Klondike forever 2
Otoko Cross adds the outrageously pretty boys, some gorgeously-rendered Mahjong pieces, and some lively backgrounds, with the only downside there being that a tiny few of the backgrounds can actually distract me from the pieces. As vanilla as it is, it is a timeless classic formula, and much like Tetris, it was actually one of my first games on the Game Boy so I have forever had a fondness for it.
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It’s Mahjong Solitaire, and we all know (and love) how that plays. Other than that there’s not much more to Otoko Cross. They wanted to give this, and the characters, an identity of their own. Otoko Cross is limited in what it does, but you can tell that the team really cared about this project and wanted to make it more than a genderswap crossdressing Pretty Girls game. The fact that it’s there at all means that I suddenly remember the names – hi, Morgan, yes I do remember you – and in theory, the developers can now build on these characters in future games and turn them into something more than a fleshy reward that hangs out on the side of the screen. It’s not much – one or two paragraphs at most – but it’s a context that a lot of other fan service-pure games ignore. The developers have also done a bit to give these five characters personality and backstory. There are far fewer games that feature this kind of fan service, let alone explicit nudity, and as far as my art tastes go, I do like things that are different. The Pretty Girls games are fine, but the girls are commonly big-boobed, default fan service fare. But! I can certainly appreciate the art, which really is stunning, and I like that it’s different – at least as far as my exposure to this stuff goes. Even the twintails character in the roster here, despite being very pretty, doesn’t quite work for me like an equivalent featuring Marie Rose from Dead or Alive would. It obviously doesn’t make me uncomfortable, since here I am playing it, reviewing it, and to spoil the score down the bottom, I liked it a lot, but on a personal level I’m pretty blandly straight when it comes to my preferences.
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I’d be lying if I said I was the target audience for this kind of material. To take some paragraphs from my original review to highlight what I loved about the presentation and design of the game: In other words, it’s basically a cross-dressing take on the Pretty Girls games that publisher, eastasiasoft, has been so active in supporting. It’s a game about enormously pretty boys that dress up in girly clothing and then, as you clear stages, they strip those clothes off for you. Following on from the release of Otoko Cross: Pretty Boys Mahjong Solitaire in May, I’m not going to have too much additional to say about this Klondike Solitaire take on basically the same concept.