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is Death Come True any good. i played the demo and it doesnt really sell it (aside from the kill bill lady being in it)
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drat, the thread is talking about my two favorite vns ever, raging loop and 428 shibuya scramble. those games kind of ruined vns for me, nothing else I tried has ever equaled them, can people offer suggestions for similar games? and not the really big ones like the nonary games, I already know about them. What I really liked was the multiple timelines and bad endings, I found that really interesting. it's really frustrating that apparently 428 has a prequel/sequel, but it was never translated.
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Maya Fey posted:is Death Come True any good. i played the demo and it doesnt really sell it (aside from the kill bill lady being in it) It's neat enough, not hitting the highs of timeloopy weirdness of your Uchikoshis, but what does? The FMV presentation is cool, and it's a nice short little burst of a thing. I enjoyed the few hours it took to play through it, but I'm a sucker for FMV games.
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Sep 10, 2022 08:55
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Mirello posted:it's really frustrating that apparently 428 has a prequel/sequel, but it was never translated. A JP streamer I've followed for a long time recently finished his playthrough of Machi which was like 40 streams long at a leisurely pace, I didn't actively follow it (it kinda made me want to play it myself) but the style and semi-absurd vibe was definitely super recognizable as Shibuya Scramble except made in 1998.  I should get around to trying it, but time... and backlog...
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Mirello posted:drat, the thread is talking about my two favorite vns ever, raging loop and 428 shibuya scramble. those games kind of ruined vns for me, nothing else I tried has ever equaled them, can people offer suggestions for similar games? and not the really big ones like the nonary games, I already know about them. What I really liked was the multiple timelines and bad endings, I found that really interesting. You say no big ones, but what are the one you played/know that you don't like? Am I going to get dinged for saying Gnosia, Root Double, or Steins:Gate?
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Lord Bob posted:It's neat enough, not hitting the highs of timeloopy weirdness of your Uchikoshis, but what does? The FMV presentation is cool, and it's a nice short little burst of a thing. I enjoyed the few hours it took to play through it, but I'm a sucker for FMV games. nice, didn't realize it was so short, might give it a whirl then
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Sep 10, 2022 16:29
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Buried Stars finally went on sale on PSN, so I'm swooping on it this weekend!
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I’m almost done with 428 Shibuya Scramble, but I have a few more questions before I give the game a final grade and move on. I’ve finished the Normal End, True Ending, the 22 mini stories and finished both Susune and Canaan’s longer side stories. Spoiler-free guides tell me there is also a “Mean-Clean” ending (pretty sure this is a gimmick) and a “Conspiracy” ending (not sure about this one.) Finally, is there any purpose to the Labyrinth besides trolling you for making a wrong choice in Minorikawa’s route? Thanks!
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Sep 20, 2022 20:36
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Those are joke endings you absolutely have to look up how to get because no one would ever figure them out normally. The maze is also just a joke area though theres some funny things there if you explore it properly iirc and maybe a trophy in the PS version.
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Final thoughts on 428 Shibuya Scramble: This is a very good visual novel. I can see why it is so highly regarded and I’m disappointed that a sequel is unlikely to happen at this point. I’m giving it a 9 overall. I haven’t done this before, but for this VN I have to break my grade down further. Editing: 10. 428 is the best edited VN I have ever played. The dialogue was snappy and a plot that becomes surprisingly complex is consistently explained in a way that makes it easy for the reader to follow along. Story: 9. What starts out as a straight forward story about a kidnapping plausibly turns into a thriller with the fate of the entire planet potentially at risk. It does rely a bit too much on some insane coincidences to move the plot forward, but the reader is having so much fun that it doesn’t matter. Susune’s side story: 10. I don’t hand out many 10’s but it’s appropriate here as well. Yes, the plot was predictable but was it so well done that it succeeded in having the emotional impact that was clearly intended. I was in tears at the end. Characters: 9. Likeable and memorable without exception. Even the cold Osawa is portrayed overall as a sympathetic character who experiences growth throughout the story. Minorikawa is one of my new favorite VN characters. Interface: 4. I’m guessing if you’re still reading, you knew this was coming. 428 has the most frustrating user interface I’ve ever seen. There are joke tips that contain one word jump points critical to moving the story forward and you better be careful trying to clear that last keep out/bad end because it’s definitely possible to erase an hour’s progress while searching for the way forward. The inability to fast forward through dialogue already seen is inexcusable. Looking back, I’m glad 428 does not have a Great Ace Attorney style story mode because the temptation to use it would have been almost irresistible at a few points. Overall, it’s a great game and a good entry point into the genre to recommend to people who have never played a VN before.
