Visual Novels Options

[Irysa]

What're your thoughts and inputs on them in general/what have you played?

Not "true" games? Inferior and dumbed down versions of adventure games? Atypically generic love stories for lonely virgins? Replacement of human contact for the socially inept?

Or maybe you had some GOOD things to say about them, hah.


I'm working on finishing Tsukihime and Ever17, both of which have been extremely bad. I gave up on trying to do F/SN altogether, and Yume Miru Kusuri.


Mostly I feel these significantly suffer from dialect and such being lost in translation along with the writing style not being particularly amazing in the first place. I've not seen any that really enhanced the experience significantly with their music or artwork, as I have a vivid imagination anyway. I'm still of the general opinion that most who do enjoy them a lot don't usually read normal books.

[Megaolix]

Too bad we couldn't have Archer's voice saying his own chant.

Anyway, I've seen two translated scenes of the third route on MM's forums. One thing I know for sure is that Shirou's is way different than in the other two routes. As in he's not weak. Far from it.

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The first scene is All the Evil in the World. Happens near the ending. The second is Nine Bullet Revolver. Just scroll down a litle on the same link.

http://forums.mirrormoon.org/viewtopic.php?t=1594

In my opinion, the first scene is EPIC.

I also found the japanese versions of Shirou and Archer's chants, if anyone is interested.

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Shirou

My body is made out of swords.
My blood is of iron and my heart of glass
I survived through countless battles
Not even once retreating,
Not even once victorious
The bearer lies here alone
Forging iron on the hill of swords.
But my life needs no meaning.
This body was made out of limitless swords.

Archer

His body is made out of swords.
His blood is of iron and his heart of glass.
He survived through countless battles.
Not even once retreating,
Not even once being understood.
He was always alone, intoxicated with victory on the hill of swords.
And thus, his life has no meaning.
That body was surely made out of swords.

This post has been edited by Megaolix: Jun 20 2008, 04:22 AM