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Eh, I'll take it too. Hadn't heard about it, honestly stopped paying attention to Key 'cause it took forever for Angel Beats to even become realized.
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Summer Pockets is pretty good imo. Not as good as Key's golden era, but it's a worthy successor to the legacy.
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I liked Rewrite but the common route is long as shit but once the split happens shit gets real.
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I've got a really interesting game to showcase that isn't technically out yet.
It's a Western title called whispers from the rift.
I gave money to the dev team a while back and got an early version of this along with 2000 or so people. Which was pretty dam cool in all honesty.
The backstory behind it is very interesting. Essentially this is a prequel to a deus ex/mass effect game series called consortium. Where your playing the main character from that game before he becomes a judge dredd style super cop. he's infiltrateing a Japanese military base armed with nukes and has to stop the "terrorists"
The twist is that your controlling him via an implant and he's fully conscious. What that means is you're either subconsciously advising him or completely hijacking his motor functions in order to progress the story.
The whole gimmick of the company that makes these games is that they pretend everything is 100 percent real and that you're controlling a real person in another world. So everything you do has a heavy weight to it. You are playing a puppeteer and the game does not shy away from the horrific implications of that.
If you're like me you're going to try to get this guy and his buddies through Metal gear solid shit alive. Fail, feel like crap and then start over again. It's awesome, and I love how unafraid the game is at giving you hard choices and messed up options. you're also thrown into this world with little in way of reference so it's fun figuring things out. There's not much in the way of obtuse terminology thankfully.
I'm surprised this hasn't come out yet. I know they are adding more content and images to it but the version I played was pretty solid writing wise. It does have significant spoilers about the character you're playing and the forces manipulating him, but otherwise is a decent standalone experience.
It's a Western title called whispers from the rift.
I gave money to the dev team a while back and got an early version of this along with 2000 or so people. Which was pretty dam cool in all honesty.
The backstory behind it is very interesting. Essentially this is a prequel to a deus ex/mass effect game series called consortium. Where your playing the main character from that game before he becomes a judge dredd style super cop. he's infiltrateing a Japanese military base armed with nukes and has to stop the "terrorists"
The twist is that your controlling him via an implant and he's fully conscious. What that means is you're either subconsciously advising him or completely hijacking his motor functions in order to progress the story.
The whole gimmick of the company that makes these games is that they pretend everything is 100 percent real and that you're controlling a real person in another world. So everything you do has a heavy weight to it. You are playing a puppeteer and the game does not shy away from the horrific implications of that.
If you're like me you're going to try to get this guy and his buddies through Metal gear solid shit alive. Fail, feel like crap and then start over again. It's awesome, and I love how unafraid the game is at giving you hard choices and messed up options. you're also thrown into this world with little in way of reference so it's fun figuring things out. There's not much in the way of obtuse terminology thankfully.
I'm surprised this hasn't come out yet. I know they are adding more content and images to it but the version I played was pretty solid writing wise. It does have significant spoilers about the character you're playing and the forces manipulating him, but otherwise is a decent standalone experience.
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Double review time, even better both are somewhat similar but one is good and the other really bad:
* Rail of Mobius: A game by small developers. Guy goes with his class to an underwater train, dies and discovers he is in a time loop and needs to break out. An overall good 8-10 hours game with likable characters that goes above the usual tropes and with some hard hitting moments. My only gripe is that I wish it had more cast and more events with the characters in between (which is rare for VNs that usually have way too much filler). Highly recommend, especially as it now on sale.
* Anonymous;Code: From the creators of Steins;Gate - In the near future, a hacker gets the ability to save and load and needs to use it to avert a world spanning conspiracy. How do I even start to talk about it, this whole game is a mess. The character design is ugly, none of the characters are developed or memorable and that's just the basic looks. The UI is terrible, you can't see previous text if you're not currently following the main characters (because it's their AR headset recording what's happening, which makes no sense when it's thoughts being transcribed or descriptions). To "load" in-game you need to be at a specific point in the text, meaning that upon reaching a dead-end, you need to spam the auto-load key, sometimes in previous scenes before the protagonist should even know he is in danger. I don't even bother trying to find the bonus bad ends because it's basically going to a guide or just spamming auto-load every time the main character does a save.
The plot of the game is just a collection of uninteresting tech mumbo-jumbo. We have evil doomsday Christians, because Japan still didn't get over WW2, who try to cause the apocalypse because... they are zealots. Also some of them have super powers but that's way less important than you'd think. One character can teleport somehow and it's considered normal. There's the idea that we're living in a simulation, which is just pointless, make you care much less for the characters and actively ruins Steins;Gate because they share the same universe. The final villain is also discount Akira that is more annoying than threatening with how much of a bitch he is and his OP abilties.
