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If it was working for you, you'd be falling asleep in 15 minutes. I've had a few ideas myself on how to balance my sleep, but it turned out some of them were bad. One was just closing my eyes and waiting until I fell asleep, but that's actually what contributed to my insomnia. And although I never tried it (I rarely drink at all), drinking alcohol is apparently bad for sleep too, and I know several people swear by the drink-to-sleep method. I think you're also kinda guilty of applying a temporary sleep fix that works against you in the long run. Ideally you want your head to be as relaxed as possible, which means you shouldn't be stimulating it to such a degree with an active imagination. Writing works a lot better because it allows you to dump those thoughts on paper so that they don't encumber your sleep. Yeah, you don't want to fall asleep instantly either; that's just as bad as taking too long to sleep. The most important thing is to train your mind to fall asleep when you need to. From what you've described, it definitely sounds like you have some work to do to improve your sleep. Oh, excuse me. To clarify: if your hours are 11pm to 7am, then 11pm is the earliest you can fall asleep; if you don't feel sleepy until 12am, then don't go to bed until 12am; and when you're not within your designated sleep time, don't sleep. I hope that makes more sense. Here's a few other guidelines I'm following to help things along:

To be honest... I was gravely disappointed in how this game was handled at every stage after the Kickstarter. When I was given a chance to beta test the game, I dropped it inside the first chapter, having discovered that a whopping 85% of the lines were either outright wrong or so grammatically messed up that it was obvious someone had just put them through google translate and pasted them in. To be blunt, they could have easily had this translated by any of a number of talented translators in the community for less than they apparently paid, but instead they left it to amateurs? That was just idiotic. Also, as an answer to those who still question whether the base material was any good, the answer is, yes, it was. The protagonist was always a bit of a non-starter as a character in that type of game, but the rest of the story was good enough that I felt satisfied. If there was one thing that kept driving me crazy, besides the protagonist's unwillingness to embrace any part of his nature, it was that idiotic obsession with girls wetting themselves the writers apparently had.

Well, that was fast.

Yes. That choice is for that scene. Picking the other choice, makes you not get that scene. At the time you get this choice you are already on chris's route. There is no bad ending.(I think)

I actually sent them a message at their 'contact us' page and pointed them to the thread you posted. We'll see what (if anything) they say.

Cheers! to Yuma owning! I guess it's .. called "necro" or something, to respond to a multi-years old thread, so apologies up-front if I'm guilty. The "To Heart 2 X-Rated English patch" was recently released, at least I read that it's pretty new. In any event, I've just played my 2nd route, and I haven't been able to find any discussions that aren't a couple years old... If I should move this to a different thread that I missed, or even if I should just remove it, just let me know... SO - I can relate to your replies here... I mean - I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that _many_ of us were frustrated with the protag takaaki at some point, during some of the routes. His tendency of inaction, inability to say what needs be said, etc.. for large parts of a route - but I'm finding that "ineffectual MC" is pretty typical for these types of VN (Romance, "Moege/Charage ?"). And for the two routes I have completed so far, Manaka and Yuma routes, there is definitely some frustration (esp. Manaka's route for me). So, ya just deal with the frustration best as ya can if it feels worth it. For the Heroines - I think I might be a bit atypical in my judgement of Heroines - I tend to appreciate the good and overlook the bad/annoying up to a fair degree. I liked both, and in fact I love Yuma (I loved Manaka too, to be honest).. Point here might be that the common route portion is really not enough to make a fair assessment of what these characters are all about - as is typical, they're all hiding things, and have backstory that can be pretty touching and/or interesting. Again, I'm not the hyper-critical VN enthusiast because as a would-be-writer, I know how much more difficult it is than it looks to maintain an accessible, immersive story experience, esp. while trying to keep things "light" (it's far easier to go all out with hardship, tragedy and heartbreak imho) It seems that the clueless, indecisive, "spiineless" MC traits come out in order to create or exacerbate drama, and perhaps more obvious - just to delay conflict-resolution that would otherwise bring a route/story quickly to it's end; frustration city. The Clueless MC is an easy alternative to really great character & story development, what with deadlines and so forth to deal with, not to mention the heartbreaking lack of inspired-genius that we hope will always appear right when we need it but often doesn't. I can live with the clueless idiot MC, begrudgingly, but - aargh - what's got me a bit sideways right now ... hell, it's probably spoiler material come think of it, is... Similar vibe from another VN - MAJIKOI spoiler here: Note - I'm not trying to criticize or pick fights at all. I'm looking for any others who just might get what I'm saying.. A little commiseration perhaps, heh.. I only started reading VNs in July, but I've been reading them non-stop practically - every day, since. I'm learning Japanese, and I'm determined (languages seem to come to me relatively quickly, but this is the most challenging yet) - so at some point I won't be depending on the translation efforts of others, but I'm several month's away from that at minimum... Anyway, I'm going to say that in this genre, right now, my favorite VN has been "Wagamama High Spec" - I have a very high opinion of pretty much all aspects of that VN. Underneath, it continually surprised and impressed me - and it was definitely not limited to vanilla in the H, which arrived very late in-game but was reasonably plentiful once it arrived, incl bonus etc.... Played "Seinarukana ... Eternity Sword 2" which was more than just "H.S. Romance" for sure, and it's a favorite too, but it's quite different than the other VNs - but one thing they have in common is that the MC remained a real "good guy" even while banging lol.. Kouki did have some little bit of playfully sadistic sex at times, but never the first time - where he's very sensitive to the heroine's feelings etc.. - and never overboard. Let's see - "Hatsukoi", some aspects were great, including visuals, and overall liked it; MC was pretty disappointing at times here too; "Koisuru Natsu No Last Resort", Protag was mostly really good in this, far less spineless than others. Also like the heroines, esp. Umi - earnest, smart airhead whose naivete is tied to her backstory-- H and Art, esp for Umi, is VERY GOOD (She's quite beautiful. heh..), "Hara Kano" (surprised by the overall common theme of all endings (conception of "love child", preg-sex), but ehh, had fun anyway), recently started ToHeart2 obviously, which I'm trying to find a way to re-connect with... and a couple others whose names escape me right now.. Extreme apologies for my overly-verbose first post. I'm afraid to play any more routes now... don't want another mind-f... though this would likely be ok in Tama-nee's route I suppose, where it's least likely to happen... Well, cheers - Stephen

Most of the endings reach a real conclution and by most i mean the 4 main ones, Chitoge, Onodera, Marika and Tsugumi. There is also the ruri route which is a friend route. Mainly just deal with maiko's shenanigans and avoid making Ruri hate you. Then there is also the raku route which is preaty unconclusive, this is preaty much the nothing happends in the plot route. The Marika route and the Tsugumi route are mainly comedic while Chitoge and Onodera has more emotional routes. Personaly i feel like the Chitoge route was by far the one that stood out the most as it had the most emotional impact.

"But not the one it deserves." -Spider-man

Finally received these in the mail \o/ (1 nsfw item)