2012-03-17, 20:21
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オンドリャァァァ!!!
Join Date: May 2009
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http://twitter.com/#!/Tokoyo_Theresia
And here is the rest. http://twitter.com/#!/Hagar_gold http://twitter.com/#!/Queck_silber http://twitter.com/#!/Cain_sakurai http://twitter.com/#!/Thrud_Walkure http://twitter.com/#!/Malleus_8 http://twitter.com/#!/11_Magdalene |
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2012-03-18, 21:49
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Join Date: Dec 2005
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WHITE ALBUM2 Original Soundtrack has been announced:
http://leaf.aquaplus.jp/product/wa2cc/special_ost.html There will be three OSTs; two of them cover introductory and closing chapter respectively. The third OST, however, involves a vote on the top 4-5 songs from this list: http://app.aquaplus.jp/vote/wa2ost_setsuna/
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2012-03-19, 12:48
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Lost in my dreams...
Join Date: Jun 2006
Age: 37
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After my sadly unsatisfying experiences with Corona and DamaMuko (and after spending some time recovering from them
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Now I have to decide whose route to go for next ... might be a bit problematic, as while Kana stood out for me almost immediately, the rest of the female cast didn't really catch my attention. Yua is a gigantic troll and can be both entertaining and tiresome to listen to, Ayumu is ... Ayumu  (meaning excessively childish and hysteric), and Irina is creepy, as far as her single appearance in Kana's route suggested. I guess I'll go for Vivi - she didn't have any role to play (or even appearances) in Kana's route, but her involvement in the "common route" part of the story was enough to peak my interest about our local "shinigami". Here's hoping she gets a more expanded epilogue than Kana did.
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2012-03-20, 05:46
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ダメ人 - 人間失格
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Germany
Age: 37
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I'm varying my gaming time between my 2nd run in Kamidori and having started Eien no Aselia (although I am generally quite average at strategy gameplay).
Obviously Kamidori's story is simply meant to make the dungeon grind more tolerable, but personally I enjoyed most of the character quests (<3 Melodiana). I also tried playing Palette's steal my heart, but somehow it didn't appeal to me. During the first few hours, the sister was extremly annoying; her bro-con was way onverdone. I *might* try out "moshimo ashita ga (...)". I looked at the CGs and saw quite a few in-character tear shedding scenes, so I'm roughly aware of what to expect Once I return back home to Germany over Easter break, I can also finally pick up my PSP version of Mashiro-iro Symphony  .
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2012-03-20, 21:23
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Join Date: Dec 2005
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Spoiler for Image:
Appears that Maruto isn't quite done expanding on the world of WA2. Comes from: http://0taku.livedoor.biz/archives/4145538.html
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2012-03-21, 05:15
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Lost in my dreams...
Join Date: Jun 2006
Age: 37
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Got around to finishing my second route of Shinigami no Testament, and now I can say with certainty the title is growing on me and without fail providing good doses of motivation to keep going. After finishing Kana's route I had planned to go for Vivi next, but turns out her route is unavailable unless you have finished Yua's route first, so off for Yua I went. And it certainly didn't disappoint, even though once again the romance-> sex portion felt somewhat rushed, although (same as with Kana) there can be arguments presented why it unfolded as fast as it did.
Anyways, Yua's route was fairly different from Kana's in terms of focus (which was to be expected I guess, Yua being the "main" main girl) and thus provided a nice shift of pace - while Kana's route was mostly focused on Kana herself and her personal issues, with the supernatural side playing more of a background role, the situation was quite different in Yua's - the plot came knocking in full force. I won't go into spoilerish details (as I'm not sure anyone else here has even read it yet or planning to do so ), but suffice to say it did a very good job in building up my intrigue and suspense, and the introduction of new interested parties (and their motivations, which are still largely secret at this point) certainly arose that feeling in me where you simply must find out what happens next and how it all ties together. I certainly appreciate when a story manages to do that. Plenty of suspense and uncertainty as to how it's all going to end, up to the very end, decent amounts of sufficiently grim action, interesting plot elements being introduced (some more predictable, some less), questions being answered while more being introduced, exposition to the important players in the grand scheme of things - indeed, Yua's route did a very good job of building up my anticipation for the eventually upcoming "true end route". In a way I'm glad that I played Kana's route first, seeing she had somewhat of a role to play in Yua's route as well, with a couple of important (if few) actions that had a definite influence on how it all played out. Indeed, given the broader scope of Yua's route, I was quite glad to see others of the main cast aren't forgotten and have their roles to play even on the sidelines. That's a very good thing indeed, especially if we consider these first five routes as the "world building" for the true end one that unlocks afterwards. I may have only completed two routes thus far, but I get a definite feeling they are steadily building towards the eventual grand finale. Vivi is up next (I guess quite fitting, seeing what the closing scenes of Yua's route entailed), this time for sure. So far I'm enjoying Shinigami no Testament a good deal, and I'm certainly glad for having picked it up. It's shaping up to be a very solid title (minor gripes with overly speedy, if excusable, romance developments aside ... and a dense male lead, though I guess complaining about that is like complaining about desert having lots of sand and few oasis ) and it certainly has me on the edge of my seat craving for more - a genuine drive to devour as much of the title as soon as I'm able to, and it's certainly good when a story manages to invoke such a feeling in the reader.
