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For the past couple of days, I have been focusing entirely on Fortune Arterial game progress.  I really should have played this game several months ago but I blame it on a short summary that I read and gave me a totally wrong impression on Erika… but since the 64 bit compatibility problem surfaced last month, I quickly picked up my pace and decided to dive right into the game.

My main focus on playing Fortune Arterial is of course to learn about the stories of the two heroines I am interested in, namely Sendo Erika and Kuza Kiriha.

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So today, I would like to set a little time aside to talk about regional protection of eroge game in general.  Before Windows XP came along, the only way to “properly” run Japanese eroge games was to purchase a separate copy of Windows 95 or Windows 98 and install them into a separate partition in the main hard disk using an off the shelf MBR overlay software such as System Commander… that was how I used to run Windows based eroge game back in the early 90s.  Windows XP changed all that, with the ability to install East Asian language pack and applocale basically took care of all the language compatibility issue for the past decade or so… However, the situation is starting to change again … quite possibly after a public outrage of having an eroge game called “Rapelay” released by Illusion being offered for sale in Amazon UK in early 2009, a string of Eroge game publishing companies have begun tightening the sale of their software outside of Japan, some companies have decided to ban all ip addresses except for those in Japan, some companies have implemented tough regional protection scheme, company such as Triangle.

I have have always been a fan of Triangle Soft’s game, their long line of Mahou Senshin games

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It’s been a month since I began playing Illusion’s latest game @HomeMate, I have had little expectation to start with but the game did not disappoint me, at least not as bad as some of the more recent Illusion titles.  I think I have managed to about 2/3 of the way before I lost interest of stroking the mouse all day long because that’s what it will eventually turned into when you play one of these sex simulator games >.>;  Only this time, I didn’t quite give up on the game totally, I soldiered on and play to Noa’s ending at the very minimum.  Since Illusion has already announced their next game 勇者からは逃げられない!, that just served as a final nudge in the back to finish up @HomeMate.

On day 21, only the girl with the highest affection will show up on the map where you will get the ending scene.

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It’s been almost two weeks since I started this Yoake Mae yori Ruriiro na Visual Novel marathon run project which includes the original Yoake Mae yori Ruriiro na Visual Novel (2005) August soft, Yoake Mae yori Ruriiro na -Brighter than dawning blue- (2009) Aria soft and Yoake Mae yori Ruriiro na -Moonlight Cradle- (2009) August soft, it’s a massive undertaking that I have never attempted before.   But after over a week worth of effort, I am finally getting close to the midway point.  This project really started when I redecorated my room with three Feena fam Earthlight Dakimakuras and one bath towel, then all of a sudden I wondered about how much do I really know about her.  Sure I have watched Brighter than dawning blue ~Cresent Love~ but that may not be adequate given the amount collector’s items I have on her and the fact that the animation may not represent the game character adequately.  On top of that, I have always been curious about the 2nd tier heroine Natsuki Takamizawa and the new cast from PS2 port Estel Freesia.  All that curiosity became a massive determination to drive me to work on all three Visual Novels in a row.

The effort really paid off, I really enjoyed the games so far, the games frequently put you in the main character’s shoes and have confronted you with questions that don’t have a clear cut answer.  After I finished Feena’s normal end and Natsuki’s end, I started talking about Natsuki’s story in an earlier post while I really should have started from the beginning and give the proper background information regarding the the whole story.  Without further ado, let me set the record straight once and for all.

Update: I have updated this page to include some of my other posts related to the game

Edit: Re-publish and sticky post to include Bonus Wallpaper from Moonlight Cradle Premium box

Feena fam Earthlight’s normal ending

Estel Freesia’s ending

Natsuki Takamizawa’s ending

Warning, this post is massive and full of spoilers, intended for those who want to learn the story but have no way of playing the game.

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Finally, I finished the true episode, Brighter than dawning blue arc today.  I would like to give it some thought before I finish Feena’s story since the true episode is completely different from the anime counterpart.  The similarity between the game and the anime fell apart after Karen took off for the moon. The end result may be the same, but the process to get there is completely different!

Update: I have updated this post to include some of my other posts related to the game

Feena fam Earthlight’s normal ending

For now, I am moving on to the PS2 port version because I have to replay Feena’s arc again to better refresh my memory and to get to Estel Freesia.  Stay tune for an update on Feena’s story and Estel Freesia later on

Three nights worth of hard work I have managed to get to the final arc of Brighter than dawning blue…  Before I even realize it, I am starting to develop a habit to talk about Bishoujo game character profile, I may eventually devote a specific section just for that.  Some people might wonder why I care so much about the story, and to that I can only say the eroge scenes are not as exciting as if one do not understand the story that is leading to the scene and what happen afterward.

