Napalm_Frank
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Guys, I miss Umineko
Now I know how it feels to have that wait in between episodes. I hate my computer for dying just when things were getting good.
You gettin it repaired or buying a new one? You can't give up now!
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You gettin it repaired or buying a new one? You can't give up now!
Byronic Hero
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Hopefully repaired,not sure if it can be fixed or not. I really hope I get it back soon. I've resorted to watching the anime up until where I am to fill the void. It's not too terrible so far, but then again, I thought the same about the Danganronpa anime until around the 3rd episode.
Dropped_Off
Neo Member
Seems like the Kara no Shoujo hard copy is on its way, on MangaGamer's twitter they said it will be ship on the 3rd of Dec, but maybe that's the date they open pre-orders, since I can't find it anywhere.
Either way it's coming pretty soon, so excited since I've heard so many good things about it.
Edit: It's up on their website now, ships 9th of Dec. It's 45 USD, comes with a pretty case, and a BGM CD, plus the game.
Either way it's coming pretty soon, so excited since I've heard so many good things about it.
Edit: It's up on their website now, ships 9th of Dec. It's 45 USD, comes with a pretty case, and a BGM CD, plus the game.
The Silver
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I hear a lot about how great Muvluv Alternative is but I'll never get to read it because I absolutely cannot get through the first 2 VNs.
oh well, some things just aren't meant to be
oh well, some things just aren't meant to be
If I could do it, anyone could. I've always hated almost all pure slice-of-life anime stuff with passion, the tropes, cliches, usual plot points, humor, character relationships, all just really make me cringe all the time.
Yet I trucked through the first two ML games in a couple of days. Just read the most important routes (two almost identical in Extra, one in Unlimited iirc), read fast and they'll take you less than ~14 hours to read.
Though I really recommend finishing Extra just for the characters, Unlimited is almost the same for every route so just pick someone. I am a person who loves slice-of-life and silly stuff so
Must be the reason I managed to finish Rewrite too.Let us know the quality of the case, some of them (I'm looking at you Demonbane) have been less than spectacular.
Also, this is a great game, but I couldn't continue playing it because of
Orihime (((((((((
(((((((((The Silver
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I couldn't last 10 minutes and you expect me to make it through 14 hours?
Muvluv extra was everything I hate about anime/manga distilled and refined into its purest form.
I honestly don't think Extra is that important to the overall story. It's mostly just character introduction and cheeky foreshadowing. Unlimited is vital though.
I would recommend going through Extra, but not at the detriment of getting to the sequels. If you really must, you can ctrl your way through the story at your leisure.
I don't think there's much point to going through Extra when he hates it that much. There's a certain line where if you go past it, you just become focused with how much you don't want to be doing it and it's not a nice feeling.
Best choice would be to wait until he feels like he can read something he doesn't like without taking it too hard (time kinda helps swallowing the pill).
Best choice would be to wait until he feels like he can read something he doesn't like without taking it too hard (time kinda helps swallowing the pill).
Basileus777
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Tizoc
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Hype~ Now to wait for it to actually be available @_@
cj_iwakura
Member
Could Ever17 ever wind up on Steam ?
Basileus777
Member
I think it's in limbo because no one active owns its rights. In theory it could.
cj_iwakura
Member
Finished Episode 1 of Higurashi. Well, that escalated quickly. Too early to say if I like it more than Umineko, but not yet.
Just started Remember11 today. Things got crazy waaaaaay earlier than I expected, compared to Ever17, haha.
edit: man, if
edit 2: welp, spoke too soon.
ooooooohhhh crap,
oh man oh man oh man oh man oh boy oh man
edit: man, if
Kokoro finally acknowledges that she's in SPHIA while Yukidoh is in the cabin, why isn't she trying to get help for the people in the cabin? I'm considering the "twist" that the two events aren't happening at the same time, but still.
edit 2: welp, spoke too soon.
ooooooohhhh crap,
cabin-Yuni remembered Kokoro saying she doesn't like pineapple in SPHIA.
I feel kind of silly by this: everyone is reading serious VN... yet here I am, reading Ikikoi (a Slice-of-life VN). I won't lie, I'm enjoying it way too much (Tsumugu has become one of my favorite characters ever, waifu-tier), but reading the last few pages... welp ._.
Also, I read ShiniKiss last month. Totally unremarcable, since I can't recall that much about it now. Even the MC's name is gone from my memory lol
podracer35
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If it's a good Slice of Life VN, I'm definitely adding it to my list.
As much as I enjoy mystery and mindfucks, I love chill, SoL stories. That goes for both VNs and anime
This is reminding me of Chaos;Head, in the sense that I remember how exhausting it is to have question marks keep piling on top of each other with no end in sight. Every single explanation I can think of is broken, and the MCs are doing even worse than me trying to reason it out (forgetting details that contradict the base of their theories). It makes me happy that I can predict the obvious things like
even when I know they were really predictable.
By the way I'm with ya'll on SoL. It's pretty great.
