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  1. 1 hour ago, Stormwolf said:

    I chose Mao and entertainment. Maybe it was a bad combo for a first go due to her personality too. She's not bad by any means though.

    Mao/Security here. I remember Security scenes and Mao scenes being referenced at later during common (although Ichika has the most Security scenes).

    The thing I assume you meant was probably

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    how immediately after the first date, a seemingly completely unrelated job and common scene starts before we go back to Mao.

     

  2. 3 hours ago, Stormwolf said:

    Only big complaint i have which seems to be present is the heroine route is mixed in between common route chapters. Meaning you get some heroine niceties and affection gains in her parts...... Problem is that when you're back to the common route they're back to 0. They've effectively made a VN where heroine routes seem non canon and just spice throughout the common route. Funny thing that.

    When you get onto the actual route, it's starts counting from 1 up again. No idea why they called it "route 01" in common, when it's just a heroine specific scene.

    Oh, also it isn't ignored; The events of the character scenes and your job selection is brought up later during common.

  3. 3 hours ago, Stormwolf said:

    Started Sugar Style and it is quite nice. Heroines are likeable, the protagonist is entertaining and the music is well, passable. All in all good joyous fun. 

    The game throws so much comedy at me, I can even finish laughing at the first joke before a second and a third get thrown at me.

     

    I was briefly confused how after the Prologue, it suddenly said "Mao Route 01" on screen. In case anyone else is wondering; It's not a bug and you didn't accidentally click anything: After Mao 01 Route, you move on to Ichika Route 01 and I presume to another girl's 01 after that. It's not the real route yet.

  4. I finished Musicus. I'm too lazy to write a real post, so here are the thoughts I wrote to my friends on skype (spoilers:)

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    Finished Musicus.

    Awesome VN. The true ending was just about what I expected and bookends the entire thing as a music vn
    I like Deardrops more, because it has a better, more emotional ending.
    The songs are immediately going into my playlist.

    Just like Kira*Kira, the bad ending is the best part about the VN

    The true route romance thing was so pointless
    they could've just not done that, but it's a music vn for pretentious artists so it works I guess w

    Deardrops will stay my favorite of the three, because it manages to stay positive overall, despite also having some heavier stuff.
    The real ending is absolutely phenomenal and I will state in front of witnesses that it will forever be my favorite ending.

    I definitely and wholeheartedly recommend Musicus, with the preemptive warning that it has an overall very heavy mood and tone.

    Now, can someone tell me where I can buy all the OST songs?

  5. On 4/17/2021 at 9:55 PM, Seraphim said:

    I doubt this summary alone does it justice, since the writing and music are what truly gives this route its dark ambience.

    One of the hardest hitters in my opinion, was the fact that a lot of scenes in that route have no BGM. Subtle, but it's rough.

    On 4/27/2021 at 11:09 AM, littleshogun said:

    What I can say in regard of VAs speak English here would be that I want to know the name of the VAs, although I suppose there's a reason on why Overdrive decided to hide Musicus's VAs name.

    Has Overdrive given a reason? Because no-credits interests me.

  6. 4 hours ago, Plk_Lesiak said:

    I'm not sure if this will make sense to anyone, but I'm kind of sick not only of arranged marriage plots but generally of the "defying the parents" drama, whether its about marriage, career or whatever.

    Oh, I feel you.

    What bothers me a lot in these kinds of stories, is that the only ending they ever seem to go for is the "I did a bunch of things, so now your DAD accepts me and everything is fine"-ending. Would it really be so bad to actually play out the story in which the couple elopes? I assume this is yet another "Japanese thing", where doing your own thing and fulfilling your own desires against your parent's wishes is frowned upon in society and that's why the authors never do it. 

  7. Just wondering. Feel free to pick some broad terminology, like "bullying" or "mysterious identity" (or call them tropes if you feel like that term fits what I'm describing better). I'm going to take a guess here and say that a lot of respondents would pick the infamous "love triangle", which I personally don't mind as much.

    The top of my own list of infamy would definitely be "incurable disease", but I am also very tired of "arranged marriage"- and "heroine has to move away"-stories.

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    Keep in mind that you can dislike a premise at it's core, even if you read such stories and thought it was good or great. On the contrary, I would love to hear examples of stories which you liked despite them involving your least favorite type of narrative trope. Oh, and please mind spoilers. 