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You know what else is hosed up from a UI/quality of life standpoint? The early Ace Attorney games have no text log, or backchat at all! You cannot ever look at past dialogue again. I was thrown off guard by this when I was recently replaying the trilogy
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Oct 1, 2022 06:44
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It was always the worst when you maybe half zoned out a little bit and then suddenly there was an inventory selection screen up like oh poo poo what was anyone talking about? And you've just got the last sentence to go on.
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Ryukishi07 is doing *what*?! (some sort of Silent Hill project) ...I guess I need to finally finish Higurashi then. Is the new anime any good after finishing the VN? edit: Welp, it looked somewhat promising as it started judging by the things I heard. v Dessel fucked around with this message at 22:49 on Oct 19, 2022 |
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Oct 19, 2022 22:40
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Dessel posted:Is the new anime any good after finishing the VN? No. If a bad sequel can subsequently ruin the original for you then stay far away.
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Dessel posted:Ryukishi07 is doing *what*?! I have never been so hype for a game announcement  Trailer link for anyone who hasn't seen it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPNXE_q4BdE
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The trailer looks rad but unfortunately visual horror is rougher for me than text, so I probably won't have the stomach for it.
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watch the OP and endings of the Higurashi sequel anime and nothing else
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Dessel posted:Ryukishi07 is doing *what*?! The anime is brutally unpleasant to watch, because it is about a bunch of gruesome murders and they hit way harder in a visual medium. That said, I saw it when I was like five or six books into Umineko, and personally I thought it did a great job tying some stuff together. That said, I'm probably one of its bigger fans here, and even I literally wouldn't bother watching it unless you've finished Higurashi and are deep enough into Umineko for you to stop and go "wait, what the gently caress?!" about some clearly Higurashi-adjacent stuff. It's gratuitous and disturbingly violent and probably a fair bit longer than it needs to be, but it fits together with a lot of small incidental stuff well enough that it was obviously planned and implied on some level. You probably wouldn't miss it if it didn't exist, though. Related question about Higurashi Gou/Sotsu and Higurashi 1-8: I've actually pretty much completely forgotten what happened to Hanyuu - wouldn't Rika going to St Lucia trigger L5 in a bunch of people? Or was that solved somehow?
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I only watched Gou but IMO it was more mean-spirited than the original in addition to being more graphic, and that's true without even mentioning the very bad episode that I hate and think was gore porn and disrespectful to the characters (which may sound dumb since it's his characters to do with what he wants but it's still how I feel about it). Tbf a lot of people might think the original is hosed up for being a story about bad things happening to kids, so I get that everyone's line is different and mine's as arbitrary as anyone else's. 
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Dr Kool-AIDS posted:I only watched Gou but IMO it was more mean-spirited than the original I mean I feel like that's an implicit plot point. But it's definitely not for everyone. Dr Kool-AIDS posted:without even mentioning the very bad episode that I hate and think was gore porn and disrespectful to the characters Yeah, this episode literally made me ill. That said, I'm pretty sure that same method of death happens in Higurashi more than once. It just hits way worse when you can see and/or hear it. I don't know what the current streaming situation is with it, but when it was airing (censored) in Japan, the version that Hulu got same-day was uncensored. I'd really recommend trying to find the censored version if you give it a try. And when there's half an episode that's just a black screen, maybe cover your ears too, and be thankful for the warning.
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Rockman Reserve posted:Yeah, this episode literally made me ill. That said, I'm pretty sure that same method of death happens in Higurashi more than once. It just hits way worse when you can see and/or hear it. I don't know what the current streaming situation is with it, but when it was airing (censored) in Japan, the version that Hulu got same-day was uncensored. My complaints are more about how it was presented than what happened, so I'm not sad that it was censored. Yeah she was disemboweled many times but it was mostly (always? I feel like I remember her asking not to be sedated so she'd remember it one time but I don't remember if the text continued through the process) "off camera" even in the text because she didn't remember it and to preserve the mystery for the reader. Otherwise I think the most gruesome things in the VN were Shion torturing Satoko to death and maybe her fight with Rika in Meakashi, which were both admittedly pretty unpleasant.
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Apparently the director was a splatter fan? Which honestly explains a lot.
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I watched Higurashi when it first came out (so, I was 15) and I loving adored it, and still adore it to this day But I grew up a slashery, b-movie fan so
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Rockman Reserve posted:I'd really recommend trying to find the censored version if you give it a try. And when there's half an episode that's just a black screen, maybe cover your ears too, and be thankful for the warning. I mean also to be fair only about 85% of the screen in that scene is censored. Maybe 90%? Definitely not a pure black screen.
