What are you playing?

[cloudy12]

Being the biggest derp that I am, I didn't realize I had to pass Fal's song to stay in her route nor did I know where autoplay was until now. So now I basically have to start over from the very beginning of the game to get to where I left off because I only made one save file. I think I was pretty close to Fal's too route >__>.

 

Besides the big derp, I'm really liking SR; its calm and relaxing, can't wait until I get into their routes :3

[Eclipsed]

Being the biggest derp that I am, I didn't realize I had to pass Fal's song to stay in her route nor did I know where autoplay was until now. So now I basically have to start over from the very beginning of the game to get to where I left off because I only made one save file. I think I was pretty close to Fal's too route >__>.

 

Besides the big derp, I'm really liking SR; its calm and relaxing, can't wait until I get into their routes :3

[Decay]

Finally went back to finish Hoshimemo, and it's the first time I played it on my 1920x1080 monitor...it looks...kinda bad...

 

The feel when your monitor is too big for the picture to look decent...

[sirjabberwock]

He still has my ending and the true end to get it.

 

 

Yeh, the genre shift was unexpectable, but seriously, it just stenghten the story.

All the comedy slice of life was put to make you care about the characters...only in order to crush everything.

[cloudy12]

Oh that's interesting. What happens when you fail? Was this during the

graduation recital?

[BladeRunner]

Currently reading through the common route of Clannad.

[Slowpoke]

Finally went back to finish Hoshimemo, and it's the first time I played it on my 1920x1080 monitor...it looks...kinda bad...

 

The feel when your monitor is too big for the picture to look decent...

[Decay]

Wow, that blows.  Is it bad enough that you just need a whole different mobo?

[Eclipsed]

Finished Lise's route for Symphonic Rain.

 

Misc. Thoughts/Ramblings(spoilers)

• Lise's so CUTE!!! It was a pleasure watching her develop from her bullied super-shy self to a normal girl trying to live out her dream of being a singer.
• Back to my little thing about character interactions, it was nice to see Fal 'help out' Lise along with her last ditch attempt to manipulate Chris (even though it was revealed during Fal's route that she hates Lise(WHY?!!!).
• Torta also got to have a chat with Lise, but it's not revealed what they talked about. Rawr! I want to know!!!
• Fal's last piece of advice "Don't trust anybody" to Chris was kinda weird, because Lise really wasn't hiding any secrets  . Even Asino emphasized Chris to be wary of all the negative rumors surrounding Lise, so I was expecting Lise to have some shocking personality change like Fal did, but nope, nothing xD. The main source of conflict for this route was just Lise's father, Grave.​
• Chris was the one to break up with Arietta this time. Wow. The decision came a lot smoother this time aka Chris didn't have to go through a moral dilemma and talk to Lise about Arietta like he had to do with Fal during Fal's route..
• Grave is such a F@#$%&^!!!!!!!!!!!!! If I had a kawaii daughter like Lise I'd treat her like a princess. 
• There weren't really any surprises this route. I was able to predict that Grave was Lise's 'father' (Fal pretty much spoiled it during her route), and I was also able to predict that Lise's injuries were from Grave. Don't really care much for the little twist about Grave being Lise's "biological father who adopted her from the orphanage and lied about being her real father to avoid emotional attachment" crap. Speaking of orphanage, Fal was also an orphan... Connections??
• Again, Grave is a F@%$^#$. I knew he was BSing and would backstab the duo after their successful performance at the graduation recital. I cried on the spot seeing this CG, and actually went to double check the walkthrough to see if I accidentally got the bad ending because man this scene felt bad-ending worthy: LISEEEEEEEEEEE         

   

[Bolverk]

Completed Ikusa Megami ZERO. (IMZ)

Really good game imo. My only real complaint was the H-stuff. Otherwise I had a fun all the way through the vn. I ended up liking the rpg elements surprisingly much, I only needed to grind once very early in the game. Otherwise I could play on auto against easy units. Bosses were usually tense and fun. You had to think somewhat and apply tactics to kill them.

