Oh Mai Tiara - The Road for Love (PC) Preview

Gogen Soft seems to have a thing for protagonists that look a lot like young girls - more so than the average manga/anime in fact. The oestrogens are much stronger this time around, however, as players won't get a chance to see the main character before he actually dresses up as a girl. The purpose for this transformation? Why, a typical "the ends justify the means" kind of deal, where the cute focus of his attention is going to an girls-only camp, leaving him no choice but to go all stealth mode on her.

This is marketed as a Yuri story… and yet the protagonist is a young man pretending to be woman? Strange, then again it's hard to say if there's more going on here, for the simple reason that the demo experienced here was quite short - even for a demo. In other words, this preview will simply try to describe the tone of the game, and not really anything else.

Oh Mai Tiara - The Road for Love is a 180 degrees turn from the developer's previous title, as it's a light-hearted visual novel, which, for the time being at least, is more concerned with making you smile with what is happening on screen. Trailers and other promotional material show a product that's probably involves a fair share of NSFW material… but who knows, really.

Audio-visually, like Bios Ex, this doesn't try to reinvent the wheel, or break new ground with its art design. The music is romantic visual novel 101, and the character design has a slight amateurish look that actually makes this charming, as it looks unique, and not a carbon copy of anything else, like most visual novels do. The writing, the most important bit, is thankfully as good as before, but the demo offers only a glimpse of the cast, so it's impossible to make any comments on them. If anything, the demo is free, and its short length is the perfect chance to try it out and see for yourself if it's your cup of tea.