Mercurial Tapestry

Category: Novel Games

  • Parfait ~Chocolat Second Brew~ 

    It is not quite right to call Parfait underrated. It has for most of the last 20 years been consistently among the top 10 highest rated games on erogamescape with a median score of 90. Yet for one of the untranslated classics from the golden era of eroge, it is one that is relatively overlooked…

  • You might want to read Hatsuyuki Sakura 

    Hatsuyuki Sakura is a tale about a boy that walks the border of life and death. Kawano Hatsuyuki lives only to carry out the revenge of faceless ghosts so that he may be reunited once more with the long-lost souls of his past. With the date of his deadly revenge set on the same day…

  • December When There is No Angel v1.1 released

    The final version of the translation patch for Tenshi no Inai 12gatsu has been released. The release fixes the misnumbered endnotes and minor typos. There are no material changes to the script itself. This concludes this particular journey. Thank you for reading.

  • Tenina missing notes

    There were two missing notes in the Touko route. I have included them below and updated the notes in the patch files. There will be a future fix to update the numbering and other minor typos. A few people have inquired about the necessity of these notes, as well as the possibility of a version…

  • December when there is no angel – Translation Release

    I would like to thank everyone involved in making this release possible. It was an honor bringing this beautiful script to English.

  • Sakura no Uta – a post mortem

    If I had any regrets regarding this 2 yearlong reading of Sakura no Uta, it would be that I never did get around to finding something to say about Pica Pica. The route is unique because it focuses on what I consider the true action taking place throughout the story, the sacrifice of those that…

  • Art, Joy, and the Eternal Perspective

    This essay is part of an ongoing series on Sakura no Uta. It contains spoilers for the content through The Happy Prince and Other Tales. The transition from What is Mind to the Happy Prince can be outlined in the questions asked by Paul Gaugin and Nagayama Kana, Where do we come from? What are We?…

  • Mind, Body, and the Transcendental Dialectic

    This essay is part of an ongoing series on Sakura no Uta. It contains spoilers for the content through What is Mind?  The transition visual of Mizuna in the cage evokes the ancient Greek concept of “soma sema,” that the body is the prison of the soul. This is a concept closely related to Plato’s…

  • Fool the World

    This essay is part of an ongoing series on Sakura no Uta. It contains spoilers for the content through A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs.  “Red” is the name of a color. When uttered in isolation, there is no additional meaning to be drawn out of the word. But when Kenichiro shouts “Red!” Naoya knows that…

  • Sayonara wo Oshiete ~Comment te Dire Adieu~

    I couldn’t write a review after I read Sayonara wo Oshiete. I didn’t have anything to say. But there might come a time when I do want to say something, so I dragged out my notes and memories to try and piece together the fragments of ideas that the game impetuously scatters into the ether.…