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[Dergonu]

Just now, douggle said:

Inb4 its picked up by sp and made into a kickstarter 

Would literally raid their HQ for that.

[douggle]

Just now, Dergonu said:

Would literally raid their HQ for that.

I would too, in all seriousness. 

[Dergonu]

2 minutes ago, douggle said:

I would too, in all seriousness. 

Gather up the pitchforks and the torches. We must prepare for the worst!

[Vorathiel]

What a glorious feeling.
To be, after few weeks of struggling and reading for 30 minutes every two days, finaly be able to sit down to a VN for few hours (7 today) and read something very good!
After Grisaia, Killer Queen and few smaller 'meh' titles I finally finished I/O. And what a glorious finale it was. Complicated, convoluted? Yes, but still very, very enjoyable. Nothing cringed me, nothing made me 'oh for fucks sake', nothing bored me, it was a perfect VN day. :D
And I must say that somehow after this I/O finale my hype for Root Double skyrocketed. 

But for now - onto Cho Dengeki Stryker.

[Suzu Fanatic]

9 hours ago, Rooke said:

Unfortunately too busy to make any meaningful sort of dent in my backlog. And there were/are a few books I want to read first (I prioritise books over VNs.)

Read anything by Stephen R Donaldson? It's been years, but I remember really enjoying a series called "Mordants Need".

[Darklord Rooke]

5 minutes ago, Suzu Fanatic said:

Read anything by Stephen R Donaldson? It's been years, but I remember really enjoying a series called "Mordants Need".

I haven't read Mordants Need, but I did read the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant when I was back in school. I vaguely remember it being really cool, but I judged things a lot more leniently back then. But you know ... lepers, how many leper heroes have their been? That alone made it fascinating at the time  

[Suzu Fanatic]

3 minutes ago, Rooke said:

I haven't read Mordants Need, but I did read the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant when I was back in school. I vaguely remember it being really cool, but I judged things a lot more leniently back then. But you know ... lepers, how many leper heroes have their been? That alone made it fascinating at the time  

I was gonna ask about that at first, but refrained because...yeah, I was a teen back when I read it - uncertain what I would think of it, given a second chance to go through it.

I can still appreciate "the land" being a symbolism of his own body and mind though, and hanging onto what matters - "The power that preserves" indeed. Basically a fancy self-help series, but it was still enjoyable to discover the potential of the human spirit when I was growing up.

Liked the army battles too, remember visualizing them to a far better extent then my mind can conjure nowadays, that's for sure.

[Canicheslayer]

Norn9 : finished Kakeru's route...

Fairly good. First chapters weren't perfect but starting chapter 5 or 6, it became really interesting (and his chemistry with Koharu felt real).

...and Senri's route.

As bland as his character design. Senri is almost unbearable and is an horrible stereotype of the antisocial and cynical brat. Similarly, the few good ideas/scenes of this route were clearly botched : his "links" with Kakeru or Akito, and above all, the last chapter (one or two important characters vanished, without an explanation).

 

Edit : The OST is beautiful...Nobuo Uematsu (amongst others ?) is alive...ALIVE !!!!

[Vorathiel]

Caniche, how many hours a day do you read?
I remember when we were reading I/O simultaniously, but since then you finished Gahtkhun, Root Double and Kara no Shoujo 2, one medium and two really big titles. :v

[Eclipsed]

4 hours ago, Vorathiel said:

Caniche, how many hours a day do you read?
I remember when we were reading I/O simultaniously, but since then you finished Gahtkhun, Root Double and Kara no Shoujo 2, one medium and two really big titles. :v

Geez, you're getting rekt'ed harder than I am doing to @Dergonu  

 

Norn9 : finished Kakeru's route...

 

As bland as his character design. Senri is almost unbearable and is an horrible stereotype of the antisocial and cynical brat. Similarly, the few good ideas/scenes of this route were clearly botched : his "links" with Kakeru or Akito, and above all, the last chapter (one or two important characters vanished, without an explanation).

