"Hourglass of Summer" game review

For Christmas I was kindly given "Hourglass of Summer", a visual-story game on DVD. You usually know these in the form of H-games; "Hourglass of Summer" has the "pick up girls" focus of an H-game, but without the pornography. That was okay with me because I already have enough pornography.

The artwork was beautiful-- the low budget prevented very many poses for the characters, but it was easy to use your imagination with the nice style.
However, the art was marred by a 1fps framerate (I guess that compression keeps it to a single DVD). Some idiot at the studio decided that even though they had gone the 1fps route, it would be cool to have Powerpoint-like transitions anyway! It looks like the DVD player is broken, and it is annoying to watch.

For playing the DVD on my computer, I tried to use Windows Media Player, Media Player Classic, Ogle, Xine, and VLC. They all failed miserably in their own ways. So I took it downstairs to my Most Revered and Holy Magical DVD Player ("Classic DVD102") that I bought for $50 on eBay and which has never failed me. It played the game correctly.

I played it for 30 minutes, just barely getting involved in the elaborate and interesting plot, then decided to save. The password system involved paging through a bunch of frames to get each individual character. After the 6th character, my DVD player lost its place somehow. ARRRRGHHH

I would recommend not buying visual-story games on DVD. Stick to Windows-only for now.

The game is not bad at all, but I wish it was a PC game also.

Jlist has a bunch of localized DVD games, how are they?

The cumbersome password system is one reason to stay far far away from these DVD player games.  All of them are ported by the same company so gameplay should relatively be the same.

They just grabbed the JP PC version and removed the H. Oh, and translated it as well.

Hourglass of Summer started out as a none H game.  So, there was no H scenes to remove.

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a blast from the past