Tenshi Souzou Reboot finished:

For the low price of $100, I was able to acquire both new Angel Beats SS Memoria -- Yuri and Kanade.  Plus a new SS blaster version of Yuina and the base SS form of Adelheid.  Plus limit breaks for base Hisame, Ichiko, bathing suit Sumomo and an eternal daphne for bathing suit Sumomo.  (In fact, I got another bathing suit Sumomo SS Memoria, which means I'm halfway to her max level 4 limit break as well!)  The rolls were all in my favor, giving me limit breaks to the precise people I desired.  I guess it would have been better if maid Hisame had gotten the limit break instead of base Hisame but nevertheless, I was just thinking how I wished Hisame had a limit break and boom, there I go.  I was also planning on limit breaking Ichiko after Sumomo and boom, it happened at random.

That's basically $11 per SS Memoria, and top class SS's at that.  I'd pay that any day.

I tried out my newfound power in the hell mode clocktower and beat the first three monster encounters, a huge improvement over all previous attempts -- but I still lost to the first boss, shadow Yuki.  Then I tried my newfound power on the Oubliette of Tears, attempting to go all the way down to floor 35 before fighting the boss -- that gambit also failed, but by the tiniest of margins.  If I had preserved 2 energy somewhere on that run it would have been enough to defeat the boss.  *Sigh*.  I think it's scientifically possible to start on floor 46, go down to floor 35, then go all the way back up to floor 50, but I need a little more strength to pull it off.  For now stopping at floor 37 is the wisest course.

Then I tried my newfound power on the level III ice Orb Boss and lost after a long and hard fight.  Again it feels like if I were just a little stronger I could pull it off.  But again my newfound power wasn't so powerful after all.  This is why I have to keep powering up by getting more and more limit breaks -- the game is telling me all my efforts so far, valiant as they were, still weren't enough.

There's still plenty of time to grind before Chapter 5 comes out, so I'll get there.

Meanwhile, I beat the Orie and Fumika routes, completing Tenshi Souzou Reboot.  The girls were certainly pretty, but the routes were pretty uninspired.  No big deal, they were just bonus side characters not even featured on the cover of the game.  The worst Tenshi Souzou routes were still better than Hatsuyuki Sakura.  I can now proudly proclaim I've actually played the hall of fame entry that I'm encouraging everyone else to play.  Come to Tenshi for Noa, stay for everybody else.

This doesn't stop me from playing visual novels, though.  I already bought Cafe Stella, which is another visual novel set in the same place as Tenshi Souzou.  The girls of Tenshi Souzou actually dined at Cafe Stella, so basically I can still continue to play the same amazing game.  If Cafe Stella lives up to my expectations, I can add it to the Tenshi Souzou entry of my visual novel hall of fame, killing two birds with one stone.

Maybe Stella will have some new wonderful characters and I can replace some more weak entries while I'm at it.