What are you playing?

[Vokoca]

Stalled my KnS re-reading a bit in favour of HatsuSaku which proves to be surprisingly interesting. Really liking the MC - why are MCs going through some sort of a crisis so fun? I need a VN that focuses on this hardcore, the MC should get rekt, and I should get rekt with him/her. 

  On 8/31/2015 at 10:35 AM, Ayana said:

Otome Riron~ More fashion design setting hijinks await + trap. Fun stuff.

Aaaah I am looking forward to this way more than I should have, what is this.

[WinterfuryZX]

Ayakashibito: mehhhhhh... the usual high school, I'm just sick of this setting, I hope dominion will reduce the building to ashes.

[FinalChaos]

Well I'm quite a bit late to be posting this now but I have finished two routes epilogues in Sharin no Kuni namely Natsumi's and Sachi's.

I ended up feeling a bit too lazy to go-through it once again (even though it's only ctrl-skip) and it's semi-stalled right now.

 

Since I was busy when I finished it for the first time I'll give my thoughts on it now.

 

The game was good, I enjoyed it completely. The protag Kenichi was great too. The setting was explored wonderfully and well portrayed. The antagonist was first-rate, Hozuki was amazing just like Maou(from G-sen is one of my fav antagonists).

The ending scene was well done and sent a good last message to the readers. Natsumi's epilogue wasn't that great while Sachi's was ....

 

For me the best part was the revelation/twist at the beginning of chapter 5.

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You have no idea how surprised I was when I realized where all that Onee-sama talk was going. That foreshadowing and small tid-bits about the punishment system and subtle hints as to what the maximum penalty were ...... God that scene was brilliant. While I normally am able to guess all the twists and foreshadowings, SnK had the perfect mix of keeping it obscure enough and at the same time gave enough hints too. I was completely impressed by how they handled it.

[Turnip Sensei]

Oujo no Abaddon is pretty great game.

 

I managed to beat it once, but it feels like I've only scratched the surface. I had to restart once because I ran out of healing items, and even though I didn't do anything majorly different I saw some completely new events while playing through the same parts the second time. Small things like who do rest with and how many affection points you have seem to make a huge difference. And that was just with the same characters, I wonder how differently the story will turn out if I pick other characters?

 

The exploration gameplay is fun, but I'm not sure how I feel about the combat. It makes the game tense since you have to carefully manage your limited healing supplies, but it's also super simple and not very interesting. It's also really luck based. Critical hits deal ridiculous damage, sometimes even 10x and are almost needed at times. There's also incurable status effect, so you can just hope to not get hit by it and be prepared the reload your save. The combat is actually not as bad as it sounds after you get used to it, but there are some pretty annoying segments.

 

But the story was interesting enough that it kept me playing and the pacing is pretty good overall. Surprising events, intense chases and other stuff kept me on my toes all the time.

And the story is dark. There's not that much gore like in Corpse Party, but there are plenty of other kinds of squicky stuff and lots of psychological horror as well. 

There was also plenty heartwarming moments along the way, and in the midst of despair and darkness they felt even stronger.  

 

Because I pursued a good ending route or something I didn't see any super messed up stuff, other than quite a few rape scenes that didn't concern the main characters, but it seems like there's possibilities to set up some NTR and other weird stuff.

I just can't wait to try all kinds of different things and see what will happen...  

[Skypie]

currently Playing Hanasaki work spring 

about next maybe Ikikoi

[AaronIsCrunchy]

Bought Grisaia no Kajitsu yesterday and (after some fannying about downloading things that didn't quite work initially for some reason, thanks Denpasoft -_-) am currently jamming through what I must assume is the introductory segment (there have been no choices yet, although I am aware they're few and far between).

 

I love it. Yuuji is without a doubt the most interesting protagonist I've ever come across, and I'm intrigued as to where the story is heading, in its different routes. For more or less £20, I'm already feeling content that this was more than worth it. And now I also understand a load of the Fuwanovel emojis and this makes me very very happy   

[Nyanko]

So I was reading some comyu, Im on Hisoka route it seems, and got pleasantly surprised by

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the point they were going into their first gig event battle and Izawa suddenly just shoots Akihito through the head. And then things turned all crazy, Kagome killing Izawa, the maid raping the frog to death...I was like what?! major PLOT TWIST?

but then got unpleasantly surprised by

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the realisation it was all an illusion caused by the tentacle crabby

[ExtraMana]

Awaiting the Vita-masterrace muv-luv compilation

http://prefundia.com/projects/view/muv-luv-kickstarter/6004/

[bogdankl]

dropped canvas 2, i just wasn't feeling it, started comyu, when i looked at it for some reason i taught this was just gonna be another majikoi, a over the top eridiculous comedy but it actually turns out not really, also I'm pretty early on but this feels like the most awkard group of people out there, they're not really friends but not just aquaintences either, in the words of the great gakuto they are at the point were they can point out the nose hair but they can't quite pull it out yet

 

also Y U NO O-Haru-chwan route? And also Y U NO Yoruko route? and most importantly Y U NO CHIEN route???

