General Eroge Impressions & Discussion

[Newprimus]

Originally Posted by Erhjegel

Gouen no Soleil's demo is up and available for download!

WAZZAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Orrin]

Chaos Head's demo is also up for download.

[Dagger]

Thanks for the heads-up! Gonna go check out Chaos Head ASAP.

[Dagger]

So I played through the trial ver. once. Wow, really intriguing stuff. Except I haven't figured out what to do with those beeping red and green dots that appear at the top of the screen once in a while... is there a way to make something happen with them, or are they just some kind of signal?

If I could figure out how to extract the script, I might consider translating the demo. Any suggestions? Really interested in the full game now (I mean, not that I wasn't already, but still).

[Orrin]

Originally Posted by Magus IX

So I played through the trial ver. once. Wow, really intriguing stuff. Except I haven't figured out what to do with those beeping red and green dots that appear at the top of the screen once in a while... is there a way to make something happen with them, or are they just some kind of signal?

I was a bit confused about them first as well. If you click the green one Takumi will get delusional and quite hilarious scenes can occur.

Spoiler for A example for the one with Nanami:

「こ……これは……なんというエロゲフラグ……！
実妹攻略可ですか！」

And I also found it very entertaining, going to be a long month to wait for the full game now.

[Newprimus]

Gouen no Soleil trial was win! Nagare and Rin's interaction reminds me much of Ryuuhei and Sol's bickering, except this time they added some of that master-servant element from Familiar Spirit so Nagare can coerce Rin to do whatever if she wants her to (no abusive play so far, so don't worry). Nagare is a hilarious protagonist.

[Hemisphere]

LOL yeah. It was awesome seeing Rin go "Yes Master - HEY WAIT WHAT?!". I can't wait for the full game to come out!

[Varion]

Originally Posted by Magus IX

So I played through the trial ver. once. Wow, really intriguing stuff. Except I haven't figured out what to do with those beeping red and green dots that appear at the top of the screen once in a while... is there a way to make something happen with them, or are they just some kind of signal?

If I could figure out how to extract the script, I might consider translating the demo. Any suggestions? Really interested in the full game now (I mean, not that I wasn't already, but still).

http://www.tsukuru.info/tlwiki/index...e:Gnc_logo.png

You could always try contacting this guy who seems to have Gekkou's engine worked out, and I figure Chaos Head's wouldn't be all that different (but I've never played either, so I wouldn't know for sure). The translation for that project doesn't seem to be moving anywhere fast so he might be able to help.

[Dagger]

Unfortunately, it looks like Chaos Head uses .npa archive format instead of .pak like Gekkou and some of the other older-but-not-too-old Nitro games. ;_; I don't know a lot about these things, but I'm guessing that for now I can work up to the first decision point safely (using agth or something to pull out the original text)... I assume that it's once the option for alternate scenes comes up that you really need to have the original script files at hand.

I'll try contacting him (or making a general plea for help at the VisualNews forum) once I've gotten that far. The decision point comes early on, so it shouldn't take long, once I sit down and get my school-related stuff out of the way, haha.

[Varion]

Originally Posted by Magus IX

Unfortunately, it looks like Chaos Head uses .npa archive format instead of .pak like Gekkou and some of the other older-but-not-too-old Nitro games. ;_; I don't know a lot about these things, but I'm guessing that for now I can work up to the first decision point safely (using agth or something to pull out the original text)... I assume that it's once the option for alternate scenes comes up that you really need to have the original script files at hand.

I'll try contacting him (or making a general plea for help at the VisualNews forum) once I've gotten that far. The decision point comes early on, so it shouldn't take long, once I sit down and get my school-related stuff out of the way, haha.

Yeah, can't find .npa on the usual formats list so it looks like they made up a nice new format to spite you. No idea how hard a new format would be to figure out but yeah, Visualnews or maybe even /jp/ will probably be your best bets. The latter might just jump on you to translate Saya instead though.

Should be okay just translating from AGTH until someone works it out if you do it japanese line/english line style formatting, it'd just take a bit more time than it otherwise would - but probably still less than starting once the format's sorted. The only problem really would be if no one can figure the format out and you've wasted all that work...

[Kresnik]

I don't really know should I be happy or sad knowing that Chaos;Head is a 15+ game. I guess that shows how much my mind has been corrupted.

(>_<)a

[johnishida]

Today I finished all the individual routes of FORTUNE ARTERIAL so, before I read the True Ending, I would like to share my thoughts of the game’s story so far.

First, my general impression.

All the routes had their strong and weak points, some more on the latter side. Every time the story reached its climax and you just don’t know what to do with all accumulated tension and suspense then, suddenly, everything ends which is not necessarily bad just “unsatisfying”. This doesn’t mean the story is bad or disappointing is just that (in my case) it leaves you wanting more and more.

As for characters, right now, I’m torn between Kiriha and Erika >.< They are both great characters! Kiriha is… I will quote Kouhei here:

くそっ、なんてかわい人なん

Erika is also lovely, though, on a different way. dere dere Kiriha and Erika are just MOE. Kiriha is slightly lovelier though. Both of them are honest with their feelings towards Kouhei which is good considering the nature of their routes. Also, every time these two girls talk to each other is just hilarious.

