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It's a shame to hear that the vn won't come to be, as you already know I was following the progress of your project so just like back then I wish you the best for your new project

Yo. You might recognize me as one of your old followers. I was really looking forward to this VN, and I recall you being quite active over here, sharing the development of your characters and everything. When you suddenly disappeared for a while I feared the worst, that this project had failed that you abandoned it all together. I'm glad to see that you managed to salvage something from all your work, and I hope you find success in your new endeavor. After hardship comes ease friend

Hey guys. Remember me? Well I killed Black Sands about 5 months ago due to production costs being too high but I shifted my efforts to a much more cost efficient comic series in the same universe. I wanted to share with you my personal story because I feel it is a very interesting perspective from an EVN developer. The PAST I worked on Black Sands, Legends of Kemet for a little over a year.. I had updated my project page here close to 50 times and I had this very unusual story. In 2015 I launched my first kickstarter and failed miserably. Most people when they fail, they blame others for not reading their story and getting immersed. I didn't believe this at all. I felt I failed because my art was subpar and thus people never got the chance to read my story. I then recruited an amazing artist by the name of hydriss to create my VN. We worked for a year to get it ready for a kickstarter relaunch and overhauled the story to be more engaging. We had success finding major investors but they never had time for our production so after waiting months for a cash injection, we cut ties. We were then 10k in the hole. I killed production of Black Sands then and there and decided to do a much easier comic book series that was targeted at kids and their parents who were fans of DBZ and what not. I named it Kids 2 Kings. Not because it was a good name, but because it was a memorable name. It's really hard to forget. We created our first issue and released it on the madefire app and had great reviews. We then launched our kickstarter, which is in its last days now. The funny thing is we recently made a trailer for kids 2 kings and it went viral and facebook and twitter. Now sitting at 190 retweets and 235k views on facebook, Kids 2 Kings, is becoming my dream come true. Now it is extremely unusual for people to completely turn around and do something else but it is a very UNIQUE experience that you might want to learn more about so I AM OPEN FOR ANY AND ALL QUESTIONS. BTW, thanks Fuwa for keeping me motivated all these years when i was developing black sands. I couldn't have gotten to this point without you guys. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/165752716/kids-2-kings-comics-about-4-kids-7-kingdoms-and-1

Hi there . I am a fan of the Mass Effect trilogy, so I very much looked forward to this new game. After all the memes and comments about its awful writing, my hype died down a lot. By the time this game came out, I thought, all right, if it sucks, I'll just rush through it and hop onto Persona 5. Fortunately for me, I'm enjoying Andromeda so far. Were the animations and giltches always this bad? I can't quite recall. Yeah, sometimes my squadmates get left behind and teleport in front of me. I can live with that, though. Story wise, I find the trilogy had grit, while Andromeda is more youthful. Different, but again, that's fine. I've heard concerns about the politics and agendas that may be spoon fed into this game. My radar was on alert, but I haven't sensed anything so far. Maybe I'm just not knowledgeable enough in this area. People say the spectacle of the original is absent in this new game. That could well be the case. The Citadel was so memorable, after all. Thing is, several hubs in Andromeda are huge as well. In terms of density, there are still areas where a random pedestrian will have tons of dialogue you can eavesdrop on. The scale feels the same, and I haven't picked up on any signs of laziness. Is it because we've experienced it once already, so we need more? Maybe Andromeda didn't take things to new heights, and that's the problem. The story seems all right so far. Nothing that will set new trends, just safe. Some mysteries here and there, the occasion humor and emotion. Doesn't seem that different from the trilogy. Though the original had a lot at stake plot wise, I went into Andromeda with a light-hearted attitude, and that made it all right. All of this leads me to worry and think, do I have weird, or even bad tastes ? I like to think my preferences are pretty ordinary. With the glitches, that will depend on everyone's tolerance. The mixed opinions on the story is what confuses me. Then again, I love this anime season's Gabriel Dropout, and after reading comments from people who loathe the show, I realize there is no pleasing everybody . Are opinions on Andromeda mixed, or are they negative? They seem to sway toward the negative, so I'm pretty confused. Has anyone else been playing this? I'd love to hear some opinions. Thank you !

