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Ibram Gaunt posted:Does Katawa Shoujou actually have a good story? I'll admit I have not followed it at all but all I hear about it is it's a VN where you bone disabled chicks which doesn't really appeal to me, but I hear people talking about it a lot. That's the very basic idea, but there's more to it than that. They released a demo awhile back that showed Act 1 of the game and it was very well received. For it being an independent project composed of random people from the internet, the production quality and writing is actually very good and surprised me.
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For what it's worth I had most of FSN spoiled for myself ahead of time and I still enjoyed it immensely.Zeether posted:Is discussing VNs with gameplay shifts okay in this thread? I kind of like the type of VN where you don't just read text and look at images.
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Nate RFB posted:For what it's worth I had most of FSN spoiled for myself ahead of time and I still enjoyed it immensely. In that case, the floor is now officially open to Rance discussion.
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I'm not sure how much there is to discuss. Rance is
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I have to admit I was slightly interested in playing the one Downhill Night game (I think it's called Downhill Night Type-R or something) where you can actually drive the cars, but then I looked up a screenshot on Google and the 3D models for the cars looked very strange.
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Fangz posted:I'm not sure how much there is to discuss. Rance is There's a lot of other stuff in Rance, ranging from cute to comedy to badass. What you just described is Daibanchou.
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I tried Rance but couldn't get over the rapist mary sue to reach what people laud as the good parts.
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Ibram Gaunt posted:Does Katawa Shoujou actually have a good story? I'll admit I have not followed it at all but all I hear about it is it's a VN where you bone disabled chicks which doesn't really appeal to me, but I hear people talking about it a lot.
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The one good thing I have to say about Sengoku Rance (which is the only Rance game I'm familiar with) is that the music is loving awesome and way too good for the lovely surprise sex porn game it's attached to. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Xidu5lQrms http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPyk1dsGZQY  Also, while we're on this subject, jesus gently caress Saya no Uta has an incredible soundtrack. Schizophrenia, Song of Saya I, Scream, and Sin all fit the VN's mood perfectly. WickedIcon fucked around with this message at Nov 17, 2011 around 23:41 |
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Personally I just find it to be a genuinely good strategy game. The surprise sex is generally waaay too cartoonish to take seriously in any respect save for a few cases, nearly all of which are avoidable if you aren't a fuckup. Most of the cast are amusing enough too, it's easily on par with Sengoku Basara in utter madness. If you can stop worrying about the porn for five seconds and looks at the other stuff you find a game that's 10 times more  than most rpgs can normally dream of. And yeah the soundtrack is AMAZING.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6gH...feature=related Honestly my real complaint with the game, and it's one that applies to Daibanchou as well, is that it really doesn't tell you how to do poo poo and many of the events and triggers are incredibly obscure and you'd never find them without using the Alicesoft wiki. I'm almost 100% certain this will apply to Rance Quest and Daiteikoku too, which mind you isn't going to stop me from playing them. Daiteikoku actually looks more hilarious than Rance Quest to me, which is funny since I didn't like Daibanchou nearly as much as I liked Sengoku Rance.
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WickedIcon posted:Also, while we're on this subject, jesus gently caress Saya no Uta has an incredible soundtrack. I agree, I think it's great! I've played some more VNs over the past few days. Tsukihime was great. After that, I played Kagetsu Tohya... while it was pretty interesting, I thought it was boring. Then I spent some time playing Kara no Shoujo (not sure if it's a VN because it plays a lot like Ace Attorney, but most sites say it is so I'll lump it in!). It's pretty depressing and there's a lot of gross gore stuff in it, but it's still a nice read and I felt that they did a great job with the translation. There's a few game overs that just kind of come out of nowhere, so I'd recommend saving a lot if you decide to play... the game gives you 60 slots, you won't have to use even half that but you should keep that in mind if you decide to play. Two of my friends have been ranting about how I have to play Sengoku Rance so I guess that's my next eroge. I've never played a strategy game before though; is it very hard?