The final arc, Brighter than dawning blue 夜明け前より瑠璃色なhas finally shown up on the game menu.  With this, I can finally finish this game and move on to the PS2 port version and work on Estel Freesia.  I really like how the stories are setup in such a way that you don’t have to start over from the beginning.  However, in order to get to this point in 3 nights time, I have to summon the all mighty “crtl” key a lot, I skipped over Mia, Mai and Sayaka while finishing Natsuki and Wreathlit’s stories.  I have always wanted to dive deeper into their stores since I watched Cresent Love.  Since Feena’s story has already been well covered in Cresent Love, I am going start talking about Natsuki first.  Eventually, I do plan to go back to cover Feena’s story after I finish the final arc to settle any differences between Cresent Love and the game, eventually the after story in Moonlight cradle.  While I could hardly wait to finish the rest of Feena’s story, but I feel compelled to cover Natsuki’s story first because her story is relatively unknown.

Basic background information can be found in the Yoake mae yori ruriiro na wiki page, although some  information may be inaccurate

Update: I have updated this page to include some of my new posts on the game, it’s highly recommended that you first visit the following links first.

Feena fam Earthlight’s normal ending

Estel Freesia’s ending

Natsuki Takamizawa’s ending

Major spoiler to follow

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I am not sure for what purpose I am writing this post, but I just feel like getting it off my chest.  For a better part of 7 years now, I have been collecting merchandises ranging from painted resins, PVC figures, posters, stick pillow from the eroge game Beat Angel Escalayer from Alicesoft.

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Woah, took me the whole day to finish the remaining of Feena’s arc just to find out that wasn’t the end of the Feena’s story -_-; I have to finish Mia, Mai, Natsuki and Sayaka in order to unlock Wearthlit then the final arc Brighter than dawning blue would be unlocked :s Out of the remaining group, I am only interested in Natsuki’s story, what to do ;s

Anyway, my impression for the game after this first play through has been very good, I am quite happy with the quality of August soft game, I have no choice but to play through Fortune Arterial now (this is going to keep me busy for weeks now).  It’s a shame that I didn’t notice this series sooner (partly because I was too involved in FFXI during that period of time when the game was released and I was pretty much out of the whole eroge gaming scene).

Anyway, what a huge shock for me.  Feena is actually quite a naughty girl!  Get this, the first eroge scene was initiated by Feena, not you!  I know this is an eroge game, but this is quite unexpected given I watch the anime first.

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Next up for the photo session treatment is my newly acquired gathering kit from E2046.com, Subaru from the eroge game Choko Sennin Haruka.

Choko Sennin Haruka is a heroine, insult, ninja, training + ADV eroge game release by Alicesoft back in Feburary 2008.  Previously released figure related to this series includes Takamori Haruka from Alter and the yet to be released Shihoudo Narika also from Alter.  Subaru is considered as the third and non-cannon heroine as she only joins you mid-way through the game and did not have her own cho-henshin costume.  Despite the fact that Alicesoft did not consider her as main heroine, she is actually rather popular among the fans; probably due to her mature body build and her beautiful long black hair + ponytail.  In this write up, I am going to attempt to give a summary of the game story as I would focus Subaru’s story as she joins the team as I don’t think I can talk about Subaru without talking about Haruka and Narika.  I would finish Narika and Haruka’s stories in future write ups, otherwise, it would be too long.

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The story began a few hundred years ago where Haruka and Subaru, both ninjas from Jougenshuu clan were battling against the Noroi clan in an attempt to recover a rare treasure that is capable of controlling time, stolen from their village when they were away.  In order to retrieve the treasure from Noroi, they have to defeat all four of the 四道封者(Shidoufuuja) with each guarding their own respective gate within Mugen castle.  Haruka, having sustained injury by defeating 桔梗太夫 (Kikotayu) in the previous battle were sitting on the sideline while Subaru took on 大蛇丸( Orochimaru).  Just when Subaru was gaining the upper hand, another shidoufuuja showed up, this time it was 鋼一刀(Hagane Itou), the vice commander of the Noroi clan, the strongest swordsmen from the Noroi clan.  Subaru realized that Haruka did not have the strength to participate in battle and decided to take on Hagane Itou alone, but only have to have her right arm cut off by him.  Subaru knew that there was no chance for them to win against Hagane Itou and advised Haruka to retreat from the battlefield while looking for a way to hide inside their castle and track down the eventual destination of the Noroi clan as they prepare for time travel.  Reluctantly, Haruka obeyed her senpai and ran off by herself.

In the next scene, you are zoomed to the present day.  You play as Ikusabe Takamaru, a high school student who just got rejected by your most recent love interest because your cousin Shihoudo Narika, who also happens to be your martial arts instructor and landlord, Shihoudo Seigen’s daughter told your love interest you have over 50 ecchi books, 1000 ecchi pictures in your computer and over 100 eroge games in your possession!  While you lamented over the fact that Narika always seems to be in your way of finding romances (10X total), you decided you need to find your next target for a change of pace.  You walked over to the gym to try to recall the feeling of meeting your most recent love interest; as you approached the gym, you noticed there was a huge commotion.  You forced your way through and you were greeted by these images.

