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Seems interesting, but it might be prudent to add some kind of measure by which to decide if the game is say 5/10 or 10/10 Experience is important but when rating something, especially for others to see and use, it's important to know WHY something is rated poorly or not. You see a lot of review sites with a score system that just doesn't work, many users will blatantly rate a product 10/10 simply because the experience was great. I'd personally suggest simply giving the game a score point based on the quality/appearance of certain factors. Something like this; Overall 0/10 Experien

Well it's a tricky subject, in most good stories I want the hero/heroine to win. When that includes them having sex at any point it just feels voyeuristic which can disturb immersion. I tend to just skip straight through these scenes. Rape is different, as I see it as an ordeal the character needs to overcome, and I'm interested in how they go about that. Game-over rape in many games is different again, as it's done at the end with no chance of the character winning anymore. I guess what I'm trying to get to is "Where do erotic scenes really fit in storytelling" which might be a bit of a he

While not really "finished" I completed the translated part of MGQ3 last night, and the story has yet to disappoint me. It's also still one of the few games where I wish they left out about 80% of the erotic content, both due to it's.... horrific(?) nature and the fact that I'm mostly just pining for a pure Alice + Luka combination, they get along so well after all. I especially think the interactions with all the past characters is done really well I was also pleasantly surprised at how good the quality of the translation is, especially considering how fast it's been progressing.

I wasn't trying to make an exact comparison in terms of quality, but rather a difference in elements (extra being a goofy story, alternative being a very serious story) I have actually read that review, and I guess the best comparison in terms of quality/elements I can come up with from my limited experience would in fact be a comparison to dual savior (having liked it quite a bit for what it was) That said, I'll reserve actual judgement (as opposed to initial assessment) for when I have actually tried the game. I certainly don't expect a bad product at all, but rather I was hoping for a se

Things like dual savior have a cartoonish style, but not exactly "chibi", the key difference to me would be the size of the heads/eyes and them being actually bigger than the bodies themselves. I don't really mind a cartoonish style at all, and after some further research this seems to be a mostly comedy oriented story so it might actually be more fitting. I guess the issue is mostly the disparity between my expectations and reality, what with the title and the combat system resembling Eien No Aselia I was expecting a somewhat serious story along the same vein. In the end, this looks more l

Isn't the combat basically like Eien No Aselia? The graphic style is a bit off-putting though, I can only call it "kiddy" (vndb seems to call it SD - super deformed) which kind of takes any possible seriousness out of the fights. That essentially sets up some red flags about the story (it's hard to see something as threatening when it looks as such, instead of say a threatening dragon you get puff the magic dragon), which I dearly hope are false. It also seems to feature dungeon crawling, which hopefully isn't going to be another random-encounter grindfest. What it boils down to is that wit

See this is the part where I'm having difficulty; apathetic/proactive -> pick one The original reason for not continuing with the story was his obvious apathy, yet he was supposedly of a profession that requires you to be proactive. The dis-junction between who he was and what he did was already established early on, they couldn't even finish one chapter without glaringly contradicting the supposed apathy of the main character yet they cling to it as if to make the character interesting that way. Thanks for the answers, I'll steer clear Also I'm not quite sure I'm interpreting that

So question; would you recommend this game to someone who cannot stand the typical passive protagonist? I remember picking this up a long time ago and stopped right at the start where the protagonist got the case and went something like: "I wanted to ask her more, but she was already walking away" At that time I basically just dropped it going: "If you want to ask her more, and you absolutely should as you don't know half the things she should have told you for you to take the case, fucking stop her from walking away and ask the damn questions RIGHT. NOW." But of course our typical passive pro

Well, the kind of vibes I got from the "main plot" there was that both characters essentially bitched out, I simply cannot stand a story or even a situation where the characters don't even bother trying to work towards a resolution and just accept their fate and be miserable about it. I had looked up some minor spoilers on the following routes to see if they were worth reading. I'm the kind of reader that doesn't care much about things being spoiled, a good story isn't carried by some revelation at the ending, a good story is good throughout and it's more important how they get to the end than

Honestly, while the first reply is somewhat abominable, there is a hint of truth here, while asking for a recommendation is fine you won't really know what suits your tastes until you've sampled the product, since we're talking about VN's here a few CG's and a synopsis don't really cut it for a sample, especially when you take translation quality into accord (like with the aforementioned "if my heart had wings") I'd personally recommend Demonbane if only for Dr. West, though it is otherwise still an enjoyable read, the scene's/cg's aren't amazing and the music, while fitting, isn't amazing

What confuses me about the picture is that "shogun" doesn't really enter the stage until after Nanami loses her hand, seems more like a sort of "perfect world" image added in as a bonus for finishing the game?

Yea was already fixing it, this is what happens when you're messing with html all day and then come read a forum before going to sleep.

