Narcosis

There's more to Serial Experiments Lain than meets the eye. I won't be spoiling stuff, though It's something far greaer than mere tech transhumanism tale.

Iconic doesn't mean good. Not a single one of them has truly what it takes to be considered a Kamige. Granted, S;G is preety close, but still falls flat. That said, as Clephas mentioned above - for one to be a kamige does not necesarilly mean it has to be super entertaining. That goes the other way around, as well - a vn does not have to be a kamige to be truly entertaining. In the end, "kamige" is just a tag, people tend to stick to games they feel to have something more than just being plain entertainment carriers. Some games even do have artistic value. Does that mean they will be trully great as games, though? Not necesarilly. Beyond being able to distinguish between those factors, one can't forget that the most important thing is it's own, personal enjoyment that comes from reading these games and other people's guides shouldn't ever cloud your own judgement.

Jesus Christ. How lazy, lol.

It's not like Steam can't get proper product curation. They simply don't want to and out of various reasons, having to deal with angry developers and communities alike being the most prolific examples. In the end, it might just be not worth their money, to ease things for a handful of more artistic developers. Besides, what truly defines computer game an art? It's not like it ever relied on business to thrive, quite the contrary. Artists were always starving and so they will, because that's the natural order of things. Art doesn't sell and if it sells, it's only because it just happened to appear at the right moment, in the right place and time. In other words, you get lucky. That's it.

Took them a while, lol. You're only "partners" in business, as long as it remains convinient. "Privacy policy", my ass.

But translated vn's aren't english in origin. It's not a contradition, it's a misunderstanding.

Seems like a classic texture artifacting caused by bad render. This can be preety much anything, from minor coding bugs to bad/misplaced art assets up to personal driver issues. What kind of "graphic enchancing" are you talking about?

No. The TIPS section shorts focus only on Youichi and Aoi,

They are, very. At times even more than the actual endings and you just did the worst thing one could do reading Himawari. You're beyond saving now Jokes aside, I wouldn't advise anyone to skip them. I guess it's because people mostly mix those as in "game over" screens with actual bad endings with a story. In Himawari, most of those endings often reveal important bits of information or act as "what if's". It's not only advised to see them all, but they are literally required to 100% the game and access one of the most important endings (yeah, that's the end of sorts - or more like an explanation - to the so-called "Aries route").

Cliched aside, If this kind of writing doesn't trigger you, then I don't even know what else does.

Since we're most propably talking about their latest release, those two screens alone should answer all your questions: At least they tried.

Definitely.

That's a typo; iirc it was already forwarded to the dev team.

How a "coherent" story that's written by a bunch of different people can be good?

Thanks guys, it's been a blast. I actually managed to obtain far more decent cards aside those than I ever imagined. I'm not really sure what to do now - from the little devil series alone I have two more Hanayo and Maki cards and four more Nozomi; I could still idolize one more Nozomi, since it's a great score card, not sure about the rest. I could as well sacrifice them for stamps and try idolize some of those good pairless SR's I have laying around. I actually did one more 10+1 draw thanks to all the loveca I got after the event. Was hoping that perhaps the RNG will finally bless me with at least one little devil Honoka, but got only one card this time and t'was the initial SSR Rin

It's not recreating data. It's basically guessing how the input should look like at a higher resolution - in this case, a resolution "high enough" to actually allow enough minimum detail. The end result is preety much a guess work and will vary with every single iteration. "Recreating" is a process of piecing the remains of something together to bring it back to it's former shape and look; if there's not enough data or it's missing, the end results might end in a falsification.

A dead end road, though. You can't create something out of nothing, especially in terms of ultra low resolution graphics.

I don't think it's actually possible in any way; seems more of a tech bug with new engine ports, as this exists regardless of system, specs or graphic cards/drivers installed and your monitor resolutions. A bunch of people still reported it's available for them. That said, anisotropic won't help you much, when the game's native resolution gets massively upscaled to fit new HD/ultra HD monitors. Creating a custom resolution for your system and forcing the game to use it would give similiar results.

It's not mentioned because of lolport, but actual skip function is available under F3, while auto-read mode is under F4. Using CTRL skips ALL text, regardless whether previously read or not.

Two new additions to my evergrowing collection of overpriced plastic pieces: I just found out nearly all of my figures wear thigh high socks

It's not that hard. Besides, Garejei posted a translated version of the original walkthrough, if you're having trouble with obtaining all the bad endings.

There was that thing called Fuwachat once upon a time.

Yes. You need to play through ALL endings to actually get the mini-stories under the TIPS section; those unlock bit by bit as you clear out the story and good/bad endings.