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

The best route? Well, I'll say that Nanashi (Yesh, zombie girl) and Lily's route are by far the best out of all of them, and the Harem route - by completing every single girl - the most challenging. You'll find many people agreeing with me that we absolutely adore Nanashi's route, and Lily is a VERY STRONG girl despite her slightly annoying tsundere. You know why Mia hated her? Because Lily was everything Mia could've been, but Mia didn't have the courage to become that and became a weakling who can't do anything but rely on her brother. Lily faced the same tragedy - if not far worse - tragedy as Mia did, but she stood up for her beliefs and always moved forwards despite her insecurities. So yes, Lily and Nanashi. But you should just follow the walkthrough and finish Rico's first, because having a bad playthrough later on is going to taste horrid on the tongue.

You're still going to drop 50% of your skill level when you play through Mia's due to sheer annoyance and depression though.

Well, I got a bad end. Everyone turned to stone because the principal didn't bother checking if the "holy" water was cursed or not. Or even if it was holy water to begin with. Mia has officially entered Misaki territory now. She's just some stupid bitch that only wants the main character for herself, and is completely willing to alienate and fight with her friends for what she wants. This is not how you write a heroine.

Anyway, I'm using the walkthrough now. As much as I love bad ends, I don't want to see Mia in them. I'm also not going to bother with the harem route, since that would force me to go through routes I don't want to. I'm going to go through Lily and maybe Nanashi (not interested in her in the slightest, despite her airhead personality) before I uninstall it. I've seen plenty of people (okay, four) say that Nanashi's route is the best, but I can't seem to like her.

Your Touch is the most disturbing music I've ever heard for an h-scene. Something about it simply disturbs me.

[color=red]Done with Near Side of the Moon (Tsukihime) few weeks ago. Ciel's route is full of surprises. Damn...

Onto Akiha and maids route later

Is about time for me to jump into TypeMoon franchise. yeah i know its kinda late lol

But the Harem End counts as the True End for DS. And there are various interesting fights that you won't get anywhere else but here (Unless you play Endless Mode where you get to choose different characters).

OHMYGODLILYSROUTEISSOAWESOME

I'm so glad I did this instead of just uninstalling the game. This immediately makes up for the annoying process of actually locking Lily's route (I downloaded a save after five failures with the walkthrough) completely. It also kinda makes up for some of Kaede's failure of a route. Since I'm not bothering with the crappy routes, I'll consider this to be the True End. This is so amazing! I wish I didn't have to go to bed right now.

Noooo, you must complete every route in the game, YOU CAN'T JUST LEAVE ME ALONE TO SUFFER HERE! C'MON! *curses*

Well, just finished Lily's route. It was great, right up until the part where I fought Mudo. He was strong enough that I had to take him seriously (that is, use more than the gauntlet and bomb) but still too weak for me to have any trouble with when I fight seriously. The final boss was an example of how not to make final bosses. His attacks were weak, and the only thing that posed any kind of threat was his high health. I would've loved to fight him if his attacks dealt more damage. Two of the three fights with not-quite-generic enemies that occurred after the battle were even harder than him!

Now, praise. Although I had a few problems with the story, they were all relatively minor. The many twists were very satisfying, and there weren't any stupid things filling it like Kaede's route. Sure, it had Mia become a jealous bitch, but I'm willing to look past that. I'm also relatively surprised that no characters intentionally caused a problem for everyone else to fix. It was a simply amazing route. For this game, at least. It's great when compared to a normal route.

I'm going through Berio's route because The Thief Who Takes Lives is sooooooooooooooo much fun to fight. He uses guns that don't deal miniscule damage to make up for the game's lack of difficulty. The fact that he can genuinely compete against a melee fighter is superb! He's like fighting two Kaedes in one!

Still not going through Mia's, Zolnir. Or Rico's, for that matter. Mia is one of the worst characters I've ever seen, and I'm not really into Rico. I lost interest as soon as I learned she wasn't actually timid.

