Review: Hanachirasu

Note: I'm only doing a short review of this one, because frankly there isn't that much to talk about...


The story of Takeda Akane the crazed swordsman and Igarasu Yoshia the man who seeks vengeance upon him, it is based in an alternate Japan where the nuclear bomb was never dropped and Japan was never fully subjugated.

Story 5/10: To be honest, this game is the worst Nitro+ game I've ever had the misfortune to deal with. A story with a lot of potential is utterly ruined by loads of unnecessary information about sword techniques and other such information. While the story itself was actually pretty good, the amount of pointless text one has to wade through to reach the meat of the story is ridiculous, making it impossible to give this a high rating.

Visuals 7/10: Like all Nitro+ games, the visuals are well-done, if not as clean as some of the other games of theirs that I've played. However, the weakness is the backgrounds, which are horribly done in comparison with the characters, and at times make it difficult to get into what you are reading.

Sound 8/10: Sadly, the best aspect of the game is the music and the sound effects, with decent tracks and some lovely blood splatter and sword slash sound effects. Unfortunately, the sound isn't so good that I would consider it to be 'excellent', so I can't give it that good of a score.

Overall 6.5: Worst VN I've played since Princess Lover, with its only redeeming quality being the endings, which are actually fairly good, and the general violence of the game.