We would like to express our gratitude for your support of our company’s products.

Our company released the PC Windows game “Summer Days” on 23rd June 2006 (Heisei 18). We have determined that the game contains files that were not meant to be in the final product.

A portion of the data needed to play “Summer Days” in the production disc is of an older version number. We have determined that this causes various errors during gameplay, such as problems with voice overs and scene display and inability to proceed through certain game routes. This is due to a mix up between the master data and some old data, which we failed to notice when we shipped the product. As such, a huge portion of the master data has been overwritten by older data and it is taking us some time to get everything back and to release the correction patches. There was a huge confusion in the company between the time we detected this mistake and when we finally determined the amount of data overwritten, and this slowed down our response. We sincerely apologize to everyone who has purchased the game.

Currently, we are mailing out DVD containing the patch to everyone who has contacted us through e-mail and phone and also to those who have mailed us the feedback card included in the game box. At the same time, we are distrubuting the patch through our BitTorrent server and various mirror sites. Patch DVDs will also be prepared for stores to distribute and will be ready sometime between the 29th of June and the 2nd of July.

We plan to send the complete and fixed master disc, as soon as it’s ready, to everyone who has registered through the feedback card.

We sincerely apologize for all the troubles we have caused for our customers and distributors. We strive to improve our company’s management structure to ensure that such an incident will never happen again. We seek your kind understanding.

28th June Heisei 18
0verflow

I’m not sure if I buy the reason given here. Even if it were true, the damage has already been done. Well but I guess we can be certain that they won’t repeat this again.

Read on for the translation and original:

Didn’t take any pictures because everything is more or less the same as the last two times. Well, I did finally get to eat at Cure Maid Cafe though. Anyway, read on for more details and pictures (of the loot, not the streets).

Item lists from left to right, up to down.

1. Saber Plushie from Fate/stay night
2. Newtype July
3. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland illustrated by Pop (Ichigo Mashimaro mangaka)
4. To Heart 2 -colorful note- Vol.1
5. Pia Carrot Coffee

And my D.C. II purchases…

1. D.C. II Special Box (comes with G’s Festival)
2. The Prologue of D.C. II (I got Koko’s card for the random character card)
3. D.C. II Harukaze no Ultimate Battle novel (I got Nanaka’s bookmark)
4. Yume and Otome puzzle (from D.C. II Special Box)
5. Nanaka pass holder (from D.C. II Special Box)
6. Yume pillow case (from D.C. II Special Box)
7. G’s Festival Vol.4

And yes, I did buy that copy of G’s Festival Vol.4 just for the Nanaka pass holder…

And for those of you going wtf over the Yume pillow cover:

And no, that is not me. :3

I didn’t spend much today, really. Especially considering the fact that the Saber doll and the Pia Carrot coffee are not for myself. Well I’m probably going back to Akihabara tomorrow because there are still some things I need to get.

We arrived at Akihabara Station at about 9.30am. The tickets for the event were given out at 10am, but there was already a queue of around 50 people by the time we got there. Of course the event room sits 120 people so we were fine. The event itself was quite short. The guy in-charge of scenario for Summer Days gave an introduction to the setting of the game and the various characters.

More details after the jump:

Jumped.

Some facts I still remember from his talk:

1. Katsura’s sister, Kokoro, has an ending in the game. Her character design has been made older-looking.
2. The Nijou twins have a combined scene with Makoto, apparently mandatory in ero-games or so the guy said.
3. There aren’t any endings with Setsuna and Sekai’s mothers, apparently because they want to make it a “jun’ai” game.
4. Despite the fact that it’s supposedly a “jun’ai” game, there are ero-scenes with the said mothers for certain paths… (or at least Sekai’s mother)
5. Setsuna is quite violent in the game, in a cute way. :P
6. Yes, the game is really coming out on the 23rd of this month.
7. The limited edition of the game comes with a disc containing a non-stop 4-hour commentary of actual School Days gameplay, presumably this includes the ero-scenes.
8. The commentary by the seiyuu of Sekai, Kotonoha and Setsuna was recorded in one session. Apparenly an entire table of snacks was consumed in the process.

Seating was done by lot-drawing. We got quite good seats in the second row. Sadly, I didn’t get picked for the question and answer round, thus I didn’t manage to get any of the goods they were giving out. (including a Setsuna wall scroll and a meganekko Kotonoha phone card), but at least I got this promo poster that was given out to everyone…

Setsuna is wearing the waitress uniform of the cafe ran by Sekai’s mother (I’m guessing it’s her taste…). They had a girl cosplaying in the waitress uniform above during today’s event.

On another note, the guy sitting beside me (I was no. 18, he was no. 17) was a Kotonoha fan. I wanted to beat him up for that but I stopped myself because half of the room would come after me with kitchen knifes. Damn Kotonoha fanboys. *mumbles* And yeah, he did get the phone card.

After watching the demo, I sort of feel like getting the game… Well, we’ll see if I have enough money left at the end of this trip.

Summer Days is the sequel to School Days. The heroine of the story is Setsuna this time. Woot. The cast and setting are still the same, but the story takes place in a different timeline, one where Makoto meets Setsuna first. The promo video was released a few days ago. The game had been delayed many times and the current release date is 23rd June. The official website is here.

Now I can fail tomorrow’s math test with no regrets.

Da Capo II will be released on 26/5 in three different versions, the limited DVD-ROM edition (9,800 yen), the limited CD-ROM edition (9,800 yen) and the normal DVD-ROM edition (8,800 yen). Himeya is taking preorder for the limited edition of this and Summer Days.

I’m sooooo tempted to preorder both games, but the combine total including shipping via EMS is 217 USD. Zomgwtfbbq. That’s 351 SGD!!! Damn the Japanese economy!!!

What should I do!!!? Arghhhh. It’s either both or nothing. I can’t bring myself to choose between Setsuna and Nanaka. >_< But 351 SGD is just a few dollars short of a 2-gig iPod nano… That’s a fricking lot of money to spend in one go, especially on just two games. (Although technically I did spend about that much on School Days and Da Capo Plus Communication…)

Summer Days

Summer Days is a story based on Overflow’s fully-animated School Days. There doesn’t seem to be a tragic love triangle this time, instead it has been replaced with Setsuna and more Setsuna! I’ll get this out of the way first before I elaborate: Whoever thought of this is a goddamn genius!

Although Summer Days shares the same setting as the original game, it is actually one of those “What if?” alternate universe stories. According to the FAQ:

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Basically, this is what would have happened if Makoto met Setsuna first and the love triangle with Sekai and Kotonoha never happened. Setsuna tied with Sekai as my favourite character in the original game, so you can guess that I’m pretty damn happy with this new arrangement.

The current release date is January 2006. But considering how the original game was delayed for months, I’m guessing it’s probably closer to March. This is going on my preorder list… D: