender you will not be hurt as a Attacker unless the opponent uses certain magic skills. Any type of spirit have certain attack skills but from what I can understand blue spirits along with red spirits are a good choice for this position.

The Defender is the guard of the squad and is the one that mainly takes the assault of the enemys attacker. Thanks to their high def and hp green spirits are a good choice for this position.

The Support unit is a bit of jack of all trades. They can make stats increase, attack with magic, seal the opponents magic, heal and on and on. All depending on what kind of squad you want to build you may use blue or red spirits here for either cancelling the opponents magic or attacking with fire based magic. Green spirits usually boost defense or heal the squad when placed in this position.

There is also a fourth type of character. These are called all-round but since I haven´t gotten the time to play with any of this type all I can say is that they get to use all their skills in one turn. Which is great.

Battles take place on a world map.

You have a set route where you can attack or move each round. Or train your soldiers. When it comes to attacking or defending a town/castle the siad town/castle can provide special boosts in defense to the defending group. You also regain your skill uses and a fixed amount of HP after each turn is over.

So if you have a town/castle under your controll you have a big advantage.

It´s fun to play and fight. Sure it can get a bit repetetive since they only have so much to say before they use their attacks and skills. But still, this system is great and brings out strategy. A weaker group can defeat a stronger unit if played correctly.

Thoughts
This is the non erotic version of the game. So all erotic scenes and some bloody scenes are removed. But I don´t mind. I like this game and I sure as hell recommend anyone who has an interest in a great storyline and a great system for battles to get your hands on this title. With or without the erotic material.

I just wish that they would work on Seinarukana. The sequel I think it is.

If I should have to complain about one thing it is that the girls are designed to look a bit young for my tastes. Aselia is super cute but she doesn´t appear to have any chest. So while it is refreshing to see that they don´t focus on having a mix of breast sizes it would be better if they had somewhat more different ones in this title. Not that I focus on that when I play.

But just a quick reflection. Otherwise this is a great game.

It´s quite simple. I try to post on Tuesdays as those are my own day for posting here. But yesterday just went and ended without me having the energy or idea to make a post.

The reason? Well for starters as usual I hadn´t been sleeping as I should. I played trough Lunar to the PSP so I might write a review about it soon.

But the biggest reason for me not writing a post yesterday has to be that I found, or should I say that I almost found the God´s own nectar.

I´ve been wanting to play Eternity Sword 2 for a long time. Mainly because of Narukana-sama, but alas, no English Patch and I suck at using the different translations methods available. That or my virus program tells me the big file is a virus/trojan and has been deleated.

So when I read that the first Eternity Sword game had gotten a patch I was very much so interested in this title.

Having grabbed the patch I installed it. And started to play.

My first impressions will be up sometime this week, not just today. This game is the sole reason for me not posting yesterday and making this apology post today.

It is that good.

So now you know why I´ve been gone and silent for the last couple of days. I´ll probably be gone a few days more before I write the first impressions post. Really want to get to know the game system better.

THIS GAME IS GOOD.

It’s been a while since I’ve consistently played a visual novel. These are my first impressions.

Story

Ikusa Megami Verita (or “Battle Goddess Verita”) is the fourth game in the Ikusa Megam series and is a prequel, but is also a sequel to the Genrin no Kishougun series.

As such the game follows two characters.

First is Celica, the God-Killer (Kamigoroshi) who was originally a human male, but came to possess the body of a goddess (long story). As such, he looks quite feminine. He is possession of sword containing the mind of his comrade, Haishera (an earth demon). He is accompanied by Ekuria, whome he has taken as his cohort. Ekuria is the former Princess General of Karsha, deposed by the actions of the other protagonist….

Louie. The half-human king of Menfil (his mother was human, his father was a godly being I think, I’m alittle confused on this bit). Having exiled Ekuria after beating Karsha in the Lesperent Kingdom (god these names are great) in Genrin no Kishougun 2, he is depressed. His wife Irina is now dead, killed by Ekuria (who was under influence of a curse at the time)

Both come into conflict with the emergence of a new threat known as Bureado and a new sect of demons.

Gameplay

Whilst simple, the gameplay does somehow manage to make me not dread random battles as I usually might.

The combat is an interesting mix rectangular based areas of Disgaea and the relative turn based gameplay of any RPG. Instead of just casting the same spell over again, you are able to to power-up your spells to one of 5 levels at the cost of MP (for magic) or TP (for power attacks).

In helping out beginners, the game offers a nice gradual difficulty curve. There are lots of refill points, and you can easily return to any visited area if you want to grind more levels. The AUTO system is still present and allows you to let the computer take the best course of action for you, or if you are too lazy to sit through level grinding.

Both Celica and Louie play using the same system. Cept I found that Celica’s side is more magic based, whilst Louie’s is more power attack based.

As some new added features. Sidequests are now accessed through a separate station, which is good as in the previous game (Ikusa Megami ZERO) it was more a matter of stumbling upon them.

Art

The game is in widescreen format, which is always a plus. The art is beautiful as always, maintaining a sense of moe and seriousness.The backgrounds of the game are surprisingly detailed. This really does look like a 21st century eroge.

Sound and Music

As with all Eushully games, only the female characters are voiced, but thats fine , cause they are all so damn beautiful.

The music of the game is astounding. I was not expecting too much, though the last game in the series had some relatively awesome tracks. The battle music, for general battles and boss fights, has much been improved.

Note: it may take a while. But let me upload some tracks over the next few days

Overall

It’s a relief that this game has turned out quite awesome. My understanding of the story is limited, but regardless I am able to play through it with ease. Completing this one is going to leave me empty.

Sorry for making this review short. Gotta keep playing.