Update One Hundred and Nine: 10 January 2018
A Kiss for the Petals - Remembering How We Met
11.7 hours, 8 of 8 achievements
8/10
☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
Monthly Theme complete! Backlog Assassin Giselle and I teamed up to conquer - what else - a visual novel! We compared what we both had left to read, and chose A Kiss for the Petals - Remembering How We Met as something short and sweet we can beat together!
This is an adorable kinetic novel. Giselle told me this is part of a series - and one of the very few safe for work ones - and it’s about how two characters from the series met and how their relationship started.
I know the original series is wlw written by and for adult men but this game is sweetly written enough I can just grab it with my gay little hands and make it mine because I feel it fills a niche that I sorely needed filled - cute, sweet, sappy, romantic stories about girls loving girls in which there’s no heartache or drama. It’s wish-fulfillment of the highest degree, and I don’t get to see that very often. The story opens up with them in a happy relationship, you see how that happens, the end.
It’s short, it’s sweet, it is what it needs to be. The writing is nice - no glaring errors. The art is cute. If Fata Morgana was a eighty-five course meal in a sprawling gothic estate that lasts two weeks, A Kiss for the Petals is a donut - but a really nice donut given to you by your loving girlfriend and you both hold hands while you eat it. I got to read this without flinching and my heart leapt when the VN opened with ‘… and this is the second year at school with my girlfriend’ and my god does that count for something. That counts for something.
Do YOU need some 100% proof wlw fluff? This is a good place to find it. That’s why I’m adding A Kiss for the Petals to my Visual Novel Masterlist.
Next up: Okay I never actually touched this but now I will!
See you soon!
Are visual novels your genre of choice, or do you play something else from time to time? I ask because I see you posting progress on loads of these, and often would like to comment, but I just have no input in this department really XD
She plays other stuff and you can tell just by checking what’s she’s played :3
But tsuper churns out loads of VN all the time so it’s kinda her genre of choice
I use her to make a mental note of most of the VN I will never read or the ones that might be good enough to give a shot.
c; Thank you, Blue
It’s about half and half. Here is where I aggregate my progress. My last three reviews have been visual novels bc they’ve been rather short (for VNs) compared to the very long game I’m working on now! (I mean, technically dangan ronpa is a VN+, but it’s a full on game’s game at this point)
Then I got the flipside where I review three non-VNs in the space of one or two days because those ones are on the shorter side. It’s a seesaw, sometimes.
I like f/f stories (and the girls remind me of Homura and Madoka) so I got it in the Humble Bundle, but when I checked some trailer videos the voices really grate on me. I’m not fond of high pitched anime voice and this sounds especially bad, is it the same in the game? Can I mute it and just have background music? Aside from that I’m glad to hear it is good. Thank you for the very nice review.
You can mute the voices separately! I usually mute the game so I can listen to my own music. (That’s also how I leave these on idle for so long - sometimes I forget I have them open)
Thank you for the nice compliment, I’m glad you enjoyed it. c:
I believe you were wanting to play epistory? Here we go: XXX
Oh my god!!! How incredibly kind of you, thank you so so much! It activated fine. Thank you!!
No prob, it was just a leftover which I was going to give away on steam gifts one day. No doubt to someone who would probably just farm cards and leave it. You’ll probably at least play it at some point. :-)
Even so - it was a really happy surprise that I woke up to. I do promise to at least give it a good college try! Thank you again c:
Nice review! I was thinking about getting and reading this, but I wasn’t sure if I should since I hadn’t read any of the other ones. Glad to hear its good regardless :)
Yeah, it doesn’t reference anything else, it’s a good standalone c: