okay this is fun but there is one game mode, and like no cool collectables to be collected for playing this one, very simple, game over and over. i mean, it sold for literally 5 dollars on the eshop so i guess what did i expect, but... come onnnnn !!! still kinda fun though. idk how to describe this gameplay. it's like a tile matching game, but in the sense you get a board and swipe to connect chained bubbles that have the same color. when you connect a large chain, releasing pops them and you get points. idk, its kinda fun but its not a crazy moment, i guess.
fuckin love this one as a time waster, but gets a bit stale without any of the cool cosmetics or events that other games like tabimatsu, hkw, or even shimamatsu had. the only gacha element is for essentially screencaps of hkw sets and anime/movie frames, which are admittedly very cute but do nothing to want me to pull or play the game. yes, you get upgrades for collecting, but it's... just a nothingburger in the end. why did they kill hesokuri wars for this instead of making them run parallel?
osomatsu-san matsumatsuri, i'm sorry for giving you 3 stars babygirl but you deserve it... that being said: i love this game. it's so charming, and it holds a special place in my heart alongside all the silly spin-offs that osomatsu-san specifically has had, and i'm SO glad i stumbled across it.
to begin: this game is a collection of minigames based around the shenanigans from season 1. albeit, a little loosely. these minigames are: horse racing, donjara/ponjan (based off the mahjong episode), running chibita's oden stand, whack-a-mole, fishing, sutabaa cafe, surviving a mixer, snowball fight, mr flag sync, and a space game...?
really, its quite an eclectic collection of games.
your goal is to pick one of the loser brothers and raise his popularity/likeability by winning games with him, the more games you win, the more unlockables and affection he will receive. oh, did i not mention the unlockables? we'll get to that... overall, the games are surprisingly pretty fun but the limitation of this game being pretty low budget really shines. i think they work really well, and considering this game was about 20 bucks on release? i'm satisfied with it and i can see myself coming back to this when i have just a little time to kill and want to play on my 3ds. i wanted to go in depth about each game, but there isn't a HUGE amount to say about them, so i'll just give my highlight thoughts.
- the fishing minigame is busted. it is like stupidly hard to play, and i'm not sure if it's just a flaw in me misunderstanding HOW to play it because of the translation barrier, but truthfully i don't think so. i can catch small and mid-sized fish, but the large ones are absolutely impossible. i know this game is old af, but bandai namco please tell the devs to release a patch that will nerf the large fish LMAO
- the oden stand is just a match three but the art for it is so fucking cute lmao i actually really liked this one. its just speed matching. feels great.
- horse racing is so rng, it makes me mad but its perfect for the game it is.
- i dont know who decided to make the hatabou flag minigame a rhythm game but i LOVE YOU! it is so fitting and seeing karamatsu raise his lil flags in sync with hatabou is so funny. thank u.
- the mixer one... i dont understand why they're in those costumes. what is going on over there. i know we're trying to keep the nightmare brothers away from the girls, but why tf is zombie santa ichi here. what is going ON.
- space ?
- snowball minigame is really cute and probably the most fun. just wish it was a little harder or a little faster.
so now that we've discussed THAT, it's time to get to the meat of the game: your rewards for playing. as you win and get more points and subsequently rank up towards more popularity ratings, you unlock different outfits/sprites for the brother you won with, new backgrounds, voice lines, anime cgs, and even voicelines for the brother of your choice. it's... honestly really cute. a lot of these are just ripped from other spinoffs or promo artwork, but the variety and sheer amount of artwork in here is kind of ridiculous. it's all surprisingly high quality and really fucking cute!! there are a LOT of unlockables, 48 voicelines, sprites, and backgrounds PER sextuplet, which is more than i had expected to begin with.
