Time for me to post since I've already finished Umineko, Tick! Tack! and Throb! The Greatest Inventions.
As for Umineko, it was a great experience reading it once again but this time with the PS3 tweaks. I found some parts very fascinating with the addition of CGs and voices. Man, I even re-read at least three times the
????? part of EP5 and other scene on the same EP when the piece Batler goes all out in the closed room where Natsuhi insisted that Kinzo was there. Other scene that I re-read was the end of EP6 when Beatrice challenges Erika to free Batler of the logic error.
Needless to say, I'm very satisfied with how Umineko turned out to be with the tweaks. A major thanks to the team that worked on the tweaks for managing to improve a already great VN.
Regarding Tick! Tack!, it turned out to be better than what I was expecting but it wasn't anything extraordinary or even close. It has it's funny parts, characters interactions (mostly funny), a little bit of drama and h-scenes. What is there not to like?
If the writer expanded some aspects of how the events were handled this would surely be a much more interesting story. And this is precisely the reason why Tick! Tack! doesn't stand out among similar VNs.
It has a generic soundtrack (already forgot about it) but not bad for the scenes. As for the voices, I don't have anything to complain about them since I liked them a lot (oh, Ai's voice is dangerous for me). About the art, I also liked it (again, the moment I saw Ai I fell in love).
I end up giving a 6.5/10 to Tick! Tack!.
I finished Throb! The Greatest Inventions about one hour ago and by far, it's the title I like most out of all the Softhouse-Seal VNs Mangagamer released so far.
I found the idea of the protagonist making inventions to use original and man, this is probably just me but the protagonist amused me to no end. His way of thinking and attitude was what made me finish reading the whole story.
One part I really liked was when he created a clone of himself and started talking to it because of Matsuri.
Of course, being a Softhouse-Seal I didn't even take the game seriously since I already knew what to expect. In fact, the reason why I started to read this VN was because of its description and I'm not disappointed.
For me, the ending that fits the story the most is the Yuri ending (obviously, my favourite ending).
With this, because of the protagonist I give a 5.5/10 to Throb! The Greatest Inventions.