Decay

I have a confession to make. I'm not a lolicon but... I really want a Konomi route. I mean, while it's really weird that they didn't give Ruriko a route but gave Ritsuko one, I don't particularly care about Ruriko at all. Konomi is utterly adorable, though, and it's a shame that she gets relegated to side character status.

This isn't really how game development works. Adding additional content always has a cost. They probably ran out of money for the project partway through development.

The fandisc doesn't have any new complete routes, as far as I know. Just a few short "side stories" featuring the other girls and after stories.

There are a lot of misunderstandings here. The only difference between the ME and EX versions are h-scenes. The ME version has the new routes. It, alongside the EX version, also has new non-H content in the old routes. Kud's has the most content added, followed by the Haruka route. The common route also has a lot of new content (as if it needed to be longer). When starting a new game in EX/ME, you can also choose to say that you've already read LB and the game will unlock all content and new routes for you, as if you've completed Refrain, so you don't have to reread anything you don't want to. They do not have any partial patches of the translation released, so you cannot go and play those routes right now if you wanted to.

Agave and Wanko are probably tied for best routes for me. Miyako is both worst route and worst girl. I really can't stand her.

I have to imagine it's intentional, but I don't really understand the joke/reference.

No more than anyone else who plays video games, surely.

This gets so much better in the S and A games.

https://vndb.org/v17102 Purported as a "true sequel", this is going to be the first new canon entry to the series since the original. Hardly anything is known about it, other than it taking place in the beta world line. I can't really imagine how that will work since S;G's true ending ended on a different world line. What do you guys think about all this?

That's pretty much how G-Senjou no Maou's route structure worked. It's a good system for more serious, linear stories that have multiple heroines.

I just want to point out that every line Rooke took issue with has been edited and improved in the final version. Hmmmmmmm

I just read the Sayaka route in Majikoi A and it's absurd. MinatoSoft stumbled upon some sort of secret formula for creating the cutest heroine and scenario humanly possible. The cuteness levels are so off the charts that I seriously had to pause and do other things because it became too much to take in at once. It helps that she is a pretty fun character and has more redeeming features than just the cuteness, unlike a lot of bad moege. It actually made me question if it's possible for something to be too cute. Still, it's a fun route and it kind of disappoints me when I think about the format it's delivered in and how much better S could have been. Pros of A (or at least the Sayaka route) over S: A bigger emphasis on the Kazama Family, they aren't just side characters, they play a major role in almost all scenes. The cast of characters is manageable and doesn't muddle the focus of the story any. In S, you were constantly inundated with other character stories and character development unrelated to the route you were on, in A's Sayaka route, it feels like they had a laser focus, they knew exactly what they wanted to do and did nothing unnecessary in accomplishing it. The one thing I get bummed out about it being a selection of short stories instead of a branching route based game is the reduced scope of the story. I think it's a poor format for delivering these kinds of stories. It makes me wish that Sayaka was a part of the bigger Majikoi stories.

Steam version unlocks at 4pm PDT, which is in 13 hours and 12 minutes.

It's full to the brim with random references, some pretty surprising.

Your VNDB doesn't have majikoi listed, just play that. It's the new hotness.

i am sorry

He means get a save file with max level characters and breeze through the strategy portions. Honestly I can't tell you if replaying Aselia is worth it because the repetition defeated me.

Cross Channel never "speeds up" but it definitely gets more interesting once you understand the nature of the characters and their school. I kind of like the slow, deliberate pacing of it. Not every VN needs a million things going on at a time and I feel like some VNs are paced too frantically.

Oh god Star Ocean 4 is sooooooo bad. One of the worst JRPGs ever released, imo. People have covered most of the good playstation exclusives already.

I'm usually a strong proponent of more liberal localizations, but in these kinds of games I definitely feel that honorifics should be preserved.

Somebody is already translating the PSP version, which has a few further enhancements, but they're doing it from scratch so it will take a while. Progress seems slow, I kind of doubt it will ever happen. The PC version isn't very buggy. The main problem is that it runs too fast which can make the timed hits difficult, but there's a very easy fix using Cheat Engine, use the speed hack to slow down the speed. Also the PC version is fully voiced, not sure why getsuya listed that as a plus for the console one. The all-ages thing is probably a plus, though, because its h-scenes are hilariously stupid and worthless.

Probably. But I also don't know much about JAST sales, who knows how long you'll be waiting for.

It's alright. The protagonist is a mega pervert which isn't really my thing. Some of the humor is pretty good. I felt like the different routes get a little repetitive, they retread the same ground a little too much. Overall a decent and funny VN.

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