Soulless Watcher

I'll admit it, incest is one of my creepy fetishes and I think it is even better if inbreeding is involved. Any pairing is good for me, except yaoi pairings and I only will accept grandmas if they are anti-aging lolis, even I have standards. I don't really think there is a reason for it, other than the taboo. On a side note, I always chuckle when I see someone say it is creepy or disgusting because they have a corresponding family member in their family. I have sisters, a mother, and a father and I have never considered any of them in a romantic way. I'm actually quite horrified by the idea actually. To me it is akin to someone disliking a first person shooter because they don't think they would do well in a combat situation or, for a metaphor more close to the subject matter, stories of a romance between a student and teacher because they don't have a teacher they want to bone. It just seems odd that some people are all to eager to insert themselves in some works of fiction and mentally distance themselves in others. As a storytelling element, I would love to see it fleshed out better and developed into an actual narrative, instead of a cheap porn tactic.

Like everything it is white people at fault, Japan used to freely show dicks in its' porn, it wasn't until the Meiji Restoration (aka let's be a European colonial power) that porn was frowned upon. It got worse when America occupied the country and further stigmatized porn, but as we all know the power of boners would not be stopped. The desire to get around censorship laws that were put into place to copy western culture, plus a complete lack of understanding behind the reasoning of these laws, is why censorship in Japan is a mess of contradiction and nonsense.

I will make no effort in grandstanding by trying to defend my position by conjuring up some elaborate excuse, I simply like h-scenes because I'm a horny bastard. I've recently gotten allot of shit for rating some eroge higher than story centric visual novels on vndb. No, I don't think Funbag Fantasy has a better story than Kara no Shoujo, but they weren't aiming for the same goals. You can't rate a comedy on the same grounds as a action film, just as you can't yell at Stephen Hawking for being shit at baseball. I know that isn't what this topic is about, but I wanted to preemptively explain that before getting to the meat of the matter. The real question is how to feel about sex scenes in story focused visual novels. Well personally I like them, I'm the type of person that after becoming a fan of characters in fiction I look up fanfiction and doujin about them fucking. Having the porn in the source material beforehand is something I find incredibly convenient and a major time saver. Do I expect people to be fine with this? Absolutely not and I completely understand why people would dislike these elements in visual novels. Not everyone has a masturbation addiction to help deal with the condition known as "living", some people drink alcohol instead...... or they just like a great story to distract them from life. I find the question of whether "sex" can be used effectively as a narrative tool to be an interesting one. It's pretty common for people to cry out that an H-scene is "unrealistic", which always baffled me. We don't cry fowl when a FPS doesn't include a 40+ hour rehabilitation simulator after the player character is shot and no one complains that half of rom-coms don't end with a sloppy divorce. Fiction will always contradict reality on some level. I have never believed that a sex scene in any medium was "realistic" aside from Harry Turtledove books and quite frankly it kinda sucks. Realistic depictions of sex without dramatic flourishes are no different from depicting eating a meal or getting over a cold, it's just another boring part of life. Would I like more story centric visual novels with sex scenes integrated better in their plots? Absolutely, but as I stated before it's not that easy. Sex is a relatively boring act as a plot device, without going into FSN territory and inviting contrived reasons sex is required, it can only be used as a plot device in stories of youthful indiscretion, Romeo/Juliet rip-offs, and stories of jealously. In all three instances sex isn't even necessarily required and could be substituted with something else. Sex isn't as big as a deal as society makes it. Oddly enough I think the horrible act of rape is a much better plot device and something that society needs to be better and handling. This act of abject evil opens the door to a menagerie of storytelling opportunities, however if the writer isn't incredibly skilled and knowledgeable it will come across as a cheap shock tactic that is "trying too hard".

The guy in the middle reminds me allot of Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart. I think the art-style looks great, visually distinct from common visual novels and pleasing to look at.

As a collection of side stories or fables they are fine, good even, I think it was my misperception that it would be structured in a similar way to something like Rewrite that tainted the overall experience for me. If I knew beforehand that the routes would just be their own separate thing that went along with the main route and not building towards a grand finale I probably wouldn't have been as disappointed. Honestly though I really didn't care about the underlining themes, I read stories to escape reality, not to learn anything to benefit it . What really drew me into the main route was the character arc that Miyashiro Takuru goes through, how he changed and matured in response to the plot. As a character story about the loss of innocence I think the main route strives as a stand alone story.

Are the drop rates different in the NA version of Guda? I looked up the rates for tsukumos in the 10ap free quest and it shows that it drops in bunches of 6, but I have only got them in bunches of one. Also, anyone know which free quest is best to farm them?

Well I finished Chaos;Child and while I'm not angry with the rest of it, I am disappointed. The individual character routes are much weaker than the initial route, but they serve their purpose in giving more insight into the motivations and history of the characters. I didn't necessarily see this as a problem, I thought they were solid building blocks of what I expected to be a kickass true ending. Well, I saw the true ending and it turns out that wasn't the point. The true ending is basically a minor extension of the common route that focuses on solving a shock reveal that has little to do with the rest of the story. Worse yet, all the heroines that we spent time getting to know in the character routes are completely sidelined and the main heroine is just kinda loitering around and does nothing. It ends with a stone cold bummer, a first in the Sciadv series that loves pulling happy endings from thin air, regardless if the story deserves it or not. There are also several smaller issues that annoy me. It feels like the common route was the main visual novel and the other routes were suppose to be part of a separate side release, like Steins;gate Senkei Kousoku no Phenogram. Which would be one thing, but as a visual novel vet I expect the good stuff to be saved for the true ending and not the common route, especially with a big budget title like this. If the vn was $10-20 cheaper and only came with the common route it would be an easy 10/10 for me, but with the extra fat watering down the overall experience it goes down to a 7.5/10.

