What are you playing?

[Eclipsed]

Finished Saya no Uta.
 
Misc. Thoughts/Ramblings (Spoilers)

First Impressions

• Boot up the game: Oh look, nice and tranquil title screen music !
• Start the game: Warning label pops up: "This game is very grotesque. Would you like to blur the background(s)?"  -> Hell naw, keep everything uncensored!
• #@%$$#@$######%@$#^%$% -> Ehhhhhhhhh? DAFK TURN DOWN THE VOICE VOLUME
• OH GAWD WHY DIDN'T I CHOOSE CENSOR

 

Story: 8/10 Boo-hoo protagonist Sakisaka Fuminori's family all died in a horrible accident with him being the sole survivor thanks to surgery, but he awakens to have all of his senses warped to display the world as a gorified paradise and so he distances himself from his friends Koji, Omi, and Yoh and lives with this grotesque extraterrestrial life form Saya whom, due to his condition, he sees as a beautiful young girl and as his savior from this mad world.
 
And they bang everynight. 

Climaxes in Fuminori killing everyone close to him including his neighbor, keeping the girl who liked him Yoh as a pet, and then having a glorified 1v1 duel against his best friend Koji before Saya goes into labor and "blossoms" and so Saya successfully biologically takes over planet Earth.

 

// I'd summarize this ending as "disturbingly beautiful". 
 

Totally would've liked to see what that angelic scene would've looked like in 'reality'

Probably just a bunch of bloody intestines flying out...

 
 
 
Alternatively, Koji could consult Dr. Ryoko first instead of immediately going for his glorified 1v1 duel, in which Dr. Ryoko will get the most badass scene ever by managing to shoot(kill) a liquid nitrogenified Saya despite being axed by Fuminori moments before. Humanity is saved, and Fuminori axes himself in the head twice at the sight of a dying Saya. Saya uses her last bit of strength to sludge-crawl her way to Fuminori's corpse and affectionately brushes against him before finally dying. Koji is the sole survivor out of the cast, his only comfort being the knowledge that he can end his life anytime with the single bullet he purchased that costed more than his revolver itself.

 

// An excellent slap-in-the-face foil ending to the above, it's like "Yeah, I'm pro-humanity&normality's survival, fk Saya and Fuminori, love-conquers-all is a myth!" This ending is the only one that made me cry.
 

"You won the battle, but I won the war"

 
 
 
Alternatively alternatively, Fuminori could just be a douche and choose to restore all of his senses, prompting Saya to abandon her pursuit of love cuz she's too shy even though Fuminori would probably still bang that slimy err... yeah... and meanwhile Fuminori gets hauled away into an insane asylum for the murder of his neighbor's family and Omi, left to forever wait for Saya to return to him should she ever need him.
 

// Best ending if you are a Yoh fan, since this is the only one where she lives.

 

Dammit Saya I would've totally still banged you even after recovering my senses!@#

 

Art / Music: 7/10 Not bad, considering made in 2003.
 
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Overall: 8/10 A fine read if you like gory, dark and twisted settings. Lots of interesting thematics.

[Suzu Fanatic]

Finished reading Mio's route in Koi ga Saku Koro Sakura Doki, thus completing everything currently translated.

 

Uuwaaah.... Mio's route was pretty bad, lol... it was cute - and I could still like it on a basic level - but pretty aggrivating, and overall a pretty big let-down, at least compared to how well-developed Konami's route was. (it was a huge breath of fresh air, how they actually addressed the issues regarding their relationship)

 

Still looking forward to the full patch though .

 

EDIT: btw Eclipsed, I approve of your current avatar, nice choice

[Jade]

Start playing Yatagarasu's WItch under wishes to commit the Night (?). Here's hoping it will be entertaining

[Eclipsed]

Cuz I'm a bic boi now I'm gonna do Kara no Shoujo.

 

And then Umineko.

 

And then Muv-Luv Alter-7/10-does-not-deserve-very-high-a-place-in-the-hallmark-of-VNs Trilogy

 

And then Fate/Stay

 

And then Majikoi + S, A, III, X, ZZ

[Decay]

Cuz I'm a bic boi now I'm gonna do Kara no Shoujo.

 

And then Umineko.

 

And then Muv-Luv Alter-7/10-does-not-deserve-very-high-a-place-in-the-hallmark-of-VNs Trilogy

 

And then Fate/Stay

 

And then Majikoi + S, A, III, X, ZZ

 

Play Cartagra first. So many people make this mistake.

[Eclipsed]

Play Cartagra first. So many people make this mistake.

Yessir

 

How related are the two btw? Prequel/Sequel or like sameuniverse/share characters type of thing

[Decay]

None of the major plot points of Cartagra are carried over into KnS but three of the characters (the protagonist and the main heroine, and one of the police detectives) do show up and they play a mildly important role and deliver some moments that are greatly diminished without playing Cartagra first. Apparently KnS2 has more characters from Cartagra and it sounds like it might connect the two in a more significant way.

