What are you playing?

[Dreamysyu]

1 hour ago, Kurisu-Chan said:

I already love Rin. 

Good taste!

[BookwormOtaku]

Got my copy of Princess X and played up to somewhere in chapter 2...this is going to be a trial to even finish one route.

I know this is supposed to be a comedy, but the prologue and a good deal of chapter 1 make most episodes of Fuller House look legitimately funny by comparison, no exaggerating. The only redeemable factors so far are the main heroines' voice acting as their performances are good enough to make the comedic scenes focused on them at least enough for me to crack a smile, their designs are pretty nice and the fight scene between Naja and Proxima was pretty good. The worst part by far though is the main character, Shinichi. The guy is a complete and utter wet blanket, so bad that in a scene where logically I'm supposed  to be on his side, his lines and narration are grating enough to have me on Naja and Proxima's side even though they're clearly in the wrong

[Soulless Watcher]

Fucking hell, I just finished the normal ending for Chaos;Child and currently I would rate it on par with Steins;Gate. It engaged in such way that I literally skipped a meal, because I didn't want to stop reading and I cried in such a way that hasn't happened since I first started reading visual novels. You know, when you start off with the cream of the crop with your Clannads, MuvLuvs, and Grisaias. Before you have to really shift the shit for anything palatable. 

It was like, "Oh fuck that's right, I'm a human being with emotions!!!" 

It's a fucking crime that this was jammed into 12 episodes and a movie and that it had to follow a..... less than stellar predecessor.

Watch, the other endings will be garbage and completely ruin my experience. 

[r0xm2n]

^^^^^

Adds Chaos;Child to my VN wishlist...

[Kabu]

Currently trying and failing to read Dal Segno. I want to like it, I really do, but I hate the protagonist. He annoys the crap out of me and the heroines, while likable, aren't really good enough to make up for it, nor is the writing, which is fairly good. It's really disappointing actually since I had heard it was sort of a spiritual successor to the Da Capo series, which I enjoyed every piece of. (Even despite the original being mediocre and bits of III being sort of bland though still entertaining)

Going to probably reread Little Busters for the EX routes but I do have a question about it. Does it add anything of substantial importance to the main routes? I'm probably going to go through the whole thing anyways as it's been a while and I've forgotten a lot of stuff but I'm just really curious.

[Akshay]

5 hours ago, Kabu said:

Does it add anything of substantial importance to the main routes? I'm probably going to go through the whole thing anyways as it's been a while and I've forgotten a lot of stuff but I'm just really curious.

HD.

How is this not substantial...... 

[Akshay]

20 hours ago, BookwormOtaku said:

Got my copy of Princess X and played up to somewhere in chapter 2...this is going to be a trial to even finish one route.

I know this is supposed to be a comedy, but the prologue and a good deal of chapter 1 make most episodes of Fuller House look legitimately funny by comparison, no exaggerating. The only redeemable factors so far are the main heroines' voice acting as their performances are good enough to make the comedic scenes focused on them at least enough for me to crack a smile, their designs are pretty nice and the fight scene between Naja and Proxima was pretty good. The worst part by far though is the main character, Shinichi. The guy is a complete and utter wet blanket, so bad that in a scene where logically I'm supposed  to be on his side, his lines and narration are grating enough to have me on Naja and Proxima's side even though they're clearly in the wrong

I thought Princess X was gonna be a nice change of pace.

A chance to collect some momusu waifus.

I was wrong and so wrong.

The protagonist is an  unlikable boob. Sevierly rasist and just rapes all the monster girls. I like to think I can deal with a lot of fetishes. But it;s not even the kind of rape you see in something like Rance. He just wants them to suffer. Most of the endings are bad endings. 1 of the heroes has an only netorare ending. Some of the heroines are tortured just for the sake of it. 

Why, why didn't I read the fucking tags.

I got tricked by the monster girl boobies.

You can still save yourself...........

Edited November 6, 2017 by Akshay

[Kurisu-Chan]

8 hours ago, r0xm2n said:

^^^^^

Adds Chaos;Child to my VN wishlist...

This comes from a huge steins;gate fanatic.

Chaos;Child is on par with Steins;Gate in term of pure quality, even better in some ways, and while it won't take the place of Steins;Gate in my heart.

BUY IT!!

[Kurisu-Chan]

5 hours ago, Kabu said:

Currently trying and failing to read Dal Segno. I want to like it, I really do, but I hate the protagonist. He annoys the crap out of me and the heroines, while likable, aren't really good enough to make up for it, nor is the writing, which is fairly good. It's really disappointing actually since I had heard it was sort of a spiritual successor to the Da Capo series, which I enjoyed every piece of. (Even despite the original being mediocre and bits of III being sort of bland though still entertaining)

Going to probably reread Little Busters for the EX routes but I do have a question about it. Does it add anything of substantial importance to the main routes? I'm probably going to go through the whole thing anyways as it's been a while and I've forgotten a lot of stuff but I'm just really curious.

