What are you playing?

[PrincessOfFinch]

I'm currently playing Little Busters and I'm about to start Higurashi. I'm also playing The Fruit of Grisaia on and off. Little Busters is so good so far

[Stormwolf]

Majikoi again:

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It's weird i haven't heard about this before. I'd select Momoyo's route for the last if i knew what would happen at the end. The route was awesome, no doubt about that. I loved almost every part of it. That war was an amazing read. Even though i don't really like the "oneesan" heroines, i could not dislike Momoyo. She's just awesome. What i did not like was that Cap broke a serious brocode of trying to steal a friend (best friend in this case) love interest. It might have been meant as comedic, but in my eyes it was a dirt move which now affects my view on him as a whole.

 

[ChaosRaven]

I dropped Sakura Sakura - it was just too annoying to read. Having a completely useless and indecisive hetare protagonist just isn't fun. Especially in a scenario with lots of bullying.

I kinda liked Kurumi and Sakura though, but Tooru mostly seemed to interact just with Nanako, Akira and Naoki instead. And those three really got on my nerves after a while.

It would have been nice to be able to have Masashi as the protagonist, since he's actually a really cool guy, but you're only allowed to play two dorks instead. *sigh*

Rating: 4/10

[Jun Inoue]

4 hours ago, Stormwolf said:

Majikoi again:

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It's weird i haven't heard about this before. I'd select Momoyo's route for the last if i knew what would happen at the end. The route was awesome, no doubt about that. I loved almost every part of it. That war was an amazing read. Even though i don't really like the "oneesan" heroines, i could not dislike Momoyo. She's just awesome. What i did not like was that Cap broke a serious brocode of trying to steal a friend (best friend in this case) love interest. It might have been meant as comedic, but in my eyes it was a dirt move which now affects my view on him as a whole.

 

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How so? Momoyo had already rejected Yamato. Don't see it as any kind of 'dick move' unless you mean that any romantic interest becomes forever forbidden between bros. I'd then comment, however, on the slightly problematic drops of possessiveness (i.e. "she's mine"). Momoyo's choice of Yamato is meaningful because it's that, a choice that she's allowed to make.

 

[Stormwolf]

4 hours ago, Jun Inoue said:

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How so? Momoyo had already rejected Yamato. Don't see it as any kind of 'dick move' unless you mean that any romantic interest becomes forever forbidden between bros. I'd then comment, however, on the slightly problematic drops of possessiveness (i.e. "she's mine"). Momoyo's choice of Yamato is meaningful because it's that, a choice that she's allowed to make.

 

Capt didnt know about romance and everyone knew Yamato and Momoyo had a thing going on. Dont forget that Yamato explained why he was rejected, and that was because he hadnt fulfilled his promise to her, which was what he was doing at the time. Capt just found out he liked her blushing face after she and Yamato were flirting aftrr the war, and went for her without reserve and care. It was a dick move.

[Jun Inoue]

43 minutes ago, Stormwolf said:

Capt didnt know about romance and everyone knew Yamato and Momoyo had a thing going on. Dont forget that Yamato explained why he was rejected, and that was because he hadnt fulfilled his promise to her, which was what he was doing at the time. Capt just found out he liked her blushing face after she and Yamato were flirting aftrr the war, and went for her without reserve and care. It was a dick move.

There is no such thing as claiming women, though. It would have been a dick move if Yamato hadn't even confessed or expressed his feelings in any way and Captian just passed all over him cuz "omg I just realized she's super cute". The moment Yamato confessed, and claimed that he'd work to become the man he had promised to be, the choice was on Momoyo's hands. Yamato's feelings were known to her. There can be no unfairness or dick moves because Captain isn't trampling over Yamato, impeding or denying his confession; it has already happened. Hell, Gakuto tends to always try and flirt with Momoyo, and I don't see any complains about how he doesn't "back off". It's only a dick move if you don't consider Momoyo her own person, with her own mind and capacity to make choices. At the end of the day, the only possibility would have been for her to answer yes or no to captain. And if she had said yes, it would have meant that she liked him more than Yamato (who had already expressed his feelings), and it would be Yamato's dick move to try and keep her on a "reserved" status until she said yes to him. Apart from the fact that Captain doesn't rush without reserve, he openly tells Yamato, and he "accepts".

