This is a hint file for the "Amy's Fantasies" (aka "Don't Call Me Amy!") adult Windows anime game from C's ware. It is distributed on CD-ROM by Himeya Soft and others in English. I know there was a Japanese version, but I have no information on that - this file is only about the English version. GAME CONTENT WARNING: In addition to "straight" anime sex, this game features a LOT of bondage, S&M, "golden showers" and incest. At least there's no tentacles... The game runs under Windows 95, and has automatic mouse, graphics and music. You can set a menu option to speed up text display. There is a Windows help file included, so you really don't need the manual. WARNING: There can be a really long (10+ seconds) period when starting the game where the screen is black and it looks like nothing is happening. Don't know why... The game executable is rather small, so it must be doing something with the large (~500 MB) "amy.a2" file. The game is basically a long multiple-choice text adventure following Emi through a convoluted story about her, her "brother", and several other characters. Many of the other characters change roles and attitudes as the story progresses. But all you'll probably care about is that basically everybody has sex with everyone else, in almost every possible combination. In general, you can just allow the game to force you into the next step, as often the game won't progress until you choose the correct choice. In one case, searching the Director's Office the second time, the game will sort of make you choose things in the correct order, so do pay attention the first time Emi searches the Director's Office! It'll save you a lot of aggravation if you just repeat - Bookcase, Window, Sofa. I was able to do Desk next, although I think Closet was correct. It probably doesn't matter, there's really only one way for the story to turn out in this game. There's two tricky parts about saving your progress in the game: 1. The game doesn't restore you exactly back to where you saved, sometimes to quite a lot of dialogue before. In general, expect that you'll be put back to the point where you entered a particular screen or location. 2. The game has three parts (stories). When you are finished playing through one, there is some discussion between the characters about what happened, and what's in the next story. A story isn't finished until you get back to the menu screen where you can select one of the three stories. The game sets flags only when you get to this screen, so quitting before you get to the menu screen at the end of a story will never let you progress to other stories. You have to go through all 3 stories to see the "Extra Options." Make sure you go all the way through the credits and beach scene to the main menu again. NOW you'll get to see the "Extra Options." Here's what Li Sun had to say about it: nothing! My review: The translation is pretty good, but there are some strange words used, e.g. spamhammer and putwap - you can ignore them. All of the animated interludes still have Japanese text on them. There are some minor mistakes that can confuse you if you're really trying to follow the story to figure out who's related to who - such as Tomomi saying that the man is supposed to marry his own daughter. Other than that, it's one of the funnier H games available - it deliberately makes fun of the standard things in other H games, and has some references to other H games in it. The Japanese voice even has some strange asides or whispered bits. If you are playing the game off the CD, you may want to turn off the voice. It makes the CD run a lot more, it's usually too quiet compared to the music, and it's all Japanese! There are about 78 MB of "extra" files on the CD: 3 BMP images and 2 AVI movies. The second movie is a rendition of the "Emi masturbating and Tomomi walks in" segment of the first story in the game. From the text at the end, I guess this was made into an OAV or something, available on video and LD since 1997 - obviously H! Note that in Windows 9X, you can right-click on the CD's icon to get a menu that includes going directly to the BMPs or movies. I'm not sure the ~500 MB "amy.a2" file is the voice data, or just filler. I turned off the voices because it slowed things down - I can read much faster than they can talk. I've figured out that Hitomi must have such large hair to counterbalance her enormous boobs. Here's a posting from the Himeya Soft (http://shop.himeya.com/) BBS (the "old" one) by Naoto Kimura that reviews the game and discusses some of those voice things: Amy's Fantasies is definitely a great game, and full of in-gags (most poke fun at the typical events that happen in hentai anime games, and a few are direct references to other C'sWare titles). One of the things that I found really neat was how it was little things such as blinking eyes made the images "come alive". I too found the "doki doki" bit very cute, as well as "gasa-gasa" when looking through her desk. For the benefit of those who are unfamiliar with some terms previously mentioned: "doki-doki" is basically describing her heart racing in excitement (i.e. heart going pitter-patter); "gasa-gasa" roughly translates as "shuffle-shuffle"; "chou" translates as very or extremely; and "kawaii" means cute. Another thing I found hilariously funny was the episodic structure went as far as having an "eyecatch" at the middle (short animated bit normally introduced at the middle of an episode - usually just before and after a commercial break), as well as an "in the next episode..." teasers in between the "episodes." The dialogue during the teasers was hilarious. If you don't want to play all the way through, and just see the "Extra Options", sorry, I haven't figured this out - it should take you less than an hour to blast through the entire game if you don't read the text and I haven't bothered to figure out exactly where the extra option flags are hidden yet. There's a secret room in the game, with the entrance in the third story: After you play through the third story once, you MUST exit the game completely. This WON'T work unless you do. Then restart the third story, and when you get to Emi's room in the mansion, proceed with "Think" and "Think" until you get the choice between "Think" and "Sleep." Choose "Sleep" to get to the secret room, or "Think" to just go on with the "regular" game. To save all the trouble of getting there, do a game save when you see the mansion - then you can easily choose between the VVibration and C's rooms. There's an error in one of the scenes in the "Extra Options" Forbidden Room - the one where Emi is licking stuff off the floor, the third "Step On" option never gets reset after you click on it once. If you have anything to add to this file, let me know. Peter Karsanow - bishoujo.helper[AT}sbcglobal{DOT)net http://www.geocities.com/hentaihelper/