the artwork (and music, tbh) are really fucking good in this game. while there is some recycling from the anime, a lot of the assets are completely new, and the amount of detail they put into everything is so unbearably sweet. one of my favorite bits from the 1st season is karamatsu's ungodly glitter pants that he wears when he goes fishing with totty, and they... actually made that his default outfit when you play the fishing game with him ?! the other brothers get their default outfits, but they actually drew something new for kara cause of the episode! granted, its a whole 15 minute segment from an episode and thats what this whole game is based off of, but the fact they drew up new assets for it was surprising and very cool. its easy to have just... not done that and use a screencap instead, but they didn't and you can see where they did similar in other minigames. even the main menu is a cutely animated scene from the opening where they sit around, smiling, and idle around. there is a lot of heart in this game's entire art direction, but i shouldn't be surprised when this is something that has persisted over the years in the osomatsu dev teams.
as further proof of this, this game is... so quirky. there's a whole tab dedicated to 3 silly, non-minigame features: a clock, calculator, and alarm clock ?! both the calculator and alarm clock have 3 skins per brother, with the alarm clock/timer having a different voiceline from the brother of your choice as the sound. its so freaking cute that they did this. as far as i can tell, these are completely new lines. and the clocks have embarrassingly cringe artwork that makes me love them endlessly. have i mentioned how charming this game is????
if it wasn't clear already, i love the direction they took this game. there is so much heart in it, and i really admire that especially when this game was just a miscellaneous collection of one-off minigames meant to capitalize on the success of the first season. my biggest and only gripe, is just how little there is to do. the games are alright, and while i will probably replay this more than i'd like to admit, it's mostly from the charm of this being a series i really love and not for how fun the whack-a-mole game is (insert sarcastic cheering). the lack of games or at least game depth makes unlocking all the cute sprites and voice lines just... impossible. i dont want to set that goal for myself, because it'd be entirely unfun. i wish there was more, ultimately, and i can't suggest someone to buy this, but i am glad this was made. thank god for how wonderful all the osomatsu game devs have been and will continue to be. you can tell with each game that they love this series, and this one isn't an exception.
to begin: this game is a collection of minigames based around the shenanigans from season 1. albeit, a little loosely. these minigames are: horse racing, donjara/ponjan (based off the mahjong episode), running chibita's oden stand, whack-a-mole, fishing, sutabaa cafe, surviving a mixer, snowball fight, mr flag sync, and a space game...?
really, its quite an eclectic collection of games.
your goal is to pick one of the loser brothers and raise his popularity/likeability by winning games with him, the more games you win, the more unlockables and affection he will receive. oh, did i not mention the unlockables? we'll get to that... overall, the games are surprisingly pretty fun but the limitation of this game being pretty low budget really shines. i think they work really well, and considering this game was about 20 bucks on release? i'm satisfied with it and i can see myself coming back to this when i have just a little time to kill and want to play on my 3ds. i wanted to go in depth about each game, but there isn't a HUGE amount to say about them, so i'll just give my highlight thoughts.
- the fishing minigame is busted. it is like stupidly hard to play, and i'm not sure if it's just a flaw in me misunderstanding HOW to play it because of the translation barrier, but truthfully i don't think so. i can catch small and mid-sized fish, but the large ones are absolutely impossible. i know this game is old af, but bandai namco please tell the devs to release a patch that will nerf the large fish LMAO
- the oden stand is just a match three but the art for it is so fucking cute lmao i actually really liked this one. its just speed matching. feels great.
- horse racing is so rng, it makes me mad but its perfect for the game it is.
- i dont know who decided to make the hatabou flag minigame a rhythm game but i LOVE YOU! it is so fitting and seeing karamatsu raise his lil flags in sync with hatabou is so funny. thank u.
- the mixer one... i dont understand why they're in those costumes. what is going on over there. i know we're trying to keep the nightmare brothers away from the girls, but why tf is zombie santa ichi here. what is going ON.
- space ?