Yomogi's son being killed by Inubushi, that Utsumi was related to Yomogi in some way, etc
By the way I'm with ya'll on SoL. It's pretty great.
I'm playing Kokoro's side of R11 for the first time right now, too. This is batshit insane and I love it. I ran off to work with 3 hours of sleep today because so much shit was hitting the fan I couldn't stop playing last night. It's not letting up a bit.
Also, the Heuristic track kicks ass.
Yeah it's just crazy. Kokoro too (didn't even know the other route was, well, but now I know), according to the pause screen I'm at 25%. Just got
killed 3 times in a row after getting locked outside
edit:
all these dead ends, i can't hold them all.
for some insane reason, the most life risking choices are always the ones that don't kill me
for some insane reason, the most life risking choices are always the ones that don't kill me
Can anyone point me to a step-by-step guide to reading R11? I'm doing Umineko ATM, and the lack of choices is so damn refreshing, you can just concentrate on story and not on 'if I choose this option, will I get dead-ended right now or 10 hours in?'.
A guide that marks the 'dead-end' choices and points you into correct path would be awesome.
A guide that marks the 'dead-end' choices and points you into correct path would be awesome.
Haha, remember to be mentally prepared for dat ending upandaway and PKrockin
http://erogedownload.com/walkthroughs/remember-11-walkthrough/
Regular walkthrough, with bad endings on the second comment. This is what I used when I played R11.
Also, there's a bad ending you guys should really get, quoting the reply I got when I was reading R11, going by the walkthrough I posted
http://erogedownload.com/walkthroughs/remember-11-walkthrough/
Regular walkthrough, with bad endings on the second comment. This is what I used when I played R11.
Also, there's a bad ending you guys should really get, quoting the reply I got when I was reading R11, going by the walkthrough I posted
But really those last couple of hours were just nuts. I can't stand the slightest cold so it was hard just reading those descriptions.
Anyway I guess I'll replay with all the choices I didn't make before, then go to sleep and start the next chapter tomorrow. I don't think the flow of the choices is worthy of a walkthrough at all, so yeah. They all
All that matters is to save at every choice, really.
Anyway I guess I'll replay with all the choices I didn't make before, then go to sleep and start the next chapter tomorrow. I don't think the flow of the choices is worthy of a walkthrough at all, so yeah. They all
either lead to death immediately or not at all, so you can just go back one choice and choose something else.
Mauricio_Magus
Banned
I'm reading the Ever17 LP, and damn this is good even if it took a while to actually get interesting.
What an ending, huh? lol
seriously what the fuck? was there a magnetic pole reversal or some shit?
For extra fun try to summarize the events of the game for someone else who's never played it. My friend thinks I was making it up as I went. lol
Yeah, it's cold as hell here and I've been stranded in a blizzard with no power for days before, so I was really into those scenes.
The game even quicksaves at every choice I believe. Or you can set it to.
Yeah, just gotta push yourself through the slower slice of life stuff. It gets better and better.
Red_taiyaki
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Yah, first time I played r11 I was like ummmmmmmmm WTH. Still don't quite understand what happened at the end to this day, but everyone has his or her own theory I guess....
Question for you VN fans: I've got a 12-hour plane flight next week and was thinking about bringing along the PSP and playing one of these games.
I've never played a Steins;Gate orChaos'Head game; which is good for someone unfamiliar with that universe?
Japanese leven can be as difficult as you like; I'll manage.
I still have Time Travelers to finish, along with Ever 17, so I might just stick with those if there's nothing else worthy. But I spotted Steins;Gate (the "main" one, I think) for ¥2500 yesterday and was this close to buying it.
I've never played a Steins;Gate orChaos'Head game; which is good for someone unfamiliar with that universe?
Japanese leven can be as difficult as you like; I'll manage.
I still have Time Travelers to finish, along with Ever 17, so I might just stick with those if there's nothing else worthy. But I spotted Steins;Gate (the "main" one, I think) for ¥2500 yesterday and was this close to buying it.
Red_taiyaki
Member
Chaos;Head is the first entry into Nitro's "science" series, so take that for what you will...
Satoru is rocking out the logic, really hard. He's so thorough, it feels like I don't have to do any thinking myself (even when I know I will have to come the ending, haha).
So far not too much new information, it feels more like this route was meant to be available from the start along with Kokoro in the style of E17, but I only just started (~3 hours) so I dunno.
@ Dunan, neither of those fits with the time span of your flight so maybe they're not good fits. C;H will take double the time, and S;G will take double the time of the double the time. They're independent but some people say S;G references C;H in insignificant portions.
Edit: Well now. As far as I can see, the only way to explain
But that's just way too convoluted to conveniently happen, so I'm completely lost.
So far not too much new information, it feels more like this route was meant to be available from the start along with Kokoro in the style of E17, but I only just started (~3 hours) so I dunno.
@ Dunan, neither of those fits with the time span of your flight so maybe they're not good fits. C;H will take double the time, and S;G will take double the time of the double the time. They're independent but some people say S;G references C;H in insignificant portions.
