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ISLAND VNDB: https://vndb.org/v18498 BUY on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/857450/ISLAND/ Summary Urashima is a small island, far from mainland Japan. It’s a true utopia, blessed with rich natural beauty. But the island harbours a difficult past, and it’s about to be erased, silently, from history. Soot blight syndrome, an endemic disease, has brought about a rift between the island and the mainland. An offshore platform intended for marine research has long been left abandoned; five years ago, three separate incidents brought the once influential Three Families of Urashima to near ruin. Rumours about children being spirited away have become part of the local folklore, alongside another legend, one that has been repeated on the island since time immemorial... “Let me tell you the legend of this island: it’s a story of tragic love...” The key to saving the island lies with three girls, each of whom belongs to one of the Three Families. These girls aren’t able to change the fate of the island by themselves, but might they succeed with the help of the young man who’s just washed ashore? Claiming that he’s traveled back in time, the man immediately sets out on a lonely path, challenging the long-standing traditions of the island, and seeking to change the future. But those aren’t his only goals... How will his presence transform the lives of these three girls, the future of the island, and the fate of the world...? [From official website] About "Island" Similar to G.O.'s previous works (Himawari), Island is a science fiction multiple route mystery with a fixed progression order. Your own enjoyment from the game will greatly depend whether you're capable of piecing together the presented fragments on the way to discover the truth. Despite being an all-ages title, Island is choke heavy on sexual humor (called shimoneta in japanese) and adult themes, including sexual content; explicit erotic content is simply not shown on-screen. Story discusses topics such as death and rebirth, loss of beloved ones, family, personal responsibility and a variety of science fiction related subjects - with time travel and many-worlds interpretation amongst few - but also astrophysics, genetics, spirituality, philosophy, human psychology and history of mankind. Most of the topics are entry-level, making Island a perfect choice for beginners willing to delve deeper into more complicated visual novels. General Info It is possible to actually chose between Karen and Sara during your initial playthrough, but I highly advise to chose Karen first, since her route acts as a natural introduction to the setting, without being as convoluted or cryptic as Sara's. Island contains many alternate endings (The so called BAD ENDS, although only few of them are tragic), with vast majority being story-based (non "game over" screens, where the protagonist typically just dies). Those endings need to be cleared in order to progress the story beyond certain points. The overall recommended progression order is as follows: SUMMER [Karen (restart) -> Sara (restart) -> Rinne] -> WINTER -> MIDSUMMER [Rinne End -> True End] This guide follows the above mentioned order, unlocking all the content along the way. Endings Aside from four main endings (Karen, Sara, Rinne and True End), there are total thirteen alternate endings available in-game (twelve for the SUMMER and one for the MIDSUMMER). You will see them all in a fixed order, provided you follow this guide. Names for the BAD ENDINGS are as follows (within their chronological order): Walkthrough Guide: All the saves are meant to be done during choices. The total number of saves used in this guide equals 16 and allows you to 100% clear the entire game. Save states in red are meant only for collecting BAD ENDS. You can skip those, if you prefer the trial & error approach. Regardless, this guide always assumes you have them cleared whenever required. Save states in blue are used for progression and remain the only ones you should be concerned about in general. We will be using those to jump quickly to required scenes without being forced to continously repeat large portions of the story. "Your choice" describes so called "flavour choices"; no matter the decision, they always lead to same exact outcome so pick whichever you like the most. Answers are merely kept to ease guidance. If you're lost or unsure, don't forget about the in-game flowchart! You can access it any time from the In-game menu and it can also be used to jump between already cleared scenes, similar to loading save states. Use it often! SUMMER KAREN SARA RINNE WINTER MIDSUMMER RINNE'S END RE: (TRUE END) BAD ENDINGS Attribution This guide was made thanks to the walkthrough available on Seiya-Saiga repository. All rights go to their respective owners. Everything else was done by le watakushi. If you'd like the high-res version of the title banner, PM me. Changelog 28/08/2019 - Rewrote certain parts of the guide for better workflow and fixed an inconsistency with Common/Summer route, which also made me partially omit one of the bad endings. 05/10/2018 - True end retrieved it's original name 09/09/2018 - Initial release

Eden* is quite an experience. It's arguably more "(audio)visual" than it is "novel", and I've seen a lot of discrepancy in people's opinions, but I'm glad you are enjoying it. Really, every time I take a look at your vndb profile I stay dumbfounded for a while. I know I wouldn't be able to read that stuff even if that's the only thing I had to do during an entire month of diarrhea, so respect. Also I can't help but wonder how bad must be the lowest rated game in your list, "Legends of Talia: Arcadia". It may well go beyond the limits known by mankind

I've been giving it a go playing Eden and I'm really enjoying it so far. I think I've almost finished it and am now awaiting the assured downer of an ending. I'm always impressed at your evident willingness to consume mounds of fecal garbage, I guess that's your masochistic tendencies at work huh?

