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Aight I'ma be invading this thread over the next few days or w.e spamming my WTFUXXORS!@# on Danganronpa v3 because I just finished Ch 1 and as any DR fan should know, Ch 1 will ALWAYS gank the best characters so while I'm dying a bit inside, that was a pretty awesome 1st ClassTrial The prologue is nothing new, though it does feel pretty long, easily 1-2 hours of having to explore the entire campus and meet-n-greeting all 15 other SHSL/Ultimate students before the Killing Game is even announced. And then of course you gotta slog around for another hour or two as the cast naturally claims that they'll never participate in such a game, yada yada, this and that happens, First Blood finally happens, and we finally get to have our first trial We're led by a female protagonist this time, le gasp, the bright and sophisticated Ultimate Pianist Kaede Akamatsu. The writers are quick to pair her up with the soft-spoken and unconfident Ultimate Detective Suichi Saihara, and the duo move quickly with their schemes to try to unearth who the mastermind is so they can hopefully end the Killing Game before it can even begin, but what fun would that be if everything ended so quick and painlessly ? jEZUZ yOU Guys mOve WAy quiCkeR THAN makotoXsayaka/Kyoko and hinata/chiaki maNG ~~ Obviously won't speak much of the actual trial because spoilers, but it's done extremely well and is easily one of the best trials in the DR franchise mainly due to the plot twist at the end. You start off knocking out easy peasy accusations because Tutorials before having to take down some pretty evidently-plausible attractive-distractor suspects and will even have to resort to LYING when the group all begins to home in on someone you just know isn't the culprit but they are too stubborn to desist. Then BAM, when you finally shed some light on who the culprit really is, it's just like Ho. Lee. Shit. No way. No Way. NO WAY. DSKFJSDKKSDKFJEJAKFJWEIRUT48323WHYYYYYYYYYY Lying is just another mechanic to make Nonstop Debates more colorful, just like how they added the Agree mechanic in DR2. But it's nice to have another layer of stuff to keep you thinking, looking forward to see how future trials will carry out. Hangman's Gambit v3.0 was thankfully revamped to be less tedious, since you can just point-and-click the required letters rather than trying to line-them-up-and-click. Logic Dive didn't make an appearance, good riddance i hope, that surfboard minigame was so meh. Panic Talk is still its usual rhythm game Debate Scrum sounded cool in theory, since it's half the students with one opinion vs the other half, but it's really just a simple matching game of lining up your side's arguments against the other side. Panic Debates are the one that's probably my favorite, it's just a standard Nonstop Debate... multiplied by 3. Makes things feel pretty chaotic and intense having three people going off at the same time: ~~ My best girls atm are Maki and Kirumi. Maki because she just looks great aesthetically (i luv me some black and red) and Kirumi because Ultimate Maid, was wondering when one would appear (closest we got was Yukizome's Ultimate Housekeeper). The dudes are whatevers, that one guy what's his face Supreme Leader is a wannabe Nagito, fk his annoying ass. I swear if these two die and leave crap like that Ultimate Supreme Leader live, I'ma- ~~ Eyyyyy, ULTRA DESPAIR GIRLS 2 COMING SOON XD TAKE MAH MONEHY

Aight boys n' gals, I finally got my limited edition copy of Danganronpa v3: Killing Harmony, excited as hell for this stuff, time to stall everything else I'm playing/watching and let the killing games begin e: FK me, first I gotta download the JP voices off of PSN cuz it didn't come with it built in, and it's a 1.5GB download gg, gawd i hate english dubs

Just going off of raw number of VNs the 3DS and PSV have over on VNDB via its filter system: 3DS: 61 total, 27 that are in english Vita: 406 total, 93 that are in english And like others have said, Vita has access to the likes of Steins;gate, Danganronpa, otome games, Root Letter, Corpse Party, Grisaia trilogy (via patch with some Henkaku hax)... When it comes to games since you might as well take that into consideration, 3DS of course has all the Nintendy franchise favorites like mario/zelda/smash/pokemon/firemblem/metroid/kirby whatevers Vita have a nice library of JRPGs, there's the serious ones like Persona, Trails in the sky & Trails of cold steel, Ys, Ar Nosurge or the lighthearted glorified moe ones like Hyperdimension, Atelier series <-one of my faves I have both and if i were to pick one i'd go Vita. Not really a Ninty diehard

