NEKOPARA is an eroge that gained somewhat of a legend status. NEKOPARA: Catboys Paradise started off as an April Fools joke from the franchise, but they decided to make an actual game from it.
And it’s cute as heck.
You play as a silent MC who decided to take over her late grandpa’s café after she graduated from college. She was contacted by a school for catboys and decided to hire four of them to help run the café. And that’s how she started living with four catboys eager to become her house cats and have a forever home.
There are four guys you can date, and here are my opinions on them:
TL;DR: all your pets turned into humans that are horny for you. If you find that unsettling, don’t play this game.
Visual novels can get pretty weird, take Hatoful Boyfriend for example. My Secret Pets is somewhere around that realm. The basic premise is this: you’re a college girl dumped by your boyfriend. When you came home, you found that your beloved pets turned into humans competing with each other for your love.
I had no clue why I bought the game six years ago (it’s just been sitting in my Steam library), and at this point, it’s too late for a refund. The thought of my dog turning into a human that’s horny for me is too much to bear, and thank god the MC’s dog is the only pet that remained an animal throughout almost the entire game, so it was still manageable for me.
(I’m reviewing the demo because I haven’t had time to play the full game yet.)
I saw this game on Facebook a few years ago (I think it was the time when the FB page was called smth like Fkkcloud) and it looked really good and promising. When the demo came out, it met and exceeded my expectations.
Eternights is an ARPG with horror and dating sim elements. You play as the protagonist, who finds himself with a magical arm—-Okay, the real thing is more complicated than that, so I encourage you to check it out yourself!
The controls and combat are intuitive even for someone with zero experience doing QTE and very little experience with these kinds of games like me. It’s the right difficulty for someone new to the genre; not too difficult yet not too easy. I really like the protagonist’s glowing arm. It looks amazing. The overall environment of the game is immersing and gives this futuristic post-apocalyptic cyberpunk vibe, which I really really like.
The voice acting in both English and Japanese are very good. The protagonist is silent (except during combat, he does say stuff), but his dialogues give him so much personality lol, it was entertaining. The girls in this game are really cute. I haven’t seen the other guy besides Chani yet, and I’m looking forward to seeing him along with everyone else in the full game.
i’m a female player so i tend to gear more towards the dudes, but man the player character is so damn cute
The game also features 2D animated cutscenes, which looks just amazing. Well, I don’t know what else to say lol I really like the game and I’m looking forward to clearing my work and getting time to sit down and enjoy the full game.
I decided to write this post because I found that modding info is a bit scattered all over the place, and since I’m quite new to modding, I wanted one guide that could walk me through the whole process.
After a few trials and error, I figured out how to do it and get the mods running. I’ll be sharing with you how.
TURN OFF the launcher!!! The mods will not run if you use the launcher to launch the game. You can do this simply by unticking the “Show launcher at start” box under General settings. Save and quit, then launch the game again. The launcher should not appear.
Download your mod. Nexus Mod and Banana Mod has a whole bunch of them. Don’t forget to check mod requirements.
I recommend you download “RF5Fix” mod since a few useful mods require this installed (I used this guide to install RF5Fix but I’ll summarize it here as well). RF5Fix is a fanpatch made by Lyall, and it lets you skip the intro sequence, adds ultrawide support, and improves graphics quality. RF5Fix comes bundled with something called BepinEx which the mod itself is required to run. (Skip this step if the mod you want does not require RF5 Fix)
MC recalled how Toma was happy when she told him she has a guy she likes. I guess she was disappointed that he’s so oblivious about her feelings. Although MC had been remembering all these love advice she got, she still got no clue who she actually liked. Orion thought it may be Ikki, and that’s what caused Toma to snap.
Toma claimed to have woken up from a weird dream, and was surprised to see MC in a cage (WTF?). But then he remembered that he did all that and was like ‘oh right, but not like I can stop now.’ Later that night, Toma talked about what he’d do if Shin found out about the cage thing.
