Kaguya

Heh. I thought about saying more stuff, but umineko is an odd one to me. I have little respect for a lot of what people really enjoy about this game, and if I had to talk more about it, it'd probably be even more negative. There's really two strengths I give umineko - a very good soundtrack and incredibly charming characters. All else feels bad or mediocre to me. The music is very very good and the characters are very very charming though, so I can't just call the game shitty because I think it has little merits past that. I *could* have fanboyed about some characters a little bit, and I thought about doing that. Maybe it'd have been appropriate. At that point it might feel more like an analysis than anything else, and it'd occupy a disproportionate amount of the review, so I opted against it. Maybe next time I tackle a game with similar issues.

https://fuwanovel.net/reviews/2018/01/09/umineko-when-they-cry-answer-arcs/ Been a while since I last did one of these. Replaying Umineko was an odd experience.

Indeed. And if it continues to be the source of fuwa's suffering as it has, all of you are getting permabanned. I shouldn't have to hand out multiple bans a day to the same people.

It does, I've banned like 10 people the past few days for alt-spaming and trolling. The coliseum of chatter, however, was always pretty much a place for shitposting. Way back we had threads about cereal or what someone are for dinner or some dumb shit. Not much to do about it.

Pinned as the highest quality recommendation thread for a full hour. ...Then we'll probably move it to another forum but hey

the list was supposed to be just my opinion instead of a community thing. I can make a new one if people care enough about it, though of course, you're more than welcome to do your own thing as well. At that point, might as well just do a popularity poll though. More than reflecting what the community likes overall, that thread was just me recommending stuff I like.

I think it's unlikely we'll get one. If anything, I'd guess they changed it from new years to thanksgiving so that there would be a similar timespan between anniversary and the other free gacha banner as jp, since NA started a month earlier in the calendar. Who knows, though.

Hey look, a touhou avatar. I used Kaguya for years here, heh. 10/10.

Aye-aye. Thanks.

VNDB filters are full of shit no one cares about and partial patches or something, new fuwa site hasn't had any updates for about a year as well and I'm 100% not going through a bunch of old blog posts to figure out what's what. What have people been playing this past year?

You'd probably enjoy Taimanin Yukikaze.

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1- Dunno if those were memories or if it actually happened again in a different way. Either way, the world of foreknowledge is a thing, which might or might not have something to do with that. 2- So, Kajiri Kamui Kagura, the game's sequel, happens after Marie's route. I have, however, heard that KKK is not a cannon game, though I'm not sure about it. We haven't gotten any entry in the shinza universe that happens after Dies asides from that (kazilu bey happening before it), so if it's not cannon, it depends on what they pick to continue it. 3- Yeah, Ren is Lotus' grandson in that route.

Welcome. Hope you have fun around here.

https://discord.gg/3XuheVM forgot to make it permanent. Also 10/10 avatar.

Eeeeeeh, no way. ...Probably.

Just made it a while ago. The foundation of it was supposed to be a not-secret secret group PM that most of our users probably have been part of or know about at this point, heh. I decided I might as well open it, too. It will be moderated according to the good old fuwanovel rule of respect and civility, hm. Do come and join: https://discord.gg/3XuheVM

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It's just really really bland. I don't think I've ever seen a more innocuous, middle of the road whatever game before. Other than art it's perfectly average or slightly below average at everything. It also just feels like it was exactly what they were going for with it. Knowing how you oddly seem to go for games like this you might indeed enjoy it quite a bit.

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A lot of your points seem to be the product of your fairly unique lifestyle, as far as I can tell. Mobile phones are a lot more convenient when you work outside and need to have an easy way for your family to reach you in an emergency or some way to talk to friends, family or lovers during the boredom of a job where you have large periods of inactivity. Mobile gaming is just something that comes naturally from having to carry the device around anyway. While portable consoles are a thing, the fact you have to go out to buy them and carry them around while you will also already have to carry around a phone is inconvenient in the first place. The game restrictions of those consoles are also inconvenient, since mobile games tend to be available to just about every phone that's commonly used. These are normally a lot less intricate and interesting than good games for actual gaming platforms, but they're the only thing realistically available for a lot of people, and are certainly convenient (I'll agree on most of them being boring and overall not worth playing anyway.) Data mining just isn't an issue for most people. I myself solved it with having a low-spec older computer that I used for work-only or sensitive things. Microtransactions for huge sums of money aren't too bad if you'll just be playing the same game obsessively, though I do question the financial situation of the people who go for that myself. If over the span of 2 months you end up throwing 300 hundred hours at the same game whenever you happen to have free time, it's probably not too bad of a money to fun value compared to other stuff out there, even if you end up not touching the game afterwards. Casual players don't end up exploring the whole game and don't need fully competitive teams in the gacha stuff, so it works out with them paying a lot less and just getting a bit out of it too. there's also an income issue where most people just don't care about savings and are capable of wasting money that they should be keeping to get a small dopamine rush without having to do drugs. There's also the people who just can afford all that stuff without batting an eye, though that's a bit more rare. Paying for them itself is very convenient. After you've put your credit card info once, it'll normally just take 2 clicks or so and an incredibly short amount of time to get the stuff you want. Of course. This was a pretty good read, though. I agree with you on most of this stuff, though I'm not sure it has to do with age so much as it has to do with the both of us living in a fairly unique way, lol.

A starter pack of sorts, huh. I'd probably go with Forest (highly stylish mindfuckery), Symphonic Rain (surprisingly dense romance drama masquerading as something else), Hanachirasu (sword otaku lovefest in a dark world with a short revenge story), Rose Guns Days (highly emotional japanese sentimentalism in a mafia world) and I/O (science!) I don't think these are exactly the best titles out there necessarily (though I certainly don't think any of them are bad either), but over many years in the community I've more or less settled into recommending one of these when someone relatively new to the medium wants to find a style they can get really into or try something new.

Aselia comes to mind.

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.