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Glad you enjoyed the review, it takes me hours to write these things (rather ironic considering how fast I read; C'est la vie I suppose). Currently accepting criticism, comments and invitations to dinner. And I've heard of both Remember11 and 999 being good. I'll definitely have to check them out . My reading list is pretty full up though, and is as follows: 1. Grisaia 2. Grisaia 3. Grisaia ... It goes on like that for a while... I think you get the picture. Afterwards though I may play 999 or phantom inferno since they're the most well known english localised visual novels (wel

(As per usual, any spoilers should be clearly marked. Although common sense, if you have not played ever17, for the love of god don't look at them! Everything else should be spoiler free.) Preamble It's nice as it's now summer, I actually have time to write freely every once in a while. So, to celebrate not having much work to do, I gave myself the task of reviewing another favourite visual novel of mine, ever17. The structure will much be the same as before with a few minor alterations (including the removal of the sub-sections; honestly, I think these made the review stilted and repetiti

[spoiler=g senjou no maou][Oh yeah I know why they didn't want to reveal everything in an earlier route, but why they had to bother talking about it at all is the the thing that grabbed me as strange. C'est la vie. At the end of the day, I enjoyed Usami's character a lot (and to some degree Kanon and Tokita), and the intrigue was awesome. The whole maou thing was pretty cool, and the reveal of all of their pasts was nicely done. Plus I really liked the BGM that was based on classical music, and increasing the amount of musical layering/texture with Pachelbel's Canon on the menu screen was a ni

[spoiler=g senjou no maou]I understand why the writer wanted to avoid spoiling the plot twist. However, why the hell create a giant plot hole where there doesn't need to be one? The only explanation that doesn't affect the continuity is that there were two maous in the story at the same time. Kyouhei did say: "My other half [when talking about Kyousuke]", suggesting that maybe they worked together, or that he acknowledged his existence as another maou. On the other hand, this seems unlikely since Kyouhei then said how it was silly that Kyousuke thought he was maou (he could have been lying

Just finished G-senjou no maou. My feelings on it: mixed. Don't get me wrong, there's some really great parts, and I love the whole intrigue and 'cat and mouse' stuff that goes on, but there was also a lot of stuff that just didn't do it for me (tsubaki's part, to me, was just dull...sorry. Kanon's bit I found enjoyable, I have yet to play through Mizuha's part as of yet, though). It also took me a while to get into the story. Overall, good, but could have been better. I suppose it suffers in the way rewrite does, in that there is some truly brilliant stuff in there, and then there's guff to g

Yeah, he's really been letting his side down recently. If you're going to flamebait, try to make it either less obvious or more enticing. I mean, anyone can see through that one... Also...Grisaia's nearly there

Final editing and QC. No idea of an actual percentage, though. You're probably bored sick of this word but...soon.

Look at it this way. They'd really have to be screwups to make it worse than it already is.

As desi pointed out, the translation quality is a bit bad in some parts, which is disappointing. If you're willing to wait a while, you could wait for the guys over at doki to churn something out, but I have no idea how long it would take for a really solid version to come out. Out of the Key novels I've played, the order of enjoyment has gone: LB>Rewrite>Clannad>Kanon (although Kanon and Clannad are very close in my books...the only reason kanon is lower is because Sayuri didn't get her own route x_x) I should have enjoyed it more if not for some real life stuff screwing with

I enjoyed the anime, but mainly because it was a nice reminder of MLA more than it being a 'good' anime in its own right. There are also a few references to the trilogy that you wouldn't know without playing them (like G-elements were mentioned a couple of times, I think). It's also full of fan service, but...oh well. The first couple of episodes were pretty cool, and the last few were also quite nice, but some of the middle-ly ones were a little naff. One thing that was cool is you get to see some of the different TSF designs from around the world, and it is in a different perspective since t

OMG WTF DUDE THEY ARE LIKE DESTRYING THE INDUSTRY?! WHY U SUPPORT THM THEY RELLY BAD-- Is probably the response you would have liked to have gotten. If you're going to flame bait, make it a little less obvious; it just takes the fun out of it otherwise.

