EVN Chronicles

Well, this is something I've always wanted.

But now that I know it exists, I'm too afraid to go ahead with it, given the tone of the original by the end. I wonder why I have such a bias against fanworks when I make fanworks myself.

55 minutes ago, Mr Poltroon said:

Well, this is something I've always wanted.

But now that I know it exists, I'm too afraid to go ahead with it, given the tone of the original by the end. I wonder why I have such a bias against fanworks when I make fanworks myself.

I have a similar thing. When you're making a fanwork, it's your personal understanding of the original story and characters being expressed. If it's someone else's, or even when the original authors pick up your favourite stories after a long break... You have good reasons to be worried. Thankfully, I didn't feel this mod ever got the characters or their stories really wrong, or I would be much more harsh towards it. It's more like the overall quality was consistently less than ideal. Which, I guess, is quite normal when dealing with fan work, but that's why I never got into those too much - they can very rarely survive the kind of scrutiny we put professional work through, so unless you're looking for something very specific, like a ship you'd never find in the source material, or there's a very neat idea that catches your attention, there's little point to spending a lot of time with them.

...and this reminded me to finally read that Aoba/Hifumi New Game! fic I've bookmarked like a year ago. :3

Edited February 22, 2019 by Plk_Lesiak

1 hour ago, Plk_Lesiak said:

I have a similar thing. When you're making a fanwork, it's your personal understanding of the original story and characters being expressed. If it's someone else's, or even when the original authors pick up your favourite stories after a long break... You have good reasons to be worried. Thankfully, I didn't feel this mod ever got the characters or their stories really wrong, or I would be much more harsh towards it. It's more like the overall quality was consistently less than ideal. Which, I guess, is quite normal when dealing with fan work, but that's why I never got into those too much - they can very rarely survive the kind of scrutiny we put professional work through, so unless you're looking for something very specific, like a ship you'd never find in the source material, or there's a very neat idea that catches your attention, there's little point to spending a lot of time with them.

...and this reminded me to finally read that Aoba/Hifumi New Game! fic I've bookmarked like a year ago. :3

Hm. I'm actually glad to hear this. I really might try it, then.

That said, I have Steam Prison to get through. This forum's lacking in posts about japanese otome games lately.