A handful of screenshots from a PS1 game I've been playing in my downtime lately by the name of Fire Woman Matoi-gumi. It's a really nifty little high school simulator that takes place entirely within the confines of the school itself where you're basically given free reign to spend a school year building up your character however you like and hang out with whoever you want. I might write about it and its neat character growth system sometime later, but at the very least, I wanted to post a handful of screenshots because the pixel art in this game is something else. Surprisingly crisp and detailed in a way that honestly reminds me more of modern day homages to this era of games than anything else, if that makes sense, and with a ton of cute, bespoke situational animations to boot. It may not shock some of you to hear that this was originally a PC-FX game and, indeed, if there was one platform in the mid-90s that tended to trade in this specific sort of sprite-based fidelity, it was definitely that.
All of which is to say, lord help me, I thought I was going to make it through life without a PC-FX darkening my doorstep, but I guess that's going to have to change one of these days as a matter of due diligence or some such. 😩
