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It’s been a while since I last wrote an eroge game post, I guess the time is just about right now since the latest game from Illusion Soft Schoolmate 2 すくぅ~るメイト2 was just released a few days ago!  For the past couple of years, I haven’t been exactly happy with most of the Illusion releases, save perhaps @Homemate and Schoolmate Sweet; Real Kanojo was a disappointment as it failed to capture my attention for more than 15 minutes.  However, back in April, Illusion soft announced their new latest game Schoolmate 2; the Schoolmate series, one of the few entertaining games coming out of Illusion soft in recent years.  I have been playing this game for a few hours now and so far it’s been decent, so let’s take a look at it.

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I guess many of us may have started to lose faith in Illusion soft’s ability to produce entertaining games in recent years but they have announced earlier this month that they have been working on Schoolmate 2, and Schoolmate is the last remaining play worthy title in their line up in my opinion. This might look interesting~

I am on the Illusion soft newsletter and I just got this info today, nothing much is available yet except they introduced all the heroines today.

Features that were introduced in Real Kanojo like 2 mouses operation will be ported into the Schoolmate 2, why do you need 2 mouses? Well you sort of always do uses 2 hands right?

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With the last game from Illusion soft Yuusha[You Can't Escape From the Heroine] ended in utter disappointment, so bad that I didn’t bother writing a blog post about it (I gave up within 10 minutes of game play); I was really on the fence on whether I should even try to play their newest game Real Kanojo リアル彼女 which literally means Real Girlfriend.  For the last couple of years, Illusion soft has been focusing all of their effort on “sex simulator”, gone are the days of action adventure game such as AGA and *glup* can I say Des Blood 4Schoolmate Sweet! and @Homemate turned out to be adequately entertaining that I was at least curious about the game, boasting as their latest innovation in 3D technology and it even come with a pair of 3D glasses with the purchase of the game, by the account from Illusion soft, their demo version of the game has been downloaded 600,000 times!

And there is the opening screen~

After the opening screen you are presented with 3 girls to choose from~

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How should I put this?  I think I sealed the deal to adopt all of the Dollfie Dream that Volks licensed from August soft the moment I decided to adopt my thirteenth daughter Kiriha… because soon after I finished the paper work to bring her home, I suddenly came up with a very dangerous idea about doing a group photo based solely on the August girls (I call Feena, Estel, Erika and Kiriha as August Girls because they are all based on Visual Novel from August Soft, Brigther than Dawning Blue and Fortune Arterial respectively).  Some of my regular visitors here probably have read about the summary story I have written for Estel last year [Estel Freesia's normal arc].  Overall, I have to say I have taken a liking in her but not necessarily strong enough at the time to adopt her Dollfie Dream form last year, but I have in various occasions thought about doing so.  I have regretted over not picking up her Kotobukiya 1/8 scale figure when it was on sale last year, and I have been thinking about redeeming myself one of these days.  I even picked up her priestess uniform and her casual dress already, preparing to have Feena cosplay as Estel for photo shoot… but that plan fell apart after I came up with that group photo idea…

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I really didn’t plan on adopting Estel so soon since I have just paid for Rina, Yuki and Kiriha and was planning to wait and see what Dolpa 23 had to offer before going for her; however, a very special deal on Yahoo Japan Auction came up this morning offering a brand new DD Estel and her casual dress for 70k with buy it now option.  Even though I have already acquired Estel’s casual dress in a previous auction, that deal is just too good for me to pass up!  For those of you who is not familiar with Estel’s casual dress, I have found a website that show us how versatile that dress is!  With the dress valued at about 20k yen, that effectively put a brand new Estel at 50k, which is almost as good as a steal! View Full Article »

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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So for the past day or so, I have been playing the newest 3D cellshading game from Illusion Soft @HomeMate, after the disappointment from Hako and SchoolMate Sweets! the general gaming community has taken @HomeMate rather cautiously.  But Illusion did not disappoint us this time, @HomeMate is probably their best attempt in combining the successful elements from Artifical Girl 3 and SchoolMate and turn it into some 3D cellshading, simulation and dating game!

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I have played with AG3 for a while, but I always thought the sex simulator and the ability to roam the environment was cool but the game  would get dull without any story element attached to it (and I did get bored of it after a few days), SchoolMate has a decent story to it but it’s more like a story book you just read and lacked the “dating” aspect.  Illusion soft has answered our call and combined the elements from both games and turn it into @HomeMate.  I am really excited about this game and I am relutantly taking my time off from the game to blog about my first impression of the game!

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Now that I got my main computer back in order, it’s time to catch up on the latest release on the eroge game scene!  I was going to start playing with the new Illusion Soft game @HomeMate today, but I was distracted by a little application call DesktopMate Esk that came with the game.  Very nice for Illusion to package one of their most popular heroines Esk who debuted in their Des Blood 4 ~Lost Alone~ 3D adventure game a few years ago.  Ever since then, almost every other game Illusion released would inevitably come with some sort of Esk costume, like Sexy Beach 3, Artificial Girl 3, etc.  Why Esk you say?  Well, she is a blonde twintails, have cute face, green eyes, etc…. I don’t know, but I have always taken a liking in Esk too.  Enough to distract me to actually play @HomeMate lol.

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As we are drawing close to the end of May, a new Illusion game @Home Maid is slated to hit the street.  Judging from the information I have been able gathered so far, I have reason to believe it will be a better game than the previous two releases from Illusion Soft, as both Schoolmate Sweet! and Box-Hako- both failed to generate enough interest in the gaming community.

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So, with only a few more calendar days left before the new game comes out, I finally brought myself together and try to finish up Schoolmate Sweet! that was released back in Feburary this year.

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About time to do an update on Schoolmate Sweets!  A comrade over in HongFire have taken the hard work to locate the necessary /h code for the game text to show up properly in AGTH.  Here is what it looks like after going through AGTH and CP2TRAN

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NSFW after this point

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