Y'know, I only read the prologue of Norn9 Niner, and already I was getting very, very bad vibes from this guy. A shame :<

[Dergonu]

2 minutes ago, Eclipsed said:

Geez, you're getting rekt'ed harder than I am doing to @Dergonu  

Hmph. I'm letting you win.

Baka  

[Canicheslayer]

6 hours ago, Vorathiel said:

Caniche, how many hours a day do you read?
I remember when we were reading I/O simultaniously, but since then you finished Gahtkhun, Root Double and Kara no Shoujo 2, one medium and two really big titles. :v

It depends. Maybe between half an hour and six/seven hours (when i'm fighting my chronic insomnia...or when I'm in vacation/the game or VN is marvellous) And depending on the VN, my pace of reading (my interest, my "passion") is not the same. Sometimes it took me several months to finish a VN (two months to finish Clannad or Gahkthun ; one month to finish I/O ; one week to finish KnS2)

Eclipsed => I thought the same but decided to go against my instinct...it was a mistake But It's too bad...the rest of the casting is interesting (and sometimes, good).

 

Edit : Oh I forgot ! The routes in Norn9 are pretty short.

Edited May 24, 2016 by Canicheslayer

[Eclipsed]

Slowly progressing through Root Double, onto like mid-Chapter 5

Welp, we had a good survival run full of last minute saves and suicide missions, but once your drugs get jacked it's time to start the blame game and to hell with everyone!

Jun was like my best buddy, sad to see her lose trust and snap so fast

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Overall right now there's too much mystery being placed on l0lamnesia so it's pretty frustrating when you're getting verbally manhandled by Ukita and can't do crap because I DONT KNOWWWWW

e: WTF WAS THAT END

I DON'T GET IT

FK THIS VN

[Vokoca]

Finished reading Janen-hen. I can't help it but give it a full on 10.  While that might seem ridiculous for something that barely even classifies as a fandisc, I've thoroughly enjoyed what Janen-hen has to offer.

There is an entire arc about the characters trying to make a movie adaptation of the original VN and falling into despair upon encountering the horrors we all have to face with horrible anime adaptations... what, you were a heroine in the original? Too bad m8, movie has only 2 hours, all routes except the true one are getting cut. Oh, nevermind, 80% if the true route is getting cut as well.  

This all is very meta and hilarious, but it is nothing compared to the manga-style parodies. Do you know Hiimdaisy's Persona 4 parody comic? Great, do you know the dubbed version of that? Imagine that, replace Persona 4 with Muramasa, and make it official. There is nothing more hilarious than stuff like "FullAnalDaemon Kikumasa" with each respective character actually dubbed by their proper seiyuus.  

There is also an entirely animated Gurren Lagann-esque episode; the comedy is top notch, and I wish I would see stuff like this from fandiscs more often.

There is serious stuff too - I won't talk about that part much to avoid spoilers, but I will just say that Re: Blade Arts, written by the Demonbane author, is a beautiful loveletter and a sendoff to the original Muramasa release. Now I'm just sad that I have no more Muramasa to look forward to. 

[Arcadeotic]

28 minutes ago, Vokoca said:

Finished reading Janen-hen. I can't help it but give it a full on 10.  While that might seem ridiculous for something that barely even classifies as a fandisc, I've thoroughly enjoyed what Janen-hen has to offer.

There is an entire arc about the characters trying to make a movie adaptation of the original VN and falling into despair upon encountering the horrors we all have to face with horrible anime adaptations... what, you were a heroine in the original? Too bad m8, movie has only 2 hours, all routes except the true one are getting cut. Oh, nevermind, 80% if the true route is getting cut as well.  

This all is very meta and hilarious, but it is nothing compared to the manga-style parodies. Do you know Hiimdaisy's Persona 4 parody comic? Great, do you know the dubbed version of that? Imagine that, replace Persona 4 with Muramasa, and make it official. There is nothing more hilarious than stuff like "FullAnalDaemon Kikumasa" with each respective character actually dubbed by their proper seiyuus.  

There is also an entirely animated Gurren Lagann-esque episode; the comedy is top notch, and I wish I would see stuff like this from fandiscs more often.

