[Moonstone] GIFT iPhone/iTouch version

Moonstone (Eroge company) has released “perhaps” the first ever English translated bishoujo game for the iPhone and iTouch today. Bearing in mind that this released version is the same one as the PS2 version/All ages version. with some small adjustments for the iPhone/Touch such as; instant resume of the game if there is a call from a push of the Home button.

Text is in English and Voices are in Japanese.
Only compatible with 2nd generation iPhone and iTouch OS 2.2 or later.
Size: 1.08gb

Edit: Moonstone reports that it is not a pure clone of the PS2 version. A lot of the voices was taken away to compress the game.

There seems to be other bishoujo games released in the iTunes store, none of them are English translated. Some are also trial versions/playable demo.

I wish I had an iPhone or iTouch.

GIFT Official Site: http://www.moon-stone.jp/gift/g_index.html

GIFT’s iTunes store (iTunes needed to view): http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gift-eng/id333282580?mt=8

Beat Blade Haruka/Chou Kousennin Haruka

Going for a Bishoujo game review this time. Age 18+ stuff in here!

Background: AliceSoft is a renown gamesoft company, most famous for it’s large amounts of H images in their games. Their most recognised game would probably be Beat Angel Escalayer. Featuring large amounts of H images featuring a variety of fetishes. In this post, i will blog about 1 of their latest ones; Beat Blade Haruka.

Like i stated above, AliceSoft is popular for it’s H and it’s “fun” system. Like its predecessor, Beat Angel. This game contains a variety of H images, containing; Loli, Tentacle, BDSM, Futanari, Beastiality, Regular/Normal and more. The story is Admit it, you don’t care basically about a female shinobi(Haruka) finding the protagonist (Ikusabe), and he has the “Dragon Wheel Technique” and uses it to increase Haruka’s powers, basically he just has sex with her. Depending on the fetish/H scene, the end result may increase her Attack, Technique or Evasive powers. Later on, 2 other shinobi’s (Loli & Tsundere) join and Ikusabe can sex them up too. And if you find a sub/mini-boss and happens to be female, you can also sex her up, assuming that you win against her.

Combat is pretty bland i guess, point and click a technique basically, but your shinobi’s stats will always determine your wins or losses. If your evasiveness is lower than the enemy and you use a high leveled attack, it will be guranteed that you will miss. Similarly in the same situation, if you use a low level attack you will definitely miss. If you succeed in winning against a sub-boss, there’s a chance that you can sex her up, as previously stated. But if you lose, the sub-boss will torment your fallen ninja. Submitting them through sex and rape. Basically where all the extreme H scenes occur.

The other form of combat is infiltration of castles, which is like 1 of those old fashion board games, the player chooses an ilfiltration route and the shinobi runs through it. The path are formed from colour squares. As the shinobi runs through these squares, various things happen, enemies may appear or treasure is found etc. At the end, the shinobi can escape out of the castle to restore health or continue onwards to the next level or final boss. Again, if the shinobi looses from the battle, she gets raped.

Overall a typical bishoujo game story with an attempt of gameplay. The CG’s are amazing. The seiyuu’s/Voice Actors are also decent, though the regular change from Edo japanese to the present 21st centurey japanese, takes time to get used to. then again, no one ares Although the game is only half voiced, meaning that only the important parts such as the story or H scenes have actual voices in them. The combat system, is pretty boring on 1st look, but if you’re trying to get every single damn CG and H scenes, you’ll learn to appreciate it, especially the surrender technique aka “instant get-raped technique.”

minori in the UK

minori, the software company in which created ef ~a fairy tale of two, Wind etc. has posted on their blog section their journey to the UK. Apparantly they only went for 4/5 days from the 5th of April to the 8th. Most likely the journey is for research purposes like Mikage’s (Director of ef) trip to Germany, Moscow and Russia.
I’ll just briefly summarise some of the things that had happened;

1st day – On the nights before (2nd & 3rd) they vertified their hotel reservations. And basically it was there journey off day. They had steak before they left, though they try to claim it as the airplane food. They arrived at a station near Chalk Farm. With their map in hand, they tried to find the hotel, but an “english gentleman” came to help. After a 15 minute walk they finally arrived.

2nd day – Went to Oxford Circus to get some food from SUBWAY. Comes back to hotel to do some of their work for their next sequel of Ef ~ a fairy tale of two. THat night, they went to the local chinese takeaway, which happened to be around the corner from their hotel.

3rd day – Started working on the Ef sequel again, this time, they are doing the animation Video/Opening video of the game. Then they tried Fish and Chips, they complimented it as being a traditional English meal.

4th day – They start off saying that they quite enjoyed the UK’s cool weather rather than the typical hotness in Japan. Then MORE work…. audio and frame matching.

5th/Final day – Went to Baker street and Hyde Park.

If you haven’t noticed, I kinda gave up translating about half way. Mainly because they tend to talk more about their work and their computer hardware and software specifications.

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PS: The sequel to Ef ~a fairy tale of two~ will be realeased in Japan on the 30th May. The game is entitled Ef ~ the latter tale ~. The opening video, in which the company was making during their London trip has been posted already.

Overall i wish i knew they were coming earlier…. i would’ve liked to meet the team. Maybe perhaps get some goodies, like that Amamiya Yūko nendoroid