Reviews

• gamedeal user

  Jun 23, 2016

  Unlike the other reviews, I'll talk about the actual gameplay instead of knee jerk reactions to a lewd anime game. This game is a disappointment. Obviously this was cashed in as a huniepop clone, and fails to understand what made it entertaining. The premise is great, but that's all. For being a match 3 game, it's very hard, but for the wrong reasons. Unlike others in its genre, you're able to move your pieces anywhere. I dislike this because you can't predict how the blocks will move on the board, giving you bad outcomes. There appears to be a time limit to how long you can hold a piece before it automatically lets go. This is even more problematic when you're doing timed puzzles. Know how huniepop has broken hearts? This mechanic is here in the form of Skulls. Unlike huniepop, the default difficulty off the bat gives you an immense amount of them. Seriously, they're EVERYWHERE. Matching skulls makes you lose a turn. Which is vital since I'm allowed anywhere from 11-14 turns on the starting difficulty. This brings up another issue, you get very few points, even by matching many blocks. Each pair of girls has a favourite block color. If you match these, you get more points. Then there are matchable hearts, enabling FEVER. This lets you get more points for a match + combos. Due to the extremely low turn count and absurdly low points for matching anything but a favourite block, you have only one way to win. You allow RNG to give you a board with enough of their favourite block with enough hearts. You try to arrange them (if you can get around the endless amount of skulls) to setup a huge combo, then enable fever. Either that, or turn down the difficulty. Music wise, it's grating and annoying, or just tolerable. During Sora's scenario (brown-haired brocon) it only played one annoying track the whole time. All the while Sora is screeching "Ganbatte!" the same way, every time I don't make a move for 5 seconds. It was super annoying, I ended up muting my audio. Dialogue choices are obvious, so you never have to guess which is the right one. The Adult Patch is a joke, and re-uses the exact same CGs from Pure Girl and Innocent Girl. These are the games the girls come from. They couldn't be bothered to make new artwork, it appears everything is recycled. Unlike huniepop, there is no way to refund your turns, so the sentimental blocks are gone. There are no gifts, no food, no date questions, no shop. It's a cash-in with no character, and no thought put into its mechanics. Update: They released an easy mode patch, which I'm told trivializes the game. But this doesn't change my opinion, because there's still very little to this game, there's no effort and passion. It's still a cheap cash-in. I'm also told that this plays like a supposedly popular game (which I'd never heard of) called "Puzzles & Dragons". Some people very familiar with how that game works, claims this is trivial even without a difficulty change. Even though my review doesn't fully emphasize it, the fact this game is featureless and possesses none of the things which make Huniepop fun, it's still not worth your time. The people coming to play this game, will be coming from Huniepop, or are the minority group who think anything with waifu's is worthy of praise. If you came from Huniepop, look elsewhere. If you're the minority waifu brigade, this review doesn't matter.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 23, 2016

  It is rediculously hard right at the first stage( 1000 points, 30 seconds, 10 moves) and the they talk too much. What made HuniePop great was the strategy involved through itemization and board control, you had complete control over which blocks fell when and could manipulate the board freely. Also, it is far too easy to lose a chunk of your turns. I can have a decent fever combo but lose half of my remaining turns. That's fatal, you cannot create more turns. Also, I've run into "but thou must" choices and chooing the wrong answer does not create an interesting outcome, it just make the puzzle harder. The characters are okay but they don't have the believability that Hunipop had.These arent people youll run into nor do you think " I've heard someone say that before." Huniepop was light on story but it didnt need it, I could easily imagine that this person exists. EDIT: This will remain thumbs down until 1) The tutorial doesn't mislead you and reveals that you can move pieces anywhere. 2) Matching skulls gets you points anyways
• gamedeal user