In all seriousness, trying to bring VNs over from Japan and market them effectively to a western audience is great. I would love to see more visual novels over here, and, potentially, have more 'western' visual novels like Katawa Shoujo be inspired from those from Japan. However, a shoddy translation/editing coupled with removal of some of the story is the wrong way to go about it. The whole buying likes on facebook fiasco is insincere, too, and not what I want from a company trying to act like a knight in shining armour, as it were. Rather surprisingly, after all of that 'Moenovel bashing'

Kamidori didn't really have any plot at all and it's still something that I can play for half an hour easily when I'm in the mood for a bit of mindless fun. It sounds as if Yumina has the potential for an iota of story, so that's an improvement. It just needs good gameplay (and hopefully some endearing characters) for it to be worth it. I'm not as interested in it as, say, Griasaia, but it's worth a gander at least. Not having a route for the other characters is a bit disapointing, though. Hopefully there is some sort of an (aforementioned) smaller side route system in place to make up for it.

I have to be pretty mobile so I use headphones (the walls are quite thin so I'd probably be shot if I used speakers). I have a pair of wee Steinhauser ones that are compact and decent quality, good for travel. I use my Bose QC15 most of the time since they're really great quality and cancel most background noises.

I read this, and it started out ok... and then it went off the rails near the end. Moreover, he's missing the point. Yes H scenes were removed (which is enough to anger some people), but the story was 'adapted' to match this crappy censored version of the game. The editing quality was horrific to boot, suggesting either incompetence or sheer laziness. I suppose there was the possibility that Aaeru was trying to get a bit of rapport with moenovel by showing he actually supports them, ergo making his project less likely to be C&Ded, but the chances of aaeru actually thinking this far ahead i

My question is how much can they actually fix with the patch? How much was changed butchered in the Moenovel version (obviously H scenes, but a chunk of the story was altered as well (which was the bit that pissed me off, at any rate))? Moenovel are really stupid if they take action against the patch if it only works with their version of the game. If they were smart and played their cards right, they could actually make money out of it and prove that they're actually willing to work with the community. By the way, that last line was a joke. Of course they'll never get off their high horse

This post is the epitome of ignorance and generalisation. Do a bit of research before making yourself look like an ass. Although the american media may be responsible for blowing a lot of these things out of proportion, they are hardly the only country to do so. Moreover, the whole anti-american attitude gets really tiring after a while; do yourself, and everyone else, a favour and lay off. On a completely unrelated note, Aiyoku no Eustia isn't something I was paying much attention to, but actually it looks really solid now that I've looked at it. Hope the translation project is still slowl

TBH the translation isn't horrible, but they really need a good editor to come along and make it so that it actually reads well. It's suprising the editing is so bad considering how much of the VN they edited and changed themselves. Maybe someday this VN will get the respect it deserves. I also found it funny that according to nyaa, the game only has one fan: Probably a french 12 year old girl 13-17 year old from Vietnam.

Again, I still don't understand why they don't just have an all ages and an 18+ version. Yeah, they might loose a bit of kudos with some of the western market, but it's a lot less stupid than changing the bloody VN. I mean the guy sounds like he is nice and all, but he is completely naïve if he thinks the current VN community is going to like the story being fiddled with. All age titles are fine when they are made to be all ages, or where censoring is kept to the absolute minimum. When you try to appeal to everyone, you appeal to no one. ^^ That's actually a fair summary, at the mome

Really grisaia could come out any day now. It's mainly QC and technical stuff now which (hopefully) shouldn't take too long.

I definitely don't, for two reasons: 1. I would much rather have a digital copy because it takes up less (physical) space and is faster to load off my hard drive. 2. My CD/DVD drive is shoddy, and I probably can't even afford the blank DVDs...

I think it is kinda a 'continuation' of the [spoiler=muv luv alternative spoiler]super happy world takeru ends up in after his mission is complete. From what I remember reading about it, it's Muv Luv Extra 2.0 with a few additions from alternative and a few references to alternative, too. In other words, the story is likely non-existent, but you get to revisit the characters. And yeah, there is Kasumi in there, don't worry. Bye bye

True, although I have faith that key won't just shit all over it. They've taken absolutely ages planning it so I think it will be good. Or, at any rate, I hope it will be good. Also, I didn't even realise there was a Code Geass VN, although looking at the mixed ratings, that's probably why I haven't heard of it...

This is why we can't have nice things. Yeah, going from VN to anime is the way it usually goes. In fact, I can't really think of an example where the opposite happens. Is this a first? Whatever the case, when it comes out it'll be brilliant since angel beats was awesome, but it suffered since it was only 13 episodes long. It wasn't enough time to do the story justice.

Yeah I've been tracking the news on this for a while. I know it'll be in Japanese and I won't be able to play it until (or if) it is translated, but it still makes me pretty excited. You can see most of the news and information about it on the angel beats wiki. I particularly like the fact that they are making changes to the story based on feedback so the end product will be really great.