Lol damn. Are you sure you don't want to challenge Lily vs Downy or Seru vs Downy? The Harem route has Black Papilon vs Shezar, Berio vs Shezar, Kaede vs Mudo, Nanashi vs Lobelia, Rubinasu vs Lobelia, Lily vs Downy, SERU vs Downy, and Taiga vs God Mia (all skills upgraded, pretty damn powerful actually). Sooo many interesting match-ups; are you REALLY sure you want to miss them? Not to mention Butterfly God is pretty beautiful despite the ugly, annoying Caterpillar God.

And I'm not sure how your fighting style hold up against mine, but Mudo is the type I have tonnes of problems with because of his high damage/high defense, whereas Shezar has never once been a problem for me lol. I meant that seriously. Shezar fights were easy, because as I've said I've played through not just Taiga vs Shezar, but also BP/Berio vs Shezar. They're remotely challenging, but Kaede vs Mudo is veeery annoying because despite how dodgy Kaede can be, one hit from Mudo deals a tonne of damage.

God Mia is also pretty damn powerful...

EDIT: Playing Sirius' Demonion because I was bored out of my wits after a day without something to read. Julian is so cute, so amazingly cute, not your generic bland character but an actual WOMAN that could be actually be met in real life. Ah Julian~

At first I was playing Zero Infinity: Devil of Maxwell, however awesome it looks on the outside, had a pretty hard-to-digest level of writing. I'm not saying that the writer is bad, but his writing style just doesn't click with my mind. When I first played a VN from Malie (the VN company) it was pretty awesome, then I played a second VN (which had a city setting and supposedly much lighthearted atmosphere) and it was REALLY starting to get tedious, and finally with Devil of Maxwell I just give up. Totally.

This guy's writing... how to say? He can spent like 200~300 goddamn words just explaining ONE part of the protagonist's thought process about his personal philosophy, which to be honest is an interesting read, but the problem is it pops out MULTIPLE times at least in just ONE chapter. And the philosophy talk doesn't end there either; it slips into practically everyone's dialogues except for airheaded/mascot characters, where they just go on and on about philosophy and more philosophy.

For example the entire prologue of Devil of Maxwell can be summed up as: Blood and war are terrifying beyond any imagination, science are both evil and good. And yet the writer would use up to twenty minutes (of my life, and I'm a pretty damn quick reader) just to talk about that over, and over, and over again. God it's so tedious. God it can be good, but it's like stuffing cheesecake into my mouth again and again until I grew so sick that I don't ever want to touch another piece of that goddamn thing anymore. Ugh.

Then I thought of playing Rewrite, but the design of the VN just physically REPELS me. The map movement is a total, complete waste of my time, mainly because I'm spending up to ten minutes doing nothing but randomly scrolling the cursor until a red spot pops out, click it, read about... what? Swimming in the a lake three times like an idiot? Talking to dogs? See freakish animals? Prank your neighbor? Like wtf? What's the point of all this? What the hell am I even reading?

Sure I've seen some pretty epic illustrations and CGs from promotional trailers and such, but by the gods, I am NOT going through such pointless stuff to get them unless I'm totally out of materials and the next best VN is a month away from publishing.

EDIT 2: Finished Demonion by Sirius. Despite it's generic storyline, this VN has one of the best and uniquely depicted Demon King I've ever seen in so many Demon King SRPG games. So this Demon King is named the King of Desires (or something like that), so he has an unusually strong attraction to beautiful woman, incredible sex techniques, and a cock hard as steel (literally LOL). Women who have sex with him would almost inevitably fall for his charm simply because - just assuming - every time they have sex with him, he gains a hold over the person itself, starting with the body and eventually gnawing right into the heart and mind. So his abilities actually fits his title pretty well, and that's good.

Next, he is without a doubt evil. I've always had a problem with some Demon Kings in the VNs not acting like one, and have too much human compassion that they look more human than monster. But this guy really is a devil. He cares for the heroines, but only to satisfy his own desire and dominate their heart and soul completely. He takes pleasure in killing his enemies and absolutely does not have the remorse you would usually see in other generic Demon Kings, and that's awesome. He doesn't bother with things that are he's not interested and dumps all the troublesome responsibility to his women. That fits his image as a Demon King.

