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Welcome to the General VN Discussion thread!

If you have something you'd like to talk about but don't think it's worth posting as a separate thread this is the place for you.

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[โ€“] Berin@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I've been watching MangoCake stream Hundred Line after I've gifted it to them, and they finished route zero yesterday. Now continuing with the second scenario.....without spoiling too much, I am very very hooked. Eito Aotsuki, my beloved

Huge spoilers for Hundred line route 0 belowHonestly, the base game is kind of hard to get through since the protag is so, so painfully oblivious and a complete pushover. There are multiple points where there's clearly something suspicious going on, but the story completely glosses over it, not to mention that there are several scenes where the way the protag acts just makes no sense at all.

It was around day 50+ where it got especially bad, since the game literally forces you to gaslight a girl into not joining the fight because her obsessive brother wants so. The whole thing is even more frustrating because we have recruited several people who are clearly less suited for fighting than her with no qualms (like, people who get physically ill when they get stressed out are involved in a conflict), but somehow this healthy, very enthusiastic person is not qualified not be a soldier according to the protag. Mango literally said on stream that, if they weren't streaming it, that would have been the point where they'd just close the game. In the end, the situation gets resolved when said girl puts her foot down and defends her decision against both the protag and her brother, but it still left a bad aftertaste. I spoiled myself a lot beforehand, and if I hadn't known that there would be time travel involved, I would have agreed. SO glad that the protag grows a lot in his second run.

I'm mainly in for the mystery and eito at this point

[โ€“] Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

I've been listening to Umineko soundtrack over the last few day and man... just hearing these songs again hits as hard as when reading the VN. These emotions just stay with you.

Speaking of Umineko, if anyone here knows Japanese and is interested in theatre, the 4 episodes of Umineko stageplay are currently available for free on the Shinidan YouTube channel until September 5th.

Direct links for the lazy

On the actual reading side, I decided to check out Rescue Refused linked previously by @Elevator7009sAlt@ani.social. It's pretty neat.
There isn't much there due to the game jam limits it was made for but it was a short and enjoyable idea with cute art style.

Next up is another short VN, Here Even The Sun Shines Differently. It's a story about an Ukrainian refugee who migrated to Japan after Russian invasion. It talks about the feeling of isolation as well as (not) adjusting to new environment and reality. Pretty emotional journey despite its length (under an hour of reading), has some light horror elements throughout.

Demo for PROJECT MIX received a new update. It's only some technical stuff like bug fixes, intro skip and Simplified Chinese localisation but I'll take any chance I can to shill the game (please end up good and don't do anything stupid that'll make me regret this devs!).
Give it a shot if you'd like to play Va-11 HALL-A in VR.

Lastly, no patch list updates this month. I didn't stumble on any new projects during my random browsing and I didn't have time to do some proper searching. Feel free to drop a comment or message me if you know of anything worth adding to the list (both old and new).