But the absolute worst thing about the game is that it plays a card in the beginning that ruins the rest of it. You start the game with loading a save file of the protagonist knowing everything that's going to happen, only to rewind to his chronological start of the game with him not knowing jack shit. If you ever played a VN you'd know that you'll eventually end up getting to that point with all the context, meaning that nothing fucking matters in the game because every character development or event will end up rewritten by the point that load happens.
tl;dr: I don't recommend.
* Rail of Mobius: A game by small developers. Guy goes with his class to an underwater train, dies and discovers he is in a time loop and needs to break out. An overall good 8-10 hours game with likable characters that goes above the usual tropes and with some hard hitting moments. My only gripe is that I wish it had more cast and more events with the characters in between (which is rare for VNs that usually have way too much filler). Highly recommend, especially as it now on sale.
* Anonymous;Code: From the creators of Steins;Gate - In the near future, a hacker gets the ability to save and load and needs to use it to avert a world spanning conspiracy. How do I even start to talk about it, this whole game is a mess. The character design is ugly, none of the characters are developed or memorable and that's just the basic looks. The UI is terrible, you can't see previous text if you're not currently following the main characters (because it's their AR headset recording what's happening, which makes no sense when it's thoughts being transcribed or descriptions). To "load" in-game you need to be at a specific point in the text, meaning that upon reaching a dead-end, you need to spam the auto-load key, sometimes in previous scenes before the protagonist should even know he is in danger. I don't even bother trying to find the bonus bad ends because it's basically going to a guide or just spamming auto-load every time the main character does a save.
The plot of the game is just a collection of uninteresting tech mumbo-jumbo. We have evil doomsday Christians, because Japan still didn't get over WW2, who try to cause the apocalypse because... they are zealots. Also some of them have super powers but that's way less important than you'd think. One character can teleport somehow and it's considered normal. There's the idea that we're living in a simulation, which is just pointless, make you care much less for the characters and actively ruins Steins;Gate because they share the same universe. The final villain is also discount Akira that is more annoying than threatening with how much of a bitch he is and his OP abilties.
But the absolute worst thing about the game is that it plays a card in the beginning that ruins the rest of it. You start the game with loading a save file of the protagonist knowing everything that's going to happen, only to rewind to his chronological start of the game with him not knowing jack shit. If you ever played a VN you'd know that you'll eventually end up getting to that point with all the context, meaning that nothing fucking matters in the game because every character development or event will end up rewritten by the point that load happens.
tl;dr: I don't recommend.
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I've been playing something called "Hush Hush" on the Switch, made by a company called Sad Panda, who also did a game called "Crush Crush", a F2P game where you go around dating a bunch of women that you accidentally encounter and fuck over, so you have to make it up to them, and then they eventually fall in love with you after you build-up your personality/hobbies and work enough jobs to where you have a fuck-ton of money to buy them shit.
In Hush Hush, the same girls in Crush Crush are there, except this time it's a VN with choices and picking the wrong one essentially lands you a game over, so there's some actual consequences to your decisions. You have to date 5 SPECIFIC girls at the same time and keep them happy for the sake of humanity. You're given this order by two goddesses in a dream after you've won a ticket to a far-away island. There's other women that live on the island but you're not supposed to date them because they aren't part of the chosen 5 and that means straying away from the path, which results in one of the chosen 5 either dying or getting arrested or some other bad shit happening to them, which results in a game over.
If this sounds similar to HuniPop 2, that's because it kinda is. It even has a tranny in the game, but unlike HuniPop 2, you can't change the gender, and this tranny in particular is as obvious as they get (slim man-ish body with multi-colored hair, dresses as a dude in his job, wears a sundress when not working). THANKFULLY the tranny is not part of the chosen 5, but has a sister (who is an actual woman but also has multi colored hair) that is one of the chosen 5. Incidentally the two of them are supposed to be japanese, so make of that what you will. The downside is that the trany winds up hitting on you for most of the beginning of the game even when you're clearly trying to get with the sister instead.
Hhaven't gotten too far into the game, but already got a game-over because I ignored the Tsundere shoplifting bitch.
In Hush Hush, the same girls in Crush Crush are there, except this time it's a VN with choices and picking the wrong one essentially lands you a game over, so there's some actual consequences to your decisions. You have to date 5 SPECIFIC girls at the same time and keep them happy for the sake of humanity. You're given this order by two goddesses in a dream after you've won a ticket to a far-away island. There's other women that live on the island but you're not supposed to date them because they aren't part of the chosen 5 and that means straying away from the path, which results in one of the chosen 5 either dying or getting arrested or some other bad shit happening to them, which results in a game over.
