What are you playing?

[HotTrax]

I've only played Eden* but I'd say that is worth $1.99.

https://www.indiegala.com/monday

[kingdomcome]

I've only played Eden* but I'd say that is worth $1.99.

https://www.indiegala.com/monday

 

great bundle

[Thunderbro]

Thanks for sharing the bundle, I picked it up. 

[Down]

Currently reading Inganock. I fell in love at first sight with Sakurai's writing. She has a very neat and clear prose based on usually short sentences and use of similar words. The way she controls the rhythm of her text is really pleasant. This is the kind of writing even a newb like me can appreciate. I find her fight scenes especially engrossing, although I can see why people would complain about repetition, haha.

 

The VN is really beautiful, in a style that seems to be recurrent in Liar-Soft games (it reminded me of Forest but I suppose they have more games like that). I like its atmosphere a lot so far.

 

Several elements make it obvious Sakurai is taking from Utena, which pushes me to try to see exactly how she's using it and to think about the meaning behind each fight. Being a fan of Utena and the few works it inspired in animation, I'm very happy to see its influence extend to some eroge, and I'm really curious to see where she ends up leading the plot. I won't make theories before having read the whole thing though.

[TexasDice]

Just finished Kotori's route in KonoSora. Not much to say here - they nailed the presentation as usual, the ending was really nice and moving. There also was no weirdly dumb drama this time around, so bonus points for that too. Not sure if I'll read the rest of the routes (twins and Amane) right away, or if I'll stall it for a bit again... I was really looking forward to Sayooshi for quite some time now, so I might just as well get that out of the way first, since it's apparently on the shorter side.

The twins are lacking, but Amane's route is really good.

[Nashetania]

The twins are lacking, but Amane's route is really good.

I think all routes were great... except the twins like you mentioned.

But yea, Amane is the best! 

[Fred the Barber]

I agree with the rest of the peanut gallery on IMMHW - Amane's route was actually my favorite, but I didn't enjoy either of the twins' routes. Amane's route also fills in a lot of the noticeably-missing backstory about the past, which you won't get in any other route.

 

 

You should definitely give ef a go. It has almost the same quality of CGs, but it's much longer to beat.

 

I'll definitely consider it... but I've seen the whole anime series already, and parts of Melodies were pretty rough for me, so I don't know if I could handle that whole VN. Yes, I'm aware there is a lot more in the VN than in the anime, especially Kei, but... it's the content that's going to be there that's the problem, more so than that I've already seen it.

[sub-zer0]

Just finished Gekkou no Carnevale, Was absolutely amazing and every moment reading it was a pleasure....Take that back, not every moment, there were bad moments, but It was fantastic,first and forth most, action packed, I have not read anything this action packed since Muv-Luv Alternative, and its so damn hard to find action packed VNs because of the language barrier, translation would scrw up the words and the story, so a lot of action VN gets cut. Excellent music , the music plays at the right time and its the perfect sound track for that setting, fits in perfectly. The story and characters are really well written, and as you read deeper into the story, you understand the characters better and see their other sides. It also has a easily hate-able antagonist that you keep on your head, the moment he appeared, I was like: fuck it he has to die, NOW, Nitroplus did a really great job doing this, Just like phantom of Inferno( I hated the antagonist from phantom of inferno too), its as if you feel uneasiness when reading the story because hes alive, you know hes gonna do something, and you want him to dead because until hes dead, the story is not gonna have a good end. The game is realistic, there is no happy end where everyone is safe and unharmed...people that are close to you will get hurt, and they will die...MC isn't superman , can't save everyone....Enough praises about the game, going back to Majikoi, have to finish the game before the patch comes out...hopefully by the time I finish the game, the patch is out 

[Kanbe]

Aaand done with Angel Beats. It was nothing short from amazing. Normally I'm not into VNs with absurd amount of choices like this but I loved everything about it. Can't wait for the next game 

[Turnip Sensei]

I finally finished Muv-Luv Alternative after taking a few months long break from it.

I literally took the break just before Sadoshima Operation, if I had read little farther back then I would have finished MLA much sooner. It got too interesting to stop reading after I pick it up again, though the constant speeches about everyone's reasons for fighting started to get little tiring.  

The final mission was just amazing, but the way they concluded the story was pretty unexpected. I was expecting for the story to continue longer and I would have liked too see little more conclusion for BETA-world.

 

And the ending... All I can say is that now I kinda want to play Muv-Luv Altered Fable.

[sub-zer0]

I finally finished Muv-Luv Alternative after taking a few months long break from it.

I literally took the break just before Sadoshima Operation, if I had read little farther back then I would have finished MLA much sooner. It got too interesting to stop reading after I pick it up again, though the constant speeches about everyone's reasons for fighting started to get little tiring.  

The final mission was just amazing, but the way they concluded the story was pretty unexpected. I was expecting for the story to continue longer and I would have liked too see little more conclusion for BETA-world.

 

And the ending... All I can say is that now I kinda want to play Muv-Luv Altered Fable.

I Felt like the ending was kinda rushed too, and it made me wanna play the sequel too,lol, but it is unfortunate that is untranslated. 

The ending was just like boom, your back to your world, all the sadness is gone, now cheer up because of this 360 turn from sadness to happiness, and it's almost as if they are advertising the next game, because the ending is all happy and in Alter fable everyone is happy too

[kooolm]

Experiencing post plot depression after finishining eden*.

[HotTrax]

Experiencing post plot depression after finishing eden*.

 

RIP

[Decay]

Finished the Ayu route in Kanon. Yep, certainly seems weaker than Key's other games so far.

