/jp/ - Otaku Culture

With releases coming, and me actually wanting to read some new stuff this month, I had three days to fill. (though seeing how Istoria could apparently need some patching.. this seems to get longer after all)
So in these days I'd figure I try out "tototo", a moege of sorts featuring a threesome theme by Pulltop Latte, the first title of the sub-brand actually.

The characters are actually mostly likeable. Though I do think the main-heroine is too "safe". Obviously given the theme of the game, it would utterly crumble if anyone would dislike here, but that safety still makes it crumble, as while she's not downright terrible, she is more than bland enough to wish she would just go and stay away.
As such the three-some thing isn't too enjoyable either. It's a nice thing in short ero-manga, but if you actually get the characters to know in moege-style, chances are pretty high you don't want the main-heroine in the other routes. Feels like a third wheel or something.

Aside of that, the writers tried to explain the three-some thing and cover it under "romance", but failed doing so. Pretty much none of the typical issues were even thought about, and it was just a whole lot of "but this isn't normal". None of the basic requirements for such a thing to come into existence or at least sorta work are really given, while the writers still tried to kinda build a story that justifies these relationships. One route could've actually worked out quite well, but its writer decided to rather bomb the reasons it could do so.


In the end the work is just wonky. It would've been a rather nice moege with a typical structure and 1on1 relationships. Would've helped the ero as well, as nobody wants that main-girl in so many scenes, I'm sure. (altogether there's not really more than in other moege, but..)
The idea was nice, but I think having one girl in all routes was a bad idea. It'd be better to have heroine-pairs where their relationship is deep and a big thing. Like the twins in Konosora (about I still haven't written anything I think..). But I still had some fun, which the art also helped. Some of the clothes the girls wear just seem rather sexy. Didn't think tanktops are that powerful, or at least can be, with the right girls. There's even another one aside of pic related.