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NRVNQSR posted:I'm satisfied with a close second for 428, and amused that people who want actual gameplay only managed to muster a 20% showing. Shiren already has an official English translation, the two with the most votes don't.
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Aug 11, 2016 20:25
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Kenka Bancho posted:allows her to choose facial expressions and battle lines to use when picking and preparing for a fight. Yup, this is the best game.
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Aug 11, 2016 20:25
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I'm gonna date cute boys who will help me pound my enemies into submission and it's gonna be great.
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Aug 11, 2016 21:40
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Junpei Hyde posted:I'm gonna date cute boys who will help me pound my enemies into submission and it's gonna be great. Okay but what does this have to do with video games?
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Aug 11, 2016 21:47
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Not Operator posted:Okay but what does this have to do with video games? Videogames are a form of escapism, in that they're interactable and you can do things with them that are impossible in real life. Like, say, date cute boys who will help me pound my enemies into submission.
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Aug 11, 2016 21:53
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Now I want a posh school version of this where it's all about writing strongly worded letters and subtly polite barbs.
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Aug 11, 2016 21:57
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:Now I want a posh school version of this where it's all about writing strongly worded letters and subtly polite barbs. that's called marimite
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Aug 11, 2016 22:17
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Not Operator posted:Okay but what does this have to do with video games? I need someone to play smash bros with
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Aug 11, 2016 22:23
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I bought Higurashi and I'm at the beginning part, how long is it like just high school sim before spooky stuff happens? I am finding these characters and high school experience so far even less compelling than Muv Luv Extra which is not something I thought I would ever say
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Aug 12, 2016 03:46
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Stefan Prodan posted:I bought Higurashi and I'm at the beginning part, how long is it like just high school sim before spooky stuff happens? Your high school experience must have been pretty different from mine then, because the early Higurashi is eerily similar to what I did in high school: sit around with friends and have fun. If you're not invested in the characters and don't like them, don't keep playing Higurashi. Horror/dread fiction doesn't work if you have, like, negative connection to the people involved.
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Aug 12, 2016 05:15
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John Lee posted:Your high school experience must have been pretty different from mine then, because the early Higurashi is eerily similar to what I did in high school: sit around with friends and have fun. I mean I didn't like any of the characters of Steins Gate at first but ended up liking that game a lot and was ambivalent about Muv Luv Extra but liked Unlimited so I'm willing to give it a chance if the part past the high school stuff is good I kinda take for granted that in a lot of these anime games I'm gonna not like the first part where it's just suupa uguu kawaii high school adventure~~~~ but I'm willing to get through if it has like an interesting mystery or the poo poo that happens is compelling I did like the high school poo poo in Persona 3 and 4. Those have probably been the only games where I enjoyed all the high school interactions all the time, just so you know that I don't like hate the genre of high school poo poo. I actually like it a lot sometimes, just this game seems way more anime trope-y than some other stuff I've played so far. I guess to sum up, I like high school poo poo, it's just like the actual execution of the high school stuff in this isn't grabbing me but the actual plot might
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Aug 12, 2016 05:28
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Don't worry, it'll change tone pretty quickly. It's not muvluv levels of read an entire novel before things start tripping out.
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Aug 12, 2016 05:34
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Stefan Prodan posted:if the part past the high school stuff is good BRO YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH HAVING FUN WITH YOUR FRIENDS Stefan Prodan posted:I did like the high school poo poo in Persona 3 and 4. Those have probably been the only games where I enjoyed all the high school interactions all the time, just so you know that I don't like hate the genre of high school poo poo. I actually like it a lot sometimes, just this game seems way more anime trope-y than some other stuff I've played so far. oh okay But "after the high school stuff" doesn't really happen. School Chill Times are a recurring thing throughout the episodes, and also it's a small town school without specific grade levels that services all ages in only a few rooms weren't you paying attention JEEZ 
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Aug 12, 2016 05:38
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Haha I mean we'll see, maybe I'll still hate it later, but people have said it's good and I enjoyed P3/P4 and S;G based on people's recommendations online although I enjoyed P3 and 4 right away. I've enjoyed enough of these that have good reputations that I'm willing to gamble and invest some time in it.
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Aug 12, 2016 05:48
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higurashi's plot starts moving toward the end of the festival.
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Aug 12, 2016 06:01
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Just me and my friends having fun in a creepy-rear end village. e: The setup for Higurashi is based on old Key games so it does have some typical anime cutesiness. Irony Be My Shield fucked around with this message at 12:57 on Aug 12, 2016 |
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Aug 12, 2016 12:04
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Onikakushi probably has the highest silly:creepy ratio of all the chapters but it doesn't take that long to "get real" compared to (to use an example you went with) Steins;Gate. And despite my feeling that the cast is extraordinary strong/well developed there isn't really a defining moment where it will all just click, the chapters just slowly but surely draw you into their personalities and circumstances and before you know it you'll look up and realize that it's just about impossible to not sympathize and root for them.