The shining and soft looking hair, pure white skin, lips that look like sakura petals, her kind eyes, and her beautiful curve body that is being fully revealed by her tight gym suit…. instantly, you were love struck again.  All within 30 minutes!  While you were in your love struck mode, you heard a scream from a distance.  A whole group of students went back to the school yard to find out what happened.  As you arrived at the school yard, you found out there is a male student standing on the roof and trying to commit suicide.  You decided you can’t leave the guy alone; you went up to the roof to try to stop him.  You tried your best stop him but almost end up getting dragged down the roof along with him and you were screaming for help yourself.  Your vision blacked out as you caught a glimpse of an angel.

You woke up at the school nurse office and you were greeted by Takamori Haruka, the angel you just met in the gym!  While she seemed to know everything about you, she did want to find out why you were willing to put yourself in danger to save a stranger.  Instinctively, you told her that you simply can’t let someone die in front of you, whether he is a friend or not.  Feeling satisfied, Haruka left the school nurse office.  As Haruka left the nurse office, you were greeted by the school nurse Kurogane Akira who filled you in on all the details regarding Haruka including her three sizes: 88, 62, 90.

Back in the training dojo, you ran into Narika, who couldn’t believe you were in a love struck mode again so soon after just getting rejected in the afternoon.  Right when you were talking to Narika, your martial art instructor Shihoudo Seigen entered and prepared to introduce the new assistant instructor, who is none other than Takamori Haruka, the angel you fell in love with!  Feeling lucky, you challenged her to a test of strength as the number two student in the dojo with full intention of just making body contact.  To your surprise, you were easily disposed of without so much of a fight.  While you were admiring Haruka’s true skill, Narika went up for the challenge as she thought you went easy on her because of her beauty.  While Narika was able to put up a surprise attack, she was of no match to Haruka either.

After the training session in the dojo, you were walking home along with Narika and were ambushed by a group of Noroi foot soldier.  Luckily, Seigen and Haruka showed up just in time in her full ninja costume and took care of the foot soldiers in an instant.

Haruka reintroduced herself as a ninja of the Jougenshuu clan from a few hundred years ago, who has been pursing her enemy known as Noroi to this land.  While Narika was questioning the truthfulness of Haruka’s story of time travel, Seigen stepped in and explained that hunting down the Noroi clan has been their mission as Jougenshuu clan passed down by the word of mouth through the generations.   As Haruka tried to explain the origin of the Noroi clan, Orochimaru of the Noroi clan showed up with the intention of capturing you, the recipient of dragon power of this generation.  As Orochimaru explained, the dragon power is necessary in order to heal Noroi’s wound.  During the commotion, Seigen advised you and Narika to leave the situation for them to handle and retreat.  And Haruka, having learned that Surbaru is still alive within Mugen Castle from Orochimaru were forced into great disadvantage against him because of her depleted strength.  Unable to leave Haruka alone, you stepped in between Orochimaru and Haruka even though you knew you had no chance of defeating him.  As Orochimaru was making you his practice target, Seigen stepped in and urged you and Haruka to escape because her power is necessary in order to save this world.

When the two of you reached a nearby alley, Haruka began to explain that you were actually the next Jougenshuu leader of this generation and you possess the power of the dragon that is unique to your bloodline.  Feeling a bit embarrassed, Haruka asked you to help her restore her battle power as she began to take off her ninja outfit.

Feeling completely dumbfounded, you were at a lost as to why Haruka began to take off her clothes as this was no time nor place to do anything ecchi.  Haruka explained that in order for female ninja of the Jougenshuu clan to reach their full battle strength, they must experience sexual arousal through the hands of the Jougenshuu head-and that is you!  While you were unsure about doing ecchi stuff to Haruka for this purpose at first, you were able to recharge Haruka’s energy to full at the end.

Haruka re-emerged from the alley full of energy and gained upper hand against Orochimaru in an instant.  Right at this moment, Mukuroi Ensai the leader of the Noroi clan, along with Hagane Itou and many foot soldiers showed up in the scene and demanded you to turn yourself in to them, being totally outnumbered, you were on the verge of giving yourself up.

As you walked toward Mukuroi Ensai, you were stopped by a familiar voice.  The origin of that familiar voice came from your school nurse Kurogane Akira, who revealed herself to be part of the Jougenshuu clan.  She flipped open her mobile phone and activated a seal which covered the whole city with a five pointed star.

The seal caused everyone from the Noroi clan to suffer great pain and they were forced to retreat, but not before taking Seigen and a bunch of Jougenshuu clan ninja as hostage.

