Ariurotl
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Read Bokuten about a month ago, the first VN in years for me. Sadly, it wasn't great and I can totally see why it near-bankrupted Overdrive. Gave it a generous 6/10.
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First VN I ever played: Pro Lesring Ring-Out!!
What I thought about it: I didn't.
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On 11/11/2017 at 9:50 PM, Akshay said:
Also I hope you have the Cho Dengeki version of the game as it adds 3 new routes, all which are very enjoyable.
Except for Love Saga, which is one of the laziest routes ever.
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I'm old.
- Okarin, AaronIsCrunchy and Nandemonai
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I seek the Holy Grail.
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What? Someone had to say it.
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I think it's extremely generous to call Rise a tsundere, cause that implies she has a personality.
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36 minutes ago, Nandemonai said:
Like, seriously, wasn't anyone paying attention to how the script was turning out? How did a whole group of people decide that the original four characters were the most interesting?
It's the Shuffle! school of script writing.
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#MakeMarikaGreatAgain
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Wait, Grisaia was up against Clannad? All my lols. I can't possibly tell which one I dislike more.
It's probably Clannad tho. Grisaia is not quite as bad. On the other hand, Clannad has this small bit of After Story which is actually pretty great... argh.
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The original anime was based on Saber's route, the UBW movie and the UBW anime were based on Rin's route. There's a movie in development (I think, not really paying too much attention) based on Sakura's route. Either way, I think there's enough content in the VN to justify reading it if you like the franchise.
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OVERDRIVE fanboy (well, more like fanoldman) here.
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Everywhere, really. There's bloody people everywhere on the internet, I couldn't avoid meeting them if I tried!
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Grisaia will win this, right?
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I'll be honest, I'm almost tempted to get it just to get more details about the dystopian world those catgirls seem to live in. It's infinitely more interesting than whatever drivel passes for the actual story in these VNs.
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Nope, I didn't take a screengrab but it certainly did trend, first in Japan and then worldwide (albeit not for long and near the bottom of the trends list).
What are you playing?
in Visual Novel Talk
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I don't have the foggiest idea whether utsuge just generally sell worse than most (especially when made by a company that was never exactly among the top names) but to me it's not that it's an utsuge (I love me some depressing VNs) but more that it's not a particularly good one. The "true" route is the only one that's more or less good (even if it is exceedingly contrived), the rest vary from just about okay to plain bad.
I haven't the energy or the enthusiasm to get into a review mode but at points it felt like it was written by an alien who has only a very faint idea of human psychology.
But hey, at least I was pleasantly surprised when it had
a full chapter about a gay character and it wasn't stereotypical, wasn't played for laughs and didn't even end up in him getting converted to heterosexuality somehow and hooking up with the crossdressing girl. I kinda expect those things from a non-BL VN by now.
And the worst points of it were
the entirety of Yuri's route where NOBODY behaved like any human being would behave at several points;
Naruko's "good" end which is just, come on, sure there's magic in this world but how just forgetting about each other's existence is going to work at all when you have all those friends in common and LITERALLY LIVE NEXT DOOR?;
and the bold decision to regurgitate the already stale "idols/musicians can't have BFs/GFs" plot TWICE.