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Since people are asking about VNs, does anyone have any thoughts about Spirit Hunter:Death Mark? its in my wishlist for some reason, but I don't remember why I added it.
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Sakurazuka posted:It's not bad, basically a series of loosely connected ghost stories. Writings okay and it's spooky enough, there's also some 'gameplay' sections where you have to figure out how to exorcise the ghosts which can be annoyingly not obvious. I liked it enough to play it and the sadly not as good sequel. hmmm, thanks for the info. I'll probably get it during the sale.
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Hwurmp posted:Raging Loop ending question: why did getting dunked on cause Rikako to lose all her spider mojo because she made a deal with somebody who doesn't exist, due to messing up the protagonist's name..
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Ytlaya posted:IMO either the PS3 or the original sprites are acceptable options, but the default Steam sprites are not acceptable under any circumstances. Battler and Beatrice both look awful (in ways that just seriously conflict with their characters) and all the female characters have comically massive boobs. I didn't get far into Umineko, but I will always remember Rudolf's moobs for his original sprite.
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Jul 13, 2020 05:00
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:Raging Loop? No, its Long live the Queen.
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Hyper Crab Tank posted:The one thing I'm hoping revelation mode is going to provide is an answer to (Raging Loop ending spoilers) what happened to cause the earth spider god thing to just suddenly gently caress off and leave the villain powerless at exactly the wrong moment, because I don't feel like the main story really explained that at all. She made a promise that was impossible to fulfill.
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hostess with the Moltres posted:I was sort of hoping to get AI The Somnium Files when it came out on switch but that’s a nice sale price. I’m also curious about playing the VLR trilogy. Which one of the two should I get if I only get one? VLR for sure. not only is it a good VN, the puzzles add a lot to the gameplay.
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Heroic Yoshimitsu posted:ZTD is great, I'm always surprised to see people who don't like it. Its just a lot weaker than the other games. It also suffers from the fact that some plot stuff from the ending of VLR was ignored (the extra scene you get from solving all the bonus puzzles in VLR was even made uncanon). Its still a good game, but its not great like the other 2 games are. -edit the best part of ZTD is this (massive spoilers for the 999 triology) IShallRiseAgain fucked around with this message at 14:20 on Aug 20, 2020 |
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Aug 20, 2020 14:09
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Robotic Notes has really weird routing right? I seem to recall hearing the routes are determined by really arbitrary choices.
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The puzzle design of ZTD is really weak compared to the last 2 games. Lots of repeat puzzles, and if you don't solve one right away, you basically get a hint that gives away the solution. So I'm playing Robotic Notes Dash and its really awkward how they forced Daru from Steins;Gate into the narrative as a main character. Also, it seems like the game assumes you have played Chaos;Head.
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So I beat Robotic Notes Dash and I can't say I'm a big fan of it. I mentioned it earlier in the thread, but its really awkward how they forced Daru into the story. It doesn't do a good job of justifying why a man in his 30s would be hanging out with a bunch of teenagers. Kaito also has problems. It makes sense that he would act more mature than what he was like in Robotic Notes; However, by making him more mature, he became a dull character. He doesn't really have that much of a personality anymore. The game also doesn't really have a main plot until the very end. I do like a couple of routes (Subaru and Junna), but most of them aren't that good. I also feel like they had to ignore certain things from the first game in order to do some of the plot stuff they wanted. Considering Steins;Gate 0 had similar issues (to a lesser extent) I think the science adventure games have a real problem of lacking narrative focus in their sequels. I also had multiple crashes while playing the game. There is also no mouse control (a recently released fan patch fixes this though), which is kind of ridiculous for a pc port release in 2020. One positive thing is that they made it so the route no longer determined by arbitrary twipo replies. I want to be clear that I don't think its terrible or anything. I just think it could have been better.
