This feature is getting more and more irregular as the weeks go by, and I just hope I can keep up with this despite my laziness I’ll be sure to post about the real meaty news I see, I’ll just be more ’selective’ if ever my schedule gets all clogged or I get lazier orz.

Game Updates

PC
	Garnet Cradle: Story, Character, and Gallery page(s) of the official site have been updated. Lijakaca already gave the heads up about this game’s story as well as its characters, so you can just enjoy the yummy pics in the official site’s gallery page, albeit only a handful for now. The premise reminds me of Fushigi Yuugi, but Garnet Cradle can easily top it off as the real EPIC WIN (in terms of the gorgeous character designs, and interesting plot)
PS2
	Junjou Romantica: Junjou Romantica homepage officially opens (since the last time the site was just an empty space). Game intro, story, and character page(s) are up, the other ones are still ‘Under Constraction’ (lulz Engrish XD) So you have the 3 Junjou Romantica ‘arcs’ here, and it’s said that you get to play each and everyone of them o_o;;; The question is, how do you get to do that? Do you choose who you are in each of these arcs, or whether you’re the seme or the uke, or whatnot? Oh and the release date for this game has been moved to November 27, 2008.
	Real Rode: Real Rode release date has been set! It’s gonna be on the 4th of December The character page in the site has also been updated, so you can go check out the character info and listen to them sexy voices. This game boasts of a stellar seiyuu cast, more info of which can be found in Lijakaca’s blog post about it (man those SDs and the screenshot of the actual ‘battle’ makes me want to play this more, it looks real fun! T__T) Yura-sama’s artwork for this game was enough to pique my interest, and after finding out that this game features an otaku game-freak heroine who already has a boyfriend (who apparently doesn’t know about her otaku identity :P), I was hooked and never set my eyes off it ever since. I always like games with a mix of otome romance and RPG-ish elements, and unlike previous “RPG” otome games, the gameplay for this one seems pretty exciting.
DS
	Shugo Chara! Amu no Nijiiro Chara Change: It hasn’t been a year since the first Shugo Chara game was released on DS, and now it already gets a sequel. Whoo boy! This game seems to be toying on the idea of having Amu chara-nari with just about any Shugo Chara, which reminded me of this votation that got recently concluded in Nakayoshi, about other chara-nari combinations the readers dream of seeing. If this game is gonna feature an Amu x Yoru chara-nari, that’d be soo cool Oh and Daiya is in this game now too, though I wonder if she’ll just go back to being an egg not long after you chara-nari with her o_o
	Comic Garden: Prepare to faint as you hear the voice of the hotties in Comic Garden! Character pages now include sample character voices, with more event CGs too. Miyano Mamoru surprised me the most, I should say. His voice is… different, it’s deep and husky and so un-Mamo-like o_o Oh, and kamiya Hiroshi surprised me too, since I got used to his Kouichi or Natsume voice… I haven’t watched Sayonara Zetsubou sensei so I had no idea how versatile his voice was. More game info (and piccies~) in Messe-san-o’s Comic Garden page as well as girl-style’s. And I soo can’t believe this is _just_ a DS game. The graphics are soo gooodd.
	Marl Oukoku no Ningyou Hime (Rhapsody): Official homepage is up (where you can go view the PV of the game) as well as girl-style’s page dedicated to the game. You can also view the PV here: Show ▼ WPvideo 1.10
	Mori no Cafeteria: Here comes yet another food-making simulation game for the DS, or rather a cafeteria management sim game in this game, in the name of Manga no Cafeteria. I stil have no concrete idea as to what thsi game is about, but it’s sure gonna be cute, sweet, and yummy~ On sale this coming December 2008.
Mobile
	Otome Himitsu no Ouoku: Another mobile game gaijins like you and me can only drool at T__T The story of the game seems to be more bland compared to Love Maji (it lacks the lulz aspects and the voice too), but it does have a charm of its own. Set in feudal era Japan, you play as a royal princess in this game, who succeeds the royal throne as you turn 16. You can’t rule over the land as a solo queen of course, so you have to find yourself a suitable husband, aka the future king of your land. All you have to do is choose among select-few husband-to-be candidates. Ah, this girl sure has love life easy~ And omg, is that a shota trap I see among the characters?! I’ve been fooled! T__T
	Nijiiro no Oujisama: This might be a bit late of a news, but I don’t think I’ve seen any mention about this game in English sites (or I just haven’t searched enough). It’s a mobile game (darn it!) released last year, way back September 2007, whose story I don’t care much about because the art says it all for me. The art of the game is by the character designer of Code Geass, so it looks really awesome +__+ I demand a port! with voice! T__T You can take a look at the PV here, and lament with me. Show ▼ WPvideo 1.10
	Love Recipe ~Koi no Essence~: And yes, this one is another mobile game to ease us otome game gaijin fans. You can’t possibly go wrong with a game entitled “Love☆Recipe ~Love’s Essence~”, right? This game has a mix of dating-sim and sweets-making simulation part, and the characters have awesome seiyuus too. Yuichi Nakamura (yet again!), Hikaru Midorikawa, Daisuke Hirakawa, Daisuke Ono, and Tomokazu Sugita, among others. Sigh, Japan, you make me saddd.

That’s all for this week (and last week)’s game updates. Looks like I didn’t have Misc game updates this time, because I’m really biased for most of the games I mentioned (Real Rode and Comic Garden should’ve been placed there since they were but site update announcements, but oh well~ :P)

Yoshi, now I’m off to finish my route and also Hinano’s in the Renai blogger lool.

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