It adds 3 routes : Sasasegawa Sasami, Saigusa Futaki and Saya(New character btw).

[Kenshin_sama]

7 hours ago, Kabu said:

Going to probably reread Little Busters for the EX routes but I do have a question about it. Does it add anything of substantial importance to the main routes? I'm probably going to go through the whole thing anyways as it's been a while and I've forgotten a lot of stuff but I'm just really curious.

I can't say for sure as I haven't read it yet, but I think I heard they were a continuation of the story after Refrain. I'm especially interested in Saya's route since she doesn't even make an appearance in the original.

[Desert35]

13 hours ago, Soulless Watcher said:

Fucking hell, I just finished the normal ending for Chaos;Child and currently I would rate it on par with Steins;Gate. It engaged in such way that I literally skipped a meal, because I didn't want to stop reading and I cried in such a way that hasn't happened since I first started reading visual novels. You know, when you start off with the cream of the crop with your Clannads, MuvLuvs, and Grisaias. Before you have to really shift the shit for anything palatable. 

It was like, "Oh fuck that's right, I'm a human being with emotions!!!" 

 

Damn I can't wait to have enough money to buy it since I loved Steins;Gate and Steins;gate 0 a looooot!!!!!

[Kurisu-Chan]

1 hour ago, Desert35 said:

Damn I can't wait to have enough money to buy it since I loved Steins;Gate and Steins;gate 0 a looooot!!!!!

Yep, for any Steins;Gate Lover, Chaos;Child is a good fix. 

[Decay]

8 hours ago, Kabu said:

Going to probably reread Little Busters for the EX routes but I do have a question about it. Does it add anything of substantial importance to the main routes? I'm probably going to go through the whole thing anyways as it's been a while and I've forgotten a lot of stuff but I'm just really curious.

I heard they made some pretty big changes to the second half of the Kud route. Not sure how big exactly or what's different, though.

[BunnyAdvocate]

I just finished up reading ebi-hime's new short VN, Lynne, and wrote up a few thoughts here if anyone is interested: https://bunnyadvocate.tumblr.com/post/167163373682/thoughts-on-ebi-himes-lynne

[onorub]

Finished Dies Irae for good and i think it was excellent, the recommended route order is a perfect crescendo from worst to best route and the side stories sealed the deal for me to put it in my top 10.

It feels to me like the writer wanted to make a hardcore version of Saint Seiya and stumbled into making this whole modern mythology to add depth to it. It would be interesting to see an approach on this series with a even more mythological take (maybe Kajiri Kamui Kagura does that, i don't know).

The biggest negative for me may have been the ideals of the main protagonist, i can't symphatise with the way he thinks at all after reading Shikkoku no Sharnoth.

[Plk_Lesiak]

I wonder, am I the only one starting to read through huge VNs at time when I have very little free time and getting frustrated that I can't make any progress with them? Currently that's me (not) reading Grisaia no Kajitsu and Hakuisei Aijou Izonshou (both are excellent though)...

Edited November 7, 2017 by Plk_Lesiak

[Akshay]

3 minutes ago, Plk_Lesiak said:

I wonder, am I the only one starting to read through huge VNs at time when I have very little free time and getting frustrated that I can't make any progress with them? Currently that's me (not) reading Grisaia no Kajitsu and Hakuisei Aijou Izonshou (both are excellent though)...

I usually end up reading the common routes pretty casually, and then binging the actual routes. For grisaia I think I took nearly a month for the common route, sometimes less than an hour a day. I binged every main route. I literally, skipped classes, meals, sleep and life.

I have no regrets.

[Dreamysyu]

18 minutes ago, Plk_Lesiak said:

I wonder, am I the only one starting to read through huge VNs at time when I have very little free time and getting frustrated that I can't make any progress with them? Currently that's me (not) reading Grisaia no Kajitsu and Hakuisei Aijou Izonshou (both are excellent though)...

I do that pretty often, but I don't really have much free time recently. Though it may be a good idea to stick to shorter titles in this situation, because when one VN gets stretched to several months of playtime, it might turn pretty boring by the end.

[Plk_Lesiak]

37 minutes ago, Akshay said:

I usually end up reading the common routes pretty casually, and then binging the actual routes. For grisaia I think I took nearly a month for the common route, sometimes less than an hour a day. I binged every main route. I literally, skipped classes, meals, sleep and life.

I have no regrets.

Hah, I would often do something similar, but ATM I literally don't even have time to lose sleep or skip stuff without generating some kind of disaster.  Not that it's beneath me to withdraw from real life for three days to finish some huge VN when I'm on vacation or something. :>

And I'm stuck on Grisaia's common route for three weeks now, jumping to short titles from time to time when I get really impatient. I expect to finish by the end of the year...

