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What am I doing right now? Mid-November Editioin


Clephas

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For those who are wondering, I am currently replaying Unionism Quartet before moving on to A3 Days.  It has been long enough that I didn't recall most of the details, so I needed a refresher.  At the same time, I'm playing Dishonored 2, so I'm dividing my time in half between VNs and gaming right now. 

I don't plan on doing a full post solely on Unionism Quartet, so I'm going to just relate a few impressions here before I finish Yulia's path (I already finished Silvia's, Jubei's, Yuno's and Mariel's... meaning I did all the secondary and sub-heroines before I hit on the game's true heroine, lol). 

First, as non-bloody combat VNs go, Unionism is actually fairly good.  It actually ranks up there with Walkure Romanze and a few others I could name... if nothing else, the protagonist is decent.  However, replaying it in light of the fact that a fandisc/sequel was just released, I'm a bit dissatisfied, as it has become rather apparently that they intended to sequel this thing to death from the beginning, based on the way they did the endings (all the endings are short and based only a short time after the end of the main story).

The game's story structure is of a type I'm sure veterans are familiar with... essentially, you pick a heroine and some scenes change and are added on, but the main story doesn't change to any significant degree, leading to a significant amount of repeated text, for those who dislike that kind of thing.

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I'm already reading the fan disc A3. It starts pretty much where UQ ended but assumes that you weren't going for any heroine so you start more or less on 'good friends' terms with everyone. I would have preferred a continuation of each romance though.

The start is good but the story structure then soon turns into a strange scene picking system. I get the romance picks even if I'm not sure if they went too far with 14 romanceable heroines, but the neutral scenes inbetween just make me head-scratching. You can either skip them all or play them all in arbitrary order, and I've no clue if I'm supposed to read them all at once, or just pick the ones I'm interested in. I hope it'll lock into individual routes after a while, since it currently feels more like a scene gallery than a homogenous story.

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5 hours ago, ChaosRaven said:

I'm already reading the fan disc A3. It starts pretty much where UQ ended but assumes that you weren't going for any heroine so you start more or less on 'good friends' terms with everyone. I would have preferred a continuation of each romance though.

The start is good but the story structure then soon turns into a strange scene picking system. I get the romance picks even if I'm not sure if they went too far with 14 romanceable heroines, but the neutral scenes inbetween just make me head-scratching. You can either skip them all or play them all in arbitrary order, and I've no clue if I'm supposed to read them all at once, or just pick the ones I'm interested in. I hope it'll lock into individual routes after a while, since it currently feels more like a scene gallery than a homogenous story.

Just use the Seiya-saiga walkthrough....

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On 2016/11/14 at 8:59 AM, ExtraMana said:

Never played Dishnoured. How is the sequel?

If you like stealth games, it is fun.  If you don't, then it isn't.  I'm currently going for a low chaos ending (low murder, don't get spotted often). 

In most levels, there are lots of ways to get to your targets (both assassination and rescue).  Also, there is always a way to avoid killing your assassination targets... for instance, with the mad scientist in this one, you can use his own electroshock chair on him to make him into an idiot, lol.

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