Turnip Sensei

Just play Dark Souls. All of the Souls games (and Bloodborne) are stand-alones. They are all little different from each other and can be enjoyed in any order. Dark Souls is also the best game of the series in my opinion, so it's a good place to start.

I don't usually like song covers, but this Gakkou Gurashi OP cover is just too amazing. The enthusiasm in it is unbelievable.

Well, the writer is the same who wrote monogatari series, so the similarities are understandable. The dialogue and the characters are definitely the strong point of the series, it's pretty impressive how 50 minutes of mostly talking can feel so short. The antagonists are interesting and pretty well developed without being too much "bad guys", and the Togame+Shichika comedy duo is really endearing.

My experiences with SMT games are pretty mixed. I really like some of them, but there are times when the difficulty prevents me from really enjoying them. Persona 3 is pretty much my favorite video game of all time, and it's also the game that made me really interested in JRPGs and visual novels. When I first got myself P3 in form of P3P, I played it pretty much for a week non-stop. It was something I had never experienced. Amazing characters, interesting story, themes I had never seen in a video game. After the week was over and I had finished the game, I dug up savings and went to buy myself Vita and Persona 4 Golden. I was in Persona fever and I had to get more. Persona 4 was great experience as well, although I missed the darker feeling of P3 and the deeper character relationships. I've also played a little bit of Persona 1, but never properly tried to beat it. Persona 2: Innocent Sin I liked until the last boss, and then gave up because I didn't felt like grinding for it. Outside of Persona-series I've played some amount of Nocturne and the first game of Digital Devil Saga, but they both remain unfinished. I like tension that comes from difficulty in SMT-games and press-turn is amazingly satisfying combat system, but sometimes the difficulty spikes are just too much for me. As much as I want to see more of the story, there are limits to much I'm willing to grind in order to progress, especially because I don't consider myself very good at these games. SMT games are something I really want to like, but I don't always have enough patience for them.

I finally got myself the Persona 3 official design works, and as celebration I started my fourth playthrough of P3. This time I'm playing it pretty leisurely, talking to random people and team mates at all possible times and such. There's quite a lot of little cute details if you take your time to explore. I'm playing modded FES with Japanese voices and English text, in order to experience the game as differently as possible. I was actually surprised how much the 3d environments and character models improve the atmosphere. I had only played P3P before, so I never even though about it. Not being able to control your allies doesn't bother me that much, but rate your characters get tired in Tartarus is little too fast. I had to adjust my play style pretty majorly. And one thing I noticed while playing with the Japanese voices is how different image does Yukari's Japanese voice give. Her English voice sounds little harsh and maybe bitchy at times. unlike her (generally) soft spoken and insecure Japanese voice. The Japanese voice actually evokes the feeling of a pretty girl unsure about what to do in life and what to trust in, while in English she sounds like a drama queen little too often. It feels pretty strange considering the rest of the English cast sounds very similar to their Japanese counterparts or at least have the same feeling in their voices.

I watched the first episode and I liked it a lot. I think I need to make myself a watching schedule, or else I'll accidentally binge-watch the whole thing and then feel sad while waiting for the next cycle.

Yes! Although the deadline is pretty tough considering the episodes are 50 mins long. It's basically two seasons worth of anime, so I think at least two weeks should be given to watch it.

Time to revive this thread, since the full English translation of 1bitHeart finished about a month ago and it seems like no one noticed. It's pretty damn adorable, so everybody should just go and play it. The link in the OP works still. The main story is interesting and quite different from what you would expect from a game with a premise of making friends. Even the main character is a refreshing take on the antisocial shut-in. The dating-sim system for befriending the side characters is fun as well, the characters are wacky and surprisingly varied considering there's over 40 of them.

Confession: Today I was forced to go to water park and it was awful. My little brother had birthday party at water park, and I had to look after my brother and his friends for an hour, because my dad had something to do and they require that children under the age of 12 must be accompanied by an adult. Not that I actually had to do anything, but I felt so out of place alone at a water park full of families, children and flirting couples. Also I can't see well enough to distinguish swim suit wearing little boys from each other without my glasses, so the whole thing was pretty pointless in the first place. In the end I just parked myself in a jacuzzi and channeled my inner ossan, but it was still pretty awkward.

