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To be honest, one of the things Steam Prison did right was not giving a route to Fin. The other Mangagamer announcement seems cool though.

Nice! I played the fan-translation of the first (zeroth?) part soon after finishing the main game, and it was actually pretty good.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's what happened in that scene, and it was foreshadowing her route.

Mostly I just realized that, compared to the popular science, the real science is actually pretty boring. When I'm spending weeks to look for a single small mistake in my own work, or attending another boring and useless seminar, it makes me fell that I hate this whole thing and want to have nothing to do with it anymore. Then, the next day, I learn some interesting fact, and then I'm in love with science again.

Well, it would be ideal if you also played Kimi ga Nozomu Eien and Kimi ga Ita Kisetsu first, since some of the characters from these games appear in Muv Luv, but I wouldn't really say it's very important, and neither of these games are available in English yet. Pretty much all the other games from the series are meant to be played after you finish Alternative (and they are just spin-offs and you can just skip them if you want). The first game is pretty meh on its own, especially its first part, Muv Luv Extra, but you still should play it first. Like I said in my previous post, Alternative just doesn't work as well if you skip the first game. Many reasons, really. Plot, action, wordbuilding, character development. It's also one of the most emotional VNs I've ever experienced, and even Key games pale in comparison.

Yes. It introduces the characters and sets up the scene for some plot developments and twists in Alternative. You can theoretically skip to it if you absolutely hate the first two parts, but Alternative simply doesn't work as well if you don't finish Extra and Unlimited first.

If it was really a problem with voices localization, wouldn't they rather make it a US only release rather than specifically blocking the EU?

Hmmm... Spoilers? I guess?

Wait, isn't this whole medium one big joke to begin with?

Yeah, but hasn't it been 5 years since they confirmed it for the last time or something? As for the translation quality, honestly, I don't remember much about it. Unlike the main game, it was done by fan-translators, and I seem to recall that it was better, but maybe it's just my low standards.

To be honest, I don't really remember how long it was. I'm pretty sure it's shorter than the main story chapters though. Edit. I don't think it was shorter than two hours, but I doubt it was much longer than that.

@Seraphim88 By the way, ideally I would recommend to read Saikoroshi-hen from Higurashi Rei right after finishing the main Higurashi series. I wouldn't really call it a requirement, but it gives the proper closure to the character development of The problem is that, even if it does have a fan translation available, there's a chance that Mangagamer will retranslate it. At least, originally they were planning to translate the whole PC release of Higurashi Hou, which includes Rei. I'm not sure if the plans are still valid though.

Well, I kind of thought about replaying the game from the very beginning to see some parts that I probably misunderstood in my first playthrough. I still haven't decided if I'm really going to bother with that, but if I do, I can send you my save files from just before I get to

I googled it, and yeah, apparently, it can happen. The only choice is to delete the save file and start from the very beginning.

Whoa, really? Maybe it's some bad ending that none of us encountered...