SieghartXx

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Slightly related
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Welcome to the forums! I too play LoL, and I'm waiting for Strife (or something like that) that catched my eye a while ao xD Enjoy your stay and have fun!

Oh god.. uhh.. what do i do.. too many romane anime watched, only 3 spots available.. I'll have to go with:

3 Koi Kaze
It's no secret here that I like imoutos. Koi Kaze however took the incest theme seriously and brought an actual realistic incestuous story that you could possibly see happening between a brother and a sister. When 2 people really need each other, what do blood relations mean? This was a great story in my eyes and I actually felt like cheering for their love, there was no moe, the atmosphere was gloomy, there were just emotions laid bare.




2 Kimi ni Todoke
I'm a sucker for these cute love stories. This story is just absolutely beautiful, I loved it not just for the main couple, but for the side characters as well. I even ended up crying in some stances, not just for the moments between Sawako and Kazehaya but Sawako's friends as well. It's so simple, there aren't many elements involved, it's love. Amazing Shoujo anime.




1 Elfen Lied
Regardless of what anyone says I think one of Elfen Lied's main focuses was Lucy's personality and how it was shaped over the years. She was virtually alone, she was bullied, she ended up killing because no one liked her, except for this one boy Kohta who managed to make her open up to him and he was sort of her salvation. Of course because of a misunderstanding things turn out the way they are. However later on her feelings for him are what can keep her in control from killing. Even though things aren't as happy in the manga i still feel like this love they had was such a vital element. And how the story made me feel pity and cry for Lucy and all the stuff that's happened to her, seeing someone give her love was heartwarming. Elfen Lied still stands as the anime that gave me the most feels until this date.





Honorable mentions go to:




Keep in mind i have almost 150 romance anime watched so this was VERY hard to put together.
That is all~

Welcome to the forums! Nothing wrong with being a lolicon, most of us are (?) Enjoy your stay~!

That's exactly the reason I will never own a console, single company having control over games you can and cannot play is bad.
And it is also the reason why I dislike steam as a monopoly, if they suddenly decide to close and delete all your games, they can totally do it and you have no defense against it.
 
PC and drm-free master race And multilayer games that have dedicated software available to everyone to host their own servers, not relying on anyone else.
Call me old fashioned, but I can still to this day host a server for games like ut99 or quake, even after 15 years or however long it has been. You can no longer say that about some games released few years ago, which closed their master multiplayer server.
 
Sorry for a little OT, but that is my stance, I don't want to give companies control over stuff like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f2vw5dLt4k 
Best song ever.

This happens to me sometimes xDDDD

Welcome to the forums! I hope you enjoy your stay and have fun~!

Welcome to the forums! I see you haven't played Little Busters!, so I'll be recommending it (along with Hoshizora no Memoria, Grisaia no Kajitsu and Rewrite; although those are in the 50 novels list, I think xD) Enjoy your stay and have fun~!

Nice work guys o:!
I liked the first one better, Arturia (of these two http://i986.photobucket.com/albums/ae344/armogedon/MidnightMonsoon.jpg - http://i986.photobucket.com/albums/ae344/armogedon/MidnightMonsoonEdit.jpg ), and this new one is really cool :'D I've been doing some signatures for the Little Busters! avatar group, if you want you can check them out there.
(totally not advertising the thread (?))
 

Whoa! The Michiru one looks really neat! The SAO one doesn't really give the vibe though, I don't think that dark-ish theme suited the characters D:
 
Seeing you guys are sharing tips when it comes to designs, I'll share too! I hope they help (and are understandable D;) I tend to play a lot with effects or filters, also with this http://buitemsce.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/photoshop-cs6-dark-interface-large1.jpg (the drop menu that emerges when you click on "Color Dodge", I don't know how to say it in english, as I don't even remember how it is called xD), gradient maps, illumination and C4D (or brushes).
I usually take the render and duplicate it a few times, then fiddle with the thing I don't know how it's called (reefer to image provided by google xD), give it some blending options, and only then I begin making the background, randomizing effects with images until I'm happy. After that I use the C4D or brushes, mostly over the render, and finish it with text and gradients until the colors are to my liking D:!

