Tiaramode seems to have changed their artist

Which might be quite nice, also they've developed two games - one adult oriented and the other seems like a sweet shoujo story.
The first is Ribbon Magic and is all Catholic demons and angel dum dum DUUM! I know that I shouldn't really be so naive as to thinks that Tiaramode do absolutely harmless things but the the girl looks suspiciously ten, so my thoughts are that she's a speacial Chosen one and has to decide which side to back up.
The other one is called Crazy Rabbit. This one isn't out yet, or in anycase the site is keeping very quiet about it. bastards.

Love Drops

Love☆Drops 〜みらくる同居物語〜

I just finished playing the ending where Hugo doesn't get you even though you went to the party with him... 0_o Kanade shot Hugo, which was OK since the poor boy was going all "I must seek BLOOOOD" but then he shot himself? And right before he did he said that the heroine shouldn't forget him. Well yes, now we will all need a lot of money and therapy to stop twitching (Of course seeing as how this is an otome game then it's quite possible that the girl will get over it fairly quickly. These types usually do). Still, fairly morbid and unexpected even thought it came from an obviously emo character

Heart no Kuni no Alice ~Wonderful Wonder World~

ハートの国のアリス　～Wonderful Wonder World~

o_0 an incredibly addictive game and damn hard to find your way through. Been playing it for several days straight with no luck of finishing a single ending... I love the graphics, but only as long as they aren't CGs (because those look crap). The character design is great, the March Hare and the Cheshire Cat look great, so does the White Rabbit.
As always the game has little to do with the book, but it's none the worse for it. The cast alone is rather mind boggling: Fukuyama Jun, Sugiyama Noriaki, Konishi Katsuyuki, Koyasu Takehito [actually, why are they all from BLEACH?!] . The girl (you, me, us) still doesn't have a voice, which I find annoying since can't understand half of the things she says.
Oh well, read on Macbeth, pretty soon I'm going to be in a state where I'll be having Alice themed hallucinations (which always sound promising) and STILL wouldn't have had any luck with Eliot the March Hare. Fuck

Butlers ～Meshimase Ojousama～

バトラズ　～召しませお嬢様～

Overall: 7

You are a simple OL, who one day is abducted my two young men. They bring you to a mansion and tell you that you are the granddaughter of a rich and powerful man, who though disowned his daughter (your mother) still loves her (even though she died many many years ago). So the servants decided to find you and arrange a family reunion.

Bad points:

• The art was pretty bad when most of the CGs were concerned, especially the ero ones. The style was pretty much the same as in Brothers, but they kept trying to hide the girl's face. Not to mention that half of the time I kept looking in horror at either her boobs or the mans face.
• I didn't like all the voices. I'm just picky, I thought that Shido the womanizer ought to have had a better voice or at least one that didn't sound like he was either having serious problems in his colon or just a seriously blocked nostril. The grandfather could have done a better job too.
• I loved the youngest boy, but I really couldn't believe that he was 21. from the voice and the way he acted you thought that he was something like 17, but that's just me, as always.
• Also the lack of the 'Skip' button annoyed to no end
  

Good points:

• Quite a few times during the game I started laughing out loud because the characters and situations were adorable.
• Despite the negative review from everyone else I LIKED the fact that it was easy to find the man because with Brothers you needed a lot of time and patience or a walkthrough to get all the events. Even though it made me feel that I just kept stalking the guy I still liked this way more.
• Ichijou Kazuya! I can't help it. I like his voice and can now recognize him easily by the way he keeps making weird noises and sucking in air between words. The fact that he did a lovely accent in this game gave me an even bigger kick.
• I've finally fallen in love with Tiaramode. They keep making stranger characters. While in their later game they made a perfect and charming model who can't use anything but spoons, this time they had an emo character who grows mariomo! (And names them Charles and Elizabeth, because he was supposed to be English. The fact that Japanese aren't good at faking English accents is going to be ignored for now)
  

Overall I enjoyed this. I'm now sorry that I didn't play this first and Brothers second because then I would have liked Brothers even more. But now I understand that the people at Tiaramode are into really kinky things. In this game they didn't have a rape route but the Night Mode disc enabled you to play the...ahem...darker side. Apart from two, they all ended up with the girl doing serious femdom, I'm not even sure that one of them enjoyed it. With Shido there was a threesome where she still managed to have the head butler as her slave.
Interesting note is that Ichijou Kazuya plays AGAIN a person who is a bit of a sexfiend. After all, she couldn't dominate him, quite the opposite (HA!)

