What are you playing?

[VirginSmasher]

Just now, Vorathiel said:

What do you mean by that?

You know those scenes in anime where the protagonist walks in on a girl changing? That's what I mean by walk in scenes.

[Vorathiel]

Oh. Horrible ones. Even Steins;Gate got one.
Have you ever encounered a scene like that, where protagonist would simply put his eyes down, apologize and quickly left? Me neither.

[Toranth]

4 hours ago, Amon said:

Twinkle Crusaders. Just finished my first route (Nanaka).

The battlesystem is kinda stupid, but the comedy is good and the characters are so fluffy sweet, it's balm for the soul.

Glad to see someone playing this.  I enjoyed Princess Witches a lot, but could never quite get into Twinkle Crusaders.  It just went on and on and on...

[Jade]

Currently playing A5, here's hoping it will be a good one

[TastefulSardine]

I saw Princess Evangile but I was afraid the premise of one guy in an all-girls school would be too generic.  While I was wrong about that, the common route really hurts me. Every single person in the school is sexist towards the MC and he's so passive.  Frankly, I have no idea how he doesn't get angry when everyone puts the blame on him for being a guy.  

I've only done Ritsuko's route but I really don't know if I can continue.

[Arcadeotic]

1 minute ago, TastefulSardine said:

I saw Princess Evangile but I was afraid the premise of one guy in an all-girls school would be too generic.  While I was wrong about that, the common route really hurts me. Every single person in the school is sexist towards the MC and he's so passive.  Frankly, I have no idea how he doesn't get angry when everyone puts the blame on him for being a guy.  

I've only done Ritsuko's route but I really don't know if I can continue.

You should at least do Ayaka's route as that is the best route by a major consensus

It's something very special for a moege

[Zantax]

Going to start reading Chaos; Head. I tried it once already, but lost interest after ~15 hours in so this is the second try. There is one question though:

What the hell should I do with delusional triggers :/

What I mean by that... If I choose red (bad) trigger, then following scene is usually so brutal / bloody / mad it is just silly and completly destroys the mood. If I choose green (good) trigger, then folowing scene is so moe / icha-icha/ fenservice it is just silly and completly destroys the mood. If I don't choose anything then following scene is... well normal, but then I have the feeling that I'm missing part of the game and it completly destroys the mood

So, what should I do? I have no interested in B ending (too much of a hassle). I just want have good read and not be thrown off by weird or stupid scenes...

[Dreamysyu]

4 hours ago, Zantax said:

Going to start reading Chaos; Head. I tried it once already, but lost interest after ~15 hours in so this is the second try. There is one question though:

What the hell should I do with delusional triggers :/

What I mean by that... If I choose red (bad) trigger, then following scene is usually so brutal / bloody / mad it is just silly and completly destroys the mood. If I choose green (good) trigger, then folowing scene is so moe / icha-icha/ fenservice it is just silly and completly destroys the mood. If I don't choose anything then following scene is... well normal, but then I have the feeling that I'm missing part of the game and it completly destroys the mood

So, what should I do? I have no interested in B ending (too much of a hassle). I just want have good read and not be thrown off by weird or stupid scenes...

If you don't like them, you don't really have to use triggers at all. I don't think they affect anything except for scenes they appear in. Might be mistaken though.

[Funyarinpa]

Kara no Shoujo- quite the adventure

Spoiler

in the last 5 hours I learned that KnS has a voice acting patch, and that I had that patch downloaded but not installed, and that I'd played most of the previous stuff for nothing

Also I heard Stella say something that's pretty fucking frightening possible foreshadowing in retrospect ("I don't like fatty meat...")

 

[Vorathiel]

Wow, seriously?  Well, voices aren't THAT important in KnS, but they're pretty great. (They're even better in KnS2, Reji is fantastic). But most important thing - you missed the awesomenes of Yukarin, voiced by miraculously verastile Mizusawa Kei. Seriously, look at her list of voices. Mindblowing. Also - Toko, Natsume and Yaginuma are very memmorable. You should post in one of the many Kara No Shoujo threads, it would be easier to discuss.

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...aaaanyway, I finaly finished Route E in great I/O. Well, by 'finished' I mean that I got final ending, but still have 2 bad ends, and a lot of 'holes' to fill. Some of them are unlocked to read, some of them are still locked (I heard that route D' will unlock them).
And I have a question - should I max the endings and holes in E route before starting Prime routes, or should I read D', C', B' and A' routes and then fill up the E route? What do you think @Canicheslayer?

[Fred the Barber]

I've been simultaneously reading and editing To Heart 2, first Tama-nee's route, now the twins'.

