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Digest Vol. 60 – Plans

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I’m not sure how much left of Rina’s route left but at least I’m past halfway? This week felt even shorter than last week despite not being much distraction. Either that or the route is just longer. I don’t know.

Continuing the “holding back” project (?), I’m thinking of not getting Hoshi Koi Tinkle. Unfortunately it’s still four months away which means plenty of time for me to be influenced back in getting it. Well, I almost failed with Amatsutsumi though fortunately managed to hold back. Hopefully I can do it again with Hoshi Koi Tinkle.

That said, even though I’m not getting anything this month, I’m getting two titles next month – Senmomo and Railback. Both of which have non-zero probability of getting delayed =D Railback probably will be finally released though otherwise I don’t think it’ll be good for the company’s survival. Whereas Senmomo, well, I have no record of August release schedule so I don’t really know. Just felt like it might get delayed. We’ll see. No plan of getting another bonuses… yet?

October will be Alcot’s Yomegami. So far my current plan includes getting from Sofmap followed by getting Getchu tapestry from YJA.

November will be a bit difficult with both Alice Gram and Lovely Day. NanaWind’s voice dramas are pretty good so I’ll be getting them all. Yuki tapestries as well which thankfully only two. The main problem is of course Lovely Day. Pretty much all tapestries and CDs \o/ I usually get the game from official store though I’m not sure about this time mainly because I don’t need the other bonus which is illustrated by Narumi Yuu. Barring some unexpected event, I may end up getting it from Trader or Melonbooks.

5 more games in three months. So much for holding back.

Finally Denkigai and Comiket! Denkigai is having some weird system this time to enter the place whereas Comiket will have no company booths for last day. Current outlook doesn’t look so good though I’ll probably make out safely somehow. I think. Yuzu Soft store having double suede tapestries certainly isn’t helping.

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Digest Vol. 59 – Countdown

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5 am. I originally planned to rush up Rin’s route first but it went longer last week for Makoto and I figured it’ll turn out the same for Rin as well. Better clear this thing first before my brain becomes half-functional and writes even worse than usual. My usual writing is already pretty bad and being half-awake isn’t helping.

I managed to be more distracted than last week and getting a bit of cold wasn’t helping. Nor is early planning of Comiket.

Talking about Comiket planning, I missed one big required spending for this month and as a result will have to walk a tightrope until next pay day which is in three weeks. I figured it’s also good time to drop a lot of circles from list so I can spend less time figuring out where to put them ┐(ツ)┌

With careful planning I should be able to go up from almost-red to barely-green by end of this month! Exciting times ahead.

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Digest Vol. 58 – All the Chikotams

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6am! Just finished Makoto’s route. Or the part of her route? Honestly speaking, I’m not sure where I am at the moment. Unlocked scenes count doesn’t match with number of scenes (or at least its hint) and the ending is a bit too open. From light analysis I did (just now, half awake) from extra page placeholders and opening movie hints I think I’m 25% done. That took me 16 days total. Extrapolating the number results in depressing number of days I need to finish the whole game… which is another 7… weeks. Wat.

Number of references and technical terms were a bit too much for me so the progress was much slower than I hoped. There were some additional distractions as well which slowed me down even further. The latter won’t change much for next few weeks but I’m slowly getting used to the former so it should be faster.

Chikotam-illustrated new games were announced this week. Yes, games, not game. First from the usual Parasol (thank god) and the other one unexpectedly from Windmill. Apparently the latter were already known from an event few months ago and I was just simply missed it. For unknown reason Narumi Yuu is also doing both games. Oh well.

Still on Chikotam, random impulse (ha ha ha) made me buy the rest of Parasol hug pillow cover drawn by Chikotam. Waiting for arrival of last one and then I’ll take photo of them. I’m also completing another type of stuff from Parasol with the last part should also be arriving sometime this week.