Not only that, he sees things clearly and could easily see through the weaknesses of a person's mind and work from there. Almost all of the heroines in Demonion failed to perform their best (Except Julian, Vanessa and Neige) when fighting against him simply because he twisted his words well enough to drive right into their hearts and sowing doubt. When he and Vanessa was attacked by overwhelming amounts of enemy, he had the smarts to realize that it is pointless to even try to fight and immediately escaped before they were caught, despite his pride as a Demon King. Never mind his true age, it is fitting that a two hundred years old Demon King would have the wisdom to drive fear and doubt into his enemies.

With a possible sequel prepared at the end of the Extra story, this is definitely one game that I'm looking forward to play in the future should it come out. Very, VERY good Demon King characterization.

Took a break from Duel Savior. My brother got the Jak and Daxter collection, and like hell I'm going to wait to play the first one.

Also, I went through Emilita's route in Kamidori. It can basically be summed up as politics and failure. Emilita turns out to be the daughter of the lord (as if that wasn't obvious) and someone wants to marry her for political power. This is denied because the lord doesn't want her daughter to be married to some prick when the city is prospering greatly because she loves her, leading to the jackass becoming jealous. A random tournament that's about as difficult as beating a dragon with your bare hands shows up, and you're forced to participate. I had to grind 15 levels to not get wrecked by the final battle. On New Game+. Oh, and you aren't allowed to use items. You also can't fight with anyone other than a character not designed for combat and the frail mage. It would've taken higher levels if I didn't upgrade their equipment to ungodly levels and give the mage an item that nulls earth. The final boss was easier than this.

Winning this impossible fight breaks your opponent, and they join up with the dick from the other country who wants to become part of Yuidora. Cue some route-specific plot coming up, a few attempts on Emilita's life, politics, and a war and you have this route. I just gave up on sidequests here. I also downloaded a cheat engine, because I'm sick of this game. I'm not going through Yuela's route.

If Yuela's the sword girl, then I went through that one because it's the girl I find most to my liking (and feels more 'True-ish' than the others).

... o_O Now that I'm reminded I never finished the final few fights because the map travelling thing got me annoyed and after some other few VNs I totally forgot about it. Oh well, it's not that good anyway; Soukoku no Arterial was more exciting and cool than this.

Just finished Youhei no Shigoto yesterday. As usual, Soft Chara makes some really addictive gameplays even with so many downsides that normally would've put off a story lover like me.

Basically, you own a guild once called, 'The Sword Wielding Red Wolf' renamed to 'Gate Guard Sheep' just because. It's actually a legitimate psychological tactic to make the enemies overconfident and underestimate your strength, but doesn't mean that it ain't hilarious.

The VN is a simple tower defense styled game where you defend your Wall against waves and waves of enemies with well placed units and many, many traps. Now before I list out the goods, let me list out the bads here first:

1) Research Tree too short. You have a number of modes to complete - up till 5 Modes in total, which means at least 5 playthroughs to get to the Final Mode; I've played this game 8 times in total btw - and you can complete all the upgrades as early as the 2nd playthrough. After that, you get to 1 time upgrade EVERYTHING (or as many upgrades you've unlocked) at once when you start a new mode. Cool feature, but well.

2) You defend only the same map (with previously blocked routes slowly unlocked as you start new modes) over and over. They set the time limit to 60 Turns so you won't get bored too fast, but unfortunately that doesn't solve the fundamental problem.

3) You defend ONLY, you don't really get to do anything else. There's no Invading or anything; you're really stuck to just defending that one map again and again, and the map's not even big.

4) Difficulty level early game - average hard. You'll have a haaaaaaard time the first 2 playthroughs because you'll want to do a lot of things, and without looking at the walkthroughs you might take a long time finding the right army combination for you (Btw, Dual Knights+Pits are absolutely awesome) and traps. Without earning enough Gold for your next playthrough - which you can only earn by Talking to various factions in your town - you'll find yourself completely outmatched and outnumbered by the enemies as they swarm you with over 40+ units and you with only 6 ~ 7.

