2020 Gaming Roundup & Awards / 7th Year Anniversary

This is the most amount of games I've played in a single year since... ever lmao. Thanks quarantine! (So apologies in advance now for all the images)

It's amazing to think that I've been (sorta) lurking here and on Twitter for 7 years now lmao. I always see other reviewers doing roundup and/or awards, so I decided to join in on the fun with my own version.  (*•̀ᴗ•́*)و ̑̑✧

Table of Contents:

Game I Played - Otome + Mini Reviews

Games I Played - Non-Otome + Mini Reviews

Events - Personal | Gaming

Awards

Reflections

Otomate Art Tracing Scandal?

I just found out about this issue when I happened to see this tweet thread, which gives a summary of what's been going on regarding Yuiga Satoru, the artist for the Psychedelica series.

So I was told that there was a scandal in the otome game world again and when I looked into it with my informant:
Basically in December last year Yuiga Satoru (Psychedelica series) put up a blog post detailing their art being traced/pulled apart/being used as base by someone, "H"

— 雪菜 (@yukicchuu) March 21, 2020

Yuiga's blog post mentioned is here. (Titled 【平成のけじめ】). Her post discusses a timeline of events, including the drawing demonstration with a lawyer. She has also mentioned a bit of it on her Twitter:

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Apparently Yuiga is compiling examples of traced art and supposedly has 300 so far. For a concise explanation about the lawyer and drawing demonstration, check out this thread.

Many believe "H" mentioned above is Hanamura Mai (Collar x Malice artist), especially since Yuiga tweeted the day after Collar x Malice released for Switch on March 12th.

Below is a comparison between Hanamura's Amnesia and CxM styles:

Happy New Year 2020! Video Game Roundup

Welcome to the new decade! As customary, there are always special art released for the holidays. Not a ton of art unfortunately, but will update as I find more ( ﾟ▽ﾟ)/