Deep Blue

if you are not happy with the games that mangagamer is going to translate(or even then ones that were picked in the survey) then learn japanese, is getting a bit old already I know but anything will take at least 2 years if not more to translate and in that time you can already learn japanese and read it yourself!

It's really hard to talk about the novel without using the spoiler tag and I made sure of not spoiling anything but yeah I do agree that one particular part was a bit too much yet there is an explanation for it. It goes without saying that the novel is not perfect but I praise it a lot because it does something different without trying to mimic or copy cliche stories that we have already seen many many times specially on EVN, and it does so with some amazing characters and some really good dialogues between them, some of the conversations between Ausse and Ciar are too damn funny, the part with the reference to katawa shoujo I was laughing out loud and I don't usually do so, add philosophy and a real drama to it and you have an excellent visual novel that you don't find every day.

I agree with you, this novel was really...bland, first giga vn that I read and I'm sad to see something like this (im leaving all the good stuff for later)

So this time I will review this doujin freeware kinetic visual novel created by Keinart Lobre which I enjoyed it a lot and I thought it needed a review for how good it was. I'm kinda lazy so this will be a pure text review and nothing more (sorry maybe I'll add some pics in the future xD ) The story follows the life of Ciarán Endyein and his friends, Ciarán is in last year of high school, a few month from graduation. He spend his time doing jokes and pranks with his friends Ziva Shani a wanna be psychologist transfer student girl that constantly tries to psychoanalyze Ciarán and his long time friend Ausse Ealdwine a pervert guy who only thinks about women all the time. Ciarán is what you can call a pragmatic person, one that is constantly saying witty comments or full of irony, teasing his friends, doing crazy stuffs, starting speeches for no reason which always end in a comical way, he calls himself the Joker or clown of the class along with his friends. He reminded me a lot to Morita Kenichi from Sharin no Kuni and that's always a good thing because there is a serious lack of those types of characters in visual novels. He is also a writer, he usually writes things in his little notebook that is always carrying around with him and because of this Ziva is always trying to analyze the reason behind that. Little spoilers ahead: The story really begins when he tells his friends some story about certain figure that he bought and got lost in the middle of the delivery and someone sent him an email about it, a really weird blackmail email which is not clear if it is actually a threat , some kind of joke or actually someone crazy writing nonsense. End of spoilers In the process of finding the real culprit behind that email Ciarán meets two new characters, a little girl (the loli) called Claire Argyris which is an airhead, a bit shy, constantly lost in her own world, saying things out of place but that from time to time will leave Ciarán speechless because she is not what it seems and last Luce Aurea, she is a kinda a tomboy but not to an extreme, I don't want to reveal too much about this character or Claire either. (There is another character but I can't say anything about him xD ) So far you might think that this is your typical visual novel, some slice of life with comedy but there is more than meets the eye, aside from the excellent comedy (yes it is actually really funny, most of the time with good humor) and the good pace that this novel has because it doesn't get boring through out the 10 or more hours that the novel last, there are times when the characters have this conversations about life, happiness, things they want to be, expectation from others, a bit of philosophy in the middle that reminded me a lot to subarashiki hibi WARNING: RANTS ABOUT SUBAHIBI AHEAD (if you don't like to read bad things about it don't read it.) XD this time it made sense and it wasn't forced than your throat in the most boring and weird way with scenes that went on and on and on just to get to the freaking point >_> END OF THE RANTS. The characters are well developed and all of them are very interesting, all of them with their own motivation and purposes, they are not there just to fill the gap, for example Claire is not the "loli" type just because the writer wanted a loli type between the girls. The music was good I think there are like 33 tracks and some of them are really good and stuck with me even after I finished reading the novel. About the art it was good too, maybe it lacked on the GCs a little bit but it is understandable, still the few once that you will encounter are really well done and they are in my opinion perfectly placed for moments that really deserve it. The sprites of the characters are good too, the artist is Bonkiru he is really talented ( image not from the vn xD ), so you can expect to see some good art. After reading the novel I had to re-read it again, yes it is that type of novel where you need to read it a second time because you discover new things that you missed the first time(specially to make sense some parts of the plot) and since I read it in Spanish the first time I did it in English the second, which brings me to the language topic, the translation was done pretty smooth, there were some jokes here and there that they didn't translate 100% but they were still funny. Overall I think this is one of those few exception to the OELVNs, it doesn't try to copy or mimic the Japanese visual novels, it's not about a Japanese boy (thanks good!) and even if the main character is in high school you wont find the cliche plot from the jap vns, it's also not a harem, yes even if it looks like one it is not. Right now is on BETA but the developer is asking for some help (he needs proofreaders) so maybe you want to wait until it's release or read it right now, either way I'm sure it wont disappoint you. Link to the thread of the novel

