Corona Blossom Vol 1 Confusion

[voidpointer]

So I finished Corona Blossom Vol 1 and I am a bit confused. There is an X-Rated button on the title screen with H scenes but those scenes aren't actually a part of the normal story line. Is this by design or a bug? I found this weird.

[Nier]

Design, how would H-Scenes actually fit inside the story of Vol.1? *boy meets alien nekomimi girl, proceeds to fuck her* It's not a nukige...

[voidpointer]

Well if I knew I wouldn't be asking, now would I? And for the record, I've seen crazier things in visual novels. So you aren't really making a point.

[DarkZedge]

I'm pretty sure it's just to please the people who wanted H from those characters but they didn't want to make it part of the main story since it's not supposed to be a nukige so they added it in a little section on it's own.

Personally I don't care much for it since it's just H without much context or importance and simply ignored it.

[Dergonu]

They are what is called non canon H-scenes, which were added in as extra content for those who wants H content in the game. They don't actually change the story at all, so you can skip them. (They were pretty nice, and 2 are animated, so I recommend giving them a read.)

3 minutes ago, DarkZedge said:

Personally I don't care much for it since it's just H without much context or importance and simply ignored it.

Actually, the scenes are written as if they were meant to be put inside the story, (you'll see they make direct refrences to events, and happen sometime alongside the original "timeline") so they are completely in context, however they are not meant to be in the story, which is why they are added on the side as non canon scenes. It's basically a few small "what if" scenarios.

[DarkZedge]

3 minutes ago, Dergonu said:

Actually, the scenes are written as if they were meant to be put inside the story, (you'll see they make direct refrences to events, and happen someitme alongside the original "timeline") so they are completely in context, however they are not meant to be in the story, which is why they are added on the side as non canon scenes. It's kind of like a few small "what if" scenarios.

The fact that they used the context doesn't mean they aren't forced to fit in, I see it as nothing but crowd pleasing H if anything.

[Dergonu]

2 minutes ago, DarkZedge said:

The fact that they used the context doesn't mean they aren't forced to fit in, I see it as nothing but crowd pleasing H if anything.

That's not what I meant. You said they were outside the context in your first comment, which isn't right, that's all Just thought I'd point that out. 

[DarkZedge]

Just now, Dergonu said:

That's not what I meant. You said they were outside the context in your first comment, which isn't right, that's all Just thought I'd point that out. 

Potato/poteito, it was my bad for not saying they simply took the context and used it to make crowd pleasing H 

[Nandemonai]

People wanted H.  Frontwing was making a kinetic novel.  They didn't want it to be like the old days (say, Nocturnal Illusion) where the main character would have sex with everybody ... then pick his One True Love for the ending.  So if h-scenes with all the girls are canon, that's a problem.  If all the h-scenes are with one girl, that's also a problem.   If the h-scenes are what-if, imaginary, then it doesn't matter!

I forget where exactly they said this?  I think it must have been one of their IndieGogo updates.

[castor212]

This VN.

 

How good is it, looking purely from story and writing perspective? 

[Nier]

Corona Blossom is a good VN, Vol.1 should average you 8 hours. Vol.2 Should come out in Q4 and Vol.3 should most probably be out sometimes in 2017.

If you are on the fence, know that the physical DVD-ROM will only be available during the IndieGogo campaigns (and through BackerKit for the IndieGogo backers), the DVD-ROM version is also unmosaiced.

[Fred the Barber]

For a slightly different perspective: Corona Blossom is a below-average VN, and volume 1 ends on a cliffhanger without resolving anything at all in the plot. It might be an average game when it's complete, though I kind of doubt it given how it's going, but I definitely wouldn't recommend playing just volume 1. Looking at my VNDB ratings, it's in the 20th percentile of games I've played. Pretty bad, honestly, but I mostly avoid bad games in the first place, so I guess if your bar is really low, maybe you'll like it?

[Nier]

7 minutes ago, Fred the Barber said:

For a slightly different perspective: Corona Blossom is a below-average VN, and volume 1 ends on a cliffhanger without resolving anything at all in the plot.

Yeah that's the point of it being titled "Vol.1", meaning it's the first part.

[Fred the Barber]

11 minutes ago, Nier said:

Yeah that's the point of it being titled "Vol.1", meaning it's the first part.

What's the point of releasing something in volumes if a volume is individually unsatisfying? There are countless examples of this being done effectively — for instance, pretty much every light novel in existence. Or in the VN world, look at SupiPara, which has a neat, fully-contained story for Volume 1 and sets the stage for future volumes, or Flowers.

