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    Fuwanovel Confessions

    in The Coliseum of Chatter

    Posted

    yay more peers taking jp classes :kosame: 

    u just started and you're doing katakana wtf :pyaa: my class started with hiragana. we're starting kk soon though, i think. next week. the transition's gonna rekt me i bet ._.

    はじめまして - hajimemashite
    いくりぷすです - ikuripusu (eclipsed :holo:) desu
    どうぞよろしく - doozo yoroshiku

     

    What's your biggest regret?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    3 hours ago, Flutterz said:

    I regret not figuring out how to make friends :vinty:

    Simple! 

    Do the opposite of:

    On 9/16/2016 at 6:18 PM, Flutterz said:

    School - quiet nerd who keeps to himself

    Work - quiet nerd who keeps to himself

    Home - quiet nerd who keeps to himself

    High school BFFs - quiet nerd who keeps to himself

    Fuwanovel Confessions

    in The Coliseum of Chatter

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    OnTrac is a bunch of dimwits, they're the only shipping carrier that always puts 'could not enter your gated premises' buncha fking n0bs, ups, usps, fed ex all do just fine, btw i live in an unlocked gated community, so fk you guys

    Anyways, that big ass JP quiz i mentioned last time? Luckily its on Wed, and we went through a nice practice quiz during class so I think I am da readies. 

    Finding motivation for reading when you just cant seem to get to it?

    in Visual Novel Talk

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    2 hours ago, Nandemonai said:

    Not the least bit true!  Time is neither free nor unlimited.

    I actually want my money back for Kara no Shoujo 2, for instance.  A true land mine.  I didn't even get past the insufferably-long flashback to a bunch of boring people

     

    57 minutes ago, sanahtlig said:

    I don't think I've ever come across someone with such a terrific grudge against a particular game.  I also don't think I've seen anyone else ranting about Kara no Shoujo 2.


    Ya, a fair amount of peeps find KnS2's 'prologue' to be quite insufferable, since it's 5 hours of focusing on KnS2's new cast's slice of life past when all you wanna do is just continue where KnS1 left off

    Though, there were also some who said it was the best part of KnS2 :shrug::P 

    What are you playing?

    in Visual Novel Talk

    Posted

    On 9/16/2016 at 4:04 AM, Vorathiel said:

    Ever 17. You route:

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    I didn't finished Sara route yet, but I won't till like day after tomorrow[EDIT: God bless my manager at work - day off! ^^], so quick update on Yous'.

    Different strokes for different folks. :D Yous' route was a MASSIVE improvement over both Takeshi routes. You (energetic and funny girl) and Sara (intelligent and little sarcastic one) are also more likeable than Tsugumi (just a bitch) and Sora (bland empty AI. I couldn't look at her as a person at all. Maybe if I started with her and not Tsugumi... but the milk is spilled, nothing to do).

    I'm ambigious on that troll ending. It would be better without that epilogue at all. But You with short hair>>>You with long hair. :P Somehow she looked younger with longer hair.

    Actually I'm kinda surprised by your reaction. For me it was pretty reasonable. Day fifth or sixth of being closed with bunch of weirdos in underwater, sinking facility, with a lots of water on the floors, nothing ever dries, no sign of incoming help, no communications with outside word, only thing to eat are the same sandwiches over and over... He just broke down. Understandable. Those sandwiches were just a spark to ignite his despair.

    That's... not true. Takeshi routes fails to even ask any questions. I don't expect revelations and answers in first routes of the game, but they failed to even lay any questions, to start any mysteries (maybe except for very late Himmel). But with You's route, there was a lot of. Lot of unanswered questions, lot's of interesting plot points, lots of mysteries I'm now dying to find out about. And a lot's of hints to answers as well, so I can came up with some sort of theory about what's happening. I love it. That's why You route is much much better than Takeshi routes. With mr T. NOTHING ever happens, with Kid there is a lot. Whole searching for access restricted data in LeMMIH was a great plot thread.
    Then I looked up and found up the answer to a question 'why this feels familiar to me'. You route is written by Nakazawa Takumi, man behind I/O, which I love.