Common route: SAVE Yukino route --> Childhood friend ero-DVD (don't feel like translating her other choices yet) Runa route: Kyou route: Midori route: Maya route --> Special effects(?) ero-DVD (don't feel like translating her other choices yet) http://seiya-saiga.com/game/toneworks/hatsukoi.html

As for that, I think the walkthrough from Tsurezure should be sufficient for get all routes (Yes, including both of Maya's and Yukino's). Just look at the walkthrough here, and hope it'll be help.

@Vorathiel I always like reading what you have to say about stuff since it seems like I'll reliably feel the exact opposite about pretty much everything Of course, that also makes it doubly interesting to see where we agree. In this case (seriously, this is like the only thing I agree with you on for the whole post, lol), I really liked:

http://www.allgamesdelta.net/2017/04/trails-of-cold-steel-i-ii-coming-to-pc.html can't wait, huh?

I'm reading Aoishiro (finished one route and halted) and 11eyes (reading hard - I want to finish this before I can fastread Deardrops for April Club). And while I didn't liked many things about 11eyes at the beginning ('comedic duo' was awfull, cast was meh, etc) I absolutely love this title now. It's not something great, but it's really good and it 'clicked' with me so well, that even really bad ero-jokes are not destrying my mood while reading. Lore is nice, setting is good, story is interesting, and cast...oh my god the cast. Every person is ambiguous, everybody have some interesting backstory that can shed a completly new light on this character (Yukiko FFS! I adroe her! Wven though I usually hate bubbly energetic characters), everybody is in a place that their character development can go completly different places and still be believable. But what this VN really did great, that almost no other VN has EVER did (yeah, trully - give me even one example) Mild spoiler about charatcers ahead, nothing about story, or setting. Just in case, spoiler tag. So yeah, I'm enchanted and lastly spending almost every damn free hour to read that. And it's great. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Oh, and Kindred spirits on the roof is utter, frustrating shit, with hollow characters, dumb, kindergarden-level relationships, 'raburabu till the end of their lives' from first sight, even if they do not know each other names and have nothing in common (no interests, completly different personalities, etc. See spoiler above to how it should have been written), and really cringeworthy writting - like that "rock god" poser girl, which is really terrible, it's like it was written by 55yo white guy in a suit, trying to be hip and cool. (It's probably equally the fault of shitty localisation). VN premise is disgusting with that whole interffering with strangers lives. Homosexuality is presented really hollow. Bam, suddenly girl loves a girl, but ... nothing follows that, even if she's surprised. And protag - she's fine, butt obviously her silent, independent, intelligent and responsible character is going to be broken, because how can she be so mature, there must have been some drama in her life, why she's so silent and why she eats alone, we must fix her! We can't have independent, responsible characters in our VNs (Hoshizora no Memoria comes to mind, and this is really not a good sign). So yeah - avoid that shit, Flowers, or Lesbian Nurses are much, much better yuri vns.

remove all visual novels from eXistence eXcept one? how fuck am i? well ill choose harukoi otome gotta love ruri or hoshiZora no memoria for: or pick a VN with so many sequels and fandisc ^^

Sakura Spirit

Starless.

Boob Wars

The Best Eroge Ever. 5 minutes of shitty references to games that no longer exist. I'd like to imagine it'd be an internet mystery, something which no one could quite make sense of.

I liked your art designs so it's kind of sad to hear that you had to bury the project. It would certainly have been a bit of a fresh wind to the VN scene. Still, the best of luck with your new project.

