What VN are you playing? What do you think about it?

MuvLuv Alternative can also be slow from time to time, the infodumps are huuuge and take some time to go through, especially Yuuko's.

Also, sent you a PM.

Recently played through all of Raidy II in one sitting. I had the game for awhile, but never went through it, and with Raidy III releasing at the time I thought it was the perfect time to start.

I liked Raidy II overall, but it did have some issues. Voice quality felt like the recording booth was underwater, and its apparently the same way in the original JP ver. so I guess they didn't mess up stuff in localization. The level caps are insanely low, so even though I never grinded, I reached it way before arriving at the last part of the game. Now at first I thought it was too low and should be raised, but I was wrecking everything, even the bosses without trying so I guess they made Raidy too OP.

There are also some other stuff that fans of the first might dislike being an abundance of males, but that I didn't really have an issue with. The game took no risks, but it was still fun regardless. Definitely looking forwards to when I receive my copy of the third game in the series next week. Hopefully it does well so that Raidy 3.5 can get localized as well.

Taimanin Murasaki. Didn't see the ending coming and Asagi's side story was hot as fuck. Sakura needs her own game.

I've been playing Eroge! Sex and Games Make Sexy Games, and also recently started Starless. Eroge! definitely threw me off with a specific scene which those of you who have played likely know without my saying... And Starless is pretty much as expected (which is not a bad thing by any means).

Beyond that, I've also recently finished Nekopara Vol 1, not that that's really all that exciting ahahaha

I'll be looking to get 'No, thank you!!' in a few days when I have the spare cash.

Boy's love is my guilty pleasure (ΘεΘ

Currently, Steins;Gate and The Menagerie while waiting for Corpse Party: Blood Drive. Gate makes me cringe every single time I play it because of the protag's behaviour. Does anyone that's played the game know if he grows out of his Chuunibyou attitude, or am I stuck with it for the rest of the game?

As for Menagerie, it's decent enough. Nothing special, but not bad either. I didn't come in expecting much, so I was surprised with what I got.

I started playing Fate/Stay Night. I'm pretty late to playing it. I'm also playing Free Friends which is pretty short. I'm going to start playing Taimanin Asagi 2 after Free Friends.

FYI there is a weekly humble bundle full of VNs right now.

https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly

So now I'm playing Loren the amazon princess. So far it seems like a fun RPG/VN.

Started playing Monster Girl Quest / Monmusu Quest.

Simple yet fun nukige. With some contemporary polish this series could be a real gem. Unfortunately it's a bit lacking in just about every department but I'm still enjoying the novelty factor. Yeah never mind I fucking love this series. I still think the H scenes need some spice but it's still bloody great. Shit I'll be sad to finish it.

Just finished Kikokugai - The Cyber Slayer.

I had played the original game years ago, this one was the non-h update with redone artwork and full voice acting.

Liked the original, but this one was even better.

Kimi to Kanojo to Kanojo no Koi.
If you are planning on playing Kimi to Kanojo and do not understand Japanese, it is practically impossible without a guide(seiya-saiga) because of puzzles that are as groundbreaking as unplugging the controller in MGS1. Keep a pen and paper handy, the game expects a lot of footwork from the player unlike most VNs.

I have never been so emotionally invested in a Eroge since Fate/Stay Night or Soukou Akki Muramasa, if any VNs deserve to receive priority translation on JAST's list it's this one because I sincerely hope more attention becomes drawn to this fantastic VN. It's up there with Silent Hill and MGS1 for perfectly building expectations from the audience about a genre and gaming as a whole only to grind them into dust. I get the feeling that decades down the line when a game breaks the fourth wall people will say, "Hey remember writing down god's phone number?"

Phenomenal I hope that many many more people look beyond the prolific images of Miyuki clutching a bat and get themselves thrown headfirst into this VN.

This piece also showed up in Mahoutsukai no Yoru so every other VN with this piece must be great as well.

Pretty jealous. How does it compare to Blood Covered and Book of Shadows, in terms of gameplay?

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I'm playing Sound of Drop: Fall into Poison. It's a pretty nice horror VN that apparently has some inspiration from Corpse Party and other visual novels. I've already run into a few bad endings.

Just binged through all of Majikoi, and S. So much vanilla, SO much more laughs, furiously searching for A-1 now.

