Mr Poltroon

And by "a lot" he means "basic English".

I, too, change my avatar with some frequency. Even my name changed sometime ago. Am I hated? That would be terribly tragic.

I may yet find a way to lose against you. Somehow, my current Havencraft deck has a grand total of 5 amulets. In theory, this isn't quite supposed to happen, I think.

Ask and ye shall receive. Now, whilst I don't mind suggestions, I think it'd bother me even more to go with what's considered "good". I'd much rather do it my way and have my own stewed buttocks for dinner than build a deck based on others' beliefs, findings, and experience. It's like... half the fun is the learning experience, I suppose: "Wait, if I use these two cards together then... Wow, I just unlost this game!"; figuring out combos and strategies on my own can be satisfying -- and in a twisted way, losing to an opponent with one health can be, too. What I'm probably going to do next is play the solo 'campaign' for Swordcraft, because I like the military theme those cards have got going. And revise my decks since I've, like, got cards now. That's new. Edit: Oh, by the way, in case that wasn't abundantly clear, I'm a filthy casual. All about fun and stuff. Or unfun, depending.

Welp, I'm playing this a bit. Maybe I won't get bored in two days. 997 521 166 appears to be my ID number. Current status is getting my Havencraft arse trounced, ranked or otherwise. Out of the 4 measly matches I've played, they've gone more or less the same: I lower my opponent's health to about 5 (and once even to 1); keep mine at around 20, and then promptly get a turnabout thrown in my face. I can only say that I live up to Edgeworth's legacy. My theory is that I'm lacking cards in my hand. Whereas my opponents seem to always be playing things that make them draw cards, and that allow them to have 5 or 6 cards in their hands, and later in the game, 2 or 3. By opposition, my late games consist of RNG'ing and praying that the one card I get, which I'll immediately play, is good. Turns out I don't actually have any (more than two) cards that allow me to draw more cards. Perhaps Havencraft has a distinct playstyle that revolves around coordinating my amulets and ending everything quickly. I wouldn't actually know since I haven't tried out any other craft, and don't even know what this "Overflow" and "Vengeance" balderdash consists of. To me they're just signals that I'm about to get kicked in the figurative genitals. If I'm lacking cards, well, I should just get more! This leads me to my question: I seem to be in possession of a number of tickets. 18 normal ones, and 25 darkness, to be exact. What are these tickets? I decided to use 3 of which to purchase card packs, so as to ensure the former turned into a nifty amount of 15 tickets, but did I just commit some blasphemous waste? Secondly, in regards to the purchasing of cards, I am assuming the main source of which is to be gold? Or else, does one regularly acquire tickets? And from where? Not having actually won squat, I'm a bit curious as to the rewards, I must admit.

It's not like VN reviewers abound, but it is nice to see a quote displayed on the main Steam page. Though I'm sure the 5/5 helps

The hit list grows ever larger...

And you're saying I'm the one who's...? Well, no. I'm sure there was a very very valid reason. If you look for it. Hard.

Are you crazy? All people with an opinion that differs from mine should be forcibly converted or exterminated. Whichever comes first. Incidentally, if you're thinking about voting for the Vita port, I'd recommend you keep an eye out. A lot of accidents can happen these days.

My new life objective is to manipulate someone into doing all of those in one day. They'll thank me. It'll be a valuable life experience.

I did indeed notice that. I believe I initially tried to read it, as I tend to, got bored, and skipped all the others shortly after their commencement. Finished Touko's route. Here are some impressions: Overall, a fairly enjoyable experience. Despite the original complaint, I had no real further issues, and thought the route as a whole was good. My main complaint was the choice of sprites (for Kamishiro in particular), and I'd fire the bloke responsible. Yves was sweeter, I suppose, but that lass does insist on putting her all into everything, if in a different way from Akane. And her route also had way more intolerable moments to 'compensate', I guess. Excellent route, really. Will doubtlessly move on onto Yuzu. Oh, how I so wish the scientific part of doryoku gets some much lacking exposure.

I did not. I skipped the part when he wonders if it is but a fleeting dream. And screams about bentos because that makes sense.

