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Don't forget there's still more Higurashi left after beating the main game: You've got the secret ending, and then Saikoroshi, which leads into Umineko pretty nicely. E: I can't read, looks like you already know about the other ending. Hopefully at least you have better luck getting Saikoroshi to run than Ibram Gaunt did. Nate RFB fucked around with this message at 18:02 on Apr 26, 2013 |
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Apparently, Arodouc isn't completely dead. http://tenka.seiha.org/2013/04/of-projects-proposals-and-piracy/ In other news, Japanese developers are still as xenophobic as ever quote:To my surprise, I got back a response quite fast saying that they had no interest in selling their games in the west because of piracy, what I was doing would promote piracy, and that if I wanted to play their games, I should move to Japan.
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I'm not really surprised about them being xenophobic but the "If you want to play our games you should move to Japan" part just slays me.
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Otaku culture has always been even more xenophobic than the rest of Japan, and for the most part VN devs over in Japan are like ascended otaku. Look at 2ch and you'll see a metric shitton of Japanese neoconservative politics and racial slurs getting tossed around like candy.
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Apr 27, 2013 01:38
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Omniphile posted:Look at 2ch and you'll see a metric shitton of Japanese neoconservative politics and racial slurs getting tossed around like candy.
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Apr 27, 2013 01:44
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Nyaa posted:I'm not sure using 2ch to represent the current culture and mindset of japan is an accurate sources.
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So I'm reading Dramatical Murder and ahahahaha this owns. This game is so loving silly. Little bunny hand gang signs oh my god. 
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Apr 27, 2013 02:18
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Isn't that how you make a fox hand sign?
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Apr 27, 2013 06:23
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GloomMouse posted:Isn't that how you make a fox hand sign? His gang is called the "Ruff Rabbits". It is totally part of the rabbit theme.
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Apr 27, 2013 06:27
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Thoughts on the beginning of the Akane route in Rewrite: Akane is a really weird character to reenact the plot of Heaven's Feel with, because she's such an openly terrible person; it makes Kotarou come across as more like Kuzuki than Shirou. It's strange because the Kotarou in the other routes was consistently a better person than that.
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Reading the wiki description makes it seem like Dramatical Murder is more serious than... bunny gangs or whatever. Is it any good?
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Apr 27, 2013 06:39
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GloomMouse posted:Reading the wiki description makes it seem like Dramatical Murder is more serious than... bunny gangs or whatever. Is it any good? It's alright. The writing's pretty inconsistent and the story is dumb as hell, but it's reasonably entertaining? Some people really like it.
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Apr 27, 2013 06:51
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The main character has a CYBER-MULLET and there are sex scenes featuring sentient robot dogs or something (?)
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Apr 27, 2013 06:56
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Nate RFB posted:Don't forget there's still more Higurashi left after beating the main game: You've got the secret ending, and then Saikoroshi, which leads into Umineko pretty nicely. I can't even find a place to buy Higurashi Rei anywhere. I found a translation after a lot of digging, but it's useless without the actual game, and everything else just seems to be the anime which I don't think is the same thing. Is there a digital distribution thing that i'm missing somewhere, and if so do you have a link?
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Does Dramatical Murder have a true route or is it just a "whatever husbando you want" kinda deal? Thinking about trying it out just so I can pretend Japan is pandering to me for once  Also I was looking at ongoing projects and I saw 12Risen, is this that pseudo continuation of the Infinity series that ended up being really bad or was that something else? Ibram Gaunt fucked around with this message at 07:12 on Apr 27, 2013 |
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Apr 27, 2013 07:09
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Ibram Gaunt posted:Does Dramatical Murder have a true route or is it just a "whatever husbando you want" kinda deal? Thinking about trying it out just so I can pretend Japan is pandering to me for once Sorta? DM has a true route, but the true route also has the "true husbando" which in this case is your sentient robo dog.
