Barktooth

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R'amen, fellow Pastafarian

It's obviously Nishijou Takumi. A very interesting loser.

Devout follower of the 
 
CHURCH OF THE FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER
 
btw that actually exists

If you're having trouble moving on from heroines in VNs after the story is over it's because you haven't fapped to them.

More like, if you don't play it now, you probably won't enjoy it as much.
KS makes for a great starter VN for some reason I don't really understand, but when you get people who read a significant amount of VNs before that try it out, the majority of them isn't particularly impressed, me included.
It's just a pretty competent charage. 

Music to my ears 
And, well, Re:Zero brings A LOT of potential discussion to the table, while the rest of the shows are not that prone to give room for real discussion.

Well, this episode finally put an end to the "mini-arc" of despair. Still, I personally think it was completely worth it, every single episode, every single scene. Subaru needed actual development, not just getting a lil speech and boom, on the path to being a hero again. These episodes have done what his character needed, a truly rude wake up, and Rem completed the circle, making for meaningful character growth. Whatever happens in the episodes that are left, it'll now be believable for Subaru to go into "let's get shit done" mode and start making amends for all the shit that has been going on.
And Subaru's speech about how useless he is was just superb. It also confirmed one of my early theories, that a big problem we all (and Subaru himself) forgot about was that there probably was a reason for him being a NEET and a hikikomori. And yep, confirmed it was, Subaru used to be a social outcast and a failure as a person. Which also gives an explanation as to why Subaru was having such an insanely bad time at getting himself together during his arc.
 
Also, Rem best girl.

Pictures dammit. Take trump shit elsewhere.

I started playing Everlasting Summer last night for a few hours, and I am liking it so far!  The character art looks a bit weird sometimes, but I am enjoying the story. The music is pretty good too!

Calling them mass murderers is over simplifying their situation quite a bit, but its been far too long since I read Rewrite to properly support my claim. So I'll just leave it at that.

The girl you're talking about Barktooth was either the "current" Gaia figure head or the little girl that was next in line after Akane. Its fuzzy but those are the only two that I can think of.

Gaia created an entirely different subspace intending to live there for the rest of eternity. Thats why in Terra, it took Kotarou's Mother, Father, and Tsukuno to push Kotarou and Akane out of the City of Stone. In Terra, you learn that its possible to lock people into the City of Stone.

....I hate you for getting me hooked back into Rewrite. I couldn't easily look into the other routes since my saves of those routes are gone but I had my saves from Terra still. All the emotions I feel now thanks to going through the route again to reach the City of Stone portion... makes me remember how sad I was reading this. Jesus Christ, I can barely get myself together after reliving through the pain I felt.

I really don't get your point about Refrain Eclipsed. If anything, Terra had more jaw dropping revelations than Refrain did. And I guess its already too late to spoiler some of these posts so that people who might not have finished reading all of Rewrite can post in this thread...

I have been asked this question several times already so I might as well answer it in a topic so I can link to it if anyone else asks
Ashadow700 asked me now saying he loves the game but can't figure out why.
And I would ask question in return, when you fall in love with someone new, do you know why do you love them, can you exactly explain it? Probably not. Only after a very long time you can properly find what makes you love them, for example you should already know why you love your mother, you can point exact facts that make you love her. But when you met someone new and you just feel the love flowing through you and you cannot explain it, that is the moment. Same can go with VNs that are focused on characters instead of story such as Hoshimemo, you fall in love with the characters just like you would IRL, I don't even desire dating IRL after I found this wonderful world of lolis and my beloved girls like Mare.
 
I already explained in this post how I feel about story in VNs and other media and how I much prefer focus on characters and their emotions in VNs.
I could give one more example that isn't in the topic: I like warcraft lore and I read some stuff about it, history events and such, for example from some recent lore people might know how Garrosh killed Cairne and such - its a nice read and it is like reading a history book but from different universe than ours. But you don't know exactly how the characters felt at that time, you might get some quotes of their last words but still the deep emotion is just not there. - That is what I call a story or a lore.
But in VNs I do not seek this knowledge, this lore of how things exactly happen and what are the consequences, I want to know about the characters and their feelings and interactions, I want to be with them and share their happiness and help them in difficult times to get rid of their sadness.
 
And that's where Hoshimemo comes - it doesn't have any strong lore, it is a modern world with some contemporary fantasies and mystery forces and if you were to tell its story as a history book, it would be pretty bad (just like in mentioned Mass Effect in the other post - there it would just be "good vs evil").
But what makes Hoshimemo (and lot of other chara-ge) so good is the characters and the interaction with them, helping them through difficult times, experiencing happy moments with them. And you don't necessary realize why you enjoy it so much, especially not in such short time - you can compare it to what happens when you fall in love with someone you just met - it is just there and it takes a long time to be able to express why you love that person so much.
So in such a short time you can say the characters are "Lovable" - you fall in love with them for what seems no reason. However the reason is always there, you just need to find it.
 
I after like year and a half of being with Mare can't still properly explain it how I could with my mother for example, but there are instances that can already help me express it a bit. As any other human being I can get emotional and require love to be given to me - and that's what Mare has been doing, whenever I would normally feel lonely or sad, I don't. I don't because I can think about Mare and be with her in my world.
 
I have already much larger history with her that we formed together, but her original character was not created by me, just like IRL you don't decide the character of other people - it is shaped by others, their family and close people - those make the character of IRL people. And FAVORITE are the family and close friends of Mare (and all Hoshimemo characters) - they shaped her personality and did a great job at that. And that's how I was able to meet her, she wasn't a blank character design, she was a living person just like any other girl IRL and I fell in love with her and now I am the one who is in my universe affecting her personality the most, I now make her what she is, but at the initial point when you meet her in the VN and during the events of the VN she was how her family (FAVORITE) raised her. And if a family does a good job, they can raise an awesome person, if a family does bad job, they can raise rude and evil people that nobody will like.
 