It's okay. There are a bunch of hazards on the ground that decreases your health (yes, the health bar finally has a point) that are hard to see without the flashlight you're given on, which I find annoying. Especially since the game stutters just barely enough for you to notice when you step on one. You can also succumb to Darkening by examining enough stuff, which I found to be a nice touch all around. It's at a slow enough pace that it doesn't hinder you normally, and being closer to falling into it alters the game a bit. Screen has a small layer of static, pause menu portrait looks eerier, that kind of stuff. You can also run (with your speed decreasing if you do it for too long, ending with your character pausing to gasp for breath) and hide from ghosts in convenient closets scattered across Heavenly Host. Ghosts are smart enough to throw you out if they see you get in them, which deals a lot more damage that just being attacked. Huge improvements.

However, the writing is okay at best. They add plenty of black magic stuff, remove what made Heavenly Host so unique and terrifying, pile sympathy onto Sachiko, Shinozaki bloodline, blah blah blah. Shits on the first game. Almost all the new characters are unsympathetic dickbags, while the returning ones are completely inept. Ayumi did how much in the past two games? Yet she screams like a little girl at the slightest provocation. Naomi is boring, Satoshi still has the zero personality he's always had, and Kishinuma...has actually been really good. He's making intelligent moves, which is more than I can say for the rest of the cast.

That said, I've only last beaten chapter 3 and did the first side story (which was actually really good!). Maybe I'll be willing to put up with everyone being a moron later, but I have Norn 9 to play in the meantime.

It's great to see another person experiencing Majikoi but don't put your hopes up too high for the A series, they are a collection of "fandiscs" which can be akin to a spinoff or DLC. In other words it's extras that should be taken with a bit of salt, except Fate/Hollow Ataraxia I am maximum salt over that.



My worst fear from Book of Shadows being realized then, the whole random tidbit about her succeeding the bloodline of exorcists was so jarring(even with her established spiritual affinity) that I feel Corpse party has been getting more and more distant from what made it stand out in the first place: being thrust into incomprehensible horrific circumstances. Exposition is probably one of the worst things that has happened to this series strangely enough.

I'm hesitating on purchasing the title until it's dirt cheap, because even if it's for the sake of completing the Corpse Party franchise Book of Shadows was lauded as a sequel and only about thirty minutes of the 4+ hours of fluff content was actual sequel material.

I know, right? Every single time something was being explained I kept thinking "No, shut up. Leave it a mystery. I don't want to know that the Nirvana Heavenly Host became what it is because of black magic, I don't want to know all these little details that made things mysterious and interesting because they weren't there." The school's name is often interchanged with "the/a Nirvana" by the new cast members and (I kid you not), the plot devolves into a generic "sav teh wurld!" story. The more I think about it, the more I'd like to tell any Corpse Party fan to stay away. Maybe it'll redeem itself later, but it's already done so much damage to itself.

As for Book of Shadows, I actually liked some parts. While I couldn't care less about Yui's past and how miserably Satoshi failed at preventing the previous game's bad ending from repeating itself, I actually really liked the first part. Some of it is because I'm a Seiko fanboy, but I enjoyed seeing chapter 1 repeated with hazy memories of going through it once before. Hair-in-mouth moment aside.

Uwah. Thanks for the headsup, I was a little afraid to hear that but that makes me feel a little relieved that I don't have to keep searching anymore, as much as I love the series, the story, music and endless outer references, excessive service isn't my thing.

And I finished Ataraxia over a year ago, loved the casualness of the storytelling but HATED the story / playstyle. I'm ashamed to even think of it as a sequel.

Edit: Just finished binging through Yume Miru Kusuri again as a refresher, such a sad story. Aeka's route was likely my favorite overall. Mizuki / Koneko had amazing endings though, probably better than Aeka's. Koneko's was corny yet fairy-tale like, and Mizuki's was just too precious.

Playing through Kara no Shoujo 2, got all the bad endings and now replaying from the start to get the True End and a couple other endings that were unavailable on the first playthrough.

Compared to its predecessor, this one is much tamer in terms of horror - yes, the murders are still gruesome and all, but lack the mindfuckery of the original game.

Finished Teisou Kannen ZERO. 10/10

Little update from the previous post - finished Kara no Shoujo 2.



EDIT 11/24/2015

Since KnS 2 ties in heavily with it, I went and played Cartagra again. Despite the shorter and simpler story and cruder artwork, somehow I still think it's one of the best games in the series. At the very least, the villains are much more interesting compared to the ones from KnS 2.