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    Do You Prefer Happy Endings Or Bittersweet/More Realistic Endings?

    in Visual Novel Talk

    Posted

    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.

    Her problems are still there, and there's absolutely no guarantee that they don't end up estranged, but for the moment, things are fine. That's the way I interpreted it.

    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.

    Finished Aeka's route [Yume Miru Kusuri](SPOILERS)

    in Visual Novel Talk

    Posted

    YMK routes were ambitious, but they didn't really grab the prize.

    Aeka's full of drama, but it turns out they were being overly retarded, when the realisation they could change schools came too little too late. With this degree of bullying, even dropping out of high school is an option, because life is more important than that shit (well, maybe Japanese people would hesitate...).

    I think, in fact, that protag enjoys being the unsung hero, because IRL there are more things you can try before physically confronting your bullies (or your girl's).

    Also, did you really expect they were going to kill her? Man, this isn't an utsuge, and this level of cruelty isn't common in VNs unless it's a Clockup VN (or similar), which it isn't.

    What Sources Do You Use to Find New VN's?

    in Visual Novel Talk

    Posted

    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.

    Just finished Crescendo....(Spoilers)

    in Visual Novel Talk

    Posted

    12 hours ago, Infernoplex said:

    Regarding Crescendo and Tsuki...

    No, they didn't cut anything. G-Collections localized these 2 VNs slightly before their later editions came out. And as per usual in the western VN industry, we never, or very rarely at least, get these later editions updates for the original western localized VNs. So it wasn't "cut", but more like "never updated". Not strange considering VNs were selling even worse back in the day, so there was no incentive to update them at all.

    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 have lost faith in VN

    in Visual Novel Talk

    Posted

    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.

    Is it worth waiting for Rewrite+ or should I just read the original?

    in Recommendations

    Posted

    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?

    The appeal of heterochromia?

    in Visual Novel Talk

    Posted · Edited by Okarin

    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

    Miagete Goran - A sky full of stars, the eyes of the heroine with heterochromia are compared by the protag to a twin star, effectively kickstarting their relationship, that can end in a couple if you like.

    Interest-wise, what part of the VN community would you say you're the most part of?

    in Visual Novel Talk

    Posted · Edited by Okarin

    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.

    What visual novel have you attempted to get into most often but continually lost interest in?

    in Visual Novel Talk

    Posted · Edited by Okarin

    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.

    Which VNs have you legally bought in some way?

    in Visual Novel Talk

    Posted · Edited by Okarin

    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

     

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