Those stuff included, and another “completion” thing I’m going for brought me down by about 40k jpy. That forced me to slim down Cuffs and Hulotte purchases. I just hope I don’t regret it later. I don’t think I will for this one for good reasons. Pre-order for Denkigai stuff has also been started and it pretty much follows last weeks list with inclusion of Whirlpool and exclusion of Alcot. May or may not buy the bag/pillow cover multi-function item, depending on how much I spend for other stuff. It’s still too early to say. Perhaps in three weeks (like, once the main events have passed). Thankfully the pre-order period is until end of August which is plenty of time.

Still on track to green finance though probably not as green as I’m hoping.

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Digest Vol. 57 – On Holiday

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Managed to finish common route of Sakura no Uta. It was pretty good and felt like one complete story on its own. As planned, currently on Makoto’s route (I think). As Monday is holiday, I hope I can make some good progress on this.

At current rate, projected completion time is a bit over four weeks. I’m getting hang of the writing style though so hopefully I can finish it faster (naaaaah). Looking at queue, Rorolog is up next, followed by Moteyaba. I sure am slow this year.

Budget-wise I think I’m almost safe. Still need to reduce number of covers I’m getting next month. Artist line-up on Denkigai has been announced as well and from the look of it I’ll probably be getting stuff from five or six companies. Not sure about T-shirt (probably not) and the mysterious goods (depending on what it is).

I’m dropping Amatsutsumi after all. Good for my wallet. Hopefully I don’t do a 180 sometime later like Chrono Clock. Quite unlikely though.

Here is the list for Denkigai:

  • Saga Planets (Hontani Kanae)
  • Hearts / Amuse Craft (Shiromochi Sakura)
  • Hiqo Soft (Hiide)
  • feng (Ryohka)
  • cura (Lose)
  • Whirlpool (R-Ken) / depends on the illustration
  • Alcot (Shiraichigo) / probably not

May or may not change.

As for hug pillow cover, current plan includes:

  • Lunaris Filia – Filia
  • Tsumi no Hikari Rendezvous – Mikan
  • Yomeyaba – Nanaka
  • Mamiya – Moeri
  • Kujiragami no Tearstilla – Mitsuki / …seriously, I’ll just grab it already =| (has been on my list forever) …or maybe not. Ha ha ha <_<a
  • Ao no Kanata no Four Rhythm – Rika / probably not now (again)
  • Dal Segno – Ame / still not sure, at worst will just grab at later event
  • Natsu Iro Kokoro Log – Kuon / not sure as well
  • moco chouchou’s original / or maaaaybe not this time either

That’s quite a lot and honestly speaking I shouldn’t be doing this. First four are 100% whereas the rest depends on where wind blows…

For green finance next month! Yes, I’m still yellow this month ;_;

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Digest Vol. 56 – Preparing for Events

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Finished Kurafuta as planned. As expected from winner of Moegame Award, Ero (Pink) category, it doesn’t hold back in term of ero. Well, almost, since I half expected it to contain Okano’s mini route as well considering she’s got her own tapestry at one point. Not that I like her, just a bit curious. The harem route is also shorter than I expected. Now I think again, Yomeyaba is actually better in this sense. Shrug.

Started Sakuuta. Seems pretty interesting. Not sure if there’s any forced route but currently trying to go to Makoto’s route. Still on common route. Relatively interesting. It’s got so many awards so it better be. Unfortunately the game system itself is a bit lacking. Notably missing is window resize and backlog jump. I also can’t disable the cursor auto move which I find annoying.

First week of July has passed and only a month left until Denkigai and Comiket. Two more weeks until Denkigai online store opens. And K-Books. And Cuffs. RIP wallet. According to my accounting sheet I don’t have enough money for next month events. Hopefully there won’t be too many interesting stuff…

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Digest Vol. 55 – The last twins

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I forgot about this :D Doesn’t help there’s almost no interesting news for me this week.

Finished Kurafuta’s Yae route. Currently at the last (best) main heroine route, Ema. One week slower than I hoped because I keep distracted while playing it. I think another week should be sufficient to finish the rest.

