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@poltroon Yeah, that's totally my impression I got from just watching ep1 of CLANNAD- that it was able to condense the best parts. Cuz the VN really drags at times. Err, a lot of times, actually. Really looking forward to banding together the cast. The isolated thing really irked me and was probably what made me gave the VN an 8 lol @Bredan np, glad you enjoy reading them. They do take some time to create but overall I enjoy making them. It's one of the best ways for me to get closure on a VN before I go into post read depression

I've been reading through Cross Channel for a little while, but I'm not really making much progress. No matter what I do, I keep getting one of two endings: and I've tried following guides, but they just say to do stuff I've already tried or show a bunch of options that the visual novel never gives me.

I can say that your persistence is impressive and admirable in a way. While granted people can suffer from severe depression, not everyone depressed over the same thing like you so unfortunately you won't get anything that can cure your depression even if you ask for help here, especially when your cause of depression is looks so small to the most if not all of the people. That said, I know that depression is really a serious matter regardless on whether the cause is big or small, so I'll just suggest you to read this article in order to help you to cope with the depression and I hope it'll help you even if it's only at the slightest bit. PS - Actually you shouldn't throw the word depression easily here, but whatever.

@Eclipsed Thanks for your posts, a pleasure to read for someone like me that had gone through Clannad so many years ago. Just wanted to say it, cause those detailed posts + screenshots seem to be a lot of work.

@Eclipsed And there you have CLANNAD. I've never actually read the After Story to completion. I don't think I have it in me. I'd love to hear your impressions on the anime as well, because I think it takes all that is best in CLANNAD: i.e., they do the Kotomi route thing and join all the school characters together rather than keep them constantly isolated from one another. It neglects CLANNAD's side characters and stories, but as you put it, they're there more for thematic reasons the anime would be unable to replicate regardless.

Cross†Channel Summary Gunjo Gakuen (Deep Blue School) is a facility designed to gather and isolate those students who got a high score on an adaptation exam (scoring high on this exam indicates that the student is less likely to be able to adapt to society) mandated by the government. After a failed summer vacation with other members of the school's broadcasting club, Taichi Kurosu and some of the other club members return to the city, only to find that all living creatures within it except for the club members have completely vanished. In order to confirm the status of the outside world, Taichi decides to gather other club members to help Misato Miyasumi, the president of the broadcasting club, who is trying to set up a broadcasting antenna to contact any possible survivors. Ending Guideline / Suggested Route Order Cross Channel consists of a single ending and therefore there will be no replaying the game to get every single path. Instead the game repeats itself as you're progressing and you get to experience each heroine individually and then reach a true ending after all of their "routes" are done. You will start off the game in what is known as "week one" where only one route is available. Making wrong choices will not give you a bad ending, it will merely make you repeat that week again and you may change your choices to attempt and get the heroine you want, hence why i will be omitting the Bad End section from this walkthrough. Regarding a suggested route order there isn't one as the game has a forced playing order to unlock each path. Route Guideline Miyasumi Misato (Week one) Good End Kirihara Touko (Week two) Good End Sakura Kiri (Week three) Good End Yamanobe Miki (Week four) Good End Hasekura Youko (Week five) Good End Description: After completing Youko's route, and thus all major routes, you will begin "week six." This time, the first choice you make regarding where to go selects which mini-route you will follow. There are six mini-routes, and all of them must be completed. The order you do it in is largely irrelevant, although Kiri's must precede Miki's, and Youko's must come last. Suggested choices: First year classroom Call out to her Go to school Second year classroom Go to school Roof Go to school Invite her on a date True Ending (Week Seven) There are no choices to be made during week seven, all you have to do is read through it and enjoy the ending of the novel. Regarding CG collection: Following this walkthrough should award you 100% of all the CGs as the game forces you to play through every path and thus it's unlikely you will miss one. Attribution This walkthrough was put together and slightly edited by me using the following sources: http://pastebin.com/UnGPvJFn http://strategywiki.org/wiki/CROSS†CHANNEL/Walkthrough