[Stormwolf]

1 hour ago, Jun Inoue said:

There is no such thing as claiming women, though. It would have been a dick move if Yamato hadn't even confessed or expressed his feelings in any way and Captian just passed all over him cuz "omg I just realized she's super cute". The moment Yamato confessed, and claimed that he'd work to become the man he had promised to be, the choice was on Momoyo's hands. Yamato's feelings were known to her. There can be no unfairness or dick moves because Captain isn't trampling over Yamato, impeding or denying his confession; it has already happened. Hell, Gakuto tends to always try and flirt with Momoyo, and I don't see any complains about how he doesn't "back off". It's only a dick move if you don't consider Momoyo her own person, with her own mind and capacity to make choices. At the end of the day, the only possibility would have been for her to answer yes or no to captain. And if she had said yes, it would have meant that she liked him more than Yamato (who had already expressed his feelings), and it would be Yamato's dick move to try and keep her on a "reserved" status until she said yes to him. Apart from the fact that Captain doesn't rush without reserve, he openly tells Yamato, and he "accepts".

Between friends at that age there is certainly a thing like claiming a woman. Same goes for girls as they do the same. I didnt read everything as i cant read sjw nonsense without getting pissed off. Yeah, go try getting it on with a girl your friend is either trying to date or is dating, but not in a official relationship with and see how long your friendship lasts.  I mean, even if you're a sjw its still allowed to make use of your head.

[Jun Inoue]

10 hours ago, Stormwolf said:

Between friends at that age there is certainly a thing like claiming a woman. Same goes for girls as they do the same. I didnt read everything as i cant read sjw nonsense without getting pissed off. Yeah, go try getting it on with a girl your friend is either trying to date or is dating, but not in a official relationship with and see how long your friendship lasts.  I mean, even if you're a sjw its still allowed to make use of your head.

Well, this certainly derived into a very out of topic discussion. I'll just finish my participation (would have no problem through private messaging) saying that I find it a bit of a sad accusation, to accuse me of being some sort of radical leftist for believing in female autonomy and choice over the "bros before hoes" bro code mentality, and waving away my argument with a disrespectful and insulting "I didn't read everything cuz it's sjw nonsense".

[Stormwolf]

51 minutes ago, Jun Inoue said:

Well, this certainly derived into a very out of topic discussion. I'll just finish my participation (would have no problem through private messaging) saying that I find it a bit of a sad accusation, to accuse me of being some sort of radical leftist for believing in female autonomy and choice over the "bros before hoes" bro code mentality, and waving away my argument with a disrespectful and insulting "I didn't read everything cuz it's sjw nonsense".

I'll admit that i went a bit far with that comment. Still, however female autonomy has nothing to do with male friendship dynamics and unspoken rules though.

[Dreamysyu]

Anyway, I'm still playing I Got Transferred to Another World with my Whole School, which is Now Located on a Giant Overpowered Whale, and...

Heh, it looks like I found another Type-Moon reference.

Anyway, this game is definitely fun. The story overall is a lot more fleshed out than in Aselia, but it also lacks ambition, so the result is more or less the same, maybe a bit worse. The first 4 chapters were pretty episodic, each focused on adding a new heroine to the protag's harem, and the story was pretty lighthearted overall. Then it suddenly turned a lot darker and more focused on the overarching story, and it this point it finally started to feel like I'm playing a sequel rather than just another game by the same authors. At the same time, technically this game is a huge improvement over Aselia, and the gameplay is also flashed out a bit. I'm actually impressed how many voice actors I'm already familiar with by their later (or earlier) works. As for the character sprites, faces of some characters look a bit too similar, but overall they look nice. At first I wasn't a fan of the new map movement system, but it turned out that you just need to get used to it.

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Well, I didn't think that a fanservice scene could bring me so many feels.

I wonder, is Narukana somehow related to Orupha?

 

Edited February 25, 2019 by Dreamysyu
What's English?

[littleshogun]

If you want understand some heroines backstories (Naya and Ruputna (Same seiyuu as Orpha)) then you better read their skill description because Xuse did write their background in there. How Xuse can decide to do that is a mystery, but I assume that they may run on time constraint so that they didn't have time to implement the backstories into the routes.

[Plk_Lesiak]

I think I'm around the middle of Heart of the Woods and it's awesome. Wonderfully produced, full of mystery and I've just stumbled in it upon one of the most interesting plot twists I've seen in a while. It's exactly what I hoped it to be: the polish of Highway Blossoms coupled with bold storytelling that makes the whole thing feel much more fresh and original. I'm still yet to experience things I've seen reviewers complaining about, but if it continued with the same level of enjoyment and quality till the end, I'd seriously consider giving it a 5/5 rating. And not just because of my yuri bias, as so far the romance is far from being its main focus.

