I'll have a proper writeup/review over on Rice Digital later this week (embargoes and all that) but I don't mind mentioning here in private that I've been playing eastasiasoft's upcoming release of Delicious! Pretty Girls Mahjong Solitaire for Switch a whole bunch recently and really enjoying it.
For the unfamiliar, this is a mahjong solitaire with anime boobies, and that's about it, but the whole thing just hangs together really nicely and I've always liked it a lot, right from its original PC release. The Switch version is something I'd actually been hoping to see for quite some time, and it seems eastasiasoft has developed quite a cosy relationship with Zoo Corporation so we can expect more stuff like this in the future, too.
Zoo Corporation is a company that I find oddly fascinating. Their first video game release was BreakThru! for Super NES, which is a version of the SameGame formula that is misattributed to Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov on its packaging. Over the years, they've put out a lot of erotic visual novels under their Norn, Miel, Cybele and Yumesta labels, along with… medical prescription software. Now there's a portfolio for ya.
The various casual games which we've had in the last few years over here in the west are mostly loosely based on the erotic visual novels in one way or another — Delicious! Pretty Girls Mahjong Solitaire, for example, makes use of the characters from a selection of games from Zoo's various nukige imprints. Up until recently, that original source material hadn't been localised, but it seems an outfit called Cherry Kiss Games got the license to localise pretty much all of them a while back, so we're starting to see a few more of them now.
I haven't looked into them yet and I'm not in a particular rush — I tend to prefer eroge over nukige — but it's nice to be able to check out where these characters originated if you so desire. Or if you just enjoy playing mahjong solitaire while they change into a variety of increasingly saucy outfits, you can just do that too.
Anyway, it's been a nice quiet day here today; I hope you've all had a pleasantly restful weekend so far. Think we're going to have a nice roast dinner to celebrate Easter tomorrow, so that's something to look forward to. For now, I'm heading back to bed to play some more Atelier and/or Code:Realize!
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