5) Difficulty level after 2 playthroughs? EASY. I've earned so much gold that subsequent modes only put up a moderate challenge right at the end of the game. At that point the gold doesn't even matter anymore and you're going to be hoarding them simply because, well, GOOOOOLLLLDDDDD.

6) You have only 8 unit types to choose from, whereas your enemies have almost 3 FUCKING TIMES that number. UNIT TYPES. That is so bloody irritating that I wished so many times to be the invader instead of the defender, like what the hell man!

7) Story = non-existent. The most interesting storyline in the game is the nun Wendy's. I had previously thought that the Final Mode would talk more about the politics and indeed they did, but the added lines were less than fifty. Holy shit disappointing honestly. And trying to gun for a certain sub heroine is like winning a lottery because of how random some events are.

And the goods? It's just GOOD. And ADDICTIVE. Despite all the flaws that would've turned anyone away Soft Chara has managed to build a tower defense game that's pretty damn awesome and kept me playing for 2 days straight. I had built myself the perfect setup of Traps and Units that could defend against even 100 enemies, with only 10 units, and most of the times the 3 units defending the Final Wall NEVER GOT A CHANCE TO FIGHT. Holy shit yes I'm so awesome. In short, Soft Chara really needs to work on their flaws, but heck, they've DEFINITELY got the right idea on building gameplays. Thumbs Up for a game this good even though it was so bad.

Just finished Narcissu -Side 2nd-, moving on to the original game.

I have to say, for a "minimalistic" visual novel (as TVTropes labels it), it left a deep impression. True, it's slow as someone else said to me before, but it's very touching and ALMOST made me cry a few times.

Clannad. Just finished Tomoyo's route. Working on Fuuko's now. Her's is kinda strange since it depends so much on another girl in order to get the good end. The route's I've finished so far (Kotomi, Sunoharas, Fujibayashis, and now Tomoyo) are no different from the anime although a lot of things feel more fleshed out even though this is the VN. The bad endings are pretty cool in their own right also. Love the VN as much as I do the anime.


Kanon. Haven't decided whose route I wanna do first.Haven't played long enough to say whether I do or don't like but I finished the anime.

Higurashi Ch.1 I can't get into it even with the PS2 graphics patch (which was definitely needed). I've watched the anime with the exception of the Kira OVA.

Yeah. Kotomi actually is my favorite Clannad gal with Kyou and Fuuko right behind her.

I hope Shiori's will be interesting since she is kinda pushed off to the side for most of the anime. TBH the Makoto arc in the anime was the only sad thing outside of the Mai's friend and Akiko getting hurt so I can only imagine how much more depressing the Makoto route in-game will be.

Right now my two main games are, Fate Stay/Night, and Tsukihime. Only on day 6 of the fate route and only on day two of Tsukihime. Yeah I play a lot slower than you guys, but I hopfully will actually finish a game one of these days. Games I have on hold are Umineko, Chaos Head and Hakuoki. I'm playing them just a little off and one, but most it's FS/N and Tsukihime.

Playing Whirlpool's 竜翼のメロディア -Diva with the blessed dragonol.

Musical VN, so I'm like a million loves all the way.

The Queen's voice sounds new to my ears, and very cute. Not the kawaii~ kind of annoying, but just really pure and beautiful. Pretty amazing that they found someone this good to be a voice actor.

So far the story hasn't been disappointing; almost every little twists and turns are interesting to read. Was originally skeptical that it would turn out to be another generic pure love VN, but no, this is a GOOd pure love VN, and that's a huge difference.

Beat Berio's route in Duel Savior. I was extremely disappointed at how easy The Thief Who Takes Lives was this time. I'm curious on why he was so easy this time despite being so fun last time. Also finally lost to Rico and Lily in the arena. Those two suck at offence so much that I was amazed I got killed within the ten minute mark. This is when I was standing completely still and getting something from the kitchen. I skipped the plot.

How do I unlock the third extra, Zolnir?

What third extra lol?

Finally platinum'd ToHeart 2 DX Plus for the PS3

Fuck you Sasara, you made me restart your route more than 5 times. (and Nanako 3 times)
There's one trophy that involves getting her "White swimsuit" variant, and that thing comes out randomly. XD