What VN are you playing? What do you think about it?

I would definitely recommend JOKER-死線の果ての道化師; it is one of the best psychological themed VNs I've read yet. As for 創世奇譚アエリアル, well, if you can try not to yawn for the first few hours of the extremely boring opening (right up till chapter 3 is STILL considered opening >_>) then yes, I'll recommend it. Things get a lot more interesting and less tedious in the latter chapters.

EDIT: Completed 創世奇譚アエリアル Risa's route. Two more to go, though I'm extremely, EXTREMELY reluctant to step on the Osanajimi route. Even if it's suppose to be the 2nd girl to go in the walkthrough. Even though the VN looks extremely promising (that it would not repeat the same scenario with different H-scenes - I hope. Haven't confirm). The girl is not as annoying as the Iori I mentioned a page before, but she was close. Veeery close. >_>

So 創世奇譚アエリアル does not focus strongly on the heroines (You'll understand what I'm saying playing through the Risa's route) but simply use them as a catalyst to propel the protagonist's motives and actions. The story remains extremely engaging and interesting, and I foresee a possible sequel from this. The only complain I have that is that it has extremely, extremely long and tedious 'theory talking' about flight control, military protocols, etc etc which would've been fine in a real novel, but absolutely boring to read in a VN. Imagine wasting 15 minutes just reading the protagonist's monologue about the entire fucking Aquapolis. >_> Imagine MLA's weak points - theories-we-don't-understand-and-don't-care-beyond-the-obvious explained to the bones - and magnify them by a hundred times throughout this VN. If you don't mind that, then it's a very good read.

Else, ugh. I just want to see Nagi's Another Epilogue, available only after you've cleared everyone's routes.

And Risa was very possibly the heroine with the best personality out of them all. Osanajimi was painful to watch even as a sub character (in routes other than hers), and Ryoko has a death wish. Not a spoiler. Ugh.

EDIT: NOOOO I WAS WRONG DIFFERENT HEROINES ONLY SERVE DIFFERENT H-SCENES! WHY????

EDIT 2: Though the transition smoothing was really well done; it wouldn't have read weird or odd no matter which character you go for. Still... >_>

Done with Maya and Midori's route from Hatsukoi1/1

Maya route, I'm surprised with her deredere side, really cute. Overall story is good (specially when they two goes to Tokyo, I'm enjoying that part).

Midori, gotta love her facial expression. Her route story "type" was easy to predict (dealing with overprotected Ojousama-story), but how the protag solves the problem was unexpected.

Spoiler:

[color=red]I thought he's gonna win the election

[color=red]So far so good. Gonna do Yukino's route tomorrow, and probably won't play Runa's one. I don't really like her, too childish.

Runa's route seem to be more serious than the others though. It is a story about growing up; you know how VNs love to make a character dislikable until you actually play their routes.

創世奇譚アエリアル's Miku is an excellent example of that.

Yeah, much like Wanko's route in Majikoi.
Don't judge a route based on the character's appearance or personality

MAya is my favorite BTW.. lol.

[color=red]Hahaha, me and my stupid favoritism. Gotta wait till I'm done with Yukino, and I'll do Runa one.

*small rant*
I'm starting to think that this game want to promotes smartphone*
*rant end*

Im playing Kamidori Alchemy Meister. I like it. Good rpg elements mixed with good eroge elements. Story seems a little lacking but maybe I just think that since Im playing this right after playing Muv Luv Alternative

[color=red]Holding Hatsukoi1/1 since I can't use my dad's laptop lol.

But I find a bonus disc (1 GB). It contains a drama CD (Midori senpai after story, 24 mins) and OST music.
Sadly, there's only Midori drama CD. I hope I can find the other characters (if available).

I'm surprised that there's a H-SCENE in drama CD, just the voice.

Meanwhile my VN progress, about to enter Manaka route (ToHeart2 X-rated)

Edit : Kai, did you know about the Hatsukoi1/1's artist names? Except Iizuki Tasuku, I already know about him. I heard this game use 3 different artist.

2nd edit : Listening to drama cd, not really like h-scene. Applying sunblock oil on her back x_x. The story itself is about Midori & Yuuma at the beach.

-唯々月たすく (Iizuki Tasuku)
-恋泉天音 (Koizumi Amane)
-秋野すばる (Akino Subaru)
-柚木ガオ (Yuzuki Gao) (SD Original Picture)

I'm just copying the list from getchu though

[color=red]Thanks Kai~
Might check their works later (specially the one who draws Maya and Yukino, I bet he's the artist from HolyxMoly).

Currently playing School Days. In all honesty, it's boring me a little, with the plot being "meh" and forcing me to start on a route I'm not entirely fond of before I switch to Sekai's route. I'd have dropped it if a friend didn't ask me for the end of a specific route. However, playing it a few hours before I went to bed gave me an extremely yandere dream, so it's 50-50 for now.

I am stunned. There are so many ML Alternative fans here, and none of you actually bothered to introduce 終わりなき夏永遠なる音律, this incredible, amazing musical VN?

Haven't finished it yet, but I'm going to say screw it to my real life and finish it ASAP. That it's lacking a Sound Mode felt utterly retarded, but otherwise every other aspect of the VN feels 10 times more polished than the Chronicles ever was. Even the Save/Load option is a joy to go through, with tiny chibi sketches of the characters scribbled on every page. Wonderful.

Shuffle! I love it, I especially like the asa route

Okay, I'm done with 終わりなき夏永遠なる音律.

