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3 hours ago- In Stars And Time (and it’s prequel Start Again: a prologue)
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Happy New Year!
I spent the last month playing a bunch of different indie VNs
I had high expectations and they got surpassed, can’t believe nth Circle did it again! I binged the new ep over the span of a few days immediately after release.
While Episode 0 dealt with a serial killer case and Episode 1 with a murder in the (mega-) corporate sphere, Ep 2 is all about the mob.
The case is definitely a step up both in terms of scale, complexity and production value, they even added in new character themes for Morgan and Emma :D I felt thoroughly entertained right from the start. There was already some neat set-up for future developments as well,
Tap for spoiler
as Morgan now made herself the target of some sort of super assassin. Whoopsie, that’s what you get for stealing from the mob. Due to the unwanted spotlight and a few slip-ups, Emma seems to also start to suspect her more.
They also already announced Episode 3, the waiting begins anew.
Z.A.T.O. // I love the World and Everything in it
I picked this free denpa VN up after a recommendation by an IRL friend and finished it in 2 days. It’s short but a great experience, so I immediately went and bought the digital artbook afterwards to support the dev. Apropos, the dev is a somewhat well-known Vocaloid producer, as I found out later.
It’s set in a closed town in the USSR and the protag is a school girl with a very peculiar world-view who gets bullied regularly. The story revolves around the disappearance of her friend and I won’t spoil more. If you’re a fan of Serial Experiments Lain, this is an easy rec!
Artificial Selection (Demo Version)
This one’s an “anti-killing game” VN with escape room mini games.
The setting is only revealed bit by bit but it seems to be some sort of near future surveillance state. The main cast are all criminals who have to participate in this game in order to rehabilitate themselves, though we don’t know which crimes in particular they committed yet.
I haven’t fully formed an opinion on the game yet, except that the protagonist reminds me of some sort of nervous hamster (affectionate). His ugly-cute smile has won me over, also.
I’ve also very much fallen in love with the game’s UI! Kigyo is a Ren’Py wizard and I’ve probably spent an hour analyzing all the little design details!
Still following MangoCake’s Hundred Line playthrough! We’re now at 30/100
Spoilers for Serial Battles, Casual and Box of Calamity Routes
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Serial battles was just a whole lot of skipping, just to drop a brand-new piece of lore that wasn’t followed up on (maybe in a different route?)
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Casual was part strange and part very unnerving in a good way. Really loved what this whole thing told us about Takumi :)
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We’re now one ending into Box of Calamity and accidentally spoiled the identity of the killer :/ but despite that i’m really invested so far!
I also started playing Hanako Game’s successor to Long Live the Queen, Galaxy Princess Zorana! And I managed to barely survive until the election on my first playthrough. Of course I lost it by a mile :,)
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hundred line definitely is closer to VN than strategy game, especially since you can skip practically all of the gameplay sequences after a certain point^^
Current Hundred Line progress: 26/100! and i’m completely sold now
Spoilers for multiple Hundred Line routes (I'm listing them at the beginning)
I’ve watched Mangocake now clear the Coming of Age, 2nd Scenario, Rebellion, Goodbye Eito, Conspiracy, Cult of Takumi, Eva and Multiple Eitos routes. The last one was my absolute favourite so far. Like brain-chemistry-alteringly good. The routes are hit or miss overall (especially the Conspiracy one), and sometimes severely undercooked (looking at Rebellion here), but the ones that do hit, hit hard.
2nd scenario has had the highest production value by far, so I guess it’s supposed to be the closest thing to a true end? It was definitely very emotional, but I didn’t agree with it :/ Having everyone sacrifice themselves and leave Nozomi behind wasn’t very satisfying. (not to mention that Takumi effectively managed to make everything worse in this route, compared to route 0)
Eva route felt like a better rebellion route (and even had more positive consequences?). The kaiju fight between commander!Eva and V’exhness was pretty cool and the romance between Eva and Takumi was sweet as well.
Multiple Eitos is an absolute feast for toxic yaoi fans, like, a 4-course menu of nuclear level toxicity. When Takumi kept committing suicide in order to torture Eito who was trying to take over his body from the inside, I was clinging to the screen sickos-style. Delicious 🥰
Kodaka also confirmed that they’re looking into a DLC, but I hope for an update first so they can fix all the spelling mistakes in the English localization and maybe flesh out existing routes a little bit more?
7·2 months agoI’ve completely switched to Otto, and I’m pretty content so far. Only problem is that the choice of products isn’t quite as broad
Cross Code is a pixel action RPG made by a German studio that was pretty well-received!
I’ve been watching MangoCake stream Hundred Line after I’ve gifted it to them, and they finished route zero yesterday. Now continuing with the second scenario…without spoiling too much, I am very very hooked. Eito Aotsuki, my beloved
Huge spoilers for Hundred line route 0 below
Honestly, the base game is kind of hard to get through since the protag is so, so painfully oblivious and a complete pushover. There are multiple points where there’s clearly something suspicious going on, but the story completely glosses over it, not to mention that there are several scenes where the way the protag acts just makes no sense at all.
It was around day 50+ where it got especially bad, since the game literally forces you to gaslight a girl into not joining the fight because her obsessive brother wants so. The whole thing is even more frustrating because we have recruited several people who are clearly less suited for fighting than her with no qualms (like, people who get physically ill when they get stressed out or are involved in a conflict), but somehow this healthy, very enthusiastic person is not qualified not be a soldier according to the protag. Mango literally said on stream that, if they weren’t streaming it, that would have been the point where they’d just close the game. In the end, the situation gets resolved when said girl puts her foot down and defends her decision against both the protag and her brother, but it still left a bad aftertaste. I spoiled myself a lot beforehand, and if I hadn’t known that there would be time travel involved, I would have agreed. SO glad that the protag grows a lot in his second run.
I’m mainly in for the mystery and eito at this point
Had the chance to play the demo at gamescom and talk to the devs. the game is both really beautiful and fun, really looking forward to it!
The jump in visual fidelity isnt that big and I don’t like what they did with the faces of the new models :(
- Fable: The Lost Chapters (no, the anniversary edition does not count)
- The Last Story
I cried while watching Yuri on Ice, when yuri perfectly executed his eros performance ;_; those were wild times
Kinda late to the party but yet, there is a CRT monitor shader by devil spider! There are also retro shader effects from the Make Visual Novels! shader pack that might add interesting effects.
Edit: just saw that tal already linked devil spider’s pack >.<
2·5 months agoYes! Many people in the english-speaking vndev space consider her the top source for marketing-related info :D
121·6 months agokindly use /s next time please^^;
According to this article by Rock Paper Shotgun, they have connections to known fundamentalist and conservative groups.
Collective Shout is run by christian fundamentalists
Payment processors should not get to police what kind of legal transactions people use their services for. No matter how much you dislike the particular product. And especially since they have an effective monopoly. If we let them go through with this, it would open the gateway for them to enact the kind of control over our consumption that should be exclusive to elected officials.
game jams and indie games. there’s no fee for publishing your game there, so it’s the go-to place for indiedevs
Romance VN parodies are very common, and they seldom show any respect for the genre or the playerbase (Just think of the dozen dating sims/ fake dating sim announcements that pop up every year for april fools) So people are understandably a bit hesitant when a game with a concept like Date Everything shows up. I thought it was a parody game as well and kept away from it.
