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Unforgivable \o/

OTOH I remember @Decay saying in one of the threads, that those changes for all-ages version aren't as big as some posters make them to be, and that those laments about ruining the game are vastly exaggerated. I went with this version, as from reading various reviews and forum posts I was afraid, that some of the +18 content may be too dark/f*d up for me (I prefer my H to be on the vanilla side). That "patch" is basically complete pirated +18 version (as two releases are completely incompatible/different, with all-ages version being port from PSP using different engine AFAIK) - that's why it was shot down.

I haven't read it yet, however yesterday I bought steam version. It's worth noting that currently both are same price - Denpasoft has $16 price to match summer sale price of all-ages version on Steam.

Ah, Steam sale around the corner, right. Time to grab that Clannad at last (and others). Yesterday I finished Ai's route in Tsujidou-san no Jun'ai Road (all endings). It was really good.

Physical edition would be overkill for me, but +1 for game recommendation itself. THIS. I really liked this VN - it had almost perfect mix of cuteness/ichaicha and drama for me.

Download VLC player - it plays MKV files just fine.

You could almost say that bad translation became some kind of trope for VNs

I started Tsujidou-san no Jun'ai Road and I'm having great fun with it. Seems really promising.

Yuzuyu herself is fine, although her route is probably the weakest one.

I just finished Crescendo It was good, though a little bit short. With some after-credits epilogues it would be much better, but still I enjoyed it. First I went with Kaho/Kyoko route (Kaho's ending, Kyoko's ending and then neutral ending). It was OK, from that pair I think I liked Kyoko's route more. Kaho's part of the route was also good. And even so-called "bad ending" for this route wasn't really bad, it is more of "normal/neutral" ending, and actually has rather happy feeling to it as well. That route was your typical school romance story. The other three get much heavier. Yuka's route is probably the best in whole VN. She does rather bad first impression - so I felt about her the same as protagonist did. But when you enter her route, prepare yourself for a ride... I don't want to spoil the whole story. Probably most emotional moment in this route for me was And then at the end there's hidden Miyu's route, that hits hard with some KeyMagicTM - the ending actually made me cry. *** The game looks good. I had to get used to art style - those eyes looked weird at the beginning, but after a while it was OK, and the girls were really beautiful. It actually looked better than screenshots on VNDB - I'm not sure why is it like that. Backgrounds are nice too. There were two CGs where bodies defied laws of physics (or some parts were badly dislocated ) Other than that - no complaints. I really liked the music - it set the mood well. For some reason, it reminded me of Katawa Shoujo. I know that music in KS is actually different, but I got similar feelings. Localization could use some more editing - it was readable, but there were lots of awkward phrases. And it suffers from siimilar bug as Kazoku Keikaku - there is one missing line in Miyu's route, where there's voice but no text at all. Overally - good, although I wish it was a bit longer. 8/10 I'm not sure what to read next. Maybe I'll take short break from VNs waiting for summer Steam sale, and then get Clannad and Symphonic Rain.

Hikari was great. She is also somewhat similar to Ageha from KonoSora (and they even have same voice ). Also, don't be discouraged by lack of +18 translated version of Miagete - in that case, all-ages version is really good and "complete" in its own way. Katawa Shoujo is indeed good too.

Yeah. I think I slightly preferred Rina's route, but for girls themselves - tough choice. Misaki was sooo cuuuute! As for Ritsuko - I played PE few months ago, but her route's ending didn't stand out to me in a negative way - I liked it all. And SD CG of jealous Ritsuko hiding behind plant - that was one of the funniest images in a game

Looks like a nice moege I'm looking forward to it.

Misaki's route was great - for me second only to Rina (but very close). * * * I finished Hatsukoi after-stories. I'm little disappointed, as they were mostly just bunch of h-scenes thrown together. Fortunately there were also some lovely moments in between (especially in Maya's - it reminded me again how great she was). Now I'm going to read Crescendo.

Yeah, something went wrong. I'd say that the fireworks are the beginning of the route's main part. Try again with walkthrough from the beginning.

Yeah, Enigma really looks interesting. Onto the to-read list it goes

Last weekend I started watching "Ah! My Goddess!". After 3 episodes - I like it, cannot say much more yet.

Could you say something encouraging about Himawari? I remember reading somewhere on this forum, that it was bad, boring, etc etc...