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2012-03-21, 09:19
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今宵の虎徹は血に飢えている
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2012-03-21, 11:37
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2012-03-23, 16:21
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ダメ人 - 人間失格
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Germany
Age: 37
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 . While it is true that the usual dense (and at times utterly useless) main lead is the sad standard for most VNs, I tend to complain not about him if his density will not be rubbed in my face at each given moment (*coughstrawberrynautsorsucrecough*). Same for the "usesless" part - I'm looking at you Mirai Nostaglia >_<! So, in a fair and square world, NO VN prota should invoke the urge in me to either punch the monitor, make me complainy in disbelief or similar fashion  .Still on my first playthrough of Eien no Aselia due to many, many reloadings during the battle phases. And as it should be, Aselia's route has been the first choice. Damn you plot-event that reseted her mind points back to zero *insert crying-smiley* |
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2012-03-24, 03:30
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Backyard of Moriya shrine
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2012-03-24, 13:07
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Lost in my dreams...
Join Date: Jun 2006
Age: 37
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Suffice to say, that should be the messiest romance option around as well, considering Irina's nature I haven't gotten to Ayumu's route yet (Still on Vivi's route, been preoccupied for the last few days, so progress hasn't been as quick as I would want), though it never struck me as odd that Rui survived at the end of Yua's route. Rather, unless I missed something, was there a specific reason he shouldn't have ? Spoiler for Yua's rote end:
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2012-03-26, 01:37
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ダメ人 - 人間失格
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Germany
Age: 37
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Has anyone played applique-soft's Concerto Note? It looks quite nice and sounds interesting. I know that it has dark parts, but if the degree of dark elements is similar to Tasogare Sinsemilla, I can handle it (ignoring that the latter is more supernatural, mystery focused). Yes, I'm ~ 4 years too late
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2012-03-27, 03:18
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Lost in my dreams...
Join Date: Jun 2006
Age: 37
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Anyways, Vivi's route. I have a bit of mixed feelings about this one - the parts focusing on the plot were good, and managed some interesting twists (and the curveball in the end caught me off-guard, props to the story for that), but I feel the romance part of it was handled somewhat poorly. I'm coming to think that Shinigami no Testament doesn't handle romance all that well in general (or rather, it likes to jumpstart it out of nowhere) - and while that could be reasoned away in Kana's and Yua's routes, due to their specific circumstances, it was pretty meh in Vivi's route. Spoiler for Vivi's path comments:
So ... yeah, very much looking towards the final chapter (Here's hoping I can resist reading it until I am done with Irina and Ayumu ), the plot buildup has been quite good thus far, and leaves me wanting for more. I just hope they don't somehow make Rui and active combatant in all this. Some of the stuff he managed to do in Vivi's route was already bordering uncomfortable, considering what they are fighting against. Having learned swordsmanship from young age (and dropping it several years ago) hardly cuts it in the grand scheme of things.
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2012-03-28, 23:56
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Join Date: Sep 2011
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Well I finished Kajiri Kamui Kagura, it's just awesome (the only way I can describe it), and another detail..... is just me or KKK is more like a shounen manga than Dies Irae? Not that is bad thing, I think is great.
I going to buy the ost. Anyway, somebody knows if the KKK artbook has some new ilustrations or better yet, some character sketchs/character designs? |
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