Tama-nee, or Kosaka Tamaki (if you haven't been living in the script the past few weeks like I have...) was great. In my admittedly limited experience, I've only once seen a character comparable to her. Maybe you don't see such strong (in so many ways) women in VNs very often because male dominance is too much of a turn-on for most readers, but it's not a bad thing, being dominated every now and then . The only similar character that comes to mind, incidentally, is Kagome from Comyu, who makes for an understandably popular stand-out character. Tama-nee is very much cut from that same cloth. So if you're a Kagome fan, or in general a fan of an overpowered onee-sama (which, I promise, can be every bit as pleasant in a moege as it is in a chuunige), maybe give this one a try; I certainly enjoyed it. You should probably technically wait a bit longer for the final patch release, but since the current beta patch has my edits for this route, don't let me discourage you too much

That said, the twins, man. The twins. Let me start by saying that I loathed the twins' route in KonoSora. It tried hard to ruin what was for me a very sweet game. It was everything I dislike in VNs - a pointless male fantasy with an unbelievable (in the worst possible way) plot, set amidst a bunch of (to me) quite believable, relatable stories. In sharp contrast, To Heart 2's twins' route is crushing my heart. I'm about 60% of the way through now (incidentally, having all the script files makes that really easy to estimate), even counting what appears to be an absurdly long H scene at the end which, I won't lie, I'm getting kind of excited about (until I realize I'm editing it, and then I'll probably start crying tears of blood). Compared to the only other twin route I've seen, despite extremely similar characters, the plotting is so much better and the conflicts are so much more believable that I am truly, thoroughly enjoying this. Yes, it's still a tropefest that's just going to culminate in a scene architected to appeal to a teenage male sex fantasy. I don't care. The journey there is pretty damn enjoyable, and at times it's nothing short of heartrending.

Well, at the rate I'm going, we should have a patch for the twins' route available in just a few more weeks, so if that latter one piques your interest, hold tight a bit longer...

[littleshogun]

@TastefulSardine Well, I think that's understandable if EvangileMC was so passive and not getting angry. From the name you'll understand. Masaya is probably Japanese pun from messiah. And from the review I think Evangile was quite accurate in writing Catholic setting.

[Arcadeotic]

These also a few lines in almost every route's end comparing him to Messiah, so yeah, pretty sure that's 100% intentional

[TastefulSardine]

Wow that completely flew over my head.  I saw the comparisons to Christ but I never made the connection.  Thanks for the heads up guys.  I don't know how much that will help the cringe but I'll definitely finish PE.

[littleshogun]

To Zenophilous, what I want to said by 'probably' is maybe Moonstone intended to made pun from MC name. Although after reading Arcadeotic opinion it may 100% intentional after all. But I think it's also understandable though if Clephas give score 6.5 (Well, Clephas more like proactive MC while Evangile MC was passive, so there's a personal preference in play I guess).

Back to topic. As of now, I'm also try Seinarukana, and MC to be honest was quite dumb not noticing Nozomi's feeling (I'd even state that back in Seinarukana's thread about MC cluelesness). The gameplay, well, let's just said it was combination between Eien no Aselia (Level up Using mana) and Yumina (Had 2 types attack and defense (Physical and magic), and some defensive skill only handle one type of defense).

[Funyarinpa]

17 hours ago, Vorathiel said:

ou should post in one of the many Kara No Shoujo threads, it would be easier to discuss.

Link me the best one because I just got stuck at another bad end and I want to know how I evade it besides savescumming

[Dergonu]

So, still playing kimisora, just finished the Sekka route. Dear lord, the feels. This is really great; haven't been this into a VN for a while. Sekka was the girl I had the least expectations for, but wow, her route was fantastic.

Ahhh, just look at this face

Spoiler

Time to move over to the other routes.

Have my ticket for the feel train ready. Let's do this.

[FontSize72LOL]

I started I/O a few days ago, and i must say I'm impressed. I'd say i'm probably just a little over halfway through it though. If there is one thing i have to say about this particular VN is that it's definitely unique in presentation.

[Eclipsed]

I should be reading Tokyo Bible, but I keep on booting up Code Realize whenever I feel like reading ._.

So far the only 'flaw' is that Cardia herself ain't voiced, cuz protagonist and  immersion I guess, so I've been imagining her voice being similar to Shikkoku no Sharnoth's Mary's inner monologuing voice. Sounds about right.

[Darklord Rooke]

Currently having fun with the Seven Kingdoms demo - https://sevenkingdomsgame.com/demo/

On my first play through I was poisoned with some horrible, incurable thing in my second week, then kicked out in my 3rd week ...

[ChaosRaven]

35 minutes ago, Rooke said:

Currently having fun with the Seven Kingdoms demo - https://sevenkingdomsgame.com/demo/

On my first play through I was poisoned with some horrible, incurable thing in my second week, then kicked out in my 3rd week ...

Looks like the otome version of Koihime Musou. If it also has the same H-content, the protagonist girl must be some real nympho... 

[HotTrax]

Wagamama High Spec - Still very early on so don't really know what to think. I sort of just came off Yakimochi Stream, their last game, which I sort of liked. Comedy so far feels toned down in comparison. 
Also got a new tablet to replace broken one. VN consumption has gone up by lots!

 

All have joined. 

[Darklord Rooke]

8 hours ago, ChaosRaven said:

Looks like the otome version of Koihime Musou. If it also has the same H-content, the protagonist girl must be some real nympho... 

Actually pretty far from it. It's a sim game where you try and navigate your way through political intrigue without ... er, failing. Some people compare it to 'Long Live the Queen'. 

[Funyarinpa]

Sister gifted me her old iPad. Which means I'll be playing Ghost Trick (huhu) but not just that- I'll also be playing Banshee's Last Cry which has had me interested for a long time. 

[ChaosRaven]

1 hour ago, Rooke said:

Actually pretty far from it. It's a sim game where you try and navigate your way through political intrigue without ... er, failing. Some people compare it to 'Long Live the Queen'. 

Never heard of it before, but I played a computer game with this title a looong time ago.