That's a shame ;u; I would've loved a tutorial from you, I like your style very much. But well, it can't be helped xD

Edit: I made a new sig today, and I wanted to show it here since there's not many people on DeviantArt who would know the character in it :'c
 

Maybe you thought I was talking about this one: but I actually use the second one, which is like a pen tool but more... I don't know how to explain it. If you were talking about that one, then don't mind me xDDD

@Steve: These look really cool <3 I always have problems working with small frames ToT

Thank you >o<! I use the polygonal lasso, as the pen tool is kinda annoying for me D'x 

I tend to do signatures and stuff like that a lot, since I role play in forums and use them for my characters xD
 
I'll leave a few, mostly fan-art ones >u< 

Welcome to the forums, nice to meet you!

500 post ;A;

Kuroneko / Gokou Ruri (Oreimo)
Shirakiin Ririchiyo (Inu x Boku SS)
Kurugaya Yuiko (Little Busters!)
 

Yes I asked Ren to change it to only gd, anime and general vn talk and such so it doesn't spam in the serious topics like fan TL or stuff like that. If it doesn't fit then don't include it, we don't want to side track important topics.

@SieghartXx
 
Thanks ! Yeah, sure I can always put one of them online if you're interested. I just have to put pictures and sound and it should be fine. It's always cool when people take interest in those. ^^
 
@maefdomn
 
C'est vrai que ça fait toujours plaisir de voir quelqu'un qui parle la même langue que soi-même. Merci encore et vive le français !!

recently got addicted to gintama, and this ost is amazing.
 
 

Well, I said that I would do it once The Temple of Mare reaches 100 points but I was bored so I did it earlier xD Although only short versions
 
Warning before you click the play button: I can't sing!
 
Eternal recurrence:

I hope you liked my special effects
 
 
Hoshizora no Memoria:

I do it too. Everyone should~

I levitate myself and then drop myself on the desired keys, it's a skill I have honed with much practice. 

Welcome to the forums! I hope you enjoy your stay and have fun~!

Little Busters! Review.
Thought I should finally contribute somewhat to Fuwanovel and as such here is the review of my favourite VN, Little Busters!
Please note this is my first attempt at a game review.
It will not be perfect. Also, consider this is my personal opinion and your opinions will differ from mine.
Please feel free to post your own thoughts and opinions in the comments.
This review will contain potentially massive spoilers. Do not read if you haven't played and plan to play Little Busters!





The first VN that I played was, like many other people, Katawa Shoujo. This game not only sparked a burning passion for VNs but also a search. A search for sadness. Let me explain.
After finishing every bad, neutral and good ending in Katawa Shoujo, I found myself looking at reviews in order to reconfirm that I hadn't missed a route besides those I had played and beaten. Looking through a fair amount of reviews as well as discussion forums, I found a common theme in all of them. Sadness. Every single topic I read on Katawa Shoujo mentioned how different parts of the game had made the author cry or feel a deep sense of sadness. I felt none of this. The main culprits for making people cry, namely Hanako's route, left me with no sadness or happiness. In fact, the only route that made me feel anything close to sadness was Rin's neutral ending, which left me only with an empty feeling in my heart. No tears.
This made me wonder whether I was indeed heartless like many people had said I was. Thus begun my task to find a visual novel that would make me cry. Onwards I went. Visual Novels passed me by yet none of them made me feel any considerable amount of sadness. The game that came closest to making me cry was Hoshimemo. The ending of Yume's route would have no doubt made me cry if only the scene had lasted longer but since it didn't means that I am writing a review for Little Busters! and not Hoshimemo.

