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• gamedeal user

  Dec 2, 2019

  Great game, but just like Kyoto Winds, the translation is WTF. I can speak Japanese so at least I can understand what they're actually saying, but I'd probably hate most of the characters if not for that. Like, for example, in Okita's route he reassuringly says something in Japanese which means "You're over exaggerating. I just went to grab the katana over there", and they translated it as this fucking mess: "Jeez, just give it a rest. Stop throwing a bitch-fit every five seconds. I'm just grabbing my sword." Like WHAT? What???? I can't even comprehend wtf the translator could have been thinking. Another example, he says you jump to conclusions fast and reassures you that he wasn't going to do anything stupid when he'd end up just dying if he did. The translator decided this should be "Holy hell, all you do is jump from one conclusion to the next. I'm not doing anything stupid..." The translations make normal, reassuring or calm statements super fucking aggressive and asshole-y. So, if you're playing this and something someone said made you go "wtf is this dick", chances are it's the horrible translation. :(
• gamedeal user

  Sep 15, 2018

  [h1]⠀⠀⠀⠀ – ✤ – New Content Review – ✤ – [/h1] For returning veterans that just want to know what’s new in this version of Hakuouki, I offer a glowering review: [quote]Because of space limitations, this review was continued from the Kyoto Winds page. See the first part [url=https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197995408661/recommended/589530/]here[/url]. [/quote] [h1]Game Content Differences[/h1] Includes: ⠀⠀ ✿ Demon of the Fleeting Blossoms, Part I ⠀⠀ ✿ Demon of the Fleeting Blossoms, Part II ⠀⠀ ✿ Stories of the Shinsengumi: bonus scenes ⠀⠀ ✿ New scenes, routes, music, and CGs Does Not Include: ⠀⠀ ✿ Zuisouroku (Shimabara, snow, festive night) ⠀⠀ ✿ Adventures of the Shinsengumi (cat scenes) ⠀⠀ ✿ Stories of the Shinsegumi: letters ⠀⠀ ✿ Hakuouki Memories: Short Stories ⠀⠀ ✿ Memories of Love ⠀⠀ ✿ Various hilarious CD dramas ⠀⠀ ✿ Reimeiroku (with Ibuki) ⠀⠀ ✿ Urakata Hakuōki (different cast) ⠀⠀ ✿ Yuugiroku (chibi mini games) ⠀⠀ ✿ Sweet School Life (high school version) ⠀⠀ ✿ Bakumatsu Musouroku (3D hack&slash) [h1]Artwork[/h1] The new artwork doesn’t have quite the same, natural aesthetic as the old, but it does look like quite a bit more effort was put into it, and not just on the costumes. They do all have new recolors and fancier clothes; Shinpachi looks less like a clown. And there are -lots- of new backgrounds and CGs, all of which are lovely. Most impressive to me were the new character models though. Their eyes express their feelings and personality superbly well: suspicion, disappointment, expectation. They can seriously read your soul. [h1]Gameplay[/h1] It’s a port, so expect bugs and unnecessary demands on your CPU. Fullscreen didn’t work for me. It warped the image so badly that I had to play windowed. Running Borderless Gaming (from Steam) was the only workaround, but then I had to fight wonky Steam overlays and a fussy Application Frame Host. Big mess. Many lag. There is now more and better sounding music. New animations (blood spatter, mist, snow, character overlays) and sounds (crows, cicadas, dogs, etc) add to the atmosphere while flash-bang sword animations detract because you are too blinded to read half the combat text. The characters still blink, but they don’t breathe or look particularly animated as they did in the PS3 version. Don’t be fooled by the cringe-worthy old-man puns in the achievements; it’s still a classy game--just not committed enough to find an experienced translator, it would seem. [h1]English Translation[/h1] Which brings me to the really, really terrible translation. It’s grammatically accurate (mostly), but someone had the bright idea that peppering random slang into the text makes it seem more relatable or something, but then used that slang completely out of context and at all the wrong moments without understanding the nuances, culture, social appropriateness, and feelings associated with it. It feels like someone played Russian Roulettes with a thesaurus from the 60s, and lost. This was by far the most disheartening aspect of the entire game because it is pervasive. It just makes me sad because I love this game and how it so reverently yet entertainingly deals with a very sad and serious period in time, so I am embarrassed by such an unprofessional translation waffling between purple prose and Scooby-Dooh vernacular, knowing people won’t be able to see past it to the much better writing in the