[BluTornado]

Currently playing Lonely Yuri and I'm loving it. It's so cute and I can't get enough of cute stuff. Except when I overdose on it. That happened once and it sucked.

[Canicheslayer]

I'm reading the common route in Grisaia no Kajitsu (the "unrated version"). Each time (it's the third), I feel the same pleasure (casting, writing : a model of "silce of life" style)

[PeteN00b]

Playing Kara no Shoujo, so far so good

[XReaper]

finally finished rasen kairou2 - ending left very abad aftertaste, mentally degenerated me, almost completely insensitive to rape/torture now and also unable to face females without having strange thoughts.

[akaritan]

Just finished Fate/Stay Night. It was really good. Illya best gril.

 

Now, should I play Inganock, Ever17, Muv Luv, or My Girlfriend is president? Or should I wait until the voting for reading club is finished and read whatever wins?

[OrpheusReigns]

Well i'm trying to read Dracu-Riot untranslated, but it is a challenge. Like I haven't even gotten off the first scenes 

[Suzu Fanatic]

  On 9/4/2015 at 12:28 AM, crlupa said:

Just finished Fate/Stay Night. It was really good. Illya best gril.

 

Now, should I play Inganock, Ever17, Muv Luv, or My Girlfriend is president? Or should I wait until the voting for reading club is finished and read whatever wins?

 

Personally I'd go with ever17 or Muvluv, as a follow-up to fate/Stay. (though actually, you should consider Fate/Hollow if you're still in the mood for more Fate.)

[akaritan]

In that case, I guess I'll move on to Muv Luv next. In regards to the first installment, how much would you say reading every route adds to the experience? I've heard that it's okay to just read Meiya and Sumika's routes, but I don't really mind reading the others if it helps.

[Deep Blue]

I'm *buying* dies irae because I can't wait any longer, I know I wont understand half of it but i just want to try it out.

 

 

 

  On 9/4/2015 at 3:41 AM, crlupa said:

In that case, I guess I'll move on to Muv Luv next. In regards to the first installment, how much would you say reading every route adds to the experience? I've heard that it's okay to just read Meiya and Sumika's routes, but I don't really mind reading the others if it helps.

 

This is the order

 

1) Meiya and sumika are mandatory

2) Ayamine is really important and her route is actually interesting too ( compared to the others girls)

3) Miki it is important but not really, if you are tired at this point then dont read it.

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1000) chizuru, you can skip it if you want, if you can endure her route go ahead but is really bad and it doesnt add much to the story either (talking about alternative)

[akaritan]

Okay, thank you

[bogdankl]

OH MY GOD

 

I'm still early on in comyu but FFS Kagome is just so freaking anoying and irritating, god I can't even remeber the last time a character pissed me off so much

 

edit:also am i the only one who thinks the premise of this game would have made for a sick jrpg <persona anyone?>

[sub-zer0]

  On 9/4/2015 at 9:55 AM, bogdankl said:

OH MY GOD

 

I'm still early on in comyu but FFS Kagome is just so freaking anoying and irritating, god I can't even remeber the last time a character pissed me off so much

 

edit:also am i the only one who thinks the premise of this game would have made for a sick jrpg <persona anyone?>

I didn't really find her annoying,to me she was fine,what do you not like about her? do you think shes a dick? I would think Izawa is more of a dick, but then again this is my opinion and then again I don't generally dislike characters that much unless they are the evil antagonist, but there is one exception to that rule...Chinami......

[bogdankl]

  On 9/4/2015 at 2:18 PM, sub-zer0 said:

I didn't really find her annoying,to me she was fine,what do you not like about her? do you think shes a dick? I would think Izawa is more of a dick, but then again this is my opinion and then again I don't generally dislike characters that much unless they are the evil antagonist, but there is one exception to that rule...Chinami......

[Suzu Fanatic]

  On 9/4/2015 at 4:20 PM, bogdankl said:

she's just way to unnecesary mean and cruel in my opinion, and I like tsunderes but she's just wayyyyy too much

 

also totally did not think

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i would get a h-scene with the maid

I was freaking 100% positive she was kidding and then the hentai CG appeared and i almost chocked on the chocolate i was eating, It toats got me,

I guess i taught i was safe since i was still on the common route

[bogdankl]

  On 9/4/2015 at 4:57 PM, Suzu Fanatic said:

Like any VN, there's a reason for her behavior. And although you have to do some serious digging to reach the inner depths of her psychology, she's actually a well constructed character. (though I personally couldn't stand her either for the most part)

[Kawasumi]

  On 9/4/2015 at 5:05 PM, bogdankl said:

on one hand i want to say i don't think there is anything that could happen in this vn to make me like her... on the other hand that's the same thing i said about the protagonist of the devil on a g string... don't get me wrong i still thing kyousuke is an asshole most of the time but i've come to respect him a lot after playing through the main route...