Thanks to one of my friends, I was able to try out this game called Nanatsuiro * Drops: Touch de Hajimaru Hatsukoi Monogatari for the Nintendo DS. First, let me start by saying that yes, this is a visual novel, and no, it’s not really a port of the PC game.

Well, even if the interface is pretty much like a visual novel, you don’t really have to make that many choices (and I don’t really think it matters what you choose anyways), so instead, in order to progress through the game you have to play various minigames and get certain scores and stuff. Normally, I wouldn’t have a problem with this… however, there are only like 6 or 7 different minigames, and ALL of them are pretty boring and stupid.

The other worth mentioning aspect about this game is that it’s heavily based on the anime series (which wasn’t that good of an adaptation to begin with)… so heavily, in fact, that most (if not all) of the CGs are screencaps from the TV show. I mean, yeah, sure, it’s nice to have a bunch of animated CGs and movie clips, but… what’s the point if I’ve seen the exact same stuff before? What makes it even worse is that the producers thought it would be a good idea to remove all the romantic and cute scenes from the anime and just leave everything that was required for the lame plot of the game. Which means no hugging, no kissing (unless you count the photoshopped screenshots of Sumomo facing the screen with her eyes closed as kissing)… nothing. Heck, it even feels like they carefully picked the screens they’d use and even edited some clips in order to make Tsuwabuki show up as little as possible, as if he were one of these eroge male protagonist without a face or something. WTF WHY WOULD THEY DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT?!

So, yeah, the story was also made even shorter than the anime so I was able to finish the game in maybe less than an hour. After that, I unlocked something called “If Story” which had Haru going after a new stellar spinner called Yulissia or something like that. Seeing how the whole thing was so random and idiotic, I finally said “screw it” and decided that it was time to stop torturing myself with this joke of a visual novel.

And that’s it. Moral of the story: it sucks, don’t bother with rare imports, can’t believe they still make games like these, etc etc.