Edit: Well now. As far as I can see, the only way to explain
Yuni is that his bodies switched, but one of the bodies got copied the consciousness of the other, the Yuni right before the crash.
closer013
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Just got my Kara no Shojo in the mail.
http://imgur.com/G9v1mlF
The box kind of sucks and got screwed up in a few places.
Oh well, I just completed Kirara's route on Yumina the Ethereal so it will be nice to have something else to play.
http://imgur.com/G9v1mlF
The box kind of sucks and got screwed up in a few places.
Oh well, I just completed Kirara's route on Yumina the Ethereal so it will be nice to have something else to play.
Dropped_Off
Neo Member
closer013
Member
It's a "Special BGM Collection" and contains:
01 ES
02 Lilac
03 Fairy's Dance
04 Moon World
05 Cherry Blossoms
06 Days
07 Neanis no Tamaho
08 Kara no Shojo
09 Despair
10 Paranoia
11 Ruri no Tori (Short ver.)
I haven't listened to it yet because I know nothing of the game. The art is gorgeous though.
Okay.. done (+1 hour of calming down). Phew!
edit: read the explanations in http://explainremember11.wordpress.com/
whooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
that's smaaarrtttttttttt
i really wanna read the "level 3" stuff too.. oh man..
Well yeah, that sure was an ending. The teases in the ending (Inubushi being Inubushi and Satoru not being Satoru) weren't even the things I was confused about, they were obvious, and I realized the truth about them both long ago. It definitely feels like there should be another, true ending after this, that lays out the Yukidoh Plan, deals with "the bad guys" and alpha and resolves everything for good, possibly after the current ending like in Steins;Gate.
I have my suspicions regarding the unsolved stuff but it feels so weird not to have the answer laid out in the VN. That said, the ending is definitely a Good Ending, and it's satisfying, so that's already a lot more than I expected coming into it. Time to read some explanations.
By the way, Uchikoshi's token douchebag is always super annoying, but Lin is really the worst of all his VNs. Just saying.
Anyway that was pretty amazing, loved every second. The twists were crazy, the tension was crazy, and HOLY CRAP IT'S RIGHT THERE IN THE LOGO, THE 3 CIRCLES, OH MY GOD IT WAS THERE ALL ALONG
ARE YOU KIDDING ME
I have my suspicions regarding the unsolved stuff but it feels so weird not to have the answer laid out in the VN. That said, the ending is definitely a Good Ending, and it's satisfying, so that's already a lot more than I expected coming into it. Time to read some explanations.
By the way, Uchikoshi's token douchebag is always super annoying, but Lin is really the worst of all his VNs. Just saying.
Anyway that was pretty amazing, loved every second. The twists were crazy, the tension was crazy, and HOLY CRAP IT'S RIGHT THERE IN THE LOGO, THE 3 CIRCLES, OH MY GOD IT WAS THERE ALL ALONG
ARE YOU KIDDING ME
edit: read the explanations in http://explainremember11.wordpress.com/
whooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
that's smaaarrtttttttttt
i really wanna read the "level 3" stuff too.. oh man..
Red_taiyaki
Member
So according to the latest JLIST email, Peter is currently performing final checks on the Steins;Gate LE box and they are hard at work to get the game released early 2014. I honestly can't wait for it....looks like I'll be finally taking a break from FFXIV during that time .
.S;G and C;H are independent but take place in the same universe, there are some nods to people who have played C;H in S;G, but that's it. S;G was in my opinion the far superior game, but I still liked both.
I wouldn't play Chaos;Head on an airplane. That game is all about the atmosphere. You should be playing it in a dark room at night...alone.
Semi related note, I may be the only person who likes Chaos;Head more than Steins;Gate. It was an amazing experience. It's probably better to play C;H first, but its not essential.
Semi related note, I may be the only person who likes Chaos;Head more than Steins;Gate. It was an amazing experience. It's probably better to play C;H first, but its not essential.
I really liked C;H. The whole thing with delusions was amazing.
Mauricio_Magus
Banned
I already played 999/VLR so I thought that Ever17 would not fuck with my brain... I was so fucking wrong holy shit.
Edit: Just finished, crying like crazy fuck I love this so much.
Edit: Just finished, crying like crazy fuck I love this so much.
Red_taiyaki
Member
Go play Never7/Remember11 now
.That being said, the twist in Ever 17 >>>>>>>>>>>> 999/VLR. Maybe it's because I played Ever17 first, but the first time I heard of
B/W in Coco's route
Red_taiyaki
Member
Still need to play Never7 myself, but idk when I'll have time to since the next VN I plan to play is Steins once the official localization is out. It's on my to-do list though!
Infinity series is: Never7, Remember11, Ever17 and 12Riven.
I think the only one that got an official translation is Ever17
Edit: 12Riven is the only one not given a fan-translation yet, but it's in the work
I think the only one that got an official translation is Ever17
Edit: 12Riven is the only one not given a fan-translation yet, but it's in the work
Tizoc
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Thanks.
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