January Otome Updates!
Happy New Year! It’s been a busy past few months and I wanted to post more on my favourite otome stuff for 2023, however, I was ill on and off the past month and was busy during the winter break so didn’t get to post as much.
I enjoyed reviewing my Top 15 Anime favs for 2023, which you can check out here.
Here are some January updates and recommendations…
Hakuoki: Chronicles of Wind and Blossom
Hakuoki: Chronicles of Wind and Blossom, will be avialable on Nintendo Switch, this edition features revised text to make it more accessible for English readers. The limited Edition and Standard Edition is avilable to Pre-order from Play Asia.
Of the Red, the Light, and the Ayakashi Tsuzuri
Of the Red, the Light, and the Ayakashi Tsuzuri, a mysterious supernateral visual novel by HaccaWorks and localised by HuneX is set to release on Nintendo Switch and Steam, 29th February 2024.
Yue is a young boy, born in a mountain shrine in the town of Utsuwa.
One day, he attends the winter festival together with his childhood friend, a black fox named Kurogitsune.
The lanterns burn bright red, and the people are buzzing. As Yue sees the outside world for the first time in his life, he meets two mysterious boys.
Upon returning to the mountain, the owner of the shrine, Mikoto, told him.
Synposis from website
Steam Prison- Beyond the Steam
HuneX have also announced Steam Prison- Beyond the Steam fan disc is scheduled to be released this year.
Speakeasy
Open Late Games, announced the official release date for Speakeasy on Steam.
The visual novel game launched on 11 January 2024 and is available on Steam for £16.75.
Synposis from Steam page:
Join Cora West for a whirlwind of forbidden romances found in the depths of a decadent illegal jazz club in Prohibition-era Los Angeles. Decide if she can make it out with her heart intact or lose herself in the glamor and excess.
Will you fall in love? Rule the city?
Or damn it all and descend into ruin?
The choice is yours.
Ikemen Villains
Cybird, releases trailer for localised version of Ikemen Villains. The mobile platform game is set to release this year. The trailer is great and the VA cast looks amazing. I can’t wait to see more of William ^^
Love and Deepspace
Love and Deepspace, by InFold Pte. Ltd. is set to release 18th January 2024. The 3D animated and voiced mobile romance game is very intruiginng with the cool MC POV video feature when communicating with the LI’s.
Pre-registration is available on Apple Store and Google Play Store.
That’s all the round up for this month on Otome updates. I will update this post if there’s any further news. It has almost been a year since I launched this blog and as a working woman I haven’t been able to post as much except during the little free time I have over the weekend, thank you for visiting my blog and I hope you have found something useful or enjoyable while visiting.
I am half way through Charades Maniac and hope to do a non spoiler/minor spoiler review of the game as soon as I have time to finish it ^^
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