What are you playing?

[bogdankl]

going from the horrors of F:SN to kamidori is somewhat of a shocking change, I keep expecting everything to just go downhill and get dark and depressing but it's surprisingly not happening, this is exactly what I needed since I can actually sink my hours not only reading but also playing it, plus it has H scenes that are not horribly cringy <I'm still looking at you F:SN>

I'm very tempted to play sengoku rance or daibanchou after this, maybe after all this time I've gotten better at handling shit protagonists, he doesn't look so bad anymore <still looking at you F:SN and your lame  ass protagonist>

[Vokoca]

Finished Makoto's route in Sakuuta. That went on much longer than I expected, though tat's not necessarily a bad thing. Enjoyed the plot quite a bit; this route revealed much more backstory than I was expecting! The route itself was topped off with a really nice ED - reminded me just how much I like songs that are very close thematically to their related material.

Next up is spooky Rin, I suppose. 

18 hours 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.
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.

You're giving that VN too much credit. The setting is extremely cliched and does barely anything new, I wouldn't call that great.

[Funyarinpa]

20 hours 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.
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.

Killer Queen is utter fucking shite. There's nothing novel about the setting, and just wait until the second half of "let's just have pedophilia with five minute long killing game intermissions in between".

[Vorathiel]

 

1 hour ago, Vokoca said:

You're giving that VN too much credit. The setting is extremely cliched and does barely anything new, I wouldn't call that great.

I didn't say great, but it was good. All those PDAs with different tasks, while being cliched, were nice. They could provie some interesting interactions between cast. But they were not used at all.

6 minutes ago, Funyarinpa said:

Killer Queen is utter fucking shite. There's nothing novel about the setting, and just wait until the second half of "let's just have pedophilia with five minute long killing game intermissions in between".

Aaaaaaaagree. Second part was horrible in almost every aspect, but eventually much better paced than first route. I stormed though it, while I was dragging AF through first one.
And all that 'love at first sight'... ugh.
But I must say h scenes with that little kid was so baffling I constantly was doing breaks with my palms on my head and jaw on the floor. Weirdest shit ever.

Overall I gave it 4.5/10. Maybe to high, but it fits with other vns I've read, and their grades.

[Psykofreac]

Tried out a bit of Astral Air, Ochiba feels like she might be another annoying tsundere. Rinne's cute though, especially how she keeps insisting on having a mature appearance.

[john 'mr. customer' smith]

Finished Valhalla. I can't say I truly loved it, but there were some amazing moments and the quality of the everythings was undeniable.

I wonder if I should go for NG+ just to get some more scenes and achievements though, can anyone comment?

[Jun Inoue]

2 hours ago, john 'mr. customer' smith said:

Finished Valhalla. I can't say I truly loved it, but there were some amazing moments and the quality of the everythings was undeniable.

I wonder if I should go for NG+ just to get some more scenes and achievements though, can anyone comment?

Well, the discussions change depending on whether you give more, less or no alcohol at all to the characters, so you are going to get somewhat different conversations. If it interests you, then you should go ahead!

[pual]

Sloooowly progressing in Cartagra, decided to continue it after few months of inactivity due to job and migrating stuff to Linux. Unfortunately there is bug in linux version that crashes game often (randomly) if you try to save or make decision after long skip. Edelweiss and ClockUp's Eroge! are nearly finished missing one or two routes each.

[Eclipsed]

Ever 17, on like the 3rd day 

The last trapped-survival-mystery I played was Root Double, which was thrilling, had a sense of urgency, and had death waiting on every corner right from the start. Ever 17 in comparison has a more... slice of life / casual feel to it? Oh noes, we're trapped, not much to do, let's play tag!@# I'm sure it'll pick up later later, but I can understand the complaints people had about its pacing and whatnot.

Not a negative experience for me so far though. Takeshi has some decent banter with You and Tsugumi. Sora's really pleasant, too. Her idea of joke when it came to tag was great. Coco's aight, she's that innocent kid thrown in there to liven things up.  

There's glimpses of a bigger behind the scenes shenanigan going on with the whole '# of people alive =/= the measurements' or w.e along with talks of ghosties and some 'rat' running around.. we'll see how mindblown I get later~

[Mkilbride]

Alright.

 

I finished Sharnoth. I now know some of the story...but I also have a headache and most of it doesn't make sense. Loved the art, music, characters, atmosphere. But the story was so...disconnected.

[akaritan]

1 hour ago, Mkilbride said:

Alright.

 

I finished Sharnoth. I now know some of the story...but I also have a headache and most of it doesn't make sense. Loved the art, music, characters, atmosphere. But the story was so...disconnected.

Yeah. I got the sense that if I had paid more attention, I might have been able to understand, but I didn't and by the time I reached

Spoiler

The scene at the end with Charlie

I had no idea what was going on. I sort of get what the writer was going for, but I just don't think it worked that well... The pacing was also slow and became a bit tough to get through towards the end. It was a real shame because I loved pretty much everything else about it so much.

[Mkilbride]

6 minutes ago, akaritan said:

Yeah. I got the sense that if I had paid more attention, I might have been able to understand, but I didn't and by the time I reached

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The scene at the end with Charlie

I had no idea what was going on. I sort of get what the writer was going for, but I just don't think it worked that well... The pacing was also slow and became a bit tough to get through towards the end. It was a real shame because I loved pretty much everything else about it so much.

