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[akaritan]

I'm nearing the end of chapter three of Sharin no Kuni, Himawari no Shoujo, and so far I'd say it's good (but not without problems). The main character and Sepia crack me up, and the premise is really interesting, so I look forward to seeing where Sharin will end up going with it. The art and music are also quite nice. My main problem so far is that the characters can be pretty bland, and in a few cases, they've ended up feeling undeveloped even by the end of their story arcs.

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Chapter 2, Sachi's chapter, I actually quite liked. The way it was built up, I was so sure that it was going to be a happy go lucky  "she was in a tough spot but she turned the tables in the end and everything ended up alright" kind of ending, and while she did end up "rehabilitated", she lost Mana regardless, which made the ending very bittersweet. I was very pleased with the ending, because again, it greatly exceeded my expectations where I thought there would be disappointment. I think that my main issue with that story arc was Mana's character. It's a bit of a pet peeve of mine when child characters are built up as exceedingly wise and mature in ways that don't make sense, because of the hardships that they've been through. It can make sense if it's done right, but in Mana's case it made her character feel really unrealistic. I ended up liking chapter three far less, sadly. The middle of it was okay, but the way Kyoko's personality ended up doing a 180 at the end was sort of overdone and absurd. It ended up making her feel like a completely different character by the end of the arc, and I really felt that it would have been better if it had been done more subtly. It makes perfect sense for her to change how she interacted with Touka after what happened, but the way her mannerisms and personality changed too, especially to the excessive degree that they did just ended up coming off as forced. I also didn't like Touka very much, but I can probably attribute that to my distaste for tsundere characters.

In spite of my complaining, like I said, I still like it for the most part, and I've had fun with Sharin. The world is really interesting and I hear that it gets really good towards the end, so I look forward to reading more.

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Going to start reading Magical Eyes -Red is for anguish- (https://vndb.org/v16441) .

[gunter]

well...i cried tears of blood and teared almost all my hair ,but i've succeeded in installing Chaos;Head , and for what i've read for the moment,it's pretty good...

hope i wont be disappointed 

[Eclipsed]

2 hours ago, gunter said:

well...i cried tears of blood and teared almost all my hair ,but i've succeeded in installing Chaos;Head , and for what i've read for the moment,it's pretty good...

hope i wont be disappointed 

The game abandons the horror-mystery aspect midway in favor of

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magic and swords later on

 

[gunter]

i'm not too much surprised ,i was forshadowed in the first minutes of the game ...hope i would find this part interesting too :v

[Mkilbride]

12 minutes ago, Eclipsed said:

The game abandons the horror-mystery aspect midway in favor of

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magic and swords later on

 

And it becomes better for it. Main character is a total loser and waste of human genes until that point.

[Funyarinpa]

Would love to play C;H but for whatever reason on my PC it never saves. 

[gunter]

1 minute ago, Funyarinpa said:

Would love to play C;H but for whatever reason on my PC it never saves. 

aw ,too bad :/

and for what i've read , i can only sympathize with him :x

[Kairix360]

After hearing about it a lot on here, I decided to play Katawa Shoujo! I just finished Act 1 and got to Lily's route. I find myself liking Lily and Hanako the most, so I am happy I got one of their routes as my first one.

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Just finished reading Magical Eyes -Red is for anguish- , and here is a mini review.

Story-7.5/10-I really liked the story , but the reason that i am giving it a lower score that i thought i would , is because of that damn cliffhanger at the end of it 

Art-6/10- its descent (i only really disliked the background of just one place , but the rest was ok)

OST-7/10- i liked it 

So this vn is a 6.8/10

Thank you for reading this. 

[Deep Blue]

I tried reading muramasa, it's fucking nuts, I think for me it's harder than dies irae, they use vocabulary that I've never seen before but it's not impossible to read just tiresome also when they use the yellow text (at the end of the prologue) I cannot understand a shit, that font they use is a pain to read  
It's fucking epic but i wont read it right now, btw I knew I recognized the voice of Kurusuno Konatsu she is the same voice actress of himeko from narcissu  

[Chronopolis]

4 hours ago, Deep Blue said:

I tried reading muramasa, it's fucking nuts, I think for me it's harder than dies irae, they use vocabulary that I've never seen before but it's not impossible to read just tiresome also when they use the yellow text (at the end of the prologue) I cannot understand a shit, that font they use is a pain to read  
It's fucking epic but i wont read it right now, btw I knew I recognized the voice of Kurusuno Konatsu she is the same voice actress of himeko from narcissu  

Haha, I think I turned into a Buddhist monk in the process of reading Muramasa.

Progress? What progress? There is only the act of reading.

[Deep Blue]

4 hours ago, Chronopolis said:

Haha, I think I turned into a Buddhist monk in the process of reading Muramasa.

