VN Reading Club - October 2015 (Symphonic Rain)

[wyldstrykr]

if symphonic rain wins will it be a discussion or a high score tournament?

[Zakamutt]

If it's a high score tournament I'm actually decent at the minigame these days so I'll prolly end up third after the cheater and the really obsessed guy

[mjriedstra]

Come on guys, doesn't symphonic rain also look pretty moe to you? (´・ω・`) ...well, at least it's in the lead now.

 

It's insanely moe. But not only that, the gameplay aspect is really good. I've only played a handful of VNs that were story-focused yet still had an enjoyable and replayable minigame, and Symphonic Rain is one of them.

[Kosakyun]

It's insanely moe. But not only that, the gameplay aspect is really good. I've only played a handful of VNs that were story-focused yet still had an enjoyable and replayable minigame, and Symphonic Rain is one of them.

 

Someone was telling me the gameplay was shit though.

I'll try going through it and experiencing it for myself. <3

[akaritan]

I might jump in later, depending on what wins and if I can finish what I'm reading now in time. Is that allowed?

[Eclipsed]

If Symphonic Rain doesn't win this time

 

I'm finishing My GF's a President

 

And then Koisuru Natsu no Last Resort

 

I mean Sharin no Kuni

 

and 

[Snowtsuku]

Someone was telling me the gameplay was shit though.

I'll try going through it and experiencing it for myself. <3

It's a guitar hero like game that uses almost all the keys in the keyboard, or a single row depending on the difficulty.

Play Melody for </3

[Kaguya]

Gameplay is shit. I'll probably score 4th if we do a tournament just because I played it enough. 

[Eclipsed]

Symphonic Rain has gameplay?

 

oh rite, that music rhythm thingymabob

 

fk Fal's song.

[Snowtsuku]

Someone was telling me the gameplay was shit though.

I'll try going through it and experiencing it for myself. <3

 

Gameplay is shit. I'll probably score 4th if we do a tournament just because I played it enough. 

Got who it is.

[Ehre]

Hi, I would like to join this club as well, if I can. I voted for Symphonic Rain because I have heard very good things about it and because the setting apparently is in a city of italian heritage and, as an italian, I would like to see how they structured too. Also I always found music in visual novel to be a very important part of the experience, so a novel about it sounds very interesting.

[Fred the Barber]

Symphonic Rain currently winning?

 

 

I failed at following through with last month's club, mostly out of dread, but I'm all about music, so to tell the truth anything this month would be good. But I still really want it to be this one.

[kyrt]

I actually think it might be better not to do G-Senjou no Maou this time around since it's actually getting a legitimate release soon-ish. 

[Yotek]

Ollie what does the forecast say about our next visual novel...

Thanks Ollie...

[Snowtsuku]

Will they extend the deadline due to the downtime?

[Kosakyun]

Whelp. Due to the changes implemented, the closing of the poll was delayed by almost eight hours.

No worries. Expected results did not change.

SYMPHONIC RAIN STILL WON BITCHES!!!!

And with that, the poll has been closed. The VN of the month is Symphonic Rain. Do use spoiler tags when discussing plot details about the visual novel.

Will be posting statistics on the OP. Thanks for easy statistics, IPB4.

[Fred the Barber]

Finally got my desktop up and running again, since it seemed like a prerequisite for the mini-game (although the idea of playing it with an onscreen keyboard amuses me). Got everything setup, launched the game, and was presented with a new and unique option, for a VN: "Free Play". Is this what I think it is? Yes, yes it is. So I gave it a try.

I think I actually did very well for my first time playing the mini-game, but almost certainly would have miserably failed the actual in-game event. Let's hope I get better before they start grading me on it.

[Zakamutt]

The minigame can be very hard to pick up, and I personally got rekt a decent few times before passing even on normal difficulty. There is logic both to the notation and the playing though, which is part of the beauty of it (especially on Hard).

[Nimbus]

Just did the mini-game for the first time.

I suck at it.

[Turnip Sensei]

Yeah, the minigame is hard. So hard that I ended up going with Lise, because her song was the only one I could play at least a little. Thankfully the easy mode is super-easy and forgiving, because I kinda like the minigame even though I'm really bad at it. The music feels more important when you actually get to "play" it.

[Snowtsuku]

You can use auto-play if you find it too hard. Especially Fal's songs.

[Ehre]

I did the minigame for the first time and I scored awful but thankfully in the option there's a easy mode, I'll stick with it because I really playing the songs. Anyway when I heard that a character is named Torta I laughed till my stomach ached ???

[Nimbus]

It feels a little weird playing a vn with no voice acting now. For more or less my first year of reading vns I would turn off the voices that was my preference but now after a while of keeping the voices on it feel so different. 

 

Just realized it does have voice acting, it's just the default volume is zero.

Edited October 11, 2015 by Nimbus
I've been had

[Zakamutt]

That's weird, I'm pretty sure default volume isn't zero... ah well. Interestingly, and perhaps annoyingly (though you could argue Chris being unvoiced when he is the PoV character partially hides his attitude, maybe...), the PoV character is never voiced in this... even when they previously were

[Fred the Barber]

I decided to bump the difficulty up to Hard on the mini-game after playing the first in-game song on Normal (tried the same song in Free Play on Hard, no problems). Unless there's a sudden exponential jump in difficulty, my body is ready. But I play a lot of rhythm games and am an excellent touch typist, so this mini-game is right up my alley.

Meanwhile, in the actual game, I've only played through the first two days. So far, so good. The art takes a bit of getting used to, but it's already grown on me a lot. I really like the music so far (unsurprising, since they probably put a lot of effort into it given the nature of the game).