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I like having the map, I think that can really engage the reader if they're more involved in the story. Also, get desi as a voice actor for all the heroines. His hanako-voice will save the day!

Kuudere Edit: I don't really like loli's that much, so...

Actually I'd be more than happy to edit a bit as long as I'm not knee-deep in work. I wouldn't call myself a writer or anything, but I'm good enough to check through things and provide a bit of feedback (I write science, not fiction). It'd be pretty cool if someone who help out with the art volunteered or something from the forum or elsewhere to provide a few BGs, CGs or even sprites. I'm looking forward to reading the story .

Haha, I knew you were going to ask that. I'll get to it eventually, although I'll probably put it up on my blog first (I apologize if it's a bit difficult to read, that's something I have to work on)... At any rate, hopefully in the next few weeks? I already did the mind map ages ago so I know most of the main writing points that I'll write the review around. It's just the case of finding time that it's not summer since I have a pretty busy schedule (mind you I really want to do it, time permitting).

It was mentioned in the sb but (for some reason) I don't think anyone posted it...At any rate, who translates it is the big question. I have no doubt in my mind that due to KEY's enormous following someone will pick it up pretty quickly after its release, but who? Doki (who seem to be doing a lot of key stuff now days)? Ixrec (who already had a schedule and is also getting a job so will be much busier...)? No idea. We could have another air situation where you have multiple translation projects for all I know (I hope not but...)

Glad to see it's going well helv! As I said ages back I'd love to help test it if you need that or to come up with some crackpot ideas. Love to see how the development progresses, and can't wait to play the finished game

He's enraged because there's plenty of examples of good jrpgs that are long like personna 3 + 4...plenty of others, too, actually.

O: Yachi hate

^ Higurashi was better paced for me. Umineko starts out pretty slow, in my opinion. Couple that with the fact that I just didn't like the first episode and the premise wasn't as interesting led me to not really like it much at first... Part way through the second episode it picked up, though, and by the third episode it felt like I was reading ryukushi again (before, to me, it just lacked the same sense of mystery I got in higurashi...well at least that's not the case now ^^ ) I'm on episode 5 now.

Silly Helv

Oh yes. The Rome 2 debacle. One way to make me lament. Anyway, to be entirely honest I'm not terribly concerned about persona. SEGA knows they've got their hands on a huge flagship developer for games and I highly doubt, unless they are as thick as two short planks, that they'll just throw that away. What's likely to happen is for atlus to remain relatively independent (as it did within Index) as a developing house while SEGA stays as a publisher. In fact RTW2 should, if anything, be a wake-up call for them NOT to interfere.

O: Or maybe.... Tsun tsun geass geass ?!

HNGHHHHH. That character is the best thing about FSN.

Soon, soon

Geass...how could you say that 3 And welcome to the forums.

Oh well. It's pretty near done anyway so I'm not too concerned.

First, Rika is amazing 9/10. Second, -.- . Someone hasn't watched Legend of the Galactic Heroes 3. It's Reuenthal. Battler is most displeased.

It's a picture of desi in real life O: Hanako

Yeah tsun recommended some good ones, especially the Muv Luv Series. The final game in the muv luv trilogy is probably my favourite visual novel (ironically, I was pretty apathetic towards the previous two games, but once you get to the final game, as tsun said, you'll know why it was worth waiting ) . As for other good suggestions not already made, I'd recommend Higurashi no Naku Kori Ni; for more information, you could check this thread out. There's also a pre packed version of the game you can find on that thread so downloading is pretty simple. You could also try either Little Busters

Wow, congrats for surviving more than 50 hours of kamidori straight. I always read it as an off-visual novel to accompany something else, or I'd had been waaaay too burnt out to continue playing it (I still never actually finished it completely, but that's beside the point ). At any rate, hope you enjoy fate/stay! It wasn't my favourite, by far, but there are plenty of really great scenes in there, and once things fall into place it's a very fun read. Definitely on the 'epic' side, though, so be prepared for a long read.

... Burn the witch!

Enjoy ^^. As for me, starting umineko. I'm starting to get busy so I don't know how fast I can read it, but oh well. It's also irritating as I couldn't get it to work on my newer computer since the english patch kept crashing ever thirty seconds, so I'll have to make due on my other laptop (which isn't that big of a deal, but it has a stupid screen resolution that irritates me).

Just finished Higurashi. I'll do a longer post eventually with more detail about it, but overall really great. Definitely one of my favourites (probably my second?). It's not perfect as there were some little issues that I had with it on a micro scale, at least, and a few of the scenes felt a little long, but for the most part a really enjoyable story. I knew I would like it, but I didn't expect to like it this much, and I'd definitely recommend it to other people (with the caveat that it's fairly intense, so be prepared).

Masterpieces, all of them.

From here: "[referring to the cross channel retranslation] All files locked, patch itself done and seems to work fine. Went from Amaterasu install -> full patch, all seems to work. I should probably test it on another computer or so, though. Full speed on the main project at long last. 94k words and it’s not close to done." Question: What the hell is his main project? I've been trying to find some indication on his blog, but...I'm pretty confused.