#magical diary

[hanakogames]

Are you in the market for a wizarding school game where you can create your own character, go to classes, learn spells, join clubs, explore dungeons, flirt with demons and fairies, serve detention with a cranky professor, and find a romantic date for the May Day ball - if you don’t lose your soul first?

Check out the Magical Diary series!

(There are two games so far, Horse Hall with a female protagonist and Wolf Hall with a male one. You don’t have to play both, but if you want to play both, do Horse Hall first as Wolf Hall will spoil a few of its plot twists. Both games allow you to date either male or female characters; this is pretty much an EveryoneIsBi setting.)

DRM-Free on Itch.io

Also available On Steam

Looking for more information? Try the TVTropes page!

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

𝔄𝔩𝔢𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔯 ℭ𝔯𝔬𝔴𝔩𝔢𝔶 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔓𝔯𝔞𝔠𝔱𝔦𝔠𝔢 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔦𝔠𝔞𝔩 𝔇𝔦𝔞𝔯𝔶

[justpreciousotomebabies]

Me, someone who really wants children at some point in life, any time I play a dating sim with an undead or inhuman love interest: I wonder if this character and my MC can make babies?

[brie-draws]

Damien Ramsey from Magical Diary!! Played Magical Diary - Wolf Hall (by @hanakogames ) with my girlfriend a couple months back...!! We had a ton of fun <333

[talesfromthebacklog]

Adding to The Backlog: Christmas Sale Pickups.

This is the time of year I pick up the most titles (which I then work on for the rest of the year.). And why not? Everything is on sale! I actually budget for this time of year.

It’s “Tales From The Backlog” not “We buy nothing until I finish the backlog”. The backlog will never be finished.

So let’s go over what I got! Links for everything will provided. As I find people are more likely to engage if the work was already done for them. Me included. This is not necessarily a suggestion list. If you want to see if any of these games are actually any good follow my blog. But I do think it’s interesting to show people what kind of gamer you are, the games you’re attracted to, their difficulty level.

A gamer’s library says a lot about a gamer, in my opinion.

For Playstation 5:

Goodbye Volcano High:

TLDR: I put this one first because if you don’t see any of the other games on my pickup list, I AT LEAST want you to consider this one. This was the only Playstation title I picked up on sale (It is also on Steam). This is pre(historic)-apocalyptic coming of age visual novel with killer animation and music. I’m surprised I don’t see folks talk about this one more. It’s maybe the most stunning looking visual novel to come out this year. (At least at a glance)

Which is a hefty claim considering titles like Jack Jeanne and Virche Evermore: Error Salvation dropped this year. I can’t WAIT to play this one.

For Nintendo Switch:

Roots of Pacha:

I came back around to this one. It looks like Stardew Valley but with cavemen. You don’t see cavemen touched on a lot anymore so it seems different and interesting.

Wylde Flowers:

This is one see that keeps popping up in conversations and videos as a great cozy game. It’s supposed to be really good. I’m honest enough to admit that it being on the Apple app store as well as Switch makes me REALLY skeptical. But I’ve seen enough gameplay where I’m willing to take a chance.

Coromon:

I enjoy Pokemon-like titles. I don’t think we get enough of them. I love Pokemon. And you’ll be seeing my update on how I feel about Scarlet/Violet’s last piece of DLC the Indigo Disc here pretty soon.

However Pokemon is so domineering on the market that a lot of these smaller collector games get unnoticed. This seems to be a very unapologetic Pokemon-clone much like Monster Crown. Which is fine by me.

Nexomon + Nexomon: Extinction bundle:

Another very obvious Pokemon clone. But it’s obviously prettier than its Coromon counterpart. (Kinda wish the names were more unique.) I have nothing new to say here.

Monster Sanctuary:

Pokemon… but it’s a Metroidvania. $3.99. I swear the theme wasn’t intentional they just all popped up on sale at decent prices.

2021 Moon Escape:

This is from the same people who did Traumatarium. I did a review on that one a few months back. It’s on sale for $2.49. And this ISN’T my cheapest pickup for this year. The gameplay reminds me of Zelda or Star Tropics. But I don’t know much about it other than what the trailer already shows us. But also it was $2.49. It’s okay with me if it’s just okay. Not all games have to be 10/10.

Mythic Ocean:

I have a soft spot for ocean games. Even the more spooky ones like Subnautica or Dredge still have this serene element to them. Mythic Ocean is no different. You apparently help a pantheon of gods find themselves. Which in turn those choices shape the world around you. Sounds simple, short, and cute. It looked a bit explorable too? We’ll see. I’m unsure about that part. It’s on sale for $1.99. And this was my cheapest pickup this season.

For Steam:

Sonic Forces: Overclocked (Steam version REQUIRED for this)

I have, in no uncertain terms. Have played this game. I 100%ed it even. I like the game. Played better but I still like it.

HOWEVER. I haven’t played Sonic Forces Overclocked. Which requires the PC version of Sonic Forces!

This is a FAN MADE incredible mod that blows the original game out of the water apparently. This is, perhaps, my most high priority game purchase of the YEAR. And it’s only $10 to buy Forces right now. This is literally a no brainer.

