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Randomness: Metal Ren'ai!
~Tanuki Note: A belated happy new year to all! We hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season. We have been VERY hard at work here at Okashi Studios lately, which is partly why we haven't been as active here on our website. I am working on preparing a significant update on game progress right now, and if all goes well, I'll be posting something new to the front page in the coming days.
Meanwhile, here's something nice and random to entertain you while you're waiting...
Written by Okashi staff writer, Megan (she loves her pomegranate juice!)
I love ren-ai games. Simply put, pretty much any will draw my attention, to some extent. Visual novels are my favourites, but I also enjoy the type commonly called 'dating sims', Angelique being my favourite of these.
However one of my friends asked me one day, "Why do you play them? Aren't they all the same game?"
Oh no, no, they certainly aren't! Even games taking place in the same location can be radically different. Compare Bloody Bride and Tokemeki Memorial for instance, both taking place mostly in a high school. One has you playing as an effeminate vampire prince trying to net a human wife with mutual, consenting blood drinking, the other is your standard high school scene.
But I admit, I can see how somebody not a fan of these sort of games could see them as all being the "same" despite the utter lack of truth of this.
So it got me to thinking...
Anime Expo after-report
Man, it's hot outside these days. It's hard to believe that the end of summer is quickly approaching, and the lucky ones who are still in school are headed back there again. (No sarcasm intended... I do wish I was back in school, at least sometimes.) Well, I feel like I took a vacation from posting these blog entries, so maybe I'll just start pretending they're a weekly school assignment. ;)
Anyway, looks like I'm finally caught up with convention reports with this one...yay! Though I guess I shouldn't be too proud of myself, since AX was almost 2 months ago. There was a local con in SF this weekend, AOD (forever known as Anime OD even if the organizers decided to change what it stood for :P), but I ended up not being able to go. Those of you who went, feel free to post your opinions about it in the forums!
But yeah, about AX...
Looking back at A-Kon 18
Continuing my convention season after-reports...
Less than a week after Fanime was over, I was in Dallas, Texas, for A-Kon 18. Our convention season this year was interesting in that all the major cons we attended took place in a relatively short amount of time.
It's good and bad-- good in that we can put away our travel stuff now, and really focus on getting the game done... but bad, in that it'll be a long time before the next time we get to meet up with forum members again. That's why y'all gotta keep coming back to our forums. ;D
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