Hanako Games

Love & Order

#1 by hanako - Jan 17 2011

You play a young woman who's just joined a legal office and try to balance the demands of your VERY busy job with solving a mystery and romancing your coworkers.

Teaser video: HERE

Demo download / more information: HERE

#2 by Jinroh - Jan 19 2011

Haha. I read the topic and clicked on it and thought it said Law and Order until I got to the Youtube page. ^o^

Looking pretty cool, I will have to keep my eyes on it. ^^

EDIT: Oh wait, the topic was called "Law & Order" I guess I'm not crazy. ^_^;

#3 by hanako - Jan 19 2011

Heh oops my bad!

#4 by scuttles - Jan 20 2011

Wow, check out that art! Thanks for posting this, it looks v. good.

#5 by Jinroh - Jan 20 2011

hanako:

Heh oops my bad!

No problema. ^^ The game does look interesting though. ^^

#6 by Muse - Jan 20 2011

This looks very interesting. I shall be watching this as well! Thanks, Hanako!

#7 by hanako - Feb 17 2011

Bumping this now that it's apparently complete and out of beta.

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Cute art style, slightly different from what's been on sale previously!

#8 by britmarwell12 - Feb 21 2011

UM, I don't know where to put this but... I found a glitch in Law & Order, so...... uh, yeah. It happened when Pierre showed up in Dana's office.

Uh. Yeah....

#9 by hanako - Feb 21 2011

I know they've been posting a lot of updates recently ironing out a few bugs, so it might be worth checking to see if there's a newer download available?

#10 by britmarwell12 - Feb 21 2011

I'll try that! Thanks

#11 by J_Yum1978 - Mar 18 2011

I regret wasting money on this game. When I played the trial version, I didn't realize that each romance that I go for was going to be repetitive. Nothing to do on the weekends, other than cleaning and going out by yourself. The only "dates" are during the week and that gets old so fast. Ugh!! I am hoping the new game "Remember Me" from Jack will be much better than this one. What a disappointment.

#12 by jack_norton - Mar 25 2011

Sorry that you didn't like it, but don't worry, Remember Me (which is a game completely made by me) won't be absolutely repetitive at all. That is guaranteed ;)

#13 by J_Yum1978 - Mar 26 2011

@Jack: I am happy to hear that "Remember Me" will be made completely by you. I totally trust your work!! Your one of best, along with Hanako!! I have purchased your other games (made by you) and I loved it!! You have great talent in making great games!! Keep up the great work!!

#14 by Elze - Mar 27 2011

*butts in* D:
I'm looking forward to Remember Me too!
I'm sorry to say this but I must admit I didn't like Love and Order either. I was looking forward to the game so much because of the pretty visuals, but after trying out the demo, I knew I wasn't going to buy it.

Despite the impressive proficiency in english, the narrative and content is just really dry and the characters feel very bland. The game feels a little pointless and there's no evolvement in the main character from start till end (based on what I've heard about the endings). The set-up is interesting but the content is just.. disappointing. I'm guessing that the writer isn't accustomed to writing life sims, and much less dating sims whereby the dateable characters' personalities are of high importance.

No one likes dating a robot and while VN characters are essentially robots, the point in dating sims is to be able to believe that they're real. Not go on monotonous dates and listen to the same few lines repeated. Also, it feels like Dorothy is the only "alive" character in-game, which is strange considering the target audience for this game should be female?

I hope that doesn't sound too harsh and I may have some misunderstandings since I'm only judging it based on the demo and on what I've read about it. This is also purely my own personal point of view since I've seen people who've commented saying that they enjoyed the game thoroughly.
Personally, I really enjoyed Spirited Heart and Flower Shop, and I was very keen on Love and Order because of the lovely artwork. Was disappointed after it got released though. Hoping it won't be the same case with Remember Me. ^^;

#15 by jack_norton - Mar 30 2011

Elze:

Personally, I really enjoyed Spirited Heart and Flower Shop, and I was very keen on Love and Order because of the lovely artwork. Was disappointed after it got released though. Hoping it won't be the same case with Remember Me. ^^;

If you enjoyed Spirited Heart and Flower Shop, I really think you're going to like Remember Me. I have put some new videos on my youtube channel showing some scenes, so you can already have an idea of some character personalities

#16 by Elze - Mar 31 2011

That's making me very curious haha. I really loved those 2 games. Even after getting every ending in Spirited Heart, I still reopened the game a few times for replays to make sure I didn't miss out on any scene or dialogue.

I think I've seen one of the videos with Hugh. Definitely looking forward to talking to him in the game! *u*

#17 by Dementia - Aug 11 2011

This game was a disappointment for me too. The first 10 days are kinda interesting, with all that mystery going on, but the more you play, the more dull and repetitive it gets. Clearly creators focused on the background story more and completely forgot the characters. It's interesting until you "uncover" the mystery, but after that it's just nightmare. You have to repeat all 75 days WITHOUT a skip button, just to see a beautiful picture with a different guy at the end (and everything about "getting" the guys are just horrible, because in some ways they are all the same, they even say the same things and phrases on the dates and just little by little make you more and more sad and disappointed). So I wouldn't recommend buying this game, and it's extremely sad, because I've expected so much from it.

#18 by Benazir - Aug 12 2011

Dementia:

This game was a disappointment for me too. The first 10 days are kinda interesting, with all that mystery going on, but the more you play, the more dull and repetitive it gets. Clearly creators focused on the background story more and completely forgot the characters. It's interesting until you "uncover" the mystery

Exactly! I played the game once and I don't even want to play it anymore....

#19 by Benazir - Aug 12 2011

jack_norton:

Sorry that you didn't like it, but don't worry, Remember Me (which is a game completely made by me) won't be absolutely repetitive at all. That is guaranteed ;)

I guess: 1.Characters from "Remember Me" + 2.Mystery story from "Love&Order" = 3.Very good otome game!

Ugh... this game is.

#20 by Lorena - Aug 14 2012

Boring and too damn long.

The art is great but i couldn't make it through a good end because the game was too damn long, if you shortened it by 50-100 days it'd be better. seriously i got to day 130 and i got the fail ending... lame.

Not worth $20.00, too little storyline and text, too much clicking, and way too many damn options - it was easy to make everyone like me but hard to do the same damn tasks over and over again. :/

I feel seriously ripped off - Lame game, great artwork but really lame to play.

3/10 I won't be recommending this game to anyone.
!~Lorena