General Eroge Impressions & Discussion

[Micchi]

Disappointed in the Kamipani delay
Started playing Nagisano, which was released a couple days ago. Quite happy about the pacing and music at the moment.

In terms of my favs so far: DCII, Canvas2, Bra-ban (Ebiiiiiiiiiiiii), Kanon. Enjoyed Hani Hani, ToHeart2, _summer, Nursery Rhyme, Gift, Shuffle, con-neko, Arpeggio. I wanna try out Magus Tale, after finishing up Nagisano and FairChild. Looking forward to Fortune Arterial, Clover Point, Kamipani, Time Leap and Natsuzora Kanata.

[Newprimus]

Originally Posted by Sakura_Kinomoto

god i hope not i was really looking foward to that one

Hope? There is no hope, it's really been delayed.

http://clochette-soft.jp/info03.html

On the other hand I took the trial version that's up for download on their website for a spin. So far, I like what I see.

Spoiler for space and trial version, only plot and character descriptions and setups:

Kahara Tomoyuki is your male lead and he lives with his younger sister Mizuki in a house on an island town. (common setting for many eroges, lol) He's fairly typical for an eroge male lead; hard to get out of bed, somewhat lazy, rubs the wrong way with people sometimes, etc, your typical protagonist. Overall a decent guy.

I like his relationship with his sister. Forget your typical, "Onii-chan, it's time to have breakfast and go to school," routine. These two are closer to tying the other up in chains and throwing him or her into the ocean than they are to having a rabu-rabu sibling relationship. The way they grate on each other and rub off of each other is great, and yet they're so alike as some other characters point out.

There's his childhood friend, Katase Megumi. Gentle, likes housework. Mizuki seems to think highly of Megumi, and so tries to behave differently towards her brother when Megumi's around. osaanajimi-san is also kinda clueless, especially when Mizuki's stealth-punching and toe-stepping Tomoyuki while calling him, "Onii-chan", lol.

Kirishima Nonoka is a miko who's about their age and goes to the same school. Has an enormous set of breasts which Tomoyuki makes funny comments about from time to time. Her shrine's apparently not doing too well, but she tries her best regardless. She's also easily distracted and forgets things easily, as we can see when she joins the previous three on their way to school and they point out that she still has her miko outfit on.

The next character, the blonde chibi, is called 天泉森雨古依命 or あまいずみもりあめこよりのみこと, or Amaizumimoriamekoyori no Mikoto, called Koyori for short. This character is where the "Kami" part of Kamipani comes into play. She's the island's patron goddess and protector. Why she's come down to the human world isn't known by the end of the trial. She's energetic, greatly curious about the human world, eats a looooot of food to provide energy to maintain her physical presence in the world, likes being around Tomoyuki and company, and likes to fondle Nonoka's chest. (she sounds just like a perverted old man when she does this, and I didn't know such behavior could be portrayed on what looks like a young girl ) She frequently laments about how people aren't very spiritual compared to how it was before, hates it when people make comments about her short stature and such ("Divine retribution!!" *ZAP* ).

Kujo Amane, the blue-haired girl, is the student council president and belongs to the class next to Tomoyuki's. She believes it her duty to protect the school and maintain its integrity, and absolutely refuses to believe in the supernatural, like dieties for instance. She clashes with Koyori when the latter pulls off some of her divine tricks in school and goes on about the prohibition of dangerous antics and so on. Otherwise, she's smart, level-headed, aggressive and straightforward, much like a student council president; but if the usual ojou-sama attitude from most student council presidents annoyed you, fear not cause Amane doesn't have that holier-than-thou atmosphere about her.


The story basically starts with Mizuki finding out that her brother lost the purse holding all their money. Megumi finds out about it after she climbs in through Tomoyuki's window in the middle of their fighting about it, and the three decide to cut morning classes to search for the missing item. Along the way they meet Nonoka in miko outfit on her way to class, and she ends up helping them as well.

They end up at the Kirishima shrine after Nonoka recalling that she saw a girl before holding up something that looked like a purse or wallet and counting money inside. They find the girl, Koyori, who proclaims she's a goddess and has claimed the money as offering. Megumi's the first one to say, "Shouldn't you be getting back to the hospital right about now?"

The siblings manage to forcibly take the money back (I think), and the group heads to school, although Nonoka has STILL forgotten to change out of her miko clothes. Amane catches them arriving late and assigns them restroom cleaning duty. Which Mizuki ditches. >___>

Later that day, Tomoyuki comes home to a racket coming from the living room. It's that Koyori girl and she says that because the shrine's in such a poor state, she'll be staying at their house in the meantime. Tomoyuki and Mizuki try to get her to leave and don't believe her claims about her being a goddess..... until she levitates Mizuki and gives their pug, Ichiro, the capability of human speech.