original Japanese. The respectfully literal translation of the original content was perfectly fine. I can see that they made an effort to brighten this version by using action, romance, and slang specialists, but the Frankenstein script that came out of it is nauseating. Blue Language Alert: in Japanese the language is probably at a PG rating (officially CERO C ≈ ESRB T). In English, the game is rated MA for language. Why?? In the new scenes, even sweet, innocent little Chizuru cusses…all the time. Kazama is no longer the suave anti-hero he was; now he just sounds like a schoolboy hooligan with a potty mouth. It’s profanity to the point of distraction, a symptom again of an over-confident translator thinking that Japanese tough-guy language is the equivalent of English ⁴chan vulgarity. This game is for ‘maidens,’ not truckers. The inappropriate and out-of-character word choices (e.g. Okita) actually make me like the characters less. A simple native check is all it would take to fix this. I’m sorry to be so critical, but this is a novel: the words are important. [h1]Rating[/h1] Speaking of language, I would have previously put this game at a PG13 for swearing (I’m looking at you, Hijikata), mild innuendo, and, well, blood-fetishes. But it’s gone way beyond that into MA territory this version by including Hijikata’s metaphors in Technicolor, strongly suggestive vocabulary, and a raρe scene—or I assume that’s what it was; but, once again, it might have just been the really awful translation. [h1]New Routes[/h1] Whereas before I would have said that every route was fantastic and worth playing through, I can’t say the same for the new content. They spared no expense on the voice actors for the new routes; the three new heroes all being from the top five list in Japan. However, the routes, in general, are considerably shorter and by far more poorly written: too preachy, absolutely too tell-and-not-show info-dumpy, rushed, and lacking the character depth and sincerity of the originals. While they do add a deeper look into the mythology of the furies, they’ve lost the theme and quality of meaning the old routes had, and are now merely lazy recaps of better writing. They consistently have terrible wording and, to put it simply, are just plain boring. But some routes are better written than others (Sakamoto, Sannan). I admit that it was hard to feel attached to any of the new characters; the brief but imposing appearances of the original crew just made me want to go back to them—every time. Yukimura is quite a bit more spunky throughout. I suppose the devs were listening to everyone’s complaints about her passivity since the new characters frequently tell us how clever, strong, and capable she is (unconvincingly). But she has changed a great deal in one thing: her thirst for romance in Edo Blossoms is by far more erotic (though that’s a strong word here) than I remember the previous routes being, losing the endearing innocence of the older stories. If you haven’t played since PS2, then you’ll be very happy with the new scenes first released in the Vita version. They blend in perfectly, expanding the story and quietly leading into the romance later with the characters we know and love. You’ll know you’ve hit the new content for this version when the mic can no longer handle Nagakura’s manliness, and the translation suddenly sounds as awkward as a stoned baby-boomer trying to fit in with high schoolers. Then Yukimura will proceed to explain the personalities of our heroes to us because the writers thought that would be easier than actually writing story. There really is nothing original or interesting about the new content except all the editing errors: sentences cut off and missing, often conflicting. Real sloppy copy. In addition, the sudden interjection of ‘nibbling’ in every single romantic scene as they swap out writers for added lustiness is indescribably annoying and disruptive. With such an old and successful franchise, it truly surprises me how unprofessional this new content is. [quote]For more specific details, you can find my review of the individual routes [url=https://steamcommunity.com/app/589530/discussions/0/1742220359690125284/]here[/url].[/quote] [h1]So Is It Worth It[/h1] If you’ve taken the time to read this absurdly long review, then yes, for you, it’s worth it to get this game—one more time—with all its added flaws, for no reason more than that there’s more Shiranui. [h1] ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀╔⠀⠀⠀ ╗ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ 誠 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀╚⠀⠀⠀ ╝[/h1]
• gamedeal user

