No.5813
>>5794>>5785those two were so cute, i remember ten years ago mass reblogging all the fanart of them lol, i revisited corpse party recently but clearly nostalgia had blinded me since the high octane moidery really does overshadow what would be a peak piece of horror, the way random pantyshots would take me out of otherwise compelling cgs lmao also the sequels are all utter shit
>>5799genuinely the way that so many western vns are just "haha aren't visual novels silly and goofy! anime is so freaking randum!" is such a piss-take, it's unfortunate how many western vn creators have so much disdain for the genre
>>5806i've wanted to pick up Hatoful for a while! i'm not really into otome though, i hear the big fat yandere bird is a homo which is interesting depending on how it's handled.
No.5814
>>5813>the high octane moidery really does overshadow what would be a peak piece of horrorMaybe it’s just because I’m thinking about it in compared to stuff like corpse party musume (among other ero horror), but I didn’t think it was thaaaat terrible? Yuka’s subplot was still obvious fetish bait but the parts with her and Kizami are some of the most iconic and entertaining so I’m fine dealing with it.
Also could just be nostalgia bias in my case kek.
No.5818
>>5815I played some of it about a year ago
one day I'll finish getting all the bl scenes. And my favorite ending was the ntr ending for Seijirou, picrel.
No.5821
>>5817>I wish more series would just let a good thing die at its peak, instead of dragging it out past its natural lifespanSaw this in another thread and it reminded me of the current pitiful state of Silent hill versus Forbidden siren which managed to die relatively gracefully and is still remembered fondly by longtime fans.
No.5822
>>5818>>5815Ah I really wanna pick this up at some point! Just worried I'll have to sift through a bunch of het scenes
No.5823
>>5815I played it for a while but tbh I got turned off by how it tried to give me flags with the pseudo-shota while Seijiro was away exploring or something like that. I just really didn't want to have sex with a Gon/Naruto type of guy.
No.5824
>>5814Ngl it's definitely not as bad as every single other installment of the franchise but yeah the occasional pantyshots (the last cg of a character before her brutal death being a low angle shot of her underwear is really fetishy) at crucial moments and yuka in general is just fetish fuel the character and it really takes me out of the experience also I actually really liked Seiko as a character but the way she acts in all of the spinoffs (especially the ova) really ruin her for me
No.5825
>>5822I don't think there's a way to play without seeing het or yuri, sadly. And I think you have to toggle bl to be viewable in the settings, because I think it's off by default. There is a sfw bl spin-off, but I haven't checked it out.
>>5823Kippei's cute, but I chose Seijirou first because he was just my type. And I didn't bring Kippei with me on my first run because I wanted the encyclopedia girl to read me all the lore. Kinda wish there was more Seijirou content, but being a game mainly meant for men, I see why Kippei got slightly more content.
No.6046
>>5900Good luck. Make sure to use a guide, unless you really want to go in blind. There's a pdf on f95zone that's pretty thorough. There's another guide out there with a map, but I think it was in Japanese and I'm not entirely sure where I found it. I tried looking for it just now, but no luck.
No.6050
>>5815This looks really neat, thank you.
No.6052
>>5824agree wholeheartedly about seiko. apologies for the mild yurifag sperg but i was young (way too young) when i played the og and was genuinely surprised by her storyline and her love for naomi, which i thought was portrayed in a pretty heartfelt way. but every other piece of media reduced her character to “lol isn’t it crazy that she’s GAY and a PERVERT” and it just became another moidy aspect of the series. like the other anon, though, i’m so nostalgic for the main game that i don’t think i could every truly resent it, kek.
and the entire kizami and yuka segment is, in fact, iconic. No.6055
>>6052Yeah I hated how Seiko got treated in stuff like Sachiko's birthday, she's a genuinely really likable character and it wasn't super common for lesbian characters feelings to not be played off as nothing but a joke.
No.6057
>>6054I liked Kuro a lot! I wish the combat had a bit more bite to it but all the characters were pretty fun, and I enjoyed it a lot more than CS.
No.6059
>>6046I might have to, I'm getting filtered at the very beginning of the game.
No.6096
>>5810>that shitty 'anti visual novels' videoI legitimately thought it was satire the first time I watched it because of how much basic information he got wrong lol. Like, I do not understand what compelled that man to make that video.
>I hate seeing my favorite medium of storytelling get written off as 'porn' or 'shitty dating games' when a lot of them have way more heart put into them compared to manga and anime (especially with indie VNs) which doesn't get written off nearly as much. Me, too, nona. I don't think it's possible to successfully parody something without having knowledge of what you're parodying. It feels like the writers are too afraid of being sincere, and fall back on making 'ironic' stories. I actually love genre-shift type stories (like VNs that start out as slice-of-life and become something else by the time they end), and I hate that they're often associated with more DDLC-type VNs.