  Jun 23, 2016

  (NOTE: I will be making comparisons to HuniePop, as this game clearly wants to follow it's model.) So I'm just gonna go ahead and say that this is NOT a game you should spend your money on. It basically wants to be HuniePop, but it has almost no allure whatsoever. The only redeeming quality this game has is the art. The unockable CG's are pretty nice, and the background and character art are decent as well. But for the price, I can't give this a thumbs up, not when games like HuniePop cost less, and have so much more content. And that is the major flaw of this game, it has very little to offer in terms of content. The gameplay to Purino Party is INCREDIBLY repetitve and outwright boring. It has almost no skill to it at all. Unlike most games in this genre, the tiles you need to connect can be moved anywhere on the board, making strategy almost nonexistent. There aren't any gameplay modifiers at all. Similar to HuniePop, each girl has a specific tile they like more than the others, and they act like you get more points for matching those, but the amount gained compared to other tiles is almost the exact same. There really isn't any point in trying to match the preferred tiles. The mini game itself just feels like a stripped down version of Bejeweled. The game has no English voice acting, which isn't necessarily a turn off for me, but HuniePop, a game that costs around $5 less, has English Voice acting. The dialogue is super stilted, and the majority of what your character spews out of his mouth cannot be controlled by the player. In fact, when one of the characters ask you a question, you generally have 2 responses: a right and wrong answer. So there's nothing stopping you from missing the correct answer, then just reloading the game to get the right one. The User Interface and Menus are stupidly basic. So much so that it's a bit confusing at first on how you return to the main menu. This game clearly had very little effort put into it. Again, this game CLEARLY wants to try and follow the success of HuniePop, but it fails in literally every aspect. DO NOT BUY THIS GAME.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 24, 2016

  First of all, All the reviews that say this game is extremely hard from the start is playing it entirely wrong. This is not match 3 or Bejeweled, they are using the Puzzle & Dragon system which is popular in japan. You actually have to get 1 gem and create your own chain for a combo. The game is very simple, you pick a girl complete their puzzle and get a dialogue. at the end of the dialogue you receive an endcard thats all. Compared to Huniepop its very lacking there is really not much to do its just a straight forward route. Puzzle & Dragon gameplay - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QinPaufzF3I
• gamedeal user

  Jun 24, 2016

  Lets get this out of the way, I wanted to like this game... I really did. It does have some things going for it. First, it has some pretty good character design. Also, I don't mind the whole Japanese only voice work. More often than not, you get better quality emoting from a low level Japanese voice actress than from the equivalent American voice actress. The way this game is presented is a cross between Hunie Pop and a visual novel like Katawa Shoju. I think that is where the problems begin. This is nothing like either game. The first problem with this game is that it isn't a visual novel. There is no branching storyline nor is there any real development of a plot beyond "Oh hey! Meet these girls and seduce them with your mad puzzle skillz!" The girls themselves range from quirky to completely off their rockers and not even touching on reality. Props to the voice actresses for actually DOING the lines that were recorded. You get, at most, a *DING* or a *BZZZT* depending on the answer you give... and that doesn't change anything whatsoever. The second problem with this game is it isn't a real Hunie Pop clone. It lacks the charm and humor that Kyu brings to the table. That could be forgiven if the gameplay itself wasn't so bad. You will literally find yourself beating your head against the wall while you try to complete each puzzle. There isn't a sense of accomplishment, it's a sense of relief when you complete the puzzle. There is no way to mitigate nor work around the massive difficulity spike other than to just plug along. It's not worth the time nor money to play this game. If you want the experiences that this game claims to provide, then look at getting Hunie Pop and Katawa Shoju. Much better uses of your time.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 26, 2016

  For all the people who think this is another [b]HuniePop[/b], believe me it is NOT. There might be a little bit similar but in the end its a [b]Visual Novel[/b] with only a (very) little part of a Match-3 game. And even the parts where you have to win the Match-3 games it is nothing compared to [b]HuniePop[/b]. So i want to say that the Main part of the game is the [b]Visual Novel[/b] part. But I dont want to say it's a bad game i mean for those who like Visual Novel's its funny and it really looks great (the CG's are great as well) but for someone like me who really likes the Match-3 Games part (like in HuniePop) it isnt very good cause the Match-3 part in the game sucks. [b]To simply explain the Game:[/b] before you can talk to a girl you have to win a Match-3 game, after you win the Visual Novel part starts (dont expect a long conversation) after that you get a CG and you have to win another Match-3 game to see the next Visual Novel part... in the end you have to win 5 Match-3 games to finish all Visual Novel parts of a girl and to get all her CG's. At the Start there are 4 Girls (first half of the Game) and after you finished them you have 4 new girls. Oh and one last thing there isnt any girl with a Cup Size below C >.<
• gamedeal user