I just finished Sakura no Kisetsu It was nice romcom VN - I can see how it stood out in the '90s among the sea of translated nukiges It has quite well-written characters, some funny dialogue, and isn't focused on h-scenes, which appear (one per girl) only in the epilogues. There are eight heroines. The routes share most of the events, and they branch based on "affection points", but differences aren't big - some different dialogues, and - in case of some routes - additonal events. I think that my favorite routes/endings were Kiyomi (I like girls with glasses ), Ruri and Aki (with Ruri's and Aki's endings being most emotional in whole game). Some more screenshots from these three: Weakest one (and the shortest) was Shoko's (pink haired girl), who didn't have much of a route actually Reiko and Mio - two blue haired girls - were nice too, but their routes didn't stand out that much. Nevertheless I liked them. Nice, and no too common thing, is that your comic-relief friend (Makoto) gets the girl too in some endings Now let's talk a little about technical aspects. The game looks really good despite suffering from VGA limitations. I really like character design. I know that they are almost directly lifted from popular anime shows of the time (MKR, Evangelion and Saint's Tail), but I just like that style. I'd actually like to see similar character designs and art style in some modern VN. Another nice thing are little details used to liven-up the sprites - although they only have one pose (except for CGs of course), there are numerous facial expressions and outfits for each girl, and the faces have little animations - like eyes blinking, or anime-tears flowing - nice touch . The backgrounds also change slightly depending on time of the day (lighting) and situation (like classroom can be empty or have some students and/or teacher in it). The gameplay is that of modern text-adventure games (like Eric the Unready for example) - so there's no parser, but you choose from set of commands like "look", "talk" etc. It can be quite tiresome - I'd actually prefer the style of modern VNs, when there are only choices. As it is, to listen to whole dialogue you often have to click "TALK">"character" numerous times. OTOH - no one can say "This isn't a game!" Localization is actually decent. There are some grammar errors and mislabeled lines, but nothing game-breaking. It is perfectly readable. Funny thing is, how JAST dealt with characters being in high-school. Instead of putting standard warning ("This is a work of fictioin, all characters are +18 yadayadayada") they tried to rewrite story - by changing HS to "prep school" between HS and college, and renaming "principal" to "dean", and yet at the same time failing miserably right at one of the first screens Overally - it was nice read, with likeable and beautiful girls. 7/10 - give it a try if you have some time (and use a walkthrough ) Next one to read will be either Crescendo or Hatsukoi after stories.

I'd say, that in Fureraba Rina also plays almost-osananajimi role - she didn't know Kyousuke as long as Himari, but they also reached that level of being so close friends, that they cannot imagine being romantically involved with each other. An then - surprise, surprise

+1 for Haruka, Sasami, Chisato and Kotori. Refrain from LB was great too. I haven't played Clannad yet. Ame from Dal Segno - that really pulled on my heartstrings, especially since it was one of the first VNs I played... Lily from Katawa Shoujo For many VNs I've read and rated highly, I have hard time picking favorite ending or route, as I liked all of them...