[Getsuya]

I decided to do at least one route of Higurashi before going back and finishing &. I'm trying to go through Sui in the proper order so I'm doing Onikakushi first. This is my first time playing far enough into Onikakushi to see all the stuff that wasn't in the anime, but man people weren't joking when they said the anime was a horribly slashed and abridged version of the story. The game definitely gives you a lot more time to soak in all the aspects of 'normalcy' that exist before they shatter that normalcy.

 

Also Satoko is adorable when she isn't being a brat. She's almost constantly a brat in the anime except for a few key moments, but in the game there are a lot more instances of Satoko just talking to Keiichi normally, neither in 'ohoho' mode or 'nii-nii' mode, and when she's at her most normal she's at her most likeable.

 

Also the character sprites are bad. Not as bad as the originals, of course, but man does Rika's face look derpy, and they have Satoko looking like she's talking through clenched teeth half the time (I have a complex about faces. Just ask Ren about the time he showed me to a figure shop... half the remarks out of my mouth were variants of 'yeah but... that face... eugh'). At least the backgrounds look nice. The OST so far isn't up to Umineko standards, but I've heard the Higurashi OST improves exponentially from game to game.

[LiquidShu]

Lost my laptop charger cable and put a stall to any and all vn's I was reading. Found it earlier today though so huzzah! 

 

Aside from Imouto Paradise, I feel like putting MGFITP on hold, as well as School Days. Instead I am playing a shit ton of HuniePop and want to start Sunrider Academy. The only gripe, that I fully blame myself for, is not realizing it was a dating sim. I tend to suck at stats especially when I don't have a focus. Does anyone have any tips on what to max, or go for?

[Vokoca]

I decided to do at least one route of Higurashi before going back and finishing &. I'm trying to go through Sui in the proper order so I'm doing Onikakushi first. This is my first time playing far enough into Onikakushi to see all the stuff that wasn't in the anime, but man people weren't joking when they said the anime was a horribly slashed and abridged version of the story. The game definitely gives you a lot more time to soak in all the aspects of 'normalcy' that exist before they shatter that normalcy.

 

Also Satoko is adorable when she isn't being a brat. She's almost constantly a brat in the anime except for a few key moments, but in the game there are a lot more instances of Satoko just talking to Keiichi normally, neither in 'ohoho' mode or 'nii-nii' mode, and when she's at her most normal she's at her most likeable.

 

Also the character sprites are bad. Not as bad as the originals, of course, but man does Rika's face look derpy, and they have Satoko looking like she's talking through clenched teeth half the time (I have a complex about faces. Just ask Ren about the time he showed me to a figure shop... half the remarks out of my mouth were variants of 'yeah but... that face... eugh'). At least the backgrounds look nice. The OST so far isn't up to Umineko standards, but I've heard the Higurashi OST improves exponentially from game to game.

Welcome to the infinite VN, fellow reader. For the 'proper order' most of the new arcs in the first 'file' assume that you've read Watanagashi at least, so you might go with that - or just leave them all for last. You can actually get all of them from the common route (includin'g Natsumi's, Someutsushi), even if it gives you the choice in the scenario select, just somehting I found interesting.

 

Also the cut content will get worse the further you get. The first season is still good, believe me... Kai gets so bad that entire characters get cut, but I suppose we should've expected no less from DEEN. 

 

And Satoko is still worst girl, normal moments or not.

[Tawm]

I'm going through Eden* to get a break from the kind of VN I usually read. Impressive amount of CGs.

[Getsuya]

Welcome to the infinite VN, fellow reader. For the 'proper order' most of the new arcs in the first 'file' assume that you've read Watanagashi at least, so you might go with that - or just leave them all for last. You can actually get all of them from the common route (includin'g Natsumi's, Someutsushi), even if it gives you the choice in the scenario select, just somehting I found interesting.

 

Also the cut content will get worse the further you get. The first season is still good, believe me... Kai gets so bad that entire characters get cut, but I suppose we should've expected no less from DEEN. 

 

And Satoko is still worst girl, normal moments or not.

The most shocking thing that they cut in Onikakushi so far is

the fact that, after getting Keiichi all riled up with the curse talk at the festival, Tomitake turns around and then points out that it's all a coincidence and by the end he's saying there's no way it'll happen again this year. Much, much different from the way they end it in the anime.

Oh and lol hi Rina. If I remember correctly YOU didn't show up until Tatarigoroshi in the anime.

 

(And then you were just a corpse... you don't show up as a character in the anime until Kai

[Jade]

Will start playing Neyuki no Gene, since it's made by the same company who made 'Nanairo Reincarnation' i have high hopes for it. Here's hoping i won't get disappointed

[sub-zer0]

Still playing Majikoi, just finished Miyako's route, It was pretty good actually, the first half is so freaking boring and such a drag, but later on it gets good and it gets real good, it worked out really well because the first half was so boring, so the climb to the climax felt pretty intense. Going to do Mayucchi's route next, also does anyone know if you get CGs in bad ends or it has nothing to do with CGs? 

[BookwormOtaku]

I just finished Sonya's route in Harukoi Otome...and until I can gather my thoughts to write a review this best sums up my thoughts on it:

[TexasDice]

And that was one of Harukoi Otome's better routes. I can't believe I still remember how boring and confusing it's awfulness really is.

 

They even sell a magic potion, which makes you forget about Harukoi Otome after you drink it. It's called clorox.

[Getsuya]

Keiichi's first meeting with Ooishi in the VN is so utterly and completely different from the one in the anime it's not even funny. I mean yeah they had to cram in a bunch of backstory and exposition, but the entire feel of the Onikakushi chapter of the anime is COMPLETELY WRONG. I'm starting to see why people who play the games are so pained by the anime.

[NobleWolf]

Currently playing Walkure Romanze More&More and Ao no Kanata no Four Rhythm.