Once done, I’ll move on to… something. I mentioned it’d be Sakura no Uta last time and probably will stay that way. Starting one of the game with just two hug pillow covers is also an alternative but I’m trying to stay with current plan. Realistically looking that means I’m doomed (?) to play another Cuffs and Makura afterwards though. At that point it’s likely I’ll play something else instead. Current list:

  • Primal x Hearts (2)
  • Koisuru Kanojo no Bukiyou na Butai (2)
  • D. S. ~Dal Segno~ (2)
  • Natsu Iro Kokoro Log (2)
  • Sakura no Mori Dreamers (2)
  • Himawari no Kyoukai to Nagai Natsuyasumi (3)
  • Imouto no Okage de Motesugite Yabai (3)
  • Sakura no uta (3 / next one)

Picking a completely new series (brand-wise) leave with only two choices: Dal Segno and Primal x Hearts (and Primal x Hearts 2?). The rest are repeat brand-wise (Cuffs, Amuse Craft, Moonstone, Makura).

June is over and it’s now July. July means Floflo and Senren Banka. Also means Amatsutsumi which is still undecided. I’ll look at my progress until end of this month and whether there’s anything interesting from that series in next Denkigai tapestries series. Both happens at the end of this month so I have plenty of time to think. It does help that the pre-order ticket I have was obtained for free from Tora no Ana since their pre-order doesn’t have any down payment. It’s a different story if one of them gets delayed, though…

At this point I wonder if I reached limit of my reading speed ;_; It barely improved. At all.

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Digest Vol. 54 – Um

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My hug pillow covers count is jumping up quite high this month \o/ RIP me. At least I’m avoiding the ones with stupid markup. Or trying to. There are four more on my list.

Still doing pretty bad this month. Better than last month but still not quite good. Being haunted by backlogs, be it purchases or plays sure is sad. The latter doesn’t cost a thing (anymore) but the former is pretty expensive especially if the target is marked up.

My list for June is relatively peaceful mainly thanks to no eroge purchase on August. Well, except Corona Blossom which is still floating between yes or no. I believe it’s safe to hold up until early August though so June should be safe anyway. Hopefully I can save enough for the following two months. Comiket month isn’t going to be fun.

Managed to finish Kurafuta’s Tomoka. Current at the end of common route for Yae and Ema. Going to Yae first and then finally the best heroine Ema.

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Digest Vol. 53 – One year

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Oh wow, I managed to do this for constantly for a year now. Sure is easy with this weekly stuff \o/ Not that I prepared anything special. I’m a bit time constrained for next two weeks as well.

Still going on with Kurafuta. Finished Mikoto’s route as well. Was pretty good though the art is a bit funny sometimes. Mikoto a cute. Now going with full-on tsundere Tomoka. Currently at just past pre-individual route’s H scene of her (?). Kind of weird with just her alone since it’s like already on her route except not. Gotta keep it fair in the shared route, I guess. At current rate I think I need another two weeks to finish. Welp.

Still a bit yellow on budget though I think I can make it out safely until next month. At this rate I should be back to green in August. Or October since August means comiket means stuff. I also really need to stop buying up old stuff or at least not at marked up price. …I’m trying hard here ;_; Backlog counts for about 40% of my spending so far this year. The same as last year. Whereas it’s -25% and -39% for 2014 and 2013 respectively which means I backlogged for those years. And of course -100% before 2013 since I haven’t even moved here and barely bought anything \o/

I sure am doing some dangerous finance planning this year. At least I’m hoping for zero backlog onward. Or less than 10%. Next year is going to be fun …if I can keep my current job.

…and then of course I’ll run into room space problem.

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Digest Vol. 52 – All the covers

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Finished Izumi’s route. It was pretty short ride once actually hitting her route. Feels like the route progression is common route → pair route → individual route.

