Kaimax Posts

For that route only I guess. I found out that the point of that Jewel was to get the Rope, which in turn used to get the Silver Medal, so I did that and basically completed all the other ends of Mitsuru/Eriko route. Hopefully I got it correct though. >_>

EDIT:

Well I played this Visual Novel under recommendation of a good friend, and overall it was immensely satisfying and very interactive. Still, this is not without flaws as I'd now state here both the goods and the bads of this VN.

So first, although YU-NO is made at 1996 by no means this is meant for casual readers. In fact, put on your professor's glasses because it involves one helluva knowledge bomb (especially during the Epilogue) that would confuse you horribly with complicated scientific terms and theories. Since this involves one of the writers (I think?) of the infamous Ever 17 after all it is not unexpected, but still. Confusing.

It is not a poor plot (again I must say that it is satisfying overall) but it suffers immensely from several factors:

1) Too short. You'll learn a lot about the characters during the short 3 days (after repeating a million times of playthrough I find it hard NOT to understand them) and the Epilogue, but heck, this needs to be longer. Only a few characters get the proper amount of exposure they needed, and there are a surprising amount of number of them.

2) Poor explanation of origins and characters. I can't put too much here without spoiling the experience, but basically the origins of many characters - as well as the just wasn't explained thoroughly enough. We have It just wasn't enough; it's like the VN is trying to squeeze in too many things and succeeded only at laying the foundation and not much of everything else.

3) And this leads to point number 3. YU-NO ultimately reads like the prequel of something big. I can easily imagine this being the Mother of one helluva epic story and following sequels with many, many worlds and possibilities branching out to be something... awesome. A Root of Origin. But heck, since there never was a sequel to the VN, all of its potential and possibilities were simply wasted. It is a prequel to nothing at all, and that feels really, really sad.

So onto the other faults (though they can count as good) of the VN. The Jewel Save system is kind of a dual-nature feature where it is both extremely cool and FUCKING ANNOYING to use when playing YU-NO. I was the lucky guy who used THREE WALKTHROUGHS (1 image map and 2 texts) to play the game, and I can't imagine how many years of life the original players lost just to try and beat the game, much less achieving 100% clear. That being said, by the end of the game you'll be able to go through every single PATH you want with eyes half closed... since you've them completely memorized through countless playthroughs.

The time map is near useless, but that's from a 2013 point of view. I'm guessing that during 1996 it's the only thing that kept the guys going without completely exploding and spitting blood on the producers. It does a good job of showing you where you are, where the Jewels might be, the branching of paths, and Endings in a very simplified style. Heck, it might even be a real model actually used by researchers, who knows?

All in all this is a good VN, recommended for play (I'm going to enjoy your suffering VERY. MUCH.), and deserve a 7.5 out of 10 for its worth. No 8 because my dear Kanna-chan was defiled and relegated to a sub character despite her prophetic appearances throughout the game. Middle finger!

EDIT 2: ミライセカイのプラネッタ First Impression.

So I thought I'd give this VN a try since it introduces a less-than-common IT/Virtual Reality setting, but boy was I disappointed (Konatsu route finished only).

So first, the story is told in a very fast pace. Way too fast, so fast that I thought that I must've gotten a fake version which has cut out portions to intentionally screw with people. To put it bluntly, I have no idea when my protagonist fell in love with the heroine, no idea that they actually defeated (I thought it was just chased away, but oh my fuck shit it was dead??) the culprit of the Ghost Incident (which was: , no idea why a dog who was supposed to be dead ages ago came back at that one moment to save the protagonist, then disappear for real permanently this time. Bullshit. Bullshit I'm telling you.

There were times when a certain scene should provoke a reaction from the characters, but they never showed any hint of it. For example, the black, eye-patch girl was the 'ghost' the protagonist saw during the 'Breakdown' disaster, but he didn't recognize her at all. There were many, many other unexplainable scenes that pisses me off as well.

Also, the game is buggy. There was a time where the background image was out of position, and another where the transition went completely crazy and... I don't even know how to describe what happen.

I understand that this company Libre probably don't earn much and hence most of their presentation and art are sub par, which is fine, but what the heck, at least make sure your game is BUGLESS and DOES NOT SOMETIMES (due to incomprehensibly script skip and super fast story progression - for example, I faced a demon. next line 'I beat the demon' like WTF) READ WORSE THAN PURE SHIT VNS LIKE JUSTY X NASTY.

I'm going to go through all the other routes (since it seems a requirement to reach true end), but if this bullshit keeps up I might just drop it altogether. It's only the interesting setting (even though it's horribly inaccurate and illogical sometimes) that kept me reading.

EDIT 2: Holy SHIT I'm amazed how fucked up this VN can be. Konatsu's route is complete bullshit, I have no idea about Ranka since she's the type I really hate, Sayaka's route was okay but were riddled with bugs too and Choko's... Choko's ended with a MOTHER FUCKING 'TO BE CONTINUED'??? ON A STORY THAT HAS A TRUE END? WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK?