and i thought it can only go borderline fanservice…
To Heart 2: XRATED
To Heart 2: XRATED is essentially the same game as the original To Heart 2 for the PS2, except that new scenes and features were added. You could still refer to my [To Heart 2->] project for details on each character, since nothing much has changed on each of their stories.
What has changed? If the word XRATED still didn’t give you a tip, I don’t know what will. Yes folks… in a seemingly different (but not so) move, a bishoujo game has turned from all-age to adult! Usually, when an adult-rated bishoujo game gets popular enough, it would be converted to all-age, cleaned-up versions on a console. To Heart 2: XRATED is the extreme reversal of that system. But since another major games maker ([Key->]) has also done that recently (non-ero game Clannad having an ero-game sidestory called Tomoyo After), I wonder if it’s going to be a trend. Reportedly, TH2X is becoming a success on its move to… er… adulthood.
THE SPECIFICS
– The entire game in 800×600 glory (higher resolution than the PS2 version… not that it matters much.)
– Added H scenes for all characters.
– Some CG additions to Karin, the Himeyuri twins, and the first Ilfa CG. (semi-H)
– New character scenario (Sasara Kusugawa), also comes with new CG and background music of course.
– Two minigames.
NEW CHARACTER
The new character that is introduced in To Heart 2: XRATED is named Sasara Kusugawa. She is the student council president, and is one schoolyear level higher than the male lead. More details to come when I finish playing her scenario. It’s kinda long by the way.
MINIGAMES
Super Sweets Scramble
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.jpg "Konomi battling her appetite")
.jpg "Yuki's level 3 powerup is so ridiculously strong!")
This one is a vertical-scrolling shooting game. You shoot cakes, chocolates, candies, and all kinds of sweets! There is a 3 or 6 minute timelimit, and you collect powerups for shooting upgrades. It’s quite fun while it lasts, and I recommend trying out all the various characters. Each of them have unique ability powerups, and some are so powerful it’s crazy.
Doki-Doki Panic Library
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.jpg "Arrange the books according to color")
.jpg "Versus mode against a CPU or another player.")
This one is a puzzle game. The object of the game is to arrange books of the same color using your character to interchange each book. Once 3 or more books of the same color are near each other, it disappears tetris-style and you score points. Some special books are there too. There are many game options including a vs. mode.
This is a [Summer of Bishoujo->] feature
.jpg "Lucy!")
.jpg "I mean Ruuko for now...")
.jpg "Yoroshiku-shiro!")
.jpg "Karin!!! ... ... no members.")
.jpg "Feigning death...")
.jpg "What a schemer.")
.jpg "Yuma!")
.jpg "Bumps into Takaaki")
.jpg "Angsty Yuma!")
.jpg "Yuma and Manaka... in PE!!")
.jpg "wet wet wet")
.jpg "Kono Takaaaaaki!!!")
.jpg "Manaka!")
.jpg "Manaka and Yuma!")
.jpg "the Iincho!")
.jpg "Tama-nee!")
.jpg "Onee-sama!")
.jpg "Beautiful.")
.jpg "Konomi-chan")
.jpg "Michiru and Chie")
.jpg "... and our (generic) male lead Takaaki...")
.jpg "reminded me of Multi")
.jpg "oh, so she was balancing on inclines...")
.jpg "graduation blues")
.jpg "Konomi-chan!")
.jpg "her friends")
.jpg "yatta!")
.jpg "cuteness overload")
.jpg "oh, so that's Takaki in the flesh... er... animation cel.")
.jpg "eheee~")
.jpg "Sango and Ruri")
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