Parallel Pain

Do I have to import or is it available on PSN?

It's on my list of things-I-want-to-read-but-probably-will-never-get-around-to-because-of-my-incredibly-bad-work-life-balance. Still haven't touched my ps2 copy of To Heart 2

LOL yes I do. Though it's also our chance to tell Leaf/Aquaplus we want their games.

TtT2 actually had a Japanese demo which was like chapter 1. From the demos for VN I've played I expect basically the first bits of the common route. I expect the main heroines to be introduced and the settings laid out, and I want to see if it's well written and if those things interest me. And a lot of them tag on an h-scene. For that part it's just making sure it's not grotesque and then it's meh-sure-why-not. Though I have read interesting h-scenes, but never in a demo.

Wow someone actually follows age guidlines?

Well it was originally about my youtube so...hahahaha... Glad someone else likes it as much as I do. It stole favourite RPG spot for me. Get more tissue. It's not over yet. Aside from drops from bonus that is killing, I believe it just counts towards rank and getting trophies. Better rank give you different (but not necessarily better) items for completion.

Do I have to pick?

Do you buy and support VN? Or do you just download? If you do buy where do you buy them? I buy from dlsite when I can find them there, and if not I use shoppingmalljapan.

Ooooh another who's playing TtT2 How far are you?

Oh...

Guanatee of?

Kaichou ha Meido Sama! The Japanese version from Kindle.

It's definately leaps and bounds better than the PC version of TtT, which is what I assume you played.

Welcome!

Thanks everyone. I'm going to keep uploading. https://www.youtube.com/user/ParallelPain If you like the game please buy it!

I agree. For this part I like the anime take better. Tomoya stepped out so Tomoyo can concentrate on saving her beloved trees, which was the whole point on him stepping out. But then in the game he went back to bumming around (depressed and lonely bumming around but still), while in the anime he did all he could to become a better person. I bet the animators paid attention to the feedback the origional game got. The funny thing is Maeda Jun himself agreed. And in the post-Clannad interview he said he intended to make Tomoya work hard in the gaiden game. And we got Tomoyo After. Well he does work hard in it though.

I'm tempted to believe the same thing. But then he wrote a lot of the opposite from Air to Little Busters! so I don't know what his belief is. I don't know if he's pushing his belief into the story, or pushing it aside just so he can write a tragedy. And yeah if I was confronted with the same situation, I would probably have adopted Tomo. Keep in mind that I believe the tragedy story and end itself is very well written. Accepting and moving on is a big theme in Tomoyo After (and Clannad), and I echo Ishiki Hikaru (Tomoyo's CV) that the story will seem deeper and more understandable the older you are after you've already lost something. My objection is that he wrote a separate route (and given the setup, the one most likely to be picked on first playthrough) with them backing off and adopting Tomo. And he wrote it like a bad end. It shouldn't be. Accepting that blood family didn't work out and moving on with an adopted family is still accepting and moving on. He wouldn't be breaking his theme. In fact it would've made a good story as another type of struggling and successfully moving on with help from a family, his theme after all. He could've wrote two, equally valid routes. Or if he really wanted to write a tragedy, then he should've made it so that there's no choice option. Either way this would have made Tomoyo After solidly in my top. But he didn't. He just had to write a supposedly-bad end that went against everything he wrote up to the point.

Well, there's always the new Tears to Tiara II - Heir of the Overlord Yes I'm blatantly promoting it.