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    Would you still continue reading VNs if, starting from today, all H-scenes were banned?

    in Visual Novel Talk

    Posted · Edited by Ashley Horizon

    Well, the last time a famous company tried to do this, they almost went bankrupt. So, it's not gonna happen anytime in the near future. 

    My answer is I probably will stop reading charage and moege if that happen. Personally, I love a well-written h-scene with good romance (tone work's is my favorite). And I by no means  want this to happen at all. Like, how are you supposed to tell a love story while it's going through 3 stages: high school, university, and real life without any h-scenes ? 

     

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    4 hours ago, Kaguya said:

    And to finish up, a Senshinkan song. Absolute despair. Embrace the edgyness, I love it.  

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    The reason why I translated the prologue of Senshinkan Hachimyoujin to my native language is solely due to this epic track. It gave me chills the first time I read. 



     

    Differences between Dies Irae all ages and +18

    in Visual Novel Talk

    Posted · Edited by Ashley Horizon

    2 hours ago, SeniorBlitz said:

    Is there any choice differences between them?

    As far as I remember there is a choice to have an h-scene with Kasumi or not around chapter 3 in 18+ version.

    Amantes Amentes (All Ages ver) is the definite version covering full story. 18+ ver is basically Acta Est Fabula with the option to switch to 16:9 (full CG, original AEF is 4:3) like AA but doesn't have another final ending in Rea's route and 5 extra stories.  

    Enemy Heroine and Protaganist Romance

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    Posted · Edited by Ashley Horizon

    2 hours ago, Clephas said:

    Sorry to say but the moment you said 'English Translated' you pretty much eliminated all the candidates.  It would be different if the translation of the original Shugotate had been completed (the true heroine is an enemy), but that project failed years ago.  (  https://vndb.org/v370 ).  The path you want isn't translated, unfortunately.

    Isn't Dies Irae fit this category ?There is Ren and Kei.

    Edit: Nevermind, he said romance is the key element. That is certainly not Dies Irae. 

    Dies Irae Questions (SPOILERS)

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    2 hours ago, Clephas said:

    Answers in the box below (from Japanese version)

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    1.  Lotus, Mikhail, and the others who would make up the base for Makina and Ren were taken to the arena and forced to fight one another using the power of sacred relics until only one remained (a version of the kodoku ritual in Japanese sorcery).  The survivor, a mix of Mikhail and Lotus's personalities (though Mikhail won, technically), became the Makina who was eventually made into the color Black by Reinhardt.  Later on, Mercurius split the two parts of Makina's personality - one that took joy in the moment and one that just wanted it all to end - into two massive souls, with the former becoming the base for Ren when mixed with an element drawn from Mercurius and the latter becoming the Makina who faces off with him in the main game.   Lotus's soul went along and became the base for Ren and can be considered to be his spiritual 'lineage'... and that is also why he can touch Marie without dying.  Lotus's spiritual lineage is necessary to be able to touch Marie (because of whom he is descended from). 

    2.  Mercurius wants an end to the cycle he created, but he wants Marie to become the goddess of the world that comes after him, seeing in her a potential for greatness and wonder that he himself never possessed.  He does love her, deeply, intensely, and with an insane fervor.  He sees the fulfillment of that love in being destroyed by her embrace.  Sort of like the ultimate masochistic fantasy, lol.

    3.  Ren and Rea knew that the only way to make Reinhardt figure out just where Mercurius lay was by awakening him to his original desires (which were worn by the spiritual knowledge of how many cycles have been repeated, transmitted from Mercurius), and their goal was to have them fight until only one remained, weakened enough for Marie to usurp him.  In the alternate ending, Ren decides to fight as well, but the end result remains more or less the same.  On his own, Reinhardt has a tendency to get wrapped up in the moment, fighting the interesting opponent before him without care for anything else because of his original desire, which is love that is destruction.  As such, Ren and Rea deliberately chose a tactic which was underhanded and wasn't likely to make him hot with a lust for battle (thus allowing him to make a clear-headed recognition of his desire and his self, as well as the fact that Mercurius lay deeper inside the singularity). 

    4.  Reinhardt cannot defeat Mercurius, precisely because he is Mercurius's apostis, born from Mercurius himself and thus fundamentally weaker.  His defeat was a foregone conclusion of any one-on-one contest between them.  He and Ren were both granted artificial divinity by Mercurius (through differing means), and if Mercurius dies they cannot exist as gods, and they are thus incapable of taking the throne under their own power without unusual circumstance to intervene (such as the events in KKK).  This all basically ensures that, regardless of who wins, Marie becomes the goddess of the new world, though it is Mercurius's preference that he be the victor, thus allowing him to consummate his 'relationship' with her. 

    5.  Schreiber is consumed with conflicting desires to never be touched and to be embraced by a mother figure.  It is made worse by the fact that his own father gouged out his eye and eye-screwed him, and his mother castrated him so she could sell him as a prostitute.  He kept thinking of himself as a girl after the castration because he wanted to please his mother, but after he was called a boy, the delicate balance he'd formed after the castration throughout his days as a prostitute broke and he went completely psychopath.