At this rate I hope two weeks are enough to complete the entire game which then moving on to, um, Sakura no Uta, I guess? And followed by Moteyaba and Himanatsu at which point I’ll have cleared all games with three pillow covers. Finishing Kurafuta will give me plenty of time until around September but better be safe and continue playing by cover counts.

That said, my backlog is pretty long. While the percentage says 30% completion just like last year, it’s much longer in term of play hour because the actual number also scales up. I’m counting 26 finished games out of 86. That’s like 60 games in backlog. And it took me two and half years to get to that number of 26. Realistically speaking, I have to slim out my future purchases. For now I’m considering to drop Amatsutsumi. One isn’t much and doesn’t help I’m getting another old game again recently but got to start somewhere ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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Digest Vol. 50 – Whoops (part 3)

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You’ve think I learned something from last week. But nooope. It’s gotten even worse. Ha ha ha ._.

The bright side is I fell down so deep it’s pretty hard to go further down. Assuming I can survive next month, that is. At least my list for month is currently only pre-order for Sen no Hatou, store bonuses of Floral Flowlove, and a few other things. Should be fine.

On eroge, I finished World Election right on Thursday, allowing me to start immediately on newly released game. I mentioned I’ll play Kurafuta but figured out it’s easier to clean up Alia’s Carnival first since it’s only a few mini routes. Finished Inori’s route and now going through Sakurako’s. Afterwards it’ll be Asuha and finally Tsukuyomi appends. And finally moving on to Kurafuta.

World Election was pretty okay. There isn’t much one can expect from a charage after all. The art did deliver though, especially Mamizu’s. R-Ken’s also better than expected. Parfil so cute. Overall, it took me about a bit over a month to complete which is slower than I hoped.

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Digest Vol. 49 – Whoops (part 2)

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Accidentally bought another tapestry. Striped “swimsuit” + knee-socks + evening gloves is a dangerous combination ( ‘_’)b

That and a few other on my radar which will dry up my balance real quick. Holding back until next month and hopefully they will still be available.

One last route for World Election! Generally okay-ish overall? Sofia was quite awesome on all routes though. I’m aiming to finish the whole thing before Wednesday.

Thanks to new stuff I bought this week, Kurafuta jumped up the backlog queue. It’s up next now.

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Digest Vol. 48 – Whoops

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I managed to save some money… and spend more than of what I saved for something else :D

One of them even arrived already. The rest should be coming as late as next month? I don’t know, Suruga-Ya is slow.

I think I’m almost done with Iori’s route and will be heading to Faura later this week and finally Parfil. The extra mini routes turned out to add good amount of time required. At least Kururu’s story was pretty interesting. With all the explosions and stuff.

Next on queue is Dal Segno, I think. That shall mark my first actual play of Circus game after only knowing about them all this years. Meanwhile still zero playthrough of Yuzu Soft games. If nothing changes, Amairo Islenauts will probably the first one.

Looking at my current list, apparently I only finished three full games so far this year. Lower than I expected though probably part of it can be attributed to me unable to play properly last two months. Maybe I should stop playing all those crappy games. Whatever :D

Half of May has passed which means Eroge Day is coming in two weeks. I’m still considering if I want Rorolog’s Trader bonus or not. Currently at 50/50. I can save a good amount of money I don’t but then again that’s the only one I’ll be missing. Damn it my “collect everything” trait. Or maybe I’ll just wait and aim for cheapest one I can find.

Then there’s Alia’s Carnival! Double Package. Official store bonus has been announced a while ago but the image is still missing. If the what seemingly a placeholder image in the site is actual image, I guess I can safely skip it. There’s no information on what material the hug pillow cover as well. Sad. Hopefully it’s not the crappy store bonus material. I’m hoping at least Getchu’s Two Way Tricot.

And lastly Sakura no Mori Dreamers. I got everything \o/

…or there’s another one; Tarareba. Except I’m not sure if I’ll be getting it since I made the order together with Senren Banka which will be released in… two months. Or maybe they’ll error out because of all the delays and send it this month instead? I’ll find out in two weeks.