  Jul 26, 2022

  This one has same problems that Hakuoki: Kyoto Winds had. Every bad end written as afterthought just to have it and after some time I couldn't even bother to keep reading them, because they were all pretty much the same. It felt the same as encountering time after time piano that is falling on your head, which gets old very fast. Choices that you do for good endings on every route didn't feel that much different from other ones that you have, more like same thing that is put in different words most of the time. And Chizuru (character that you play as) herself feels more like spectator than anything else. Sure it's otome and your character is the one that is supposed to interact with all those love interests, but this feels like you're just staying there, watching their story, till they suddenly turn around, like guards that you've just alerted, they see you and they're coming at you with speed of train. There's also low/high corruption, that does depends on choices for give blood/medicine/nothing, but literally every route you have with those choices (for example, Sano and Kazama don't have them) you have to give blood if you're aiming for good ending (because you need low corruption for good ending and it will be high if you make them endure, also medicine option doesn't have CG to it). Which is so-so, since it doesn't feel like you get some variety between those characters, where you could get good endings from not giving blood (I get that it's vampire setting and all that, but still; those boys don't even feel like they are vampires). Could've made kinetic novel instead of pretending to have choices, because not only you forced to pick "give blood" option, but you also get treated the same by love interest even with low romance. Another thing about this novel is that it's based on history and real people that did exist some time back then, but writer that very poor job on writing story (when he doesn't even need to come up with much, since he can use history). While you see authors like Alexandre Dumas, Henryk Sienkiewicz and Bolesław Prus do great with adding their ideas to history figures, this novel takes "let's make them into vampires, but japanese stylised" and makes everything worse. • Whatever history those characters had originally you get told in most boring way. Some student books would tell you same history in more exciting manner than Hakuoki does. • If you're fan of vampires, those vampires feel like straight up downgrade from even being a human and this already says a lot. All they get are speed/healing powers, in exchange for years and years of life, and then they crack like old vase and turn into literal dust. Being vampire in this universe feels extremely lame (and I get that it was the idea, but I do not appreciate it). • Paired together, both history and mystical aspects, just make each other look worse than they are were on their own. I would have more appreciation to some of the characters if their story would've been told without making them into Furies. Since I've got both of Hakuoki novels at same time in hopes to get to know better some history that is mentioned in both of them, I ended up checking outside of the game all those characters that you get in it. It gets some details right, like Nagakura and Harada leaving Shinsengumi to join Haga, but after looking at pictures of those characters (where on some of them they were with their families), it felt just awkward to read their dialogues with Chizuru. While books from those authors, that I've mentioned above, kept me entertained enough of their own to not go and read history to them (atleast not while reading them), this novel couldn't. Hakuoki is same cup of tea as anime Le Chevalier D'Eon, except I found myself enjoying the later more, because this one had pile of half-melted sugar at the bottom.
• gamedeal user

  May 10, 2023

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• gamedeal user

  Dec 29, 2018

  Read my review for Hakuoki: Kyoto Winds [url=https://steamcommunity.com/id/vively/recommended/589530/]here.[/url] Hakuoki: Edo Blossoms continues where Kyoto Winds left off and finally brings awaited romance into action along with continuation of the Shinsengumi's story. Unlike Kyoto Winds, Edo Blossoms presents you with the ability to pick any character's route to play through right away, instead of getting into a random route depending on what choices you've made throughout the story. Choices you make still matter though! In this part there's not only the romance level, but also a corruption level for Fury love interests, so that makes things a bit different in comparison to the first part of the game. Just like the first part it comes with many different endings, so there's plenty to read through. Characters also become even more interesting in this part. The story is an emotional rollercoaster, so expect to be giggling or crying plenty of times throughout the game. So far this is the best otome game I've played; it's really enjoyable both for the story and for the romance it has to offer. So, just like in my first review, I highly recommend picking up both titles for the full experience.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 25, 2018