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PaulC posted:The main character has a CYBER-MULLET and there are sex scenes featuring sentient robot dogs or something (?) Yes, his hair has FEELINGS because he's the ultimate spesul snowflake. The robot dog thing is... complicated. True route spoilers on the off chance anyone cares: so basically your pet robot dog/iPhone turns out to be the vessel for one of your three split personalities––there's Aoba, Sly Blue (the bad personality) and Ren (the protector). Ren being the dogphone. How the dogphone got your split personality in the first place, I'm still not totally clear on because the mechanics of Aoba's stupid powers don't make much sense, but let's just go with INTERNET MAGIC to keep it short. So, your dogphone, Ren, has your split personality combined with the soul of a loving robot puppy. In the true route you end up with him, ultimately culminating in the most ludicrous scenario for a sex scene: you're in the tower after you've confronted the final boss and go to save your mostly braindead twin brother (yes this plot is stupid and convoluted as gently caress), you have some brain-to-brain communication with your twin brother in magic internet space where Ren is also present (in human form). You reintegrate Sly into your personality and grant your twin brother's wish to kill him so he doesn't have to suffer, but while you're still in brain space you and Ren decide this is a great time to gently caress. And then Aoba cries ugly tears because he'll never be able to be with Ren 'this way' again and the language is always mad vague because Aoba can't say the words 'dick' or 'sex' ever, this probably doesn't hold for the translation but that's how it was in Japanese! Anyway, you leave magic internet space, escape the tower before it collapses and OH NO your robo-puppy-split-personality-sex-toy is reset to factory default and Aoba cries ugly tears again. So then a few months later you get a ~mysterious phone call~ from a hospital saying they have your brother and you're like "hold up, my brother is dead I kille––" but you go check it out anyway and SURPRISE its your twin brother! But it quickly becomes apparent that it's not your brother in there, it's Ren! And now you can be together in meatspace with your dead twin brother's body! Nothing creepy about banging your split personality/robot dog in the body of your dead twin brother, who you personally killed, nope! And that's DMMd for you. Ibram Gaunt posted:Does Dramatical Murder have a true route or is it just a "whatever husbando you want" kinda deal? Thinking about trying it out just so I can pretend Japan is pandering to me for once There is a 'true' route, but it's probably better to describe it as the unlock-able route or something. Arguably, it has the most to do with the 'plot' but the plot is dumb and the writers don't seem to give a gently caress about it in any of the other routes or making sure poo poo is consistent at all. Each of the routes is pretty wildly different and more focused on the target of your affections than the 'story'. imo Noiz's route was the best because you end up in more of an equal partnership with him and Aoba isn't a completely useless poo poo and he's actually taking a more active role in the sex scenes, also in his end Noiz cleans up, gets a high paying job, proposes to you and whisks you off to Germany which is a big step up for Aoba!
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Ibram Gaunt posted:Also I was looking at ongoing projects and I saw 12Risen, is this that pseudo continuation of the Infinity series that ended up being really bad or was that something else? 12Riven was the fourth game in the Infinity series; it doesn't share very many of the same writers, and it's generally considered a lot less interesting than the first three. I don't think I've seen anyone say it's awful, though.
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There's a PV out for Nitro+'s new title coming out. I was suspecting "School Days with better writing" since the game was first announced, but man they aren't even trying to hide it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wXk_ZqeBRE
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NRVNQSR posted:12Riven was the fourth game in the Infinity series; it doesn't share very many of the same writers, and it's generally considered a lot less interesting than the first three. I don't think I've seen anyone say it's awful, though. If nothing else it has some pretty decent music. Time Leap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fCUO_ze-R8 Beyond the Mebius: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im7TJ8fjhRs
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NRVNQSR posted:12Riven was the fourth game in the Infinity series; it doesn't share very many of the same writers, and it's generally considered a lot less interesting than the first three. I don't think I've seen anyone say it's awful, though. I'll be pretty surprised if I enjoy it less than Remember11. Biggest waste of a good story I've ever seen.
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kirbysuperstar posted:If nothing else it has some pretty decent music. Gave most of this a listen this morning, it's good stuff to me. Surprisingly large soundtrack as well. Also made me realize that youtubing Ever 17 music is pretty spoiler-ly.
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Carver posted:Gave most of this a listen this morning, it's good stuff to me. Surprisingly large soundtrack as well. You really shouldn't youtube anything VN related ever because of this. I got spoiled pretty bad on some FSN stuff from looking up music. 
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You know, this post should never have happened. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) Suleman fucked around with this message at 10:26 on Mar 1, 2014 |
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klapman posted:I can't even find a place to buy Higurashi Rei anywhere. I found a translation after a lot of digging, but it's useless without the actual game, and everything else just seems to be the anime which I don't think is the same thing. Is there a digital distribution thing that i'm missing somewhere, and if so do you have a link?
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Suleman posted:So, yeah, I decided to go a bit off the beaten path and read Otoboku - Maidens Are Falling For Me. What a trainwreck. So you hit the hardcore child pornography and decided to keep playing for a few routes? What the hell is wrong with this thread?
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Uh Namtab thanks for playing morality police but can you be a bit less judgmental?
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Namtab posted:What the hell is wrong with this thread? The fact that you are in it Calling standard retarded anime sex scenes "child porn" cheapens the term beyond meaning. We get it, you're very above such things (but apparently not so much that you don't play the loving games), here is your Normality Card
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Namtab posted:What the hell is wrong with this thread? Lemme tell you about a little friend of ours called Nephilm
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Okay, it isn't quite as bad as I might have implied. There's only a 2-year age difference, and sex between an 18-year-old and a 16-year-old wouldn't that big a deal, if it wasn't for how said people are portrayed. It's more about the roles and the art. The freshmen look and act like nine-year-olds and worship the mature seniors as some sort of demigods. It's really, really uncomfortable.