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I just hope they don't just plain reverse Maddie dying. I can't imagine them doing that without the whole thing turning cheesy as fuck and losing much of its charm.

 

Edited February 23, 2019 by Plk_Lesiak

[PrincessOfFinch]

I wanted something kinda short but nice so I decided to go with Heart of the Woods as like a side thing to play while I'm playing the long VNs. I'm not very far into it but the art is stunning and I love the music

[Dreamysyu]

On 2/23/2019 at 11:13 AM, littleshogun said:

If you want understand some heroines backstories (Naya and Ruputna (Same seiyuu as Orpha)) then you better read their skill description because Xuse did write their background in there. How Xuse can decide to do that is a mystery, but I assume that they may run on time constraint so that they didn't have time to implement the backstories into the routes.

Yeah, I'm trying not to skip skill descriptions. I noticed it pretty early that many of them contain some extra information about the characters (and some of them are pretty funny). Well it's the second time when I heard that the routes for secondary heroines were pretty disappointing, so I'm not even sure if I'm going to play through them. I'll see after I finish Nozomi, Satsuki and Narukana if I'm still ready to replay the whole game 3 more times.

[Clephas]

Currently playing the Kin'iro Loveriche fandisc... probably post my review/commentary later today.  Ayaka route is eroero/hilarious.

[adamstan]

I'm playing ToHeart PSE, and I'm liking it so far. Will probably take me some time to finish it, but it's fun.

[r0xm2n]

After debating for a few days, I finally picked my next read, and bought Island.

I've been reading quite a few moeges lately (I finished Chrono Clock the other week). So I wanted something with some drama....

[adamstan]

Also, I forgot to mention in my previous post - ToHeart is another VN (after YU-NO and AIR) voiced by Aya Hisakawa among others

Here she voices Tomoko Hoshina, Akari's class president (and one of the heroines), who speaks Kansai-ben:

BTW - I have to say, that I again experience something similar as with AIR or Crescendo - the VN looks much better when I play it than on the screenshots. When seeing some screenshots on VNDB, I was worried a bit about character design, but as I'm reading, they look fine.

Edited February 25, 2019 by adamstan

[PrincessOfFinch]

Playing 428: Shibuya Scramble. I wanted something different from the other VNs I'm playing

Edited February 25, 2019 by PrincessOfFinch
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[Inorin]

2 hours ago, PrincessOfFinch said:

Playing 428: Tokyo Scramble. I wanted something different from the other VNs I'm playing

Isn't it Shibuya (instead of Tokyo)? Anyways, I hope you like it!  It's probably one of the only few VNs which make full good use of the branching system and does it very effectively, unlike so many other VNs with arbitrary choices

Edited February 25, 2019 by wei123

[alpacaman]

Read and finished Fatal Twelve over the last couple of days. I really liked it. Building a Battle Royale scenario around the regrets of people who already died, despite being not exactly revolutionary, is an interesting spin on the genre, allowing the storytelling to focus on the characters instead of action and suspense (although there still is plenty of both). And the characters (at least the ones that make it beyond the first few rounds) really are Fatal Twelve's strong suit, especially the ones who are framed as villains at the beginning. I wasn't that much into the love interest, but I think that's due to personal tastes and not bad writing.

The only weak part in FT is its final act, which is too reliant on info-dumping and deus-ex-machinas. But it's not that long anyways, so I don't care that much.

[PrincessOfFinch]

45 minutes ago, wei123 said:

Isn't it Shibuya (instead of Tokyo)? Anyways, I hope you like it!  It's probably one of the only few VNs which make full good use of the branching system and does it very effectively, unlike so many other VNs with arbitrary choices

Haha yeah, it is, I just fixed it. Huh, really? I'm only at the intro but it's pretty interesting so far

[AustriaVNFan]

I started ChuSingura a week ago. I finished chapter 1 yesterday and cannot really tell where this is going. This one has the potential to go in any direction (from bad to awesome).

2 things I can say for sure already:

• The characters are beautifully drawn
• The translation has quite a lot of errors

[PrincessOfFinch]

The other day, I started playing Subarashiki Hibi because I remembered that I started it around the middle of last year but didn't get that far, but I found it intriguing. Hopefully I'll get far into this time and finish it

[Stormwolf]

Just finished Majikoi and about to start on S

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Well, that was a terrible ending for a true route. I did like the route in itself, but it was the usual farewell thing with people saying their farewells as they go their different ways (even though none are even done with school). Yamato is without a gf and while the route itself was pretty awesome, it did make for a rather bad ending. True heroine where art thou? Well, hopefully S makes this ending somewhat better.