Mr Poltroon

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Allow me to refute a recommendation: Konosora, or If My Heart Had Wings. Whilst it fits your parameters, its translation is terrible. It is highly recommended you wait for its retranslation to eventually finish. This is not me being picky. One of its routes was butchered to the point of being impossible to comprehend to any English reader. I'm sceptic as to whether "Yume Miru Kusuri" would be a 'feel-good' VN, as most of its content is somewhat sad, if you put any thought into it.

http://picosong.com/zVi4/ I like bears. They're cute. Wouldn't ever want to meet one in real life, however. They seem dangerously carnivore. http://picosong.com/zViF/ The continuation is recorded, but not uploaded. As for when it'll resume, that remains a mystery, even to me. I don't. It allows me to tell whether users are Portuguese or Spanish, as they're the only ones who get it right on their first try. Incorrect. You didn't much like Grisaia, blasphemer. Unfortunately, my accent changes every day. Occasionally it sounds British. I am, regrettably, not, however. Here's your clip: http://picosong.com/zVp7/ Will get on it. I will not watch anything else.

I have now finished Kaede's route. I'd put this game in the same basket as "Symphonic Rain". So much so, that it turns out to have been made by the same studio. In fear of spoilers, that's about all I'm going to say. I'll elaborate in spoiler tags as I make progress.

My translation capabilities excel. http://picosong.com/zLcV/ Don't mind the spelling. I didn't either.

God dammit. I knew the day would come. I'd get to three thousand posts and I'd have bugger all to say. That means I need to come up with something. That does, unfortunately, also mean that effort on my part will be required; effort which I'm simply not willing to contribute. So here's the deal. You come up with something for me to do. Perhaps you'd be interested on my thoughts on a particular topic? Perhaps you'd like me to read something for you?* Perhaps you'd like me to send money your way? Yeah sure, I'd like a lot of things too. You can ask; nothing wrong with that. I'll just laugh at your request if I deem it stupid; or unnecessary, or useless, or strange, or something of the sort. Additionally, free of charge, you can ask for a "love-filled" PM which I'll absolutely send your way. It'll thenceforward be used to harass you whenever the mood strikes. *If you want a free sample of what to expect, the video******* below has me reading this very post. http://picosong.com/zLYL/ *******Not a video.

Correct. The Legend of Heroes is the name of the series itself. Within these series, there are many so called "arcs". Trails in the Sky, Trails in the Sky Second Chapter, and Trails in the Sky The 3rd are mostly centred around the country of Liberl. Trails of Cold Steel, Trails of Cold Steel II, and Trails of Cold Steel III are mostly centred around Erebonia. I think. The third hasn't been released in Japan yet. The other missing two, Trails to Zero and Trails to Azure, haven't been confirmed for localisation, but I'd bet they will be at some point. Finally there's some older titles which have mostly been localised at some point; also part of the "Legend of Heroes" series, but they don't have "Kiseki" in the name. All of these are from before 2000.

Spectrophotometer.

Since it was confirmed in English soon after the announcement, might as well share, why not.

My superior taste therefore concluded it is my favourite Infinity game. Let's put it this way. Never7 is less about the pseudo-science nonsense and more about getting along with the girls. As my first "conventional" VN, it holds, then, a special place in my heart. Still plenty of balderdash, but with plenty of slice-of-life and romance. Additionally, my favourite Kuudere, Haruka, is from this game. If I were to say Ever17 has it beat on something, it's the protagonist and the ending. On the other hand, the only thing I really enjoyed about Remember11 were the two protagonists, and the sections on the mountain. My tastes have grown pickier with time, and so I doubt I would ever play this Remember11 these days.

Their PR people are bloody well trying. I commend them for that. ...My condolences as well, for what they get themselves into.

The challenge is there. Have you played the game? You could, for instance, start the game with new extra members that start at level 1, and these guys would be on par with the early dungeons. If you remove the level cap, these level ones don't stand a chance. Assuming you don't start with new members, even if you breeze through the early dungeons, there are immense amounts of other high level dungeons that you don't even have a chance of playing on your first and second and, on my case, third playthroughs. You need to level up your party members. The only way to do that is to fight on high level dungeons. If you waste all your time fighting damage sponges on the first couple of dungeons, you get jack all experience, and you'll waste tens of hours before you get to any of the new content, of which there is a lot. The only thing removing the level cap does is make you waste extra hours on the initial dungeons. It's not challenging, it's boring. You're not fighting new enemies with special abilities on levels you've never seen before like in the high level dungeons; you're fighting on dungeons you already know the layout of, against enemies you've fought countless times before with gargantuan amounts of extra health. There's a lot of grinding in this game. Now imagine every critter had the health of your average boss. That's not challenge. That's a waste of time.

Additionally, it is pointless to remove the level caps on the enemies. That does two things: It increases their health, and their damage. You don't get more experience even if you're fighting level 60 puttetos on lower level dungeon. The experience is based entirely on the level of the dungeon. That means stuff like your first 5 dungeons hardly give you anything, even if you unlock the cap on the enemies and make them huge tanks. It's pointless, and wastes far too much time in an already long game.

1) The other routes have completely different main stories. The stories with the side characters (Aht, Crayl, etc.) are the same, but more characters get introduced in New Game plus, which means that you should, in theory, get new side characters every playthrough. 2) There's no other ending; each main character has one ending only. Some answer details and questions from other routes. All routes are necessary to answer most, but not all, of your questions. 3) Doubtful. By your third, or maybe even second playthrough, in New Game plus, you should be able to attain all resources you need for every piece of armour. I've played the game through 4 times. I have not unlocked over 70% of the stuff. Don't think you're bad. I'm much worse than you.

1) If it's not there, it makes no difference. I'll probably get around to buying DLC at some point. Maybe. However, the game sure has more that enough content as is right now. Seems like a rather sound business scheme on their part. A cheap main game with expensive DLC. A bit of a sham as the main games were expensive at release, though. If the game makes me want more, then the game is doing its job properly, and I'm prepared to pay for it. Why the hell wouldn't I pay for what I want? As is, I got a cheap deal in case it doesn't suck me in enough to warrant DLC. 2) I like the Mako. What I didn't quite like was the fact that there seemed to be a monstrous mountain between me and every single objective.

Just got the Mass Effect Trilogy for 12 Euros, and here are my initial impressions on the first Mass Effect:

Well... I'll reiterate that I only read the manga, not watch the anime, so I'd like to ask you what you think of it whenever you get around to it.

Tried out Hitman: Absolution for a while. Got through the first mission fine (sleeping pills OP), handled the second mission somehow (okay, so they spotted me, and I had to pretend to surrender, but I can always shoot the cop on the head, drag him further into the alleyway I lured him into, disguise myself and somehow make off successfully without anybody realising), but now that I've gotten to the third mission, I keep messing up my stealth, so I changed from trying to be stealthy to picking up a wrench and taking on armed men. Surprisingly, it works.