    Hopefully Sara roue will be as good.

    Overall for now:
    Graphics - 4/10 Nothing is good, but I like this You facial expression. She looks 'monkeyish', but nice.
    Music - 5.5/10 It's... kinda okay. But it's badly getting old, just like Vangelis soundtrack to Blade Runner. Children of their respective eras, nothing timeless.
    Characters - 6.5/10 I wrote about them higher.
    Tsugumi route - 5.5/10 Boring, nothing happens, Tsugumi is a bitch.
    Sora route - 6/10 Same as above, but Sora is better girl, I like interactions with her. Although 

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    possible sex with Tsugumi in this route was completly WTF and why this even happened.

     You route - 8/10 Maybe a little too high, but much better protagonist (in first half), much better heroine, much better written, and much, much better story made this route fairly enjoyable.


    PS - I remembered one more thing. Kid in You route. At the beginning he was smart and knowledgable. Answering all questions, knowing laws of physics, etc. But in the second part they're turned him into an idiot. Come on. Not knowing what a login/password security system is, or how dimensions works. That's like elementary school knowledge. But that's a problem of whole VN. Treats reader too much like an idiot. Every little 'science' bit is thoroughly explained, even if it's obvious. Steins;Gate and I/O with their mini-encyklopedias were much better. Story flows, and if you didn't know something you could just look it up.

    And once again my 'quick update' is a two Word pages long magapost. See you all after Sara route. ;)

     

    Sara route:

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    EDIT: I read through Sara route. It was like...2 hours of reading + skip. This VN is really, really short. 20-25 hours tops.

    Anyway, her route. Different writter... and it feels. I liked the revelation they made in this route. But that backstory... This trope is beaten to death I hate it.
     

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    Bullied little girl and her hero who is taking every punch and nnot telling anybody about it. Sigh.

    also whole sudden 

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    Oniichan, oniichan, oniichan and oniichan. FFS. She just couldn't stop using these words. 

    And the song, by god, the song. It wasn't awful, but I still didn't like it. But fact that this song sung by Sara wasn completly not skippable and I was forced to lsiten to whole lines of her singing was terrible. What was even more terrible is a fact, that this song was sung FOUR TIMES in a span od 20 minutes of reading. Who the hell though that this will be a good idea?

    Also sound editing is terrible. Different loudness levels from the same one character in one conversation, one scene, a lot of background noises in whispered parts, etc. Hard to listen to with earphones.

    The worst of the worst things was a scene right after the ending. I liked bad ending better because of this. This is why I'm saying that characters in VNs almost never acts like normal human beings, they're always exagerated, always hanging onto one stupid thing i ntheir live, unable to move on.

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    Sara risked her life, and anybody elses, who obvoiusly would came back to search for her, by coming back for a small piece of mirror. 'Because it reminds me of how much you cared for me oniichan'. It was painfull to read. She deserved to die. And she did. I was glad.

    Somehow it was 'rescued' from pits of cancerous-vn-tropes by good ending, but pain I felt will never be erased.

    Okay. Off to late afternoon nap, coffe and time for True Route! I hope I will love it.

    EDIT  3: Nobody answered? Ooh well. Time for true route then.
     

     

    True route:

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    MAIN SPOILERS ALL OVER THE WAY.
    Positive things first.

    1) Takeshi was one hell of a handsome beast.
    2) I liked few revelations. Whole 'families' theme was nice. Also it made sense why Tsugumi was totall bitch in Kids routes.
    3) ... nothing else? Oh well.

    And then the rest.
    What a ride it was. 
    1) Localisation. FFS I hate localisations. You is telling a story, I hear 'Urashima Taro', whos legend I know quite good from mangas and other VNs, but I read "Rip van Winkel" who is a character from John Irvings book, and whom I do not know at all, I had to google that. Ugh.

