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Nakige are good enough for me, it's a formula that really works, and it's nice to see things improving in the end. A good bittersweet ending is Rin's in Katawa Shoujo. I'm not so big on utsuge for the moment. Too extreme. Why look for a realistic, bad ending, if life provides plenty of that? I thought VNs were escapism.

If you liked Ever 17 you're in for a treat!

Badly.

Follow news on Facebook, mostly. Nowadays I play some recently released games, so it would seem that I keep with the trends, but actually in some games I'm like 1 year behind. Big ones like Miagete Goran and probably Irotoridori no Sekai in the future, I tend to grab them at the first chance. I have so many games on queue I actually have to make a schedule, however. Other than that, I'm active in the Fuwa Discord where I find about a lot of games, and I used to follow VNTS until it threw all regularity out of the window.

I'd say it depends on the actual timeframe. For example, Spike Chunsoft, now, they don't have any qualms about localising just another version of Steins;Gate -ANY version, really, because it's a best seller. But G-Collections is ANCIENT and they probably used what was available. It's just that the companies don't return to previous titles with improved versions, it seems like the West needs a constant flow of new localisations and people care more to have as many different games as possible, not return to old ones. Another (discordant) example is Rewrite, which is officially arriving in 2 versions I think, and given that the majority of Key fans have already read it, either they buy it out of commitment, or it backfires gloriously (like Little Busters, mind you). But of course, Rewrite and S;G are major games in a bountiful age for the community like 2018 is, not an old game like Crescendo.

I did too. It was immersive... and a bit cringey, since the game is so-so.

Do you think gamers should focus on finishing their pending games before purchasing more games?

The season I'm in. I find it a bit jarring to have cloudless blue skies on my novel where outside my window it's raining buckets. Plus, the temperature it's supposed to be. It's called IMMERSION.

I voted for the good old one-tw... good old Hatsuyuki Sakura.

Off the top of my head you have one in Newton and the Apple Tree, with the japanese girl. If you'd like to find more, use the filters in VNDB.

There's Quartett, where there's even secondary character intercourse. That content is minimal, though.

Aren't you expecting a bit too much out of a medium for entertainment? Do you think a Marvel superhero movie can change your life? I don't. To change your life you need to do a lot of reflecting as well as trial and error. Fiction can help you reflect but only barely. It won't provide the real action to change, and not even the motivation, most of the time. In the end, salvation lies in the people. The people who are right for you.

As for story I'm having great hope in Lynne (Ebi hime is a good writer), and some otome games that try a fuzzier approach to romance (and drama) than what is usual.

I really liked when Katawa Shoujo deconstructed that, they had a pink-haired girl, but it turns out it was dyed.

Well, it's Key making non-Key for people who don't like Key works. Like Pillars of Sawyer Eternity and Baldur's Gate. Not a lot of surprise here. PS: In VNDB lots of people rate games like they're the best ever, even if they're crap or horribly generic.

Any version you choose, be prepared to expend some months. I played it whole in two different, consecutive years because Lucia's route barely killed my interest in the game. I still don't rate it highly, and find that, like most of recent Key works (anime and VN), it has almost as many good things as bad things. Harmonia is an exception, because it's a simpler and cleaner story. You can definitely enjoy Rewrite, but you probably won't rate it a masterpiece. There are some facepalm moments too -like that "famous" Kotori quote, what the hell were they thinking?

My 2 cents, heterochromia is just another moe aspect of a character. Just two examples about that: Steins Gate's Daru found the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) pretty sexy, and in Maitetsu you romance trains. Anything and everything can be moe-fied and made sexually appealing. AFAIK David Bowie had this "condition", and it didn't bar him of living a full life... so what's the point of comparing it to actual crippling diseases? At any rate, girls with heterochromia are something like "cute mutants"... In

Look, I've been watching anime all my life, even as a baby I watched the 80s anime for children. Anime is a big entry point for people into the VN world. So, like an anime person would watch several different genres of anime, that same person, if he did VNs, would tackle several genres. Sometimes what matters is the quality of the game (within its genre), and you're sold. Who says moege can't do great within the moege style? You just need to like the thing, or at least not abhor it. Looks to me there are some people who would segregate players by their main genre, and that's a bit sad. For example, no matter how much I like Root Double, Ever 17 or Virtue's Last Reward, I can't do those constantly, I need a change of pace and some kawaiis.

Can I get it? Can I?

I prefer to get cheaper digital versions. On a side note, my eroge collection isn't something I want displayed in my room, nor is something I would show to visitors; and I don't think it's worth it having all my eroge in physical just for myself to look at the covers. Nah.

I know it's just level of desire, but Summer Pockets and Aiyoku no Eustia are both coming sometime, right?

I still recommend Steins;Gate because the VN is a unique experience and differs in some ways from the anime. That VN is a masterpiece, the way the drama and tension build up to the last chapter, where you have to make your fatal choice. However, it's pretty much unplayable without a walkthrough or flowchart, at least as far as the true ending goes. The VNs I have struggled the most with are moege, in particular, Yuzusoft works such as Noble*Works and Dracu Riot, I start them but quickly get bored of them, and I think that the actual routes aren't that good.

OK, there you are: * Mangagamer shop Eroge! (Clockup) * PS4 Chaos;Child * 3DS eshop Virtue's Last Reward Zero Time Dilemma * Steam Ame no Marginal (2017 Sekai's Humble Bundle) Clannad Clannad Side Stories fault milestone 1 (2017 Sekai's Humble Bundle) Hakuoki: Edo Blossoms Hakuoki: Kyoto Winds Harmonia If my heart had wings Karakara (2017 Sekai's Humble Bundle) A kiss for the petals, Remembering how we met Littlewitch Romanesque editio Regia Love at first sight Lucy, the eternity she wished for Nekopara vol. 0 (2017 Sekai's Humble Bundle) Root Double A sky full of stars (Miagete Goran...) Stay! stay! DPRK Steins;Gate Steins;Gate 0 Strawberry Vinegar Sweetest Monster Tomoyo After (Clannad) VA 11 HALL A Vision of Aurora Borealis The Way we All Go

If you're reading this and got the game, report ASAP. Make Operation Hinoue a success! EDIT: Dammit, the game comes out tomorrow on Steam... what a start...