For June there is Otome Domain. And then there are Clover Day’s Plus and Hakoniwa Logic on the repackage side. None of the latter have interesting bonus so I think I’ll hold out until last minute-ish on what to do with them.

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Digest Vol. 47 – Quiet week

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This whole week was almost surprisingly quiet with just few doujin purchases here and there. Most of them haven’t arrived yet though because Melonbooks is pretty slow. Me using free shipping option (store pick up) doesn’t help either.

It’s also sadly slow week (for game) because I was distracted arranging my room back to its previous state. I myself surprised on how I could fit all my stuff before. Well, I somehow managed to fit everything again so all is well, I guess. Playing Overwatch didn’t help either. Interestingly I just bought a new GPU so it’s a kind of test drive for it as well.

As mentioned above, I’m progressing slowly on World Election. Currently about halfway of Kururu’s route and it should be done by as late as this Wednesday. Or today if I’m feeling fast.

Nothing particularly interesting for eroge news. Probably still cooling down from the event last week and, well, it’s golden week after all.

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Digest Vol. 46 – All the stuff

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Events are over! Freedom! Yay. A bunch of tapestries. My counter is hitting 400 soon (including sold ones). Still hasn’t prepared anything for selling some of them.

Managed to get most of planned stuff at Comic1/Character1. There are quite a good amount of leftover for goods from Purple Software and Circus which means I failed my gamble and paying almost 2000 extra. Oh well.

On eroge, finished Sophia’s route. Surprisingly shorter than I expected. Not that I complain. Now at Kururu.

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Digest Vol. 45 – Break 5 (last)

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Finally freed. And now incoming comic1/character1. Should be able to interleave with World Election in between. Just hit Sofia’s fourth-ish H-scene and finally entering the main story of her.

Technically speaking I didn’t spend too much for porn-related stuff but there are just so many other unrelated spending causing me to fail saving much this month.

Next month should be better™.

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Digest Vol. 44 – Break 4

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Early as promised last week.

I think I played for like one hour total this week. Passed through Sofia’s second H-Scene which is almost halfway? I sure am hoping to clear at least one route before May.

character1 is coming and companies have started publishing their stuff. Note that I only write the ones I have remote interest in.

There’s also the usual problem of whether to getting the stuff online or just grab them at the event. I think Circus stuff should be safe. That will save me some money. Here’s the exact numbers:

  • Event: 12000 + 4500 = 16500
  • Store: (16500 * 1.08) * 0.99 = 17642
  • Savings: 1142

With the last 0.99 is accounting for credit card cashback. 1142 is still a lot, I’d say.

And then there’s Purple Software. That one is even worse as it involves postage as well. I don’t know if the event price will exclude tax or not but if it does:

  • Event: 3500 (or 3780)
  • Store: (3500 * 1.08 + 600) * 0.99 = 4337
  • Saving: 837 (or 557)

;_; (or 557). And I don’t have idea how the sales goes and quick look at the official tweet doesn’t indicate good thing.

And both combined for a total of 1979 (ノﾟ ヮﾟ)ノ︵ ┻━┻

Of course I’m too lazy and went online for both ヽ(´ー｀)ﾉ …and then regretting later finding out getting them both is easy. At least I’m prepared this time.

One more week until I can go back to usual flow …or not, thanks to comic1/character1 and a bunch of other events the following two weeks.

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Digest Vol. 43 – Break 3

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Only gotten like 3 hours? total playtime this week ;_; Went past Sofia’s first H-scene.

Hovering on fine line for budget… Should be fine as long I can get past this 11 days.

…I hope.

And two more weeks until freedom™! Which then will be followed by a flurry of events. ._.

Next week’s post will probably be posted on Friday and the following one will be on Monday.

