Lately I’ve been kinda unsatisfied, you know? Getting older, and plain plots just don’t do it for me anymore. Probably I’ve played too many games and seen every story beat there is, so when something completely ordinary happens I just go “meh.” Recently I’ve been hunting for stuff with more “punch,” more “intensity.” Don’t get the wrong idea, I’m not about to awaken some weird fetish. I just mean I want that “protagonist starts weak, beats one strong enemy after another, and finally takes down the boss in a blazing finale” kind of story. Ah, whatever, I just want to read 王道 — the tried-and-true hot-blooded route. Honestly, 王道 stories are everywhere in shonen manga; all those long-running mainstream series are built on that formula. But in the Galgame world this kind of content keeps shrinking. Either it’s half-assed, or they force some bullshit and end up making a mess. Some don’t even try. The last game about piloting fighter jets really disappointed me. I don’t think I’m asking for much — I just want something like Aokana. Is that really so rare? In the end I had to go digging through old games. Then I remembered: way, way back I’d picked up Walkure Romanze and never finished it…