Progress? What progress? There is only the act of reading.

Yeah xD I'll probably too lol

I wonder what reading would be the equivalent of Muramasa in english.

[Jun Inoue]

Well, today I finished ACE Academy, after they released Episode 4 a few days ago. My final feeling is that it deserves around a 7.5 but due to needed much more content really badly. For a game with a standard story, the character design, choices and interactions were so perfectly humane and smartly crafted that they leave in the dust 90% of the JP Slice of Life VNs I've ever seen, which in comparison feel quite silly and empty. The VA is also really great, and in English! As nice as it was surprising.

I have a couple other routes to do, which I'll probably enjoy close to as much (since I've done my favourite 2 heroines already). On that topic, this VN is the one that has made me love one of the archetypes I hate THE MOST IN THE WHOLE WORLD. The flirty and pervy girl. In VNs, she usually feels stupidly gratuitous, having an interest in the MC for a silly reason, cuz the script demands it through dumb reasoning, or with no reason at all. Her flirtyness tends to feel empty and just plain immature, too.
In ACE Academy, though, they introduce Valerie, which single-handedly destroys those crappy notions, and creates a believable reason for approaching the MC, an honest curiosity that later evolves into interest upon seeing mutual interests and very compatible personalities with the MC. Like most characters, she feels really human and real, which just added to how incredibly lovable she is.

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Also, the little sister is cute as fruck.

[Deep Blue]

Finished narcissu 0, around 6 hours long.
A bit weird specially because it was basically a pure love story which isnt a bad thing per se but it felt a bit weird in the narcissu universe, well since narcissu 3 most of them have love or romance going on...
what I didn't like is that the writer added some extra scenes to narcissu 1st...and they felt awkward there, not as the one in ame no marginal that one was ok because it felt part of the whole thing while these ones were just out of place. 
Also I think that the lack of character sprites doesn't feel right anymore, it doesn't feel or look minimalistic anymore rather that they were low on budge.

I do have to say that the voice acting was very good and the new themes were very fitting and very narcissu-like.

 

[Kurisu-Chan]

For those who're reading chaos;head, be careful, Chapter 6 and 7 are buggy, you can't save at those chapters.

[Narcosis]

Just another day in the Zone.

Yes, I play those kinds of games, too. You can now proceed to tell me how shit my tastes are

[MFrost]

I don't think your tastes would be so bad, but adding that to putting those Bugles on your fingers while eating them and drinking something called "Desire Cider" just further lowers you. joking!

So about how many chapters are in a heroine's route of Princess Evangile anyway? 30? 35? I started simul-reading 3 of them for the heck of it, but now I just want finish them and install and play Senren Banka because of the mischievous ninja girl that reminds me of Levi Kazama from Trinity Seven.

[Vorathiel]

Off to Killer Queen. I'm 2 hours into second route and it's painfull, painfull as hell itself.  I love it. Probably under 3/10, but we'll see.
The biggest problem of this game is...too good premise and setting. If the setting would be less interesting, grade might be higher, because everything would be only 'meh'. But right now, great setting butchered horribly just screams for lower possible grades.

[ChaosRaven]

28 minutes ago, Vorathiel said:

Off to Killer Queen. I'm 2 hours into second route and it's painfull, painfull as hell itself.  I love it. Probably under 3/10, but we'll see.

You're sure you're not a masochist?  If so, just give me a note and I send you a list of the worst kusoges I've ever played. Grades between 0 and 1 guaranteed - you'll absolutely love them! 

[Vorathiel]

Well, I always try 'looking good' things, but they turn out miserable... And I'm trying to found anything positive about experience. ;d

But list of worst titles might be interesting. :v

[littleshogun]

I could help you here if you need some worst VN title. Just look at this (I sort VNDB list from the lowest score). Although obviously you'll not play those games of course.

[Vorathiel]

Actually I was searching for 'Shiyouchuu ~W.C.~' and Milk Pot some time ago and couldnt find it. :<
 

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(I know about site called 'erogesomethingbad' but it's not working for me, dunno why).

 

[Fred the Barber]

7 hours ago, MFrost said:

So about how many chapters are in a heroine's route of Princess Evangile anyway? 30? 35? I started simul-reading 3 of them for the heck of it, but now I just want finish them and install and play Senren Banka because of the mischievous ninja girl that reminds me of Levi Kazama from Trinity Seven.

Around 25 chapters, IIRC? If I could read Senren Banka, I would be doing just that, definitely not reading Princess Evangile.

[Mkilbride]

Reached Act 10 of Sharnoth...finally, I'm almost there. IS ANYTHING EVER GOING TO BE EXPLAINED...if it isn't, this VN is trash.  Like 20-25 hours of having no clue what is going on.