I picked up a copy of Koikatsu Party earlier. Well, more accurately I paid for a copy on Steam to assuage my conscience and then downloaded a pre-patched, modded version of the Japanese original, since there's more stuff in it.
If you're unfamiliar, Koikatsu is exactly as the title suggests: it is Honey Select Unlimited, but anime. In other words, it has the in-depth character creation and excellent Studio app from Honey Select, but eschews the more "realistic" art style in favour of anime cel-shading. And it looks lovely.
I haven't played with it enough to really have anything worth sharing yet, but I'm looking forward to fiddling with it some more. I haven't yet decided if Midori and Yumi will get an "upgrade" — I'm rather attached to their Custom Maid 3D 2 incarnations — but we'll have to see how things go. In the meantime, I'm interested to see if Koikatsu's output is sufficient to make convincing visual novel sprites, since I have a few ideas in that regard rattling around in my head, and a lack of art assets is always the thing I find the biggest roadblock in putting something together.
I have Monday off as a public holiday, so I'm going to spend the weekend chilling out, playing with Koikatsu (and doubtless some Flight Simulator as well) and just having fun, then I'll get the next couple of weeks' worth of videos done on Monday. I also have Thursday and Friday off from the day job that week, too, so that will be nice.
For now, after not sleeping too well last night, I think it's off to bed with me!
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