Right? Everything was great...except the pacing. It all felt way to dragged out.   And no, even if you paid attention(I did), there is still so much not explained at the end, it's stupid. The author was going for some kind of philosophical theme, I get that, but I hate an interesting theory and interesting characters being put before me, and then having it all fade away into some "message" about not being stubborn, as far as I can tell.

[Eclipsed]

Yeah, Shikkoku no Sharnoth tries to be elegant and you can see where it shines, but ultimately it just falls flat leaves you unsatisfied overall.

 

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This fking Kid BSODing over a couple of days of eating same food?!@#@@#$%!!!@@!!@1. BOO HOO i fking hit his ass, qq moar you lil' shit.

[akaritan]

32 minutes ago, Eclipsed said:

This fking Kid BSODing over a couple of days of eating same food?!@#@@#$%!!!@@!!@1. BOO HOO i fking hit his ass, qq moar you lil' shit.

That scene is pretty hard to read without wanting to hit the kid, lol. During some of my walkthrough playthroughs that spot was always a tad irritating, because he was acting like such a brat and I wanted to select that option so badly but didn't in case it made a difference.

[Asimmacovski]

1 hour ago, Eclipsed said:

This fking Kid BSODing over a couple of days of eating same food?!@#@@#$%!!!@@!!@1. BOO HOO i fking hit his ass, qq moar you lil' shit.

You should eat a chicken sandwich for each day spend in game to honor Takeshi's cooking skills.

[Funyarinpa]

6 hours ago, Eclipsed said:

Ever 17, on like the 3rd day 

The last trapped-survival-mystery I played was Root Double, which was thrilling, had a sense of urgency, and had death waiting on every corner right from the start. Ever 17 in comparison has a more... slice of life / casual feel to it? Oh noes, we're trapped, not much to do, let's play tag!@# I'm sure it'll pick up later later, but I can understand the complaints people had about its pacing and whatnot.

Not a negative experience for me so far though. Takeshi has some decent banter with You and Tsugumi. Sora's really pleasant, too. Her idea of joke when it came to tag was great. Coco's aight, she's that innocent kid thrown in there to liven things up.  

There's glimpses of a bigger behind the scenes shenanigan going on with the whole '# of people alive =/= the measurements' or w.e along with talks of ghosties and some 'rat' running around.. we'll see how mindblown I get later~

two things:

1) Really agreed on the casual feeling criticism, hate that myself.

2) Do Takeshi's routes first. Story flows better that way.

[Psykofreac]

You know, if they had an anime adaptation of AstralAir a long time ago, I might have liked the battle harem genre more. That tornado bit was shockingly cool enough to blow me away.

[SCG_1037]

Going to start reading Just Deserts , it will probably be horrible , but that way i am going to read it .

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So , i finished one ending , and i decided to just be that , i am not going to spend hours to just get the same route , but instead of going to place A with girl B , for generic event A that does not mean anything to the story  , i will go to place B with girl X , for generic event C that does not mean anything to the story  , anyway here is a mini-review.

Story-2/10-just awful

art-5/10- nothing special 

ost-4/10- i disliked a little of the ost 

so this vn is a 3.6/10

Thank you for reading this.

[Eclipsed]

Got Tsugumi's good end and the Tsugumi-Sora bad end, going for Sora good next

I'm guessing the true route is where the rainbow and sunshine magics will happen; it's an otherwise 7/10 decent experience atm so far.

Liked Tsugumi's development. Her extremely cold and distant personality with a spice of 'don't touch me!!' was satisfactorily explained and while it took a shit load of work and abuse and a completely reckless blind swim through darkness to save a certain... charming thing to bring out her dere side, I'd say #worth, and the endgame callback to Archimedes' Principle was just so deliciously bittersweet, goddamn. 

[Daydreamer97]

I'm reading Umineko ep. 2. It's fairly slow-paced so I might read Toma's route in Amnesia along with it so I can get it over with. Umineko is very good though, it's my first time reading it and I understand why it's so hyped. I love the music and character interactions. The plot was well-done and the mystery was really interesting. Which is why I regret spoiling myself. I might take breaks between episodes because it's so long and the first episode took me 23 hours to finish.

I have a bad habit of buying VNs before I'm done with one so I got Gahkthun this week. And there's so many sitting on my backlog after the sale. I'm interested in Sona Nyl so I might read Gahkthun after Umineko as an introduction to the Steampunk series.

[Mkilbride]

Umineko...yeah, yer far from done. 8 Episodes. 10 hours each or so.

[havoc]

currently back to playing seinarukana, the story is good but the game play is really grating on my nerves.
Current at the rescue nozomi mission.

[Mkilbride]

The second game?

 

I liked the first game a lot. The second games combat system was a huge downgrade.

[havoc]

7 hours ago, Mkilbride said:

The second game?

 

I liked the first game a lot. The second games combat system was a huge downgrade.

Yeah, its the second game. I was not this bored or tired of the first games combat system until I did my fourth play through.
I guess i will play through the game once for the story and then use a max level clear save to cheat my way through subsequent missions.

[Daydreamer97]

12 hours ago, Mkilbride said:

Umineko...yeah, yer far from done. 8 Episodes. 10 hours each or so.

Just finished the second episode. It was shorter than I expected. I'll take a break from reading it for now.