- snowball minigame is really cute and probably the most fun. just wish it was a little harder or a little faster.
so now that we've discussed THAT, it's time to get to the meat of the game: your rewards for playing. as you win and get more points and subsequently rank up towards more popularity ratings, you unlock different outfits/sprites for the brother you won with, new backgrounds, voice lines, anime cgs, and even voicelines for the brother of your choice. it's... honestly really cute. a lot of these are just ripped from other spinoffs or promo artwork, but the variety and sheer amount of artwork in here is kind of ridiculous. it's all surprisingly high quality and really fucking cute!! there are a LOT of unlockables, 48 voicelines, sprites, and backgrounds PER sextuplet, which is more than i had expected to begin with.
the artwork (and music, tbh) are really fucking good in this game. while there is some recycling from the anime, a lot of the assets are completely new, and the amount of detail they put into everything is so unbearably sweet. one of my favorite bits from the 1st season is karamatsu's ungodly glitter pants that he wears when he goes fishing with totty, and they... actually made that his default outfit when you play the fishing game with him ?! the other brothers get their default outfits, but they actually drew something new for kara cause of the episode! granted, its a whole 15 minute segment from an episode and thats what this whole game is based off of, but the fact they drew up new assets for it was surprising and very cool. its easy to have just... not done that and use a screencap instead, but they didn't and you can see where they did similar in other minigames. even the main menu is a cutely animated scene from the opening where they sit around, smiling, and idle around. there is a lot of heart in this game's entire art direction, but i shouldn't be surprised when this is something that has persisted over the years in the osomatsu dev teams.
as further proof of this, this game is... so quirky. there's a whole tab dedicated to 3 silly, non-minigame features: a clock, calculator, and alarm clock ?! both the calculator and alarm clock have 3 skins per brother, with the alarm clock/timer having a different voiceline from the brother of your choice as the sound. its so freaking cute that they did this. as far as i can tell, these are completely new lines. and the clocks have embarrassingly cringe artwork that makes me love them endlessly. have i mentioned how charming this game is????
if it wasn't clear already, i love the direction they took this game. there is so much heart in it, and i really admire that especially when this game was just a miscellaneous collection of one-off minigames meant to capitalize on the success of the first season. my biggest and only gripe, is just how little there is to do. the games are alright, and while i will probably replay this more than i'd like to admit, it's mostly from the charm of this being a series i really love and not for how fun the whack-a-mole game is (insert sarcastic cheering). the lack of games or at least game depth makes unlocking all the cute sprites and voice lines just... impossible. i dont want to set that goal for myself, because it'd be entirely unfun. i wish there was more, ultimately, and i can't suggest someone to buy this, but i am glad this was made. thank god for how wonderful all the osomatsu game devs have been and will continue to be. you can tell with each game that they love this series, and this one isn't an exception.
2012
i'm only logging this now because i can't believe i haven't said SOMETHING about it before. there is a very good reason this game has dominated japanese app stores for the past 9 years, and once you start to get just a little bit good at it you start to understand that too. i love it so much i bought 2 games in japan that i cannot translate for my 3ds because i wanted more. its fucking awesome (<- he who loves this game too much to form coherent thoughts)
i love my fucked up little meow meow (green-haired kaiba makes an appearance and suddenly my day is 100x better)
2023
rating this is weird, but i use it almost daily and like having the stats it provides. yes, you can just use a fitbit or whatever other watch, but as someone who cannot afford that kind of luxury, i like pokemon sleep! i charge my phone through the day, and let it stay unplugged at night and use it as an alarm. this has actually HELPED my sleep schedule, crazy enough, and i get cute little friends when i wake up.
my only grievance is that... well, when i wake up, i am bombarded by things to do. i've started ending my sleep tracking, and then not moving past that screen until i get up fully because looking at my phone hurts my eyes that early. wish the whole "taking photos" or "meals" systems were more streamlined & instant so i'm not forced to swipe on my phone right as i get up.
my only grievance is that... well, when i wake up, i am bombarded by things to do. i've started ending my sleep tracking, and then not moving past that screen until i get up fully because looking at my phone hurts my eyes that early. wish the whole "taking photos" or "meals" systems were more streamlined & instant so i'm not forced to swipe on my phone right as i get up.
