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Just 3 episodes in and Chihayafuru is still going strong. I love the new additions to the club, it's like they're doing the same as season 1 but it feels so new and interesting.
I don't like the opening song as much, but i've definitely become addicted to this series.
Do you find yourself getting interested in the karuta game itself? I had never know what it was before this show but it had been mentioned in several others (even Da Capo(!)) It seems like a fun game.
Well I saw this show and the later installments of "Saki" at around the same time period, and I was thinking it was interesting to watch two shows about gamesmanship with such a huge difference in approaches...
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He was also great as the narrator of "In Search Of...", the pinnacle of those paranormal event/historical mystery investigation shows.
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No offense, but if someone you know in real life were to say those lines to you, you probably won't think its melodramatic crap.
And the translation flows pretty well. That's good.
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That seriously is good writing and translation.
You're kidding me.
"Every time I killed an enemy soldier, something like the stain of his blood would rise to the surface of the stone. As you can see, it's almost solid black now after three years. The stone is stained by the sins I've committed. I call it my 'sin stone.'"
This?? This melodramatic crap is good writing??
"You don't have to blame yourself so harshly", says Kaim.
"You had to do it to stay alive."
Gee, that's original.
I can't even imagine someone narrating lines like these without cracking up. If this is the peak of visual novels, I'm glad I'm no longer a fan.
No comment on the translation quality: I'd have to read the original first, as anyone with a valid opinion would have done.
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It's a really stellar show. So much so that I had to pick up the manga immediately after season 2, which I usually never do. I never really got to around to fully liking Taichi though myself. He gets better, but he's kinda a baby when it comes it Chihaya. He's a pretty good character though.
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So what kind of text in english could be similar in difficult to this one in japanese(if there is any)? I'm intrigue to understand the real difficult of this text.
Well, I'm not a fan of the game, but a good English analogy for the line from the Kojiki would be something like this:
Leoht eastan com, beorht beacen Godes; brimu swaþredon, þæt ic sænæssas geseon mihte, windige weallas. Wyrd oft nereð unfægne eorl, þonne his ellen deah! Hwæþere me gesælde, þæt ic mid sweorde ofsloh niceras nigene.
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I remember when we had good wholesome ponies instead of your modern drug-induced Cubist ponies
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I randomly happened upon a cute little show about a guy who gets a job working as a kindergarten teacher.
It's called "Hanamaru Youchien"
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Nico just feels like a spoiled brat who should know better.
Screw her pride. I can't think of a scene where she's actually been useful. Even if she has, she probably just went back to her incredibly obnoxious way of acting right afterwards anyway. I'd give everyone in that group the nobel prize of peace for tolerating Nico. -
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What do you refer to them as?
I think 美少女ゲーム covers it pretty well for me.
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Articles like this one serve to reinforce my perception that what I like to play is definitely not visual novels (except in the purely technical sense of the term).
In fact, I've come to loathe the term "visual novel." Those people in Japan that play the kind of games I play rarely refer to themselves as "visual novel fans", and so neither will I. I'm opting out.
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I wish I'd actually had a Super Nintendo and Sega Gensis growing up, missed so many classics
, thankfully I had friends that did so I could play some (the daycare center I went to as a kid had a Genesis too but the chances of getting to play that were 1% at best so I never got further than the first two levels of Golden Axe).Well, that's what emulation is for.
I mean even if you did have the systems at the time, it's doubtful you'd be able to even experience let alone beat every good game.
Not to mention the ones that were Japan-only.
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Maybe we were neighbors.
I definitely liked my Nintendo systems better (I fondly remember the first time I saw Super Mario World playing on our tv on a Christmas morning), but playing Sonic on the neighbors' Sega (or better yet, watching them play Sonic, since I was terrible at it, and most of the joy in Sonic seems to come from knowing the levels well enough to really breeze through them) was pretty cool.
I sometimes wish I'd had a Sega system mostly so I could've played Phantasy Star, at an age when I would've appreciated it (I tried to play one of them emulated years later and couldn't get into it). But I always rationalize to myself that Final Fantasy probably beats the stuffing out of Phantasy Star anyway. Phantasy Star probably didn't even have a chiptune opera.
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Also the PS1
Still want one? I have one that works for half an hour.
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I didn't even know anyone else on these forums knew what a Vectrex was. By any chance do you of Mark from Classic Game Room on YouTube? He's a fairly entertaining video game reviewer (and was the first guy to do internet videos of video games reviews. He originally started in 1999). Anyway he's a huge fan of the Vectrex and will often jokingly bring up the console's name in his videos.
By the way here is one of his reviews of a Vectrex game if you're curious:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEQV-N3PHvM
As for me, I want an Atari 7800. Interestingly, the only time I had a bad experience on Ebay was when I bought one of these. The dude shipped it to the wrong address and refunded me (but I still lost the money from shipping charges). I have an Atari 2600 and the 5200 (and yes, the Atari 5200 is just as bad as people say it is). So I really need the 7800 for my collection.
Sure, I've seen Classic Game Room several times. But in the case of Vectrex, I got to play with it in person when someone brought one to the anime convention in Atlanta for a tournament (which I won btw despite having never played on one before)
Personally, I don't think the vectrex games themselves have aged well--I would never bother with an emulator, and many of the games such as the one you pictured are much better on the original arcade version--but the console itself is such a novelty, with the built-in vector monitor which there is nothing like these days, that's the thing that sets it apart.
I have a 2600 too, but I don't play it anymore. If I was going to collect another Atari system I think an XE would be cool: http://videogamecritic.com/xeinfo.htm Some of the 800-series games are still fun today, and I have them emulated under MESS...
I remember playing with a 7800 at someone's house...it was okay, but I was SO glad I had asked for a NES instead of a 7800 for my 1st game system...
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Because it's an acronym, and not a word, it doesn't matter how it's pronounced. You can simply say each letter individually.
Judging from people I meet every day, a better use of their time would be learning to pronounce English words correctly, such as:
pastoral
comparable
mischievous
volatile
respite
amalgam
and so forth...
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I like the idea itself...sorry I can't help right now, looks like my tastes are too specialised for the given VN list...maybe in the future
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I wish I had a Sega Genesis and a Dreamcast. Emulations and ports don't give quite the same experience.
No Saturn? Or do you already have one of those?
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a Vectrex, because there's nothing else like it. I'd still like one.
a Turbo Duo and Neo Geo consoles would have been nice as well.
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Some people just seem to enjoy playing games on a teeny tiny little screen with puny sound. I don't. I want a big screen with full size speakers and full size controls.
It's the same way with movies. Some people are OK watching on a teeny, tiny little screen. I want a big screen.
(Since I never have the opportunity to use public transportation, mobility is a non-issue. I'm always driving everywhere.)
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I read about the forum move, but then I forgot about it, then it automatically transferred here, then Firefox crashed, and when it restarted, everything was OK.
And me too, I'm lucky I remembered my password
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I will never, ever play Katawa Shoujo.
There is a 99.9% chance I will never play any OELVN.
What Anime are you watching now?
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Yeah I can see how Saki would be confusing if you hadn't played mahjong before... unlike karuta, I had played mahjong before (because there's no computer or console from Japan that doesn't have some sort of mahjong game on it)