Bastian77 Posted November 28, 2015 Posted November 28, 2015 Playing Ever17 and still waiting to be mind blown. Quote
Deep Blue Posted November 28, 2015 Posted November 28, 2015 playing euphoria and I already don't like it...not even a bit, is like SAW but add porn and fetishes to it. Needless to say that I hate that movie too xDI'm not saying is bad just not my type of game.Playing Ever17 and still waiting to be mind blown. you will have to reach the ending for that to happen and that takes a pretty long time so be patient, some endings are really good and the characters are good but again what really makes this vn "mind blowing" is the true ending. Quote
Funyarinpa Posted November 28, 2015 Posted November 28, 2015 Playing Ever17 and still waiting to be mind blown. It's a slow burn to be honest. Sora best girl Bastian77 1 Quote
kingdomcome Posted November 28, 2015 Posted November 28, 2015 Playing Ever17 and still waiting to be mind blown. My mind was never blown sadly. Either I didn't get it, or it took too damn long to get interesting that in the end I didn't care. It was weird to me. LiquidShu 1 Quote
hydro Posted November 28, 2015 Posted November 28, 2015 I wholeheartedly agree with the "Aoi is terrible" camp.Anyways I started reading Koisuru Natsu no Last Resort a few days ago. It's fairly mediocre, but the fact it's a newish VN (released 2014 in Japan) is quite rare as far as translated VNs go. As such it's prettier than most things I've read. I find Umi somewhat annoying, on the fence about even bothering with her route. She's not a bad person, but I have a hard time liking her. I disliked Yuuhi at first, but she grew on me. I loved that word game she started which drained the life out of everyone but Riho. The protagonist isn't bad, maybe a little too accommodating of Umi but above average overall. Wataru best gril. Quote
kyrt Posted November 28, 2015 Posted November 28, 2015 I've been and am still reading Koisuru Natsu no Last Resort I've completed one route thus far (Umi's) and it's an okay game so far, feel like they missed a few opportunities in Umi's route at least to expand the story but eh whatever. I've also pre-ordered Gahkthun and am contemplating on picking up the hard copy of Princess Evangile since DRM-Free means I can actually try it. I'm still waiting for Seinarukana so hopefully that releases sooner than later. Hopefully the huge delay means they are making sure it's up to quality (since it is a gameplay game as well) but recent events make me cautious regardless. Quote
Vokoca Posted November 28, 2015 Posted November 28, 2015 I've finished Natsukumo Yururu a few days ago. If you are familiar with HaruKuru in any sort of way, you should know what to expect - hilarious sex-centered comedy with relatively disturbing dark themes and ridiculously creative hard sci-fi plot slowly seeping in as you get further in. I was kind of afraid that Watanabe couldn't possibly top what he did in HaruKuru, but to be quite honest I think he came up with something even crazier this time, and I loved every little bit of it. His comedy has gotten even more ridiculous and out there as well, and I wouldn't be afraid to say the same about the pacing. That said, I still feel like the HaruKuru cast was a bit more likeable than the one of Natsukumo, and for that I've enjoyed HaruKuru just a little bit more. Overall I gave Natsukumo an 8.8/10 on my nonsensical enjoyment scale, and gave up completely on trying to find any logic in the arbitrary rating system. Screw the numbers, I'll just give things whatever from now on. I'm playing Chaos;Child now. First impressions are great - budget is over the top, the writing is on a completely different level than C;H (much, much better) and the murders/suicides make the prequel ones look like nothing at all. Still just in the first chapter though, so I will save more coherent observations for later. XReaper 1 Quote
KuroganeHomura Posted November 28, 2015 Posted November 28, 2015 Part of the way through Maggot Baits. I'm liking it quite a lot so far. I have a feeling this is gonna be considerably more popular over here than Fraternite was. If euphoria was horror&mystery and Fraternite was a tragedy, this is action with a dash of mystery. Kawasumi 1 Quote
Salurian Posted November 28, 2015 Posted November 28, 2015 On my top list for this month's releases, in order I'll likely play them:1. Koisuru Kimochi no KasanekataI've always been a fan of ensemble's games, and for once they don't have a trap protagonist. I played the demo for this, and it seemed enjoyable and lighthearted. Shouldn't take me too long to play through. It's not going to be the best game this month by any stretch, but it will be a good one to relax with first before I hit..2. Hatsuru Koto Naki Mirai YoriFrom the team behind Grisaia. All ages game though I believe it also has an X-Rated patch option that will be released with it. A zero fighter pilot from the war in the Pacific gets transported to and crash lands into a fantasy world, shenanigans ensue. I'm always a fan of anything that takes you out of the school setting, the main character is a lot of fun from what I saw in the demo, and the heroines and story looks to be good as well.3. Schwarzesmarken: Kouketsu no MonshouA new entry into the Muvluv series based off a light novel they put out, as I recall. Occurs in the area of East/West Germany around 1983 on the European front again the BETA. Being a fan of Muvluv's universe in general it's hard to pass up... though I believe they are also making an anime for this as well.There are other games that I'll probably check out, but those are the ones I'm definitely going to be working through during December. Quote
