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What I learned from this chapter: if you crossdress, cute girls will strip in front of you.
Good chapter though, for real.
Good chapter though, for real.
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Requizen
United States33802 Posts
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Shikyo
Finland33997 Posts
by Elf, 1996. http://vndb.org/v1377 This review might spoil some minor things though I try to avoid it. Genre: Visual Novel, Interactive Adventure, Sci-Fi, Time/Dimension Travel, Mystery, Drama, Romance, 18+. Description: Takuya Arima is a young student whose father, a historian who has conducted various researches, disappeared recently. During a summer vacation Takuya receives a peculiar package from his missing father, along with a letter containing information about the existence of various parallel worlds. At first Takuya doesn't take it seriously, but soon he realizes that he possesses a device that allows him to travel to alternate dimensions. Is his father alive, after all? If so, where is he? Intro: Art: I don't really like the older anime art style. However, the art in this game is mostly all right. Still, art of the faces of some characters, especially Mio, is just really strange. The bodies are drawn significantly better, even though the women tend to have slightly extreme proportions. There's too much ecchi in my opinion, there's pantyshots at just about every excuse, for example, and plenty of nudity. This hurts the game's credibility quite a bit in my opinion, because it makes it harder to take it seriously which you need to with this kind of a story. The backgrounds are very well drawn though, and this game even has some animation. Some scenes were better than what I see in most VNs made in the past 5 years. I'd probably go with a 8/10 here, slightly forgiving it due to it being 16 years old and managing to do so well with such a small color pallette. Sound: The soundtrack is amazing. The intro track, first of all, is incredible and the atmosphere of it is amazing. There's like a hundred tracks and while playing through the game I didn't find a single actually annoying track. The action tracks are great, horror/mystery tracks, even the love tracks are good. The daily life tracks that I generally hate also were quite good. Even though it's from 1996 and they were quite limited by the machinery, I still really liked the soundtrack. I really believe that the soundtrack itself deserves a 10/10. The sound effects were... pretty good, I guess. Didn't really find a problem with them. Phone rings, bell rings, bangs, clings, what have you. All fit quite well. Still, nothing special. 8/10 I'd say. That's generally what I feel you deserve just for not being annoying. YU-NO later on had a voice acting patch added. The voice acting here is really good, with at least some high-profile actors. Most of the voice acting I liked, even though the main actor's voice could probably be a bit better, and some of the later characters have too high voices. Still, probably... 9/10. Overall, I prioritize soundtrack the most and as it's so good, I'll still give 9.5/10 for the sounds overall. Gameplay: As listed in genres, this is an interactive adventure game. However, that only begins after the prologue, before that it's just linear mashing. Basically, the gameplay is about going to different areas, interacting with the environment and talking to people, collecting items, using the items when needed, and so on. An unique thing in my opinion is the fact that they managed to actually implement an in-game savegame system properly. You have jewels that act as "beacons" that you can save at different points in the game, and then at any point you can "recall" yourself onto the jewel. However, you keep all your items. This means that you can, say, save the game in front of a locked door, play the game, and after finding the key you recall back to it and then you can open the door(this is just an example). You start with 2 jewels and your goal is to collect all 8. You need to have 1 jewel left over to recall to one, so at the start of the game you can only have one "save" active at any time. This means it's really important to try your best to collect jewels. You find them scattered all over the game, in all the routes. There's a few puzzles as well, and I think that they're quite good. Not impossible, but require some creativity. Apart from this, it's just going to the right places, talking to people, and clicking around until something useful happens... I'd say it's 9/10 because even though the clicking around gets annoying, it's still an interesting idea to collect jewels from all over the routes and moving around with the savegames like this. I give major props for incorporating savegames into the story in a sensible way. The existence of a few puzzles is also a decent bonus if one is into that sort of a thing. Characters: http://vndb.org/v1377/chars#chars The main character is... Okay. He's quite perverted and it can become pretty annoying, but still he was... all right, acted properly as the situation called for most of the time and so on. Has some good moments, but has his share of bleh moments as well. Not terrible... But nothing amazing, either. I guess it'll be around 7.5/10. As for the female characters, they were... mostly all right. Eriko was good, Kaori was good in her own way, Kanna was as well. Still, I wouldn't really have the female characters as a good reason to play this game... Maybe 8/10. As for other characters, nothing too significant so 8/10 overall for characters. Story: The story is definitely the main reason to play this game. There's many mystery and horror elements and many shocking moments. Each of the routes were interesting to me, many were very dramatic, there were a lot of surprises and mysteries. Some really good plot twists as well. This was a really "heavy" game so to say, reminding me of Sharin no Kuni because at times there's just so many bad things happening that it was pretty difficult to continue. The writing of the story is genious, there's numerous mysteries and things that will keep one interested until the end. I can't even count the amount of "Are you kidding me?" or "Oh no they didn't" moments I had throughout the game. I was mindfucked quite severely by the end. With this game, I really doubt that one is going to want to stop after just finishing one route, especially considering that the Epiloque is the most interesting part of the game in my opinion. Oh and 10/10 for story of course. Even if there might have been some minor plot holes, this one definitely deserves full score. I would say it's the most complex story for a visual novel that I've read, and also requires quite a bit of thinking to understand properly. There's definitely surprises all over the place and most of them are quite difficult to predict. My overall score is 9.5/10 even though the scores don't add up, simply because I weigh the story the most heavily by far. I would recommend this to anyone with an open mind who's interested in Sci-Fi, Drama or Mystery and even recommend to at least finish the Prologue(perhaps 2 hours) for even those who initially aren't interested in those. There's an English patch available, too. | ||
