Mr Poltroon

That was far too presumptuous of you... don't you think?

Finished Katahane. It didn't quite turn out as I expected it to, and many things were left up to the reader as to how they would develop, but I still liked it. Many tears were shed. Coco is my favourite character, although that's more or less as it was before.

Well, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised you spend your interminably long free time partaking in pointless endeavours.

This is not the first time you tell me that. What makes you think it's going to stick this time?

I'm pretty sure that Implies I ever did such a thing, you know, Mr. Slander?

And a very happy birthday for that Funya monster thing. You utter scoundrel. And the rest of the rabble too. A very merry birthday.

Sheesh, here's my entry. You see the tilted text and images to the right? I nearly had to sell my arm in order to tilt that stuff! It was ridiculous! Anyway, I don't think this is an acceptable entry, given all of de Killer's conditions to work, but it was the first thing that came to mind when I saw this.

As usual, the great question answerer fails to provide a satisfactory answer and instead leaves it in the hands of others. You'll never be independent if you keep up like that.

Thank you for defending my repute. What would you like your reward to be?

I've grown more and more fond of Coco, especially now that I reached Kurohane. I'm still in the middle of it though.

I see, that makes sense. Indeed.

This popped into my head, is there any particular reason promotion of a product is supposed to start before that product is released? Wouldn't the effect be the same if they started promotion/marketing after release?

Been playing Katahane, and I think this has amasing potential. That aside, Angelina's really smooth with her advances toward her love interest, and I like it.

10/10 Not even I know why the score it this inflated.

Confession: I've been waiting for something that should have arrived last Sunday. It has been a painful few days. Am I shy? Am I one of those shy boys that frequent this thread? Confession 2: I'm glad that the amount of incompetency in social situations that people in this thread have match my own. Confession 3: I still remember the most outrageous thing is when I had a panic attack for being asked to leave a tip. There was nobody looking at me, there was nobody asking me what I wanted! How was I supposed to just leave two euros on the table and leave?!

I don't know, I think crying in sadness will be more effective, but I really want to cry in frustration.

Aren't Canadians supposed to be devil incarnate or something? I think I read that somewhere... Sorry! I'm not devoted to becoming anything. I might want a wife as much as anyone else, I'm just not proactive about it. (They aren't either, though. Haven't even tried breaking into my house to meet me yet) Also, you're officially off the list of people I don't think about. ...And into the list of people I curse before going to sleep every day.

Not interested in anyone that's ever misspelled my name. That does rule out most of Fuwa... Guess the love of my life ain't coming from the computer screen.

Clearly, you're unwittingly some kind of cupid.

Well, those Japanese type guys did it too, so it might have something to do with that. But I don't speak no moonspeak, so who knows?

Bloody hell, now I'm thinking I didn't talk near enough with you. Even though I did talk a bit.

Not necessarily person. My dog is more than enough to cuddle with. Confession: I like to cuddle with my dog.

Nope. He didn't enjoy it, so he's obviously got the wrong outlook for reviewing it :salt: But I'll rest my case anyways

Too bad can't like. Reached my quota for the day. I've got nothing to add at this point. Your review clearly conflicts with popular opinion. Objectively, you're probably right, the VN probably isn't all that good. But for some strange reason a lot of people liked it, and I'm not seeing anything that shows why in this review. Imagining I hadn't played Little Busters! before, there'd be absolutely no reason for me to play it after reading this review. But I wouldn't wish on anyone for them to lose the opportunity to experience the enjoyment I experienced while playing Little Busters! I'm probably just interpreting reviews wrong. Maybe they aren't that objective holy grail showing good things about this VN, bad things about this VN and facts and info that could get you interested in this VN; that I thought they were. Alright, time to go for the final round: The review complains about the long common route and that's one of the causes of complaint. Here we're told the moments are enjoyable by themselves but you found them monotonous after a while, fine. The review complains about the cop out end. It says everything is completely and totally ruined, pretty much. This is because the reviewer was hoping for a different, emotional sort of end instead of the usual cop out (the kind that's done in many other VN's to appeal to the dastardly otaku pests), and the reviewer values endings highly. I think these two facts should have been mentioned in the review. The review says the emotional scenes feel cheesy, forced and badly written. This is the main fault with the review because it's highly subjective, but doesn't come across as such. The reviewer states this as fact. Yet many people found them to be highly emotional scenes the first time they played. I don't think this could really be helped because this is the reviewer's opinion. But herein lies my point. Why is the guy to whom the VN's main appeal didn't manage to reach reviewing it? This is a hit or miss VN, let there be no doubt. But it doesn't come across as such during the review, nor do we have any such mention anywhere. The more emotional types will probably love it. If you like romance, or long comedy slice of life, you'll probably like it. This review doesn't really convey that, but then again, should it? Am I expecting too much out of Fuwareviews? And should the people in the 'miss' category be reviewing it? Is it fair for the VN when it probably wasn't even targeting those guys? ...I'm calmer now, so I'll probably leave it at this. In the end it's not like it's even Batman's fault that I don't like this review. Edit: A bunch of replies came, and I can't not take them into account. So you're going to play Little Busters! because you hate long common routes, hate slice of life, hate romance and hate comedy? So you're looking for a review from a guy that also hates all that stuff and want to see if Little Busters is a good game for the guys that hate that kind of thing? This review is useless if I actually like the genre, If you ask me I realised that earlier when writing my post. I'm treating this review as an omnipotent thing which it isn't and it can't be. @Edit And interesting take, and I can't really disagree with it. Of course, if you don't like the genre there's no way in hell you'll know what genre lovers are looking for in the genre or what's a major turn off. Before delving into a review, you should see if the game appeals to your genre's. Then, you should look for a review of a trusted person or someone who's an expert at that sort of genre. Batman can't be trusted because we've hardly got any pool of reviews to compare this one to. Batman seemingly isn't an expert at the genre because he's got such a radical opinion on it, but he might be, we don't know because he's got no reviews out I'd say that's the best way to tell when something is truly bad. "I love romance, drama and slice of life, but I hate Little Busters!" - that's when you know something really went wrong. I'm also starting to think there's a difference between how enjoyable something is and how good something is. It doesn't need to be good for it to be enjoyable, and the genre lovers are the ones who can tell what's enjoyable better than those who don't love a genre. Yeah, I'm probably expecting too much out of a review. So I won't read your wall of text now. I also doubt he can bring up something he didn't experience, like enjoyment or pulls of the heartstrings. If you, who enjoyed the game, can't tell what's so good about it, there's a sign that something else is at work here. And that something else certainly isn't in that review. I imagine people who could have enjoyed the game a lot might be turned off because of the review and how "objectively" bad it is. And that's a darn shame. I rate things at how much I enjoy them, and that's it. No way I'd call Wanko to Kurasou a good VN, but it's getting a 9 from me. Wouldn't that just solve all my complaints?