 

The story was quite different from I am usually used to. I don't think I've actually ever played a game quite like this. It's more like one of these epic quest kind of games. But with actually interesting 

dialog and universe. The characters are at times too arch typical for me. But it didn't really bother me because how the story was setup and progressed.

I ended up liking many of the characters, and even if I don't like all of them I got into them. Even characters with little dialog I could easily place in the world and personality traits. I felt I understood them fast.

 

Also something that surprised me was the ratio of rpg gameplay and text dialog. Usually as you play you get starved for either. I never really experienced I had too much talking, or too much gameplay. There was a a few times I wish the dungeons were shorter, but I didn't really mind. I feel the vn was really nicely structured, or it just fit me very well.

 

Honestly I am very glad I ended up playing this vn. It's one of those vn most people should have a try with. Other than the h-stuff, It's great. I gave it a score of 9/10 on vndb. I might give it higher, but I don't really want to fiddle too much with 0.x score here. Bottom line I enjoyed it a lot.

 

 

As for what to play next.. I started to read Irotoridori again. I might read tokyo babel, but I have had enough action for a while. I  can't really get into irotoridori as I did IMZ.

Setting up playing Shin megami tensei and some other jrpgs. But problematic getting it work perfectly on the emulator, might just buy a hardcopy. I really lazy when things get annoying like this...

[Kosakyun]

Started Forest.

 

...I think I now know why it's called Wonderland.

[FinalChaos]

That's why I avoided actually saying anything. People will read spoilers even if they know they're coming up out of morbid curiosity.

Just to remain safe, I didn't read that spoiler. Steins;Gate is one of those vns which I definitely don't wanna get spoiled. I had done that in Attack on Titan, knew the whole story at the start itself. I regretted it soo much.

 

It is a bit boring to play-through the whole game again to get all the true-flags. I plan to get all the achievements on the way too, so it will take some time.

 

Completed Ikusa Megami ZERO. (IMZ)

Really good game imo. My only real complaint was the H-stuff. Otherwise I had a fun all the way through the vn. I ended up liking the rpg elements surprisingly much, I only needed to grind once very early in the game. Otherwise I could play on auto against easy units. Bosses were usually tense and fun. You had to think somewhat and apply tactics to kill them.

 

The story was quite different from I am usually used to. I don't think I've actually ever played a game quite like this. It's more like one of these epic quest kind of games. But with actually interesting 

dialog and universe. The characters are at times too arch typical for me. But it didn't really bother me because how the story was setup and progressed.

I ended up liking many of the characters, and even if I don't like all of them I got into them. Even characters with little dialog I could easily place in the world and personality traits. I felt I understood them fast.

 

Also something that surprised me was the ratio of rpg gameplay and text dialog. Usually as you play you get starved for either. I never really experienced I had too much talking, or too much gameplay. There was a a few times I wish the dungeons were shorter, but I didn't really mind. I feel the vn was really nicely structured, or it just fit me very well.

 

Honestly I am very glad I ended up playing this vn. It's one of those vn most people should have a try with. Other than the h-stuff, It's great. I gave it a score of 9/10 on vndb. I might give it higher, but I don't really want to fiddle too much with 0.x score here. Bottom line I enjoyed it a lot.

 

 

As for what to play next.. I started to read Irotoridori again. I might read tokyo babel, but I have had enough action for a while. I  can't really get into irotoridori as I did IMZ.

Setting up playing Shin megami tensei and some other jrpgs. But problematic getting it work perfectly on the emulator, might just buy a hardcopy. I really lazy when things get annoying like this...

I wanted to play IMZ too, but the last time I checked it wasn't translated to English.

So did you read it in japanese or has the translation come out ?

[Kosakyun]

I wanted to play IMZ too, but the last time I checked it wasn't translated to English.

So did you read it in japanese or has the translation come out ?

[Vokoca]

Finally went back to finish Hoshimemo, and it's the first time I played it on my 1920x1080 monitor...it looks...kinda bad...

 

The feel when your monitor is too big for the picture to look decent...