F**K ME Look at the combo- I literally derped at the very end, 10 notes left, both times just cuz of FC Anxiety If i dont natural-LP-regen FC these by the time the quest expiration in like 4 days, I might as well spend gems trying to do so since it's 3 gems a pop per quest ~~ Misc. Whale ranting/ Update 2 Aqours: I just realized that most of the URs coming out that I need to complete my teams, Circus Kanan, Circus Ruby, Beach Chika, and even the older Valentines Mari, are all Perfect Locks minus the Healer Circus Ruby... the downer thing being the PLs will get destroyed by even my Score SSRs according to my TeamBuilder I may just go for Circus Ruby since Empress Heal with her +6 heal = 3kish Score, but in general with the Circus set being pretty meh idolized, I might just play the long game and stall completing the teams for year or two and wait for a new UR (Scoreplz) Smile Kanan and Cool Ruby and Pure Mari to come out (great, I'm at the point where i care about stats and skill levels and Scores > Heal > PL and 8 slot SIS ._.

Ya supposedly we shouldn't get this MMR system ever again. Chronologically yada yada yada this Nozomi solo SM was supposed to occur before some of the duo Aqours SMs over on JP which had the newer MMR system, which is why it felt like we 'reverted' ~~ Step up box just gave me stickers was hoping for some Magician Maki, but alas. Update on my Aqours teams: The last couple of URs i need to whale for are (Smile) Circus Kanan and (Cool) Circus Ruby. Kinda nervous, I've been pretty lucky and was able to get the Angel and Time Traveler URs each time within 250 gems but eventually I'll end up like one of those guys who go 1000 gems and #RateUpIsALie I also need (Smile) Initial Chika and (Pure) Valentine's Mari; the Chika is very unlikely to get atm so I may instead try to gun for the Beach Chika coming out. Valentine's Mari is also really unlikely,,, KLAB plz put Aqours URs in sticker shop!!! I have 6 UR stickers ready to use ><

In my quest to find multi-season anime to watch because a single cour never leaves me satisfied, I'm picking up Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai / The World God Only Knows ... wait a minute, is the MC the guy that sanahtlig's been using as his avatar? HORY SHI- it's been like 3 years and now life makes sense! https://imgur.com/a/4geCe edit: wait why don't images auto-embed anymore, dammit there we go just copy-pasta the actual image instead of copy pastaing the link, cuz

Aight GL to us all in these final dark hours of Nozomi's Score Match with the rigged MMR. I've reached my 130k cutoff so I'm just gonna stall until the last hour-ish to play In other news Love Live All Stars sounds cool, i just hope it doesn't have it's own gacha thing going on or at the very least I hope they can link it closely with our current SIF accounts cuz I invested way too much into SIF already $-$

This rigged MMR makes it possible to nab 1st, if only for a little bit xD http://imgur.com/Kip2E7g

Welp, I got absolutely D-E-S-T-R-O-Y-E-D by the final boss of Atelier Totori, and I'm literally out of time to grind up or anything sooo I'll just accept the bad end and move onto Meruru now xD That's the bad thing about the time management system and being a casual, while I could try hard and learn the game by heart and optimize all my activities and whatnot but that's too much work for what's supposed to be a glorified lighthearted cute adventure alchemy game. not to mention i still got like 6 more of these games to go through #excuses #n00b Doesn't help that the items you could synthesize to minimize travel time and gathering time are accessible like 75% into the game and are really meant to gear you up for newgame+, which im deeeefinitely not interested in doing Anyways Meruru - she's the outgoing energetic hates-royal-duties princess type; i think i like her the 2nd best out of the Arland trio, with the first being Totori the innocent nice girl and 3rd being Rorona the ditzy airhead

I demand satisfaction, wtf is this injustice 2nd place to someone who had higher MMR than me (HIIII KINTOLESKY!@#), still lose points This case-by-case MMR averaging system is utter shat, that 4th place guy is gonna have false hopes for T1 but he's ~270k Score away from me despite a measely now 200 MMR difference, gonna get eaten for breakfast in his next matches The bottlenecking is HUGE, i can easily see there being several thousand people at borderline T1, in fact just looking at some rankings and currently Ceris's 18400 and another friend of mine 18831, just 300 MMR difference, is from Rank 3306 to 1500. The last hour is gonna be an epic bloodbath

I'm saving my refund for the next half of the Time Travel set; with the completion of u's now I'm gunning for all UR Aqours teams, but it's a shame since I don't really fancy the Time Traveler / Circus sets as much but they have the URs I need ._. I'm actually pretty close, just need Smile Chika/You/Kanon, Pure Mari, and Cool Ruby. ~~ Upcoming Nozomi Score Match; if it's as slow as or even slower than the Kanan/Hanamaru we just had, I'll probably go for minimalistic T1