I absolutely loved Inganock, it sure earned a place among my favorite visual novels. The narrative is No. 1 reason why I wanted to read the game and one the reasons why the game is so enjoyable to me. Before reading Inganock, the VNs I read were mainly focused on dialog, so I was desperately in need of describing narrative. And Inganock's narrative was just what I needed. I learned to like the repetition when Sharnoth, and it was joy to see that Inganock did it even better than Sharnoth, as it wasn't nearly as overblown. The repetition makes this certain sense of security to the story, once you learn when they appear. The contents are only slightly different every time, but different enough to keep the interest. But real strength of the repetition shows when they majorly break the familiar structure. There is this strange sense of unease when familiar scene happens in what feels like completely wrong place, or when the contents are majorly different. The changes in the story felt even stronger when the structure of story changed itself. I can understand why Inganock could feel depressing, but the narrative never made me feel that way. Even though there was misery and suffering, the narration seemed to distance itself from it. The characters' narrations had stronger opinions and feelings in them, but the overall feeling was like it was accepting everything the way they were, and seeing everything as equally beautiful. Or something like that. I agree with the minigame being interesting, I really liked they way the used the it to show insight in to the characters and plot points in ways that wouldn't really fit the main story. It helped that all of the characters were really interesting and that they gave you enough information to make your own speculations, but hardly telling concrete answers. Now for the spoilery thoughts

9/10 It's super adorable! Too bad Ion's face is little weird.

Adventure is pretty unspecific genre, so I want to see some wild choices from all of you. Also this time I promise to stick around, I just didn't have time nor motivation for Fantastic children. Anyways, my suggestion is Katanagatari. I've been wanting to watch this for the longest time, but never got around doing it.

Finished the story of Valkyria Chronicles 3. VC3 is definitely my favorite of the series. The story is most interesting of three, although it's still really cheesy at times in true Valkyria Chronicles fashion. Even the pretty wonky fan translation didn't lessen my enjoyment. The gameplay is most polished and fun, and the smaller maps are a positive thing for me. And finally, I really like the characters in VC3. I still have some side missions to do and I'm eagerly waiting for my copy of Valkyria Chronicles 3: Complete Artworks to arrive. I just had to get it after playing the game.

Watching Jormungand. It's crazy awesome! Gun porn, good humor, exiting shooting action, interesting and totally unreasonable characters. How could I not love it? I can just grin in joy when more and more crazier things happen, like going guns akimbo using pistols with blades attached to them.

Finished Sekien no Inganock yesterday just before the rollback, and I loved it. Now I'm just collecting my thoughts about it and waiting for someone to revive the VN Club-thread, because I don't feel like double posting or editing my older post. I also read Ame no Marginal. I have a habit of reading one short VN after reading something bigger for little reset before the next visual novel.

I just read the first chapter of Inganock and I'm really liking it, it's so good all around. The setting especially surprised me pleasantly. Because I didn't bother reading any descriptions beforehand I was expecting something akin to Sharnoth, but the city of Inganock turned out to much very different and much more interesting. Also, the writing style feels like a treat after reading too many VNs with over-reliance on dialog.

Good VNs: Corpse Party games* Danganronpa 1&2 Virtue's Last Reward (though it's advised to play the prequel which is on DS first) Hakuoki* And Steins;Gate if you prefer reading it on handheld Other VNs, which are not as great or I haven't played them Fate/Extra* Sweet Fuse* XBlaze: Code Embryo Hatoful Boyfriend (* PSP games, but available for Vita)

8/10 It's little sad that some of the finer details are too small to see properly, but otherwise it's really nice. The cape especially is fabulous.

All of the choices are so good, I'd be happy to read any of them, even re-read Tsukihime. But I'll support Inganock, I was going to read it next anyways.

Out of all the consoles, I can only see Vita doing well with VNs. Reading VNs on home consoles sounds pretty awkward, I can only see VNs nearing the JRPG/SRPG territory doing okay. And I don't know if there's enough interest for them. Vita on the other hand is already pretty much JRPG/anime lovers console, and visual novels are not too far from that audience. Gameplay titles like Danganronpa, Corpse Party and such have done well enough that VNs like those are steadily published on the system, and even "pure" VNs are getting more and more exposure as well. Mostly Otome-games at the moment, but Steins;Gate and possibly upcoming Grisaia are good signs. Vita is also a treasure trove for all-ages titles and ports, so there's plenty of potential material to bring over.

I've been playing SMT: Nocturne. The story is way more interesting than I initially expected and I kinda like the minimalistic and low-key style of story telling. I like how SMT combat is pretty explosive, momentum can change were rapidly and every fight is tense. Bosses especially are thrilling, definitely the high points of the game.

Confession: I had a really wild dream about Fuwa today. I can't remember much, but there were few things so impressive that I still remember them. First, someone posted a huge wall of text in a random thread about the positions of stars and celestial bodies and how cloudy weather prevented the apocalypse. He was really convinced that if you can't see the stars line up, the end of the world can't happen. Second one was that Fuwa Anime club had suddenly over 40 members. Incidentally, this made me wake up.

I managed to finish Puchin route, but I had enough. I'm dropping the rest. Apart from the few good jokes and references Osadai bored me to death. I couldn't find anything worth caring in the story.