0 to Z of Playstation 1 Games - Angel Graffiti: Anathe no Profile

        

Angel Graffiti: Anathe no Profile is a visual novel romance simulation game developed by Astrovision and published by Coconuts Japan Entertainment, the game was released exclusively in Japan on the 26^th of July 1996 for the Playstation, the game also released on the SEGA Saturn under the name Angel Graffiti S, again this was Japan exclusive and released the following year.

The basic gameplay is similar to other visual novel style games with dialogues between the player character and other characters in the game, the game also has the occasional selectable answers, in addition to this when in your room you can do selected tasks such as study, work part time to earn income, ask Eve for advice, set events in your calendar and join school clubs.

The dialogue in the game uses typical anime style to represent characters, each of the games heroines has a small figure like character which displays their emotions towards the player character with five in total from love and hate with neutral in the middle, the game features animations for certain key events, the majority of the game uses static images, some voice acting is included but the majority is text only.

The player character is a high school sophomore whose name, nickname, birth date and blood type is decided by the player, on the first day your character is walking through the park when you notice a beautiful girl the first impression you make is not the best, luckily for you the girl Misuzu Amano is a new student in your class giving you a second chance.

However other girls have caught your attention, so the player must decide who is the girl for you and try to woo her, the player is not alone with the player having divine help from and Angel called Eve who will provide advice on the girls feelings.

This being a very early Playstation release and a Japanese only release reviews for this game are next to impossible to find, so we head over to GameFAQs for their user data, with the game currently sitting on 2.33/5 from a total of 12 user ratings.

With user ratings peaking at a 4/5 from a couple of users another awarded the game a 3.5/5 with a couple more giving the game a solid average score of 3/5, a good number of users were not thrilled by this game with three users giving the game just a 1/5 with another two scoring the game at 1.5/5.

Moving on to difficulty we have a decent spread from the eleven users that rated this category, with one user each rating the game as either simple or tough, another couple of users rated the game as easy while the majority rated the game as having just the right difficulty.

On to the games lifespan again we have a decent spread from the ten users that rated this category with a majority of six users spending around 12 hours with the game with an additional user spending either 1, 4, 8 or 20 hours with the game, averaging out to a lifespan of 10.5 hours.

This is the part of 0 to Z where is visit four online retailers and see what the availability of the title is, and what price you would be looking at if you wanted to pick this title up, the sites that I will be using for this are Amazon.com, eStarland.com, retrogames.co.uk and Gamedude.com I know the last one is very location specific, but from a podcast I listen to, I’ve heard they have a huge stock of older games, Ebay has now been dropped unless the game is unavailable at other retailers.

So lets get down to business with Gamedude who unsurprisingly along with Retrogames.co.uk and eStarland.com do not stock this Japanese only release, so we head over to Amazon.com where we find a couple of much too overpriced copies a used and new both in the region of $1000. so we head over to Ebay.com where we find much more reasonably priced copies with a good quality used copy being available for around $13 once you have added in shipping costs.

There are a couple of more expensive options a used copy of the limited edition version can be picked up for around $58 once you have added in the shipping costs while a new copy of the limited edition version will set you back around the $175 mark once shipping has been included.

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P J Gibbon