    2) Pacing. Was... no better than first 4 routes. Still a lot of boring, repetetive unnecessary shit. A lot of emphasize was on Coco character, which was understandable. Point is, Coco as a main focus point is just not working. From cute energetic kid (14yo my ass) she became annoyed spoiled brat. No, no brat. Bitch. I mean... She was calling Takeshi 'papa'. Cancerously annoying. She was calling Tsugumi 'mama', which was iritating. But when she acted 'play with me or else' she was frustrating. I mean - middle of the night, Takeshi is asleep and then she comes, pullig on his eyelids (!!!) and 'come on papa lets play some reterded shit'. That was incredible. What's even more incredible was that everybody was spoiling her even more, to the point when one day she was waking up her 'papa' by INJECTING MUSTARD INTO HIS NOSTRILS. Literally. yeah. Really 'cute', right? Of course Takeshi didn't mind, because VN logic.
    She also had voice that was really annoying if listen to for a long time, but fortunatelly I'm too fast reader and her voice was cut off at the begining of her every sentence.

    3) Pacing part two - two protagonists. Good idea. But execution? That was horrible. Every single time when Kid or Takeshi was almost getting new piece of important knowledge, perspective was changing to other guy and some silly scene in his story. Like when Kid was getting knowledge who his father is, there was abrupt cut to Takeshi and Coco yelling 'papa'. I wanted to stay with Kid, to know his feelings, his reactions, but no. Lets watch Coco doing dumb shit. Cause it's fun, righ? Spoiler warning - no, it isn't.

    4) Facepalming. Three times. In no route before did I facepalming, but here I was doing it hard. Hardest, literally 30 second of facepalm was at the very ending. When the reason why this all was happening was revealing.

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    Because stupid little girl went to search for her little stupid toy.

    It was even worse than Sara coming back for a part of mirror in her route.

    5) Mumbo fuckin Jumbo. Oh god. Whole VN was establishing hard laws of actuall physics with addition of some sci fi theories. It was good. But then came true route and literally throw it all away. Amount of plot holes was unbelievably high. They even made a major mistake in their own theory of Blick Winkel. Maybe in japanesse it was properly, but in english version it was said, many times,

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    that he is from 4th dimension.

    Which is totally wrong, because it was said before that human beings

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    are living in 4th dimensional spacetime, and to see that as a whole you must be dimension higher. So BW must have been from fifth dimension.

    But who cares about logic and consistency, when we have...

    6) Magic, miracles and shit thrown in readers face.
      * Takeshi miracoulusly

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    bringed back to life


      * Takeshi with

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    rebuilded, autohealing organism

    after few hours instead of 5 years
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    robot

    fucking dog swiming few times to the surface and back to the bottom of the ocean
      * water pressure? What's that? You were explaining that 5 times in every single route? Well fuck this we need Kid and robot dog to came unharmed to the

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    bottom of the ocean

    , so shut your brain and enjoy our mumbo jumbo you smartass.
      * fucking Coco. What the hell?

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    Appearing in 'Kids' timeline, while being asleep in cryochamber? Knowing much more about events occuring than she could? Wha?

    7) Blick Winkel.

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    4th (5th) dimensional

    creepy stalker looking over little annoying girl her whole life. Lolicons. Japanesse trademark plot point. 

    8) Epilogue on the boat. That was dragging as hell. So boring. And additional minus for not including both Takeshis sprites at the same time on screen. There was no interactions between them at all. Which was really suirprising, if you consider who they were to themselves. Also, Tsugumi+Sora additional epilogue. What the hell it even was?

    9) Main minus. Lack of explanation for most intersting things in previous routes. First - who the hell was kicking a can in tag game? Never even mentioned again. Second - life reading always saying '1' at the end of routes. Who it was? Why 1? Sensores wasn't counting even Himmel, let alone that bottom research facility, where

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    researcher was dying and Coco was left behind.

    Also - why 7? Why 6? Why this lifereading was so fucked up? Why was it so important to literally show it at the end of every single one ending?
    Third and last - Coco. What was she? Why was she a

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    psychic?

    How does it work? 

    And there is my spreadsheet with grades for different parts.

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    As you can clearly see I graded You and Sara routes higher than Coco. Why? Well, although few reveals was nice, nothing was mindblowing for me. I predicted

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    'two Yous'

    I predicted

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    using the cryochamber.