the_dive Posted November 29, 2015 Posted November 29, 2015 Reading Clannad and these dudes put an entry to explain what video tapes and cassettes are lmao Quote
LiquidShu Posted November 29, 2015 Posted November 29, 2015 Playing Ever17 and still waiting to be mind blown. My mind was never blown sadly. Either I didn't get it, or it took too damn long to get interesting that in the end I didn't care. It was weird to me.Same, never got into any route really to be honest :/Almost done with Umi's route in Koisuru Natsu no Last Resort. I've been and am still reading Koisuru Natsu no Last Resort I've completed one route thus far (Umi's) and it's an okay game so far, feel like they missed a few opportunities in Umi's route at least to expand the story but eh whatever.Yeah, it kinda tends to miss the mark in pretty much every route (I finished all of them and am currently in the 3P bonus route). It focuses too much on h-scenes and cute relationship moments to do anything special with the story. From what I have played I couldn't really care about the story a whole lot. The fact that it focuses on the cute relationship moments is why I chose to read it Not disappointing me so far anyways. kingdomcome 1 Quote
Deep Blue Posted November 29, 2015 Posted November 29, 2015 trying to get all the endings on euphoria, I think the plot is really twisted not for the obvious reasons but because is like they try to givelittle to no transcendence to rape itself is just really twisted to me, also there are some really stupid things that when you read them you think "did some child write this script or what?" when the girls are being raped all they can say is "oh no, i'm so pregnant right now..." "nono you cum a lot, i'm going to get pregnant" I mean if you want realism, if you want the reader to believe and immerse in the scene (I'm sure that is what the writer wants) and you write that shit it makes me think that the writer either was a child or adolescence or he didnt care at all about immersion nor realism. Yes I'm complaining about this of all the things that happen in the novel xD but is so fucking cliche in this types of scenes...Btw there was a particular scene that almost made me vomit, the girl was burping and burping and one of those sounded very real and it was rika, she was so sweet and suddenly she went with a "BUUUUUUUUUURP"...I was eating a flan and that didnt help much either D: Quote
KuroganeHomura Posted November 30, 2015 Posted November 30, 2015 trying to get all the endings on euphoria, I think the plot is really twisted not for the obvious reasons but because is like they try to giveHidden ContentThat particular sound effect was real. Quote
Yuuko Posted November 30, 2015 Posted November 30, 2015 Finally entered a route in Sukisuki. Very cute Quote
Deep Blue Posted November 30, 2015 Posted November 30, 2015 trying to get all the endings on euphoria, I think the plot is really twisted not for the obvious reasons but because is like they try to giveHidden ContentHidden Contentyeah i read the commentaries, that was really fucked up also the voice actress they deserve an oscar Quote
hydro Posted November 30, 2015 Posted November 30, 2015 Finished Shiori's route in Koisuru. Probably the most solid of the 3 I've read so far (Shiori, Sango and Rito). They all played out in a broadly similar way, but I found the specifics in this one the most interesting. Decided I will give Umi's route a go. Given the context, I'm expecting it to not follow the same basic pattern as the other 3. Will be interesting to see what differences there are, if any. Quote
bogdankl Posted November 30, 2015 Posted November 30, 2015 wow the conversations between asuho and you turned almost as awkward as my conversations with anyone else :)) Quote
Fred the Barber Posted December 1, 2015 Posted December 1, 2015 Making good progress in Clannad. Kyou, Ryou, Misae, Fuko, and Koumura routes are all done, getting through Yukine's. There's nothing like a Key VN, especially a moderately older one like Clannad (or god forbid Kanon) to make me appreciate KyoAni's work. Seriously, both Kanon and Clannad look pretty bad at times, whereas the KyoAni anime adaptations reliably look amazing. The character art, especially, really suffers. At least they are consistently getting better (LB! looks better than Clannad, and Rewrite looks much better than LB!). Still, it's one of many, many reasons that I'm glad Clannad has no H-scenes (I definitely only ever regretted seeing any of the H-scenes in Kanon...). That said, I was surprised to see that Yukine is actually kind of cute in the VN - in the anime adaptation, she's substantially less cute than the other girls, but something about her facial expressions really works in the VN. So, there's at least one point for Itaru Hinoue there.Anyway, thankfully, for me the game is all about characters, plot, and the resulting feels, and Clannad is totally delivering on that front. In spite of Fuko herself, Fuko's route earned a lot of tears, as did Misae's. Despite Kyou being obvious best girl, surprisingly, her route didn't really do much for me - I think it was dragged out a bit too much. Kyou's route did provide one of the few opportunities for Sunohara (best sidekick ever) to shine do anything even remotely approaching good, though, so I do at least appreciate it for that. Canicheslayer and Flutterz 2 Quote