And so begin our exciting days with a live-in shrine goddess and her human friends, or some such.

I think it looks like a win, and I'll be looking forward to playing the full game...... in February.


EDIT: My favorite character so far, hmmm..... probably Koyori, with Amane and Mizuki close behind I guess.

[cyth]

Haha, someone just linked this on IRC. Man, a poker ADV with all the D.C. and D.C. II heroines and protagonists. Brilliant.wwwwww

[Hemisphere]

Originally Posted by Shinova

Hope? There is no hope, it's really been delayed.

http://clochette-soft.jp/info03.html

On the other hand I took the trial version that's up for download on their website for a spin. So far, I like what I see.

Spoiler for space and trial version, only plot and character descriptions and setups:

Kahara Tomoyuki is your male lead and he lives with his younger sister Mizuki in a house on an island town. (common setting for many eroges, lol) He's fairly typical for an eroge male lead; hard to get out of bed, somewhat lazy, rubs the wrong way with people sometimes, etc, your typical protagonist. Overall a decent guy.

I like his relationship with his sister. Forget your typical, "Onii-chan, it's time to have breakfast and go to school," routine. These two are closer to tying the other up in chains and throwing him or her into the ocean than they are to having a rabu-rabu sibling relationship. The way they grate on each other and rub off of each other is great, and yet they're so alike as some other characters point out.

There's his childhood friend, Katase Megumi. Gentle, likes housework. Mizuki seems to think highly of Megumi, and so tries to behave differently towards her brother when Megumi's around. osaanajimi-san is also kinda clueless, especially when Mizuki's stealth-punching and toe-stepping Tomoyuki while calling him, "Onii-chan", lol.

Kirishima Nonoka is a miko who's about their age and goes to the same school. Has an enormous set of breasts which Tomoyuki makes funny comments about from time to time. Her shrine's apparently not doing too well, but she tries her best regardless. She's also easily distracted and forgets things easily, as we can see when she joins the previous three on their way to school and they point out that she still has her miko outfit on.

The next character, the blonde chibi, is called 天泉森雨古依命 or あまいずみもりあめこよりのみこと, or Amaizumimoriamekoyori no Mikoto, called Koyori for short. This character is where the "Kami" part of Kamipani comes into play. She's the island's patron goddess and protector. Why she's come down to the human world isn't known by the end of the trial. She's energetic, greatly curious about the human world, eats a looooot of food to provide energy to maintain her physical presence in the world, likes being around Tomoyuki and company, and likes to fondle Nonoka's chest. (she sounds just like a perverted old man when she does this, and I didn't know such behavior could be portrayed on what looks like a young girl ) She frequently laments about how people aren't very spiritual compared to how it was before, hates it when people make comments about her short stature and such ("Divine retribution!!" *ZAP* ).

Kujo Amane, the blue-haired girl, is the student council president and belongs to the class next to Tomoyuki's. She believes it her duty to protect the school and maintain its integrity, and absolutely refuses to believe in the supernatural, like dieties for instance. She clashes with Koyori when the latter pulls off some of her divine tricks in school and goes on about the prohibition of dangerous antics and so on. Otherwise, she's smart, level-headed, aggressive and straightforward, much like a student council president; but if the usual ojou-sama attitude from most student council presidents annoyed you, fear not cause Amane doesn't have that holier-than-thou atmosphere about her.


The story basically starts with Mizuki finding out that her brother lost the purse holding all their money. Megumi finds out about it after she climbs in through Tomoyuki's window in the middle of their fighting about it, and the three decide to cut morning classes to search for the missing item. Along the way they meet Nonoka in miko outfit on her way to class, and she ends up helping them as well.

They end up at the Kirishima shrine after Nonoka recalling that she saw a girl before holding up something that looked like a purse or wallet and counting money inside. They find the girl, Koyori, who proclaims she's a goddess and has claimed the money as offering. Megumi's the first one to say, "Shouldn't you be getting back to the hospital right about now?"

The siblings manage to forcibly take the money back (I think), and the group heads to school, although Nonoka has STILL forgotten to change out of her miko clothes. Amane catches them arriving late and assigns them restroom cleaning duty. Which Mizuki ditches. >___>

Later that day, Tomoyuki comes home to a racket coming from the living room. It's that Koyori girl and she says that because the shrine's in such a poor state, she'll be staying at their house in the meantime. Tomoyuki and Mizuki try to get her to leave and don't believe her claims about her being a goddess..... until she levitates Mizuki and gives their pug, Ichiro, the capability of human speech.

And so begin our exciting days with a live-in shrine goddess and her human friends, or some such.

I think it looks like a win, and I'll be looking forward to playing the full game...... in February.


EDIT: My favorite character so far, hmmm..... probably Koyori, with Amane and Mizuki close behind I guess.

