GameZone: "The lovely maidens from MangaGamer’s upcoming Koihime Musou have a simple request for you. In return for their perky bouncy jiggle physics and voices, amongst other assets including telling a BETTER version of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms Story, you’ll need to help their developer Nexton sell over 2,000 copies overseas. Which isn’t an impossible endeavor considering that’s the market average for bishoujo/hentai games."
Roger Ebert once said "Of each thing, ask, who is it for?" He was of course
talking about the medium of film, but it's a useful metric for criticism in
general. For instance, critiquing a racy visual novel on the quantity of
fanservice is kind of useless, since that's exactly why people are playing
it. Similarly, critiquing a fighting game for average fighting game things
isn't really intuitive to the people who want to know if a fighting game's
any good, regardless of whether or not the reviewer is actually any good at
fighting games. So with this in mind, I decided to figure out whether or not Koihime Enbu, the 2D fighting game based on the Koihime Musou visual novel series, is a
good fighting game, regardless of whether or not I like fighting games all
that much.
The official website for the buxom-anime based MMO goes live via the Beanfun Portal.
iAX: "Koihime Musou, one of the newest eroge visual novels translated by MangaGamer, first caught my interest when I read the tagline: A Heart-Throbbing, Maidenly Romance of the Three Kingdoms. As an avid fan of the original Chinese historical novel written by Luo Guanzhong, I just had to check it out. I was very interested to see how BaseSon, the developers of this visual novel, would interpret the events that happened in the wars depicted between the legendary feudal warlords."
It's a nice game ..shame about the lack of voices ( it's a no purchase for me in this state ).
Also a shame that many "routes" are just side stories ..
Thankfully this was corrected in the sequels but we may never see them.
It does look like an interesting game I would play shame about no voice acting thoe. If the game were to arrive on the PS3 I would play it need another game to play after Ar Tonelico 3 is done.
I'm currently playing Ar Tonelico 3 as well and thoroughly enjoying it might I add. It's so much better than Dragon Age 2...not that it takes much tbh. Easily my biggest disappointment of the year.