Well, I can't say I fully recommend ef - a fairy tale of the two mainly because I never finished it due to all the drama feeling rather... pointless, while not bad in a romantic sense I personally prefer strong-willed characters. I simply could not keep reading after that one route where The kind of story I'd like and recommend are stories where: there's a problem -> work towards a solution. Rather than: there's a problem, let's talk about our feelings and be miserable about it. Probably why I figured LB was so much better than clannad

Well Mylen is probably the best character by far, having high movement, damage and survivability. High movement is especially important in kamidori, give her teleport item and destroy everything.

That holds true for me as well most of the time, but when you call your story sci-fi you're going to need to be sure to not forget the "sci" part and make it all fiction. For that particular scenario the inconsistency between the penal system and the people involved in it were too jarring to ignore, it's not so much that it wasn't realistic enough, it was the fact that it was inconsistent. This is probably my own head messing it up for me, but knowing what I do I simply cannot ignore a system that puts would need to put ridiculous ammounts of resources in rehabilitating criminals which then...

I don't mind telling them, honestly, everyone I know has read/is reading Game of Thrones, which has just as much sex as the average non-nukige (is that the right term?) eroge. Sex scenes are nothing new, most literature and other media has tons of sex in it. Dutch literature actually has a book which can only be described as a nukige (almost all sex scenes with little to no story in between) called "turks fruit" I do actually discuss most of the VN's I read with the people I know, and I don't hide the fact that there is sex in it (not that I make a point to mention it either, though)

The thing is, he just walked in there knowing his life was the one they were after, not his partner's (and if it was, his partner would never survive it anyway, since he was already at their mercy) The fact that he went there alone, knowing there was no way he could save his partner (again, he knew they had captured his partner because they wanted either him or them both dead and would have been well aware there was no way they would let his parner walk away alive), especially without backup, just signaled that he had given up on survival and walked right into his death. He never checked the

Going to get contraversial here and say I didn't particularly like any of the characters, mostly because almost all of them can't seem to get enough of MC dick. Yuella seems to be one of the few reserved ones, but she is so utterly lacking in common sense and so devoted to some code of servitude that she too is dislikable, any character that can't/won't act on their own wishes/desires is an unlikable one in my book. I did like one of the extra characters you get to meet on a second playthrough (can't remember the name, some warrior chick with a spear? I think) because even though her disposito

The sad part is that the journey was so much better than the end... the end meant the amazing journey was over ;_; I know there are a lot of extra bits to it now, but I'm afraid, knowing how hard it would be for something to get this good.

My main issue with it was that throughout the story the detective was remarkably perceptive of fine details and was essentially "on the ball" throughout. The way he dealt with the events leading to his death were just out of character for him, as if he knew he was going to die and had resigned himself to it. He knew he was being lured there and that they wanted him out of the picture, he was aware of the risks, yet walked right into one of the most obvious traps you could think of, gone was the competence and savvy he had shown before. It's not his death overall that irritated me, it was th

To me, my all time favorite VN has got to be Muv-Luv, the entire trilogy. Muv-Luv Extra (the intro) was what I was expecting at the time, an over the top silly romance comedy, not great but not bad either. Muv-Luv Unlimited (the training montage) was a bit of a curve-ball, the disjunction between it and Extra made it interesting and while a lot of the "silly" from extra was still tangibly present it set the tone for the finale. Muv-Luv Alternative (the finale) Holy shit this one is not only a great story by it's own right, but puts the events of the previous stories in a unique perspe

For someone into sociology as much as I am, the unbelievability of the events in the latter part of the story ruined it for me, I was able to gloss over the brutal murder of the other candidate at the very start (for being a few seconds/minutes late, wtf?) but the utter disjunction between a penal system focussed on rehabilitation and the people involved being stupidly cruel (disney villain cruelty, completely out of place in the setting itself) just made it too silly. The obligation to not exist? I couldn't believe that silly shit if I tried, even if it did make the MC's narrating fitting.

I figured with this type of thread spoilers were a given, I mention the title of each vn specifically so you can avoid reading about that one if you haven't read it before. Yes, I'm aware I could treat everyone that reads this thread as a retard and pander them, or I could just treat people like mature adults that they're supposed to be in reading here and have them think, and avoid content they don't want, by themselves. Apologies if thats a problem, do let me know if you still want me to add spoiler tags afterall.

Surprised I didn't see mention of Sharin no kuni, it starts out rather well and then takes a massive downhill slide toward the second half and doesn't stop sliding, some of the endings even completely ignore the events of the final chapters. School days was an interesting concept (at least what people told me it was, a deconstruction of the harem genre, was interesting) What I (we) got was pretty much a regular harem story with the characters suffering from extreme personality disorders at best, a main character that has no depth to him at all (seriously, what does he do other than act lik