Imitatation is the sincerest form of rip-off

[RyoTD [ANF]]

I recently came across a site where you could download a couple of those old-school hentai dating sims - the type where you are given 100 or so days to date some stereotypical girls and be "rewarded" with one or two hentai pictures in the end. While I'm not a great fan of this genre (mostly because it's so frigging ridicolus!), I downloaded one of them - an old game called "Season of Sakura" - to play when I feel bored.

Today was one of those days, so I played it. Once the title screen appeared, I noticed that some of the ten or so girls looked kinda familiar. Not that this is strange; It is a hentai game filled with with stereotypical girls after all.

Before I started to play this game from 1997, I chosed the "character intro" mode to find out a little more about the characters. After scrolling trough pictures and info of five or so remotely intresting girls, I got a major deja-vu moment:

Enter Ruri Shiromizu, an introverted, depressed rich girl who has been transferred to over 100 schools trough her entire life.

You could imagine my reaction when I saw the picture I linked to above. But this wasn't the end; it was just the beginning...

Aki Hinagiku is a fiery redhead whose special talents are tennis and roundhouse kicks.

Kyoko Kobayashi is the purple haired homeroom teacher of the game's protagonist, Shuji. Interests? Beer, sake and getting drunk.

Makoto Shimazaki is the local computer geek and - you won't believe this - military otaku. He's also into older women.

And as if this wasn't enough, one of the girls (who seems to be a Ritsuko wannabe, btw) has a younger brother whose name is Shinji Shinfuji.

Edit: 15 minutes into the game, and Makoto/Kensuke is already hitting on Kyoko/Misato. Who didn't see that one coming?

Originally posted on: 07.15.2005, 06:57 PM

[Shin-seiki [ANF]]

Once the title screen appeared, I noticed that some of the ten or so girls looked kinda familiar.

I detect Hikaru, Umi, and Fuu, from MKR in that pic, too...

Originally posted on: 07.15.2005, 07:15 PM

[RyoTD [ANF]]

Pardon my st00pidness, but what's MKR?

Originally posted on: 07.15.2005, 07:24 PM

[Shin-seiki [ANF]]

Pardon my st00pidness, but what's MKR?

Magic Knight Rayearth; the series that put CLAMP (X, Card Captor Sakura, Angelic Layer, etc) on the map...

Originally posted on: 07.15.2005, 07:29 PM

[RyoTD [ANF]]

Oh, that. I've never been intrested in CLAMP's workds, though.

Originally posted on: 07.15.2005, 07:56 PM

[Shin-seiki [ANF]]

Oh, that. I've never been intrested in CLAMP's workds, though.

CCS and Angelic Layer like totally rule, and stuff... Chobits and MKR were pretty good too.

Originally posted on: 07.15.2005, 08:03 PM

[RyoTD [ANF]]

20 minutes ito the game: This is actually getting pretty scary... (highlighted area)

Edit:After ten more minute's, Ruri/Rei arrive's at the scene, in very Rei-esque manner.

More Edit: Aki/Asuka strikes! It seems like she's been living in America, and got transferred to the protagonist's school one year ago.

Originally posted on: 07.15.2005, 08:07 PM

[Soluzar [ANF]]

Oh, that. I've never been intrested in CLAMP's workds, though.

I'll grudgingly admit that if you can take the cuteness-factor, then CCS doesn't suck.

Originally posted on: 07.15.2005, 08:20 PM

[Magami No ER [ANF]]

I love their works, mainly Lawful Drug, CCS, and X, and Chobits.

Originally posted on: 07.15.2005, 08:29 PM

[RyoTD [ANF]]

I've read Chobits, but I can't say that I liked it.

Originally posted on: 07.15.2005, 08:32 PM

[ShyanHaiJin [ANF]]

They used Diana Krall a bit with their ending song too

Originally posted on: 07.15.2005, 11:16 PM

[Dr. Nick [ANF]]

20 minutes ito the game: This is actually getting pretty scary... (highlighted area)

Seconded. A crossover / self-insertion / hentai version of ep. #26 AU-sequence! When you get to the end credits, check out if the lead programmer's name happens to be P. B-----...

Well, to be fair I do assume gameplay-wise this thing owns most of the official NGE-games. And I can't decide if it should make me feel sad or amused.

So, no educated guesses about the identity of our mystery chick? Oh darn it, it seems I have to go and bug John and his minions.

Originally posted on: 07.16.2005, 03:18 AM

[RyoTD [ANF]]

Well, I'm done with the game now. Some more things a noticed while playing it:

- I guess it didn't come as a suprise that Aki/Asuka's lines consisted mostly of "Anta baka?!" and variations of it.

- Kyoko/Misato "put the moves" on a kid after all. In the name of 'education', none the less.

Btw, the game engine is supid. When December 24 came around and I had to chose which girl I really loved (Aki/Asuka in my case, of course), I had to pick the name from a list. When I picked Aki/Asuka, she dumped me. So I picked another. That girl dumped me too. So I chose another, who also dumped me etc, etc. So I ended up getting married with my least favorite girl. Fate likes being cruel to poor swedes like me, I guess.

Edit: Oh, I forgot that the protagonist's parents owned an electronics store. There was a Rei poster on the wall, and one of the products in the store was a "Pen^3 Refrigerator" computer chassis.

Originally posted on: 07.16.2005, 10:34 AM

[Reichu [ANF]]

Edit: Oh, I forgot that the protagonist's parents owned an electronics store. There was a Rei poster on the wall, and one of the products in the store was a "Pen^3 Refrigerator" computer chassis.

Got pics?

Originally posted on: 07.17.2005, 02:21 PM

[RyoTD [ANF]]

Got pics?

Maybe, maybe not. I'll post them as soon as I can.

@Mammary, Shafmut and Clavvie:

Got life?

Originally posted on: 07.17.2005, 02:37 PM

[Reichu [ANF]]

I see a red circle with a white "X" in their future.

Originally posted on: 07.17.2005, 02:37 PM

[RyoTD [ANF]]

Got your mom in my pants.

You have? Strange, she was in the living room last time I checked.

Originally posted on: 07.17.2005, 02:41 PM

[Magami No ER [ANF]]

Ok, trio of spammers, please don't **** up this thread. Or any other, for that matter.

Originally posted on: 07.17.2005, 02:49 PM

[Reichu [ANF]]

People, when people like this show up, just ignore them and report to the mods. With all my hatred of trolls, these people are just so completely moronic that there is simply no point whatsoever.

Originally posted on: 07.17.2005, 03:33 PM

[Dragonaire [ANF]]

Uh, dongs?

Originally posted on: 07.17.2005, 03:52 PM