    What I couldn't predict was out of nowhere

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    dimensional magic,

    which was a disappointment rather than mindblowing experience (I had the same problem with ultra stupid plot twist in Sharin no Kuni). So - a lot of dissapointing explanations, a lot of mumbo jumbo, a lot of unrevealed plot holes, a lot of typical VN stupidity. You route have nothing of that and Sara route have only a little. Also You and Sara routes were asking the right questions, and living them without answers, which was leaving me craving for more. Positive emotion. And last thing - both You and especially Sara routes have really great reveals about some parts of the story. They were cohesive, fairly "realistic", believable and simply good. True route was not as good.

    Also additional minus 0.3 points for a stucr\ture and its repetiteveness and abundance of skip function. From whole 25 hours of reading at least 4 was spent on skipping.

     

    So, yeah. I'm not an E17 hater (like I hate Sharin, Grisaia and Cartagra), but I didn't liked it. My hype for R11 and Zero escape series was lowered really really hard. I will say more - my faith in VN quality levels dropped very much. I don't believe in anything now. well, maybe in Umineko somehow. But I'm very sceptic about Subahibi, Baldr Sky, R11, DI, Muramasa, or basically anything. If E17 have 8.7 on vndb and the most popular grade is 10, then I have no more faith in this grade system. Shame, cause right now I have nothing to came to, when looking for quality VNs.

    Thank you for reading this, and you're very welcome to discuss.

    It's k, you're just at that age where you can't enjoy nice things in life as much anymore. It happens, sometimes I see people go into Steins;gate as their 50th VN, then they go 'wtf is this overhyped shit?! 2/10!!!!!'

    Welcome to the land of old grumpy grumps ^_^ 

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    You should definitely at least check out R11 though- I found it's narrative to be more entertaining than E17's

    PS Vita

    in Gaming Talk

    Posted

    Apparently, the PSVita hack scene is getting veeeery interesting. Jack Sparrowing things is very close in the horizon, but right now I'm interested in Firmware 3.60 + Henkaku which will allow you to overclock the gpu from 166mhz to 222mhz which will supposedly improve framerates in many, many games

    Which i need to try out right away, 'cuz galgun runs like shit atm ;-;

    Upcoming Video Games: News, Trailers and More

    in Gaming Talk

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    Good speculative news: PQube is releasing Gal*Gun Double Peace to Steam, a month after releasing the localized Vita/PS4 versions

    This implies that there's a chance they'll release their other PS4 and/or Vita localizations to Steam as well- Valkyrie Drive, Root Letter, Steins;Gate0...

    I'm still gonna grab everything on my Vita, cuz I'ma handheld pleb x)

    Fuwanovel Confessions

    in The Coliseum of Chatter

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    School- (1) the outgoing friendly nerd (in classes I'm comfortable in and know everybody) - always going around talking to and helping everybody with classwork all day errday. OR (2) the introverted stoic- 'specially in bigass lecture halls. You can forget trying to build relations with new people there, due to the 'come in, take notes, then leave' environment.

    Work- the earnest hardworker. Quiet, but gets the job done and tries to maintain a neutral-positive relation with everybody

    Home- the sloth who minds his own business. I actually rarely talk to my fam fam, we all just each do our own thing most of the day and then maybe gather for din din or some TV and then back to doing our own thang

    High school BFFs- the loud, obnoxious prick. You ever see that annoying ass group of teens/youngadults talking and laughing so loud and making a big scene out of everything? Mhmmm.

    Fuwa- the spammy, trolly, diary-esque "What-weeby-things-he-did-today" infodumping pleb

     

    These are my five personalities upon mucho reflectionos after hearing some people at work talking about how it's funny people have different personalities to suit their current environment 

    Fuwanovel Confessions

    in The Coliseum of Chatter

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    3 hours ago, Dergonu said:

    One week after learning the hiragana? Wtf? Vocabulary and writing basics, ok. Counting from 1-10, okay. (Once you have those down, you can count to 99 as well, fair enough.)

