Chronopolis
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Have a tricky line here.
どんな相手だろうと物怖じせずに、すぐに打ち解けられる子なんだと。
Not sure how it would make sense in English.
No matter who she faces, she does not shy away, and speaks frankly.orNo matter who she is facing, she is a child who speaks frankly without reservation.I assumed the と doesn't do anything, and is just the protagonist proposing a thought to himself. Depending on the context it this could stating be what someone else said and the line would change to reflect that. The すぐ is also ommited, it could mean either "very readily" or "soon" talksforgot the potential form
No matter who she is facing, she is a child who can soon speak frankly without being shy.
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Started Murasama.The presentation, sfx, and graphics are very well endowed and feel seamless. The robots which are cg I'm still undecided upon though. The prologue difficulty is ridiculous, but after that it's bearable. I think I have a soft spot for the pre-post war modern japan (e.g. time setting of kara no shoujo)
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"It's probably a headache they don't want to deal with, combined with an opportunity that's mostly nonviable, combined with the indignation of having some people get what your loyal fans are supporting your company are for free."
There are plenty of things I could that are available to buy (well not the funds to buy nearly all of them, but on an individual basis) which I pirate. If you do something like that, I think it's inconsistent to blame your not buying of VN's on their unpuchasability. After all, you pirate things which don't have that barrier.
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I feel like the rpg maker games would be more up your alley. A number of them are have puzzles along the way and/or multiple endings. They are about 3-8 hours long perhaps.
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If anyone is willing to help me i am having troubled with this sentence
あちらは相変わらず背後ばかり気にしていて……。 I tried breaking but i cant make sense out of it. he is some text which came before this one if it helps
（あっ……？）女の子は背後を振り返りながら、ものすごい勢いで走っていた。……誰かに追われている？ぼくは女の子の後方に注意を向けた。勇太（……なんだあれ？）…………。そんなふうにして、ぼんやりしていたのがいけなかったのだろう。気が付けば、女の子は目の前に迫っていた。あちらは相変わらず背後ばかり気にしていて……。So what's happening is :
The protagonist sees a girl who's running extremely hard, while looking over her shoulder. He wonders whether someone is chasing her.
Probably: The protagonist watches the space behind the girl (trying to see maybe what's chasing her) [Not sure what 注意を向けた means]
Protagonist: <What is that...?> I wonder if I shouldn't have been so carefree like that. [not sure exactly when he was being carefree. As the story is being told in past tense, he might be reflecting on how he was kind of spacing out during these lines.].
By the time the protagonist realizes, the girl has arrived right in front of him.
The protagonist notes: As before, the girl is still worried/checking about what's behind her, to a great degree.
あちら = the girl
ばかり literally means "just" as in "concerned about what's behind her and nothing else", but here probably translates better as a emphasizer.
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I think the grammar is something you want to let sink in. You can read Tae Kim in a few days and not be able to understand anything. It's not really difficult grammar, but to really integrate the various forms, it's helpful to have read about them once, encountered them in VN/anime/whatev, then read about it a second time, etc...
All of this to say, you should probably do both kanji and grammar in parallel, since you're more likely to get an intuitive comprehension of grammar (= faster comprehension = better comprehension) if you dilute it over time.
That being said, I'm pretty sure there are types of learners for whom bruteforcing the thing is the most efficient way.
I agree. Read through Tae Kim's guide: if you get stuck, go read something else and come back to it later. Even after you finish his guide, you can always review it at a later date.
I would say Tae Kim's guide is better at giving you perspective of sentence structure and grammar as a whole, but in his refusal to dumb things down, the resulant text is somewhat harder to read. Genki is better structured, and has footnotes for when grammar points refer to each other. Some of Tae Kim's grammar goes farther than Genki, but Tae Kim doesn't cover close to everything in Genki. It wouldn't hurt to read parts or the entirity of both, for starters.
Read the first section of Tae Kim.
Learn how to read about ~100 - 300 words. Prioritize verbs if you don't know what to learn. Just a list of the most common words will do.
Continue reading Tae Kim and start busting through Genki.
When you are done Genki 1 and 2, you should be alright to start reading easy stuff.
From then on: Reading-Grammar-Vocab
Rinse and repeat.
I agree with garejei. In any nukige, etc, you're still going to have description of the surrounding living enviroments, thoughts and actions of the protagonist, etc. When people say "the simplest possible", they mean that there is close to zero area-specific terms, and no plot to need to understand.