  ***Play Hakuoki: Kyoto Winds prior to playing this game!*** Hakuoki: Edo Blossoms is part one of a two part remake of the classic Hakuoki: Demon of the Fleeting Blossom dating sim. With six new bachelors to obtain, there is no shortage of engaging, well written content. While I do have qualms regarding this being released in two parts (Hakuoki: Kyoto Winds and Hakuoki: Edo Blossoms,) it is still well worth the time and money spent to relive the Hakuoki experience. PROS -12 Unique, likable bachelors with engaging, individual plotlines -Gorgeous and consistent art -Stunning soundtrack -Excellent writing -Tons of replay value CONS -Only half the story, preceded by Hakuoki: Kyoto Winds. -An utterly massive amount of information overload regarding 1860s Japanese government systems. Truly, far too much information. If you're a real big historical fiction fan or history buff in general, you are in for a treat. Otherwise, buckle up, kiddo. If you're a fan of the original game, Hakuoki: Kyoto Winds is worth picking up for the new content. If you're a new player, and a fan of dating sims, it's a must play. Yes, this is essentually the same exact review that I posted for Hakuoki: Kyoto Winds. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
• gamedeal user

  Feb 24, 2022

  The single most depressing thing you've ever read in your life happens in this game and then you find out that's the good ending
• gamedeal user

  Jun 28, 2020

  I will likely be revisiting my review once I complete the game, however, I was encouraged to break up the Hakuoki games in order to not burn out on the story since there are 12 LIs, and Kyoto Winds is a very robust game. I played each LI's path in Edo Blossoms right after finishing them in KW, so, as of right now, I've managed 3 of the 13 routes with 27 hours on record and 12 different endings. Edo Blossoms is basically the romance you were looking for in Kyoto Winds, and a wrap up to the clearly unfinished previous story where you were left with a "To be Continued." Whether you liked the original story and want to see where it was leading, or you want to finally have some god damned returned feelings, I fully recommend picking up EB. So, what's the good, bad, and in-between with this game? Good: You choose a LI path at the start of the game. Point. Click. Done. No fumbling around or guide to follow in order to get the dude you want. Skip Read feature, for when you're zooming through the same story in order to get the multiple endings. Service Record feature in the main menu, allowing you to start a certain chapter (and certain amount of romance/corruption) without going through the story again. You like different endings? EB has different endings. The store page says 30, but I'm thinking, at the rate I've seen so far, there has to be closer to 50 (likely over that). Can art get better? Personally, I think the CGs are better in this game than KW. It might be because most are romance related, but I simply feel the quality and choice of what to immortalize in a CG is just better. Bad: I don't like the MC any more than I did in the previous game. She's still pretty useless and only along for the ride with little to no growth. I'm sure someone, somewhere, could get every ending in a route without a guide, but I couldn't. My first time, I tried doing it myself and only managed 3 out of 5 endings, repeating one twice before I looked up how to get the other two. My third route I used a guide, and I don't think I would have managed to fumble my way through half the endings based on when they are in that LI's path. It wasn't simply going to the last chapter and changing variables. In-between: Not super long. For a follow-up to KW, it's jarringly short, but if considered without the previous game, it is decently paced and neither long or short for what I'd expect from a VN. Some of the romance can be... unexpected. For as aromantic as KW is, EB is basically the polar opposite. Some routes in KW where there isn't even the inkling of romance suddenly turn into overly affectionate LIs and it caught me off-guard based on previous personalities. Some routes seem a little disjointed since they are no longer focusing on the group as a whole but instead on a single person, so unless you have an understanding of the timing of events (through knowledge of history or even note-taking based on the game), it feels like there are gaps of information that you just accept in order for the story to progress. TL;DR: I'd push this game on anyone that has played KW. Hell, I'd recommend this game to people that haven't played KW, though tentatively, since I rather enjoyed the story in KW and feel like EB would be incomplete without the background. However, you could pick up EB if all you want is some whirlwind romance where you don't care about background and don't need much to form an attachment to the characters.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 19, 2020

  Love my boys. Especially Kazama, Iba, Okita & Heisuke. Also - I fuckin wish the heroine would just learn some swordmanship, it pissed me off last game already how useless she is in combat situations. Like girl, why even carry a kodachi when you can't even stab a man.