    But all the other crap crammed into one test, a simple week after learning hiragana? That is absurd. Not to mention verbs in the second week?! Dafuq?! What book are these people following? (Sweet lord don't say Genki, because if that is the case, they are literally doing it wrong.)

     

    I mean, I already know Japanese, and I find myself rather swamped right now, because of all the stuff I have to turn in. I don't have to learn it beforehand, I just have to write it down and hand it in. You must be in hell, lol.

     

    Well, best of luck Eclipsed, and may God have mercy on your soul. 

    頑張ってください！ :sachi:  

    I'm just complaining, we're technically going onto week 4 now and have been learning these things as we were learning our Hiraganas :wafuu: 

    Wtf are you saying?! Are those Kanji in the beginning :pyaa: I see something something small tsu = double consonant so it's '___tte kudasai!'

    Ganbatte kudasai?!

    Uhh, ええと, はい, 頑張ります!

    What Video Games Are You Playing Right Now?

    in Gaming Talk

    Posted

    Finished Prologue of Cold Steel II

    It was annoying-ish to have to go through that combat tutorial segment with solo Rean, Trails combat in general is really, really not optimized for solo or 1v1s... I remember going up against the Radiant Blademaster in the first game, a very hyped up battle, and yet all that happens is a wet noodle fight where you whack each other back and forth 50x until you win or run out of potions and die, it's hilarious. The staleness is equivalent to you using Caterpie and spamming Tackle on a maxDEF  Mega Steelix. 

    Anyways, pretty decent introduction. Finally got the mandatory Rean x Elise hot spring pep talk scene with a touch of Princess Alfie's usual envy-teasing, yum

    But man, why did they have to finally let Elise be in your party, only to damsel in distress and take her away ;-;

    Fuwanovel Confessions

    in The Coliseum of Chatter

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    On 9/13/2016 at 1:07 AM, Shikomizue said:

    Hm? I didn't know you played Smash. What are your mains if you have any?

    Ya I dun talk about my 3DS as much as my Vita cuz I'm a Playstation biased shill

    I tend to play lighties or heavies... Pikachu, Kirby, Metaknight, Bowser, Charizard, Ganondorf though it's not like I'm any good them :angel:

    I also like Zero Samus cuz yum

     

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    Speaking of which, dun play at 12:00am pst, there's no more casuals, only combo-y / projectile camping try hards, my win rate for last 10 matches is 10%, rofl

    Fuwanovel Confessions

    in The Coliseum of Chatter

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    Alriiiight, suck it, I'm pretty sure I got a 100% on my full 46 char Hiragana quiz, 

    Then all of a sudden next week''s quiz will be vocab and writing basic conversational phrases like introducing your name and country origin, stating nationality + language,  counting anywhere from 1 to 99, asking/answering what time it is, the difference between sore wa, kore wa, and are wa, all the different look / read / write / listen / speak /// mite / yonde / kaite / kite / itte FK MY LIFE OMFG I STILL HAVE AN UP-TO-3 SECOND PROCESSING DELAY PER HIRAGANA HOW THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO WRITE OUT ENTIRE PHRASES THIS IS IMPOSSI-BULL

    Fuwanovel Confessions

    in The Coliseum of Chatter

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    Regarding last music played subconsciously is the one sticking in your mind later throughout day,

    It's why i don't listen to music on test days.

    Completely ruins my ability to think when all i get is whatever last moosic i was spamming

    ._.

     

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    Finally started playing Smash 3DS Online with strangers, and holy hell the innovation feels so gray-to-color-TV that you can play with people around the world (I missed out on ALOT of console gaming growing up, stopped at GBA/PS/GC so you get the idea of how limited it was to play with other people during those days)

    Though, even though I stomp my irl buddies, I'm still a filthy casual and get utterly stomped by these tryhards who mastered their combos and projectile camp. Still fun though, my proudest accomplishment so far was being able to Cloud Finishing Touch a Bayonetta who was in the middle of that annoying BS fking aerial chain, SUCK IT!!!

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