Review: The top of the bucket list (R.U.R.U.R. -petit prince-)

I know it's been a long time since I've reviewed anything, and after some encouraging words have decided to try to make the time to look at my backlog and get back into things. It sort of helps that I don't have much to do while I wait for the Final Fantasy XIV expansion to come out, too...

Anyway, console ports of eroge tend to be hit or miss when it comes to the elements that make them tick. The main point of contention is the inclusion of "clean" scenes and how the overall presentation is affected by adapting the game for consoles. In some cases, the transition is seamless and one can barely tell. In others, the result is not as good as one would hope.

To me, what this effectively boils down to is the effect on the story. Games like Comic Party are written in such a way that you can make a clean port and get away with it. Riskier story types along the lines of Tenshi no Inai 12-gatsu wouldn't work with a simple scene swap and require a rewrite of most, if not the whole, story. A game like today's review falls in line with the latter. Now whether light did what was necessary for R.U.R.U.R. to transition from eroge to console visual novel remains to be seen...

Game: R.U.R.U.R. -petit prince-

R.U.R.U.R. -petit prince- was released on September 22nd, 2010 by the game studio light for the Playstation Portable. Like with the original PC release, the PSP port features a scenario by Itou Hiro and Nakajima Hijiri, with contributions from Oota Yuu. Character designs were done by Izumi Mahiru. Seeing that I have already reviewed the original PC version, this review will be part recap and focus on the differences between the PC and PSP versions.