Thursday, 22 December 2011

Visual novel/Eroge........Come back!



Well,well,well, today's topic will be centred around Visual novels/Eroges, of course both are the same thing kind of as bot hare visual novels, but when you call a visual novel and eroge then it just means it has adult scenes in it xD meaning they are the better ones, of course not always better but i prefer to have some kind of a good conclusion after getting one of the girls in the game, yes i said game because they are games in a way, you might be thinking or asking yourself what visual novels are, or maybe you heard about them or even know what they are but never really gotten into them, well worry no more as today for some apparent reason i felt like getting back into them again and i thought that i might as well do a post about it.


Ok as we see on the picture above that's a starting screen, every visual novel has a different one but it always comes down to the basics of it having new game/start, continue, a screen with all the CG'S and music and exit then after that you go into the main game, now you might think that you will i don't know, go around killing people with a hatchet or free roam towns, but as the name says its like a Novel, you read a lot but have visuals with it, here is an example of an in game pic.


Now this is what the whole game pretty much looks like in most cases, this pic is taken from one of my favourite Visual novels "Clannad", we mentioned the anime version in the "WTF is!?! Anime" post, as you can see you get a date in the top left corner of the screen which helps you in.....well in knowing what date it is, now you might think "why the heck to i need to know what date it is" well in visual novels you read text most of the time and enjoy the amazing stories they bring you, but once in a while you reach a point in which you need to make a "decision" now visual novels are massive, you might think that it will take you a few hours to finish, well you are wrong, it takes 100+ hours to even get close of getting everything for example in clannad, ill stick to this visual novel as for now, i played it a lot see, so yeah, it still makes my brain bleed when i think about it, you get dates, when you reach a decisions point its better to save then choose what you want, carry on with the dates and see what happens after that, you might think that you can get all the girls/endings if you save before every decision..... but that's wrong as well, every time you make a decision it changes the future decisions available to you as well, some might be the same but most change completely, so let me try to put this in an easy mode for you guys xD.

Here is a table showing an example using 3 girls, A.B and C, yeah i had to use A.B and C don't know why, probably because of stupid maths teachers always using letters....

OK so lets say you want to go for girl B first

days pass on ------> decision, now u can say yes or no for example, saying YES goes to A choosing No goes to C, now how to get to B? well you don't know so you have to save, now if you picked NO and went for C then you might be able to only get girl C while if you picked YES and went for A there was a chance for another branch of half way in the story arc which then lets you choose for example NO and branch of onto B from arc A while when picking YES leaves you on A, so if you saved before picking YES or NO at the beginning of everything it works, but if you saved after picking NO and going for C in hope that the next one branches you of into C or B you got it wrong now as the next branch of might be to either stay on C or go to freaking D.......-.- so while you might be on the same day, lets say 15th of May like in the picture above in both saves, the one in which you picked YES and went for A and the one you picked NO and went for C the  branching on that day will be different because you will either stay on A or go for B, or..... Stay on C or go for D, so in conclusion, for some of the branching to ever appear like for girl B you have to pick one of the other girls first, meaning the whole game is trial and error and some intuition of course and makes you save tons, i have around 150 saves for one of my VN's (VN= Visual Novel) and sometimes its even more of a brain f*ck when to get into an Arc of one of the girls you have to complete the game at least once (Looking at you Shuffle!) yes indeed, without knowing sh*t you have to first of all complete the game, then play again, get into one of the 4-5 girls and pick the right one to then get into a special day that lets you pick a different answer and go into the 6th girl that wasn't available the first time -.- God you need a lot of time for these games, maybe that's why i stopped playing them for a while haha, okfu*ked we should just move on xD. So now you know that visual novels are slides of pictures and a lot of text that you read while having options that you choose once in a while which then determines what arc/girl you go for and what ending you have, most visual novels have good/bad endings meaning there is tons of re-playability, to be honest you cant find games that have more xD you have to play this a lot to get all the endings, secrets etc, overall its amazingly fun, you get stories, you are the one that decides what girl you go for so if the anime that you watched pissed you off on what girl the main character chose then see if the anime started of with a VN and then you are in charge. Also every Visual novel has its own soundtrack which is amazing (usually) you unlock every song by playing the game and can listen them from the menu after, also CG, now what is CG? well when you play the game and are on girl A route, then on the way you will get very high quality pics of that girl in different situations, you unlock them then and they save in the Menu under each girl, so a lot of people play the game and try to unlock every CG for each girl ending up with 100%.


Now what made me write this post? Well i was playing MW3 (yes mw3 -.-) with my good friend Joseph P. Brenner (what does the P stand for?) stands for pus*y of course :P wait sh*t, got it confused, i mean David, yes that's the one whohoho. Ok so i was playing MW3 while playing Clannad visual novel songs on the microphone, then i talked to some people on otaku streamers and some wanted VN'S of me, then i remembered that i used to be the Visual Novel/Eroge master on OS and went of researching once again (i research for hours everyday, i might even make a post about it soon) and so i went on the website talking about translations for VN'S then saw that "Little Busters!" Translation is finally 100% complete, i also play untranslated ones using programs but its always better to have an English patch that has made 2-3 years to make xD the quality is better i assure you. So last night i downloaded Little busters! and the English patch and i will probably play it tonight (well more than that but ill just start tonight -.-) and for days to come.

Now there are 2 types of this Visual novel, you get the original "Little Busters!" which is an all ages version and then you have "Little Busters Ecstasy!" which has adult scenes in it which i think is a must have as it gives the feeling that you have achieved the maximum but that version isn't completely translated yet so ill play the original first.


Now in that picture you can see that Ecstasy is a bit different, you see that you get the whole original game but also extra scenes that go a bit further :P( didn't post more revealing ones/s*x ones because i thought it might be too much for you peeps xD) i might make a post soon as well about "Little Busters" so that i can review the VN more in depth for you people :P.

Ahh i almost forgot, if you never played a VN before, you should go play NOW! Good ones to start of with are Clannad/Kanon/Little busters, they all have English translations and are amazing. You know what? Ill post a link right in this post for the "Little Busters" visual novel and the English patch so you can enjoy it with me. Well this is it for this post i guess -.- iv typed a bit and i guess its a bit too much anyway. C-U~


Link to Game: http://www.nyaa.eu/?page=torrentinfo&tid=38351

Link to English Patch: http://dl.blicky.net/lb/lb-english-6.0.exe



ENJOY~

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