[Bolverk]

You will never get this feel when you read VNs that go up to glorious 4K in resolution.

 

 

It blows my mind each time I look at the back of the box... not that I have anything to test it on.

[Vokoca]

相州戦神館學園 八命陣 is only Full HD, ain't 4K. Well, might look even more awesome in a 4K screen still. I have no idea. It will expand the image and apply some blurring effects I think? That might look better.

Otherwise I don't get why it would look better in 4K.

[Bolverk]

It claims to be 4K on the back of the box, though. Could be some dodgy marketing move for all I know, can't think of a reason why you'd need a VN in 4K in the first place.

[Snowtsuku]

Finished Lise's route for Symphonic Rain.

 

Misc. Thoughts/Ramblings(spoilers)

[FinalChaos]

Most probably in JAP.

There are no translation projects for IMZ except one, which I sadly have no info of.

No info regarding to whether they're still translating it or not.

[Kosakyun]

And KFag, any new info on the translation of Rance01 (the remake) ?

[FinalChaos]

None whatsoever.

Gekkou disappeared as suddenly as he appeared.

If we're lucky, Arunaru might pick it up once again.

Right after he takes over VI, since Ludo is apparently MIA again.

 

Do ask questions in the updates thread if you have more. We might be warned by mods for derailing. 

No this is enough.

Only wanted to know about it as I had planned to go through the Rance series starting at 01.

[Vokoca]

4 REALZ!? I need to try it out in a 4k then lol. That does explain the massive size of the game haha. First I need a 4k monitor....

I'll take a pic for you when I get back home tomorrow, unless I was somehow mistaking that fancy 4K logo/seal for something else this whole time. But yeah, this is probably the reason why the VN came on 3 DVDs.

[cloudy12]

Finished Lise's route for Symphonic Rain.

 

Misc. Thoughts/Ramblings(spoilers)

• Lise's so CUTE!!! It was a pleasure watching her develop from her bullied super-shy self to a normal girl trying to live out her dream of being a singer.
• Back to my little thing about character interactions, it was nice to see Fal 'help out' Lise along with her last ditch attempt to manipulate Chris (even though it was revealed during Fal's route that she hates Lise(WHY?!!!).
• Torta also got to have a chat with Lise, but it's not revealed what they talked about. Rawr! I want to know!!!
• Fal's last piece of advice "Don't trust anybody" to Chris was kinda weird, because Lise really wasn't hiding any secrets  . Even Asino emphasized Chris to be wary of all the negative rumors surrounding Lise, so I was expecting Lise to have some shocking personality change like Fal did, but nope, nothing xD. The main source of conflict for this route was just Lise's father, Grave.​
• Chris was the one to break up with Arietta this time. Wow. The decision came a lot smoother this time aka Chris didn't have to go through a moral dilemma and talk to Lise about Arietta like he did during Fal's route..
• Grave is such a F@#$%&^!!!!!!!!!!!!! If I had a kawaii daughter like Lise I'd treat her like a princess. 
• There weren't really any surprises this route. I was able to predict that Grave was Lise's 'father' (Fal pretty much spoiled it during her route), and I was also able to predict that Lise's injuries were from Grave. Don't really care much for the little twist about Grave being Lise's "biological father who adopted her from the orphanage and lied about being her real father to avoid emotional attachment" crap. Speaking of orphanage, Fal was also an orphan... Connections??
• Again, Grave is a F@%$^#$. I knew he was BSing and would backstab the duo after their successful performance at the graduation recital. I cried on the spot seeing this CG, and actually went to double check the walkthrough to see if I accidentally got the bad ending because man this scene felt bad-ending worthy: LISEEEEEEEEEEE         

   

[Eclipsed]

...Not sure if you're reading very fast or I'm just very slow. Still in December in Fal's route. ;___;. I probably won't finish SR until the end of January but good job!

[Funyarinpa]

When I wrote that post, I was way past the coup d'etat. 

 

In fact, I was at 

the part where things down a little and Unit 00 starts getting more stable.