#oneaday Day 660: Bounty

I've received three separate Play-Asia packages over the course of the last two days. I guess everything all became ready for shipping at the same time or something, because these were all orders made at very different times!

Here are the goodies in question. From left to right, we have It's a Wonderful Life, the Clannad spinoff featuring Tomoyo (from what I remember of the anime, best girl); Maitetsu, the loli train girls game; Moero Crystal H, which hopefully you all know about already; and Murder by Numbers, a fun looking adventure game in which you solve puzzles through the medium of Picross.

All of these are going to get some coverage at some point, though obviously I don't know exactly when — especially as all of these are pretty substantial affairs. Recent Nintendo Life reviews have left me with more half-finished games than I care to have, so I'm going to try and polish those off first. Conveniently, both of those are also things I'd like to write about in more depth on MoeGamer, so expect some musings on Undead Darlings and Moero Crystal H in the coming weeks/months/whenever.

I finally reached an ending in Nurse Love Syndrome earlier. It is what is known as the "Gatekeeper" ending — in other words, an ending which basically goes "come back later". These are usually implemented in a visual novel when there are pieces of information that the author really wants you to know before seeing that specific ending — but they are, at least, endings in themselves.

There are a lot of endings in Nurse Love Syndrome. There are, I think, six main heroines who have distinct "routes" — though the narrative is structured that they crisscross a bit. Each heroine has at the very least three endings — Good, Bad and Normal — with several having multiple bad and at least one "Sudden" ending; the latter in particular is something I'm a little nervous about, as this VN has already put me through the emotional wringer more than anything else in recent memory. Love it.

Anyway, I'm on track for an actual ending now, so on either Thursday or early next week I'll have an initial writeup on what I've experienced so far plus, like with Nurse Love Addiction, some in-depth analysis on the other routes, too. I love writing about visual novels, but it's quite a time-consuming process that makes my brain work hard! Nothing like a good mental workout now and then though, eh?

Anyway, I'm not 100% well at the minute so I should probably try and get some decent sleep tonight. Watch out for short;Play and Waifu Wednesday tomorrow, and thanks as always for your continued support.