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Waltzing Along posted:Saw this was on sale and the reviews seen pretty decent: Robotic Notes Elite is good, but I had problems with Robotic Notes Dash. I'll just link my post I made earlier in the thread. IShallRiseAgain posted:So I beat Robotic Notes Dash and I can't say I'm a big fan of it. I mentioned it earlier in the thread, but its really awkward how they forced Daru into the story. It doesn't do a good job of justifying why a man in his 30s would be hanging out with a bunch of teenagers. Kaito also has problems. It makes sense that he would act more mature than what he was like in Robotic Notes; However, by making him more mature, he became a dull character. He doesn't really have that much of a personality anymore.
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Mar 9, 2021 04:00
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The most baffling thing about the Letter is that apparently one of the major characters was a backer character.
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Yeah, its insane how long the last investigation of AAI 1 drags on. I still overall liked the first game, but I was glad when it was over.
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Unless there is a lot of content/fully VAed, the absolute maximum price is probably $15. That's what CYOA/motion comics usually go for at max, and it seems like that is what your game most closely resembles. $10 seems to be about the right price though.
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Aside from Anonymous;Code, Mages has also kind of been phoning it in with remakes of science adventure games, side-stories and bad directionless sequels for awhile. It might be an example of too little, too late.
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AFancyQuestionMark posted:So how good are Chaos;Head, Chaos;Child and Robotic;Notes anyway? Keeping in mind I've read Steins;Gate and enjoyed it. Steins;Gate 0 has a lot of neat ideas but fails to follow through with any of them because the narrative lacks focus. Also, you need to watch a drama CD to get a satisfying ending for Stein;Gate 0, because the actual ending is missing a lot of details. Oh, and they literally didn't translate the last line of the game unless they patched that. The plot of Robotic Notes eventually picks up and I enjoyed it. Its definitely slow-paced at the start though. Robotic Notes Dash is bad. They added Daru from Steins;Gate as a character but its creepy because he is hanging out with high schoolers all day. Also the protagonist became more mature, but ending up losing their entire personality in the process. Another issue is that like Steins;Gate 0 there is no narrative focus. The only 2 good routes are non-canon, and the canon route is just a rehash of the ending of the first game. The game is all fanservice and no substance. Oh, and they even changed a character's ambition from wanting to be a meteorologist to wanting to be an idol, which is really boring and lame. Science Adventure just really lacks ambition in its sequels (except maybe Chaos; Child, I haven't played the Chaos series yet), and is happy to just keep on churning out fanservice instead of doing anything interesting.
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Saoshyant posted:I remember being kind of mad at 0 exactly because of everything you are saying here when I went through it five years ago or so. I never heard about a drama CD, though? Is it something that's been translated somewhere and what is it called? I think its this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU3gNYUEcSM, this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU6iEhPanf0 and this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFwNalfEMJs IShallRiseAgain fucked around with this message at 20:28 on Feb 19, 2023 |
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Feels Villeneuve posted:and the catboy detective game.... It looks like its just a normal JRPG and there is no actually detective related mechanics, and the entire thing is a VR simulation too for some reason. Its not a VN but the Frogware reboot of their Sherlock Holmes stuff is good. I'm playing Chaos Head Noah and its interesting how much of a product of a time it is. its a snapshot of the internet culture of the late 2000s.
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Ytlaya posted:People tried to do an English dub of Umineko? Fandubs are also pretty much universally terrible in quality. (Don't use this as excuse to post examples of "good" fandubs, I don't care and they are probably barely acceptable at best anyways).
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kirbysuperstar posted:who cares I mean I'm not against dubs, I'm saying fandubs are of such poo poo quality I dunno who actually wants or enjoys them.
