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unvoiced 2* in a tokyo apartment trying to weld end-of-service anime characters into playstation 1 party games

invelica @canon2/21/2023, 11:53 AM

Tom @iiotenki

Tom @iiotenki2/21/2023, 9:41 AM

Let's put more words to paper about an unlocalized Vita galge in English than anyone else on the entire Internet

You'd think that after recently obtaining some vintage, bona fide bangers like MGS1 and Ex-Ranza, I'd be feasting on classic games right about now as my retro setup nears completion for the foreseeable future. You wouldn't be entirely wrong, I've been doing plenty of that. But I can also never truly turn off the part of my brain that feels the urge to play any mildly novel-looking Japanese galge and see if there's actually any meat to it, which is how, after years of looking at its cover art and thinking, "I like these character designs at least," I finally found myself picking up a copy of D3's Idol Death Game TV on the cheap over the weekend.

#idol death game tv #vita #d3 publisher #galge

invelica @canon2/21/2023, 11:53 AM

"mediocrity like this doesn't come along every day" is one I want to borrow for myself. I love hearing about and digging into lesser-known games that made some level of effort to do things, to varying degrees of success (signed, kuhler kupplung, as I am legally obligated to note)

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Kimimi @Kimimi2/21/2023, 11:12 AM

Oh goodness, now here's a name I've not heard in a long time! Thank you for the detailed write up, Tom - I remember playing this via PS+ years ago and coming away from it rather bored and disappointed, but there was always a part of me that worried I'd just missed the point. I'm glad (in a way) that wasn't the case!

Tom @iiotenki2/21/2023, 11:21 AM

For big time D3 nerds, it sports some developer talent that worked on some of their more famous(?) Simple series adventure game outings, but unless you consider "if you turn some of the girls really fast, you can see their panties as their skirts flip around" to be much of a point (because yeah), then, nah, I can't say you've missed anything at all. Apparently it was one of those games whose price cratered at Japanese retailers within a week of launching and it's pretty easy to see why. For me personally, it kind of occupies that same spot in my brain that led me to completing Sakura Taisen V Episode 0 all those years ago in the span of a single night of just being fascinating in the sheer depth of its mediocrity, but for everyone else who's not broken like me and on an eternal quest to know the true depths of what galge have to """""offer,""""" there's not a whole lot of value at all. So far my main real takeaway from it has been its whole perspective making me finally want to get around to playing Twililght Syndrome, so take that for what you will, ahaha.

Kimimi @Kimimi2/21/2023, 11:22 AM

Oh well if it's made you think of Twilight Syndrome then at least some good will have come out of this experience :D

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