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Archduke posted:I've never played a strategy game before though; is it very hard? If you're spoiled on the major "surprise!" moves the game pulls on you and know which characters are broken and should be recruited ASAP, the game isn't that hard. Going in completely fresh though, you'll probably do something silly like start a 3-front war. It might take a restart once you gotten a feel for the game to make it to the end. It's fairly light on the mechanics though so it isn't that hard to actually learn the game.
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A very good article here: http://www.jhunewsletter.com/arts-e...91#.TsgU3PLkbR2
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Abalieno posted:A very good article here: Advance warning for anyone who hasn't played it: he casually spoils the twist of Ever17, although admittedly not very well. Also worships the ground Key walks on.
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I think CLANNAD is pretty cool but Watchmen and Citizen Kane are not the first two things I would compare it against, even in the context of "...in their respective mediums". So, yeah.
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quote:Clannad is considered visual novels's magnum opus for showing what the form could achieve
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Rodyle posted:And like that you've lost me. It's achieved two full series and a film and two OVAs and a spin-off! An example to the entire industry.
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Rodyle posted:And like that you've lost me. It's achieved two full series and a film and two OVAs and a spin-off! An example to the entire industry. EDIT: quote:Using: Photoshop, live actors, dead actors, sexy assistants, greenscreen, a camera, and a Wacom tablet. Each comic page is meticulously digitally painted and contains 6 years worth of textures: 1 terabyte of stock footage, shot in real abandoned, forgotten places of our world. So basically it's traced. :p
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Finished YU-NO. Honestly can't even bring myself to really rant about it anymore, I'm just glad it's over. Some parts were undeniably interesting and the way it was presented occasionally felt clever, but whatever good will it incurred was buried underneath a mountain of bad design and plot decisions. Never again will I think of CLANNAD's route progression as being obtuse and annoying, not when I have this as a comparison. The amount of lazy fanservice was enough to put Cross Channel to shame as well. More than anything else though, the most damning part of all was the line it crossed towards the end that tainted the whole experience. Those that have played it probably know exactly what part I mean.
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I picked up Fate/Extra and it seems pretty cool, is there a Games thread for it or anything? Also, lol Caster
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http://forums.somethingawful.com/sh...hreadid=3448909
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I started Steins;Gate again and I have to wonder why the cell phone keeps coming up. All I can do is read emails and mess with the background as of now. And clicking the connection thing links me to a website in Japanese. Also I can tell the translation's unfinished...there are these [text00000] things that come up periodically and then I see some bracketed tag pop up briefly when a dialogue with that fades out. e: Oh, moving the mouse to the right side of the screen causes the phone to pop up. Zeether fucked around with this message at Nov 25, 2011 around 01:19 |
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Oh yeah in case anyone here didn't notice Corpse Party is live on the PSN store for $19.99, definitely worth checking out if you like horror-themed stories.
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Is there any way to play F/SN on a homebrew enabled PSP or Wii or something? I'm way too easily distracted to play on my computer. I've been on day 15 of UBW for months...
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Conduit for Sale! posted:Is there any way to play F/SN on a homebrew enabled PSP or Wii or something? I'm way too easily distracted to play on my computer. I've been on day 15 of UBW for months... I'm not sure about PSP but I know some group ported it to the DS if you have one of those and a flashcart.
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Don't think this got mentioned here: Amaterasu TL is currently working on Forest, and Ixrec plans to translate Rewrite once he's done with that.
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Well, I just finished Muv-Luv. The entire saga is amazing, and honestly its well worth it to suffer through the generic routes to gain... well its one of the greatest Visual Novels that could only work as a visual novel honestly. It uses its own internal universe and characters, and while yes it does have disturbing imagery, it isn't for pure shock value or cheap thrills. If you loved Fate/Stay Night, if you like HARDCORE MILITARY SHOWS FOR HARDCORE MILITARY PEOPLE, or just giant robots or discussions on politics, you will love this visual novel.
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Stolen from the F/Z thread, Mahoutsukai no Yoru has a release date of April 12th, 2012, and here is the opening: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcBgRcEN6Mo It's...not a particularly impressive OP, since it is mostly still images. But still, I couldn't help but be pretty excited. It doesn't feel like Nasu work strangely enough, like he's channeling The Girl Who Leapt Through Time or something instead. I think it works.
