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First of all, Hello and thanks for having me. 2) Introduction well... not much to write here. I am finishing up my bachelor degree on university, and also working. I've been around Anime games/VN's for at least 3 years I think. It was quite a journey so far. I am mostly a PC - Steam player, watching VN's growth from there was something to note especially once policy on nudity in games was changed. For better or worse. I am also sometimes reviewing h-games on ATC group. Other than that I have old YT channel with few AMV's. 3) Why am I here? Well just to bring some conversation around I hope. VN's are rather solitary type of games that might be easily spoiled. Neverless they should be somehow promoted and discussed. See you around!

Desk-chan, ganbatte!

Hot on the heels after fixing payment issues, been a long wait for this lol

Hello guys, i'm brazilian, 23y/o, and i've started playing VN's 3 years ago, at the end of 2016. My first VN read was Dracu-Riot! from Yuzu-Soft. My preferences include VN's that are based basically in romance trough scholar interations between the protagonist and the heroines. My favorite VN read till now is Sanoba Witch, particularly Nene route. I have signed in here 'cause, first of all, i want to thank you guys for all the content you all create here. The walkthroughs and guides you made here helped me a lot of times. Second, i want to meet people who have the same hobbies as me, like watching anime, playing games, reading VN's, LN's, mangas and etc. The community here is big and i thought of join you all here. Feel free to befriend me, and thank you all!!

This is a new solo video series I'm starting to recap Major News each month related to Visual Novel Releases, Announcements, Major Project Updates, and the Community. For the first video, I wanted to include July since it was a pretty big month with all the Anime Expo announcements. Feel free to leave any feedback, positive or negative. Constructive preferred.

Mint Blancmanche across all available media She's the best, and she'll probably always be the best.

https://vndb.org/c18494 Kamio Ami from Semiramis no Tenbin is my waifu. https://vndb.org/c46327 But Belche is my lover, lol.

I tried playing two VNs while watching anime and playing a jrpg all at once for about a week once... the result was that I couldn't remember anything I did for that week. I can play a video game and read a book at the same time, though, lol.

My first was Katawa Shoujo. I've read about it in PC gaming magazine called CD-Action (04/2012) in section talking about controversy, and it was quite different to see any anime out there back in the days. Mentioning eroge in top european magazine was like... wth. It was covered as an side stuff but it really picked up my interest. I did one route it was Emi and I was charmed, the game really crushed me. Back in the days when I had no money for games. Here is how it looked like everything is in polish, so much memories

You make a compelling argument.

Monokuma is the #1 waifu. Compared to him, all others are BEARly waifus.

I'll give it a go then! I've been interested in this VN for quite a while, but I've also been a bit put off because there's supposedly some pretty extreme content in it. Euphoria disturbed me less than I thought it would though, so hopefully I'll be fine in this case as well.

Clock Up makes some brilliant games. Not sure what you mean with "every Clock Up game", as only a small handful is localized, and from what I've heard, they all do pretty darn well. Maggot Baits has a legit good story. It's being hyped up for a reason. I think it's going to sell very well, like Euphoria seemingly did. Not only is the story good, but it also has stunning art, a seriously stellar OST, and the writing, while very disgusting at times, is great. It's overall just an objectively good game. Of course, the extreme content will make it difficult to stomach for your standard reader, and I'd personally recommend you just skip it if you can't take extreme shit, as lots of it is story related. But despite being like ten steps above Euphoria in terms of extreme, I still think lots of people will buy it, even if only out of curiosity. Of course, I also imagine a lot of those people will regret it pretty fast once they realize just how extreme the game is, but... unless they literally ask for a refund that won't impact sales, lol. ^ See what I posted above. Tl;dr, yes, the story is great.

Then we realize there’s literally no way to get out of that rabbit hole.

They say there is, but I'm still not ready to wade through gorefest in search for good story

Well, I was a bit sick and wanted to do something I've never done before and decided to watch some random anime, even though I never did that before and had some not very good impression of the Japanese media in general. I liked it. I've been falling further and further into this rabbithole ever since.