Fucking hell, I just finished the normal ending for Chaos;Child and currently I would rate it on par with Steins;Gate. It engaged in such way that I literally skipped a meal, because I didn't want to stop reading and I cried in such a way that hasn't happened since I first started reading visual novels. You know, when you start off with the cream of the crop with your Clannads, MuvLuvs, and Grisaias. Before you have to really shift the shit for anything palatable. It was like, "Oh fuck that's right, I'm a human being with emotions!!!" It's a fucking crime that this was jammed into 12 episodes and a movie and that it had to follow a..... less than stellar predecessor. Watch, the other endings will be garbage and completely ruin my experience.

Not ashamed to admit that I felt genuine fear tonight while playing Chaos Child. Twenty minutes into the game and I started to have a throbbing headache and chest pains. Needless to say, I will not be eating anything that requires a knife or fork to consume for the next week.

I'm sure I speak for everyone when I say, I feel your pain brother.

I swear to God Moriko Morioka from Net-juu no Susume is me if I was half a decade older and dickless.

Oddly enough that seems to be one of the few things that are not hugely exaggerated by anime/eroge. According to a BBC News article two Japanese high schools were polled and 70% of female students claimed to be sexually harassed. Granted it was nearly a decade ago, perhaps they have managed to rectify the issue somewhat by now.

Yume Miru Kusuri is definitely overrated, I did find Aeka route to be the most ridiculous. I understand that in Japan not making a fuss is part of the culture, train molestations run rampant when it should be a easily solved problem, but the amount of abuse that Aeka suffers is quite unbelievable. I honestly found the other two routes to be more enjoyable, with Mizuki being passable and Nekoko being pretty good.

You will pretty much collect all three star and below servants in no time if you regularly free-spin daily. Every players' first roll nets them a four star character, aka your Bathory. Currently in the NA version Elizabeth Bathory is the best Lancer. I have only been play since the NA release, so I don't know how much my tips are worth.. but here they are. - Grails are a pretty limited resource there is no way to generally farm them so only use them on your favorite servants. - Only spend saint quartz if you can do a full spin (30), you are guaranteed a four star card. - Don't expect to get a five star servant, like ever. The rate is 1% and while we are at it, don't expect a four star servant, their rate is 3%. - Log in daily to rack up rewards. - Save apples for events. - You can change your uniform (if you have different ones) on the Party Setup menu, it's the master equip button on the bottom left corner. - Read the Learning with Manga! it's fucking gold. http://fate-go.cirnopedia.org/comic.php#nav http://fate-go.cirnopedia.org/comic_02.php#nav

Not really, the various non-true endings are pretty short and token. Unless you are a big fan of the particular heroine there is nearly no substance to them.

I still need to read the vn, I barely made it past the initial intro before I had to stop. I know that the only point of it was to establish how fucking awesome the villains are, but it read like something written by a edgy teenager that just discovered anime.

Got the E ending for Nier Automata a while back and while I am happy with game overall, the final ending kinda pissed me off. I would much rather have ending D or C be the book end of the experience, they are infinitely more emotional and interesting endings. While I enjoyed the development with the pods, ending E feels like a rushed frantic attempt to give the game a happy ending. I would say it feels like a response to focus testing, but the "mechanic" to reach this ending is very bizarre and seems something that a crazy game director would deliberately put into the game.

Finally got a good (non-paid) roll for the Okeanos gatcha (EN), although like the Nero Fest it was a bit of journey. First two spins I got nothing decent except every freaking new CE and the regular faf, well at the very least I got a Hector. Seriously, though I know five and four star CE have a bit higher drop rate than their servant counterparts, but I swear I consistently get every single one of them in each limited gatcha. Anyways I had to do a little more grinding to get enough for another full spin, which neted me a Euryale, Anne/Mary, Chevalier, and three more Hectors for some reason. I didn't know the game did the fake-out thing, my Chevalier appeared to be a three star saber, pre-reveal, but gay exploded into a four star saber. I'm still trying to decide if that is a good natured prank or sadistic.

Really that's it? Seems like a standard case of poor communication that often comes from amateur projects like this. I am not saying it isn't a problem, but compared to some of the other vn kickstarter disasters it's relatively tame.

On my own personal scale I found that Hoshizora has the better story, Wagamama has better h scenes, and Koiken Otome is kinda in-between in both categories.

SG0 was more than adequate, considering that it was nothing but a collection of spin-off material re-purposed as a midquel. However, even if they reused existing properties they still had to do extensive rewrites and create new art assets for the game...... this, this is some next level lazy shit. I thought it was fucking joke. They may add some new content in, there is quite allot of the visual novel that didn't make it into the anime, but if they were..... why didn't they showcase that in the trailer? I get it 5pb, Robitics;Notes and the Chaos titles don't draw the same attention that SteinsGate does. I'm fine with working the name recognition into the ground, but you have to put effort into the product.

Huh, I didn't expect that much of a female audience with hentai. Other than that, no real surprises.

God is that depressing from a sociological standpoint. Although to me personally, I find it a dreadful waste of storytelling opportunities. Perhaps it is because I'm certainly toting several psychological disorders, but I find female characters with complex relationship history generally more interesting then virgins (and less annoying).

Another thing that never made any sense to me, the romanticization of virgins.

This is fake, but I have actually met several people like this on the internet.