MaggieROBOT

Actually Zombie Poltroon was the wild card! At least you have your iconic gloves!

SOMEONE STOP THAT LOLI!!! Since Shikomizue died and I'm not that narcissistic, I'm rooting for Poltroon! I can't wait for Zaka, Fiddle, Lesiak and me to appear, what if we even appear in the same week?

Confession: I think I spend way too much time in these forums that, if someone ever screams "Maggie!" irl, I'll probably turn my head and look around thinking someone's calling me.

Hey, welcome! What a nice story you shared with us! I second Code Realize recommendation, but only if british boys aren't ruined for you too And since I love some adult otome game too, I think I'll stalk... eer follow your project here, good luck! ^.^

I read the fan translation of the first game and I'm currently reading the official translation (the only one available, actually) of the second one, and I can say it's definetly a translation issue. I also played in the highest difficulty, but I had no such problems in the first game, maybe just once in the entire game, while I found myself shooting weak spots at random in the second one (two or three times already, and I'm just finished the 2nd trial) because I had no idea what was supposed to be the right answer. Damn, it's a shame the second one was localized before the patch was completed, the fan translation would be way better. That said, about your spoiler: 4th trial was my favorite. I was in the edge of my seat the entire time. Since this is a "what are you playing" thread, I'm playing Danganronpa 2 and damn, I found the first one kinda funny and cheesy most of the time, but 2 trials are kinda depressing... I'm liking it, but I came to laugh not to feel..........

AMEN AMEN! This and I add less characters that their moe trait is supposedly being insufferable dumb, less faceless MCs and less retarded harem tropes.

The translation is partial at the moment. 3 routes are fully translated (both subordinates and one neutral) and the 4th one (another neutral one) is at 90%. But the translator never found someone to insert the translation into the game in the form of a patch, so it was done with VNR user-submitted subs. I have the subtitle file, I can put it here with a guide like I did in the review of Sakuya later on.

Hey, what a cool post!! ^.^ I hope you get more opportunities to do interviews, it was such a good read! I agree with a lot of things that the developer said. When it comes to more obscure OELVN titles aimed for girls, when I see like 10 votes in VNDB I think "wow, a lot of people liked it, must be worth to check it out"! I do my part, but I wanted to see more feedback in VNDB honestly. And yeah, we already have enough games with chaste and innocent girls, keep being original!! And about the game, it seems like something I could enjoy, but I'll wait for possible future chapters. I prefer to read the entire story in one go. Like you said in the review, it's very hard to rate it otherwise. Cheers to Jackie M. too, and good luck with your VN!

It's not in the game per se, but in Karin's (the developer) official site. So yeah, it's an official artwork! Hahahaha, funny you said that when I didn't even mention the best part of it: they run some brothels, but there's not a single female prostitute in them, only guys and crossdressers. Gotta love these ideas!

Fun trivia: this game is the source of my blog's header. In the header, from left to right: Luca, Kiryu, Toudou, Tachibana, JJ, Azusa, Ugajin and Liu.