>>5813>i've wanted to pick up Hatoful for a while! i'm not really into otome thoughNta but if it makes the game any more appealing,
the otome elements basically disappear in the game's last - and longest - route.>>5818I've wanted to try this one, but I've also heard it's kind of difficult and I fear I may never finish it.
No.6103
>>6096>I've also heard it's kind of difficultAYRT and while it's not the easiest game, it's not super difficult once you get through the first playthrough. The game itself is pretty fair. It gives you a lot of hints (especially if you bring Rikana) and tends to tell you if something is a bad idea
like the doll scene. You also get Homura's unique item that heals a lot up to three times and no limit on saving. So it gives you a lot of chances to fix any fuck ups you made. And then after that first playthrough, you get to keep your levels and items you left in your box. And losing a party member doesn't automatically mean you fucked up. I was able to beat the game with only Homura once because Rikana died and Seijirou ran away like two minutes later. It wasn't my first playthrough though so Homura was a little overleveled.
>>5823>tried to give me flags with the pseudo-shotaI already replied to you before, but I forgot to mention that as long as you don't sleep with him when resting, you shouldn't get Kippei's ending. Same applies for all the characters. You need 80+ affection to get a relationship ending and there's like 6 bed rests which is 60 affection and there's dialogue that bumps the affection as well as healing. And even if you got a lot of affection with someone, you don't end with them unless you sleep in the last bed with them (the 7th and final bed, I believe).
No.6108
>>6096>that spoilerooh! colour me interested then, the bird boy designs are so cute
>>6103i heard there's apparently a threesome ending with the two boys? also Homura is such a hot protag, a part of me would want to hunt for the het content too but ngl when I play blvns i'm in the mindset of just wanting to see bl (i remember being irked that Hadaka Shitsuji had het scenes with Sayaka and each butler and I remember getting those scenes asap with each butler to get them out the way so I could still get 100 percent completion, thankful none of them are canon to the dark or light routes at least)
No.6116
>>6108>threesome ending with the two boys?Yes, there is. You need to get both the guy's endings and have their id cards which are given after you get their ending. The pdf guide that appears when you search for "Abaddon Princess of the Decay guide" explains it more. Just ctrl f "harem" to get to the page.
>>6113>how many BL endings are there total?I think there's technically 6
(I say technically because some are epilogues and some are endings, can't remember which is which exactly though). The regular endings (which I think are actually epilogues) I think you get as long as you don't do the secret
Yuki route. The true ending variants you only get if you do the true ending route,. The ntr endings where you cuck the third party member you chose. And then the Kippei x Seijirou ending. You can do the Kippei x Seijirou ending and cuck one of them to get one of the ntr endings for the guys. There's also a few extra bl cgs that aren't tied to endings and are missable. Like there's two bl rape tapes and both Kippei and Seijirou have a gay death rape cg
Not as bad as it sounds. The rapist isn't like an ugly bastard or anything and there's no blood afaik.>new vs old art stylesIt's just a novelty of the game tbh. Picrel is the newer style, which I personally find it takes me out of the experience considering the rest of the game is 8-bit. It's a toggle in the settings and I think the 8-bit style is the default, but I could be wrong. There's no advantage other than older style has less space so there's usually a part that gets cropped sometimes (It's not much, just a few pixels).
No.6128
>>5810>Even people who know of hatoful should actually fully complete the game instead of just playing one route and dropping it.I've tried convincing friends this so many times over the years. I'll get them to do 2-3 routes maybe but they still treat it as just funny haha and have no intent to reach BBL even though I keep telling them it's there. It's fun hearing their surprise when the game has more work put into it than they expect for "just a joke", but I want them to experience the true oh shit moments and come away as affected as I was.
And then play Holiday Star.
No.6134
>>6122yess we need more equality like this lol, i remember reading the f95 page and seeing moids being shook by how equal opportunity this game is, bi rights i guess
No.6137
>>6128>I've tried convincing friends this so many times over the years.NTA but same. It drives me nuts because I don't want to ruin it for them, but they're like, "haha yeah it's a funny bird game. I don't understand why you love it so much, though." I've had 2-3 friends finish it entirely, and they all agreed it was kino. The others just gave up and forever know it as the silly bird game. It's only, like, 8 hours long, and I want others to have the same experience that I did… When I initially played, I didn't know about the last route, so hitting it was SUCH an experience for me that I want to share with as many people as I can.
