Sakura Spirit - 2.7/20 hours

I finished Sakura Spirit's story. Allow me to summarize - an up-and-coming judo star is nervous about a tournament, so he goes to a mysterious shrine to pray for luck, where he's transported to a magical land to indulge in some arbitrary flirting and poorly-justified nudity until a problem comes out of nowhere and is solved in a way that doesn't make any sense. There's some kind of half-baked lesson about tolerance in there, but no. Just no.

There is a single decision point in the entire game, but it doesn't change anything. It just determines which festival experience you have - do you attend it with two half-naked fox spirits or with two villagers wearing kimonos that cover half their bodies. After the festival, the game ends in exactly the same way, regardless of which pair you go with.

I'm going to keep trying to play this game, though.  I seriously considered giving up and declaring defeat, but I can't. The whole damned point of having a challenge list in the first place is that things are bound to get dark. I just have to endure.

However, I can't play it at work. It would be hugely inappropriate (there's having a job that lets you play video games all night and there's having a job that lets you look at porn). My plan is to play it once every day or so at home, while concurrently playing a different game at work. I'll blog about both, but try to get Sakura Spirit done as soon as possible.