If I was to compare Kanishino and Damekoi, I’d pick damekoi any day.

But that’s just me because I’m not into chara moe games.

I actually realised after making the post that the game is pretty similar to Kazoku Keikaku, so if you liked that game, damekoi shouldn’t do too badly.

I was hoping to practice my listening comprehension with playing this game, but I guess it doesn’t help much if you don’t really get the gist of what they’re saying.

I had a similar problem with the main character’s whining in the Densha Otoko drama, but I did get used to it after a while. Well, maybe I’ll give the game another chance.

It’s basically a game around triangle love situations so there isn’t much room to be original about, but the writing had a pretty good tempo to it that made it easy to get into, and pacing of story events came at the right pace so it didn’t feel like I was getting bored or getting overwhelmed by the story. The writer did a pretty good job of covering the lack of possible original situations with writing techniques.

Without giving away too much of the storyline, the theme of the whole game revolves around Mitoko a lot. The main character is 29, and we’ll imagine she’s 15. Basically, it’s not socially acceptable for a 29 year old to get into a relationship with a 15 year old, and through all the character routes you see her struggling with her feelings.

The voice of the main character tho! He sounded so annoying at the start but by the time I finished all the characters I felt he did an amazing job. It definitely was one of the more memorable males roles I’ve seen in these games.

Though if you play the game, I’d recommend getting a walkthrough and play in the order of Kaya -> Himeo -> Asami -> Mitoko. Since this is one of those games where you can spoil the story if you go in the wrong order.

Don’t hold too high hopes for the game even though it was considered the best eroge of 2007 though. It’s definitely a good game, but I wouldn’t call it a “great” game. But barring personal tastes in genre, I think it deserves the title of best eroge of 2007, mainly because 2007 was… 2007.

Also I’m not sure if it’s a good game to be playing with low Japanese knowledge, it might be hard to understand what they’re doing when all the business stuff gets thrown during the office scenes.

well no shit, sherlock.