Hakuoki Reimeiroku (2010)

Developer: Otomate, Design Factory
Publisher: Idea Factory
Platforms: PlayStation 2
Genres: Visual Novel
Where to get it: Website

The 3D catalog: game boxes on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalog in 3D

The same catalog has a room you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real games from it when you tell them what you feel like playing. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this game is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A quiet, dialogue-heavy journey through historical camaraderie and dawning conflict, told at a measured, reflective pace.

historical dramaslow-burncharacter-focusednarrative-drivenmelancholicintrospectivemodest pacingatmospheric

About

Years before the beginning of Hakuouki, the Shinsengumi was known as the Mibu Roushigumi. A wandering young man named Ibuki Ryuunosuke falls in with the group by chance just after they first come to Kyoto, and while grudgingly making friends with the members within, witnesses the dawning era of the Shinsengumi.

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