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Oh, god, Phantom is a pain in the ass to play. Enjoy passwords.

Also, damn is this game pretentious lol. You could make a drinking game out of the "red color", the castle of glass, and the other oh-so-deep thoughts of Akihito.

Browsing VNDB. I had played a few VNs until then, and I was looking for a new one. Then I noticed that I hadn't played Muv Luv Alternative, which is pretty high on the rankings, and the rest is history.

If you liked Ever 17 so much, then play 999 (closest thing to it), Remember 11 (same team, less slice of life and darker, but the ending is inconclusive) and Never 7 (weakest of the 3 games, but still a good read) If you have a vita or 3DS, play Virtue Last Reward too.

Looking forward to Eden*, Euphoria and Fata Morgana!

Playing Kagome's route now. Sadly, Akihito is almost as stupid as he was during Benio's route. And the high-school level "deep thoughts on the world" bit gets grating after a bit, but I guess that's the genre's fault, not just this game's.

Just finished Mayuki's route. Despite being lighter in tone than Benio's, I liked it a lot more. I think it's because it gets to the point way faster, but more than that, because I didn't have to deal with the MC's grimderp thoughts every 2 dialogue boxes in this one ("I'm thirsty, so I buy a soda from a nearby vending machine. I SEE TEH RED!!!1!1!") or Benio's stupidity.

Yup. Alternative Chronicles is fixing the translation, and we're going to release adoration too, but at a later date. See http://alternativeprojects.wordpress.com/

I prefer shorter common routes, the faster they get to the point, the better. But if there is some plot going on (like in comyu,) then I can deal with a longer common route. Grisaia was too much, 5 hours would've been fine, but it was 25 hours of doing fucking nothing at the school, with no plot to speak of. I liked the characters, but their interactions grew tiresome after so much time, and they tended to play up the same aspects, all the time (yes, Michiru's really, really blond. Got it the first 25 times.) that they stopped being unique. Fuck, if they're gonna spend 25 hours doing nothing, at least change it up a bit, make the characters go somewhere, have some "event of the week" to deal with, I dunno...

Easiest way would be to get a version of MLA that's supported by AFHook (a program that's really easy to use and that works with the Muv Luv Alternative Chronicles games) Probably one of the newest japanese versions would work.

Finished Benio route. He sees the red... a lot. Like, a hell of a lot. Hope the other routes are better.

The other routes are the point, I guess.

Weird ass sci-fi? Sorta like Ever 17 and Remember 11, anyway.

Second YU-NO, it's old and sometimes it shows (there's this sequence where you have to click over 50 times to proceed... ah, old school adventure games) but the plot is great. Mystery, for 3/4 of it. Then, you get an epilogue where the author explains everything. Doesn't resemble I/O at all, imo. Also, Aselia's plot is pretty good too.

One is about Marimo's backstory, back when she was in training, and the other is about one of Captain Izumi's sisters, who was in the battle of Sadogashima and has a pretty bad case of PTSD. Basically, it's what would happen to a regular eishi (aka not Takeru and his epic meltdown) if they survived a very close call with the BETA.

Ayu-Mayu Alternative, which comes with two Muv Luv Alternative side stories. The two side stories were pretty good, the main game...not so much.

Are you planning on playing the whole trilogy in one go? Then MLE. After all, Never7 is the weakest of the infinity series, even though it's still good, and certainly better than MLE. But what you get after MLE will be more than worth it.

Emiya Shirou. He's a fucking idiot for 90% of F/SN. And F/SN is quite long.

BTW, no new stories in Photon Flowers/Melodies. Just collecting stuff that's scattered in the chronicles series and fandisks.

Remember 11 is sci-fi, mystery and has a pretty dark atmosphere, I think you'd like it. Ever 17 is better, though the atmosphere isn't that dark (even if the characters are in a pretty dire situation) If you like action, Hanachirasu and Kikokugai are pretty good. Both feature revenge as a motivation for the plot.

Well, that's why I said that if he's really pressed for time, Extra is skippable. Because it's a generic romcom (plus lacrosse.) Also, I gotta disagree, while a lot of the stuff that was foreshadowed in Extra was kinda cool (say, Yuuko's physics exam question, for example,) I don't think you lose that much by skipping it. I did play all of the routes on my first time, and if I had to do it again, I'd ctrl-skip my way through Sumika and Meiya. You'll get the information (Ayamine) or the character development (Tama) sooner or later, anyway. And Altered Fable makes extra look worse. Because it manages to be actually funny in some parts... and there's no lacrosse.

Well, if you're really, really pressed for time, you could ctrl-skip Extra, since it's just a generic romantic comedy (did I mention that it's generic? because it is) without missing much and jump straight to Unlimited, which you pretty much need to play to get the most out of Alternative and it is kind of interesting on its own. But you should play Alternative, as far as translated VNs go, this is the best of the bunch.

Like many said before, Symphonic Rain and Planetarian. Start her with Planetarian, it's pretty short. If she likes mystery novels and is ready to read a lot (like really, a lot) Umineko has a great cast, and its female characters are pretty well written.

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