Review+Summary: Ai wa, Nikushimi ni Yoku Niteiru. Nikushimi wa, Ai ni Yoku Niteiru: Common route part 1

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After a thousand years, I return to this blog with a long summary/review of an R18 otome game by PIL-VAMP (they are a sister company of PIL-SLASH who are known for their dark BL games) called Ai wa, Nikushimi ni Yoku Niteiru Nikushimi wa, Ai ni Yoku Niteiru (Love resembles hate, hate resembles love). It has been such a long time since I got so engrossed in the plot of an otome game, so despite a little issues here and there I really enjoyed this game and decided to come out of hibernation, lol. (I also wrote a vndb summary of it which you can check out here.) Let me explain the format of this review first. In this post I plan to talk about the characters and the general setting first, then describe the plot until the point where routes diverge. Later I’m going to make separate posts about different routes instead of one longass post. The game encourages us to follow a certain order but I’m going to review them in a certain slightly different order for maximum emotional satisfaction.

Characters:

Kinda sorta back?

It's funny how all the social media platforms I was active in the last couple of years have died/are dying out. LJ is almost obsolete, tumblr has become a super censoring pile of dung, facebook has turned into a money-grabbing troll, and although wordpress is doing well overall, my country has blocked it for some unknown reason. As a result, I'm considering moving back, at least partially, to the good old blogspot XD  I won't be too active since I work full time now, but I hope I'll be able to avoid year long hiatuses.

[NEWS] Anniversary no Kuni no Alice complete English patch released!

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I have been neglecting this blog for years now and been hanging around in tumblr and twitter, but I figured that I've been making enough lengthy posts there to archive some of them in this blog as well.
So the first news I return with is the announcement of the complete patch for the otome game anniversary no kuni no alice. I have been working as the admin and a translator for this project and I'm super excited about the release! Maybe it's time to replay the game now that everything is in English :)
You can find download links for the patch and the game on the project blog here. A few pics from the translated game: