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Nosebleed implies they cannot be compared. I'm not proving his argument, because I think they can be compared, yes. Just not 'objectively', because such thing does not exist in reviews.

What? Dude, I'm not saying anything about my opinion, seriously. I'm not talking about my opinion on ero or ecchi, you've misunderstood me. I'm just saying some people have the wrong notion a serious story is high art and ecchi/ero is low art. EDIT: People who just prefer serious stories would not discredit the review score, because it's just a personal preference. People who think ecchi and ero are cancer, on the other hand, think a work of those is incapable of being better than a serious story, and anyone who rates like that is not reviewing things correctly or something.

Okay, let's follow your first example. People who think an ecchi imouto eroge cant be better than a nakige probably dislike ecchi and think pandering and ecchi and ero are cancer to the industry. Now you rate Imouto Paradise an 8/10. The person just looks at the number and... Goes on? This person will not be interested in the game despite your rating because it's a genre he or she dislikes. They won't believe the rating in fact, for rating a work focused on imoutos so high. So taking off the rating will make no difference here. Why not both? Also, the pros and cons are pretty summed up and they already do exactly what you're saying.

I've never seen something like that, but to solve such a situation, it's simple: ask the reviewer to change his score or the review, and if he doesn't, remove the review.

Only if the person is dumb, he'll think this so-called objective scale exists. If Imouto Paradise is amazing in its genre and LB! is not, you're saying it is superior, obviously. There's no difference. If you want to explain stuff, then do it. It is not necessary to remove the rating. You're trying to tell me an ecchi imouto work being superior to a tear-jerking coming of age story cannot be true, but I disagree. I love Little Busters!, but I don't believe there is such a distinction between high and low art, like many people do. Thus, an ecchi imouto story can be perfectly better than an emotional nakige, yes, if the first does what it's trying to do better than the latter. But, as you said, many people would not believe in that. Taking out the score would make no difference. A score will not force people to believe your review, people who do that and think reviews are 100% objective are dumb.

Speaking here because I felt it was necessary. I am strongly against the removal of the scores, and yes, I think they are necessary. I mean, even professional critics use scores (just look at Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes). Without scores, you have no comparison, no scale, and the review will feel much more difficult to understand and comprehend what the reviewer really thought about the work. The review contains both positive and negative aspects of the work, but it's difficult for the readers to know how much those points actually affected the VNs. Scores are a pattern that helps readers situate the work in a common scale, when comparing to other works. When I see a 9 I remember the best pieces of fiction I've read for example, and that would make me see how much the reviewer liked the game to give it such a big score. Scores help users understand how the reviewer really feels about the work in a scale that everyone can understand. I think this is a good choice. Give reviewers the choice to do what they're most comfortable with. I was planning to submit a review soon, but with no scores, I would have no choice but to change my decision.

If you read any books, and if it pleases you (I mean to post not to read), please post your impressions.

Hey, @Clephas, there's still something I didn't quite get. Last post you said that since there were way too many releases in March, you had to avoid some of them. But, we're not even past half of the month. Considering your reading speed, I don't think it would be unlikely you could play everything you were intending to. So why are you doing that?

Maitetsu?

But it's not a writer, it's an artist. And worse, I think he's in charge of the whole game. I'll give it a try, but I have to finish Aokana first.

You aren't crying for real... Right? Maybe ensemble will realize its mistakes one day... And their customers as well. I wanted to play this game, in fact. I was just waiting for you to publish a positive comment, but now I definitely won't (heroine routes with no drama are a no). You recommended Canvas, but that game had Kinishima Ao in the middle and I didn't like his work on the last game I played, even if he just worked on a single route. But I'll still keep it on my wishlist, who knows...

Serras are not mountains. They are not beautiful and they don't have snow on top. Brazil is hot, and I hate heat. Brazil forests are tropical, and I don't like those types of forests because they're way too dense, like everything is together and there's tons of shitty bugs and stuff. On a taiga forest or a seasonal forests, the trees are separated from each other, it's not hot, and there aren't so much annoying bugs. Also, Brazil forests are not beautiful. And I definitely wouldn't want to live in a small town on Brazil. Big cities are better when it comes to this country. The small towns and the countryside completely lack infrastructure, plus they're not pretty or something you'd like to look at to ease yourself. I've visited some cool places in Brazil, but my best trip was when I went to Chile. Like, I saw snow for the first time and it was more beautiful than anything I've ever seen in Brazil. One of my dreams is to leave this country someday; I never liked it since I was a kid and I never understood why I'm supposed to like it just cuz I was born here (like I didn't choose to be born here to begin with?). I also hate the Brazilian people, they like to touch others a lot and I hate to be touched by other people, plus the girls here are all sluts (not that other countries do not have their sluts as well, but Brazil is just way too much). Are you from Brazil? (sorry, your answer wasn't very explicit). People here do not tend to be very nationalistic like this, especially taking into account the recent issues.

I have mixed thoughts about it. The culture itself doesn't really interest me (maybe someday it will), but I find the language pretty fascinating. Also, I love landscapes and forests and mountains and Japan has lots of those. Like, I would definitely want to live in a small Japanese village... But this makes me think: if people like anime and manga, how could they dislike Japan? Like, those are just cartoons and comics from Japan. Whatever sets them apart from Western media is related to their culture somehow, so this means liking anime and manga is liking JP culture?

I have no idea what to expect from the VN (besides some high-level japanese that I'm very very far from understanding, given the ridiculously descriptive nature of the prologue) The synopsis doesn't give any information to make things worse, only the dream thing, everything is just so vague about the contents of the VN. You put it on your chuuni list, but I dunno where does the chuuni aspect fit into this VN. I think it's not the hardcore type of chuuni, probably something like Grisaia, which was pretty disappointing for the chuuni aspects imo. The only reason Hapymaher interests me is the amount of praise you give to it. That's why I plan to give it a try once I have a few unTLd VNs read. Also, one question: is there blood-related incest in this game? I have an imouto so that kind of thing puts me off.

I thought you liked Applique, like it produced Sinsemilla and you said its games were consistently high quality... And since you loved Nanairo Reincarnation, I thought Akeiro Kaikitan would be a choice this month (perhaps you didn't choose it because it's a mystery?)

Weren't they near bankrupt a couple of years ago? Yeah, Perseus did save them, but their sales aren't that big compared to stuff like Yuzusoft, Clochette, August and even ensemble.

I endorse the Asuna avatar. She's the perfect girl XD

What are you playing for march?

Is that like... Tsukiyori-hard? Or less?

I thought you were already aware of it. Last minori-rant-post you complained a lot about the protagonists and how they're all the same. Reading this got me even more curious to play Tsuminohi (how difficult is it?), as I am a stupid adolescent myself.

Shouldn't that be in katakana? since "Lady" is an English word.

I guess the first sentence is: 一人前の. (Can mean a portion of food for 1 person, or something along the lines of "becoming an adult, or growing up, or acquiring traits of an adult", which I think it's more suitable). The 2nd one, I dunno, cuz I'm at the beginning stages of jap (probably implying now he's grown up, he's able to deal with some stuff or do some stuff).

are you playing the twins thing?

are you playing minori next?

I suppose most of the VN customers in Japan do not buy them regularly, like one per month of something. Otherwise, I can't understand how someone wouldn't be tired of all the ichaicha (or maybe that's why the industry is declining more and more every year)