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Kaal
Djibouti2585 Posts
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Maxie
Sweden2653 Posts
On December 06 2012 07:29 Requizen wrote: Denpa Kyoushi: + Show Spoiler + What I learned from this chapter: if you crossdress, cute girls will strip in front of you. Good chapter though, for real. + Show Spoiler + Wanna try it?  Anyway, I also thought it was pretty good/funny. Oh, and dem puppy eyes by Koutarou at page 6, lol. | ||
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ragz_gt
9172 Posts
And not to Nabatame Hitomi! Or Ueda Kana! http://ameblo.jp/beerlover-shizuka/entry-11420871750.html Tanaka Rie, Sakamoto Maaya, Shiraishi Ryouko, now Shizuka Gozen all within half year T.T | ||
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loveless11
Belgium3 Posts
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Chiharu Harukaze
12112 Posts
On December 06 2012 10:13 ragz_gt wrote: Wow Itou Shizuka got married! And not to Nabatame Hitomi! Or Ueda Kana! http://ameblo.jp/beerlover-shizuka/entry-11420871750.html Tanaka Rie, Sakamoto Maaya, Shiraishi Ryouko, now Shizuka Gozen all within half year T.T Wow, that's totally surprising. Congratulations to her! | ||
Kipsate
Netherlands45349 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + Rikka too cute, prolly going to follow the whole now shes different into happy ending but I am looking forward to it anyway. | ||
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killa_robot
Canada1884 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + Great show so far, and Alexander the great is so damn awesome. It's really a shame fate/night came out first and ruined the ending. This would have really been a great show to root for one of the characters to win, since they all seem pretty even. Not looking forward to Alexander losing/dying  | ||
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Dingotrold
Denmark622 Posts
On December 06 2012 11:02 killa_robot wrote: Finished the first cour of fate zero: + Show Spoiler + Great show so far, and Alexander the great is so damn awesome. It's really a shame fate/night came out first and ruined the ending. This would have really been a great show to root for one of the characters to win, since they all seem pretty even. Not looking forward to Alexander losing/dying You should look forward to it. | ||
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Ecael
United States6703 Posts
Inb4 I have to wait like half a year for OST to include the song. | ||
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SheaR619
United States2399 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + WOW so many shit happen this episode. I mean in this episode Rikka confessed, her mom got introduce, sister moving and she got over 8th grader syndrome. It almost feels like they are rushing it but it feels pretty well done imo that it doesnt feels as rush as it should. This show is really surprising me. Lastly, WTB more Yumeha troll screen time | ||
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Southlight
United States11768 Posts
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Maxie
Sweden2653 Posts
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Sentenal
United States12398 Posts
On December 06 2012 23:32 Maxie wrote: Speaking of "a year", how long does it tend to take for the blu-ray to be released for anime movies? I've heard things like ~6 months (mainly thinking of the Nanoha A's movie but also the Madoka ones). I thought Nanoha A's Movie was still in theatres. It only came out this past summer, so I'd give BDs another 6 months at least. On December 05 2012 14:22 Sentenal wrote: Which of these two should I watch next? iDOLM@STER Xenoglossiaor Soaring Cake Girl Poll: which? iDOLM@STER Xenoglossia (11) Soaring Cake Girl (11) 22 total votes Your vote: which? this is tied, IMO it should not be tied so someone fix that | ||
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Sentenal
United States12398 Posts
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Maxie
Sweden2653 Posts
edit: and I broke the tie, just because "Soaring Cake Girl" sounds bloody hilarious. | ||
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ragz_gt
9172 Posts
On December 06 2012 23:32 Maxie wrote: Speaking of "a year", how long does it tend to take for the blu-ray to be released for anime movies? I've heard things like ~6 months (mainly thinking of the Nanoha A's movie but also the Madoka ones). Nanoha movie 1st took about a year, movie was in Jan and IIRC BD was in Dec (release date was announced around Sep?) so don't expect anything soon. Can't wait for it considering how good Starlight Breaker looked in movie compared to season 1. + Show Spoiler + + Show Spoiler + | ||
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Maxie
Sweden2653 Posts
On December 07 2012 00:17 ragz_gt wrote: Nanoha movie 1st took about a year, movie was in Jan and IIRC BD was in Dec (release date was announced around Sep?) so don't expect anything soon. Can't wait for it considering how good Starlight Breaker looked in movie compared to season 1. + Show Spoiler + http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9XLPYjdqos + Show Spoiler + http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUJmYxVBlsg Is it the same for most movies? Maybe I should expect Kizumonogatari in 2014 then And yeah I really want to see it, pretty laser beams ftw. | ||
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ragz_gt
9172 Posts
So Nanoha is on the long side. | ||
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