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Thursday, June 12, 2025

Noble Works is Decent:

Noble Works is an older work, so it's done in lower definition and with less artistic detail.  The girls are still attractive but not as attractive as the more recent crop.  The plot is also okay but not ideal.  The premise of the story is that a pauper meets a prince (son of a rich CEO) who look exactly alike, and they decide to trade places as a security measure since kidnappers are after the prince.

With this the pauper enters a glitzy school and meets various high class people and does high class activities like attend a ball with them.  Eventually he falls in love and lives happily ever after, the kidnappers are defeated, and the pauper trades his place back to the prince.

The problem is the main character isn't all that great, he resorts to lies and violence when it isn't necessary, and at least the first route I've finished, Hinata's, the girl isn't that great either.  She's rather dumb and talking with her gets repetitive fast.  There are four other girls left to romance so maybe they'll be better, but I chose Hinata because she seemed the most promising.  If that's the most promising. . .

There's still some great jokes and I like how realistically the romances occur, like a boy could actually score a high-class lady in this manner, but it's a step down from what I expect of Yuzusoft.  This makes it all the more bizarre that Noble Works got a translation but Tenshin Ranman didn't.  

I feel like the best part of playing all these visual novels is that I get to turn off the background music of the game and listen to my own wonderful playlist instead.  Every song is so amazing and there are 1423 of them.  With that many songs on shuffle it never gets old.  In a sense the visual novel is just bonus.  It's the same for when I reread '100 Waifus,' one of the best perks is I can listen to music while I'm doing so.  It's the same for Heaven Burns Red, I can turn off the music and listen to my own playlist instead -- though of course I turn the music back on when new content arrives.  The benefits of cultivating such a fantastic music collection are continuous and eternal.

Tomorrow a new event should debut in Heaven Burns Red, but sadly today it looks like I'll have to romance a new heroine in Noble Works instead.  If only tomorrow could come a little faster. . .

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