pleasant thoughts

Step~futari no kankei ha ippozutsu~

Step～二人の関係は一歩ずつ～

overall:5

Story:
Well it's like this, you once used to live in this town and now came to visit your uncle. Why, I have no idea. You meet with your uncle (who likes to sleep naked and never shaves properly), two childhood friends (of which one is of the male persuasion so you only get to sex him up), a tsundere boy who sits next to you in class and an otaku (who keeps talking to himself and mostly about slightly perverted things, so that's scary enough)

Bad points:

• the drawings weren't the kind I'm really into. The faces were right off and the boobs during most of the H-scenes looked both painful and ridiculous.
• Somehow the story did really work for me, but then again I'm not really into school romance.

Good points:

• Nicely made characters: the childhood friend with the superbrain and the scary glasses ended up crying on your lap half of the time, the tsundere boy wasn't as annoying as one might expect and the uncle of the compulsory incest ending was voiced by Ichijou Kazuya, who played Kageyama Satofumi in Brothers
• They had a Densha Otoko scenario! ¤dies happy¤

happy thoughts,
will go and hunt for more games with Ichijou Kazuya
(wouldn't actually say no to any with Takatori Rei in them either, but just can't get any TT_TT)

Brothers ~ koisuru oniisama ~

original name: Brothers～恋するお兄さま～
rating: 8

This is my first time playing a game that has sex with women and is designed for women. Anyway the story goes as follows: your mother has a boyfriend who, though look like Urahara Kisuke from Bleach, is a writer with a large amount of children (All sons mind you, which says quite a lot about his hormonal levels). Anyway, the decide to marry and so you move into his huge house, but right after you move the happy couple says they have to bugger off somewhere else (your mom has to visit your grandmother who's ill or something and the soon-to-be-father has to go away doe to some sort of work issues). You are left for a week in a house full of grown up but, in my eyes, slightly hormonally imbalanced males.

The bit before the couple marries and you have to spend a week with the guys is called Prelude. After the wedding if everything is going well then the part is called Suite, if it's not a True Love ending then it's always saved under the name Rhapsody (how do rhapsodies associate with rape? O_0)

This game has two major problems in my eyes:

1. The artist who did the drawings apparently went to work with a hangover half the time. In most pictures the heroine's face and head did not cooperate, her chin was all over the place. (also the interesting fact is that though the men frequently change clothes, you just run around in the same outfit in any weather and you always have the same pants on)

1. A LOT of rape goes on in this game. In most cases the rape happens once and then you for no reason whatsoever just run again to the person who raped you giving him an opportunity to do it again, which he does).

Actually on the note of sex two things have to be said: I'm happy that they mentioned condoms, even if it was only two and a half times (I'm not sure about the last one, because the guy did really say it out loud but I got the impression that he used it anyway). I'm not happy about the fact that one out of every two porn scenes the girl was twisted into a weird position. I mean, I'm more flexible than the average lunatic but my legs can't turn that way o_o

On the positive side, I liked one story very much. Even the Rhapsody bit. The story being of the "secret" character Kageyama, who's does EVERYTHING around the house. He's not much of a secret character because he's always there, but you have to play through the game once to be able to chat him up (and eventually have sex with him) and it was a bit hard finding him because half of the game you can't even go to his room or anything.

Brothers ~ koisuru oniisama ~

I just started playing and am getting the feeling that Morikubo Shoutarou and Okiayu Ryoutarou are both in it.
Not to mention that the Father looks like Urahara Kisuke to me.
Oh my, this WILL be fun

EDIT: I was so wrong. But the eldest brother still does sound like Okiayu Ryoutaro so I'll just pretend it's him =P

Zettai Fukuju Merei

Absolute Obedience

I'm playing it through for the first time in a long while and I only got as far as two missions, both with Louise, and it struck me for the first time that this game is a bloody SM parade. I have no idea how this escaped me the first time, maybe I was too concerned with turning the volume down so as not to scare the neighbors with men crying in effeminate voices . Anyway, I went into the doctor story and now am playing through Lawless and the game is starting to unsettle me.
Being slightly of a masochistic persuasion this turn of things promises to be fun :D