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To be fair all underclass men are puny mortals and upperclassmen are luminous being.
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Suleman posted:- Fetishization of things that should not be fetishized: Schoolgirls, little girls, sisters, ghosts, sick girls, institutionalized sexism and abuse of power. Ghosts? Would you mind elaborating? That sounds hilarious.
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Silver2195 posted:Ghosts? Would you mind elaborating? That sounds hilarious. To be perfectly honest, it's not that exciting. One of the major characters is a ghost of a girl who died in the dormitory years ago. She's a goofball, and she has a route.
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I'm quite surprised at the production values in DRAMAtical Murder, if anything it's at least pretty. e: I'm also sort of surprised at the translation quality, it's nothing out of this world but it's pretty good for a project that didn't take terribly long, and especially one that originated from that aarinfantasy forums, which I've heard nothing but horror stories about. Ibram Gaunt fucked around with this message at 20:19 on Apr 27, 2013 |
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Suleman posted:To be perfectly honest, it's not that exciting. One of the major characters is a ghost of a girl who died in the dormitory years ago. She's a goofball, and she has a route. The way you listed it as something that shouldn't be fetishized implied there was something particularly absurd about it.
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Ibram Gaunt posted:I'm quite surprised at the production values in DRAMAtical Murder, if anything it's at least pretty. Yep, it's very nice to look at, the interface is slick as gently caress and the music is great. The art's really polished but don't look too closely at the CGs or you'll notice horrific proportion problems that your brain will gloss over if you're not paying too much attention, but then once you notice it all you can think is OH MY GOD HIS HAND IS LIKE THE SIZE OF AOBA'S TORSO. I'd say it's worth giving it a shot. It's nothing particularly outstanding story or writing-wise, but it's pretty entertaining especially if you enjoy laughing at how absurd some of the scenarios get and the porn's pretty minimal really, most of it is one scene at the end of each route (with the exception of Mink's route I guess). And at least all the characters are actually adults (the one thing BL games seem to do right most of the time). On a different note: I played through some of Uta no Prince-sama All Star this week. You get to date the Quartet★Night guys and the teachers in this one. I've only gotten through Camus' route so far, but it was pretty fun. It seems like they let you make Haruka a little feistier than usual in this one––but not much really, even though it often gives you the option to say something assertive, Haruka usually backtracks immediately. I guess it's better than nothing. The story was predictably insane, being UtaPri and all (it turns out that Camus has literal ice magic powers among other things). The music is pretty nice, even though I still can't get the hang of the rhythm mini-games (can't get used to the controls). Oh and Camus didn't at any point try to sexually assault Haruka which was shocking (I mean it would have been painfully out of character for him, but it's an otome game). Though he did threaten to kill her in cold blood for overhearing a super SERIOUS phone call unless she became his live-in housekeeper. The best part was definitely at the end when Camus asks Haruka to give him a special name (which had something to do with the bullshit magical ice country he's from), and she decides on Cryzzard because his eyes are like crystals and he's intense like a blizzard. And that scene was 100% serious. I can only hope that will make it into the second season of the anime (unlikely but whatever).
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I seem to be somewhat near the end of the common route and I must ask, do Mink and Noiz like....get better? I have a hard time even wanting to consider doing thier routes since Noiz is just a dickhead and Mink's debut scene is him kidnapping you and then his thugs trying to rape you. Sweet. The other 3 are fine though it seems. I like Clear alot just because he's silly.
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Ibram Gaunt posted:I seem to be somewhat near the end of the common route and I must ask, do Mink and Noiz like....get better? I have a hard time even wanting to consider doing thier routes since Noiz is just a dickhead and Mink's debut scene is him kidnapping you and then his thugs trying to rape you. Sweet. The other 3 are fine though it seems. I like Clear alot just because he's silly. Noiz gets better. He's the obligatory tsundere, so right now he's still pretty tsun. You guys bro-fight it out later. While Mink consistently gets more poo poo done in general, relationship-wise he only gets worse, what with the repeated beatings and rape and all. Clear remains Clear and Kojaku's creepiness will become more apparent, but it doesn't bother some people (personally I find him extremely repulsive).
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I'm assuming Kojaku ends up filling the creepily obsessive niche, considering he calls you like a billion times while you're at Mink's place. I can see that getting really weird and gross. Good to hear Noiz gets better at least, I pinned him as the tsundere of the group but for a while it just seemed like they forgot what makes a tsundere endearing and just made him an unlikable cockhead. I can put up with alot but Mink just seems repulsive, would I miss much if I just skip his route entirely? Ibram Gaunt fucked around with this message at 02:40 on Apr 28, 2013 |
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Ibram Gaunt posted:I'm assuming Kojaku ends up filling the creepily obsessive niche, considering he calls you like a billion times while you're at Mink's place. I can see that getting really weird and gross. You need to clear all the routes to unlock the final route. Have fun with that!
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