Gosick #012: This reminds me of a puzzle!

Summer vacation has come while most students are going home or going on holiday, Victorique is stuck on an empty campus. Kazuya has the choice between spending a month with Victorique or staying with Avril in a fancy house on the Mediterranean. Will Kazuya and Victorique’s typical bickering convince him to go on a beach side adventure or will he stay with his grumpy but lonesome companion?

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Kagetsu Tohya, Tsukihime 2: Beautiful Dreamer

It is confession time. For all my Type-Moon discussion on the blog there was a distinct hole in my studies of the translated works of Kinoko Nasu in the fact that I had never played Kagetsu Tohya (Ten Nights of the Singing Moon). When I first checked the status of the translation it was incomplete and so playing the game slipped my mind. But I finally got off my duff to play the game for my Type-Moon panel. Kagetsu Tohya is as sequel to their original visual novel Tsukihime but it has a different feel and mechanic to it than the original which is a trend that would carry over to Fate/Hollow Ataraxia as well. Unlike Tsukihime that has 5 different paths than are mostly linear within their own storyline Kagetsu Tohya only has one path but it branches and loops in a variety of ways. It also has quite a bit of side stories and bonus materials that you can unlock as well.

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Gosick #011: Matthew 5:13 sounds really awkward out of context.

The recently introduced Jacqueline is coming to Saint Marguerite Academy to donate books for the library but her luggage accidentally gets swapped with a similar case of salesman wares. Grevil takes it upon himself to get the proper luggage back to their owners. At the same time Jacqueline meets Victorique and Kazuya triggering the story of her connection to Grevil and the relationships between them all.

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