Visual Novels

[Kraco]

This game is the funniest thing I've read/watched/experienced in years. It made me laugh out loud literally many times, bothering the other boarders in the staff house.

I'm kind of frustrated with how big a loser Shirou is in this. I hope that will change before long, as I'm only at 36% or something. I get it the structure of the story almost requires something like this, so it couldn't have been avoided entirely no matter what. But it still annoys me considering in FSN he excelled in fights after his own fashion, which is no wonder since he's the Archer precursor. He's such a fool otherwise that if you take away his performance in fights, there's nothing left. No sign of that in Ataraxia so far. I bet Issei would beat Shirou in a 1 vs 1 bout in this game.

[shinta|hikari]

You have Rider and Saber in the same house and you are concerned about Shirou?

There's something wrong with you.

In any case, keep reading. Even Shirou will have his moments.

[MasterOfMoogles]

I'm probably around 50% now. There are some legitimately funny scenes, but man, the plot is purposely told in the most confusing a way possible.
Also, I seriously don't care about the 20+ events involving lunch or dinner. Why in the world did they think it was so interesting to have so many of those?

[shinta|hikari]

Because people like me exist.

[Kraco]

I wonder how they are planning to make the Rewrite anime work. After the common route, the endings for the girls are so vastly different they can hardly try the worst mash'n'mix approach some VN anime adaptations try. On the other hand, the routes are so long that they can't possibly cover more than one to go for the Amagami way. Maybe they'll pick a single route and insert some individual scenes from other routes when possible. In that case I wonder whose route it would be. Or maybe they will do something else entirely. I hope it'll get sufficient production values. I'm looking forward to it in any case, even if with healthy caution. The jokes alone will be worth it, though.

[shinta|hikari]

I'm thinking they will ignore the endings of the girls and just focus on the main story. But seriously, Rewrite is the type of VN that you don't adapt into anime, unlike Grisaia, which still got screwed over on the Fruits series.

[Kraco]

Playing Princess Waltz makes me think Shirou wasn't, after all, such a bad VN main character despite all the badmouthing he's getting (from me as well). He might have been naive and idealistic with his hero complex, but at least he doesn't have a rubber boot's IQ.

Edit: Actually, I feel bad for insulting rubber boots by comparing Arata to them. Even a rubber boot has its pride.

[shinta|hikari]

Why are you even playing that crap?

Go play Dengeki Stryker (the new complete version) or something. Or learn Japanese and play real VNs.

Tokyo Babel is out, by the way. I read only 1 route in Japanese, and it was pretty good. No sex, but the VA cast is amazing because of that. Seriously, check the link and be amazed at the names they got for this.

Lots of action, which was why I gave up on reading it in moonrunes (too tiresome for little gain), but the English version that just came out should make the looooong battles readable. It's 3rd on my list to read right now.

[Kraco]

Why are you even playing that crap?

Because it has been installed on my laptop for years, practically untouched. With my desktop currently out of commission, I thought I'd finally play it. I don't actually think it's that bad, the MC is just a great fool. At the very least it's not a regular dating sim.

[shinta|hikari]

Skip it and go for Tokyo Babel.