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Today I want to share a little bit about a visual novel I played a few weeks ago. I found it by chance after aimlessly clicking through otome blogs, tried the Switch demo and was completely smitten within like 30 minutes. I insta-bought it. It is a BL visual novel called Hashihime of the Old Book Town, 古書店街の橋姫。A localized BL VN on Switch feels completely unheard of but I'm glad it is available for everyone to play. :D
I'm going to try to be vague because I want anyone coming across this entry to not be spoiled too much. I linked Nintendo's summary above. And the real goal here is to show off my favorite boy. xD It is a kinetic mystery story revolving around MC Tamamori, who has pretty wild hallucinations, and his three friends in Taisho Era Japan. These hallucinations are so pretty. This is what sucked me in at first. Then the music. Superb. It's so wonderful. I'm not sure how to get a hold of the OST so I'm gonna record my own copy of each track.
Then soon afterward this eccentric shows up. I keep wondering every time I meet Hakase what is he really up to? And every time, I loved him more and more, I was getting a little impatient waiting to get to his route. It was so worth the wait. ;^; What a sweetheart. ♥ This game made my heart flutter.
A bit later I learned the Switch version is censored. Which is actually kind of OK because looking up the missing eyecatches I felt the only thing I missed out on was any dialog said during them. I will buy the Steam version someday when I want to go through it again to see them though. If you're ever deciding which version to buy, the Switch release has exclusive short stories that unlock at the end. I loved those more than anything I possibly missed. Just thinking about them brings back my overwhelming feelings for this game. I would rate it 9/10, would play 100 more times.
I'm going to try to be vague because I want anyone coming across this entry to not be spoiled too much. I linked Nintendo's summary above. And the real goal here is to show off my favorite boy. xD It is a kinetic mystery story revolving around MC Tamamori, who has pretty wild hallucinations, and his three friends in Taisho Era Japan. These hallucinations are so pretty. This is what sucked me in at first. Then the music. Superb. It's so wonderful. I'm not sure how to get a hold of the OST so I'm gonna record my own copy of each track.
A bit later I learned the Switch version is censored. Which is actually kind of OK because looking up the missing eyecatches I felt the only thing I missed out on was any dialog said during them. I will buy the Steam version someday when I want to go through it again to see them though. If you're ever deciding which version to buy, the Switch release has exclusive short stories that unlock at the end. I loved those more than anything I possibly missed. Just thinking about them brings back my overwhelming feelings for this game. I would rate it 9/10, would play 100 more times.