  Jun 30, 2016

  Gotta admire the balls of a company to put a link to a game's X-rated patch on its Steam store page -- but I'm not complaining; it's very much appreciated! Fappable, you might say. Frontwing weren't really on my radar until I played The Fruit of Grisaia, but that made me very interested in anything else they might have to offer. This is certainly no Grisaia in terms of narrative or emotional impact, but it's a fun game in its own right, and well worth your time if you enjoy challenging puzzles and romancing cute girls. Don't come into this expecting HuniePop, though, because that's not what it's trying to be at all. Whereas HuniePop was essentially a life/dating sim with puzzle games to determine your success rate in dates, Purino Party is a straightforward linear puzzle game in which you complete increasingly difficult puzzle challenges in order to progress through each girl's story path, with your reward for each successful level completion being an additional story scene and a CG to add to your gallery. There are choices to make in the visual novel sections, but these don't affect the outcome of the story; instead, they determine the difficulty of the subsequent puzzle section and have some minor differences in dialogue. The girls all have their own interesting personality quirks and traits and have clearly been designed as actual characters with a bit of thought behind them rather than straightforward fetish-fulfilment tropes. I mean, there's an element of that -- this is essentially a nukige, after all -- but there's enough care and attention been put into their depiction to make you interested in them and want to find out more about them. Don't expect any harrowing plot arcs or deep, meaningful character development, though a number of characters do subvert the tropes they might initially seem to represent. The puzzle gameplay itself is solid and presents enough of an interesting twist on the usual match-3 formula to make it worth checking out, even if you're sick and tired of Bejeweled and its endless knockoffs. Rather than moving one gem one space at a time, here, grabbing a gem allows you to move it anywhere on the board, with gems it passes through sliding out of the way appropriately. Once you grab a gem, you have 10 seconds to move it, giving you ample time to set up some chain reactions and combos -- essential techniques for scoring enough to pass the higher levels. Sometimes it can feel like the randomness of the initial board setup can screw you over a bit, but it's not that big of a problem; levels are all very short -- 30 seconds to a minute at most -- so it's little issue to retry. And if you're getting really frustrated, there's the option to lower the difficulty without penalty. All in all, this is a solid, enjoyable game. It's not going to win any awards for innovation or storytelling, but it's charming, cute, sexy and fun. And sometimes that's all you want.
• gamedeal user

  Jul 4, 2016

  Some could think this game suffers from the comparison with Huniepop. But no. I don't need to compare it to say it's bad. The writing is complete over-the-top nonsense, the girls are unidimensional and uninteresting as soon as you get used to their gimmick. I don't know if that's because of culture shock or something, but during all non-puzzle parts, I was either perplexed, cringing, facepalming, or laughing hard at the absurdity of the dialogues. The puzzles : that's what got me interested in the game at first. I knew about that kind of free-movement gameplay and thought it would be interesting. But a few things ruined it. - moves and skulls : you start with a set amount of moves, but matching skulls will take away one move. There's no way to gain moves. This makes the game rely heavily on RNG for you to get the win, since if you get bad RNG, you can't delay your doom by focusing on gaining moves while waiting for a better setup to come up. This is already not great, but then the skulls come in. With this kind of gameplay, after a good move, a lot of things explodes and falls down, so tracking the possibility of skulls matching while frenetically matching as many symbols as possible in 10 seconds, with less than 5 seconds to plan your move in advance, that's pretty hard. But even if you're good, RNG will fuck you at some point... - RNG and symbol counts : oh boy. The previous point wouldn't be so problematic without this. But sometimes, you'll have 4 moves left, you'll do a great job and match a lot of symbols, then in the chain reaction, skulls would get matched, then a column of 3 skulls would fall from the sky and get rid of another move, and then a row of 3 perfectly aligned skulls will fall on the other side of the screen and get rid of your 4th and last move. And you'll lose, because the game decided so. This happened to me more than once, losing an impressive amount of moves without any relation to skill. Now let's imagine you're very good at the game, you don't match any skulls, and the rng doesn't fuck you. Congratulations, now a third of the symbols on the screen are skulls, because this game doesn't have a maximum amount of times the same symbol can appear on the screen. You didn't match any skulls? Now you have plenty. Which means it's harder not to match them, but also that you have less symbols on the screen to match and get points. Add to this clocks that barely help and also clog your screen, and you're left with only half a screen worth of points. On a more personal note, the x-rated patch was meh. But maybe I was too busy cringing because of the dialogue I just read to be receptive...
• gamedeal user

