Rant: A [Subject] stole my Quickies

[moroboshiyuumei]

Having finished with Boy Meets Girl and Kazoku Keikaku, I can talk about my current game and what else is on my to-do list at the moment.

Hoshiuta: The third and latest game in FrontWing's unofficial -uta series of games, Hoshiuta has quite a few expectations to live up to given the elements that made Yukiuta and Sorauta worthwhile

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G.J on the decline?

[anonymous]

Hmm . . . I take it even Sano T.'s art won't save GJ very much now if you hate their stuff. Even so, why is Julietto from Queen Bonjourno in Hime to BOIN anyhow? Is her route in this game better than her route in QB?

I think GJ must be desparate if they have to resort to a "breast inflation" option for the heroines at the beginning of Hime to BOIN. That's essentially a lot of budget and time devoted to something that isn't really very consequential.

Signed,

Mazryonh

Re: G.J on the decline?

[moroboshiyuumei]

The breast inflation thing has been around for a while, and was part of the boin series of games since it was created.

Part of the issue is that G.J. has been jumping genres since it came to be. Akibakei was very much like something May-be soft or (to a lesser extent) Front Wing would produce. FutaHaha was more along the lines of something Guilty or Lilith would produce. Anata no shiranai kangofu was more like an M no violet game...there have been stragglers (Seven, Majodou), but that's the general gist of how things are with them. The boin games helped keep the company alive from the looks of it, but you can only use a bunch of women fighting over one guy so many times before things get boring.

That being said, GJ would need something very impressive to redeem themselves in my book. In part I wish Sano would just beg a Yamada Hajime-caliber writer to write a story for him with someone from I've or Elements Garden doing the music. Bring back Nishida Komugi, Maki Izumi, Kawashima Rino, Renka-san and maybe Tamiyasu Tomoe and you might

oops

[moroboshiyuumei]

About Juliette...she and Tetsuko-hime are recycled characters that were brought back for shits and giggles, for lack of better words.

Tetsuko, as we all know, is one of the more known semi-mascot characters used in Tech-Arts (Tech-Arts being the parent company of G.J.) games and the alter-ego of the character Misaki Renka. Tetsuko-hime is the only character that suspects she is a fictional character (a unique way of breaking the fourth wall), and is not too happy to find out that she has a "real world" counterpart in the voice actress Renka-san (which is hinted to being the same Renka that appeared in Seven).

Juliette is brought in as the "imperial-type" princess, and for the most part is a rehash of how she was in Queen Bonjourno. As far as I can tell, Queen Juliette and Hime to boin Juliette are two different characters, though references to Queen are made here and there (Juliette dressed in Meguru's school outfit at the end of her route, mentions of her legendary inability to cook).