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Digest Vol. 41 – Break 1

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Can’t play for first half of this week as previously mentioned and then there’s Anime Japan this Sunday as well. I think I’m somewhere halfway through the common route? The story itself is sufficiently interesting but the Japanese used is a bit too different than what I used to. Or at least I had to resort to Google (search) quite few times when wwwjdic doesn’t understand a word/phrase because of slight writing variation. Doesn’t help it uses quite a bit of fantasy-related terminologies. I hope I can at least finish common route and maybe Sophia in span of three weeks which I can’t play continuously.

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Digest Vol. 40 – Wrong Season

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Managed to finish Quintuple Splash! The story is not quite good as expected. Even Delivara was better. It has Chikotam as well. At least Ami was good though. H-scene wise, that is. Her “problem” is quite a… joke. Hers is the only one actually related to swimming though. Still no sign of Chikotam’s activity in eroge space either… :( (apart of Loverec Mini Fandisc)

And as mentioned last week, continuing to World Erection Election. First Whirlpool game I’m playing. The system seems pretty good apart of requiring installer disc for first start. Also, Kururu is cuter than expected. Can’t really tell the story yet since just started and I was heavily distracted and thus progressed really slowly.

Doesn’t help I can’t quite play as much for next four weeks. I’m hoping to use this period to catch up with anime and manga and hopefully clean up my NAS as well. Lots of things to do. Oh and cleaning up my feed reader, with goal of having zero unread item. Currently at 10k+ though. Whoops.

Budget-wise, it seems I’ll fail reaching my target again. Only managed to save a quarter of the target.

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Digest Vol. 39 – Rushing?

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So I only managed to finish Natsu no Iro no Nostalgia by this Saturday. The story was pretty good. Music is nice as well from solfa and the art didn’t disappoint.

And then I’m back to Quintuple Splash, the last two routes – Tomoe and Ami. Currently at Tomoe and I think I’m almost halfway done. Should be finished by as late as Wednesday and then finally the last route. I’m hoping to complete everything before this Friday so I can start World Election before I enter the no-eroge period starting next week (or the following week)…

Few announcements here and there though still no news from Chikotam :(

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Digest Vol. 38 – Restrain

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Or nonexistence of it. I mean, Suruga-Ya sold Ren hug pillow cover earlier this week and I bought it almost instantly. And thrown Kissmaou in as well while at it. Whoops. There goes my plan getting this one. Unless I managed to save more than I predicted for this month. Or if iPhone SE isn’t actually a thing (or at least cheaper than I expected).

Distracted quite a bit this week so I haven’t progressed much. I did finish Misaki’s route from Nostalgia and to save effort of switching context, I continued playing through Shouko’s route which is the last one. Afterwards I’ll finish up Quintuple Splash and then continues to Sakura no Uta. Maybe. Either that or World Election.

Now I look at the release schedule of the hug pillow again I guess I can go World Election first before starting with Sakura no Uta. The cover is set for April release so the timing is quite perfect. That is if I even manage to finish it before the cover arrives.

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Digest Vol. 37 – Brilliant Idea

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Me and my “brilliant” ideas. Usually end up swallowed deep in a quagmire. Heh.

It’s something about my eroge playing order (also known as forever backlog clearance). The one I’ve been having was simple: play the latest release after finishing whatever currently played. It worked good enough until I noticed that due to my preference most of the ones I’ve been playing are charage (character-focused game).

Then I modified it a bit few weeks ago to allow interleaving with whichever game I want to play. It worked kind of well though switching between games isn’t the easiest thing to do due to writing style changes (and my lack of Japanese knowledge). For same reason my pace feels like slowed down a bit as well.

About a week later I noticed I have another problem: my playing speed can’t catch up with slightly unrelated own rule of hug pillow cover. It’s basically switch bi-weekly with the ones I’ve played game of (or at least completed the character’s route) or just originals. Also avoid having from same illustrator in succession to prevent getting bored because of (sometimes) sameface thingy. At current point I’ll run out of unused covers and must either break my rule by using the unplayed ones or looping it already. Now I write it, I think I’ve had similar problem at the end of last year and was kind of helped by influx of new covers.