Slay The Princess:

I felt like videos on this one sprung up seemingly overnight on Youtube. I watched someone play the demo and it was an awesome looking game. A horror visual novel about saving a princess is a neat little premise. This one was barely on sale, but I see myself playing this one soon because of the hype. The full voice acting is great.

Magical Diary: Wolf Hall

The original visual novel Magical Diary: Horse Hall was a game a friend showed me back in high school. Pretty innocent and cute. When this dropped in 2020 I was surprised the game got a sequel at all. The thing I remember most about Horse Hall was that there was a route where you could date Professor Snape. That wasn’t his name but… it might as well have been.

[magical-diaries-hanako]

Redrew one of my favorite images in the Wolf Hall game in my style!

[most-datable-datable-bracket]

ROUND 1 MATCH 93

Donald propaganda:

“In a game full of demons and mysteries and weirdos, Donald’s route is just a story of two teenagers who really like each other. The whole thing is stupid cute. It says something that I, a lesbian, keep coming back to his route despite there being two female love interests. He’s just that good. Also, in the event that the MC had to get married for her own safety, Donald will promise to wait for her for the entire year-and-a-day until she can divorce, which isn’t something that most of the love interests do.”

Polly propaganda:

No Polly propaganda :(

[curejune]

dance events are always good. rarely is there an exception

[havesexwithghosts]

It can help you in sadness and sorrow and difficult trouble, colored pencil and pen on paper, 2009

[ghouliquid]

girls being cute

[purpleboytournament]

[hanakogames]

Happy Friday the 13th! Good luck to all witches!

Not only that, but it's an October Friday the 13th, the spookiest of all.

Not only that, but it's also currently moon-dark (peak New Moon is technically on the 14th but close enough) which is a rare conjunction and means, among other things, that today is going to be the highest difficulty day to play Nethack for many, many years.

(Magical Diary does not, however, change the game based on the date. That's in-game only.)

[puffles]

I made a tierlist for the 2 people that play Magical Diary

[mogai-headcanons]

Virginia Danson from Magical Diary is a soft butch gendersport nonbinary lesbian with hyperactive type ADHD and a chronic illness who uses she/her and they/them pronouns!

She's roommates and best friends with Ellen Middleton, an autistic omni lesbian anisomagiscien magiscifightic magiencetion magisciencegender genderqueer girl with PTSD and a special interest in the way magic and science interact who uses she/her and it/its pronouns!

Minnie Cochran is an autistic trans girl with anxiety and PTSD who uses she/her pronouns and exploring her sexuality in the wake of separating from an abusive boyfriend, and she's in a QPR with Jacob!

Minnie's roommate Pastel Rao is a pansexual pixibordaen pinkgender passerifaen faething faefaerian genderfae girl with hypersexuality, BPD, and HPD who uses fae/faer pronouns!

Raven Darkstar is an arospec bisexual trans vampyrgender stagevampiric ebonyfulic girl with ASPD who uses she/her and vamp/vamps pronouns!

Her roommate Suki Sato is an autistic quoiromantic asexual dragongender weirdgirl who uses any pronouns!

Barbara Solmaro is an autistic selectively mute amatopunk damselpunk acespec combootic roguian rebelburn ignidesolation latenightdrawic punkcutic trans girl who deliberately leaves her sexuality unlabeled, has ADHD and PTSD, and uses she/her pronouns!

Luke Phifer is a veldian nonbinary guy with an undiagnosed learning disability who uses he/him and they/them pronouns!

They're roommates and best friends with Virginia's brother Donald Danson, a straight transmasculine guy with ADHD who uses he/him pronouns!

Donald and Virginia's older brother William Danson is an autistic femme kindligender girlboy brothergender shadowbi gay man with PTSD who uses he/him and she/her pronouns!

Jacob Blaising is an aromantic nonbinary boy who uses he/him and it/its pronouns, and it's in a QPR with Minnie!

Jacob's roommate and Luke's twin brother Logan Phifer is an autistic aroace nonbinary bluegender person who uses they/them pronouns!

Damien Ramsay is canonically bisexual and uses he/him pronouns, and he and William are exes!

Manuel Arias is an autistic wolfgender werecreature cuddleweren softdogwolfial artgender trans gay man who uses he/him and nya/nyas pronouns!

dni link

[nutmegpoid]

oh i’ll repost the magical diary fanart too on here. i have drawn a bit more but its all on one canvas all scattered and im too lazy to really get it Presentable so maybe some day...

played both horse hall and wolf hall with friends and made a lot of ongoing jokes (grabiner teleporting to mcdonalds being one of them) and every time barbara showed up i made sure to tell everyone how much i love her even though we weren’t doing her route

playing it through with friends was me just my way of getting people to understand why i say “this guy SUCKS” whenever damien shows up. the satisfaction i get when everyone goes “he’s not THAT bad” to “oh. i see now”

[lizardios]

Magical Diary is my favorite VN of all time^^ And Grabby’s root is just muah

Play this game if you still haven’t!!