As the game has its own thread, I will repost my impressions from "What are you plaiying" thread. Yesterday I finished Fureraba. Wasn't perfect, but nice. Comedy stuff in common route was really good - Genki, Momo, Masayoshi-sensei - pretty funny team I started with Yuzuyu's route, and was little disappointed. Yuzuyu herself was sweet, both in tsuntsun and deredere modes, but the route itself felt somewhat... flat? Like, after they got together, it didn't seem to go anywhere and became a little too repetitive. Sometimes I had a feeling, that the events were there only as a lead-in to h-scenes. On a plus side - Yuzuyu opening more to others was nice change. So that route was when I started to think that even lighthearted moege needs little bit of drama, so the sweet bits would taste even better. Next I went with Rina's route and... O my, that was amazing! Rina was absolutely great, and the route, while still light hearted, had much better flow. There was a tiniest bit of drama but it was enough to serve as a "spice" for the route. And Rina was soooo cute At the final epilogue CG I had to resist the urge to kiss the screen Himari. Nice route too. Not as good as Rina's, but still nice. However I abolutely loved the epilogue And the last route I played was Misaki's. Another cuteness overdose - she was amazing. Initially she reminded me of Ritsuko from PrincessEvangile (mostly thanks to her looks), but as we get to know her better, there are so many new sides to her. I'll tell you Kaoruko from Wagahigh comes to mind too. I have hard time choosing between her and Rina. The route was nice too, with some surprises waiting along the way. I also liked how it involved other girls So my ranking for both girls and routes would be Rina > Misaki > Himari > Yuzuyu. The game looks and sounds good - no complains here. Now something about localization.... Initially I was afraid, as the translation leans more towards the "liberal" side, but it works surprisingly well in this setting, especially for comedic stuff. Idiot Genki was perfect They could tone-down the f-bombs for the MC a little, as he suffers from some ChronoClockitis but overally it works. I have one minor complaint regarding the TL (but it's just a matter of personal preference). I really like Japanese expression for having sex, often used in VNs - 一つになる (hitotsu ni naru)　- "to become one". It has that certain romantic feeling for me, so it would fit pretty well in romance VN. However, localization team treated it just like any other synonym for "having sex", and it isn't translated directly even once - always replaced with "doing it", "having sex" etc etc. Considering, that the characters use other expressions too (like "ecchi suru" or straight-up "SEX"), it would be nice to keep that distinction. But that's just me. Editing could use some more QC, as there are typos and wrong words here and there - like "over <> other", "rarely <> really" etc. Overally - nice experience, didn't met all my expectations, but was enjoyable. 7.5/10 (BTW, I gave same score for WagaHigh, but I feel it was better writing-wise. However Fureraba gets bonus points for Rina and Misaki )

Yesterday I finished Fureraba. Wasn't perfect, but nice. Comedy stuff in common route was really good - Genki, Momo, Masayoshi-sensei - pretty funny team I started with Yuzuyu's route, and was little disappointed. Yuzuyu herself was sweet, both in tsuntsun and deredere modes, but the route itself felt somewhat... flat? Like, after they got together, it didn't seem to go anywhere and became a little too repetitive. Sometimes I had a feeling, that the events were there only as a lead-in to h-scenes. On a plus side - Yuzuyu opening more to others was nice change. So that route was when I started to think that even lighthearted moege needs little bit of drama, so the sweet bits would taste even better. Next I went with Rina's route and... O my, that was amazing! Rina was absolutely great, and the route, while still light hearted, had much better flow. There was a tiniest bit of drama but it was enough to serve as a "spice" for the route. And Rina was soooo cute At the final epilogue CG I had to resist the urge to kiss the screen Himari. Nice route too. Not as good as Rina's, but still nice. However I abolutely loved the epilogue And the last route I played was Misaki's. Another cuteness overdose - she was amazing. Initially she reminded me of Ritsuko from PrincessEvangile (mostly thanks to her looks), but as we get to know her better, there are so many new sides to her. I'll tell you Kaoruko from Wagahigh comes to mind too. I have hard time choosing between her and Rina. The route was nice too, with some surprises waiting along the way. I also liked how it involved other girls So my ranking for both girls and routes would be Rina > Misaki > Himari > Yuzuyu. The game looks and sounds good - no complains here. Now something about localization.... Initially I was afraid, as the translation leans more towards the "liberal" side, but it works surprisingly well in this setting, especially for comedic stuff. Idiot Genki was perfect They could tone-down the f-bombs for the MC a little, as he suffers from some ChronoClockitis but overally it works. I have one minor complaint regarding the TL (but it's just a matter of personal preference). I really like Japanese expression for having sex, often used in VNs - 一つになる (hitotsu ni naru)　- "to become one". It has that certain romantic feeling for me, so it would fit pretty well in romance VN. However, localization team treated it just like any other synonym for "having sex", and it isn't translated directly even once - always replaced with "doing it", "having sex" etc etc. Considering, that the characters use other expressions too (like "ecchi suru" or straight-up "SEX"), it would be nice to keep that distinction. But that's just me. Editing could use some more QC, as there are typos and wrong words here and there - like "over <> other", "rarely <> really" etc. Overally - nice experience, didn't met all my expectations, but was enjoyable. 7.5/10 (BTW, I gave same score for WagaHigh, but I feel it was better writing-wise. However Fureraba gets bonus points for Rina and Misaki ) Now I'm going to delve into ancient times again, and read Sakura no Kisetsu (1996 version under DOSBox - I actually feel that it looks better than "enhanced" version from Jast Memorial Collection. And I love FM music).

GoGoNippon? Nah, doesn't seem like that. At least not here.