Making good progress in XBlaze: Code Embryo. It's an aight VN, the overall atmosphere of it kinda reminds me of watching Saturday morning cartoons, you got a bunch of high skoo peeps living in a semi-futuristic science-fantasy city setting where there's magic and the plot is centered around a supernatural anomaly where people can get infected (then dubbed 'Unions') which makes them gain a destructive power but they turn batshit insane Of course, Touya Kagari is just an everyday high skoo nice guy living a normal life with childhood friend Hinata Himezuru before his life is changed forever as he meets and is attacked by the first Union of the story which then sucks him into being involved with the Mitsurugi Agency which specializes in dealing with these Unions. They assign Es, a kawaii loli with the typical robotic personality to be his protector, much to Touya's dismay. Blah blah blah, we add more girls to the harem; Mei Amanohokosaka, another Mitsurugi Agency agent and classic tsundere hailing from the prideful Amanohokosaka clan; and Kuon Glamred Stroheim, a hot-headed mage apprentice from the Magic Guild from the the Magister's City of Ishana. What a mouthful. I'm being literal when I say the girls are added to harem; they end up moving in with Touya and Hinata and transferring to their school, l0l. The crew go about their days pretty leisurely as the exposition reveals more about their world and the Unions-and-the-science-behind-them; by the way, xBlaze is set in the same setting as that 2D fighting game Blazblue which I never played so I'm probably missing a lot of the lore; meanwhile a group of rogue mages from the fabled 'Ten Sages' from Ishana visit the city with clearly up to no good intentions, and a serial killer dubbed the "Ripper" is rampaging around killing Unions. Eventually all the players on the board will end up butting heads with each other all over our poor little Touya because naturally as the protag he has an inner, secret power hidden within him related to Unions that they all desire Naruto-nine-tails-jinchuuriki style. So yeah, Saturday morning cartoon atmosphere xD ~~ I like the art direction. One thing I dislike from most VNs is that they can be EXTREMELY static with how they use and place their sprites; they're usually lined up at the same spot at the same distance from the protag's field of view, give or take the once in a while situation where they are zoomed in because they wanted to whisper something to the protag or are out in the distance waving goodbye. xBlaze actually is seen in the 3rd person rather than through Touya's eyes, so maybe that's why they actually took the time to 'choreograph' the sprites more but it's really appreciated and makes the interactions feel much more lively; they have front/side/back views of character sprites, their eyes will actually transition to look at another character, yada yada yada, yes this seems like a silly thing to praise but give me a VN where the character sprites aren't always front and centered and equidistant - aka static for 99% of the VN - and I'll concede ;p (Middle) Kuon's eyes were looking to the right before she looks left once Elise pines. Usually you don't see a group of characters looking at each other like this unless it's a CG You get to see (left) Es's cute(?) antennae thing from behind, and oh look, distant sprites! ~~ A con(?) of the 3rd person: Touya, the protag, is also 3rd-personified. Just another character in this story; you don't see through his eyes, you don't hear his inner thoughts and monologues. He's actually voiced, but they gave him a wimpy ass voice so for the first time in my VN history I actually muted just his character, lel.

Damn I should've splurged more for Kotori's birthday, $-$$$$$$$$$

Never mind the slide masters, but I'm getting close to FCing Cutie Panther. It's mostly the "Hi, hi! (nandomo iwaseru tsumori nano?) oya oyaHi, hi! (teikou suru nara shite goran!) igai to" center-to-side note spams that gank me because my thumbs suck and can't keep up ._. ~~ Over on JP: holy shiz that pirate Rin UR is unbelievably gorgeous, and a Score Up, I'm totally gonna gun for her when she comes to EN :

Oh ya thanks for the reminder i watched neko and tsuki already, but not hana and koyomi

Perfect Edition delayed as in recently? or from 5 years ago delayed? back when I was a Key fanatic i was hyped for it too but tick tock tick tock the years just went by... GL grinding Little Busters!, i unfortunately found it boring so i just did Rin 1 -> Haruka -> skip all the others -> Rin 2 -> Refrain

Lol yeah, teams C&D ftw, rip team Q, I didn't care jack about them. As for the BS true ending, I'll never get over how silly it was to hear 'my motives are complex' ~~ There are so many mainstream backlogged VNs i should be reading right now, Dies Irae, the rest of the Grisaia trilogy, Fata Morgana, blahblahblah but nope I'm gonna pick the randomest thing ever and go with XBlaze Code Embryo and Lost Memories on my Vita 'cos they've been collecting dust for god knows how long