[Zantax]

Astralair no Shiroki Towa

Finally finished Hazuki (and Ochiba...) route. It was OK... -ish I guess. Mainly because Hazuki (and Ochiba) was there, and I liked her a lot. Especially compared to how much I hated Ichika and Kotori in their routes. Plot once again was garbage with ass-pulled happy end. I am wondering about one thing though.

Did really scenario writer thought it is OK to use the same reason of drama and the same solution every time? Seriously, for the 6th time source of drama was lack of communication between family members, and again the solution was to talk a bit -.-' Really, every route and subroute had that crappy excuse of drama this far...

I also thought: there is no way the same person wrote this sorry excuse of a plot in Astralair, and great, complicated and unpredictable plot of Iroseka. And I was right. Scenario was made be different people, and the one in Astralair was made by the same people that were working on Hoshimemo, where plot was also mostly very weak and happy endings really crappy. It was my fault to expect too much from this VN I guess...

Well, next is Rinne route. I don't have any hope anymore that plot won't be total garbage, but I really like Rinne, and am in love in her seiyu voice so I'm quite looking forward to this ^^

[Chuee]

Did really scenario writer thought it is OK to use the same reason of drama and the same solution every time? Seriously, for the 6th time source of drama was lack of communication between family members, and again the solution was to talk a bit -.-' Really, every route and subroute had that crappy excuse of drama this far...

 

Yes, because that's a major theme that runs throughout multiple routes, which is best exemplified by Ochiba's Rune. Then again I'd say most of the drama is more complex than just "Person A did a shit job communicating with Person B, so now things are like this." Most of the routes try and convey similar messages through different scenarios so I'd expect the same.

[Fred the Barber]

What on earth happened? Eclipsed is actually playing VNs again?

 

I wrapped up Majikoi (all routes, main, side, and Agave) today, and am now waiting for my copy of Swan Song to arrive for the reading club. I'm looking forward both to a change in tone and to reading something a bit shorter, after Majikoi turned out to be super long, though I'm pretty sure Swan Song is going to be too heavy for me. Oh well.

 

Spoilery thoughts on Majikoi:

I really didn't care much for the Agave route, whereas normally I'm all about the "true" route. I think the problem was that there were a few characters about whom it changed my view too much, particularly Jun (for whatever reason). Maybe it's just solidarity for a character with a shaved head, but he's a likeable guy; I didn't think it fit his character (nor Aoi's) to go in for something as overboard as the events of the Agave route.

 

For the other routes, Mayucchi's was my surprise favorite, maybe tied with Momoyo's. Setting up and executing those large-scale fights are clearly where Majikoi's writers are at their best, but when things are too serious (like the Agave route), it seems I'm just not able to enjoy those scenes as much. So the tone of the major events in Mayucchi's and Momoyo's routes was perfect.

 

I really strongly disliked Chris's route; the indirect but nonetheless present message of "rape women to get them to agree with you" is abhorrent. And even setting aside that element, it was honestly kind of boring... I usually found Chris and Yamato's relationship more interesting in other routes; I think maybe it was in the Agave route when they were sitting around marathoning a historical drama and talking at length about it, and I wondered why their route didn't have more of that and less H.

 

I found Wanko's route a major disappointment - the "see, your ten years of hard work totally wasn't wasted" scene wasn't especially convincing; on the contrary, that, along with her new dream, all left me feeling that, actually, maybe all that training was wasted. With that kind of feeling, it was hard to feel positive about the story. I'm all for feels, normally, but somehow this route just didn't do it for me.

[Suzu Fanatic]

What on earth happened? Eclipsed is actually playing VNs again?

 

I wrapped up Majikoi (all routes, main, side, and Agave) today, and am now waiting for my copy of Swan Song to arrive for the reading club. I'm looking forward both to a change in tone and to reading something a bit shorter, after Majikoi turned out to be super long, though I'm pretty sure Swan Song is going to be too heavy for me. Oh well.

 

Spoilery thoughts on Majikoi:

I really didn't care much for the Agave route, whereas normally I'm all about the "true" route. I think the problem was that there were a few characters about whom it changed my view too much, particularly Jun (for whatever reason). Maybe it's just solidarity for a character with a shaved head, but he's a likeable guy; I didn't think it fit his character (nor Aoi's) to go in for something as overboard as the events of the Agave route.

 

For the other routes, Mayucchi's was my surprise favorite, maybe tied with Momoyo's. Setting up and executing those large-scale fights are clearly where Majikoi's writers are at their best, but when things are too serious (like the Agave route), it seems I'm just not able to enjoy those scenes as much. So the tone of the major events in Mayucchi's and Momoyo's routes was perfect.

