1 - EratohoK. Honestly speaking, I was skeptical at first. I mean, up to that point I had never played any text-based game related because I always thought that they couldn't make you "feel" the same when you read a VN and see the actual scenes, what happens in that moment and so on. But after playing it I got hooked so much: the sex system within, the massive amount of things that you can do inside even though It's just a simple text game only, everything is just so cool. And the replayability of this makes it even better.
2 - Love Love My Buddy (from Megrim). A frickin' game that have a massive amount of content for being just a simple RPGMaker game. Unfortunately the only thing that you can do to play it is just using some third party programs to extract and translate the text in real time since no one up today bothered too much in making a translation (beside probably the usual partial, which covers only the stats, items and such. Though honestly I didn't even see that around the internet), but after setting everything up you're good to go. Many female "candidates" for you to choose and conquer and then in the end, get one of their ending. And even after finishing the game you can keep playing, though sadly at the current state is pretty pointless. I wish that Megrim would've updated the game a little more or put something after the "main storyline" for each of the heroines (I don't know, maybe some NTR even or anything. Were planned, but never fully implemented), or maybe the fact that you could've built your own harem with every other heroine (since iirc, after choosing one you're pretty much locked with the others and thus, you can't do anything anymore), but it is what it is. Still a good game.
3 - Ochiru Hitozuma (Fallen Wife, Lilith). Oh boy, this one here is a good title in every way possible. I think that this could be (of the translated game from Lilith) one of the most interesting and awesome made by them. The first that give this game an infinite amount of points is the fact that you play as a shota nonetheless. Don't misunderstand me: I love even some of those with adults where they take the girls away from someone else, but watching/reading a NTR novel with a shota? It's pure gold. You would honestly never expect anything of the sort. I mean, you could with an adult but with a boy/shota? Not in a million of years and this is what makes this awesome. Plus, the second thing is the fact that some of the scenes are animated
4 - Grisaia series. Unfortunately, I can't really say that much about this since I'm still stuck at the first chapter of the trilogy (and spin-offs, as well as the true trilogy sequel of Phantom Trigger), but I'm positively sure that this is one of the most beautiful VN that I've read and only another one made me cry at the end of the different routes, mostly because of the stories told and the past that all of the heroines have been through (and the adaptation even though cuts most of the content, is still very good nonetheless).
5 - If My Hear Had Wings. There, I said it. Just above I mentioned another VN that made me cry and this is the title of it. Let's just say that MoeNovel it's not really a good publisher di per se and the horrible things that did to this game to make it All-Ages on Steam, some times gave me the simple though of giving up. Wasn't mostly because of the +18 content cutted from it, but for the fact that even a simple kiss was censored. Censored. A fucking kiss? That is the most pure thing in the world? That made no sense at all. But thank god someone decided to make a restoration patch (though not really 100% accurate because some months ago was released another one, much better than the one that I've played long ago but I honestly don't want to play it all over again. I spent something like 40 or 50 hours in it and I don't have anymore all of this time) and I got around to play it, and was worth it. All of it. All of the hours spent in it.
6 - Koisuru Natsu no Last Resort. Another game similar to the above, but made by another one that is called Pulltop (and/or Pulltop Latte, but the devs are the same more or less). This one didn't make me cry mind you, but the theme here even though was so damn simple (spending an holiday on a resort while faking the fact that you were the boyfriend of your senpai and in the end you even get to fall in love with her, within her route) the whole settings was so enjoyable, so good. And the OST too was damn good, to the point that I even went to youtube and put the main title on loop because of it.
7 - Taimanin series (again, Lilith). What you want me to say about this? I mean, by now everyone knows this series and they're well acquainted about it and the amount of rape and tentacles that you can find in it. Honestly speaking, when it comes to tentacles I always skip that determined scene because I just can't stand the fact that a girl (being good or evil) ends up being raped by.. a pair of slimy things that are just that and have no souls because, again, are aliens. Yeah yeah, you can say that it's not like this but for me it is, and even getting pregnant from those are inconceivable for me. I can understand everything, futa and even bestiality when it comes to pregnancy but tentacles? Hell to the no. So aside from this, it was a good series and now seems that Rattman (or however is called it) decided to translate Taimanin ZERO. So let's see what the new year brings, in the end.
8 - Roundscape Adorevia. Even this I take that everyone by now knows what this game is about. Honestly speaking, I never finished this game because of the periodically updates that the devs release every month or so but I'm planning to do that in one way or another. Anyway: various "origins" to choose from, good enough RPG mechanics, story that for what I've read so far it's not that bad and huge amount of content. Sure, the fact that most of the CG's taken were made by lots of different artist might turn off someone out there, but wasn't my case here. Mostly because I enjoyed so far most of them.
9 - Renryuu Ascension. This one here I'm still trying to figure it out how the main story (if there's one, but I take that yes, in fact someone is there) can unfold through the various things that you can do within this RPGMaker game. I'm saying this because after the intro, you're thrown out in managing stuff here and there with an open world (well, not literally like The Witcher and such, but is still awesome) that have lots of places to visit and quests to take, but other than my surely inability in playing this game correctly, it's safe to assume that is a very good title.
10 - Lilith's Throne. This one here is pretty much like EratohoK, meaning that is text-only and you won't see any CG's anytime soon. But the sprites made for some of the NPC's are good enough to keep your attention focused on this, as well as a sex system that is literally beyond this world given how much effort was put inside. You can choose to do lots of things, what fetish give to other and so, so much more. Sure, it's not like Erak in terms of general gameplay since with this, your main objective is to conquer other nations and in the meantime you can choose how to: enslave, corrupt, take away their leader or even kill them iirc, but there are lots of things to do. And the really positive side of this is the fact that is still in development and there are so many other places that needs to be unlocked along the way and so much more NPC's that we have to meet. So I'm expecting lots of good things from this in the near future.
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About what I'm looking forward to play the next year (generally speaking, so may be within this forum or out from here):
- Maggot Baits from MangaGamer. They're so close, yet so far from releasing this title and I'm cursing them so much right now. I want that (iirc) futa-muscle-girl right now. That it's from the bad guys nonethless but I honestly don't care (I mean, the whole title "reeks" of bad guys here and there, so there's really no difference now that I think about it).
- Generally speaking, I'm hoping for a game from Illusion that can be a mix of HS and AA. Having a game with the gameplay of AA where you can go everywhere within the school (but maybe even much more places than that. Every time I hope that, like AG3 in the end that had lots of places to go, but everytime I end up disappointed) and the graphic of HS would be a wonderful thing to play. One can only hope, am I rite?
- And again, I'm hoping that KISS will release the so-called English Custom Maid that they announced months ago (or this summer?), since lots of people were more than favorable for playing such a gem (I might download the second and Order Maid.. but they're so fucking huge at the moment, even with the repack themselves. If then we think that the unpacked game most likely will be 140 GB or more.. goddammit, I can't. I don't have enough space for it). Again, one can only hope.
- And like everyone else, most likely, more awesome VN's translated that are out there who needs, really, a translation.