Three days later, you woke up at Akira sensei’s house as you recall the events of the past few days.  Narika’s father, Shihoudo Seigen,  Haruka’s seipai Subaru and a bunch of Jougenshuu clan have been held captive inside Mugen Castle, Noroi clan’s main base.  And in order to save them and defeat Noroi, Akira have entrusted Haruka into your capable hands and you became responsible to recharge Haruka’s energy.

This mark the end of Prologue

Now the real story begin, I am glad that not every eroge has a prologue this long… wait… Toushin Toshi 3 has a prologue that’s easily 10 times longer!  Well, let’s not worry about that… if you haven’t been bored by the story so far, we are about to dive down to each heroine’s specific story.  And we will start with Subaru, this might feel a little out of place right now as she only joins you further into the game.

Subaru is a very skillful Sennin who specializes in ice ninjitsu, and a very experienced sexual partner.  She has a cold exterior demeanor and initially had trouble adapt to the present age.

She projected her past Jougenshuu head onto you and she felt your easy going attitude as not fit to be the next Jougenshuu head.  She initially rejected the idea of  recharging energy through your dragon power and forced you to perform early morning exercise until you fell ill.  In one instance, she sorties without your permission and she ended up falling into an enemy trap without much battle energy.  You got up and despite your illness and deployed Haruka and Narika to rescue Subaru.  After this incident, Subaru began to understand that although you are different from her past Jougenshuu head, your kindness and selfless attitude made you equally qualify for the Jougenshuu head position.  As the game progresses, Subaru and you began to develop feelings for each other.

During her time as captive to the Noroi clan, she was continuously tortured by demons in graphical details that is too much to be doctored up and shown in this website .  Despite the continuous torture, Subaru never gave in and one of the Shidoufuuja, Kikotayu ended up controlling her mind by infusing herself into her missing right arm.

Kikotayu

Subaru under mind control

Near the end of Subaru’s arc, Kikotayu was able to land another curse on Subaru just before her dying breath.  This curse on Subaru ended up providing a host body for Noroi to temporarily resurrect himself.  He captured Haruka and Narika and demanded you to hand over your dragon power.  As a last gap measure, you invited Noroi (in the form of an insect) into your body to retrieve your dragon power so that he had to give up his control over Subaru.  As Subaru regained consciousness, you ordered her to stab Noroi thru your body while you use your power to hold Noroi near your chest area.  Subaru ended up stabbing you with her chokuto and killed Noroi.

In the aftermath, you and Subaru were in your honeymoon after getting married.  But your honeymoon was forced to cut short because a heavily armed criminal organization has shown up and they needed Subaru’s strength.  Before you were able to do anything, Subaru reminded you that you need to give her a morning kiss before you can get up!  How sweet

The end of Subaru’s arc

Oh man… that took a long time, but at the same time, I have renewed my own interest in Subaru as well lol.  Now if you are still with me here, we are onto her photo session!  As I mentioned before, the unique point about this kit is that almost every pieces of her clothes are magnetically attached to her body, save for her stocking.  The following photo session were taken as I assembled her from pieces.

Photo session

I would say the paint job and shadow are done very well, the skin tone may be a little pale in the face for my taste. With an interchangeable arm, magnetically attached clothing and the gold trim around her waist belt, this gathering kit is full of gadgets.  The only catch about this kit is the artificial right arm seems to have a very tight of a fit against her body to be assembled right out of the box (and I ended up shaving some resin off her arm to force it in).  As a result, it’s nearly impossible to cast off her lower half body.

This is a first mega post for me!  I ended up putting in a lot of details on the background story and well I did end up playing the game over just to be sure I don’t make any false assumption.  As a result, I ended up finding stuff that I missed during my first play through.  In the end, I feel it’s still a benefit for me.  As usual, I would like to seek some feedback on a feature like this, photo session + background story.  Is it too much details or just about right?  Next write up would most likely be Haruka and I am saving Narika for last since her new figure would come out in July.

So I finally completed the Hiyori arc last night, it was good… better than I thought it would be (I played too many dark eroge, a light hearted love story is a good change of pace).  Now Chu x Chu is not a new game anymore, it was released back in 2007.  It didn’t catch my attention then, the only reason why I decided to play the game was because of the numerous reviews I came across on Hiyori Pixie figure by GSC.  The pose is graceful, the facial expression is charming and the costume or lack thereof, plus the ability to cast off.  I usually prefer figurine with long hair but she will do fine without it and make it up via other departments.

Hiyori Pixie

So my quest began to find out more details on Hiyori Pixie (because of my stubboness, I insist on finding out as much information as possible on every figurine I have).  I am tempted to talk about the whole game since I have pretty much understood 90% of the game but the fact that I only completed the Hiyori arc and have no intention to finish the whole game, may be I should just stick to the Hiyori’s arc.

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