Steins;Gate...

I'll be honest. I found it HORRIBLY boring at first. Dull colours. DULL COLOURS. DULL MOOD. DULL EVERYTHING! The only reason I stuck around was .... none other than Okabe Rintarou / Miyano Mamoru. It hit me as "Meh, yet another harem show. But the main guy's got personality so let's just stick around." And I don't regret it at all.

Lucky Dog 1 Gian Carlo's Lucky Happy Life

FUCK! MERDE! LIGHTNING BOLT!

That's mostly what runs in my mind while playing LuckyDog1 Gian Carlo's LUCKY HAPPY LIFE.

It's the omake for Lucky Dog 1. The game play is probably, in my terms, quite similar to The Game of Life. A big middle finger to that. Since I've only played that game once a long long time ago, I don't remember if you have to play a mini arcade game or not in Game of Life. Probably not.

Basically, LD1GCLHL's story line ISN'T as fucking happy as the title implies it to be. Okay, maybe it'll be happy in the later part of the story if in Slow Life Mode or something, I don't know. Anyway, the story is that this huge egg thingy has eaten up everyone (everyone being your beloved semes and Gian himself).
Again, you play as Gian saving them.

And you'll have to clear Dream Eater before anything else. Once you're done with Dream Eater, you can proceed to Take Back Gian's Life. Slow Life can only be achieved upon completion of all (6) mini stories of each character in Take Back Gian's Life. Haven't finished the game myself to check if it's only ONE route you need to clear or all to obtain Slow Life though...

There's basically eight types of 'stones' in the path. Each will have their own mini story segments within and rarely, a CG (not all are porn sadly). The 'Stop' one can be related as the main points of the ongoing story.

Normal- Normal!
'!' - It's a mystery. Will either give or take luck or money.
'Lucky' - Increases luck. *wink wink* scenes SOMETIMES but RARELY occurs here.
'Unlucky' - Decreases luck. Refer above.
To measure your Luck, there's a small icon of (apparently a bear)'s face next to Gian's in the brown box. In my own terms: 
Blue- Depressed, Purple-Sad, Brown- Normal, Green-Happy, Red- Euphoric.
'Stop' - Main parts of the ongoing story line of the character you choose. Occasional mini arcade game here.
'Sea of gold coins' - Earn cash. Amount is set according to the stone and story line.
'Money flies away' - Lose cash. Amount is set according to the stone and story line.
'Heart' - Normally one in all routes but apparently Guilio is an exception. But it's alright since he actually looks cute fapping to Gian. Of course you know what happens in here. *wink wink*

Now, for the mini arcade. A really huge "WARNING" will marque across your screen. Normally occurs at 'STOP'. A smaller window will appear with a skull in the middle. Above the row of hearts (amount of chances you have left) is the skull's HP. To reduce the HP, you are to roll for numbers. There are numbers 1-7, damage increases as the number value increases. The highest damage can be achieved when you manage to roll a star.
I am not sure if the amount of chances you have are directly affected by the amount of Luck you have though.
Be warned, sometimes, you're MEANT to lose the battle. For example, in Luchino's route, you're SUPPOSED to lose just so he can rape Gian. Lovely, isn't it? In all of Bernardo's Take Back Gian's Life final Battles, you're supposed to lose.
According to what I read in a certain forum, apparently pressing on the white part of the skull's left eye will result in low numbers being rolled. Do the opposite and you'll get higher numbers. Don't know if it works.

Clearing Dream Eater is VERY easy. Clear the main four boys and you'll get Bakshi. Finish Bakshi's route and you'll get Gian's. Apparently Gian has an alter ego LOL. You'll play against the Egg monster here. The thing about it is that if it's ahead of Gian, it'll literally eat the 'stone' except for 'STOP'.

Upon clearing Dream Eater, you get rewards. It's normally an egg with perks. Perks like getting your desired number when rolling the 'dice' to move, making two moves in a row, rolling the dice again. Can be checked in Collectibles.

It's Taking Back Gian's Life that's a real bitch. Here, you play against your selected character in their respective mini stories. There's ALWAYS money and luck requirement. I'm an epic fail for Bernado's route. Until now, I'm still stuck with 3/6 routes cleared. And every character has a perk in their own route. Haven't tried everyone else's route but Bernado has traps which reduce Luck and $10. Ivan has a god damn car and normally only rolls ABOVE 3. As for Guilio and Luchino, I don't know. Haven't tried yet. Will update once I'm done with it.

Upon clearing Taking Back Gian's Life mini routes, you get items from each character, each representing the ending you obtained. Can be checked in Collectibles.

Yeah, LD1GC LUCKYHAPPYLIFE is a fun game. Very fun. Until it keeps failing you for not fulfilling shitty requirements.


Screenshots to come once I'm done banging my fists on the wall in frustration.


And at this point, i really feel no guilt for screaming "YES! FUCKING RAPE HIM! R-A-P-E! RAAAAAPE!!" whenever Gian lands in some weird shit. And I complete every route I finish with a maniacal laughter.

Watching Hakuouki Hekketsuroku. Despite knowing that everyone dies. I blame myself for setting up false hope of at least Sano surviving when he deserted with Nagakura. Don't know about the actual history but at least in the anime, they were depicted as warriors till the very end.