Galgame blurbs have gotten seriously dishonest in recent years. Like, if a game claims it’s “pure love,” watch out. 90% chance it isn’t. If a game tells you it’s “a very quiet, uneventful story,” be suspicious. It won’t be uneventful. If a game tells you it’s yuri, there’s a good chance it’ll inform you the heroines are a bunch of guys’ cum dumpsters. If a game says “Now on sale to great reviews,” it already got shredded. Today I’m talking about a game that’s honest in every conceivable way. Seriously, in all my years of playing these things, I’ve never seen a game this honest. Umi to Yuki no Cyan Blue (海と雪のシアンブルー), from CUBE.

There was a weird new show in the April anime lineup called Wagamama High Spec. I forget how they translated the title into Chinese — something like “Selfish High-Spec.” Barely any content, insanely short episodes, and it made basically no sense at all. Turns out it’s an eroge adaptation, and the game hadn’t even shipped yet when the anime started airing, so the whole thing was just a promo ad for the game. Whether it’s a short or not doesn’t really matter. In the end, how good this thing is depends on the game. A while back I saw someone saying DOOM was going for a retro route, and I don’t buy it. DOOM just went back to what games fundamentally are; that’s not retro, that’s how games should be. Speaking of retro, I’d argue Wagamama High Spec is more of a retro thing — retro for eroge.