The new idea is simple: just play the ones I have cover of :D The order is probably the same as before – descending from the latest. At my current list it means I’ll be playing either Ama no Sora Retrospect or Sakura no Uta. There’s also Primal x Hearts 2 but I kind of need to first play the first one so it’ll be done last. Currently considering Sakura no Uta but I’m not sure yet. Also will probably still be interleaved with another game. Still not sure on that part yet – I could interleave with from hug pillow cover list or the latest or maybe even whatever I want. Though I figured I should just clear up the cover list as first priority.

As I’m still partway on another games, the plan shall be executed after I finished those. Just finished Sahori’s route of Quintuple Splash this Saturday and currently going through Nostalgia’s Misaki route. At current rate I think I should be able to finish them in two weeks at the latest.

February is ending soon! Which means budget reset! I managed to save a bit over the minimum amount I set. Though if I combine with previous month it means I only reached half the target… for both months (I not only failed last month but actually went negative). Next month isn’t helping either with release of the new 4″ iPhone which I’ll probably get since I prefer small phones and hopefully better choices for phone case.

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Digest Vol. 36 – Rushing

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Or not. As I mentioned last week, I tried to pick up playing pace and it kind of works. But then again my speed isn’t that fast even with least amount of distraction. At least I did manage to finish Mio route in Quintuple Splash. The story was much shallower compared to Sae. It’s mostly about stepping up from childhood friend to lover which really isn’t much or deep or anything. The h-scenes were okay. I don’t like Ichiri that much though so that helps speeding up the whole thing. Well, kind of. Took me four (work) days to finish her route.

Finishing that, I went back to Natsu no Iro no Nostalgia. Decided going the Miu route. Currently at last part and story is pretty good so far with actual worry about the incest part. The art is good. I really like it. The h-scenes are good as well with kind of actual connection to the story. Took me two (weekend) days to get this far.

That said, I’m still pretty far away from completing both games. Three more routes for Quintuple Splash and two (and half) for Natsu no Iro no Nostalgia. If I want to finish the whole thing before this weekend, I need to finish one route a day which is relatively impossible.

Next week is finally eroge release day. Omokage Rail Back is delayed though so there goes my hug pillow cover plan. I will probably just go play Cube’s Kurafuta for it and minori’s Tsumi no Hikari for new game side.

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Digest Vol. 35 – Rotation

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As mentioned last week, still going with Natsu no Iro no Nostalgia. About to finish my first route (Ayane) but then I realized that rotation for my hug pillow cover is almost over unless I count in the ones from unplayed games. I have one more from original list (Chikotam’s C83) and another Chikotam which is Nanoka from Haruno (coming end of this month). There’s also Inori from Alia’s Carnival! but I’m thinking of holding back that one until the double package with her route is released. At least I won’t be able to put on any from mid of March until around end of April because of additional people lodging in my room in that period. Well, I can’t play much either so it pretty much balances out.

Assuming I can clear out both Natsu no Iro no Nostalgia and Quintuple Splash before end of this month, I’ll have about two months period to clear something which I have pillow cover of. For starter, Omokage Rail Back from February release will have a pillow cover of Juuri. That complies with my “play from most recent” guidelines as well so it’ll probably be my main option. But on the other hand, if I play Koikano and Kurafuta instead, I’ll then have four covers immediately since I have two each from both series. Or six if I throw in Sakura no Uta as well since I have two covers from it. We’ll see in few weeks ┐(･_･)┌

(I’ll probably be slow as usual and failing everything)

Still on rotation topic (hey that’s this digest’s title after all), my rotation for tapestries is down to 93 tapestries. It’s been on pause for two weeks mostly thanks to Yomeyaba. I think I’m done with it for now and will resume the rotation. Will probably be done around June. While interesting, I really should keep the number down. I currently have 319 (including pre-ordered stuff) which is a bit.. too many. Suruga-Ya is too cheap so I’m thinking of YJA directly instead. I have a feeling I’ve been saying that so many times. I need to first figure out which ones to sell though ;_;

(that’s part of the reason I keep track of my rotation)

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Digest Vol. 34 – What’s budget

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I really like the art style

I really like the art style

I totally didn’t reuse title from several volumes ago. No, totally not.

