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I hope you give Dark Souls another try down the line too, hahaha. Bloodborne is simply an exquisite game. I hope you enjoy it. *** Feeling too pansy to continue SH2 tonight, I decided to spend some time with Prey and it was 3AM before I know it. Holy shit, it's even better than I expected, easily my favorite first person game of all time if this keeps up. More than five hours in, there are a measly 4 enemy types (2 of which were introduced in the last hour) and that's just about the only criticism I could have for this game, and even that is offset by just how many ways there are to take out those two types. Repeatedly throw a computer at them, shoot a pipe and burn them down, turn them into crafting materials with a grenade, the list goes on. It's magnificent.

It's spiteful, it's sinister, it's scary, the characters seem great, the opening FMV is wonderful, this game fucking hates me but I love it nevertheless

Fuck Silent Hill 2.

Finished Dark Souls 3. Good ass game, but not close to DS1 or Bloodborne in my eyes. Made me want to get a PS4 of my own to continue playing Bloodborne. Tried NieR out a bit on RPCS3, but it's a bit glitchy. I'm hopeful for a remaster announcement in the coming E3, so I'll hold off till then. Also downloaded Silent Hill 2. Currently 10 minutes into it. Digging it so far.

I know of no VN that actually teaches real world information through a VN medium. Closest thing I know is Go! Go! Nippon, which tells you enough. Read The House In Fata Morgana if you come away from a VN having learned something, though. The game's primary messages cut DEEP, and touch issues that few VNs ever seriously tackle.

I think the only surefire answer is that the genre needs time to mature in the West. Sure, VNs -even translated ones- have been around a long time, but it's staggering to think how few high profile VNs received an official localization before the last, say, three years. Scummy companies like MoeNovel is part of the birthing pains of any budding industry, particularly any artistic niche. This doesn't justify what they do, but rather it's to show that we need the industry to branch out a bit more to be more inclusive, easier to participate in, and start to generate some amount of competition to the point we can freely choose to not support any work by MoeNovel or their like and still have tons of works to look forward to.

Something I named "Get The Hell Out Of Here VNs" a few years ago. Stuff like Ever17 or Danganronpa where the cast is trapped in some weird place. Doubly so if they're made to play some sort of game. But I'll play anything atmospheric. I hate moege

No. Hell no. There are two main reasons: 1. The less controversial reason is simply that visual novels are not popular enough. They barely have an international audience as it stands, not to mention the borderline nonexistent non-Japanese VN development industry. Besides being dominated by a single language/country/culture/market, they aren't in text form like plays or poetry can be. They're software. Visual novels are an exceedingly young genre (particularly outside Japan), and as such don't have an established tradition (though they do have tropes) and they thus don't really reflect different cultures or have distinct schools of thought. The fact that you need -at the very least- a capable: 1. composer 2. programmer 3. writer 4. artist for a given visual novel hurts these chances too. For a novel, you need an author and an editor. Give them two years. Done. Not so simple for a visual novel. 2. The genre simply isn't mature or serious enough. The vast majority of VNs out there, like many anime, go for a non-ambitious slice of life or romantic comedy story. If not that, they tend to stick to many anime/manga tropes on top of the genre's tropes on its own. I'm talking about how the choices-influence-storyline idea is almost always used as skill/luck/walkthrough usage checks for getting into a girl's p-p-panties~. I'm talking about the overwhelming usage of anime/manga styling and characters (all your -dere). And when a VN does get popular for something except cute anime girls, it's more often than not for action or suspense or murder mystery (F/SN, Steins; Gate, Umineko). This doesn't mean they automatically lack merit (Umineko is one of the most emotional and profound visual novels out there and it has sideboob demons, bunny girls shooting missiles, and goat vore). However, even such serious VNs often end up bashing you in the head with their messaging, or lack enough depth to go for a second read. They don't lend themselves very well to analysis. Few VNs out there deal with real-life matters or issues, such as a particular war or a particular culture, and this matters. Few VNs out there dabble with legitimate philosophy or truly have something original to say. Furthermore, very few VNs try to expand what the medium can do. Playing with perspective, how the text is displayed, how choices are made and how their consequences are conveyed- too few VNs play with these ideas, and the genre is considerably worse off for it. Particularly notably, how almost every high-profile protagonist here is a good old straight white high school age regular guy and how so many stories take place in a high school setting (at least partly, and with a predominantly high school cast). It hurts this genre.