Let's do this

Pretty accurate I would say. I believe for me it took even less time, around 5-6 hours, finishing it in just one night. However here https://howlongtobeat.com/game.php?id=25902 it says the average is around 11h, so what do I know

Eeee... I guess it's considered an utsuge, so yes, it's "depressing", but for me it's depressing in a good way, as weird as it may sound. Depressing but satisfying and heart-warming you could say maybe. Definitely not for you to read at the moment if you are no up for a feels trip though.

Maybe not that, but if someone has limited resistance to "dreadful", it could be considered a serious health hazard. ;p

Just going through let's plays of Time Tenshi games, while working on various stuff (including an MLP convention panel on fan porn - I'll bring photos! :3 ...Of the panel, I mean, not the porn. ) and I have to say, I have a strange kind of respect for devs that keep their ecchi VNs strictly in the fanservice territories, without going into actual porn despite how easy it is to sneak it in nowadays. There's something... Pure in the absurd trashiness of classic fanservice VNs, especially when everyone around already moved into fully-fledged eroge. For Silver Cow Studios time pretty much stopped in the era of Winged Cloud's initial releases and there's something borderline-admirable in that. Plus, well, Time Tenshi is still like half a tier better than most Sakura games - I mean, it has an actual plot and follows it consistently, rather than forgetting about it every 10 mins to showcase random fanservice CGs. I'm positively surprised by it, even if it's still pretty much trash.

The difference between academic, online forum and fictional writing is quite big though, especially if you're trying to switch between languages. I remember our teachers hating it when we used literary devices we learned in English classes for creative writing in German. Some things that sound good in one language can turn out really cringeworthy when you translate them literally into another one. Maybe you should try reading some literature you like that's written in your native language first to get back into the right mindset? I don't think you can really forget how to write in your native language.

I believe that it's more likely because Kiriririri himself was took a liking to one Hapymaher's character that was featured prominently in the FD, so much that he didn't want to see the FD was getting translated. Of course it's depend on Mangagamer though whether they want to localized Hapymaher FD or not, so stopping them to localized the FD won't be as easy as saying to do it here. What I can say here is that while usually I didn't pay attention to FD much, I would say that if Mangagamer announced the FD localization it should be good for other fans who want to see more Hapymaher.

Heh, I guess I can still write in Polish properly, as I wrote a pretty lenghty academic paper last month, but I know the pain. Funnily enough, because I watch, read and write stuff in English every day and basically stop consuming any kind of local media, my spoken Polish is a mess, as I constantly mix in "false friend" words in their English meaning or stagger to find a Polish equivalent of an English word I would use to describe something. The more abstract/advanced the conversation, the more this problem shows up. And well, maybe you should try writing in English anyways? It's good training and you'll have a much easier time to find literary communities to share and discuss your stuff with. Good luck either way!

Oh boy, my best regards to you See you at the end of Alternative.

Back in my high school days I used to write quite a bit (mostly short stories), it was very relaxing and rewarding for me. I was never that great, but I did manage to qualify for some contests in my region, ocassionally winning some awards. Somehow it's something I slowly drifted apart from after entering college, but I really miss it and I'm thinking about taking it up again, if only as a therapeutical device for me. Man, I actually dropped so many things during these last years. I'm kind of ashamed of myself. Actually now that I think about it, after reading everything in English for years I don't even know if I'll remember how to write in my native language anymore And my English is nowhere near literary level

Confession: I've just, most likely, won my last battle with MMO's and other timesink multiplayer games, deleting WoW and all the other, similar life-stealers that I theoretically didn't touch any more, but they still lingered on my hard disk. Since Battle for Azeroth went live, my productivity got abysmal even though I theoretically kept playing it pretty limited after the first week and there were other factors involved (a lot of family drama, putting actual effort in some other things, like working out regularly for the first time in my life). I just knew I couldn't keep up with giving this game an hour or two of my every day without jeopardizing things that are actually important to me (and I see very little point in playing it from time to time). Hopefully, I'll be at least be able to get back to my Japanese studies in this newly-recovered time every morning and sort out my work schedule a bit better. As much as I was happy with my achievements in July, I was seriously, seriously disappointed with myself later on and while I have some super-annoying events ahead of me, I really hope that I can end this summer with a decent record and proper motivation moving forward. TL;DR: My quarter-life crisis and personal crusade against timesink video games came to a conclusion of sorts. And no, I don't consider VNs time sinks. Some of them may be long as fuck, but they're stories to read, not sandboxes to tinker with and grind in for an unlimited amount of time. I can control my VN consumption, but I was never anywhere close to controlling my habits with RPGs, strategy games and sims. I seriously hope I don't touch another Total War game in my life. They're poison to me. :s

Just want to say congratulation for finally entered halfway (At 50% mark) translated, and good job for managed to do that. I hope that you'll keep doing this good job later.