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It’s been a while. About 4 years since I was last an active member of the community, but I have been logging in and stocking your profiles occasionally ever since then For those who don’t know me I was a board mod albeit for a very short time. Also tried to lead some translation projects, all at probably the worst time as I had been accepted into my biochemistry major at that time (and that’s why you haven’t seen me) I haven’t been reading a lot of visual novels lately. Though I’m planning on going through Summer Pockets soon if I can find the time. Still watching lots of anime, have spent over 100 hours of my existence in front of Japanese cartoons. I will probably pitter around the light topics from time to time. See you out there~

Here you go

In any case, it isn't a big deal in the grand scheme of things. These are really just my spontaneous thoughts right after finishing Chapter 6, and they're all based on assumptions and information I was provided there. It isn't unlikely that my opinion will change one way or the other once I get some perspective on things. I still have two chapters to go and I expect that quite a few things will have been turned on their head by the time I'm done.

The art really was the draw for me, but after reading around 10 - 15 minutes of it I have to say I was kind of confused as well. Glad I wasn't the only one since I thought maybe I was just stupid. I think it has a problem where the art is nice, and for a different story it could have worked perfectly, but in Unfamiliar Work it felt like the art and writing were in conflict with each other. Not helping each other out which is the relationship art, writing and audio should have in a VN. I guess I'll have to try Eislyn's Apocalypse next.

Indeed, Unfamiliar Work looks very different, which is something to appreciate, but I'm still not sure what that story was about. I'll be curious about your impressions of Eislyn's Apocalypse when you get to it. Zakamutt lately accused me of overhyping stuff in my game jam articles and I can't say he's totally wrong. Just the fact that you confront it with very amateurish entries can make a game that is just decent look like something really impressive or make you ignore some flaws... Which I don't think is a massive problem, as these posts are more about selecting noteworthy games from the sea of random weirdness, but if someone has really high standards they might expect a lot more than a game jam title can reasonably deliver. :>

Understandable decision. Having to rely on the erratic Steamquisition to sell your titles can certainly be quite frustrating. And unlike MangaGamer or Sekai they don't have their own established shop site. Though it's nice to hear that they still want to translate some rare hand picked titles in future. The market is a bit oversaturated anyway, so getting some rare pearls instead of just a bunch of mediocrity doesn't sound too bad.

Considering that company's... *coughs* problems, is this even a surprise?