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Sunrider: Liberation Day (VN-hybrid game review)


Plk_Lesiak

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After the impressive success of the freeware VN/strategy hybrid Sunrider: Mask of Arcadius the game’s developer, Love in Space, soon started working on a sequel, doubling down on their policy of directly imitating the Japanese visual novel formula and apparently devoting much of their newly-found resources and experience to exactly that end. When the highly-anticipated Sunrider: Liberation Day finally released, on March 2016, it came armed with Japanese voice-acting, Japanese theme song and extra amounts of fanservice, ready to conquer the Western-otaku audience with its bombastic facsimile of Japanese eroge. Thus, one of the most amusing chimaeras in the history of the OELVN scene was born, once more to a decent commercial success and mostly positive reception.

            Setting the slightly-absurd “Japanization” aside, Liberation Day is, above all, a sequel of a well-known and, for the most part, respected game, that did much to promote visual novel formula in the West. Mask of Arcadius, as I think most people would agree, remains to this day one of the best VN “space operas”, especially among those officially released outside of Japan and fills a niche mostly unexplored by EVNs. As a sci-fi fan, a good continuation of the Sunrider story was something I really wanted to see and Liberation Day promised to offer just that, in an even grander and more compelling style. Did it deliver on those promises though and does it stand the test of time as well as its predecessor?

Read the full article at evnchronicles.blogspot.com

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Still a better game than Loren The Amazon and other half bake EVN VN hybrids:sacchan:

haven't finished the game yet however I did had fun playing it! 

Hope to see a sequel soon enough XD:mare:

Also this game is now available in GOG.COM!

Please also advertise the GOG.COM page as well! :Chocola:

Steam Sucks balls anyways! :wahaha: 

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6 hours ago, Templarseeker said:

Still a better game than Loren The Amazon and other half bake EVN VN hybrids:sacchan:

haven't finished the game yet however I did had fun playing it! 

Hope to see a sequel soon enough XD:mare:

Also this game is now available in GOG.COM!

Please also advertise the GOG.COM page as well! :Chocola:

Steam Sucks balls anyways! :wahaha: 

I'm not sure if this one will ever get a sequel... And if it does, I REALLY hope it will start from the DLC scenario, not the main campaign ending. Seriously, f*** that ending. :wafuu:

And yeah, when I wrote this VNs on GoG weren't a thing yet, I will add it now. ^^

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And Loren isn't all bad, it's a good VN, just a really poor RPG. Later WinterWolves' games are much better in this respect. :P

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3 hours ago, Plk_Lesiak said:

I'm not sure if this one will ever get a sequel... And if it does, I REALLY hope it will start from the DLC scenario, not the main campaign ending. Seriously, f*** that ending. :wafuu:

And yeah, when I wrote this VNs on GoG weren't a thing yet, I will add it now. ^^

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And Loren isn't all bad, it's a good VN, just a really poor RPG. Later WinterWolves' games are much better in this respect. :P

Well I suppose that make sense, the first game ending was kind of ahem.... :makina:

However at the very least its free at both Steam and GOG but prefer the GOG version since I could store the installer on my Flash Drive and play it on our office heheh:wahaha:

Yeah ever since Loren The Amazon, they've learned a lot from it and eventually improve their games, they even produced a expansion of Loren The Amazon, I somehow forget the name... Season Of The Wolves has somehow decent RPG gameplay compared to Loren also it does have a DLC too so I guess its successful to some extent...

Try checking games from SakeVisual! Although their latest game seems to be a otome... 

Anyways keep up the good work! Looking forward to hear more of your EVN reviews! :mare:

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4 hours ago, Templarseeker said:

Try checking games from SakeVisual! Although their latest game seems to be a otome... 

Anyways keep up the good work! Looking forward to hear more of your EVN reviews! :mare:

Thank you. :) I actually have Backstage Pass on my radar for a long time now, I'll definitely cover it at some point.

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