Mahouteq

So after finishing q.u.q I got around to reading Mahouteq, the original game from the author/creator that I wanted to read and man, are these two games extremely different. Yet… also somewhat similar?

Both are absurdist to a degree, just one leans more into surrealism and dark themes where as the other (Mahouteq) leans much more into the absurd humor style.

The games story and setting is also relatively straightforward, and honestly it’s hard to really comment on it other than it’s a game about a girl Luna who tries to make enough money to buy her magical girl figurine. Along the way she meets Aya, Inaka, and some extremely comical villains, and a very long cat.

It’s a very fun romp, with a very charming art style. It’s basically just a slapstick VN. There’s not that much to comment on beyond that I suppose. But I did enjoy my time with it and I found the humor to be strangely fun especially in the extra episode.

Ultimately I made this little blob to really comment on how interesting I found that they went from something like q.u.q to this. Very, very, different direction.