Anime Discussion Thread - Page 3342

Though I haven't gotten any of the crazy endings people hint at, there's enough interesting stuff going on here that I'm not bored yet. Unlike a lot of VNs I've read, the choices throw you into very different paths. In my first playthrough, one of the characters had 3 lines and moved away halfway through the story. In my second, she stepped in as a major character.

This VN does a pretty good job setting up a weird/creepy vibe.Reminded me a couple of times of Madoka Magica. In a few scenes, one girl or the other would do something so slightly out of character that it would have seemed normal... if I hadn't already learned a lot about them. Kotonoha in particular has done some innocuous things that made me think "she's totally batshit insane." That kind of subtlety is one of the reasons I like Japanese storytelling.

The sex scenes are even worse than usual because they're hard to skip, but I was extraordinarily happy to see sex that wasn't just thrown in as fanservice or as a reward mechanism. At one point there was a dialog choice during a sex scene that not only made sense contextually but actually influenced the story. This marks the first time I've felt that explicit sexual content actually performed a function and should not have been replaced with a simple implication - > transition. Actually, if there are any other examples of useful/effective sexual content in VNs, I'd be interested to know where. Almost all the time they feel (extremely) forced.