Sometimes, I want to pick a game with a setting that I'm not used to read about. It's good to try something different once in a while, right? Medieval, fantasy, steampunk and robot-infested future settings quickly catch my attention, but I need an extra push to try something more mundane, more post-apocalyptic or something like this game. Mafia stories. I understand about mafias as much as know about cars (as in: nothing, seriously I tell them apart by color), but the art was so pleasant to look at, so why not? Of course, the BL part was the other push. Good thing what awaited me was a cool and very badass game. Why Ugajin (glasses guy) is there with the heroes with locked routes? He must feel so important... The story follows our protagonist JJ (center in the above pic), a famous hitman that always do his job right. One day, he's given an assassination mission by the mafia that pretty much controls the region, King Caesar. Said mafia will probably start a war with the opposing mafia, Dragon's Head, soon, making the choice to involve himself with them a bit dangerous, but the job pays too well to be ignored. Too bad the wrong people were killed, the target escaped, JJ was blamed for all of it even if he did nothing wrong and and now the guys from the biggest mafia around are pissed off. To make things even worse, the wrong people that were killed happened to be the parents of one of our heroes, Azusa, and after he saw JJ in the crime scene he started to follow him around to find a chance to kill him. Wow, lots of things already happened and this is like 15 minutes into the game. The rest of the game also jumps to one action scene to the other with not very long parts of slow building up in between (some exceptions in certain routes), to keep you always entertained. The scenes are packed with regular gun fights with no absurd tricks or superpowers involved and the author makes the scenes longer giving us a lot of gun trivia. Since I only know about guns through Resident Evil games, I was a bit lost when sometimes the attacks were identified by ammunition and not by character mid fight, but I got the hang of it with time. In fact, the guns are so important that you'll notice that each hero weapon of choice kinda matches their personality. On the other hand, like a lot of action movies, it's not uncommon for you to be asking yourself "but what about the plot?". Calling it a charage is a lot of stretch, but each route in Omerta have it's own plot and half of the time it doesn't revolve around what happened in the prologue that I described. The intro sequence serves more to introduce the characters and to show you where JJ stands in this whole mess. And before you can pick your choices, he's pretty much avoiding both mafias and living with Azusa in his shadow. Better not to pick another snarky choice... Not having an overaching plot can be a bit disappointing for some people, but that's not a bad thing in the least! Having a very good amount of heroes (seven in total) with different alignment, the game gives you the opportunity of explore their life in this harsh world and take a look at both sides of the conflict. Your allies in one route are your enemies in another. I felt their portrayal were a bit too much black and white (one mafia is clearly portrayed as the good guys and the other as the bad ones), but some shades of gray in their morality are in fact present. As for the routes themselves, the game splits into three routes and only then it splits into the heroes. If you decide to ally yourself with King Caesar, you have tsundere boy Kiryu and seductive boss Luca. If you decide to go to Dragon's Head instead, you have manipulative Ugajin and the boss everyone fear Liu. And at last, if you decide to stay neutral, you have the blabbermouth Tachibana, the guy that knows well how the city works Toudou and our bratty cat-ears-haired Azusa. At first, Luca, Liu and Azusa's route are locked, but they only need a single playthrough to unlock. Order is also not enforced, so you can really read in the order you prefer. The only recommendation I give is to read the subordinates of each mafia before the bosses. And if you think that the prologue's arc is the closest thing to call a true route, let Azusa's route for last. Either way, there's one epilogue that takes things from most routes that is the Grand Ending (as the game itself calls it) of Omerta. The game didn't gave me a threesome route with these guys, and I'm still pissed The characters themselves are interesting even when some of them aren't exactly likable. This game is tagged with "Villainous Hero" in VNDB, after all. But if there's one character that steals the show, it's the protagonist. JJ is one badass guy in the action scenes, and he stays true to his "killing with no hesitation" nature for the vast majority of the novel. Even so, he's also caring and even a bit naive in the "slice-of-life" parts. Seriously, who would thought that a hitman could be this cute? Well, it makes some sense seeing that he's a dork who lived on the run most of the time. Not many opportunities for normal human interaction. The romance is done in an very uneven way. Of the seven routes, two follows the "MC was swept away by the hero's affection" pattern, one have more of a "close friends that also have sex with each other" vibe (that I liked a lot), one is the villain route so there's more pity than love there (also nicely done), one have that true canon hero vibe since the very beginning of the route so we could see the love already there somewhat and in the last two the romantic development was so fast that I almost thought that I skipped something by mistake. It's good to have some variation, but in at least two of those I felt the romance very unconvincing. Not that I was expecting epic and fluffy romance in a mafia story anyway. Althought I must say that I was very sad to not have a route with a particular side character... The H-scenes are very good. Like VERY GOOD. The art in it was so good, the voice acting was also very well done, there's some nice variation of positions (the CGs never felt recycled, just changing one of the guys) and the MC is bottom in some routes and top on others. H-scenes alone, of all the BL games I played, this one takes the prize for me. Of course, since most of the heroes (and the MC himself) are no saints, there's rape and dubious consent in spades in there and I felt quite bad about liking some of those CGs aaaaah, some of them used for threat and domination and not for "love" at least. While this is understandable in the setting, 80% of the time this is done to Azusa, that is the weakest guy, so it felt more like picking on the weak. Not cool. If you're planning to skip them without seeing even a glimpse of the CG though, unfortunately they're very randomly located in the game. Not that is hard to see one coming... most of the time. There's a PSP port that got rid of all the H-scenes, but, while it was more than welcome with some rape scenes and some replacements were even more gay than the original, if that was even possible, I kinda missed some of the best H-scenes (I have both version: read the PC one and skimmed through the PSP one). Stop hurting my precious cat boy please... The soundtrack is nothing special. The tracks were cool, but nothing really memorable. Voice acting was quite good, at least for the main characters and the side characters that had more screen time. I could listen to Luca's voice all day, Kiryu's tsun voice is just adorable and Ugajin have the same voice actor as Emiya Shirou from F/SN (and they sound exactly the same) so the H-scene was... funny to listen to say the least. Almost everyone that don't have a sprite have a cheesy or generic voice, but well, they are generic anyway. Despite all the problems, Omerta was a fun read and very badass. It's hard to make the MC the most likable character, but here they did a good job. Of course, maybe their portrayal of the mafia world is completely wrong, I wouldn't know any better, but eh, just enjoy this piece of entertainment. Because entertainment you can definitely find here. I hope to come back to review the fandisc, but I have to read it first... I can't wait to meet these boys again!

