Explanation of 'months on the top30': this refers to consecutive issues: If a game fall off the list, it starts back at 1 month if it gets back on the list. Voting for next issue will be held sometime in September, on the main Ohrrpgce message board at Zantetsuken.com, and last for about 15 days.
 

* Number that are new to  this issue (grey numbers indicate): 7

* Number that have been in every single issue since Issue # 1 (white numbers indicate): 10

* NOTE: I started using literary adaptations and quotes for the comments to each game. See how many you can recognize, answers at the bottom.

 

1 167 points 7 months		Wingedmene: Part One One to be born From a Griffin Hoisting the light And the dark Arises high up In the sky  To the still land.
2 155 points 7 months		Fantasy Under a Blue Moon X: Lunar Shockwave Since earth is earth, perhaps, not heaven (as yet)—  Though some savants make earth include the sky;  And blue so far above us comes so high,  It only gives our wish for blue a whet.
3 151 points 7 months		Wandering Hamster They rightly do inherit heaven's graces And husband nature's riches from expense; They are the lords and owners of their faces, Others but stewards of their excellence.
4 115 points 7 months		Memoria ADear son of Memory, great heir of Fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of they name? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Has buit thyself a livelong monument.
5 104 points 4 months		Arfenhouse!!!1 #!!!!1 Pray thee, take care; that tak'st my book in hand, To read it well: that is, to understand.
6 101 points 7 months		Origin Curious, I halt, and silent stand; Then with light fingers I from the face of the nearest, the first,  just lift the blanket: Who are you, elderly man so gaunt and grim, with well-grey'd hair, and flesh all sunken about the eyes? Who are you, my dear comrade?
7 91 points 7 months		Lolsidothaldremobine I am a slave, both dumb and blind, Upon a journey dread; The iron hills lie far behind, The seas of mist ahead.
8 86 points 7 months		Ends of the Earth 2 Whene'er I wander, at the fall of night,  Where woven boughs shut out the moon's bright ray, Should sad Despondency my musings fright,  And frown, to drive fair Cheerfulness away,   Peep with the moonbeams through the leafy roof, And keep that fiend Despondence far aloof!
9 74 points 7 months		Monterey Penguin RID of the world's injustice, and his pain, He rests at last beneath God's veil of blue: Taken from life when life and love were new The youngest of the martyrs here is lain, Fair as Sebastian, and as early slain.
10 65 points 2 months		I made Dis These dull notes we sing Discords need for helps to grace them; Only beauty purely loving Knows no discord.
11 59 points 1 month		Paranoia Star / Heretic I am a lonely being, scarred by swords Wounded by iron, sated with battle-deeds, Wearied by blades.
11 59 points 1 month		Final Fantasy: Origins When, duller than our dulness, The busy darling lay, So busy was she, finishing, So leisurely were we!
13 56 points 2 months		Evildead: Timeline Night, welcome art thou to my mind distressed, Dark, heavy, sad, yet not more sad than I; Never could'st thou find fitter company For thine own humor than I thus oprest.
14 52 points 2 months		The Last Job Success is counted sweetest By those who never succeed. To comprehend a nectar Requires sorest need.
15 49 points 1 month		Ecopia Dim vales- and shadowy floods-  And cloudy-looking woods,  Whose forms we can't discover  For the tears that drip all over!
16 47 points 3 months		Walthros Does the Eagle know what is in the pit?  Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod? Or Love in a golden bowl?
17 45 points 3 months		The Adventure of Powerstick Man How heavy do I journey on the way, When what I seek, my weary travel's end, Doth teach that ease and that repose to say   'Thus far the miles are measured from thy friend!'
18 39 points 3 months		Scary Game Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move; And when this dust falls to the urn, In that state I came, return.
19 38 points 6 months		And& (Lv. 99) Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness up into one ball, And tear our pleasures with rough strife Through the iron gates of life.
19 38 points 7 months		Ergintandal 1/5 From there, they fly, now here, now there and eat beeswax and accomplish everything.
21 36 points 3 months		SHEEP RANCHER A gown made of the finest wool Which from our pretty lambs we pull; Fair lined slippers for the cold, With buckles of the purest gold.
22 35 points 1 month		Tilde and the Mask of :P Night shadows darkened, snow came from the north, Frost bound the earth and hail fell on the ground, Coldest of corns.
23 33 points 1 month		Dimensions III There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,  The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem  Apparelled in celestial light,  The glory and the freshness of a dream.
24 31 points 7 months		Ends of the Earth One from the ends of the earth -- gifts at an open door -- Treason has much, but we, Mother, thy sons have more! From the whine of a dying man, from the snarl of a wolf-pack freed, Turn, and the world is thine.  Mother, be proud of thy seed!
25 30 points 4 months		Time Flies Is this thy ploy, To spin a web out of thyself To catch a fly? For why?
25 30 points 1 month		Aquarius To gaze at a river made of time and water And remember Time is another river. To know we stray like a river and our faces vanish like water.
27 27 points 2 months		Scary Game 2 The only ghost I ever saw Was dressed in mechlin, --so; He wore no sandal on his foot, And stepped like flakes of snow.
27 27 points 2 months		Babel Oh! Weep for those that wept by Babel's stream,  Whose shrines are desolate, whose land a dream,  Weep for the harp of Judah's broken shell--  Mourn -- where their God that dwelt--the Godless dwell!
29 25 points 1 month		Help Wanted Help for a patriot distressed, a spotless spirit hurt, Help for an honourable clan sore trampled in the dirt!
30 24 points 2 months		Neke: Woman of Mystery My dress is silent when I tread the ground Or stay at home or stir upon the waters.

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