  8. This has been pretty alright so far. The story is pretty cool and I like the protagonist and his clear, understandable motivation. However, I am feeling a bit of tonal whiplash with the girls. The cute girls aspect keeps getting in the way of the plot every now and then.

    Furthermore, after the common route is over, there is a unique problem: 

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    After the murder solved, I don't really care about anything anymore. The protagonist just decides to date someone and it just happens within 30 seconds. I read one route (Kureha) and while it extends this plot a bit further, I didn't really care all that much? I can kind of guess what the other routes are about (based on the loose common route threads), but the story is kind of over already and the transition into the dating part feels a bit jarring. 

    If that makes any sense, great. If not, why did I bother writing this down? :notlikemiya:

  9. 49 minutes ago, Infernoplex said:

    but none of you go out of your way to explain what exactly it is that Sol should've been picking up. ... The only difference is that NN was able to go after more famous ones, and was lucky enough to make a partnership with a Chinese localization company.

    Aside from titles/companies someone has heard of before?

    How about titles that have some basic features I'd expect from a VN in 2020, like voice lines playing over mouse click or free button mapping. Even the one-voice-actress, reused-bgm nukige Ammolite keeps shitting out manage to fulfill those requirements. 

    But yes, what it boils down to most is the complete lack of any big name that gets people exited. I like Newton, Under One Wing is fine and Oniikiss is a pretty decent nukige. However, these games as well as the by now infamous Sakura Sakura are the epitome of "literally who?"-games. Which is a shame, since the Sol tech-whizzes responsible for decensoring and upscaling those 2008-resolutions are committing what I can only assume is black magic.

    which leads me to... 

    49 minutes ago, Infernoplex said:

    They picked up some okay average VNs, I don't see what's so niche about picking up, I dunno, My Fair Princess over Hello, Goodbye. They are both niche just as much as each other.

    They are similar, but that isn't exactly the problem. Nekonyan scored a well-known publisher in addition to their "literally-who"-games. Nobody cared at all about Fureraba when it released. I assume no English VN reader ever heard of it before or cared much. Now, quite a while later, lots of people (me included) were RAVING for Making Lovers to come out and put the Smee name out there. That's the two-step plan: Lure the masses in with a big name (in this case Sanoba Witch) first and when they decide to stay, they'll check out the rest of your catalog.

    MangaGamer was, as far as I understand, able to get away with completely niché games from their initial Overdrive repertoire because a) There was no real competition and b) most of the initial footing was based on nukige and cheap porn games before Da Capo landed in their laps. And even then, we are now seeing that MG is running out of things people want to see, though I do appreciate their idea behind releasing some non-standard VNs recently.

    I'm not saying Sol Press is completely hopeless in this area, considering they managed to snatch Favorite, due to SP's utter lack of business sense, management and well... anything worth of basic praise. So if Sol can succeed with Iroseka, maybe those who cared about that will be more open to read - god forbid actually buy - Sakura Sakura. 

  10. I knew about "the thing" before Totono was TL'd, so the damage inflicted to me is rather low. However, I did not know the full context for everything I picked up over osmosis and now that I'm finished, I think it's neat.

    After finishing it, you realize it's one of those ideas you have when you're awake at 3:00 AM and shitposting on VN discords or imageboards. Kind of like Cabin in the Woods for horror movies. Although maybe that's just me. There were enough meta moments to genuinely impress me and I do enjoy reading something different every now and then.

  11. 5 hours ago, ArgentstR said:
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    Misaki learned the bird cage and then both Misaki and Saki used it, which resulted in that stalemate situation at the start of the match, with Misaki pulling out the suprise counter to it at the end. They just never learned of the name in Misaki's route.

     

    This is correct. 

  12. After two long as hell main games and two equally long fandisks, the Majikoi H-scene music made me go insane. It's probably gone by now since years have past, but there used to be a time where I wanted to disable my brain by hitting it into my keyboard over and over.

    I ended up getting traumatized in my early days, I always turn the Video volume down to 10% or otherwise I'm afraid a cacophony is going to give me tinnitus. Other than that, I also disable system voices and loud menu-sounds, because they just annoy me as a notorious right-clicker and backlog checker.

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