What are you playing?

[Thyndd]

3 hours ago, littleshogun said:

Although I think I'll skip plus Mosaic for now though (I'l consider to read those sex scenes later).

They don't really add anything. It's just plain fanservice  Actually aside from Sion's scene all the others are just Ryou's erotic dreams lmao. 

[r0xm2n]

Back to Fureraba. Decided to pursue the unnamed "Mystery Girl X". And after many scenes, I finally actually meet her.......

....... and she's not what I expected at all!

I was expecting an Ice Queen Kuudere  . Instead I got....

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Kotomi from Clannad basically....

This should be real interesting

[adamstan]

Misaki's route was great - for me second only to Rina (but very close).

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The whole thing about her image that her classmates built versus her true self - it's really good.

* * *

I finished Hatsukoi after-stories. I'm little disappointed, as they were mostly just bunch of h-scenes thrown together. Fortunately there were also some lovely moments in between (especially in Maya's - it reminded me again how great she was).

Now I'm going to read Crescendo.

Edited June 12, 2018 by adamstan

[Larxe1]

Primal Hearts 2 spoilers ahead

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Primal Hearts 2 After playing Primal Hearts 1, I didnt really like how they went straight to confessions and the heroines love the protag so much their personality kind of changes.

Primal hearts 2 apparently recognized this and focused more on the formation of the relationship(well i only played usagi and alysticia). I'll only talk about the surprise, Usagi's route was unexpectedly dramatic and well-done. It didn't feel like i was playing primal hearts 2. The other heroines threw themselves at the MC's feet while Usagi was more subtle and well'done drama. Good drama+Good Formation of the couple= Best route in the game. What i didn't like and what surprised me that i didn't like was the lack of ichaicha. After the drama's all well and done, they threw some H-scenes together and didn't offer a satisfying view of their relationship and lovey-dovey scenes.

Primal hearts 2 was a great game because of Usagi's route and Alysticia's is good as well. I skipped a lot of content in the common route because it felt really identical to primal hearts 1 and felt really formulaic. Problem in Student council , then MC somehow solves it with the heroines loving him for it. If you're bored to death by the common route, just when you're sure you know the characters already or after episode 1, just skip to the routes.

 

[PiggiesGoMoo]

I was playing Utwarerumono.  So far it's pretty decent, and I've heard the sequels are top notch. However, I'm now discouraged because I found out that the sequels are PS4/Vita only.... I thought I'd be able to play them on my PS3.   The funny thing is that I actually developed and published a Vita game in college for a senior project, but I don't own a Vita 

I guess I'll switch to another game for now.

[HataVNI]

Chaos;Child 
World End Economica Part 2
Utawarerumono Mask of Truth
Utawarerumono Mask of Deception
Disgaea 5
Root: Letter
Hajimete no Okaasan
Bernd und das Geheimnis von Unteralterbach 

and

Sharin no Kuni - Himawari no Shoujo

[BookwormOtaku]

Okay, I finally got around to finishing Ritsuko's route in Princess Evangile and...wow. It has been a long time since I've played a route where I really liked the heroine, her relationship with the protagonist and arc, only for it to be brought down hard by an incredibly dumb final act. Even when the whole conflict was over, I was basically like this to the end credits (even including the final ero scene)

 

[r0xm2n]

Finished Misaki's route in Fureraba. That was the best route I've read too. That ending was pretty cute too.

[adamstan]

Yeah. I think I slightly preferred Rina's route, but for girls themselves - tough choice. Misaki was sooo cuuuute!

 

As for Ritsuko - I played PE few months ago, but her route's ending didn't stand out to me in a negative way - I liked it all.

And SD CG of jealous Ritsuko hiding behind plant - that was one of the funniest images in a game

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Edited June 14, 2018 by adamstan

[adamstan]

I just finished Crescendo

It was good, though a little bit short. With some after-credits epilogues it would be much better, but still I enjoyed it.

First I went with Kaho/Kyoko route (Kaho's ending, Kyoko's ending and then neutral ending). It was OK, from that pair I think I liked Kyoko's route more.

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She's cute. Her 2nd CG, when she rest on Ryo's chest/shoulder was for some reason really emotional for me.