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60% of the anime's first season is a rehash of the VN, and 60% of the second is a rehash of the first. Watch it if you dare
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https://www.gematsu.com/2022/11/utawarerumono-spin-off-visual-novel-gizoku-tantei-nosuri-announced-for-ps4-switch Hell yeah Nosuri
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For the steam sale are there any major/quality visual novels available on Steam I've missed out on and should snap up? Here's my current list of stuff I own: 1931: Scheherazade at the Library of Pergamum The 25th Ward: The Silver Case 428 Shibuya Shuffle AI: Somnium Files Alternate Jake Hunter: DAEDALUS The Awakening of Golden Jazz Analogue: A Hate Story Baldr Sky Chaos;Child Ciconia: When They Cry Clannad DanganRonpa 1, 2 and 3 Death Come True Dies Irae and its spin off Forget Me Not My Organic Garden Gnosia Golden Treasure: The Great Green The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles The Devil on a G-String Higurashi: When They Cry The House in Fata Morgana and its spin off Iwaihime Little Busters The Midnight Sanctuary Muv Luv Muv Luv Alternative Our World is Ended Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy Planetarian Raging Loop Rewrite+ Robotics Notes both games Root Double Scarlet Hollow The Sealed Ampoule The Sekimeiya: Spun Glass The Silver Case Spirit Hunter both games Steins;Gate all games Tokyo Babel Umineko:When They Cry Utawarerumono all game except the latest one World End Economica all games Zero Escape all games On Wishlist: Ambition: A Minuet in Power AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES - nirvanA Initiative Buried Stars Lady in Mystery Mythic Ocean Hashihime of the Old Book Town Head AS Code Untale: King of Revinia The Zodiac Trial MAMIYA Necrobarista World's End Club fez_machine fucked around with this message at 00:06 on Nov 26, 2022 |
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fez_machine posted:For the steam sale are there any major/quality visual novels available on Steam I've missed out on and should snap up? Highlighted stuff I think is cool - I'd say don't play Nirvana Initiative or 25th Ward without playing Somnium Files and Silver Case first though
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Nosuri rules, though I think I liked her brother even more. Hope he features heavily
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kirbysuperstar posted:Highlighted stuff I think is cool - I'd say don't play Nirvana Initiative or 25th Ward without playing Somnium Files and Silver Case first though Sorry, I should have clarified I own the games on the list. The highlighted games are very cool though. Do you have any recommendations of things I haven't mentioned?
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fez_machine posted:Sorry, I should have clarified I own the games on the list. The highlighted games are very cool though. Oh lmao, my bad Definitely Nirvana Initiative, World's End Club is cool if you don't mind some kinda janky puzzle platforming
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I might regret asking this, but what else should I play if I liked Danganronpa? Specifically the wacky and memorable characters, I don't mind murder game stuff but I'm not seeking it out in particular. I've played the Zero Escape games already
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Not sure if the more indie stuff falls within the scope of this thread, but the sequel to Butterfly Soup dropped a couple of weeks ago. First one was a great tale of gay idiots playing baseball, and this one... should be also???
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kirbysuperstar posted:I'd say don't play Nirvana Initiative or 25th Ward without playing Somnium Files and Silver Case first though Like, I knew it was a sequel of Somnium, but it's also a sequel to Silver Case?
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goethe.cx posted:I might regret asking this, but what else should I play if I liked Danganronpa? Specifically the wacky and memorable characters, I don't mind murder game stuff but I'm not seeking it out in particular. I've played the Zero Escape games already Your Turn to Die, for sure
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goethe.cx posted:I might regret asking this, but what else should I play if I liked Danganronpa? Specifically the wacky and memorable characters, I don't mind murder game stuff but I'm not seeking it out in particular. I've played the Zero Escape games already Definitely the AI games. Have you played the Ace Attorney games? They're filled with wacky characters. The Monster Prom games might also appeal You might like 428 as well. HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:Your Turn to Die, for sure Oh hey they put up a steam page! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2067780/Your_Turn_To_Die_Death_Game_By_Majority/ It's available for free here in the mean time: https://vgperson.com/games/yourturntodie.htm fez_machine fucked around with this message at 00:32 on Nov 26, 2022 |
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Saoshyant posted:Like, I knew it was a sequel of Somnium, but it's also a sequel to Silver Case? 25th Ward is the Silver Case sequel.
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goethe.cx posted:I might regret asking this, but what else should I play if I liked Danganronpa? Specifically the wacky and memorable characters, I don't mind murder game stuff but I'm not seeking it out in particular. I've played the Zero Escape games already Paradise Killer, maybe? The setting's pretty outlandish, but in many aspects it's "what if Danganronpa but more". Not really a visual novel, though. There's also Nine Doors, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, but I never played that one all the way through so can't guarantee its overall quality. e: oh, 9D9P9D is a Zero Escape game. I know things! SexyBlindfold fucked around with this message at 00:37 on Nov 26, 2022 |
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