Love365: Sakura in Chaos
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alias_sqbrSo it turns out Samurai Love Ballad: Party is a remake of a Love365 game called Sakura Amidst Chaos?! Which I can just pay $6 per route to play without all that rigmarole??
Great, right??
Yeah, that's what I thought too... until I tried actually playing it :( It's basically a completely different and much less good game. All it seems to have in common is the base "commoner girl works for and falls in love with Sengoku warlord" premise and some vague character design details.
I mean if you want fluffy cheesy historical RPF it's not the WORST but...I'm going back to Samurai Love Ballad: Party. SIGH.
Content note for the game: there is a brief, thwarted attempt at sexual assault by the protagonist's Evil Cousin.
Instead of a feisty anti-war waitress who questions the role of samurai, the MC is a woobie peasant who dreams of the mysterious warrior (Nobunaga) who saved her as a child.
The art is Not Good.
There is even less effort made to have her meeting all these warlords at once make any damn sense. Everyone is ridiculously nice. Yes, even Nobunaga. Also Hideoyoshi is her childhood friend now.
Upside: Three female characters with sprites! Just in the prologue! Mother, Princess Ise, and fellow childhood friend Nene.
Downside: instead of risking her life in disguise as a man to save her brother, she is sent a bunch of invitations because the LIs just like her so much. Boring :(
The first scene of each route is free, so I'll try Mitsuhide and Nobunaga just to compare.
Mitsuhide:
She is suddenly a maid at Nobunaga's castle??
Mitsuhide arrives to teach some lectures. MC is immediately super into how hot he is. He teaches her to make tea (what sort of Japanese maid doesn't know how make tea??) and when he notices that she's paying more attention to his calligraphy class than the actual students, gives her a private lesson afterwards. This is pretty cute, though MC is painfully nervous and clumsy.
Mitsuhide is endearingly kind and mournful, and seems to have pain around the idea of love.
WAIT WAS HE ABOUT TO KISS HER BEFORE THEY GOT INTERRUPTED?? She is a MAID you met YESTERDAY.
And that's the end of the free preview. Moving on!
Nobunaga:
This one actually follows on from the prologue.
Nobunaga, in a letter: I want to apologise again. Come to my castle.
MC: Apologising after he saved my life is swoony, but demanding I go to his castle...he really is a lord while I am but a lowly peasant. I will stay here and toil on the farm, woe.
But then he shows up! Convinced he'll be angry she ignored him, she runs away. He's arrogantly oblivious to why a peasant would feel weird showing up at a castle, and she rants at him about his class privilege! Ok she does have SOME backbone.
Like the other Nobunaga, he's arrogant and a bit bratty, but more of a boyish, tsundere princeling who's not used to being questioned than a moody murderous warlord.
And I am done! *sighs and goes back to the microtrasnaction-riddled but prettier and better written remake*
Great, right??
Yeah, that's what I thought too... until I tried actually playing it :( It's basically a completely different and much less good game. All it seems to have in common is the base "commoner girl works for and falls in love with Sengoku warlord" premise and some vague character design details.
I mean if you want fluffy cheesy historical RPF it's not the WORST but...I'm going back to Samurai Love Ballad: Party. SIGH.
Content note for the game: there is a brief, thwarted attempt at sexual assault by the protagonist's Evil Cousin.
Instead of a feisty anti-war waitress who questions the role of samurai, the MC is a woobie peasant who dreams of the mysterious warrior (Nobunaga) who saved her as a child.
The art is Not Good.
There is even less effort made to have her meeting all these warlords at once make any damn sense. Everyone is ridiculously nice. Yes, even Nobunaga. Also Hideoyoshi is her childhood friend now.
Upside: Three female characters with sprites! Just in the prologue! Mother, Princess Ise, and fellow childhood friend Nene.
Downside: instead of risking her life in disguise as a man to save her brother, she is sent a bunch of invitations because the LIs just like her so much. Boring :(
The first scene of each route is free, so I'll try Mitsuhide and Nobunaga just to compare.
Mitsuhide:
She is suddenly a maid at Nobunaga's castle??
Mitsuhide arrives to teach some lectures. MC is immediately super into how hot he is. He teaches her to make tea (what sort of Japanese maid doesn't know how make tea??) and when he notices that she's paying more attention to his calligraphy class than the actual students, gives her a private lesson afterwards. This is pretty cute, though MC is painfully nervous and clumsy.
Mitsuhide is endearingly kind and mournful, and seems to have pain around the idea of love.
WAIT WAS HE ABOUT TO KISS HER BEFORE THEY GOT INTERRUPTED?? She is a MAID you met YESTERDAY.
And that's the end of the free preview. Moving on!
Nobunaga:
This one actually follows on from the prologue.
Nobunaga, in a letter: I want to apologise again. Come to my castle.
MC: Apologising after he saved my life is swoony, but demanding I go to his castle...he really is a lord while I am but a lowly peasant. I will stay here and toil on the farm, woe.
But then he shows up! Convinced he'll be angry she ignored him, she runs away. He's arrogantly oblivious to why a peasant would feel weird showing up at a castle, and she rants at him about his class privilege! Ok she does have SOME backbone.
Like the other Nobunaga, he's arrogant and a bit bratty, but more of a boyish, tsundere princeling who's not used to being questioned than a moody murderous warlord.
And I am done! *sighs and goes back to the microtrasnaction-riddled but prettier and better written remake*
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Date: 2020-01-26 01:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-01-26 12:23 pm (UTC)Yeah, it's not like you're lacking in better quality Sengoku warlord dating sims.