Hitomi, My Stepsister~
May 23rd, 2008
When I’m not out terrorizing the local Christian community with the blatant contradictions, total lack of verifiable and empirical information, hypocracies, and failures of their church or bemoaning the state of the U.S. Government and how I have observed that it has failed us, or buying all sorts of weeaboo paraphenelia, I’m playing ren’ai or dating sim games.
This time around, it’s Hitomi My Stepsister.
So, I finished played Hitomi on the premise that it would entertain me without being the trainwreck that ultimately is Kana: Imouto. Full completed Hitomi and I wish I got my hours back. It’s terrible. Not because it’s pretty standard fare for a professionally translated game (read: typical eroge) but because the plot is trite, cliched and you don’t get a clear idea of the protagonist and really, the girls’ personalities are two-dimensional excuses. They could have put more effort into it. Yoko could have been a more fleshed-out yandere, Yuki could have been a braincase as evidenced by her appetites, and Hitomi? Hell, Hitomi could hvae been done a fuckton of a lot better. The problem was there was a lot of questions and not a lot of answers. In fact, if there were any answers, it was at best a very haphazard and backhanded sort of answer. Why did Yoko flip out the way she did? Why was Hitomi wont to regress to a childlike state? Why did Yuki have her appetites? Why was she emotionally distant? Why was Hitomi timid? Very haphazard, very unfinished. it probably could have been EPIC.
OTOH, I suppose I’ve been spoiled when it comes to “broken girls” in the typical ren’ai game; I mean come on, what could possibly compare to the broken girl than Kohaku? I’ve gotta be a lot more careful in picking the games I play ;_;
To give you an idea of Hitomi, I give you the Invisible Windtunnel.
“Hitomi, My Stepsister~” isn’t a ren’ai but the complete opposite since it’s a ryoujoku. Please, don’t use terms if you don’t understand what they mean. >_<