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After years of playing and loving the PC version, I thought maybe it was time I got the PS2 port! I really just want more date places and presents...that's okay, right?
While I was looking at websites I happened across a review (I can't find it right now) in Japanese that gave this game very poor marks.
Thoughts onShugosei Yaoi Angelique Etoile,
Original characters (from the first game) were OOC.
Julious still likes horseback riding and espresso and hates Clavis. Marcel is still shota prince gone green. Olivie still likes to wear women's clothes---in fact, every article he owns at once. WHAT IS THERE TO COMPLAIN ABOUT? Robin only played the first Angelique game, and by golly, she didn't really care about any of the guys in that game. So Robin doesn't care! Yeah. I've had it with the original characters. Long live the Beast Cosmos shugosei, because with them around I can scold "Kratos" for eating too many hot dogs.
There wasn't enough deep backstory.
This game assumes you are wild for the original guys. What else are they going to tell us about them? The new guys all have to be recruited, which involves minimum three events alllllll about them. The original Angelique had much less than this---they barely even explained what's going on with certain shugosei and the Queen.
The original characters all hate each other. It's like they didn't learn anything from their experiences in previous games.
It's not my problem if you want all those grumpy long-haired guys to be gay for each other. (I understand how awful that is, considering how unpopular some of my favorites are, but.)
JUST when you get all 9 Holy Beast Cosmos shugosei, you have to start replacing your bracelet every two weeks to do anything.
Then don't get all 9 right away, silly. Or don't finish recruiting them until the cosmos is all leveled up and you don't have to use the bracelet, anyway.
Saving and loading takes too long.
This is a very real and serious problem. .-. Specifically it takes upwards of 30 seconds (estimated) just for the game to read the memory card. What went wrong? 30 seconds is definitely long enough for me to look down and into a book. KOEI, BE HAPPY YOU FIXED THIS IN SUBSEQUENT GAMES.
Too many characters.
NO. My strike range is small. I need 19 guys to find like 2 favorites. Bringing it down to six guys means I didn't really care about anything, and that's ridiculous because one of them had Roy's voice! Come ON!
"a romance simulation that feels just like a romance simulation."
It was like a long, pleasant personality test, where the reward is pretty pictures and [insert your favorite voice actor here] sounding lovey-dovey. So yeah...it was like a romance simulation. So? That's what I paid for.
So here's the thing---I bought Haruka 3 and the expansion disc a month or two ago, and I followed all the instructions, but the MixJoy just doesn't work. Maybe I used the wrong memory card? Or, I'm mostly afraid that I used the wrong system region, and I can't really fix that. :| HALP. (Adi, that's why I wasn't playing :X)
While I was looking at websites I happened across a review (I can't find it right now) in Japanese that gave this game very poor marks.
Thoughts on
Original characters (from the first game) were OOC.
Julious still likes horseback riding and espresso and hates Clavis. Marcel is still shota prince gone green. Olivie still likes to wear women's clothes---in fact, every article he owns at once. WHAT IS THERE TO COMPLAIN ABOUT? Robin only played the first Angelique game, and by golly, she didn't really care about any of the guys in that game. So Robin doesn't care! Yeah. I've had it with the original characters. Long live the Beast Cosmos shugosei, because with them around I can scold "Kratos" for eating too many hot dogs.
There wasn't enough deep backstory.
This game assumes you are wild for the original guys. What else are they going to tell us about them? The new guys all have to be recruited, which involves minimum three events alllllll about them. The original Angelique had much less than this---they barely even explained what's going on with certain shugosei and the Queen.
The original characters all hate each other. It's like they didn't learn anything from their experiences in previous games.
It's not my problem if you want all those grumpy long-haired guys to be gay for each other. (I understand how awful that is, considering how unpopular some of my favorites are, but.)
JUST when you get all 9 Holy Beast Cosmos shugosei, you have to start replacing your bracelet every two weeks to do anything.
Then don't get all 9 right away, silly. Or don't finish recruiting them until the cosmos is all leveled up and you don't have to use the bracelet, anyway.
Saving and loading takes too long.
This is a very real and serious problem. .-. Specifically it takes upwards of 30 seconds (estimated) just for the game to read the memory card. What went wrong? 30 seconds is definitely long enough for me to look down and into a book. KOEI, BE HAPPY YOU FIXED THIS IN SUBSEQUENT GAMES.
Too many characters.
NO. My strike range is small. I need 19 guys to find like 2 favorites. Bringing it down to six guys means I didn't really care about anything, and that's ridiculous because one of them had Roy's voice! Come ON!
"a romance simulation that feels just like a romance simulation."
It was like a long, pleasant personality test, where the reward is pretty pictures and [insert your favorite voice actor here] sounding lovey-dovey. So yeah...it was like a romance simulation. So? That's what I paid for.
So here's the thing---I bought Haruka 3 and the expansion disc a month or two ago, and I followed all the instructions, but the MixJoy just doesn't work. Maybe I used the wrong memory card? Or, I'm mostly afraid that I used the wrong system region, and I can't really fix that. :| HALP. (Adi, that's why I wasn't playing :X)