Kaho's part of the route was also good.

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When she sings "Scarborough Fair" - oh, how beautiful that was...

And even so-called "bad ending" for this route wasn't really bad, it is more of "normal/neutral" ending, and actually has rather happy feeling to it as well.

That route was your typical school romance story. The other three get much heavier. Yuka's route is probably the best in whole VN. She does rather bad first impression - so I felt about her the same as protagonist did. But when you enter her route, prepare yourself for a ride... I don't want to spoil the whole story. Probably most emotional moment in this route for me was

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Date at the amusement park, when Yuka's feelings are described.

And then at the end there's hidden Miyu's route, that hits hard with some KeyMagic^TM - the ending actually made me cry.

***

The game looks good. I had to get used to art style - those eyes looked weird at the beginning, but after a while it was OK, and the girls were really beautiful. It actually looked better than screenshots on VNDB - I'm not sure why is it like that. Backgrounds are nice too. There were two CGs where bodies defied laws of physics (or some parts were badly dislocated )

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Kaho in Ryo's room when they were about to kiss - her lower part is bent in a strange way and doesn't seem connected at all to the rest of the body. And Kaori after their h-scene in a car - her right leg doesn't fit at all.

Other than that - no complaints.

I really liked the music - it set the mood well. For some reason, it reminded me of Katawa Shoujo. I know that music in KS is actually different, but I got similar feelings.

Localization could use some more editing - it was readable, but there were lots of awkward phrases. And it suffers from siimilar bug as Kazoku Keikaku - there is one missing line in Miyu's route, where there's voice but no text at all.

Overally - good, although I wish it was a bit longer. 8/10

I'm not sure what to read next. Maybe I'll take short break from VNs waiting for summer Steam sale, and then get Clannad and Symphonic Rain.

[r0xm2n]

Took a mini break from Fureraba, to clear out a short game from my backlog.

To the Moon isn't technically a VN. It's a story driven RPGMaker game. It has such an emotionally impactful story though. So for all intents and purposes, To the Moon can be counted as a VN (even if it isn't technically).

Some of the silly memes (including a DBZ reference) had me cracking up.

On the other hand, the topic of autism hit very close to home for me. The game even mentions one Tony Attwood, a real life expert on autism ....... and I was diagnosed by him personally.

So ....... yeah.

The music was pretty good too (it's somewhat similar to ef - a fairy tale of the two).

I'll give it a 9/10

Well worth it if you're after a 6/7 hour game.

[littleshogun]

Right now I'm continuing Fureraba, and as of now I'm just entering Yuzuyu's route. I knew it's quite late here, because back at early June I'd sort of addicted with Amayui. Let's see what Yuzuyu's route will offer, although I'm more orless just expect another sappy couple though.

[adamstan]

Yuzuyu herself is fine, although her route is probably the weakest one.

[Larxe1]

Playing Minamijuujisei Renka atm, not really interested in Mitsuki and Sakuya, probably gonna skip them and go ahead to kanori(true route of some sorts). Anyone else who played this knows if If this is a bad idea? I don't really want to play a charage and force myself to play through someone I wasnt interested in

[littleshogun]

In that case, let's see what I can write about Yuzuyu's route later then. Although in this case, I would like to think Yu-Gi-Oh ARC V homage because we have a woman named Yuzu at ARC V, both of Yuzu and Yuzuyu have pink hair, and more importantly both of them have pendulum in their live (Yuzuyu's personality is easily swing like a pendulum, while Yuzu is live in place where Pendulum summoning is first occurred).

[Black99]

About to finish Shiniyuku Kimi, Yakata ni Mebuku Zouo (warning, novel with extreme content), I haven't read a novel like this with torture and violence (plus gore lol) since Euphoria, I don't read VN like this often but sometimes I want something different but for me is very good, with a simple history but with good content, I won't to explain everything because I would sound like a weird guy lol. 

And I also reading Steins;Gate 0, but for I don't find it good like the first novel, I read 1-2 hours and quit the game, have finished 3 routes, I'll try to complete it because anime is on air and you know... spoilers. 

[adamstan]

I started Tsujidou-san no Jun'ai Road and I'm having great fun with it. Seems really promising.

