Kaguya

I always knew you were the US's president.

Somewhat. Someone could disagree with me on the focus of Daibanchou and I'd be ok with it. The story is focused in such a weird way. Yes, the gameplay is pretty fun. I actually had a conversation with Clephas about this and he didn't like it too much, though.

Come on guys, what happens in the staff forums is boring~

This is going to be awesome.

As everyone knows, I play a lot of VNs. Clephas has his threads to talk about untranslated works, and they're pretty neat. It's nice to get reviews on releases or just random VNs he plays. I'm probably the person here with the most knowledge of translated VNs, so I thought "why not give this corner thingy a try". So, here I am. Whenever I read, re-read or feel like writing about a random VN, I'll post those here. Hopefully the thread will be of some use to get everyone to play some more VNs~ I'll basically introduce some VNs and give my thoughts on them. The introduction part may be a bit boring for the people who know the VN already... But what I'm aiming at here is having people who don't know those VNs play them. If you already know the VN I'm talking about, you're not my target audience. If you can still have fun with the post, that's great, though <3 It'd be kind of weird to post the thread without any mini-review, though... Well, recently enough, I've been replaying Daibanchou. Daibanchou is a game mostly reliant on it's strategy RPG gameplay. Simply put, the story isn't good enough to keep you playing it by itself. A mostly generic story and underdeveloped characters make the story not enough to keep you going solely because of it. I would say that differently from some VNs where gameplay is something that complements the story, gameplay is the main focus of the game here. That and H-scenes. There are a lot of them. Now, Daibanchou is an alicesoft game. That's self-explanatory for many people, but alicesoft has their own, eh, style when it comes to telling a story... And that style is generally convenient wacky bullshit with ok comedy that eventually leads to serious story segments (that will generally revert to the usual wacky bullshit shortly afterwards). Still, their wacky bullshit is fun. It's not exhaustive to read, and the fights you'll be conducting should be enough incentive on their own to make you pass through those fun moments. In daibanchou's case, you have a badass protagonist with his badass crew fighting their way to conquer Japan and destroy the system to make something new. Meanwhile, our protagonist is recovering special, superpowerful buttons that came from who-knows-where that just turn out to be in the hands of large faction leaders to make his kuu-kinda-tsundere super fast wolf fiance go back to her human form. Getting those buttons will force you to fight your way through tanks, vampires, ninjas and pirates (or religious freaks, depending on which route you pick) and be a badass all through it. Also, don't mind the fact you do have a fiance. You're free to have sex with anyone. She doesn't seem to care about it. The other girls don't either. You have amnesiac katana-wielding submissive proper japanese girl with super regeneration, try-hard megane class rep who can capture enemies easier, loli doll magical-girl who hits from far away and gives tea to everyone, blonde ojou-sama political-ish leader who inspects countries and has lots of guts and ninja-girl whose route I never bothered to finish (what, reality is tough. I can't know about everyone ) I have this feeling there's another heroine. All of them have separate routes. And there are sex scenes with plenty of characters who aren't those too, just in case you're wondering. I also feel like I should warn everyone that mandatory rape will happen in this game (though not by the protagonist, differently from Rance). You're free to follow through all routes whenever you want, except for one of them. Your decision on which place to conquer in the second chapter will permanently seal one heroine route of two. The routes are easy to follow through once the girl appears in your harem (just have sex with her when you get the chance to. It's not hard) but getting the girl to appear in your harem can be troublesome. Oh, by the way, everyone got their superpowers when a hole to hell (or something like it, anyway) opened up in the middle of Japan a few years before everything started. Except only students got superpowers. Because reasons. What I told you so far is the basic plot of the game. There's a lot more hidden behind it. The hidden parts of the story are interesting... But all in all, you'll be playing to get the not-so-post-apocalyptic battle royale experience where your small group of badasses fights against small armies and other groups of badasses. All of them with superpowers or some other similar gimmick. The characters are fun, and even if you dislike them, you just don't have to trigger their events. You can even just fire a character you don't like if you don't want them to be in your army. The game gives you a lot of freedom in that aspect. The soundtrack is pretty neat, and I personally like the style (though I know it's not for everybody). All in all, if you like this type of thing, maybe you'll want to try out the game. I rated it a 9 because I enjoyed it a lot, though it's probably more of a 7 or 6.

