Haika

So, 4 years later I forgot most things here, so was happily playing through again. Was doing some farming in the woodlands, and came across the same 'something has lost it's way' event... googled it to figure out what was up... and find my own post from before. xD

Mixed feelings about how bad my memory is, but at the same time, I get to enjoy things once more.

I've not Finished Yume Miru Kusuri yet, but I still think it's a pretty awesome game, if only for a certain soundtrack of awesome.

*boogies*

Yeah, not that surprised that Rewrite is slaughtering here. I swear half the people in this forum swear by it. xD

I voted for Wanko to Kurasou myself, need to be more Nekomimi games, even if the premise was a bit strange.

Actually voted Koihime here. It may not be an amazing game like some of the others in these polls, but I haven't played the others in this list, and I did at least like it. Aside from the pointless game element.

Yeah... I sorta guessed G-Senjou would be slaughtering after reading the choices here. It's considered one of the best of all VN's so far. I don't even think any of the others in this poll come close. SnK might give it a try, but I disliked the premise there, so my vote goes to Maou and that amazing true end.

No idea who these girls are. But I totally approve of the girl with the teal hair. *nods*

White Princess and Eyes of Death all the way.

ahwawawa... this is rough. I can eliminate some choices right out, still haven't played My Girlfriend is the president, and I couldn't get into either Saya or Hoshizora. Clannad, I did enjoy, but it had some really bad moments, and I don't think it will stack up against the other powerhouses in this poll. Uta was fun, and I quite enjoyed it, but the end was pretty horrible.

So I think in the end, my problem comes down to three VNs I love to death. F/SN, Katawa, and MLA.

Fate was one of the most epic things I've ever experienced. And I love Rin to pieces. However, the adult content felt a bit forced, and the CG art in the h-scenes were lacklustre to me. The story was amazing, and I played every last route, and just sat there overwhelmed after finally seeing the true end.

Katawa was also a great experience. I'm not into slice of life much, but I just couldn't get away from this game. I played through every last route, and loved it. Lilly warms my heart as a character, and she will always be special to me. If I had to think of negatives, It had a few moments that didn't click as well as I might have liked, and there was little to no fantasy or difference from real life.

MLA is the most recent VN that I've read, and it was amazing. I appreciate Sumika, but I'm actually more fond of a couple of the other girls in the game. The h-scenes didn't impress me at all, but the lore blew me out of the water with the depth of the world. Little details and technology were both great, and very slow to take it all in bordering on boredom during some in game lectures. There were so many epic moments, from shock, and combat without really having control over it in a game like situation, and there were the small little animations like blinking eyes, moving mouths, and the cold breath that I've still yet to see in other games.

Ugh a tough choice... I think I have to be honest, and as much as I love Katawa, it seems like it dosen't compare on the plot level of the other two, so I will eliminate it and decide between Fate and Muv-Luv.

I think in the end I was more frustrated with MLA than I was FSN, and MLA effected my emotions quite a bit more than FSN. So while both are really great, I think I have to go with MLA. The plot and lore really pushed me over. The story being FSN was great, and interesting, but it was based more on an almost shounen concept of battle, while MLA had this really great time travel/dimension jumping/harsh as well sci-fi world that you could feel through to your pores.

So yes, after all this, MLA gets my vote.

I have to agree with OMA on this one, Kanon was a great character, up until you entered her route. Then the just felt like they were trolling you. It was just not what i expected at all.

And yes, everyone who hasn't made it through the true route needs to keep chugging along. This is one game that I highly suggest you make your way through to the final route. Everything else is lackluster in comparison.

Gotta go with the Sumki- I mean Muv Love A here. Awesome game. On many levels. Still haven't seen a game with those little animation touches like the puffs of cold breath.

*Quietly sits over in the Tsukihime corner, playing with his Type-Moon figures and enjoying the images and gifs linked in this thread far more than the poll itself.*

Yep, It's Trinity Seven, though you got some of the details wrong in that summary. It's close enough though.

Good series.

... Sumika does have some nice pictures out there. >.> Just sayin..

Anyway, Happy Anniversary forum. *tosses confetti and swirls a noisemaker*

*sigh* yes, because it being all ages is the only possible reason I could not like Rewrite. Of course.

Ugh, yeah, I'm not going to vote for rewrite. I've had better luck enjoying flash games...

My vote goes to Tsukihime. I'm very much looking forward to the remake.

That said, lots of popular games up there this week. Makes me feel bad for games like tasty shafts, and meow meow.

I'm a bit late posting here, but the one that I would recommend for your mystery, gore, action and even some romance genre would be Baccano!

Highlander meets gangsters in the 40's with a kick ass swing soundtrack. That's all you need to know.

There's actually a handful of novels that have subtitled anime that I'm waiting to be translated. Things like Air, Tayutama, and Fortune Arterial off the top of my head. Some with better anime versions than others, but I enjoyed them, and wouldn't mind playing them. But I need English. It's sad to admit, but there's this massive language wall, and being a typical lazy american; I just don't have the push to spend the effort on learning Japanese.

I might think about voting for Tayutama if it was translated. xD I did enjoy the anime of it at least. (likely wouldn't be able to go against F/SN though, no)

Thought this was supposed to be a troublesome choice this time around? XD Fate is going to clean up, even if a few people don't like it, it's popularity and sheer number of fans makes it really a no contest.

Personally, I think it's an awesome game. Especially the ideas of magic, and the true end.

Not sure Romance is the right word there, but I agree.

Heya my fellow Eroge gamers, having a bit of Insomnia tonight(this morning at this point), and not really having anyone else to chat with or discussing some things that have been floating about in this odd balloon of grey matter I call a brain, I figure I'll write a bit here. Going to be very rambling, and probably with multiple random points that make little sense. So either skip it, or forgive me for what the lack of sleep makes me do.