[Plk_Lesiak]

I was watching some let's plays of particularly shitty EVNs (it seems it's most of what I'm doing lately ) and on three different occasions I've seen people complaining about "bad localization". I guess it's something of an achievement, having your VN so badly written that it looks like a poor translation from Japanese, good job Sakura Spirit, Sakura Swim Club, Yozora Rhapsody.

Edited June 17, 2018 by Plk_Lesiak

[adamstan]

You could almost say that bad translation became some kind of trope for VNs

[Ranzo]

Decided to start playing ToHeart2 based on the recommendation by one of the few people here that is actually older than me. It's pretty laid back and I'm really enjoying it so far.

[HataVNI]

13 hours ago, Plk_Lesiak said:

I was watching some let's plays of particularly shitty EVNs (it seems it's most of what I'm doing lately ) and on three different occasions I've seen people complaining about "bad localization". I guess it's something of an achievement, having your VN so badly written that it looks like a poor translation from Japanese, good job Sakura Spirit, Sakura Swim Club, Yozora Rhapsody.

Hahaha Yozora Rhapsody. The creator is someone I know personally. Gonna give her that feedback

[Plk_Lesiak]

8 minutes ago, EroHataVNI said:

Hahaha Yozora Rhapsody. The creator is someone I know personally. Gonna give her that feedback

She's German, right? That at least makes the clunky English in all her games slightly more understandable than in Winged Cloud's stuff, although it can be super-bad at times.

Edited June 18, 2018 by Plk_Lesiak

[Inorin]

After 1 month of passively reading Little Busters, I've finally completed it! While I wasn't able to enjoy some routes, I absolutely enjoyed Refrain and Saya's route. Saya's personality kind of reminded me of Tohsaka Rin from FSN so obviously she was going to be No.1 for me. Honestly, I spent so much time on the EX routes (especially Saya's route) that I already kind of forgot certain details surrounding Refrain, but I would say that Refrain is one of the best Key-written routes I've ever read. Refrain and Saya aside, I also liked the routes for Kurugaya and Sasami. Haruka's route was surprisingly good and Kanata was decent as well.

Rin (Refrain): 8.5/10

Saya: 8.5/10

Sasami: 8/10

Kurugaya: 8/10

Haruka: 7.5/10

Kanata: 7.5/10

Mio: 7/10

Kud: 6/10

Komari: 5/10

Overall (not average): 8/10

 

 

Edited June 18, 2018 by wei123

[snowbell55]

3 hours ago, wei123 said:

After 1 month of passively reading Little Busters, I've finally completed it! While I wasn't able to enjoy some routes, I absolutely enjoyed Refrain and Saya's route. Saya's personality kind of reminded me of Tohsaka Rin from FSN so obviously she was going to be No.1 for me. Honestly, I spent so much time on the EX routes (especially Saya's route) that I already kind of forgot certain details surrounding Refrain, but I would say that Refrain is one of the best Key-written routes I've ever read. Refrain and Saya aside, I also liked the routes for Kurugaya and Sasami. Haruka's route was surprisingly good and Kanata was decent as well.

Refrain (Natsume Rin): 8.5/10

Saya: 8.5/10

Sasami: 8/10

Kurugaya: 8/10

Haruka: 7.5/10

Kanata: 7.5/10

Mio: 7/10

Kud: 6/10

Komari: 5/10

Overall (not average): 8/10

YES! Tokido Saya Best Girl! :D. I really liked how the route tried something different and honestly managed to pull it off. The character too was really excellent though she in several ways needed help XD. 

The scene where 

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they go to the hot spring for the second time, only for her to realize she forgot to drain it and so they have to sit in the tub together again, and she yells out "******** I FORGOT TO DRAIN THE POOL" - I had to pause the VN and belly laugh for a few minutes it was too funny :D. That and the one where they go to the arcade and she starts winning and making a bunch of noise :D. LOL and the pyramid.

That was an excellent route :D.

[Ranzo]

Finished 3:10 To Yuma's route in ToHeart2 and I really liked it though she donned glasses towards the end. I didn't like that. Still it was a enjoyable romp