    Edit: lol, this will be my last edit.  This regards Schrieber... Schrieber, in the Japanese version, refers to the client who gouges out his eye as his father, but it is unclear if this is the literal truth, since he is bugfuck insane.  His mother having been a prostitute herself, it is pretty clear he probably didn't know who is actual father was.

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    Keep in mind that Mercurius is a 'natural-born' deity, an individual who rose to godhood through his own inherent power.  Part of his goal in Dies Irae (a necessary step) was to force Marie to invert from a 'gudou' deity to a 'hadou' deity through contact with Reinhardt after bonding with Ren.  When Marie's nature as a deity is turned inward (gudou), she represents eternity.  However, when it is turned outward, she becomes the cycle of reincarnation and an incarnation of motherly compassion.  Mercurius saw this potential in her early on, and it was that potential that caused him to fall for her. 

     

    Just one more

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    On some of the Japanese forums I sometimes lurk in, one of the popular theories is that Ren, if he had chosen, could have remained himself in the world Marie created, but because he didn't have the romantic love for her (his love being directed to Rea) he chose to discard his power as a deity.  This is actually fairly typical of Ren, since his love is for 'normal, peaceful days' rather than the abnormal.   I described the accepted theory above, but Light and Masada have never actually come out and said it outright.  Also, you should keep in mind that the paths are in a literal chronological order of Kasumi>Kei>Marie>Rea... all the events in the game happened, but only Mercurius remembers (and even his memories are fragmented).   To be clear, the reason Rea's path occurs is because Marie's world of multiple deities didn't eliminate Mercurius, and when it collapsed Mercurius reset things before disaster could take everything (I'm deliberately not spoiling the exact cause of the collapse).  KKK is based off of an alternate history where he failed to reset things before disaster occurred (as a basic rule, two full hadou deities cannot exist in the same universe at once without eventually coming into conflict and one being destroyed/consumed by the other). 

    Edit: To append one more bit to the first part of this box, the reason the first theory I gave is the accepted one is because it comes from what Ren said at the last during Rea's alternate ending.

     

    Thank you for your information. That helps me very much.z

    The truth is when reading Dies Irae, I took break between routes and started exploring some of Masada/Light VNs. After reading the Trial of KKK, Vendetta, Trinity, Soushuu senshinkan Hachimyoujin..They all gave the same impression of Masada/Light style: starting with some information about the theme of that VNs (for example Dies Irae with recurrence, Vendetta with the meaning of victory) or forshadowing (Trinity, SSH). And the way they present the information is so hard to follow. I kind of getting lost in the middle way and have to re-read some parts (not sentence) two or three times to fully understand it. That's why I don't have confidence in my understanding of Dies Irae despite finishing it. The characters also have many layers of development that require a good amount of effort to truly appreciate it.

    Another two question related to Dies Irae. 
     

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    About Lisa's past. After failing killing so much, she decided to use her own womb.
    My question is Did she lay bed with more or only two men who are the father of Isaak and Johann ?
    Another one is the time she laid with Reinhard is when Mercurius faked his death and she used Palida Mors on his corps. That's why he did not remember the father of Isaak. But another person told me that Reinhard did not fake his death and he simply just forgot about it. Which one is right ? Were Himmler the father of Johann or never mentioned ?


     

    Dies Irae Questions (SPOILERS)

    in Visual Novel Talk

    Posted · Edited by Ashley Horizon
    Wrong format.

    Hi.
    I just finished Dies Irae lately. There are some places that I do not understand or maybe misunderstand. 
    If anyone could clarify for me, that would be great.

    Spoiler

    1. Is about Ren true identity. After I finished Rea's route, I had this hypothesis.
    Lotus and Michael died on the battlefied. Mercurius collected their souls, brought them to the castle to fought there. In the end, Michael won and became Machina. Mercurius created Ren based on Lotus soul.
    Is this hypothesis right ? 
    2. What is Mercurius's craving ?To die in Marie's embrace-Every other ending is unacceptable ?
    3. When Ren and Reinhard are in singularity point in Rea's route. Can anyone explain this part for me ? Ren stabbed Reinhard and Reinhard remembered his old self and becomes stronger by acknowledging his deepest craving ????
    4. Reinhard is Mercurius's apotosis. So both of them will die in a battle with each other. Ren is created by Mercurius. Because of that he also reaches his end when Mercurius dies in both Rea's ending ?
    5. About Schreiber. He originally is a boy, but wanted to gain love from his mom and dad so he became a girl ?? His mother was jealous of him, so she took his eyes. He then get f**ed in his lost eyes with a customer and became crazy when that customer told him he is a boy. Is that right ?
    Thank you in advance.

     

    Need help about Lovely x Cation Append file.

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    This is the first time I played Hibiki Works title, so I am a little bit confused about append file. I downloaded it and coppied it to the main folder of the game. But when I start the game, the append story is still missing.
    I have played the Append life of Hatsukoi 1/1 before. When I open Hatsukoi 1/1 the append story is in there although I didn't finish the game.
    Can someone help me with this ? Do I need to finish the the game first and then the append life will unlocked ? 
    Thank you in advanced. 
     

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