There is serious stuff too - I won't talk about that part much to avoid spoilers, but I will just say that Re: Blade Arts, written by the Demonbane author, is a beautiful loveletter and a sendoff to the original Muramasa release. Now I'm just sad that I have no more Muramasa to look forward to. 

Pardon my ignorance, but isn't this a thing?

[Vokoca]

Oh, that's interesting. Didn't know about that one! Not sure what much more they can do with the premise, but hopefully it'll be good.

[Chronopolis]

7 hours ago, Vokoca said:

Oh, that's interesting. Didn't know about that one! Not sure what much more they can do with the premise, but hopefully it'll be good.

I thiink...they had a fiction contest, and then they took the winning entry and are going to make a novel about it.

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FullAnalDaemon Kikumasa

LOOOOL

[Barktooth]

Finished Asuho's route in Hoshizora no Memoria, and surprisingly enough I have to say it was enjoyable. I usually don't like slice of life and romance, and there was a LOT of that stuff in this route, as well as the common route.. And yet, I wasn't bored of it at all (short of the hentai scenes, which as usual like in most story-focused VNs sucked). I wonder why that is. My guess so far is that the characters are just very good - to me, at least, most of them seem very multi-dimensional and interesting. Or maybe Asuho was just too damn cute.

I'm actually feeling pretty depressed right now because I don't get to see any more Asuho  I could read another route but that would be cheating on her, and if I don't read it, I don't get too see her. Dammit, this feeling sucks!

All of that is fine and dandy, but even if the slice of life and romance was fairly entertaining, that alone wouldn't be enough for me to rate this VN highly. However, unless the other routes somehow ruin everything, I'm planning to give this a 9 or even a 10... because DAMN, I don't even know what it is, but I cried like a bitch during the scene where

Spoiler

Mare reaps Asuho's nightmare. And also for some reason I cried during the scene where Komomo saves You/Mare, though not quite as much

Neither of those scenes is actually even sad, so I'm not sure why I cried.. it might be due to that music track that plays during both of them. That is my absolute favorite BGM from any VN now, I think

Or maybe they were just "beautiful" scenes. As in, everything came together perfectly. And while I predicted the Komomo one, the other one was a very satisfying plot twist to me.

Either way, I sobbed into my pillow for over an hour after that. This VN ruined me lol

[Vorathiel]

Damn I wish to have such a low point of being emotionally attached.

I laughed hard during Asuho route, when her 'drama' was "deus-ex-machined" on reader, and how hilariously riddiculous it was.

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I can't hear on one ear [and like 70% deafness of other one too, because You was screaming in her deaf ear, and she wasn't reacting at all], so I'm no longer 'worthy' of my boyfriend and also I will fight with my dad over nothing, because he changed his job from astrnom to cook, because I was stagazing when I have an accident, and absolutely nothign here made any sense

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I'm reading Chou Dengeki Stryker. And I really like how juvenile it is. I feel like watching some shounen anime for kids.  And structure of this vn really helps that feeling too, it's sorted with small 5-30 minutes chapters, each one is pushing main plot forward, but it's still a short, closed story.
And it's so refreshing to not have any annoiying characters, any stupid tsunderes (there is one tsun... or so it seems, but she's more like her anger is justifiabled by obliviousnes of protagonist, than simply being stupid tsun), and main charater, who is donkan and oblivious, it's not an idiot. He is just blinded by 'right things to do' he doesn't see how anybody can have double meanings to their words... and it's fine, it works in that type of story.
Fights are fine, they're not dragging too much, which is always nice.
Art is superb, a lot of high quality animations, sprites, great music, nothing more to say.

Last thing - hummour. While not really hilarious, it's nice and funny. But best point of it is that is not obscene, it's not 'lewd' at all. Such a refreshing thing. I'm sick of "OMG he saw my pantsu I must kick him!" type of "humour".

[WinterfuryZX]

25 minutes ago, Vorathiel said:

I laughed hard during Asuho route, when her 'drama' was "deus-ex-machined" on reader, and how hilariously riddiculous it was.