I don't actually want it, so you can rule me out of the contest, but I just wanted to drop this Inu Sakuya pic here. You and your cats can't handle it.

I cleared my first EX song. So proud of myself.

It only works if you have a copy of the full edition. If you do have it, should be fine. Also, you shouldn't say a patch from about year ago is "new". Awfully confusing. EDIT: Adding it to fuwa would be kinda weird. It's only partially translated.... I'd rather wait until a full tl came out. Also, you can't find a damn download of the full thing anywhere around the internet (well, I'm sure someone can, but the usual sources don't have it, as far as I could tell). I actually had to go as far as buying rose guns days to read the 4 seasons.

If I don't say anything about a genre, it's because it has no restrictions attached to it and you can pretty much suggest me whatever from it. I like sci-fi a lot.

My greetings. The sky really is beautiful~

I haven't. I'll try it out, but I can't make any promises. If it's mystery, I'm used to (and will compare it to) classical works that really are masterpieces. I might just go "meh" midway and quit it if it doesn't seem good enough.

Watched it too. It was pretty fun.

I'm a type-moon fan, I've watched the KnK movies already Mindfucks are good. Yes, I didn't enjoy gintama when I tried it out. Not my type of humor.

I'll watch the first one right now. You should all feel free to keep suggestions coming, I'll be here for two weeks or so before I can move on.

It may not have been clear enough, so to clarify it, I don't want to watch romance at all, no matter how good it may be.

There were some problems with my travel plans and so I'll be stuck here for a while longer. ...This makes me schedule awfully empty. I'll get bored soon. So I thought- why not watch some anime? Here are my restrictions- I'm awfully picky with comedy. "Crude" forms of it don't interest me too much either. If it's not at the very least nichijou-level, I'll probably dislike it. Mystery is my favorite genre, but I have high standards for it. I've tried watching several mystery anime before, and it doesn't work out. They're just not as good as the books. If you do have a mystery masterpiece, feel free to suggest it, but it really needs to be at that "masterpiece" level. Cute girls doing cute things is boring. I'd rather not watch an anime about it. Seeing teenagers being teenagers kinda sucks, even if you add superpowers. Teen drama, romance angst and the like aren't what I'm looking for. If it's action you want to suggest me, it needs to have a good plot and lots of combat brilliance. I don't like too much romance in my action too, so keep that in mind. Ecchi stuff is tolerable, but pointless. If it happens too much, it's downright annoying. I'll also ask you to keep that in mind before suggesting anything. Ah, beautiful animation would be nice, though it's not required.

Phenomeno is pretty good. And short.

Meh. My cool team is good enough to S cool songs on hard because of all the SRs, and that's all I need because those are all I play

I FC'd 3 hards so far. I can generally do it to normals, though. I'd give myself a two or a three. Also, what is a medley festival and how does it work?

Nah, I'd bet they'll be space robot vampires. I really liked Lemrina. That's why I want her to die. Is it weird?

I didn't like After-School Navigators. The beginning is weird and the song doesn't stick. I guess I just like the romantic or dramatic songs I don't really like any of the smile/pure songs I've seen so far too much. Which is why my pure/smile teams have characters that need more bond points and yet I'm using my cool team to finish mermaid festa for the 25th time.

Actually having a sleepless night because of this game is impressive. I don't think I'll ever get anywhere close that point This thread really helped me out. It's so handy, having all these high-ranking friends who give drastic increases in stats~ Cool songs really are the best ones after all. The two songs I like the most so far are Soldier Game and the Vol 1 of Mermaid Festa.

I've got 4 SRs and several idolized rares now, but I never got one Eli in scouting. And I even did the Bibi scouting 3 times

You should put one Eli there too. To have the interesting Nozomi dynamics.