If this sounds similar to HuniPop 2, that's because it kinda is. It even has a tranny in the game, but unlike HuniPop 2, you can't change the gender, and this tranny in particular is as obvious as they get (slim man-ish body with multi-colored hair, dresses as a dude in his job, wears a sundress when not working). THANKFULLY the tranny is not part of the chosen 5, but has a sister (who is an actual woman but also has multi colored hair) that is one of the chosen 5. Incidentally the two of them are supposed to be japanese, so make of that what you will. The downside is that the trany winds up hitting on you for most of the beginning of the game even when you're clearly trying to get with the sister instead.
Hhaven't gotten too far into the game, but already got a game-over because I ignored the Tsundere shoplifting bitch.
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Just got done playing Milk Inside A Bag Of Milk Inside A Bag Of Milk and it reminds me of all those surreal avant-garde arthouse projects like Eraserhead and Tetsuo: The Iron Man.
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Adding to this since I've gotten further into the game...
Regarding the date mechanics (which I forgot to mention in my first post), when you meet a girl for a date, she has a heart bar at the top, with 4 hearts being 100% (or A+), which get's you an achivement. What you may not realize is that this is one of THOSE games where you, on more than one occasion, have to pick a bad response to LOWER the heart meter so you can raise it back up more than you would with the correct answers. I didn't know this until I caved in and looked up an A+ walkthrough on the game's steam page, and apparently this game has all kinds of bullshit where you can just walk into traps unknowingly.
Also, as expected, the Switch version is a non 18+ game with some dialogue re-written. Some of it fucking weird too... like you get interrogated by a female cop, which you can flirt with, but the last 18+ option is begging her to allow you to look up her skirt. The non 18+ version has you begging to lick her boot, as if she's some dominatrix... which IMO just sounds worse and nasty.
The reason why I caved in to the walkthrough is because even after doing (what i thought) was the right choices, the Tsundere fucking croaked on me, AGAIN. There's a dude-bro that help you out in the form of a fortune teller where you get mobile hints everyday, and he's even like "yea, watch out for this bitch, she's trouble, make sure she's always happy". And of course you find out later she's a cliche trope of "she's not bad, just misunderstood", as she had a fucked up past, really loves her nona that died on her, and is actually working for the cops undercover. I won't get into details, but the island you're vacationing in has some fucked-up shit going on, and since you're "Mr. Wonderful", you have to be the hero.
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Don't know how haram this is considered, but i'm playing Nekopara Vol 1. It's fucking weird. Elon, i know you want catgirls, but holy fuck, not like this. It's the most moe neko bullshit ive ever read. Too many maid outfits.
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I'm trying to get back into Zero Time Dilemma between playing Ys 8 (my hands cramp playing fast paced action games these days). I just can't get into it as much as the previous entries for some reason, I've tried a few times but I just feel sort of apathetic to it. I feel like the art is worse and the game structure seems more repetitive, the characters are less interesting too, even the puzzles.
It's not a bad game, but it's somewhat disappointing considering how great the others were, especially Virtue's Last Reward.
It's not a bad game, but it's somewhat disappointing considering how great the others were, especially Virtue's Last Reward.
Switching sides in the great loli war huh?
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This is strictly for meme purposes, that and i listened to a hour long youtube breakdown on the batshit worldbuilding. It's a understatement. This thing is cringeSwitching sides in the great loli war huh?
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Nekopara is a slightly higher effort fetish game, the actual story of the thing comes secondary to delivering on the promise of "Popular Pixiv Artist draws porn."
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I'm not even a hour in and I'm already seeing that. I'm just glad it was only 10 bucks. It's also throttling my laptop, which isn't the hardest, having a 11th gen Intel i5 4 core processor, but still, Fate ultimate edition with all its mod packs didn't get it as hot as this 3gb game
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I'm not about to praise nekopara as anything more than what it is, a 15 dollar nukige you can buy on steam. But, compared to the dozen or so shitty Miel games that also fit into that category, Nekopara has them beat by a country mile. It's got sharp artwork and they hired a decent voice cast, not sure you could really ask for more... Y'know... Given what the game's goals are.
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Oh shit, you even got the uncensored version (strictly for research purposes only, I'm sure)! I thought you were on a Switch kick recently, though I guess it'd probably be more expensive on eShop.
Speaking of eShop, does anyone know of a list of Switch exclusive VNs?
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No I got the uncensored because a generous farmer gave me the link and that was that. I finished it months ago. Good game. Absolutely CRINGE sex scenes I skipped through hard enough to break my mouse
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Until recently, Mahoutsukai no Yoru was exclusive to Switch. Funny enough, the only all ages version of Amakano is on Switch, although it's not available in English.
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Witch on the Holy Night is good btw. Not finished with it yet, bit that's just because it's dense
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Really progressive of Type Moon to make Ryan Gosling a major character in one of their most important games.