Their stories are not directly related but, the concept is basically the same. Of course, they are different enough as not to conflict with each other.

Also, does someone know what the text that appears at the end of Erika’s route says? and, anyone has the ending song for Erika? It's called Akai Yakuzoku.

Next to those two stands Shiro-chan. Quite the innocent type yet, bold which surprised me. She would often take the first step when she and Kouhei enter the love love mode. A good example would be:

Spoiler:

Before her first h-scene she fell asleep due to the tiredness accumulated with all the work of the Student Council. When she wakes up, half-sleep, she tells Kouhei if he would like to go to the bed? When Kouhei asks her what she meant by that she reveals to him that she was practicing how to say in her room before coming to his.

After the h-scene she also reveals she took a bath beforehand ‘cause she was expecting THAT to happen that night.

As part of the Tougi house she is very formal in the way she speaks and acts. She works hard as not to be a burden for her brother. There is still some unexplained stuff in her story which I hope will be solved in the True End.

Last but no less come Haruna and Kanade-san (in that order). Haruna and Kanade are the only characters whose past was fully explored yet a HUGE doubt remains in my mind but is just too much of a spoiler to say it… Apart from that, Kanade’s existence is pretty much an extra for Haruna.

Haruna and Kanade are both your childhood friends. Haruna is perhaps the most normal of the girls: Cute yet beautiful, great at house shores such a laundry, cooking, etc. Has a quiet personality and is attentive with the people who surround her. Plus, her club “uniform” is just GREAT (Thank Iori for that).

Kanade is noisy and energetic but that is because she always wants everyone to have fun. More of the elder-sister type cares a lot for Haruna and wishes for her to be happy.

Well, so far the game has been pretty good. In numerical value would be around 7 out of 10. For the comments I have read about the True End I hope it goes from pretty good to great or perfect which would be 9/10 and 10/10

[Hemisphere]

Awesome, can't wait to see what you think of FA's true end!

Which reminds me, I have to get started on Yoake and FA soon.

[serenade_beta]

Finished my playing of Yoake Mae Yori iro na and Witch's Slave...
Don't intend to play Sayaka's or Wreathlit's paths (Yoake), or that stupid teacher's path (Witch's Slave).

Spoiler for Yoake thoughts:

Yoake... wasn't as good as I expected. Music was nice though.

Maybe I'm just getting fed up off colorless protagonists like this guy, but he really didn't interest me.
I don't have any interest in Sayaka or her path at all, nor Wreathlit's because I would have to go through Sayaka's to get to her. And... I have this feeling the path is going to be on that boring war between the Earth and the Moon...

Didn't really feel this way until my second time through the game, but the game just tends to be a bit overdramatic...
And how annoying that Natsuki can have the most normal relationship with the guy, yet her end felt like a bad/bittersweet/just bitter end...

But made it through Feena's, Mia's, Natsuki's, and Mai's and liked it, though Feena's was a bit of a bore...
Liked Mai's the most, even if it dealt with Sayaka being confused for many days to the point I wished she just hurry and got over with it.

Maybe I will play the remaining paths... just because I like completion...

Spoiler for Witch's Slave thoughts:

Never thought I would have enjoyed this game as much as I did...
I tend to think of Rinon and Takuma's relationship to be just like Louise and Saito's, just that Rinon is far more sadistic, Takuma's more girlish, and it's a H-game. There even was a breast complex thing.

Amusingly, Rinon gets to play the protagonist and antagonist role in the game, being antagonistic in every character's path except her own. Never thought I'd like her character, but still ended up liking her, despite her being a bit eviller in Sham(sp?)'s path.
Liked Sham's path the most, though the ending was a bit confusing, while Rinon's had a meh end, though enjoyable to watch. Waka simply deserves Takuma more than Rinon, so felt sorry for her when I went to Rinon's path.

The teacher... don't care. Doubt I'll play her path anyways.

Nice game, even if it lacks normal CGs... only has like 4 of them with the rest being HCGs...

Next up... HoneyComing.

[Hemisphere]

I love you AXL, GIGA and Clochette. ;__;

[johnishida]

*comes in*

I just need to get this out of me...

FORTUNE ARTERIAL's TRUE ENDING IS AWESOME!!!

*leaves*

[Hemisphere]

Okay, I guess that's a fact then. Awesomeness of true end, confirmed!

[johnishida]

I haven't finished reading it but, so far it's just great! Most of the unsolved mysteries from the individual routes are solved. New mysteries appears, shocking secrets about some characters are revealed, etc!

Just awesome!!

[Newprimus]

Kamipani:


Mizuki: 「お、おに……鬼いちゃ……」



Finally, it was only a matter of time before this pun on words was used.

Kamipani attains god status.

[Hemisphere]

Voice patch for Gouen no Soleil's trial 1 is out!

Unfortunately, the links are throttled, even the mirrors. ;__;

NANASHIKI RIN IS LOVE!