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Is the Tsukihime remake basically not happening?
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Zeether posted:Is the Tsukihime remake basically not happening? It's probably something we won't see until T-M need a new cash cow. But with the ridiculous amount that they're milking Fate these days, it's possible we might never see it. Tsukihime isn't getting much love these days, it looks like the Melty Blood series is over now as well.
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Popehoist posted:It's probably something we won't see until T-M need a new cash cow. But with the ridiculous amount that they're milking Fate these days, it's possible we might never see it. Tsukihime isn't getting much love these days, it looks like the Melty Blood series is over now as well. They've stated that the next big project will have Takeuchi as the artist and it was always said that the new Tsukihime game would be after Mahoyo. Also they've been working on a sequel to Actress Again for awhile.
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Rodyle posted:They've stated that the next big project will have Takeuchi as the artist and it was always said that the new Tsukihime game would be after Mahoyo. So this new Tsukihime is just a remake? I've already played the original I don't much care to do it again with fancy graphics. It wasn't THAT good. I also don't see how they could make a sequel to it either, what would be the premise? The way the original ended makes it hard to imagine there's anything left to say.
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Rodyle posted:They've stated that the next big project will have Takeuchi as the artist and it was always said that the new Tsukihime game would be after Mahoyo. What? No they haven't. They released Current Code update a while ago and keep updating it but French Bread are tired of being defined by MB and want to move onto other projects. It's incredibly unlikely we'll see another MB game.
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edit: drat you popehoist  You mean Melty Blood Actress Again Current Code? Thats been out in arcades for quite a while now and the PC port is coming out at the end of this month; packed free in bluray copies of Carnival Phantasm Season 3. That'll probably be the end of of Melty Blood (for now) once they get netplay worked out though. French Bread has been working on their unrelated game, Under Night In-Birth. DerDestroyer posted:So this new Tsukihime is just a remake? I've already played the original I don't much care to do it again with fancy graphics. It wasn't THAT good. I also don't see how they could make a sequel to it either, what would be the premise? The way the original ended makes it hard to imagine there's anything left to say. vkeios fucked around with this message at Dec 15, 2011 around 05:26 |
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DerDestroyer posted:So this new Tsukihime is just a remake? I've already played the original I don't much care to do it again with fancy graphics. It wasn't THAT good. I also don't see how they could make a sequel to it either, what would be the premise? The way the original ended makes it hard to imagine there's anything left to say. The Tsukihime remake is going to include a Satsuki route supposedly. Also the premise of Tsukhime 2 would be, well, Tsukihime 2. We've known about that for years, although it's mostly just something Nasu teases us with by releasing details on insane poo poo like Mr Dawn. vkeios posted:edit: drat you popehoist
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http://katawashoujo.blogspot.com/20...eleased-on.html They announced the release date, Jan. 04th
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Tamba posted:http://katawashoujo.blogspot.com/20...eleased-on.html Oh god. Hell yes.
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Tamba posted:http://katawashoujo.blogspot.com/20...eleased-on.html For over a year this has been the #1 thing I've been looking forward to the most. I remember thinking at one point "I'll have a serious problem if this is released within a week of Portal 2" Show us what you've got four leaf studios 
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vkeios posted:Also sequel-wise, they could do Arcuied sleeps while Shiki kills some vampires. If anything, I think they'll probably go with what the manga did and have Shiki's response to the whole Arcueid-sleeping thing be, more or less, "ah ha ha gently caress that I am not losing you for that dumb of a reason even if I have to go to the end of the Earth to do it." The last few pages of the manga are  as all hell and pretty much salvage that ending for me.e: also the manga loving owns bones in general WickedIcon fucked around with this message at Dec 16, 2011 around 00:56 |
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If Tsukihime 2 consists entirely of Shiki (and Arcueid and Ciel) running around murdering the hell out of vampires I will take it and like it. ^ WickedIcon knows whats up. Tsukihime manga is fantastic.
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