  Aug 11, 2016

  So, let me open this review with what my impressions were when I had bought this game, as I guarantee that if you are looking at this game of your own accord, reading those will make you want to buy it. This game is a bit HuniePop, doing its own interesting twist on the proven Bejeweled mechanics with a colorful cast of characters, except with better storytelling due to having some visual novel bits, and is brought to us by Frontwing....the people that brought us the absolutely brilliant storytelling of the Grisaia trilogy. Holy shit, my money could not exit my wallet any faster. Well... Unfortunately, I really did not like this game. I'll go into some positives before I get into the meat of my issues with it...as, I do feel like this game had potential. -The art is quite nice and well done. -The puzzle mechanics, if they were to be tweaked a bit, would be quite interesting. Alright, Purino Party. Stop whimpering. On the spanking saddle you go. -First order of business, the characters...or, more specifically, their lack of character. They all basically start and end at their particular gimmick. Even their little quiz bits are crap. Remember how in HuniePop, you had to remember (or, type up) various facts about the girls and other things? In Purino Party, as long as your brain hasn't been replaced by cabbage stew, even if you were to not be paying any attention, you could easily figure out the "good" answer. -The visual novel bits were about as boring as you could get...though, I suppose that's to be expected, considering the extent of the characters' personalities. They all feel incredibly forced and rushed and they all start and end up with being contrived scenarios based on the characters' gimmicks. And, most frustratingly, at points, the characters are talking about doing things that seem like they could be fascinating....just to skip those portions and be talking about them afterwards. It's so difficult to believe that this was developed by Frontwing, considering how the whole thing reads like a Winged Cloud visual novel. IT'S BASIC "SHOW, DON'T TELL!" Come on! -The puzzle bits require some excessive tweaking, as in their current state, the they are aggravating to play at the best of times. On paper, being able to move a piece anywhere you want seems great...until you factor in how every piece feels just a little [i]too[/i] slippery and will regularly knock a piece out of place and the restrictive turn count. And THEN, you mention the downright impossible time limit, which makes the game just downright infuriating. Even then, the game could easily be workable, but the piece distributions need a serious reworking. You may as well not have time extension pieces, if you only see enough to make a single match-three every other match. TL; DR: Why did I continue playing HuniePop? Because the music was pleasant, the puzzle mechanics were challenging yet fun, figuring out various combos with the consumable items was quite interesting, and the characters were amusing and fun to interact with. Why did I continue playing Purino Party? Because, I was hoping that there would be the slightest bit of a redeeming quality buried somewhere in it....alas, no such luck.
• gamedeal user

  Aug 29, 2016

  I wish I could recommend this if for no other reason than to encourage eroge in the west, but I can't in good faith do that. The biggest problem is the characters are unappealing. The way that they are all raging nymphos feels like a bunch of shallow pandering, trying to sell the audience what you think it wants. Porn may be an important part of an eroge but there's a lot more to it than that. It also doesn't help that CG's are unlocked as bonus items rather than making them scenes that actually occur leaving them with little to no context, which is such an epic fail when it comes to delivery. The gameplay is passable, but it is also shallow. It lacks any sort of progression or gimmicks to add another layer to the gameplay. To use Hunie Pop as an example, you could increase your skill with certain gems getting a bonus when matching them, you also had items that worked like 1 use skills adding a layer of strategy to it. Puzzle Quest also had this, you leveled up your skill with certain gems, and you had skills to use outside of simply matching the gems. This game could have benefited from such gameplay gimmicks. What is there is passable, but it isn't enough to stand on its own. If the game had memorable characters or a good story I could have forgiven the sub-par gameplay. If it had good gameplay I could have ignored the lackluster characters and story. Failing to make either facet good leaves the game unappealing and unenjoyable on all fronts.