 

I really strongly disliked Chris's route; the indirect but nonetheless present message of "rape women to get them to agree with you" is abhorrent. And even setting aside that element, it was honestly kind of boring... I usually found Chris and Yamato's relationship more interesting in other routes; I think maybe it was in the Agave route when they were sitting around marathoning a historical drama and talking at length about it, and I wondered why their route didn't have more of that and less H.

 

I found Wanko's route a major disappointment - the "see, your ten years of hard work totally wasn't wasted" scene wasn't especially convincing; on the contrary, that, along with her new dream, all left me feeling that, actually, maybe all that training was wasted. With that kind of feeling, it was hard to feel positive about the story. I'm all for feels, normally, but somehow this route just didn't do it for me.

 

That's going to be a pretty strong change of pace, that's for sure lol. But it is a good read. But yeah, you'll need to brace yourself a bit.

 

Decided to try Snow Sakura - noticed Decay reading it a little while back and figured I'd give it a shot. It's okay at first glance, though I'm not very far at all yet.

[Decay]

Snow Sakura had its amusing moments but I kind of got bored of it after two routes.

[bogdankl]

i stopped reading for a while <my life was devoured by a certain evil video game> and now i'm tring to return to comyu, i have some questions however

 

1. out of the five heroine routes which nuber is Ayaya?

2. Does Ayaya's route contain any relevant plot information or can i just skip it? i honestly don't really like her and i would rather not bother with the route if it does not add anything relevant

[Suzu Fanatic]

i stopped reading for a while <my life was devoured by a certain evil video game> and now i'm tring to return to comyu, i have some questions however

 

1. out of the five heroine routes which nuber is Ayaya?

2. Does Ayaya's route contain any relevant plot information or can i just skip it? i honestly don't really like her and i would rather not bother with the route if it does not add anything relevant

 

1. Can't recall, I believe 3rd or 4th.

 

2. Sadly, none. You can completely ignore her route. (I had high hopes personally, but it turns out to be a pretty shallow experience.)

[bogdankl]

1. Can't recall, I believe 3rd or 4th.

 

2. Sadly, none. You can completely ignore her route. (I had high hopes personally, but it turns out to be a pretty shallow experience.)

 thanks ^^

[monkeysrumble]

Just finished Idol Magical Girl Chiru Chiru Michiru after stalling the second part for like a month. Since I don't know Japanese I can't rate the overall quality of the translation but I did find it to be an overall good read. It's very funny and I couldn't help but smile through Michiru's antics.

 

I'm tempted to re read through Grisaia for Michiru's route or re-read Fate/Stay Night (Got the vita patches which didn't exist when I read through Fate/Stay Night) but probably won't do them because I should read something new. So I'll finally finish Hoshizora no Memoria which I'm right at the end of the common route for.

 

Remember to love Michiru!

[FinalChaos]

Been playing Bunny Black, it's fun and definitely keeps you interested.

The gameplay wasn't as bad I'd expected it to be, and the h-scenes are good while some even have plot-relevance.

I'm already at the part where we turn Forzelotte back from being Cozelotte.

 

And onto the main discussion, 

The Best Grill is .....

Ekate

 

And I also always thought that her voice seemed a bit familiar, well what do you know the same person voiced Wanko from Majikoi.

[Yatsufusa]

Harajuku Dating Paradise.

[HotTrax]

Wiz Anni

Chinami V 0.6 

Sister character will not reach 1.0 full annoying until next game. (She is alright thus far.) 

[Funyarinpa]

Downloaded G-Senjou No Maou and Kara no Shoujo, started the latter. I like the main menu music ^^

[lockdownovilist]

Hatoful boyfriend,steins gate and zero escape and little busters been loving all 4 if I had to pick which I'm enjoying more it has too be zero escape vlr and steins:gate since I'm a sucker for science and psychological stories

[Thunderbro]

I finished WEE episode 2, I really enjoyed it, but I'm getting sick of these endings, and I'm sure the last episode won't be out for quite awhile. 

[MFrost]

Started Pretty x Cation 2, but it's freaking me out how the heroines blink, mouths move when talking, hair moves when they do, inhale/exhale, etc. Since I'm use to Majikoi, Muv Luv (although Altered Fable, their mouths moved, got use to it) G Senjou, Grisaia being all static sprites and only moving occasionally.

 

Knowing that, I'm restarting Muv Luv to get me pumped (or question if I even want to) for the kickstarter that should be running soon....I still dislike Sumika though.

[Desert35]

Playing bunny black and I'm enjoying it so far. The gameplay is not bad at all you just have to be very careful during battles and save a lot in my opinion^^

[Funyarinpa]

Started Kara no Shoujo, a bit intriguing so far but the OST isn't very good.