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Aug 12, 2016 12:56
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Most of that character development happens through heavily expository segments in the later chapters and not through the natural course of events. They don't really make the most out of the "silly" portions of the story and those can actually drag as a result. There were a couple I ended up skipping later on (the goddamn water gun fights, the Lacrosse of Higurashi) and I really felt like I missed nothing. They're there for "mood" but it's pretty clumsy at it. I remember my first attempt at reading Higurashi, I stopped at Chapter 2 because I just couldn't deal with the resumption of silly slice of life hijinks with no clear purpose. Using Steins;Gate as an example, every scene in that felt like it had a purpose. It introduced characters, furthered relationships, expounded on backstories, gave adequate foreshadowing, and noticeably progressed things further towards an established goal. And once poo poo got real, they actually smartly connected a lot of major dramatic events to those previous slice of life scenes. With Higurashi you only get some asinine "foreshadowing" that's only really there in retrospect and very little character development, with no clear goal in sight. Now, I get that it's important to set the proper mood for your stories, but your scenes have got to have more to them than just that, otherwise they're just dull and meaningless. Thankfully Umineko was a little bit better about that kind of thing.
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Aug 12, 2016 13:55
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the water gun fight owned what the heck
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Aug 12, 2016 21:26
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You missed out on that water gun fight, friend.
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Aug 12, 2016 21:38
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So Sekai Project announced Fatal Twelve. The concept seems pretty interesting. Hopefully it turns out to be a good VN.
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Aug 13, 2016 19:33
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i'm extremely interested
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Aug 13, 2016 19:36
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AouqjGbOueg MG announced localization of Sona-Nyl: http://mangagamer.org/sona-nyl/ I love the art from Liarsoft. Alder fucked around with this message at 05:40 on Aug 14, 2016 |
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Aug 14, 2016 05:13
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MegaZeroX posted:So Sekai Project announced Fatal Twelve. The concept seems pretty interesting. Hopefully it turns out to be a good VN. I'm looking forward to it. It's by the same studio as Sound of Drop, a horror VN that slid under the radar a bit when it came out but that I enjoyed quite a bit.
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Alder posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AouqjGbOueg Looks cool but it's 18+ so let's not talk about it in this thread.
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Aug 14, 2016 16:49
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Even though it's releasing on Steam?
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Aug 15, 2016 00:29
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yeah, there's an all-ages version that's releasing on steam.
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Aug 15, 2016 00:38
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Oh, carry on then. My mistake
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Aug 15, 2016 01:50
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re: Nurse Love Addiction:Getsuya posted:Well I picked it up finally so I'm going to play through with a walkthrough. I never play VNs blind because I'm just there for the story so there's no reason to not just read it straight through. The walkthrough I'm reading says to avoid any bad ends until after I've done all the good ends and that the 'school life' ending is to be avoided at all costs because it spoils every girl's route while also giving you an unsatisfying abrupt ending. Anyway, I've finished it now. I've seen all the good endings, and a couple of others that I ran into by accident. I enjoyed the first real ending I got a lot, because the sudden change in direction was still novel and exciting, but it started to drag pretty quickly after that. I can't, won't, and shouldn't say it's a good game. The nicest thing I can say about it is that parts of it are very entertaining, and I really like exactly one of the characters. A revised translation of Fault Milestone One came out recently; I might have to replay that next to detox myself.
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Aug 15, 2016 16:54
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flowers' tl has been dramatically overhauled, but there are still a few weird lines. the phrase 'lesbian feelings' is used multiple times in a clunky way. also, fair warning that it's way less about explicit relationships and happy endings than kindred spirits. it's a lot more about drama and characters angsting.
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Aug 18, 2016 02:58
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Also the mysteries are horrible and shoehorned in.
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Aug 19, 2016 01:49
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S;G coming to Steam next month. http://www.siliconera.com/2016/08/19/steinsgate-finally-releasing-steam-september-2016/
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Aug 19, 2016 16:55
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I'd thought it was already on steam
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Aug 19, 2016 16:56
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Super cool. I already have the original PC English release but I might consider getting it again just to have it in my Steam library.
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Aug 19, 2016 16:57
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Cake Attack posted:I'd thought it was already on steam nah, it was part of a leaked steamdb list that included other games like guilty gear, edf and danganronpa, two of which weren't confirmed to be getting released when it leaked, so while getting all of those games pretty much confirmed its existence, they never just put it up
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Finally. As far as I'm aware, Jast has been struggling with 5pb on this for quite some time. Of course, I don't remember where I heard this. Edit: Higurashi chapter 4 is 100% translated and edited! MegaZeroX fucked around with this message at 21:51 on Aug 19, 2016 |
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Aug 19, 2016 21:45
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Himatsubushi is the shortest chapter so that's not too surprising, but still cool. They may actually get it out ahead of the Voices/PS3 patch for Tatari at this rate. It's a big milestone either way because after that it's the Answer chapters which ooooooooooown.
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Aug 19, 2016 21:58
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Are the Higurashi VN's as different from the anime as Umineko was?
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not really but I think they're executed better. the anime kinda gets the tone wrong imo
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