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It's loud but I grew up around cicadas so I was used to it (they really are loud as balls in real life, or at least were 20 years ago). I would strongly recommend staying out of this thread for now because even oblique references to Higurashi will spoil things at least until you get through episode 4 (imo).
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No Wave posted:It's loud but I grew up around cicadas so I was used to it (they really are loud as balls in real life, or at least were 20 years ago). We have them here too, and they drive me loving crazy, so I come by the irritation here naturally. Good advice--I'll check back after I finish 4 then.
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May 29, 2020 15:22
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Posting your ongoing theories is still a fun exercise, especially to work out your thoughts as you progress through the chapters.
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The clear solution is to post but never read anyone else's posts, which is the best way to live on SA in general.
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May 29, 2020 16:54
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PMush Perfect posted:The clear solution is to post but never read anyone else's posts, which is the best way to live on SA in general. 
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May 29, 2020 17:09
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I love reading liveblogs in this thread, for the record.
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gently caress it  . I'm partway through part 2 of Higurashi now, and while my theories up to this point are basically summed up by ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (which makes me wonder if I'm doing this wrong and if I should be thinking about things more given how much black bar discussion I've seen but not read for Umineko in here) and the character review in the extras of the first game pretty much summed up the different possibilities at this point, here are a couple general thoughts: I was pretty much 100% sure Shion wasn't Mion from the start, basically just because having Keiichi be wrong seemd more interesting than having him be right, but I was wavering a bit before the reveal, because Rena also being so wrong about that was a little more surprising. Overall, going back to silly slice of life stuff immediately after the gruesome ending of part 1 was pretty jarring, and the contrast really works. This one might be slightly more over the top with the whacky hijinks but tbf smoke was coming out of Rena's head in the first one too, so it's not like this was ever fully serious. The festival is coming up though, so the sense of dread that the days of laughter and fun are coming to an end is setting in.Oh, btw, I mostly skipped over my thoughts on part 1 since I've already moved on, but Creepy Rena is creepy as gently caress. Also I really don't trust Ooishi Dr Kool-AIDS fucked around with this message at 16:43 on May 30, 2020 |
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May 30, 2020 16:39
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Sinteres posted:gently caress it Umineko has much more room for speculation than Higurashi does, just because of the way the story is told.
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May 30, 2020 21:12
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Finished Raging Loop. Liked it quite a bit. The strongest parts are definitely when you're smack dab in the middle of the mafia games. Trying to figure out who's what ahead of schedule is fun, and they use the title dropped mechanic to good effect here. What comes outside the mafia games is less interesting, but due to how the vn is structured it doesn't diminish the mafia games you played. The vn weaves paranormal and not-so paranormal things together, but when it counts(mafia games) you don't have to worry about this. This is a good thing because outside the mafia games, things can get a bit messy. There is a chunk of exposition dump at some point that is important to what comes after it, but it's not done in a way that is even remotely engaging. It's a shame they didn't manage to sprinkle the info of this dump over all the  you've read up until that point. It feels like they discovered way too late into the making of this thing that at some point everything important needs to be knotted together.
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Umineko is a murder mystery that actively tells you to think it out and figure out why/how/who/what/etc, so it's practically designed for black bar discussion. Higurashi by contrast is more of a... I kind of want to say character drama? There are horror and thriller and mystery elements to it, but there's not the constant push for "you have all the clues, FIGURE IT OUT, NEVER STOP THINKING" Not to say that Umineko doesn't have character drama stuff, and not to say that Higurashi isn't also something you should theorize on and try to solve. But they're different. Either way post more. (I know, I should post more myself but I'm stalled on Umineko - read a few scenes today, but I'm not mainlining it like I was due to terminal adhd brain.)