I'm not entirely sure what it is you're talking about. Allow me to speculate based on Yves' route: However, I can agree that, generally speaking, I quite like average stuff too, and that allows me to enjoy a wider array of VNs. The issue with this one lies, as I've said previously, in the fact that I find it too melodramatic and too... "harem" for a Visual Novel. Those really are its main defects. I don't mind bad drama; I do mind drama born out of issues I find stupid, which leads to me getting some sort of weird second hand embarrassment, and skipping a handful of scenes -- eventually reaching a point where I stop reading altogether, In short, my tolerance lies in the fact that I don't mind a lot of stuff other people dislike, but I have certain buttons that shouldn't be pressed. To exemplify, Touko's route, which I've just started: Judgement's still out on this one, but I really hope I won't mind the rest of it.

This game has a very very bad case of getting better as we go through... As should be evident by the time stamp, I dropped the game during Yves' route. Only today did I finish it, and it wasn't that bad. Fairly sweet, in fact. Once again, I'll merit the translation. These guys went bananas whenever they felt like it, and that's great! Spiced up the translation and made some great one liners. Can't even tell what's TL original and what's not [SPOILERS]: Somewhat average route, to be honest. Friendship scenes a bit too corny. Dramatic scenes a bit too melodramatic. These seem to be characteristics I am to expect from this VN. I have decided to alter the route order to Touko > Yuzu > Akane. As if I don't get something to truly compel me, I doubt I'll be able to continue without dropping it again.

On occasion I wonder if "good art" means more shine plastered into the CGs, backgrounds and sprites, because every time I see art being praised it's either that or a washed out colour. Thankfully, I like all of it, I just don't quite get what makes this "good".

Oh, no. I merely chose the last option as I empathised with the initial choice of wording.

I found it in a thread title on a forum recently.

Surprising. Didn't think this series would seriously take any particularly unhappy turns. This first title absolutely did not seem like that, you know, with

Aye, I am.

Played and finished Hyperdimension Neptunia; Rebirth 1. I'll play it once more in NG+, unlocking the other two CPU candidates on the way. An enjoyable experience. Surprisingly so. Didn't even have to cheat. There's really not much else to say, characters are stereotypical except, more or less, Neptune. She's just stark raving mad. Sort of. ---DUB RANT--- I played with the English dub for the first half, and Japanese for the second. The English dub effectively got the characters of Neptune, Compa, and IF, as well as Avenir's villains and Arfoire wasn't bad either. Vert was passable, but herein come the problems: Blanc and Noire definitely were not. Blanc's whole archetype was pretty much lost. She sounded like generic girl no 5674 -- Vert, generic girl no 5672, still worked because most of her character lied in what she said (gamer), not how she said it, unlike Blanc. And Noire was simply annoying. Unlike Compa and Neptune, who adapted into English, Noire just had a high pitched voice, and her retorts were bland -- meaning she sounded bad, and her main gimmick of retorting and complaining was pretty much lost. Now to the good side. IF was pretty decisive and determined. Good retorts. Her dub did the job. Unfortunately for her, the Japanese version had Tohsaka's voice actress, which basically means it couldn't possibly be better. Compa did a fairly good job. Her Japanese voice and personality is just one of those that'd be absolutely terrible to try and mimic in English, so they avoid it where possible. Some funny attack names like "Desu Desu Desu" are kept, but for the most part she does not have a high pitched voice, and actually goes quite low "I was so worried!" vs "I was so worried~~~~!". I can't really explain it well. A few subtle tonal changes means she doesn't sound like generic girl no 3257. A few bouts of uniqueness which differ from her original character, if you will. Neptune just ditches the original. Whereas in Japanese her silliness is quite serious, she's "seriously" offended by other's jabs, and so on, her dub instead makes it feel like she's just taking things easy and making fun of everyone. Once again, I can't really convey it, just know that Neptune's dub was adapted, not translated, and I love it for it. In conclusion, I liked the main three. I also loved Ganache and the CEO. Ganache came across differently from his Japanese version, but it worked all the same. And his boss just had an awesome voice. Strangely enough, both Uni and Nepgear were better dubbed than Noire. Uni's pretty much a copy, from what I've seen, so I wonder how that happened?