The one thing I like the most about this Visual Novel, other than its final epilogue was set after Alternative IV and musical epics, would be that this is the single most direct 'Thank You' in all MLA series towards Shirogane Takeru. The actual story was almost certainly told before MLA, but the epilogue is most likely set after MLA, where:



At the end of MLA, I had felt intensely that:



終わりなき夏永遠なる音律 changed that. Even if it was a message addressed to the all those who have sacrificed to save the world, it was also a message directed at Takeru. Thank you, the light of miracle. Thank you for all you've done. Thank you, Meiya, Miki, Ayamine, Sakaki, Mikoto, and Sumika. Without all of you the light would've extinguished. Your sacrifices will never, ever be forgotten.

... And that's it for the sentiments. I no longer have any regrets parting with the hero called Shirogane Takeru in MLA, even if he can be an annoying as hell son-of-a-bitch sometimes.

Onto the actual Visual Novel. Well written, complete, and polished. Some of you probably have NO IDEA how many VNs out there did not even pass 1 of the above criteria. In addition to amazing musics such as quartet plays and violin solos and piano/violin duets... This is a VN you could literally melt into dreamland just listening to the music.

The storyline and dialogues are really well done and realistic. The common route and individual heroine storylines were incredibly well combined, not to mention that all the heroine storylines - despite being much shorter than the common - was properly thought out and did not cut corners at all. Each and every scenario was unique and realistic to the heroines (though if I really have to critique I would say that Liselotte made up with her grandfather a bit too easily, and that was the COMMON route), and even the protagonist can be pretty damn cool when he wasn't whining.

Sadly there was one particular CG for Miu that I was expecting, but did not actually find it even after 100% completion. I most likely had saw it in a dream after brain frying myself until 8 in the morning before sleeping, seeing Miu playing her violin on an endless grass meadow with music scores flying above her head and the bright, blue sky shining from above...

Orihara is still my greatest love though. Her character sprite was actually BETTER than her CGs - terribly regrettable, but whatever - and in my opinion has the best character out of all the heroines. Karen was pretty huggable as well, even though there were some 'issues' with her personality that the VN failed to address because of it's brighter theme.

Save/Load pages have cute chibi scribbles. AUTO WIN.

And finally, OH MY GOD I WANT TO PAT MIU'S HEAD MORE! *explodes due to cuteness over 9000*

Now, to some of the downsides of this VN.

1) No sound mode. Come freaking on man, this is a MUSICAL VN and you don't have a SOUND mode? Just who the hell made this engine?

2) There were some parts that felt slightly rushed (or writer's block), but thankfully that's only for like 0.0001% of the story.

3) Music-related inconsistencies. Can't really help it, but when it's supposed to be a violin duet and the music mixes piano into the tune is kinda... you know...?

4) All the heroine's routes are about the same level, but I must say that the sub heroines actually have better epilogues than the main ones (Btw the main ones are Miu and Orihara). It's not obvious, but Miu and Orihara follows similar settings and events despite the heroine branches, whereas the other heroines have totally different events scenes to suit their storyline. I personally think that Orihara's route is the true end because of the final few events of her route, but that's just my opinion.

The thing is, Orihara's epilogue was really subpar. Like the last of ALL heroines' epilogue, and Miu a close second. That's totally ridiculous, because even the sub sub super short route heroine Ritsuko had a more interesting ending than those two. =.=" And these two (Miu and Orihara) were supposed to be the main heroines. What a joke. >_>

5) There were so many times that I'd expected a new, individual song themed to the Miu and Orihara near the end of their routes, but they never came, so that was rather disappointing as well.

All in all, beautifully written. Another wonderful VN I will keep in my hard disk most likely until forever. When the number reaches 100 I'll make a new thread called called Fakku Top 100 and put my own list in it. ^_^

Just finished up Kira☆Kira, fucking loved Kirari's route and the ture ending.

Chie and Kashiwara's routes were pretty good, but pale in comparison to Kirari's and really just her as a character.
Overall:9/10, highly recommended
(Also, to those who have played it, should I play Curtaincall or just skip it?)
And now on to My Girlfriend is the President, in the middle of Yukino's route, the games pretty funny but there really isn't much of a "plot" so far.

From what I honestly coughbarelycough remember from Kira☆Kira Curtain Call the game is truly basically what the description says. There's not so much development as the original game but you'll probably like it if you liked the original story. Again, Kira☆Kira is oh so much better than the fan disc.

You should throw out of the window the plot in My Girlfriend is the President and give space to the lulz, HNNNG's and wtf when reading =P

Will do, thanks again amorim.

Been playing Kamidori Alchemy Meister, and loving the game immensely!

Playing Cross Channel after dropping School Days out of disappointment. Strangely enough, I love this game. It's something I should hate, yet I love it. The story, the main character, some of the other characters, they're normally things I don't like. Although I'm still upset at Touka for not beating the crap out of the main character more before going deredere. I even had to go back and install the all ages patch because of her. The h-scenes weren't even close to erotic in the first place. >.>

However, the music is about on par with Hakuoki's soundtrack. Even if I hated the rest of the game, I'd still hang on a little longer for the soundtrack. I simply adore it.

Is the game that's mentioned by the main character real? The one where if a character dies, you need to go back to a save point to get a clone of said character?

i've just finished Jun's route on family project and planning on finishing up the rest tomorrow, and in all honesty this vn moved me quite deeply T_T

What game mentioned by the main charater are you referring to? I don't remember any. Also, you don't need to go back to a save point. Just make the correct choices using the walkthrough independently of what happens in the end. You'll come to understand the need to do that. I won't say anymore because of spoilers.

Don't make the sin of dropping Cross Channel without finishing it. You'll truly regret it.