Flutterz Posted December 1, 2015 Posted December 1, 2015 Making good progress in Clannad. Kyou, Ryou, Misae, Fuko, and Koumura routes are all done, getting through Yukine's. There's nothing like a Key VN, especially a moderately older one like Clannad (or god forbid Kanon) to make me appreciate KyoAni's work. Seriously, both Kanon and Clannad look pretty bad at times, whereas the KyoAni anime adaptations reliably look amazing. The character art, especially, really suffers. At least they are consistently getting better (LB! looks better than Clannad, and Rewrite looks much better than LB!). Still, it's one of many, many reasons that I'm glad Clannad has no H-scenes (I definitely only ever regretted seeing any of the H-scenes in Kanon...). That said, I was surprised to see that Yukine is actually kind of cute in the VN - in the anime adaptation, she's substantially less cute than the other girls, but something about her facial expressions really works in the VN. So, there's at least one point for Itaru Hinoue there.Anyway, thankfully, for me the game is all about characters, plot, and the resulting feels, and Clannad is totally delivering on that front. In spite of Fuko herself, Fuko's route earned a lot of tears, as did Misae's. Despite Kyou being obvious best girl, surprisingly, her route didn't really do much for me - I think it was dragged out a bit too much. Kyou's route did provide one of the few opportunities for Sunohara (best sidekick ever) to shine do anything even remotely approaching good, though, so I do at least appreciate it for that.Liked just for appreciating Yukine, too bad she kinda gets the shit end of the stick in terms of routes in both the VN and anime. Quote
Deep Blue Posted December 1, 2015 Posted December 1, 2015 Going to start reading sayonara wo oshiete about clannad, the Yukine part in the anime was hilarious, when tomoya starts punching the guy and they spent a whole day punching each other....I don't know who wrote that shit but it was atrocious xD also nothing like that happens in the vn I don't know why they did that in the first place... XReaper and Kawasumi 2 Quote
Abyssal Monkey Posted December 1, 2015 Posted December 1, 2015 Totally triple vn'ing at the moment, got tired of both TtT and Aselia after around two days of each continuously, so I put them down and picked up Cartagra like I said I would.only on the beginning of the third day so far, like 3 hours I guess? but this story is really fun. Kazune being really energetic with everything she does is somewhat fun, and Rin is just hilariously entertaining. So far Rin is top tier relationship material for me, if we are considering real life. Nana totally acts like me in every respect, and I would probably become fast friends with her. I was laughing at how she described the murders in her report. The best moment I had come across so far just happened with Rin on the third day. Seeing Kazune speechless and her face slowly change was incredible. I kind of really enjoyed how they force you to manually progress through those expressions, it's kind of like the main character was watching something in slow motion. A really great use of mechanics of the medium. Chronopolis and Eclipsed 2 Quote
VirginSmasher Posted December 1, 2015 Posted December 1, 2015 Totally triple vn'ing at the moment, got tired of both TtT and Aselia after around two days of each continuously, so I put them down and picked up Cartagra like I said I would.only on the beginning of the third day so far, like 3 hours I guess? but this story is really fun. Kazune being really energetic with everything she does is somewhat fun, and Rin is just hilariously entertaining. So far Rin is top tier relationship material for me, if we are considering real life. Nana totally acts like me in every respect, and I would probably become fast friends with her. I was laughing at how she described the murders in her report. The best moment I had come across so far just happened with Rin on the third day. Seeing Kazune speechless and her face slowly change was incredible. I kind of really enjoyed how they force you to manually progress through those expressions, it's kind of like the main character was watching something in slow motion. A really great use of mechanics of the medium.You're selling Cartagra to me. It sounds like an awesome game. Especially cause I love the Kara no Shoujo series. Quote
Bastian77 Posted December 1, 2015 Posted December 1, 2015 Just finished Ever17 and it really was a mind-blowing experience!One thing that I was disappointed about was that Sora did not play a major role in the true route. For me Sora was my favorite character because she seemed to truly possess the ability to love despite being an AI. Even though she is an existence that disappears when you close your eyes and she is not tangible, the love between her and Takeshi was definitely something that I felt to be real. Their love truly transcended the physical boundaries and was really one of the best parts for me.Now, I think after a bit of rest, I'm going to be restarting Baldr Sky because I need something with gameplay after all that reading. Quote
Funyarinpa Posted December 1, 2015 Posted December 1, 2015 Just finished Ever17 and it really was a mind-blowing experience!Hidden Content You, I like you. Quote
Kanbe Posted December 1, 2015 Posted December 1, 2015 Yomeyaba. Playing it just cuz. Some of the heroines are so vanilla Quote
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