Okarin

I'm in the anti-School Days club. Latter episodes are WTF. My records say I watched it on 2009, years prior to getting into VN world, and without knowledge about the work and its VN origins. But the conclusion of the story kinda disturbed me. Other people love it though.

Well I played one route of Rewrite, and it ruined the character for me. I was better off when I knew little of her. The route had interesting things but too many twists and by the end I was hoping for it to be over once and for all. You shouldn't spoil the Key ingredient, you should go play your Key game of choice and if you like it, then go try some other. Oh! No one mentioned that Key's humour can kill some people and it's not for everyone. Sometimes it's just cringeworthy.

"Key formula" is difficult to explain sans spoilers; but you play any game and it's sort of repeated through all of them. More different game could be Rewrite, which is also the most recent. But it does maintain the heavy fantasy elements, and I can't tell about the ending because I haven't finished it.

Only thing I can say, is that Key's novels come packed with heroines (usually 5 and up) and that it's very hard for any novel, Key or not, to keep quality and a diverse audience hooked for the entirety of the routes. Tl; dr you'll like some routes and probably dislike or be overly neutral to others. Also tropes apply, so it can't be helped that some characters score with you and others don't.

True, I tend to forget. I tend to view Maeda as Key's taskmaster, and it doesn't always apply.

Yeah, he's only been repeating Kanon's idea for what, a decade and a half? True that Rewrite (and some other works, such as Planetarian) deviates from that model. But hoping for him to write a "realistic" plot is just insane. He's proven he's very comfortable with heavy fantasy elements in the plot. It's just not his style to write a Metal Gear Solid, but who knows, with all that special agent crap from Rewrite...

Why not play a game that appeals to me? Who cares if it's OELVN or not? Pity is that most OELVN are just hurried trash. Oh, but that happens a lot with most videogames of any sort.

Maeda army, assemble!

I'm watching Space Dandy. The "gentooan" was a reference to Gentoo Linux? XD And does this girl have the same VA than Psycho Pass' Akane Tsunemori, or just my imagination?

Religion and culture quirks are bound to come up in a thread that has "East vs. the West" on its title.

Oh. So you weren't talking about eating squid an so...?

Well you can pick some inspiration from Zootopia when it launches next week. I see some things in common... in a way, Zootopia already is a critique to modern ways (probably America itself). The movie has many themes though.

You ought to do some explaining.

I hear Kanon was pretty big in the years following its release... it's kinda big even after all this time. I may even have heard of it, but since I knew nothing of VNs I couldn't grasp it. I remember hearing about Girlfriend of Steel (a forgettable game), since I was an Evahead, and it featured on a local magazine about manga fandom. In that age of yet-to-be-full-blown internet, this kind of material was a dreamy thing. Ever 17 was the previous decade's Katawa Shoujo, since it was coveted and praised all over this side of Greenwich meridian. Japanese fans had Never 7, but it only became a full blown thing with this entry, and still stretches into the present with Zero Escape. Praise Uchikoshi. In 2004 a fellow student showed me about Divi-dead. It probably had some popularity back then to end up on my hands. But reconstructing the past is never easy work.

Uchikoshiverse and derivatives, like Killer Queen, though I hear it's shit. Or I/O. Or Root Double when it releases, what a magnificent mindfuck it will be.

Pretty much the same I'd say. I like porn that portrays my fantasies. There's still room for making them real someday. There are some things it's dubious I end up trying, but they're so hawt. Also we have to keep in mind the "limitations" and quirks of 3D.

Okay, I'll try to answer seriously, so here goes. Provided it was actually physical and not psychological (most issues related with dysfunctions are of the mind), your girlfriend is in for a treat, I don't mean to be crude, but you can let her finish first, and since she'll be grateful for the pleasure she received, the least she could do is keep at it until you're satisfied also. I personally consider it worse to be a premature shooter. It's harder if you're both teens, but for adults every hurdle can be overcome -with work and mutual push.

Does the relationship with Kimi ga Nozomu Eien go beyond the name?

My words were very clear, and didn't involve your person in any way, since I don't know shit about you. It's strange that you took them personally. I was talking about misanthropy, and gave out an example (Black Metal retards, where being "evil" is applauded). And indeed it isn't a cool thing, as you yourself agree ("I doubt the sanity of someone who admires my qualities" or something). Just don't expect to be taken too seriously. Like I guess no depression patient runs a successful enterprise. A person saying people = shit shouldn't be taken too seriously. Besides it's almost always just angst. As Barney says - "when I'm sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead."

Misanthropy isn't a cool thing. If you disagree, just go turn yourself into a Black Metal kid.

Rooke, Dragon Age 2 was the coup de grace. Tremendously shitty game.

Religion is positive as long as it gives you strength on your daily life, and in life's ordeals. Like any other thing, to be sure. I've long realized that religion by itself doesn't make a person better of worse: bad people will crook it and good people will be good with or without it. This explains why there are immoral priests and honest laymen. About the supernatural, no one really knows, and pretending otherwise is just arrogant. But you can believe what you choose to. Gender equality... meh, the same women who could bash eroge are the same who demand (or would really like to have) improbable partners with long hours of gym, salaries in the thirty thousands, and incapable of feeling stressed, or so much as being wrong.

@Fred the Barber: Mass Effect 1 doesn't "prominently" feature sex. You spend the game romancing your chosen love interest from among 2 girls if I'm right, and that is altogether optional. Then, before the climactic final battle, you have some intimacy with your girl, and the *single* sex scene in the game happens. Of course, with Bioware having been accused of blatant SJW militancy in some internet dens, there's the reasonable option of being a girl MC and romancing men. I consider Mass Effect 1 to be a mediocre game, and don't want to be involved with its sequels, but that's an altogether different discussion, dealing with Bioware's stagnation and so. @Funyarinpa: religion is neutral if taken in moderation, it can even be a good thing for kids (to make them inclined to good and moral behavior). Religious person =/= bigot. Also, I'm not buying the argument that religion makes us embarrassed and guilty about sex. I was from primary education to high school in a religious school ran by priests (but the regular teachers were secular civilians), and my interest on sex developed naturally. Nobody was checking in on us to see what we thought about it. Anyway, what I wanted to say is that too much freedom isn't good, at least without information. Sex *should* be discussed openly, since accidental pregnancies and STDs are a very real possibility. Very young people could put their urges before the risks, and that isn't good. Also, young people need other things to focus on *besides* sex. About VNs perceivedly being for losers and all that... well, there are a bunch of "failed males" who can't get girlfriends (and the same is true for women I suppose), so once again, hiding the fact won't do any good to any party. Once again, aside from the fact that sex is beneficial and worthy, we find that there are more things in life besides it. It's all the more stupid when you find hikikomori that play regular videogames bashing hikikomori that play VNs. We should aim to include, not exclude.

Would buy, but will it get to every corner of the world?