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AlternateNu posted:I’ve been playing through the Zero Escape games again and just started Zero Time Dilemma. Oof. I forgot how bad the voice direction is in that game. Like, I understand it’s probably more difficult with all the scenes fully animated vs VLR but drat. Zero Time Dillema is definitely a downgrade from the first two games in my opinion. The puzzles aren't as good, there is a lot of repeats, and the game has the annoying tendency to give you the solution after 5 seconds. I also miss the alternate solution mechanic from the 2nd game. I thought that was neat way to add more depth to the gameplay. While I did enjoy the story, it fails to follow up on story elements from the second game. The secret ending you get from solving all the alt puzzles in the second game is straight up just non-canon. I also feel like one of the characters Junpei acts really out of character to support the execution voting mechanic. Its also weird that Clover doesn't show up in this one since she was such an important character for the first two games. I did really enjoy the scene where characters discuss how Marty McFly is a murderer. That felt like a classic nonary game scene. The character design is a lot more low-key for this game too, and the sometimes really low quality animation doesn't help. Some of the issues can be blamed on budget issues. The game almost didn't get made because of that.
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Rockman Reserve posted:wait…alt puzzles? Non-canon ending? I feel like I got those at some point but it’s been *so* long Its this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyQaEB87DKE (Major spoilers obviously). Every escape room has a hard mode and an easy mode puzzle, and you unlock the epilogue by solving all the hard mode versions of the puzzles.
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AlternateNu posted:This killed me. The whole Kyle isn't really Kyle in the epilogue and is possessed by the ??? stand-in for the player was really something I was looking forward to seeing fleshed out. Junpei being lovely and pessimistic is fine. Actively advocating for the murder of people and acting like a psychopath in general is different though. Especially since its been just over a year since the events of 999. Also, the the Marty McFly stuff feels like the characters discussing the various conspiracy theories in the first game.
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No Wave posted:Yes, and he was busy with other stuff before that and will be busy with other stuff afterwards too. Safest just to treat Ciconia as a 1 parter. He basically stated at one point that Coronavirus completely hosed up the story he was going for and it doesn't really work anymore.
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Do people even hate Zero Time Dilemma? If you look at the steam reviews its mostly has positive reviews while also mentioning it doesn't measure up to the previous two games.
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Rockman Reserve posted:I still haven't even started Ciconia because I don't think I have it in me to start a WTC that's probably not going to get completed, but the discussion on the last page or so re: how COVID made the story not really work anymore made me really curious. Can someone give me a view-from-10,000-feet summary/pitch of the setting/plot? Like I'd call Umineko a study on mysteries, truth, love, and trauma and I'd call Higurashi gently caress, IDK, I like Hig but it doesn't seem nearly as cohesive thematically.... Nobody knows why it wouldn't work. It was just something Ryukishi07 said at some point. Something about how what he was planning to do with the story wouldn't work anymore. He didn't go into detail.
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Steins;Gate is probably the best anime adaptation of a VN or at least in the top three. The problem is that VNs are usually too long for an anime, so important plot stuff has to get cut. (To be clear, a lot of VNs still could benefit from trimming, but its often too much). I honestly think the VN and the anime are at around the same level. Steins;Gate 0 has a bunch of potentially interesting ideas, but it fails to follow through with them so it can have more slice of life poo poo. Also, the ending requires listening to a drama CD to feel complete. Oh and for some stupid reason, the very last line of the game is untranslated from Japanese unless they fixed that. I liked Robotic;Notes, but it can be very slow paced at times and takes forever for the plot to really start moving. Robotics; Note Dash is terrible though. Most of the routes suck, and the two best routes are non-canon. The game also has an adult character from Stein;Gate hang out with the cast of high schoolers/college freshmen with a poor justification and is really creepy about it. Oh, and they changed a character to want to be an idol and ignores what the character wanted to be in the first game. The entire thing is mostly just fanservice crap.
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woodenchicken posted:Chaos;Head is one of the two entries in the series that I could just have skipped and not missed much. The other one being Anonymous;Code. You are forgetting about Robotic;Notes Dash (and the bazillion Steins;Gate spin-offs).
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CottonWolf posted:0, for all its flaws, is still far better than it has any right to be, too. I don't count 0 as a spin-off. Its a sidequel. 0 has some interesting things happening, which is why its so disappointing that the actual execution is so poorly handled.
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