A RIEview on Life and games

HAPPY NEW YEAR! First day of the first month of the year 2023. Man, how fast time flies!  Hilariously, even though I'm on an impromptu holiday break, it didn't feel like a holiday. Initially, I was set on working through the holidays (excluding the public holidays, of course), until I was told that I needed to apply for days off because the office is closed. So yes, with no actual plans made in time, I ended up spending most days at home. When the weather is good, I did explore wherever I could on foot. But good weather meant blazing hot days, the sun intending to sear my skin brown with such intensity that  made walking all the more unbearable.  Anyway! In a few more days I would be starting work again. Speaking of the new year, any new year's resolution? I myself personally hadn't set any, but if I were to set any, updating this blog whenever I could is definitely one of my goals. Along with my poor writing project. As for my VN project... As I've given away my dr

  For Time Princess, I decided to play the stories according to their release date. Dancing on Ice naturally became on my next story after finishing up White Snake, and so here's the walkthrough! A little forewarning, it gets a little complex in Chapter 2 with the options, so it did take me a while to figure out how to get that other ending even with the hints. But not to worry! I've specifically noted the right stage to go to. Ready to start? Read on! Dancing on Ice: 2 Chapters - Chapter 1 has 15 stages, Chapter 2 has 19 stages

  The story of White Snake is one that I'm familiar with, albeit the film version 'The Sorcerer and the White Snake" starring Jet Li, Eva Huang, Raymond Lam, Charlene Choi, Wen Zhang as the key cast. Well, there are some similarities, but the Time Princess version has that plot twist that is definitely not in the film. Well, that's the only comment I'll give for now. (And I've just realised I had not done a RIEview on Time Princess, hmm...) White Snake: 2 Chapters - Chapter 1 has 19 stages, Chapter 2 has 15 stages (Note: I had overlooked recording when event logs are unlocked, meaning some are missing from this walkthrough. If you do have any missing event logs that you need help with, post them in the comments below and I'll take a look through my records to see if I can guide you which chapter stage the log should be in. Alternatively, there is the Time Princess Wikia page that should help, or the community would definitely love to help out fellow player

Hey all! Hope everyone's been well since my last update and post in March.  Some things that happened to me since then: I started at a new job in October, and because that was overseas, that meant packing and moving was how I spent most of September. To work overseas meant getting the visas sorted before job hunting (of course there might be exceptions, but for me I had to have a valid work visa prior to applying for jobs), which was how I spent July-August.  What about April to June? April and May were pretty much on schedule with the projects (Visual Novel and Novel Writing), albeit in a glacial pace. June was the month I had to sort out passport (which expired during lockdown) and visa stuff, which was a lot of waiting given the sudden surge of applications once people started making travel arrangements.  I mean, fair, since who wants to renew their passport or have a valid work visa but can't go anywhere? Right? So yes, that was how things went. In November I participated i

Hey all! Today's post will focus on the walkthrough for one of StoryMe's titles, which shares the same name as the anime it's based on. StoryMe is a similar story app like Choices, which I will give a proper review in another post.  My Next Life as a Villainess: All routes lead to Doom! have a total of 12 episodes. Depending on which character you have the highest affinity with, you will unlock one of the remaining 7 episodes for that character. Each unlocked ending comes with a trophy achievement, seen under the story title in the list of episodes.  The 2 main currencies in StoryMe are keys and diamonds. Keys are used to read an episode, even if you are re-reading the same episode in your subsequent run to unlock a new ending. As for diamonds, you can use them to select diamond choices, with each choice costing 20 diamonds. These choices will be in blue in the walkthrough below. If you had selected a diamond choice in a previous run, the diamond choice will now be free in

Hey all! How's everyone going through 2022 so far?  I know things have been rough these past 2 years, but honestly I am on the side that we'll be seeing things turning around – for good! So hang in there, don't lose hope!  From my last post on 9th May 2021 till now, there were a few things that happened that I thought would be interesting to share here.  The first is, I'm working on a visual novel project! It's always been a dream of mine to create a visual novel game, even if it isn't as professional as Voltage Inc or the others out there. So far, the draft of the script is done, just need proof-reading and edits. Since it's a one-person team, I've yet to get started on the art/CG yet because of the second thing that happened, which is –  – A writing project! To be exact, writing a novel based on one of my old drafts that I had lying around. Post-VN script I had been spending time listening to podcasts and reading articles on how to improve writing skil