Hence why I recommend at least waiting for all the volumes to come out, and even then holding out to see what more people are saying about it, since it's frankly not looking too promising so far.

[voidpointer]

I am taking the VN for what it is: Eye candy and kawaii. If I wanted Plot, I'd play a Key VN. You have to set your expectations accordingly if you even decide to play something like this. That doesn't mean it's bad. I just don't think you can compare all VNs equally.

[Narcosis]

If anything, first volume should have the highest quality possible, to attract and encourage potential readers, not the other way around.

[Nier]

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/corona-blossom-vol-2-the-truth-from-beyond-japan/

20,848 USD with 17 days left to go and that's whitout taking into account when it goes into InDemand mode. If people hated Vol.1, they wouldn't be backing Vol.2.

[Dergonu]

Well, people have different opinions, nothing wrong with that. Some liked it, some did not. (This is pretty much the norm for all games tbh.)

I personally enjoyed the game a lot, and recommend playing it. The game was funny and although it contained large amounts of slice of life moments, it still kept the story somewhat in focus throughout the whole game. The characters were pretty interesting, and I found the backstory of the main character and the mystery surrounding R-ne especially intriguing. The art is pretty, the animations are very nice, and the cliffhanger at the end had me hungry for more. (As in, I don't see it as a bad thing. I'm looking forward to vol.2, and it is coming out in about a month or so, so you won't have to wait very long for the continuation.)

[voidpointer]

Well said Dergonu. The ending had me craving for more as well, nyan.

[VLOCKUP]

I will wait for future volumes. The premise looks interesting as Nekopara but unlike that, I would play it when it is completed or in near-completion. Despite people said about it being focused on moe, its setting and plot shows that there is more then meets the eye. And since someone said that Vol. 1 ended with cliffhanger...

Maybe more plot will be revealed since the 2nd focuses on the pirates

[castor212]

Hmm. ANother question to clarify. (Please dont throw stuffs at me)

I dont like Nekopara. It just isnt my cup of tea. A VN focused on the moe and not plot based usually bores me. Exception usually only moege that focused on comedy.

Would I be bored playing COrona Blossom?

 

Thanks in advance.

[Dergonu]

2 hours ago, castor212 said:

Hmm. ANother question to clarify. (Please dont throw stuffs at me)

I dont like Nekopara. It just isnt my cup of tea. A VN focused on the moe and not plot based usually bores me. Exception usually only moege that focused on comedy.

Would I be bored playing COrona Blossom?

 

Thanks in advance.

This really depends on what you think counts as moe. The game is totally different from Nekopara, (which is basically just a nukige,) but like I said earlier, Corona Blossom does have a lot of slice of life moments that are mostly led by comedy. The story is always there, and to me it was quite interesting, but it's not exactly rocket science. (As in, the story is what it is, and not everyone will like it as much.) 

If funny and light slice of life moments bore you a great deal, maybe this one isn't for you. Then again, the game is rather short, and the premise gets introduced rather quickly, so you might as well give it a try and see what you think. 

[castor212]

hmm, ok, tqs a lot

[Nandemonai]

On 9/26/2016 at 0:47 AM, Dergonu said:

The story is always there, and to me it was quite interesting, but it's not exactly rocket science.

But the story literally involve aliens from outer space.  Does that not literally make it rocket science?

 

On 9/25/2016 at 10:27 PM, castor212 said:

Hmm. ANother question to clarify. (Please dont throw stuffs at me)

I dont like Nekopara. It just isnt my cup of tea. A VN focused on the moe and not plot based usually bores me. Exception usually only moege that focused on comedy.

Would I be bored playing Corona Blossom?

For a bit of a different perspective - I didn't really like the story of the first Nekopara either.  (I liked the second one more.)  My reaction to the first Nekopara was that it mostly managed to not be boring.  I also don't agree that Nekopara is basically a nukige; there's too few scenes, and the h vs. non-h ratio is too low.  Nekopara tries to go for comedy and is sort of hit or miss with it.

I found Corona Blossom to be similar, and that's why I still haven't beaten it.  I'm interested enough to not want to put it down, but not enough to want to play it.

[Dergonu]

1 hour ago, Nandemonai said:

But the story literally involve aliens from outer space.  Does that not literally make it rocket science?

No, not even slightly. It just makes it a fictional story about space...