Rant: Quickies! Apply directly to the eyes!

[moroboshiyuumei]

Sadly, I did not make the deadline I set for Hoshiuta ~Starlight Serenade~, as the degree of badness contained within its installed files makes me want to throw something at my screen with almost every route I complete.

As such, I'll mumble about it a bit and then see what I can come up with...

Hoshiuta ~Starlight Serenade~: After the lacking

Comments

[hybrid_xisha]

Sorry to hear you had to wade through a lot of crud in your gaming! Sad...games should never feel like a chore you have to force yourself to finish.

-.-

[moroboshiyuumei]

Personally, the annoyance is more aimed at Front Wing and Hoshiuta. Despite not being a company that would make A-list games, Front Wing has had a track record of making decent titles. It came more as a rude awakening, though what bothered me most is that the rest of the game is great. Voice acting was up to par, character design were decent, presentation and music were good, but the meat of the game happened to be lacking.

If it had been a budget title with Hoshiuta's story, I would probably have been a little more forgiving, but a well-funded production really should not have come out that way.

A certain character from Starlight Serenade

[anonymous]

Ruisu,

According to the following picture, Shizuka Itou (one of my favourite seiyuu for both anime and eroge) voiced a character, Arisa Houjou, from Starlight Serenade:

http://tinyurl.com/yh3powt

How did you like her performance? Shizuka Itou may not have the vast eroge CV like Ryoko Tanaka did or even the experience of someone like Sanae Kobayashi (among seiyuus who voice eroge), but I think she's got a great range and probably one of the biggest presences in mainstream anime among eroge voice actors.

Sadly, game productions whose writing was badly underfunded or underdeveloped have been everywhere since gaming went mainstream, not just in eroges. All the special effects and pretty graphics and computing power in the world won't make a bad script better. The same goes for movies *cough* Avatar *cough*. And what's even funnier is that the general audience never seems to learn.

Signed,

Mazryonh

Re: A certain character from Starlight Serenade

[moroboshiyuumei]

I wanted to cover a good chunk of Houjou Arisa once I got around to writing a piece on Starlight Serenade, but for now I can say I really liked how she was portrayed. Itou Shizuka's presence explains why Arisa sounded so familiar before I read the credits (and did a follow up investigation >.>). She is one of those few ups in the story, with the other being Seiko-sensei, despite there being some dragging of plot points involved. At least neither was as blatant as Yui or Nanano, though.

The proverbial punch to the stomach from the writers of Hoshiuta came with the school festival story they added with Starlight Serenade. They had a chance to nod at how Sakura Taisen 2 handled their Christmas episode, but alas...I can cover some of this later, actually.

Eroge with high-flying seiyuu talent

[anonymous]

Sure, I'd like to see an entry covering Arisa's story

Re: Eroge with high-flying seiyuu talent

[moroboshiyuumei]

Heh I know about maji. After all, a copy of it is sitting in my HD, waiting to be played. I was trying to decide between that or return to my search for Zwei Worter. I think I may have to put that to the back burner and focus on maji if it's that loaded with well-known VAs. I did not know Wakamoto Norio was in it, though. I knew about Isshiki Hikaru (an obvious choice for a game like it) and a handful of others, though.

Kao no nai tsuki.....I remember that because in our old IRC channel back in the days of Aoshi Anime, someone started passing around copies of a scanned artbook for the game. It was definitely well drawn, so I may revisit that someday.