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Adamant Buzz Blob Staff Wii have Wii                    Since: 11-17-05 From: Norway Last post: 6431 days Last view: 6431 days |
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| So yeah, here's what I've been playing for the last month or so. Not a new game by any means, but it recently got a fan translation, making it understandable for the non-japanese among us.
Being of the visual novel genre, it certainly isn't for everyone, with a "gameplay" revolving around reading a story, and making a couple decisions along the way to watch the game unfold in various direction before eventually culminating in one of the many different endings (or, if you make the wrong desicion at the wrong time, watching the hero die a brutal death, hoping your last save wasn't from that long ago). According to the readme for the translation, the game "dwarfs The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy combined", which I'm not too sure of, but it IS a massive game. Explaining the plot without spoiling anything isn't easy, as many important plot elements don't come into play until quite a bit into the game, but basically, the game revolves around 17-year-old Shiki from the powerful Tohno family, who, after an accident as a kid, has been blessed with the ability to see "the death of all thing" in form of lines and dots. By tracing these lines, he can cut absolutely anything, and by piercing a dot, he will completely destroy the object the dot appeared on. Luckily for him, he has also aquired a pair of magic glasses blocking out this death from his sight, keeping him sane. Having been subsequently disavowed by his family after the accident and sent to live with relatives, he is called back to the Tohno household after his father's death by his sister Akiha, the new head of the family. His life changes completely from this point - not only does his now live in a large mansion with his sister and two female servants around his own age, there's also this mysterious girl at school who seems awfully familiar with him, even though he's not sure if he's even seen her before, as well as him suddenly becoming the center of attention of the most popular girl in class. And while that might not seem too far out, after collapsing from anemia at school one day, and spotting a beautiful girl on his way home, he, for no apparant reason, stalks her all the way to her apartment and kills her with the help of his mystic eyes. After passing out and waking up at home, he disregards that event as a dream - only to find the very girl he killed waiting for him outside school. The story picks up from there, delving into vampirism and mysterious latent powers inthe blood of certain families, while remaining a beautiful love story at heart. It's dark and tragic, and there's no really happy ending to it all (each of the five girls, with one exeption, has two endings - a "true ending" and a "good ending", and things usually end in tears in the true ones), but the story IS really good, and coupled with the first-person point of view, makes you really feel bad for a lot of these characters. Give it a try. However, if you're of the anime-hating crowd, don't bother. You won't like it. 
Oh, and yes, there are hentai scenes in the game. Not a lot, but they're there. The installation file for the translation lets you install a non-hentai version, though. |
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Valcion Knuckle Joe too much high power man   Since: 11-17-05 Last post: 6431 days Last view: 6431 days |
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| Dissapear.
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Darkdata   980  Since: 02-25-06 From: Newfoundland Last post: 6431 days Last view: 6431 days |
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| Interesting but what is it PC, NES, Snes what?
Also where is a link to the translation? |
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Schweiz oder etwas [12:55] (Dr_Death16); I swear, the word drama needs to be stricken from the dictionary, for I've heard it so many times, it will permanently be imprinted on my brain  Since: 11-17-05 From: Kingston, Rhode Island Last post: 6431 days Last view: 6431 days |
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| The game is fan-translated, which means that it is licensed and far from free... But there are ways around that, of course.
I coincidentally happen to be reading the game even as I type this post, and I have to say there's a lot happening behind the scenes that I appreciate. I'm not particularly fond of the "ero" part of it (I could easily write better slash fiction  ), but I'm willing to bear with it as it largely does not affect the plot and the depth of the story beyond that is easily some of the best imaginative work I've seen in years.
What I like is that in spite of all of my attempts to actually get inside of Shiki's head and see what he's seeing and thinking, even his own thoughts seem to betray him -- his mind lies to him because there's still more that he himself feels he shouldn't see. It's a worthwhile read... In spite of this, I do have some issues. There's a lot of repetition, for example. Characters thinking something and then saying it seems to be a by-product of the translation, but a lot of the text could theoretically be cut from the game and the same overall effect would have been received. Much of it is for feeling, yes, but there are still a few instances of redundancy here and there that I feel the game could have gone without. Also, Phil is quite correct: Melty Blood is awesome. |
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Adamant Buzz Blob Staff Wii have Wii Since: 11-17-05 From: Norway Last post: 6431 days Last view: 6431 days |
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Originally posted by Darkdata You can find the patch at either mirror moon or Revolve, as well as countless torrent sites out there. The original game itself, however, you'll have to locate on your own. Shouldn't be too hard to find. And yeah, it's a PC game. The screenshot doesn't really look like something from a NES or SNES game, does it? |
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