Important Importables: HimeHibi: Princess Days Portable Review

A large part of the appeal of visual novels is the opportunity to live another life. You get placed in a brand new environment filled with potential and opportunity. True, there is a structured path that players are guided along, but choices made during the game and interactions with NPCs effects the ultimate ending.

HimeHibi: Princess Days Portable gives players the chance to live through high school again. Only this time, you get to be something of an idol. Even though you’re still cast as a student, you have the opportunity to change the rules. It is primarily an otome game, but also offers an crusade for players to fight for.

HimeHibi: Princess Days Portable starts off simply. Koi Aizaki is attending a normal high school, when one day she’s approached after school by two men in black who simply state that her grandfather needs her. Personally, I was searching for the “run like hell” option, but it didn’t come up. Koi’s cousin Naohito Hayami appears as well, telling her to go ahead, and she goes with them.

She then finds herself at Tenjou Gakuen, a boys high school where her grandpa is head of the board of directors…