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I can't hear on one ear [and like 70% deafness of other one too, because You was screaming in her deaf ear, and she wasn't reacting at all], so I'm no longer 'worthy' of my boyfriend and also I will fight with my dad over nothing, because he changed his job from astrnom to cook, because I was stagazing when I have an accident, and absolutely nothign here made any sense

 

 

 

Yeah you have the impression to be hearing normally if you don't pay attention, I suffer of frequent ear wax plugs that makes me almost semi-def on one ear until they're removed. But that's just an excuse. The real reason she breaks up with the protagonist is because she's keeping hidden the real name of his forgotten childhood friend from the beginning.

 

[Vokoca]

On 25/05/2016 at 1:22 AM, Chronopolis said:

LOOOOL

Witness the magic. ...and they have an entire series based on that premise. 

[Chronopolis]

1 hour ago, Vokoca said:

Witness the magic. ...and they have an entire series based on that premise. 

*hyperventilates profusely*

[Barktooth]

11 hours ago, Vorathiel said:

Damn I wish to have such a low point of being emotionally attached.

I laughed hard during Asuho route, when her 'drama' was "deus-ex-machined" on reader, and how hilariously riddiculous it was.

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I can't hear on one ear [and like 70% deafness of other one too, because You was screaming in her deaf ear, and she wasn't reacting at all], so I'm no longer 'worthy' of my boyfriend and also I will fight with my dad over nothing, because he changed his job from astrnom to cook, because I was stagazing when I have an accident, and absolutely nothign here made any sense

 

I know, right? Well, I shouldn't complain about it, it's a good thing I'm able to enjoy it, there's always still time to get jaded and stop being able to enjoy writing like this xD

Then again I was pretty hard on Grisaia for some of the more ridiculous stuff there, yet it just doesn't seem to bother me in this VN as much. The most annoying things to me besides too much SOL were them cutting important scenes short and not tying everything up properly...

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Like when the Kosame vs. Mare/You fight happens, afterwards they just exchange a few words about it in school and it's never mentioned again. I guess this one will probably be focused on more during Kosame/Komomo routes though so we'll see.

But then there's the scene with Mare reaping Asuho's nightmare, they just go have make-up sex afterwards and it's never mentioned again. And it seems all Mare did was destroy that wish card and she didn't actually make Asuho forget anything (she mentions Yume's name to You when they are having sex, so she still remembers it...), so I wonder how that was enough to fix her insecurities. I would have liked more if Mare actually made her completely forget You made that wish in elementary school. Either way it would have been nice to hear Asuho's thoughts on it afterwards...

And then there's Asuho making up with her dad scene at the photo exhibition.. He is just kinda like "Oh I misunderstood this whole time. Cool." And that's it, it's like nothing ever happened.

But these were all pretty minor I guess, the scenes themselves still made a good impact, it just reverted back to SOL a bit too quickly for my taste after them.

11 hours ago, WinterfuryZX said:

 

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Yeah you have the impression to be hearing normally if you don't pay attention, I suffer of frequent ear wax plugs that makes me almost semi-def on one ear until they're removed. But that's just an excuse. The real reason she breaks up with the protagonist is because she's keeping hidden the real name of his forgotten childhood friend from the beginning.

 

Yeah that pretty much explains it.

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It's still a bit ridiculous though because man, their relationship must have been hanging off a very thin thread if You finding out she has a hearing disorder was enough to make her BREAK UP with him. Wut? I guess she always thought she was inferior to Yume and You was only going out with her out of pity, and the hearing disorder was somehow enough to trigger that insecurity again. And the scene where he tests her hearing was unrealistic, there's no way that calling out to her from different sides could make that much of a difference. Her left ear should have still been able to hear him from the other side perfectly fine.

 

[Eclipsed]

Chapter 3 of Root Before

It's starting to get a bit more interesting now that there's glimmers of what's really going on during all of this SoL fest yada yada

BTW I'M LEARNING THINGS GUYS

I'M BLIND

[Decay]

37 minutes ago, Eclipsed said:

Chapter 3 of Root Before

It's starting to get a bit more interesting now that there's glimmers of what's really going on during all of this SoL fest yada yada

BTW I'M LEARNING THINGS GUYS

I'M BLIND

Easily the most mind-blowing part in all of Root Double.