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Wanton Spoon posted:I notice that YOU and ME and HER: A Love Story (capitalizations important, I'm sure) has recently gotten a release on Steam. [...] I'm tempted to get it. But I'm hesitant, and I'm wondering if someone here has played it and can give me some further insight into it without spoiling too much. It might be standard for horror media, but I don't like it when stories do stuff for shock value unless there's some message attached to it. For comparison, I also didn't like Inside even though that game was a critical darling. On a somewhat related note, YOU and ME and HER isn't the most LGBTQ+-friendly thing in the world, either. I don't know. You know how a lot of VNs and anime examine otaku culture in such a way that they take a critical look at some of the bigger problems with otaku culture? But because that's still their target audience, the story starts doing things that make you feel like it's just indulging in the things it's pretending to criticize? The story makes me feel gross for even reading it, is what I'm saying. I envy those who are reading Higurashi or Umineko for the first time instead. StrixNebulosa posted:Not to say that Umineko doesn't have character drama stuff, and not to say that Higurashi isn't also something you should theorize on and try to solve. But they're different.
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gently caress. I guess I need to start playing VNs now. (I blame the YTTD LP.)
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PMush Perfect posted:gently caress. I guess I need to start playing VNs now. (I blame the YTTD LP.) There's some pretty nice ones out there. This thread is a good place to get started(there are so so many out there you shouldn't touch with a 10ft pole).
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Higurashi part 2 continued: Made it through the festival, and nowhere has the contrast between the silly parts and the horror parts been more stark. The part where they're competing to get customers to buy stuff from different stalls is funny and absurd (Mion making an idiot of herself by talking about eating goldfish made me laugh), but then the warehouse scene where Takano is explaining what all the torture devices are for and talking about cannibalism and everything was arguably the most gruesome part of the series yet, especially since it just kept going and going while she was having the time of her life talking about it. Sorry the whole post is basically a black bar, but I want to be pretty careful not to ruin it for any latecomers like myself. Not really sure what there is to talk about that doesn't give something away. One thing I'm wondering (but I'm not not really asking) is how the parts relate to each other. Like they seem to just be different routes I guess, but it's not fully clear to me since no choices are involved if Keiichi is just stumbling into different circumstances or if people's personalities are different at times or if some characters (like Shion) don't even exist in every part. I'm sure there's going to be some fuckery where one appears to be the other at some point(s) though, so maybe she even had an active role in part 1 at some point that I'm being a colossal idiot for missing, idk Edit: Nearing the end of part 2, and while it's probably crazy to interrupt the climax to post about it, something's blowing my mind. The surprise to me about the conversation at Mion's house so far is that she's talking so much about Japanese war crimes. I really really don't expect to see them mentioned in such gruesome detail in Japanese media, even if it is a horror game. Actual ending thoughts: Keiichi, you dumbass. Oh, he survived. Keiichi, you dumbass. Oh, he survived. Then the hospital and welp, I guess it can't be helped. Still not really sure how these parts fit together. Rena seemed to be the one who was possessed in the first game, while it was Mion in the second. Takano apparently was too though? idk it's pretty confusing. The twist that Rika had the syringe with her when she went to Mion's house was pretty awesome though. She obviously wasn't a sweet and helpless victim. This might be stupid, but I can't help wondering if Mion and Shion are actually triplets or something, because it feels like there's still a bullet left to be fired somewhere in their relationship. I think I'll take a little break before I jump into 3. Even knowing I still have Umineko to read at some point after this, tearing through it all in one giant binge feels wasteful. Dr Kool-AIDS fucked around with this message at 04:36 on Jun 1, 2020 |
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I finally jumped on the Utawarerumono sequels and Anju is the absolute worst and I'm glad for it.
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I’m about half way through YU-NO, and I’ve gotten the Ayumi, Mitsuki, and Mio endings. It’s pretty good so far and I really like trying to Suss out who’s human and who’s celestial. Good times.
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I remember YU-NO (the original, or at least the original windows port, I presume it started out on pc98 or something) as absolutely amazing and an all-time classic but that was a long time ago and both times and my tastes have changed since then. I wonder how I'd feel about it now. That said it's a shame more VNs haven't adapted the explicit path tree. Zero Escape series and Raging Loop are the examples I can think of, what else?