Requiem for Innocence was so fucking good

welcome

was watching brooklyn 99 and an episode just fucked me up by, guess what, bringing in a sister of the protagonist. the protag's dismissive of her and her shitty antics (like, scam-a-restaurant level "antics) and at one point the protagonist, Jake, just wants to keep contact with her to a minimum and only meet once a year for dinner or something. ...Exactly what I'd been trying to tell myself to for months. Keep contact to a bare minimum, some rare formality now and then. ...Then, Jake realizes that he's acting exactly like his deadbeat dad. The show has made a point to show through repeated, biting, painful satire how said dad's absence hurt Jake and created abandonment issues and desperate need for validation and left scars that'll never heal, for the preceding five seasons. But I still don't feel like I can spend effort restraining myself, letting things slide, letting her intrude upon my personal space and overall just being mature for fucking once for her sake. I still don't know if I love her, and I still don't know if that's a "people sometimes just don't get along" situation, or a "jesus fucking christ you heartless bastard how can you do that to your own fucking sister" situation, and I feel like nobody would tell me if it was the latter, AND I don't know if anything would change even if someone did. But no one can make me care about fixing this more than already do (I don't mean it in a good way, I don't believe I care enough). And that's the worst part.

Finished my Automata replay. Liked the latter half of the game much, much more this time around. Among my favorite games ever now.

YT hates you

I don't even know how much I regret it. I don't know if I'm doing this for myself (rest easy without feeling I might be emotionally abusive) or because I truly care about my sister. It's mildly terrifying and disgusting to be asking myself if I love my sister.

Big Japanese industry has obviously stuck a deal with sakuragame to make people learn Japanese in desparation to not have their most anticipated VN releases ruined

Perhaps... Though I doubt Turkish therapists are so high tech Anyways, I still don't know what to do b/c I lack conviction in general. I'm selfish. Maybe I'll give it a year, see how distance between us changes things.

Hey, I really appreciate it. I just fucked up another interaction just a minute ago. (she told me to go to sleep b/c it's almost midnight, I told her off, but she was apparently telling me to sleep b/c she was worried about me- she has a fever which is why she can't sleep.) It's just that it'd really be much, much simpler and probably more effective to just lessen contact. Also, I don't want to face a situation where I'd have to choose between continuing therapy and going to uni now.

I'm just... I don't know, uncomfortable with the idea... Then again, my discomfort matters less than her mental well-being, but still... Perhaps I'm not actually ready to face how much I've actually hurt her.

Confession: I have a dysfunctional relationship with my sister and it makes me hate being at home sometimes. And it's at least partly my fault. My little sister feels that I've emotionally abused and hurt her, always. She's also depressed (which is likely connected to this). We've always argued often, and I've often said that I wished she hadn't been born (she say's she's been traumatized by this). She loves me and she wants to be loved by me. Thing is, I am really not sure if I can say the same. Almost everything she does aggravates or annoys me. It's not always her fault to say the least, but sometimes she's either incredibly selfish or exceedingly stupid. She often acts like a hypocrite too. But she's also lonely (no one at home nor at school understands her and she can meet her only close friend like once every other month) and stressed immensely by the school (she's barely passing classes while I have always performed much better with less effort, the difference hurts her self-esteem). It's been weighing on my mind for the last month or two. I'm moving away for university this September to Canada, which I've wanted to do all my life. I've been halfheartedly trying to be more receptive to her wants and needs, but she believes I don't love her at all (tells me as much, and I fear perhaps she's right). I have surprisingly little problem with the thought that I'm an emotionally abusive person. I've always held some subconscious resentment perhaps. I kind of wish we could get to the point where we just don't talk or just not see each other daily. I feel that that'd be the best for her, primarily because I don't see myself doing whatever it is I need to do (no fucking idea what it is) to assist her recovery. I... (almost?) want no part of it besides what I'm driven to do by guilt and obligation. I just don't feel willing to rebuild a sensible and helpful brother-sister relationship. I can act chipper with other people and tolerate their flaws (I have close friends who use the N-word for fuck's sake). It's only with my sister that I'm resentful, extremely short-tempered, and distrustful. I don't know why. It just is that way, feels like has been that way forever. Makes me wonder if my niceness towards other people is a façade. So my question's this: How the fuck do I hurt my sister the least from this point forward? Probably I'm just asking this to soothe my ego and fulfil a societal obligation. As a brother I guess it's the least I can do to ensure I don't hurt her as much from this point forward. If she ever commits suicide, her blood will be on my hands. I think I'd rather mitigate that fact as much as possible.

Wow, fuck. RIP.

I feel that we've been in the golden age in terms of the Western part of the industry for, say, the latter half of 2016 and onwards. That said, it's at its peak because many of the genre's cornerstone releases are only being translated now. Shortly, it'll come to the point where there won't be any masterpieces left to readily translate and that's probably when the Western fanbase is going to start following Japanese releases more closely to assess the Western segment's performance (in terms of keeping up with JPN releases).

YU-NO is good shit. If you're OK with nukige, Mamankyoushitsu has 5 heroines and 3 of them actually look older than seventeen.

Why the fuck is this not pinned already --- Besides that, as my best friend started to follow the Steins; Gate Zero anime (after witnessing my utter destruction on voice chat when he made me watch the original), I'm now playing through Steins Gate 0. On hold for tonight though, The House In Fata Morgana's fandisk releases in 5 hours and I'm gonna be all over that bitch

Steam version unlocks in roughly five hours. The original game's apparently on Android now as well

So sorry to hear that man