I made an account on a forum about sex games

Bought some classic titles. And of course some Ayaka goods

Foreword: Abandoner is the second winner of poll for the extra review in 2004. There are actually two reviews already (1 2), but it does not hurt to give it a fresh look. Clephas recommends not to read this visual novel unless we are really hard masochists, but every visual novel reader is at least a bit of masochist for reading such long stories while normal people can't endure even director's cut movie versions. As for me, such question does not even stand - it's enough to look at the number of visual novels I played without really enjoying them. So let's start. VNDB: https://vndb.org/v1182 Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eGicIWOOlw&list=PLs4Gp5VU4Fv_qT6p_Y5f1XbwJYUu2TCCe Synopsis: A cross between fantasy, science fantasy, and mystery. The protagonist is a former detective who is living in virtual exile in a walled-off city occupied by foreign military forces. It is a lawless city, where just about anything can happen... Game type: Superhuman experiments story Character Design rating: 6/10 Protagonist rating: 7/10 Story rating: 6/10 Game quality: 7/10 Overall rating: 6/10 First of all, let's observe the plot since it's so vaguely drawn in both reviews. The stage is an imaginary city that resembles Italian city of the first third of the 20th century. It's under occupation of Tristian forces for the last 30 years. Main character Neil Fox is a former detective who now works independently and takes bounty hunter jobs. This time he is promised an outstandingly generous payment for rescuing some girl from a kidnapper and protecting her. But kidnapper turns out to be girl's guardian. The place gets ambushed by the military police. What makes this girl so important? That's what'd described in the first 30 minutes of the game. We successfully rescue that Helena girl and conceal her in the hideout. The girl is as if from another world since she has a poor grip on the reality. But then the problems start. Or, rather, nothing starts. Instead of returning girl to the request giver, Niel tries to find Helena's father and find out more about her past in the mysterious laboratory. In the meantime he just hangs around mafia bar and participates in some of their activities that COINCIDENTALLY bring him closer to Helena and Abandoner mystery. Even when Helena disappears at some time of the story, nothing really changes. He just continues to do jobs for the mafia. If even feels like he totally forgets about Helena in the second (longest) chapter. Game has neither an aim nor the conflict. Just for that reason I can't consider Abandoner a masterpiece. There is also a problem of main character Neil Fox. He takes a job to rescue the hostage and protect her, but he has absolutely no weapons. He carries some rusty gun just as a means of threat, but that's it. He is unable to win any fight. All he does is run away and hide. And thus he can't really influence the outcome of events which - only by some incredible luck - develop in his favor. That's realistic, but kind of boring for the main character. I rated heroines even lower than protagonist, because they aren't loveable. Helena is our out of this world girl who whispers trivial things all the time. There's little of interest in her. Next is mafia daughter Hilda Lutz. To tell the truth, I can't take girls seriously if their single boob is bigger than their head. She's very knowledgeable, but that's it. She hardly plays any important role in the story. The last heroine is military police sergeant Cecilia. Well, she's the most irritating character in this whole game. She's stubborn and pushy as she considers herself to be the only representative of power in this city. She's that character who does not listen to anyone and just tries to force her opinion everywhere. So I see it why Clephas blames this game of characters not listening to each other, but I don't see any other characters with this trait. Cecilia position and personality is to blame, but not everyone else. The mafia guys are all simpletons and can't be judged harshly. The first time we meet them, one 50-year looking guys cries because he's afraid of BOOKSHELVES. Yeah, stupid, but just treat them as comical characters. The poor Tony eventually just goes into reckless rage crying out "I'm Antonio Beltamo!" over and over. Well, I just did not pay much attention to mafia guys who are evidently just cannon fodder. I kind of lowered BGM level too much in the video so that music can hardly be heard, but BGM is actually rarely plays in this game. It's the sound of constant rain that plays most of the time instead. Music is nice, but its sudden cut offs irritate. What I especially want to point out is that there are NO fantasy elements in the game. All the alterations presented can be addressed to the results of human experiments. Just science is very advanced for the corresponding time period taken. There's no fantasy scenes, no magic, no resurrections - nothing. It's an atmospheric hard boiled realistic story that should not be really compromised with fantasy elements. In conclusion, this is a good story for the story's sake. But in order to like it you need to put up with senile mafia characters, not exactly lovable heroines and passive sneaky MC. This game is not about characters, thus each heroine has just one H event that happens kind of spontaneously at any point of the story when it's convenient - not necessarily in the end. Girls don't really have after-stories and actual roues, because it's not a charage. It's a single road story. If you're interested in the Abandoner mystery and can tolerate the cast, then you can enjoy the story even without being a really hard masochist.

My favorite girl is obviously death, since she has such a tender grasp