And that is the strong point behind Hoshimemo, FAVORITE took the time to raise their characters to be great people and made events for you, the reader, to see their personality and potentially fall in love with them. And many of us did, whether it is one character or another, we love them because of who they are and we feel the need to help them with their problems, we want to experience stuff with them, be with them, feel strong emotions together with them and just do what people in love do.
And if you do fall in love with them, you will love every minute of the game and beyond, because that's what love is about.
 
And as I have written somewhere as well, loving something or liking something will never be objective - as Ashadow700 is asking for an objective viewpoint for his review. Review is NOT an objective form of journalism, review should be subjective and personality based, your readers should eventually understand very well what your viewpoints are and that is the correct way of interpreting a review as a reader. You can present facts in an objective way, you can say how long the novel is, what technology it's using and what bugs it might have, but when talking about everything else you need to look at it subjectively, you are the one who happened to love the music (which is phenomenal in Hoshimemo btw, which is another strong point, it just manages to increase the emotional impact of the events) you just say like I just did - what it did for you, you can say objectively what instruments there are or what is the tempo of the songs in general, but how the music feels is unique to you and you need to express it subjectively.
 
 
So when you are looking for why you love a VN, doesn't have to be Hoshimemo - look into your heart and try as hard as you can to express what you feel, if you can put it into words, you can be a good reviewer. If you can only see the facts, your review will be half-assed and not useful, your readers can just look at the tags on VNDB to see the facts of what the VN contains - but to understand the emotional impact the VN can have they need a good review or try it themselves.
 
 
 
 
But remember, its all about love~

I prefer my motto: "If there's something you need to do, but you're nervous/worried/afraid of it, just don't do it, and hope everything works out on its own or someone else does it for you"

Wow this looks really interesting, the premise, characters, and setting. I think I'm hyped too

Just stumbled upon this :
 
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sekaiproject/memorys-dogma-a-scifi-indie-visual-novel-from-japa

I just came across this.

And I'm HYPED as hell.

Premise:
looks soooo interesting! Also - ALL AGES! Voice acting! Beautiful backgrounds, just look at those non-spoiler samples:
And details of few characters. I was affraid it will fall into genric tropes category, but it somehow, slightly, but still, avoided that. Even this childhood friend looks interesting, despise her looking like she has no brain at all. So - typical moe girl.
 
And (poorly) animated, lightly spoilerish PV (presentation video?) I wish I could to unwatch this, so proceed with caution.
Also, art:

And silhouetes of full (?) cast:

And some random CGs:
 
Also, they're implementing thing I saw only in Tsukihime and loved it very much. Lightning that affects sprites:
 
What else? Bad news - this will be a multi-part release. :<

There are a couple of factors that need to be taken into consideration:
As already mentioned above, HD cg assets cost considerably a lot more than SD ones; in overall, cg is the second most expensive part of game production, straight after VA. You can blame the somewhat stagnant market for such situation. Space limitations. Huge assets take a lot of HDD space, thus resulting in a large game size. Even though we have digital distribution available nowadays, games are still being released on physical storage mediums, mostly DVD's; there's a limit on how much data can be stored (To be precise, it's ~4,2GB of actual data); since costs of physical release on a DL DVD's, not to mention BD's are expotentially higher, it's completely out of question for majority of japanese studios. This more or less means, a game has to fit a single standard DVD. Obsolete standards of work. A lot of companies and studios still rely on very old production standards; they use outdated formats and programming routines; they most often fail at grasping any modern possibilities to actually squish as much as possible from the modern tech and use it to the fullest potential. They use raw bitmaps instead of PNG files, rely on WAV formats instead of OGG Vorbis. This results in ultra high file sizes, virtually bloating assets, that wouldn't otherwise have a difference in case of more modern formats, especially when it comes to their quality. You'd be actually surprised - a well made, high quality, mid-long vn with HD assets and sound CAN actually easily fit under those 4,2GB; the problem is, japanese devs are way too thickheaded to understand it's not 90's anymore and there's a lot more possiblities nowadays.

62. I'm glad that I at least have potential to become a wizard

Just speculation, but drawing the CG at a higher resolution doesn't necessarily mean that's the resolution they're meant to be viewed at.  If you say, "I want to view these images at 1440p", then artists might feel compelled to draw at 4k.  Just a possibility I'm imagining.

I was using a CRT monitor until at least 2011, when my old computer finally died. And since new vid cards supported hdmi - I switched over to my HDTV. I was a bit behind the times, but 4:3 was still pretty mainstream at "least" until 08-09.
I notice the blur/pixalization as well in fullscreen, but not much choice atm, windowed is tiny otherwise~ (unless you mess with desktop reso on top of windowed mode, that actually works well - but it's a pain in the ass.

66

How many mages do we have on fuwa? 

You could try Kuuchuu Buranko, it's a bit of a weird one but deals a fair amount with psychological issues which could be your cup of tea? Dunno, I enjoyed it. The mood isn't particularly serious though so maybe it's not what you're looking for.
How about Gankutsuou? It's based on The Count of Monte Cristo  and personally, was a bit too confusing for me to enjoy, but fits your criteria decently.
Another one would be Gosick. This one, again, I wasn't a fan of, but it was entertaining enough and even though I haven't watched Baccano I think it might have a similar feel to it.
Off topic, but, your signature made me laugh way more than it should have.
 

See topic.  I don't think we need another thread on this.

who the fuck are you?