All of that sounds like it's just right up my alley. @_@ MAN I CAN'T WAIT! But...I have to.

;__;

Out of curiosity, I wonder what'd happen if Koyori and Narukana-sama met?

Originally Posted by Micchi

Disappointed in the Kamipani delay
Started playing Nagisano, which was released a couple days ago. Quite happy about the pacing and music at the moment.

In terms of my favs so far: DCII, Canvas2, Bra-ban (Ebiiiiiiiiiiiii), Kanon. Enjoyed Hani Hani, ToHeart2, _summer, Nursery Rhyme, Gift, Shuffle, con-neko, Arpeggio. I wanna try out Magus Tale, after finishing up Nagisano and FairChild. Looking forward to Fortune Arterial, Clover Point, Kamipani, Time Leap and Natsuzora Kanata.

EBI WO IU NA!

[Sakura_Kinomoto]

@shinova, hmm that game does sound pretty good, i might have to break out my Japanese books again i could imagine the sparks flying when Koyori and Narukana met ^^

[Gfreak]

Comic Party
Da Capo
Da Capo II (would love it even more if i can get to work)
Shuffle
Really? Really!
Tick! Tack!
Kanon Clannad (just started playing great so far)

[mr_winkie]

Wow -- Kamipani looks interesting to say the least. Who did the CG artwork for the game? Looks familiar....

[Newprimus]

Originally Posted by mr_winkie

Wow -- Kamipani looks interesting to say the least. Who did the CG artwork for the game? Looks familiar....

Shintaro. Same person who Boy meets Girl.

[Hemisphere]

Originally Posted by Shinova

Shintaro. Same person who Boy meets Girl.

I rather like his designs, same with Mikeou who did Konneko, Miraroma, Lyrical Lyric and participated in FESTA!.

[Micchi]

Originally Posted by Erhjegel

EBI WO IU NA!

Yes! Someone else who played Bra-ban!
I really really loved Ebi's story <3

[Hemisphere]

And I really really, REALLY loved Yuki-sama's. ;___; Might take a while for the withdrawal symptoms to leave before I start on Ebi's and iinchou's routes, as they're the only ones left that I have yet to finish.

[-Nyu-]

Hey guys, question again^^
I'm looking for a really good summary of what happens in Da Capo and Da Capo2.
A friend of mine asked me, but I never played the games (and do not intend to do so).

[relentlessflame]

Originally Posted by -Nyu-

Hey guys, question again^^
I'm looking for a really good summary od what happens in Da Capo and Da Capo2.
A friend of mine asked me, but I never played the games (and do not intend to do so).

Why does your friend want to know, I guess is the main question... Does he actually want to know what happens or just how it ends (presumably on the "main path", or something? They're multi-path games...)? Easiest way to get a sense of what goes on is watch the anime series, probably. Summaries of most of what goes on in D.C. II are linked-to in the game thread (two more paths left to go). If he basically just wants to know how it ends without any of the detail, he can check out the Wikipedia articles (though they're flawed and incomplete, but I'd rather leave them that way than give everything away). Obviously the best answer is "play the games", since any adaptation or summary will be flawed, but...

[-Nyu-]

He wanna knows what happens in every ending of the game. As for the anime he told me he has no time to watch since he's stuck in Seinarukana

[relentlessflame]

Originally Posted by -Nyu-

He wanna knows what happens in every ending of the game. As for the anime he told me he has no time to watch since he's stuck in Seinarukana

I don't know of a site that summarizes every ending from both games, not to mention the added characters in D.C.P.C. and the upcoming D.C. II P.S, or what about the fandisks...? Not sure if there's an English site out there that covers it all, but if there is, I've never heard of it.

[-Nyu-]

Hm, maybe I can find out sth more or some of the guys here have an idea.
Thanks for links anyways! Don't believe how much work you put in this yume summary O_o
Don't you wanna be a news and/ or review writer on our site?

[mr_winkie]

Shintaro, eh? Thanks for the answer Shinova -- I knew the art looked familiar, and for a second I thought it was done by Fumio.

Back to the topic, I've been playing Anonono ~that day that time that future with you~ recently. Unfortunately even though I have my computer to display Japanese characters, the text displayed is still a bunch of gibberish-wingdings....

[Hemisphere]

恵 「なぐ？　ぐあ？　新語？」

LOL. Thanks to Shinova, I decided to try out the Kamipani demo.

[Oppius]

I want an eroge which you plays as a high school student(boy or girl) who freely explores his/her school.Play pranks on other students and teachers.Greet or insult them.Use marbles or banana skins to see them fall in funny way.Best of all,you can even fight any other students with your fists or juvenile weapons like in Bully.Even better if that game have anime-style character designs.

[Hemisphere]

Good luck in finding one, that's all I can say!