Before that people hated ME2 for taking out all RPGness from ME1 (before replacing some in ME3) to make it a generic shooter ... with mediocre shooter mechanics. Before that people hated ME1 because it meant Bioware was heading down the shooter path. Before that they hated Jade Empire for being just an action game. Before that they hated KOTOR because it meant Bioware was developing games for "console casuals." Before that people hated NWN for "false advertising" because it was meant as a multiplayer game, but the "sample single player scenario" was advertised as a full on single person game. The Bioware hate is old-hat. It's not as recent as people portray it to be, and the ME3 ending drama was blown out of all proportion. The only uncontroversial games Bioware ever released was the Baldur's Gate series. What's really hurting Bioware is that for the first time in a very long while, they've actually got some competition 0.0 CD Projekt = new Bioware? The rumour going round is that Casey Hudson was responsible for the ME3 ending

... This is just a question in general... does he really add anything to this 'discussion' of SP's infamy? I thought that it was common sense by now that SP is the evil demonic corporation of the VN localization scene... I saw nothing to be surprised about above, considering the company's past. I do think it was a bunch of cheap tricks, but that kind of cheap trick is part and parcel of anything 'limited edition'.

I'm hearing people say that Bioware has gone to poo and are far from the studio they were when they produced such classics as KOTOR. People seem to have short term memories, this sort of thing has happened every time there was a bioware release. When KOTOR was released, people complained about the writing, Bastilla and Carth, the linearity of it, Bastilla and Carth, the short length, Bastilla and Carth, and the corny dramatic "twist" in the middle. Remember these EMOTIONAL and IMPACTFUL natural sounding pieces of dialogue: I've always loved Carth's emotional reminiscence. Very natural. Did anyone else like that tiny afterthought of an info-dump in the middle? Or maybe people remember that at the beginning of the game when your ship was being boarded by a dark jedi, the guy who woke you up calmly explained things to you and gently guided your hand through the ship. How natural was that? Then came Jade Empire which everyone hated, and Mass Effect series which many people hated, and DA:2 which many people hated, and every time Bioware releases a game it's like all hatred of their previous titles magically disappears. I'd examine the phenomena but I have bigger issues on my mind right now, but I will say it's downright wacky. The newest complaint though is that Bioware is "overrun with SJWs" and I have no time for that. If they stop catering games to you then stop buying their games. Also the Asari "fix" that anon dude did is horrible. It looks like a 15 year old's wet alien dream, complete with seductive overbite. Anyway, Mass Effect Andromeda. So far I agree with InvertMouse that the game is nowhere near as bad as people have been saying. The writing seems fine. The characters are where Mass Effect is shining here, with dialogue revealing personality and character while still moving the story forward, and this makes the game quite fun to explore and engage in. A story is about people and when you have great people with (generally speaking) good dialogue, that's a major tick in the plus column. Unfortunately (and I'm not far enough into the game to say for sure) I don't think the story will be one of the game's strong points. But considering ME2 didn't have a plot either, I think we can forgive them that. Bioware have never really had exceptional plots (ME1 being an exception.) The worldbuilding isn't on the same level as the original ME trilogy (which was exceptional.) Lastly the villains of the game sorta suck a little. All in all, it's not as good as the previous Mass Effect games, but the writing is fine/good. The combat is better than any of the other Mass Effect games, which means I suck a little at it because I suck with action games in general. I've died 6 times so far, but I bumped the difficulty up to hardcore and I refuse to bump it back down I can live with the facial animations, although as has been said they do make the dialogue seem worse than it actually is. I can live with the walking animations (we've all played Beth or Bioware games, right?) It seems like exploration will be a big theme in the game, so I hope it proves to be fun. I'm just heading out to Eos, which is apparently the Hinterlands of Mass Effect Andromeda, so I hope the experience there won't be overly dull. So far I've had plenty of fun. Had to put the game down yesterday and was yearning for the moment I could get back to it, and that's always a good test to see whether it's been worth the $100 :3