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I’m playing the new spike chunsoft release. It’s not nearly as explicit, and I think the new art style is fine (especially since you can choose to use the old music). Though I am in agreement that I would call this a classic.
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Yu-No is great until the ending which is uh yikes lol
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It's the final route for me. The last like 25% of Yu-No is such a bummer and it basically overrides any good will I would have otherwise had for the rest of the VN. I also think for as novel and important historically the timeline chart manipulation is for organizing its story and route, in practice at least the original release is a bit too obtuse for its own good at a few junctions and often devolves into frustrating point & click scavenger hunts.
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Sakurazuka posted:Yu-No is great until the ending which is uh yikes lol
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PMush Perfect posted:What the ending yikes, for someone who’s never and probably will never play it? Father-daughter incest presented as a good thing
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StrixNebulosa posted:Father-daughter incest presented as a good thing 
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Fortunately the re-release makes the pixel hunts and knowing where to go a lot easier.PMush Perfect posted:What the ending yikes, for someone who’s never and probably will never play it? The final route is an set in an alternate universe so far removed from ours that it's basically an RPG fantasy world and ends with the main character and his four year old daughter (who looks and acts late teens because people grow up faster there) becoming Adam & Eve for the entire multiverse. Also it implies that another character you gently caress in a different route is also your daughter but noone knows about it lol.
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It comes out of nowhere too, like, 90% of the VN is about a mystery and at worst the teenager is horny. Then the finale hits and Whoof
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Hwurmp posted:visualnovels.txt Honestly, no. Most plot-focused visual novels don't hit for incest as a big thing. I can't speak for the porn incest market, but it's not something you can say for the entire genre.
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Best thing about yu-no is the music, 2nd best thing is the switch exclusive? 8-bit bonus game (which has nes remixes of the music) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8jyJQikLuc Found gameplay video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9pMxAHDxws lets hang out fucked around with this message at 14:39 on Jun 2, 2020 |
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StrixNebulosa posted:Honestly, no. Most plot-focused visual novels don't hit for incest as a big thing. I can't speak for the porn incest market, but it's not something you can say for the entire genre. I remember Tsukihime did one. That's the only major VN that I can recall with incest.
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Hwurmp posted:visualnovels.txt AV/post synergy
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lets hang out posted:Best thing about yu-no is the music, 2nd best thing is the switch exclusive? 8-bit bonus game (which has nes remixes of the music) gently caress I should have got the Switch version. Anyway yeah the music owns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JppWvZxmvs
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StrixNebulosa posted:Honestly, no. Most plot-focused visual novels don't hit for incest as a big thing. I can't speak for the porn incest market, but it's not something you can say for the entire genre. it just seems like even very good VNs tend to have one major "oof" moment, incest or not
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I mean, not really, not more so than any other form of fiction can be. Also my friend I know you post in the Falcom thread so c'mon now lol
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The one that comes to mind for me is from Steins gate that scene where Okabe overpowers Moeka... yeesh....
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In a world where Game of Thrones became one of the biggest shows in the history of television watched by everyone's pet dog and grandmother, I feel like your average VN has if anything gone proportionally down in shock value compared to just plain ol' mainstream television.
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Game of Thrones is nothing but oofs Game oof Thrones
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Yeah but in spite of that it still manages to be bad.
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I'm going to read Dies Irae finally. Haven't indulged my inner chuuni in quite a while. 
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Apparantly there are few things out there more chuuni than Dies Irae so you're going to get your fill and then some.
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Ibram Gaunt posted:I'm going to read Dies Irae finally. Haven't indulged my inner chuuni in quite a while. Oh man you are in for a treat, I love that thing. It really captures all the glorious ridiculous of shouting about how strong your powers are and then fighting, with all the gothic sweep of fighting nazi vampires who want to bring hell on earth. Also obligatory shoutout to how drat awesome Kazikilu Bey's VA is. I could listen to that man read a phone book it's so good.
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