Finished the Kizumonogatari movies Y'know, that's what the anime was missing, epic battles. All Koyomi does for the rest of the series after this is bleed and tank everything, no more kicking ass Gore was a little much, I mean jesus that scene vs Episode is scarring It was nice to see Koyomi's pre-vamp mentality, if I watched this stuff first I would've appreciated the character-growth-thematics from the Sodachi arc much better instead of qqing about how much Ougi sucks. Was also great to see more Hanekawa, dammit I'm usually fine with canon pairings but for once I actually would've preferred AraragixHanekawa

Yikes, Owarimonogatari is so painful to watch after the funzies of Monogatari 2nd Season. They brought back in full force the drawn out, meandering, "witty" dialogues that stall out the plot to the point of snorefest but the real offender is that it's led by the EXTREMELY lackluster why-the-hell-do-you-even-exist Ougi Oshino. I get she's supposed to be this enigmatic, intriguing character that keeps you interested and guessing of what her true motives are, but nope just she didn't click for me at all and as soon as you see her pitiful attempt to belittle Hanekawa and make Araragi choose Ougi to be his mystery-buster-partner-in-crime over Hanekawa it's like OH HELLL NAWW CAN THIS GAL JUST GTFO ALREADY!?@# Doesn't help that Araragi himself is embarrassingly plot-no-justsu'd to be extremely lax around Ougi and that he currently has a really nasty case of unreliable narrator syndrome going on conveniently forgetting ALL of the 'plot revelations' of this arc involving Sodachi. It's a mess. ~Up to Ep. 6 ~~ Owarimonogatari S2: Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh They really made good use of Ougi's character overall. Still salty that she annoyed the hell outta me in S1 but everything makes sense and is justified in S2, satisfies the lore and was very powerful thematically and character wise and yada yada yada FK Ougi >.> And with that, an anime adaptation that some people spent 7+ years following was binged over one weekend by a pleb like myself, so I kinda had less impact on finally getting to hear the names Koyomi and Hitagi being said >.> but yeah this series had it's ups and downs but at the end of the day you can say that this was one good story . misc. scorings because y not: Now it's time to watch the movies... I LOVE epic prequel stuff that is only briefly mentioned in main stories so I'm looking forward to it,,,, the origins of Shinobu and Araragi's relationship. Also why Araragi felt so indebted to Hanekawa

Yeah, you are 100% right lol. Nisemonogatari was pretty fun, I think I warmed up to the characters and banter by this point. Having more focus on the adorable Fire Sisters and Shinobu helped alot too. Though, I can't believe Karen actually just cut off her- like WTF man. I'm onto Monogatari 2nd Season now, just passed Tsubasa Tiger arc. It's good stuff.

It's September, meaning White Day Umi's in the sticker shop, meaning I finally completed the dream, my life's complete, pce out y'all

Finished S1 Bakemonogatari. I still have the same opinion of it from 4 years ago, too lengthy monologuey dialoguey trying-to-be-witty bantery mehness. The episodic nature of it doesn't help either, 2 episodes of 70% banter dialogue, 20% setting the conflict dialogue, and then 10% resolving that conflict; rinse repeat with new girl TL;DR it's super hard to binge this stuff, but I'm still gonna keep going. Despite my complainings it's still a mildly entertaining watch. 7/10 so far

I have two external HDs because the first is a backup of my all my stuff and pr0ns, and the second is a backup of that backup.

Yeah the forums died for like 3-4 weeks, main site was still up and running though. The admin Tay made a post over there at the time: https://fuwanovel.net/2017/08/forums-fuwapocalypse/

I don't think i've ever gotten that combination of songs :< (but even if I did, I can't reliably FC Hand in Hand ) I'm playing a bit more now because i FINALLY figured out how to do double hold notes on my phone - you can google 'double hold notes missing / not registering' to see lotsa android devices having suxxors touch screens and breaking combos to no end but apparently for my phone after much testing I learned that as long as I use my fingertips / nails instead of my entire fat thumb then my holds will stay and i can finally do the thing where you can doodle your fingers around for funzies during holds Still gonna just settle for minimalistic T1 though :p. this event is noticeably alot slower than Maki/Umi was, supposedly due to burnout / saving gems for upcoming kotori and time traveler whatnot so yee me #AZALEAfan ~~ I NEED MOAR VEILS AND CHARM/HEALS, for some reason i farmed up 6 smile veils but have absolute 0 for pure/cool, and i have like 9 smile/pure/cool Healer URs total that are deadweights right now w/o them princess/angel/empress heals ;-;