Then Little busters came along and made me cry like I never had before.
What is Little Busters?
Little Busters! is the sixth game by the group Key, also famous for their other titles such as Clannad and Rewrite. The story is centred around Riki Naoe, a high school boy who suffers from narcolepsy, a disease that makes the person fall asleep at random moments without warning. The story tells of Riki and his group of friends, the Little Busters. When Kyousuke Natsume, the group's leader, decides to play baseball, the group slowly starts to expand until the group has 10 members. 9 of them play on the baseball team whilst the other is their manager. The VN is very similar to most others apart from the fact that the common route has a considerable amount of game play involved in the form of a baseball mini-game and a fighting system which pits the members of the Little Busters against each other. A good thing is that if you don't want to play these, they are easily turned off. Throughout the common route you get to learn more about the female members of the Little Busters and dependant on the choices you make it the common route, you will get onto a route with one of these heroines.
Routes
The common route in Little Busters is extremely long but also does a great job of introducing all of the characters without ruining any of their stories. When you choose a route, you are choosing solely based on the personality and physical appearance instead of their problems, like some other VNs. I like this because it leaves tons of room for character development. However, as much as I love Little Busters!, some of the routes are sub-par. I enjoyed Komari's, Haruka's and Rin's routes but the rest are somewhat lacking in story. My lack of enjoyment in the other routes could be because after I had read a few routes I really wanted to get onto Refrain and see how the story developed. Perhaps if I re-read the routes I would find them to be more enjoyable. I found that Nishizono's and Kurugaya's route are almost the same story and both were very confusing. I don't know why but when I had read Kurugaya's route, I felt I had already read and experienced the same exact story from Nishizono's route with a few minor adjustments. Nishizono's route should not have been in the game. It contributed very little to the overall story and for the first part the only discussed topics were books and poems and seagulls. She also had a very boring and irritating character. Kud's route was way too slow. The story only started about three quarters of the way through the route and even then it made very little sense at all. But I won't spoil. Komari's route was heart-warming, especially at the end. Haruka's route was no doubt my favourite because I loved the emotion and story behind it. I loved the characters of both Haruka and Kanata. The rivalry between them reminded me of the relationship between me and my sister, just more extreme. Rin's route is more like a true route/story route due to its tie in with Refrain. Rin 1, the first play through, left me wanting to progress with the story and may have possibly ruined some of the other routes due to my eagerness to get onto the other story routes. Also, Refrain could also be called part of Rin's route since it makes you choose Rin as your partner. Due to my lack of enjoyment for most of the routes, they instead served as a back story to what I believe to be one of the greatest pieces of writing in any of the visual novels that I have played. Little Busters! Refrain.





So?

What makes this game truly brilliant is its use of music, art and story to create an atmosphere. This can be happy, sad, scary. Whatever atmosphere the game needs is done superbly.



Even now, just listening to the title music and looking back at the CGs can bring a tear to my eyes, months after finishing the game. This game absorbed me like no other, leaving me scarred and hurt about having to leave it behind forever. I was even more saddened to find out that the translation for Little Busters! Ecstasy was progressing very slowly. Whether you are looking for a game with a captivating story or with friendship and fun, this game will surely enough appeal to you.

Conclusion

Some of the art was impeccable whilst at other times it was sub-par. The routes mostly had good story and variation but some of them let me down in terms of story and actual development. I should also add the vocal songs in this game are absolutely amazing and the OSTs are also brilliant at creating atmosphere, whether it be happy or sad. A few of them even excel at creating tension and fear. The characters were all unique even if their stories were not and were all an pleasure to be around.(except Mio)

Overall,
Art= Good
Music=Excellent
Characters=Excellent
Routes=Okay/Good
Story=Amazing

I should give this game a lower score due to the less-than-perfect routes but since Refrain was so amazing, I give it a 9/10 and rate it an absolute must read. Had the routes been unique and rewarding, it would have been a solid 10/10 from me.
Thanks for reading. Please give me recommendations on how to improve in future reviews if you would like