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Just passed the part where I could have locked into Makina's route...soooo depressing...
I mean, I know some wealthy parents do that to their kids, but geez, she's pretty screwed up.
Seriously I thought you were talking about this: http://www.zerochan.net/835246#full
Same character name, presumably the same circumstances, and the same mentally speaking. On topic, I ran out of steam in Midori no Umi about half way through. After you finish one of the more revealing endings or the true ending, there isn't really a compelling to go through the other routes except to learn about the characters. The general scenario is revealed and the while the method of resolution varies appropriately, they spend too little time on it. The remaining routes are like books on a bookshelf, just there if you are curious and are willing to spend the time.
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Does anyone know what the heck 病名は伏せる is supposed to mean? Looking at uses of it from Google searches isn't helping me too much.
One of the meanings of 伏せる is to hide something from being known. 病名は伏せる means to hide the name of a disease, ie. not tell certain people the exact disease, perhaps as to not make them worry over it too much or treat the person in question differently.
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I don't trust games with exclamation marks in their titles.
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I need help with this line here:
が、明は別段気にした風も無く小鉢に生卵を割り、しょうゆを垂らしてチャカチャカかき混ぜる
I think he describing what he's doing with his food.
But, (?), not looking particularly worried, split the raw eggs into a small bowl, dribbled in some soy sauce, and stirred.
edit: and this one too
どこをどう切り取っても地味で平凡な、父親の２Ｐカラーみたいな明とは違って本当に華がある見かけをしている
This one I think is describing someone.
Duuno. Could use more context, for one.
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I think there's a pattern:
Things that can build or enrich plot
Mystery
Suspense
Bad Endings with Story
Proactive Protagonist,
Life and Death Drama
Combat Capable Characters
Things which perhaps suggest an expanded story scope
Unique Routes
NVL
More than Seven Heroines (at the least it catches my eye)Other Perspectives
Protagonist with Voice Acting
Despite the list of tags, there are some really I haven't thought about it enough or played enough games to understand actually what I like and why.
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Asuesuka is on my sci-fi list and Midori no Umi is on this list.
Sci-fi eh? That's a stretch...Anyways I'm shocked I missed both of them. Whoops~
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I haven't read that many VN's, but I'd include these two:
Soshite Ashita no Sekai Yori: Slice of life, very down to earth (notable is that fact that the protagonists parents are present as characters)
Midori no Umi: Mystery, Tragedy, Romance
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Hello!
Here's one of my favourite maps and scores.
http://osu.ppy.sh/b/297411&m=0 (An - artcore jinja)
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A fair warning to all of you who happen to be reading Grisaia no Kajitsu or will do. Don't watch the opening too much or you'll end noticing a huge spoiler of one route.
To get your mind off it: you are now imagining a penguin on a hang glider...with booster rockets...who is flying along the antartic to their secret batman cave where everything cute and evil is busy plotting the demise of the world.
I finished Minami's route in http://vndb.org/v420 and now am playing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbDwODNmPSU Haven't run into any choices yet, but I'm loving the mystery and atmosphere, even if I'm not expecting it to blow my mind..
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There's one that was based off of Guilty Crown. http://vndb.org/v7402
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Just wondering, what is the meaning of Touko Route being crossed out? Does that mean it's not planned for the patch?
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That's unfortunate, but ultimately not that unexpected. Hope you manage to get your data back :/.
Anyone Interested In Starting A Visual Novel Show?
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My guess is that what's regulating the size of the western fanbase is accessibility, commitment (VN's are long), and an entry point or way of introduction. It doesn't help that the communities are somewhat dispersed (animesuki, fuwanovel, 4chan, tlwiki, reddit). More to the point, the people who are experts in the field are also dispersed.
http://omochikaeri.wordpress.com/
takes a glance at virtually every title that get's released. Clephas also covers basically all the non-moeges. There are an ample amount of reviews for vn's proportionate to their popularity. I don't think we need more content. If anything, a neat listing of all the review blogs is what we need (I think some thread like that exists already somewhere...). It could be moved to the VN discussion forum and stickied.
How does having an organized group play through sound (not my idea)? Gauge interest, have people decide on a novel, and roll with it. Have a loose schedule for people to read up till, and use a forum thread for discussion. I think the thing people would appreciate the most are bustling threads like Ayakashibito: A thread (which came from a lot of people playing the game at the same time from a TL release).