>>6134Also NTA but can you imagine what an upset there would be if regular galge started having BL routes?? It makes me wish more games were brave enough to do it kek.
No.6233
>>6232Ooh I've heard good things about Graces, I have a friend who's really into the tales series (I've only played vesperia but I'm yet to finish it) and she'd always tell me how gay Richard is and how I need to pick up graces at some point since he and Asbel have such a homoerotic relationship… Since it's getting a switch release soon, I've heard Zestial is insanely homo too
No.6234
>>6232There have been a few jrpg ships in my past (most popular example, Riku/Sora) where "r63 one of them–do you see The Vision?" opens the third eye of some anons. Some of them are just so genuinely dense that they don't register interesting dynamics/tension until it's funneled to them in the form of girl/boy.
No.6235
>>6234>most popular example, Riku/Soraspot on
>Some of them are just so genuinely dense that they don't register interesting dynamics/tension until it's funneled to them in the form of girl/boy.On a related note I remember naruto's sasusaku and narusaku fans actually admitting that if sasunaru was straight, it would be the superior ship, story and chemistry wise.
No.6679
Finally started playing Final fantasy 16 now that it's on PC. I'm still relatively early into the game, I only just got Jill as a party member, but I'm having a great time so far. The combat feels great even if I'm not always the best at it. I know there's the easy mode and assist rings but I genuinely want to git gud for this game.
No.7457
I picked up animal well after hearing good things about it and cause the graphical style looks really nice. I'm only about an hour in but I'm having a great time. It's a metroidvania with no dialogue so far, just exploration and atmosphere. It gets kinda spooky too.
No.7458
>>7457I loved the atmosphere as well! Some parts were frustrating, but the animals themselves were so cool I wasn't mad even as I died 20 times in a row.
No.7460
>>7458Can't believe I got spooked by
a dachshund of all things.
No.7553
>>5813dude holy shit this is a classic yaoi ship. my password's still based on these two 10 years later, lmao
No.7567
>>7460Ok there was something worse in the game. Fuck that
ghost dog chase sequence. I got it first try but my heart was pounding. I'm a huge wimp.
No.7568
>>7567Haha, nice job nonna! That the exact segement I was saying killed me 20 times in a row, but it's so cool I love that creature.
No.7578
>>7568Yeah I understand. It IS really cool design-wise. Once I realised what the game was asking of me I left that segment until the very last moment and did research on what the best approach was so that did help. I got the normal ending last night and then grabbed all the collectables I didn't find before so all that's left for today is the true ending. And I'll have to decide whether I do some of these hard endgame puzzles, though I'd just use a guide cause I've never been much of a puzzle person. and I may just call it after getting the true ending. Great game.
No.7710
>>7693Whaat? The music was part of the charm, how can they make an OFF without Pepper Steak? I was interested in it but it really is a shame that they want to replace the music.
No.7731
>>7693Oh wow! I'm just hearing this, yeah I'm pumped for it! I loved Off back in the day.
>>7710I hope at least Pepper Steak is kept. It's so iconic, I couldn't imagine an OFF without it. I used to listen to it on repeat while studying/drawing.
No.7738
>>7731>>7693>>7710Thirding that it won't feel right without Pepper Steak, truly one of the greatest video game battle themes. I will check it out for the new bosses though and I'm sure it will be nostalgic.
No.7822
I like to have something to do on the side while listening to a podcast or watching a livestream or long video essay so I modded my 3DS so I had access to the program that can remove the free to play gating from pokemon picross and it was both a great and terrible idea. The free to play pace would've been glacial but now I'm extremely addicted to these picross puzzles. At least with the way my desk is set up I can't comfortably play with my 3DS attached to the charger so I'm forced to quit once my battery goes red.
No.7873
I started Nier replicant, the remade version on modern platforms. I had experienced the original game through a let's play from the Something awful forums but that was a long time ago and a lot of details are vague in my memory now so I'm glad this remake exists. Right now I'm still very early in the game but I'm looking forward to finally playing it myself.
No.7932
Just beat Suguri on a weekend, 100 hours of getting good at a shmup (just to bully Shifu) was pretty fun and satisfying. Thinking of either beating Hard Arcade or getting around to the rest of the O_J shmups.
>>7693Yee. So looking forward. Rip pepper steak for sure but nice to bring back a classic nonetheless. Hope it becomes a big hit.
>>61224 month later reply, I've also been playing this and been pretty fun, been difficult managing my fear stat though. Still gonna push through and hope Homura and Kippei get together in my run :3