Towelket One More Time

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Where do I begin?

Towelket one more time 3 Review
Towelket one more time 2 Review
And now... Towelket one more time 1 Review! No, trust me the order is correct...
Mind that as the previous installments also this one will feature some girsly scenes, blood, deaths, robots and also some sexual themes, anyway nothing graphically explicit!

Towelket 3 saw us fighting against the Kisechu Empire, a group of little creatures from outer space. Towelket 2 instead was set twenty years later during the rebellion of Mocchi and friends against the invasion of the bird-head aliens ( called "Love lips aliens" in next installments of the series) that had a great interest in experimenting with humans and cattle.
Towelket 1 (or just Towelket One More Time) has the team facinga a group interested in their brains.
Other Aliens? NO!
Zombies? NO!
Robots! Bingo! Exactly.


If you played the previous game, this scene will look familiar!

This time the protagonist is Moochasu, a carbon copy of Mocchi, not just because the charset is identical, but because he's another quiet silent protagonist with a certain interest for Cow-chan... that in this game is an idol (you can collect magazines about her) and not an actual cow. Like Mocchi our Moochasu has some female friends, but let's start from the beginning:

Moochasu is travelling with his parents and he is sleeping on a crate in the back of a truck. Due to a bump the crate falls on a river and Moochasu wakes up in a desert island with three stranded girls: Cochette, Paripariume and Lasagna.
Cochette was already present in Towelket 3 and Paripariume was the secondary protagonist of Towelket 2, but it's clear that there aren't the same characters of the first two game despite the similar appearance (this Paripariume has no romantic interest towards the protagonist, this Cochette is not harassed by the Pon Groom). Are they the same character from an alternate timeline? Well play and see. Lasagna, the new entry, is a grey haired girl that will fight Cochette for Moochasu's love, and she has two notable characteristics: she's a good mechanic and has a good smell (mmmh Lasagna!).

Long story short, Moochasu and the girls are able to escape the island and go home. But they're changed (as Cochette noted), and they move mechanically, were they cursed on the island? Unfortunately looks like that some robots are looking for their brains, and they try to capture the four, but Moochasu is able to escape and hide in a refrigerator. After an entire era spent in hibernation he is woken up by an android, and he discovers he's the last human being in a world dominated by robots! But this is just the beginning of an epic sci-fi adventure!


New friends and enemies! This may look like a Cute Rabbit, but he's a Very Cruel Rabbit. I mean, not just Cruel, but Very Cruel!

Towelket one more time is another bizarre adventure that plays as a classic adventure jrpg, but set in the far future: we go around, visit various places, some new, others will be familiar to those who played the first two games, and fight using the classical Rm2k system. Also do not forget to upgrade your equipment and buy consumables, of course.

Towelket one more time is a bit simpler than the previous games: there aren't the complex menu, the "inside the mind" section or the place where you could plant flowers. There's just the classic Rm2k menu and nothing else, but it's ok (some parts were cool, others were a bit of a waste of time, to be honest! BUT on the other hand the idea of earning hints asking for help to Elizabeth the advice lady was instead a clever solution!), there aren't also many playable characters (even if there is the return of Pucchi, the green android from Towelket 3 and also a cameo of the Paripariume and Cow-chan from the second game) but the adventure it pretty interesting and fun.

Graphically there is ALMOST nothing new: the characters use more or less the same charsets of the previous games and its variants, I mean the protagonists of all these games are identical (the protagonist of Towelket 3 has a red outfit but he is otherwise identical to the other protagonists) and also the secondary characters are often very similar: in this game for example the Pom scientist Momen is nearly identical to the Pom Groom of the first two games. Mapping is pretty good too, even if also here it is possible to see some recycled environments and assets, but this also enforces the idea of alternate universes and parallel stories, so I did not mind too much. What's new are instread the full pics of the most important characters, that are used to replace the usual facesets during the dialogues and are introduced in this game. The're well done, and extremely cute!
Music is instead different and as usual I liked the selection of themes.


Yes! That's deep, man! Or... uhm... alien friend! In fact this is one of the main themes of the series!

Final Verdict
Towelket one more time is probably the less "special" of the first three games: it's not bad but has less features that makes it stand out, anyway I liked the story much more than the one of the previous game, and it's also surely less depressing and more fun. Unfortunately as I mentioned in the review there is no more Elizabeth, the useful advice lady, and sometimes it was hard for me to understand what I had to do: for example in the robot city you have to fight some criminal robot thugs that are minding their business, so you have to actually look for them and interact in order to make the story go forward... well that's not something I knew or I could imagine and Moochasu had technically no reason to do that!

Despite some minor incoerencies this is still an enjoyable adventure that mixes humor and drama. First is still my favourite, but this isn't bad at all!