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Ah, cool, the first post I post on these boards after being away for literal months is immediately met with someone making fun of me. Ah well, whatever. Tsukihime is actually fascinating in its structure and the points of view it forces you to look through are what makes that VN interesting. the whole point of the VN was to be filled with things that you hate and that suck. But I digress. I fully disagree with you about the story not being good. It's not a fact that Nasu is not a good writer. It is an opinion, and I disagree strongly, which is why I find UBW to be such a good show. The world he has thought up is unique and interesting. The only place I can really fault these VNs is on the H content, because it's all terrible.

Unlimited Blade Works is my favorite, but I think Heaven's Feel is probably a better written route. I just found UBW more personally relatable. I actually didn't dislike Shirou too much, aside from his occasional chauvinism that all VN protagonists seem to suffer from. "I helped you because you're a girl! Not because I would help any human being that was in danger! It's because you were born without a penis!" I hate that line of logic. And it's worse in Shirou's case because until a very specific point in the story, he isn't actually helpful in the least; his belief that he can somehow protect them is condescending to Saber and Tosaka in my opinion. But I really liked how firm he was on his ideals and even his pushover-ness appealed to me on some level. I like an idealist protagonist, and can relate to the helping people who don't deserve your help kind of attitude, too. I'm midway through the Unlimited Blade Works anime, and it's excellent. I've seen the sentiment expressed by some hardcore anime fans that they think it's only seen as good because of its high budget, but that's not the case at all. I think they're just mad that everyone is talking about it and are looking for ways to bring it down so that they can feel superior for liking less universally praised stuff. It's really a fantastic show, the fighting is excellent, the story is handled well, and it doesn't get things wrong, either. I haven't seen Fate/Zero yet, but I absolutely plan to. F/SN is one of my favorite VNs of all time, behind Tsukihime, which is a goddamned masterpiece.

I live on the East Coast of the US. I used to live on the West Coast, though.

Here's some lyrics I wrote recently that people seemed to like. The song is called Shallow Water.

Oh my god, thank you so much, translation team. I've been waiting for this for so long (just like everyone else) and had almost given up hope. Miyako is probably my favorite female heroine in any VN I've played so far, and I'm so happy to finally get a chance to see her route through to the end. Thank you guys so much. Seriously, thank you.

It seems reasonable to say, honestly. They're allowed to have whatever views on it that they want. If that's their take on the situation, that's fine. People can choose to listen to their advice or not. That doesn't mean I think fan-translators should stop, though. But if there is a way to make it happen legally (which there more often then not isn't. I'm probably never going to get a legal English version of Ace Attorney Investigations 2) then by all means, pursue that route first. But keep doing it, even if legal avenues seem closed off to you. There's a whole community of people that loves what you do and can't experience these things without your help.

Oh god,

I guess I should mention that Tsukihime has "Good End"s that you can go back to after getting the True Ends for every route, and that almost all of them really lessen the impact of the True Ends. For example.

Yeah, I second this opinion. Remember 11's ending is bad to the point of actually ruining the rest of the game for me. It's so unsatisfying.

I have a hard time when the length seems overwhelming, though if it's good enough, that won't make me drop it. Tsukihime is incredibly long, but I played through every route and savored every single moment of it. Kamidori Alchemy Meister, on the other hand, is frustratingly long with a meaningless story tacked onto a pile of H-scenes and gameplay that is only fun for the first quarter of the game. I might pick it back up someday, but for now, it's dropped.

None have changed my life nearly as deeply as they have changed yours, though some of them have certainly changed my perspective. The change in perspective has likely led to me making somewhat different decisions than I would have otherwise, and has actually led me to make a friend or two, too. For example, playing Phoenix Wright for the first time gave me a whole new outlook on what video games could be; up to that point I had played primarily JRPGs and platformers. I have since played many different games and looked for deeper meanings from them than I ever got out of (most) of those others, and am better for it. Games are an artistic medium to me now, and I'm not sure that they were before. Playing Phoenix Wright and loving it so much probably swayed my decision to play Katawa Shoujo. When I played Katawa Shoujo, I had just experienced a pretty terrible breakup followed by two pretty traumatic weeks. I don't want to get into too many specifics, but lets just say that I have very poor taste in coping mechanisms and wound up spending a night in jail while not even being aware enough of my surroundings to know where I was. Bad shit. Needless to say, after coming to, I realized I needed to get the fuck out of my situation and moved far, far away from where I was. The thing was, when I did move away, I was lonely. After a pretty long period of feeling this loneliness, I say someone mention Katawa Shoujo, and entirely free of any context for what it was decided to give it a shot. Literally the only thing I knew about it was that it was a "dating sim". I know now that that's not what it actually is, but back then I didn't really know the difference between that and a VN. I quickly realized what it was, and I may have even been ready to turn it off and move on. Then I saw Hanako. I've posted this in many places, but Hanako and I share some similarities, both physical and personality-wise. This all lead to me being completely overwhelmed by emotion at the end of the route. I had to say something to anyone about it. So I posted a user blog about it on a certain gaming website that I frequent. Someone sent me a personal message in response, and I've kept in contact with him ever since. Having that person as a friend has been one of the only things keeping me sane in the lonely place I'm at right now. So, Katawa Shoujo made me a friend, and opened my eyes to a whole new genre of game, which has in turn opened my eyes to another level of being able to accept people for who they are. I'm now into something that gets a really bad rap from people who don't understand it. Because of that, I've learned not to make those assumptions about other people, or the things they like.

I don't know, I just started watching Fate/Stay Night and it's pretty enjoyable. I'm not exactly well-versed when it comes to anime, though, so maybe I'm just wrong.

I write a lot. Here's another poem; this one's about a breakup. It's a generic topic, I know, but stuff happens and it's hard to get over so I write about it.