Mokarimakka! We're still in Kyoto for a second day of anime shenanigans, or shenanimegans, in Overdrive's highly informative if barely interactive visual novel Go! Go! Nippon! ~My First Trip to Japan~ (tildes wa sugoi). I promised you salacious content, or least heavily implied it, but the game's decided to grow up in recent updates. Instead, continue to enjoy this all-ages appropriate guided tour of Japan's old capitol with Makoto and Akira. (Not the Street Fighter or the psychic dead kid.)
Part 06: Summer of Samurai
Hoorj. Let's hope we see more temples today!Here's a temple with a rock garden. Ryoan-ji's, to be precise. Apparently it has all sorts of cool visual trickery and was created several hundred years ago by an unknown artist. Mysterious stuff.We took a last-minute excursion to a period town, presumably so we could get the girls to cosplay in traditional garb.Man do I love some jidai geki. This game needs to stop reminding me of cool shit I could be doing/watching and go back to its comfort zone of boring temples and upskirts.Speaking of the inevitable, here's Makoto-hime and samurai Akira. I did not add the lensflares.Akira gave us shit for giving her a masculine costume to wear, but Goku's way into it so I don't even care what's going on any more.Well! That was Kyoto! This must be the first anime game I've ever played to sidestep a hot spring scene.So apparently because two of our three day trips in Tokyo were with Akira, we're now locked on her "route". Which means we get her grousing about how much more awesome her big sister is. Way to make me feel better about this decision, Ms. Silver Medal.I'm kidding. Akira's a sweetheart. She's also the way younger one, so I'm really not quite sure if this is okay. But when has any of this been okay? At any point?We were away for two days, but whatever. Maybe time in Japan works differently, I'm just a stupid foreigner.Ah, that's right. The game is almost over. One more update for tomorrow and we're finally done with all this anime prancing. At least until someone buys me another regrettable visual novel off Steam that I'm compelled to LP.Because we're still locked onto Akira's route, she bursts in to decide where we're going tomorrow. Were I on the other route, I think I'd be heading elsewhere. Replayability!I guess we're going to Yokohama then. The big port city that isn't the one that WWE wrestler was named after. Let's see how many fish puns I can come up with.Man, sudden foreboding Majora's Mask deja vu. Can Akira and I save Termina before it's too late?