So, I have been spending some of the night over on mangahere, looking at popular manga, and trying to find a couple new ones to read and enjoy. Nothing too serious mind you, my brain has been in vegetable mode for a while now. First I found this odd little gem called Onepunch-Man. A super hero and seinen twist on the typical superpower fantasy genre. It has a little bit of preachyness in the a fact of, you can be this strong just by simply training yourself and not giving up, Yada yada. However, the part that I really love is the sheer overpowered nature of the main character.

I've realized that I quite enjoy two types of main character. The ones who are stupidly strong to the point of either hiding their power causing hyjinks, or the ones who are so apathetic about everything, that when they do get serious it blows any opposition out of the water. Trigun, and even Naruto to some extent fall into the first category, while my favorite character in any of these media Mr Irresponsible Captain Tylor is a prime example of the second. The apathetic nature of both the MC in Clannad, and Shaman King also come to mind.

Aside from getting off topic slightly, like I knew I would, I finished up the 20 released chapters of onepunch, and wanted to find something more, thus I started reading Trinity Seven. This is a magic school harem anime, that seems pretty cliche in the likes of Negima, and some of the Demon King themes that several anime have had. But the thing I like here, is again the main character. He just seems so much more calm about things he knows he can't change, plenty of pervyness(It is an ecchi harem genre after all), and even a couple situations with girls wanting him to do H-stuff that he *gasp* reasonably turns down without blushing and acting like an idiot ala typical harem protagonists. It really is a rather refreshing idea. A harem guy who has a healthy sex drive, has interest in the girls around him, and a borderline apathetic nature that keeps him rather calm and composed in many situations.

This especially is touching when I've been struggling with how Rewrite's main character has such a strong sense of slapstick dumb and dumber style idiocy. It all just adds to a rather frustrating week. Been feeling a rather annoying sinus head cold, and the weather here has been in the single digits F. I made a resolution to walk for exercise each day this year, and haven't missed a single day yet. However, numb legs, freezing cheeks, and picking ice nuggets out of my mustache after a walking set have become routine. In other news, I started trying out a flash/facebook game called Wartune over on armor games. An MMORPG, with some strong sim build elements, sounds good in theory, but when you realize the game is more about begging you for money, and slamming down the limit chains if you don't it becomes old quick. Along with that I'm dealing with a depressive set of flame wars on my anime site over signature contests of all things.

Though, that's an interesting idea, I wonder how many people here would be interested in having an Ero Signature making contest. In the other site they post the winning signature on the front page as a reward.

The issue is however the style of the signatures and the tone of the community about it. 90% of the signatures submitted are using Photoshop cliches like lens flairs, and random artistic swirls over a themed render. I've tried making a number of signatures with different styles, and have only once come close to being complimented(on a F/SN signature of all things: http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r115/jdcarnahan/battlesigdone.png)

I also made my signature here of course. Lilly

[spoiler=Some examples of my other creations, made by fooling around in Gimp for fun:]

Not sure why I feel the need to seek recognition here of all places, I'm no graphic design expert, and each of these has little flaws to them that I see when I look back at them. But at the same time, I still feel a bit of pride at the results of my enjoying my time editing pictures and putting things together in interesting ways. I guess that's why the flame wars and trolls in the other community getting all up in my grill saying I don't know what I'm talking about when it comes to art, and how my honest opinion shouldn't have been said(I called their lens flare and CD4 overuse artistic vomit, and have explained it about 20 times over the past year I've been participating in that section of the forum).

Annnd now I realise I'm bringing a flame topic over here for people to argue about. >.

This long random topicness has been brought to you by insomina. Now in facial creme.

[spoiler=and this random video of hot dancing spanish chicks:]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFzyYYZsxGc

It's rather old, and I think they are dancing the macarena as cheesy as that is, but I don't really care. Hotness, with wiggling hips and skimpy clothing. Win. Same reason I ero-sensei it out when it comes to most of Shakira's music videos...

Having trouble staying interested in Rewrite. There's such a potential for greatness, and I can see flashes of seriousness, but the amount of high school situational comedy forest mammoth crap I have to shovel through to get there is really straining. And I don't even get a 'reward' of any H-scenes. So yeah, bit of a struggle.

This thread is so old that it was made before spoiler tags got implemented on the forum. You'll see all the white text spoilers.

I expected a Your Mamma Joke here. XD

But yes, I remember when I started this thread. Glad we finally got the spoiler tags. Very useful in a forum.

Argh, I'm about ready to shoot myself, every time the MC of rewrite goes to the cafeteria. I don't know if it's the violence, or the utter stupidity of both the main character, and this Class Rep girl, but these segments piss me off to no end.

[spoiler=For those who haven't played yet, skip this part]

I don't understand the whole licking the plate thing. There's a level of stupidity that I can take, and then there's this. In the other segments, sure, he's be a bit absent minded, and silly at times, but it seem like when it comes to a flag with this class rep girl, he becomes some gibbering idiot who can't understand sit-com level reality. Maybe it's a fetish thing for the japanese, licking someone else's plate, I just find that gross, and unneeded. The point is just to taste the stuff, but because these segments are about 110% silliness they go for the worst possible outcome(him getting abused, even though in other segments he's shown abilities decent enough, but not in this segment, nooooo...).

Argh, just Argh. I haven't raged like this about a VN in a long time. I'm only 2 segments in on this stupid switch of personality for the main character. I can tell they are trying to get something similar to Tomoyo. But it's SO not the same, and I'm not even a crazy Tomoyo fanboy... If more of this girl's scenes are like this, I'm going to be damn tempted not to forcibly skip the stupidity.

Was tempted to vote Kira Kira here, but since I haven't really gotten into it as much, went with the obvious. Fuko powah!