Edited November 7, 2017 by Plk_Lesiak

[Plk_Lesiak]

20 minutes ago, Dreamysyu said:

I do that pretty often, but I don't really have much free time recently. Though it may be a good idea to stick to shorter titles in this situation, because when one VN gets stretched to several months of playtime, it might turn pretty boring by the end.

Yeah, but when you don't even have much hope for vacation it's really hard to completely give up on the larger ones. The right time to read through Clannad might be in my next life if I took it that way.

[Not_At_All]

1 hour ago, Plk_Lesiak said:

I wonder, am I the only one starting to read through huge VNs at time when I have very little free time and getting frustrated that I can't make any progress with them? Currently that's me (not) reading Grisaia no Kajitsu and Hakuisei Aijou Izonshou (both are excellent though)...

I pretty much have free time only on weekends so I am normally avoiding big VNs (taking breaks in the middle is very unappealing to me). I make due with anime or short VNs with gameplay. However when I manage to get some time off, I binge VNs like a crazy person. Had two weeks on June - went through all Grisaias and Steins;Gate 0. Had 5 days off last week - read Tokyo Babel. Next is probably the week between Christmas and New Years, I am not sure what I'll read yet. SubaHibi looks great, but maybe I can squeeze in two. Maybe Danganronpa 3? I am looking forward to it already. 

[r0xm2n]

Lucky for me, I have plenty of time. Too much time even. I was able to binge 86+ hours in Grisaia in under 2 weeks. I havn't binged that hard on a game since Disgaea 5.

Still playing Wagamama High Spec https://vndb.org/v17823 . I ended up flagging Mihiro's route. I thought she was kinda pushy and clingy at first. I didn't expect her to be this frigging Adorable though! Just on looks and cuteness alone, she might be one of my favorite heroines.

[Ranzo]

Right now I'm playing :Flowers -Le volume sur printemps and the game so far is 50% hard blushing, 25% complements, 10% Catholic shit, 5% mystery and 10% tea. I'm loving it right now though the music has really gotten to me. I really liked it at first but hearing the same lovely chords for 9 hours is driving me mental. I'm all about that Mayuri.

 

Really not liking Rikka right now!!

Edited November 8, 2017 by Ranzo

[Soulless Watcher]

Well I finished Chaos;Child and while I'm not angry with the rest of it, I am disappointed. The individual character routes are much weaker than the initial route, but they serve their purpose in giving more insight into the motivations and history of the characters. I didn't necessarily see this as a problem, I thought they were solid building blocks of what I expected to be a kickass true ending. Well, I saw the true ending and it turns out that wasn't the point. 

The true ending is basically a minor extension of the common route that focuses on solving a shock reveal that has little to do with the rest of the story. Worse yet, all the heroines that we spent time getting to know in the character routes are completely sidelined and the main heroine is just kinda loitering around and does nothing. It ends with a stone cold bummer, a first in the Sciadv series that loves pulling happy endings from thin air, regardless if the story deserves it or not. 

There are also several smaller issues that annoy me. 

Spoiler

Hana Kazuki is completely pointless in regards to the larger plot and could be completely removed and you wouldn't have to change anything else in the story, she really feels like a character that was written in after a first or even second draft. Kurusu Nono's death is randomly retconed in the true ending, undermining the emotional impact of the initial event. Kunosato Mio's backstory is never expanded upon, but constantly hinted at. Itou Shinji dosn't really get any resolution and is kinda awkwardly pushed out of the story. Wakui Shyuuichi is revealed to be the major villain, but doesn't get defeated and only fucks off after making a vague bet with Takuru. YUI IS FUCKING DEAD IN THE STEINS;GATE WORLDLINE (AKA TRUE END). 

It feels like the common route was the main visual novel and the other routes were suppose to be part of a separate side release, like Steins;gate Senkei Kousoku no Phenogram. Which would be one thing, but as a visual novel vet I expect the good stuff to be saved for the true ending and not the common route, especially with a big budget title like this. If the vn was $10-20 cheaper and only came with the common route it would be an easy 10/10 for me, but with the extra fat watering down the overall experience it goes down to a 7.5/10. 

Edited November 8, 2017 by Soulless Watcher

[Plk_Lesiak]

9 hours ago, Ranzo said:

Right now I'm playing :Flowers -Le volume sur printemps and the game so far is 50% hard blushing, 25% complements, 10% Catholic shit, 5% mystery and 10% tea. I'm loving it right now though the music has really gotten to me. I really liked it at first but hearing the same lovely chords for 9 hours is driving me mental. I'm all about that Mayuri.

Really not liking Rikka right now!!

How dare you? Rikka is the best girl! Can't argue with the general description though, it's a peculiar experience, even though the whole thing is very much in my taste (after the 5th hour mark a few more tunes would do miracles for it though). VNDB suggests that the second part of the series is getting translated, with Yeagaki as the protagonist it should be a bit less melodramatic and more intriguing when it goes to character interactions. Suou's "shy girl" routine got old pretty fast for me.