keep up the good work! Also I want to see gilgamesh not acting like a dick for once (like in fate stay night xD)

the message error box is not telling you a whole lot just that the program failed to star/run the other error (those weird characters) you need to change your pc into japanese format not just the system locale

the only thing i miss from this novel

I think you posted this in the wrong section

I wanted to read ReNN so bad but sadly is just too hard, the gameplay part is out of my reach

muv luv probably, you will hate the main character even want him to be dead swan song is them same with a particular character

I bet he is... I bet he is

Sono Hanabira

And why is having a romantic interest (again it is between kaname and sousuke this time) a bad thing? clannad is all about that, specially the first part which you have like 8 girls trying to hit the same guy xD then after story is about nagisa but still is a love story. It seems to me you don't love kaname as much as I do Now I'm hyped for the new season

what I tried to say was : Full metal panic! = it's harem, I agree with you but Full metal panic the second raid is not harem at all (and is the continuation of full metal panic), in fact there is no comedy or at least I don't remember any, also it's always about kaname and sousuke, it is sad buuuut the ending is really happy and it fits with "satisfying endings that make you happy to have watched a series right through to the end" fumoffu I don't think it can be included I didn't know there was another season scheduled

come on they clearly state that they are going to end up together... that is ultra cheesy and happy D: second raid is not harem at all in fact is really depressing the first part well yep it is kinda btw kaname <3

Berserk ;D (じょうだんだよ!) now seriously full metal panic and second raid that ends in a super ultra happy ending. I don't know if you want to include fumoffu which is an stand alone with mostly comedy .

Reading 鴎城異聞 第一聞, 彼が死ななければいけなかった理由I don't know what the hell the first part means xD but the second is something like the reason of why he had to be dead or die (damn that double negative using a conditional to say you must, why everything is so complicated in japanese >_> ) so far is good and the protagonist is voiced so that's another point to this novel, it has an air of a doujin but not quite.. also reading umineko but I can say anything because I don't have an spoiler button...it gets really good and yet sometimes really boring, the story cant keep up with a decent pace is a bit annoying, that's my only complain so far.

Chaos;head did an amazing job with the horror scenes (when you see the gore stuff on the internet for example) and didn't go for the wall of text thing, if you write something interesting and good it doesnt matter in which way you present it it will be good no matter what, NVL is just another way to present your narration but it's not a condition to have a great horror scene.

lol that's true, I actually hate those scenes on f/sn specially when they add those sounds of someone chopping vegetables and cleaning some dishes but all at the same time, it's really weird an annoying add emiya Shirou 8 years old behavior (and his voice acting) towards woman and you have one of the most annoying scenes on any vn.

this looks good I usually try to avoid untranslated vns like this one but I will give it a try

I dont think cross channel counts, it's a linear vn so your choices won't change the story outcome the most they can do is get you on some... well I can't use spoilers but i'm sure you already know what i'm saying

hey I said nobody but I wasnt including myself in fact I remember someone asking on a thread a while ago about who she was and that's why it came to my mind to use it on this thread and as a fan of tanaka romero that I am I knew her and the vn which is surprisingly not really that good (maybe he didn't write it and only helped on the psp ver added content? ) you mean the vn? yes it kinda is, nothing out of the extraordinary you can call it a charage if you want