MC found out that the cage had a weak spot and can be forced open. She did so, grabbed her phone, hid it in the puzzle box that Toma gave her, and replaced the cage bar seconds before Toma came back to the room. Toma noticed almost right away that her phone was gone, and tried calling it. Luckily, she already turned it off and got away with that one. It was the first time MC and Orion managed to get away with fooling Toma…maybe. I had a feeling he knew, though.
MC fell asleep right after her morning coffee. Toma teased her about sleeping so much.
Sir, I am terrified. Of you.
The next day, Orion figured out that Toma’s been drugging her. Before they could do anything, Shin came in and demanded an explanation on why MC was at Toma’s house for the past few days.
Toma was sneezing while he slept, so MC wanted to tuck him under the blanket properly. However, just as she did that, Toma pulled her under the blanket with him.
She recalled that in kindergarten, she couldn’t nap during the day because she wanted to go see her onii-chan in the other class. Toma heard her crying and came over, and brought his sleeping mat so that they could nap together in the same room.
Back to the present. Toma woke up with MC in his arms, and he talked about how big she’s grown compared to when they were little, then he let her go.
After MC collapsed, Toma watched over her all night. Orion had his doubts about Toma and MC being a couple, since many things point otherwise. However, it was clear that Toma really did care about MC.
my heart hnnnnn
Toma napped for 10 minutes while MC held his hand. Meanwhile, Shin messaged MC, asking why she’s been around Toma a lot despite having said that she didn’t want to see him. Toma woke up before she could reply, and left to get lunch from a convenience store. Orion and MC resumed their apartment search. They found a computer but with no battery or charger, for some reason.
Haiyaaaaaaa it’s now time for my Onii-chan’s route. I’m sort of excited and anxious at the same time. My capacity for reading yandere stories went down tremendously in the past few years, so fingers crossed I’ll make it through his route.
I first watched the Amnesia anime in 2013, and nine years later, my fav character is still Toma nii-chan. Toma is infamous even among people who haven’t seen Amnesia. I show pictures, and my friends would say ‘oh, the cage dude?’ I still like him despite that cage thing. Yeah. It’s almost painful.
I still remember that when the COVID-19 pandemic first started, the Amnesia team gave out a picture of Toma’s bedroom (with the cage) for people to use as their Zoom background. I used it in one of my classes, and no one got the reference. That’s probably for the best lol.
I misspelled ‘bad’ as ‘bed’. No, Amnesia does not have bed endings.
Anyway, I went back and changed some of my choices to see what happens. First, I changed my choice of suspect from *spoiler* Toma to Shin, and he replied with a ‘yeah figures.’ This change in attitude on the MC’s part affected the conversation with Toma at the park the following day. He said something along the line of ‘it makes my heart all tingly that I’m able to go back to being your older brother’.
This time, Shin did not have much time to ransack Toma’s house for evidence and had to hurry back.
MC chose to study with Shin, and he mentioned that she was his inspiration to study hard and get a scholarship.
The confrontation between Shin and Toma happened the same way, but instead of recalling that she mistook Toma for Shin and that Toma was the one who pushed her to the rock, her denial was so strong that MC refused to acknowledge the memory and buried it again. Toma told the other two to just think of it as an accident. Shin wasn’t too happy, though; he didn’t want to pretend nothing happened, but he didn’t want MC to think that he’s trying to ruin her relationship with Toma either.
Orion didn’t think that what happened to MC at the bottom of the cliff was an accident, but there’s nothing they could do now.
Three weeks passed, and Shin asked for a breakup. He knew that her memory loss and what happened with Toma was affecting her, and he wanted to break up so that they can start over again. He and Toma would be on equal grounds then, and whoever wins her heart over again this time can do it without any regrets. MC was like ‘oh? Come and get me, then.’ (Loool I love her when she said that)
That was the good end. TBH I also really like this ending, because it resolves Shin’s guilt about not realizing Toma’s feelings for the MC, and despite having doubted Shin before, MC is regaining her trust in him just like in the good ending.
bonutzuu 