Yeah :mare:, they are so cool :sachi:, that I'm already used to type like this in every single place :notlikemiya:. rip

As I said in the thread Lesiak linked, I love RPG mechanics (the more the merrier) and hate minigames like "click in as many icons as you can before the time runs out to save the world" mobile shovelware like to pull. In fact, I bought Tears to Tiara 2 because of the RPG parts and in the end it was the only part that I liked lol

Let us all pray for Lesiak so he can be the first one in the next event. Anyway, nice pics!

The first is definetly true. Some lines just didn't flow very well and if you turned the Translation Notes on in game (I regret doing this, but I wanted to check what exactly they were making notes for), an explanation of the literal translations of kanji puns they made would appear every twenty minutes. I can't judge the second one because I didn't read it in japanese. I think some things in that description are explained only in Miki's route. That's like halfway through the game, not cool.

B-b-but this place still have the purpose of finding weeb friends without going outside!

There's no such thing as "wrong setting". Each game requires a different setting, just because a setting worked for a game it doesn't mean it'll work on another. You'll have to configure each new game you hook. Or are you talking about windows settings? What even is a "wrong windows setting"?????????? The question marks are probably a problem with the text thread, choose UTF16 then pick the right box with the right japanese text.

Wait a minute, in this game's first half the MC flips skirts and think about breasts every 2 seconds. I know this is super tame, but this type of thing even gonna fly with Moenovel, knowing them???

Derg, this is spot on, amazing! Shikomizue sure was cool!

Mayuki from Comyu: She was initially my favorite of the Babylon bunch, but her route dragged forever, adds nothing to the plot and I liked way more when she was just friends with Akihito, but loli pandering ew. Itsuki from Nurse Love: Okay, that one is totally my fault. I left her route for last expecting something amazing and it ended up being the weakest route of the game for me. In fact, that happens with every single "true route" that fails to meet my expectations (Itsuki's is not a true ending, but it's the same feeling).

The one and only BL VN that is amazing tier for me is Shingakkou ~Noli me Tangere~ The plot is horror-themed and nicely executed, the characters are very well written, the romance development have a pleasant pacing, okay, enough fanboyism

> Also, Boys Love is necessary (Totally not added by the guy who posted this) Oh well, that really can improve a VN Joking aside, of the 7 VNs I gave a 9 (that for me is best of the best since I don't give a 10 to anything because nothing is perfect), only one was BL. It's actually quite hard to find an amazing BL VN, most of the ones I read are 8 or 7 tier (of course, this score is for someone that likes the genre). But of course I like them, I never found a BL VN that had the one thing I absolutely hate in VNs: hours and hours of pretentious philosophical bullshit narration.

Interesting characters, gripping plot, all routes (if not a linear game) must be balanced (as in one route is not clearly better than the other apparently lazily made ones). Not really what I look for first but it also helps if the game have a good voice acting and the h-scenes aren't over long that it overstay it's welcome.

I wonder... can love bloom in the battlefield? I love some foe yay.

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