Managed to blow up my budget as usual. It’s only first week of this month and there’s barely anything left in budget for this month’s useless stuff. Upcoming stuff to be pre-ordered includes Tsunako Artbook, Miyasaka Miyu Artbook, and then Doki Doki Sister Aoi-chan Vol. 2. And then there’s Alia’s Carnival Double Package which costs not cheap. Movies side, there are The Martian and selector destructed WIXOSS. On games bonuses, I’m still missing World Election tapestries, about three of them (Mamizu only). Lastly, there are two upcoming events this month – Mimiket (next week) and Sunshine Creation (end of month).

I’ll see how I can pass this month without bleeding too much.

On eroge, I finished Sae route of Quintuple Splash. I then decided to pause it for a moment to play something that is less charage and more on gloomy side. And so I’m currently playing Natsu no Iro no Nostalgia. It doesn’t exactly have the best story but genre-wise it fits my need. I didn’t expect the guro-ish thing happening early at the common route though. Not really a problem though. I mean, I did find Hakoniwa Logic sufficiently fun. I mean, fun. Currently at chapter 2 (common route) and doesn’t seem to be too bad so far story-wise. The art is good though. As expected from games I bought – they’re at least pretty (subjectively speaking).

For reference, here’s how I decide which game to buy:

eroge-buying-standard

Cute! Erotic! Sold!

Half kidding aside, here’s the actual list:

  1. Art style. Original illustrator obvious takes most impact but sometimes CG Artist is also considered (with notable example being Koikake and all minori stuff). Less balloons is a plus.
  2. Music. Or sometimes just the opening song (and movie). Though honestly it only applies to minori stuff (again) because Tenmon.
  3. Story? Or something. Actually as long it passes the above list I don’t really care about the story. Of course it affects how fast I can finish the game but fortunately I’ve been braindamaged enough to be able to pass through most of crappier stories without damaged even further. No, that’s not a good thing.

I believe I have something else to write but can’t remember what it was. Oh well ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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Digest Vol. 32 – Wat

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Accidentally used more money than I should be for this month (as usual). Should start selling more stuff sometime later… And receive pitiful amount of money. Well, sunk cost etc. I think I’m done for this month. Next month isn’t looking bright either and upcoming Residence Tax isn’t helping either though if I guessed correctly it won’t happen this year but instead will be inflicted with double the amount next year instead because I moved to this area after January 1st. That’s my guess anyway.

Managed to finish Christmas Trickstar. It was pretty short. There are two route which the main character does pretty much opposite thing. One of which I hate. Not too bad for a doujin game.

Going upward my backlog, continuing to Quintuple Splash. This month’s eroge day is coming next week as well but I’m not sure whether to pause this and play Loverec Fandisc first or finish this one first. Haven’t gotten far enough to tell if it’s going to be usual Parasol or another Haruno. I’m guessing the former. Still kind of sad Chikotam didn’t draw for this game :(

Talking about eroge, I think I’ll be picking up Lose’s next game – Maitetsu – after all. Hurr durr herp derp. <insert expletives here about how good I am at managing my lust>. There aren’t many information this week. Or there are a few but I don’t really care about most of them. Go here for better listing ha ha ha. :effort:

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Digest Vol. 31 – All the stuff

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For some reason I’ve gotten even more backlogs :D OH WELL.

Still playing through Delivara… Should be done by this week.

When it’s done I’ll probably play Christmas Trick Star instead of Kimisora to go back to the “latest released, unplayed” pattern instead of picking random ones. Saves thinking out what to play next. The current Delivara was mainly because I ran out of hug pillow cover to rotate. As I now have few originals and from completed games, going back to usual pattern should be fine. Maybe.

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