i... actually played this on my 3ds, so i'm sad i can't list it as that for the platform! despite that, this game is... not great. i like yugioh, so honestly i still had a really fun time, but it basically draws up to: place down the highest atk card. win. it is impossible to lose against the pc, and it was just a time killer. i enjoyed it just for the sake of playing an old (maybe one of the oldest?) yugioh game that i didn't get to during my childhood, so at least it has that going for it. the sprites are also incredibly cute. bakura looks soooo sweet <3
taiko :-) can't tell if this is the one i played on 3ds, but i think it is! it's pretty fun, but the songs are very mid...
this game is really sweet! i loved a lot of the character writing in this, but it was incredibly short and only gave us a handful of encounters with them. like whyyy are we hanging out with streamer-chan and not gil or dana???? what did she add to this???? overall, really good! but some of those decisions hold it back from really being a "perfect" for me.
2021
this shit was fun af, but maybe it was just because of the people i played it with. either way, venasaur and alolan ninetales solo.
2011
goated. i played this so much when i was a kid.
2007
its chess.
2016
okay, i played this game ages ago but im just now logging it because i realised i hadn't yet. this game is amazing. otome games were nothing new when this came out, but i truly think cheritz revolutionized the genre with this one. the real time chats to make you really feel like you're romancing these guys... the phone calls... the custom chat bubbles?!?! its so perfect. the story writing might not be the most well crafted thing ever, but the experience of playing this for the first time is fucking awesome. zen is the best, and jaehee is so wonderful. i come back to this game all the time and it never fails to make me happy.
2019
wish i could give this a 3.75. its not quite a four for me, but also ranking it lower than that feels... not right? so i guess we round up.
this was enjoyable, and i would recommend it to people generally, but i cannot see myself coming back for the dlc or even for all of the extra content in this game, which really disappoints me. i like the story, and i like the general feel of combat but there are too many things that just made it difficult for me to personally enjoy.
i got motion sick from this, which is INSANE because i dont think any other game has ever done that to me? maybe once or twice with powerwash simulator, but after tweaking one setting it was fine. i could not do that with this game. i dont know what it was about the death animations/resetting of the room, but it made my head hurt so bad when playing. i didnt deal with this too much in the beginning, but as the game got more difficult (like the last 3 stages), i felt sick. the options given DO help, but i wish that the death reset operated the way the rest - r button does. its smooth and helped a lot, but obviously i cant react and expect to push that right before i die in every screen. i think without this issue, i might have enjoyed this game a lot more. there was some issues with input delay/buffering and some wonky ass hitboxes, but overall it was really fun. i dont think i've played something like this (though i know hotline miami is famous amongst k0 fans for a reason), so i was happy with my foray into the niche.
final note, the final boss of the campaign was fucking sick. ended too quickly for my tastes, but she was great. super fun to learn and very hard at first, but i learned quick!
this was enjoyable, and i would recommend it to people generally, but i cannot see myself coming back for the dlc or even for all of the extra content in this game, which really disappoints me. i like the story, and i like the general feel of combat but there are too many things that just made it difficult for me to personally enjoy.
i got motion sick from this, which is INSANE because i dont think any other game has ever done that to me? maybe once or twice with powerwash simulator, but after tweaking one setting it was fine. i could not do that with this game. i dont know what it was about the death animations/resetting of the room, but it made my head hurt so bad when playing. i didnt deal with this too much in the beginning, but as the game got more difficult (like the last 3 stages), i felt sick. the options given DO help, but i wish that the death reset operated the way the rest - r button does. its smooth and helped a lot, but obviously i cant react and expect to push that right before i die in every screen. i think without this issue, i might have enjoyed this game a lot more. there was some issues with input delay/buffering and some wonky ass hitboxes, but overall it was really fun. i dont think i've played something like this (though i know hotline miami is famous amongst k0 fans for a reason), so i was happy with my foray into the niche.
final note, the final boss of the campaign was fucking sick. ended too quickly for my tastes, but she was great. super fun to learn and very hard at first, but i learned quick!
fun, but only with friends or in multiplayer. even w/o a tutorial, it began to make sense after just one game, which i appreciated especially since the absolute clusterfuck of a ui seemed dauting. probably wont play it that much, but its a really neat concept and i really liked it!