09-06-2013, 08:03 AM | #5476 |
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No, not Grisaia ...
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09-06-2013, 08:49 AM | #5477 |
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Um, Planetes? Pretty much everything on my PC that needs to be finished is fair game now. If you're alluding to something specific, I can't really put my finger on what it is.
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09-06-2013, 09:40 AM | #5478 |
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No allusions. I sincerely don't remember what it is, only that you had indicated that there was some series I had highly recommended which you were going to get to first thing after you finished Rewrite.
No guilt tripping either. You watch and play what you want to watch and play. I was only ever remarking that I coulda sworn you'd declared that something else was next on your to do list, something I myself had seen or played ... *shrug*
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Here not for a suggestion, but rather for an inquiry- For the VN-playing folk, what are some good storied fantasy ones? I've heard good things about Rewrite, but I'm, well, having some issues getting it to work.
Kamidori was a great example of a fantasy VN for me, but the story... Could have been deeper. The characterization was fairly good, though.
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09-06-2013, 01:38 PM | #5480 |
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You mean high fantasy setting, or fantasy as in anything make-believe? I'm trending toward the former given your Kamidori example but I just want to make sure.
Most "high fantasy" tends to be toward the JRPG style, so anything in that vein tends toward the nuki. Even Fate/stay night is roughly based around a JRPG-like system, rather than going to the myth/legend and starting from scratch a la what J.R.R. Tolkein did.
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09-06-2013, 04:03 PM | #5481 |
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Yeah, I guess I meant more high fantasy, guess I should have been more clear on that. >_>
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09-06-2013, 06:26 PM | #5482 |
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Nukis are the brainless sex romps that most people think of stereotypically when they hear "porn games". From what I can tell, something like Rance/MDKB don't count despite those games having excessive H, because there's some semblance of story and nukis are supposed to be retarded. I've never played one, it seems.
If you're looking for high fantasy, the VN world is considerably bare, but less so than anime. High fantasy is just not that big in Japan, by far the most common setting is high school. Even among RPG parody games, it's still a small number of the overall VN world, with high school dominating everything. The ones I've played personally are Sengoku Rance and Utawarerumono, both of which have game components. Rance was the best of the lot, since it's absolutely hilarious even if unspeakably brutal and horrifically misogynistic at times, while Utawarerumono is more in like with a TRPG I guess. Suikoden and Final Fantasy Tactics are what I've heard for the latter. Rance is hard to describe, since I don't have a reference for it. I think Loki or BBB could probably categorize it better.
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If you want to find a manga Talon has read ahead of the anime, you've got to find one where either he discovered it before discovering there was an anime (e.g. Genshiken) or else one where he didn't think there'd ever be any (more) anime (e.g. Rozen Maiden). I think those kind of sum up the situations where I read ahead of the anime. Meina's Owl ... Usagi Drop (back when I discovered it in stores, before there was any word of an anime) ... Yeah, if I discover the manga first, then I may read on even if an anime is announced. But -- LOL -- even this strategy doesn't always pan out. For example, Genshiken Nidaime, where even though I'd read all of the original manga and the first three chapters of the sequel ... I ended up falling behind reading the sequel and then, when I heard the sequel was getting an anime, decided "Well I'll just wait for that instead! " (Spoiler: I may consider doing this with Rozen Maiden too. Although with Rozen Maiden it's not likely to be relevant for quite some time. ... wait, why am I laughing about that? )
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For another fantasy VN, I'm about to play Yumina the Ethereal. I haven't really looked much into it. It could be good, it could be bad. I'll tell when I get to playing it I guess! |
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09-06-2013, 09:55 PM | #5485 |
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I know what you're trying to say, but it should probably say something different. I can't claim to know the best answer myself as everything I thought of sounded pretty darn subjective (e.g. "because they have a good story") and/or still wouldn't exclude the games you're calling nukiges (e.g. I've known several eroges whose stories I quite loved yet which were also quite all about the eroticism!), but saying "some semblance of story" definitely doesn't work since (afaik) all eroge have got at least some SEMBLANCE of a story to them, otherwise they would by definition be nothing more than HCGs set to music. Unless we're going to include those crappy Flash pornographic dating sims from the late 1990s, but those shouldn't count.
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09-07-2013, 12:07 AM | #5486 |
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I've never played a nuki, but from what I've seen in H anime, I can surmise what I think it constitutes. Take the anime Rape! Rape! Rape!
-two girls talking in a high school setting -they give their names in a conversation -one wanders off and gets raped And that's it. You've got a name, a look, and a setting. Technically there's a plot. But just a twinge. It's definitely not deep and not really substantive at all. MDKB was pretty close to a nuki, but it apparently has too much plot and character to register. If websites like VNDB consider it legit, I'd say nuki must have practically nothing to qualify.
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Disclaimer: the following is intended for adult audiences only.
Pretty much all ero-anime adaptations of eroge are akin to the X/1999 movie or the Unlimited Blade Works movie: incredibly, incredibly abridged. Some examples that come to mind where I've both played the game and seen the anime adaptation include the Kansen series ... and that's all I can say without digging myself into a hole. ^^; Anyway, point is, you shouldn't judge a game by its anime adaptation cover. The anime is pretty much always heavily abridged. But I know what you're wanting to say. A game that might be considered a nukige would be anything where sex scenes are never more than five minutes away and the plot's pretty shallow. Games where there's "an actual story being told" and which take 20+ hours to beat don't fit the bill -- not even if they're pornographic. TBH with you, though, I've never heard of the term nukige before. It probably derives from 抜く, which has a lot of sexual meanings, perhaps the most common of which is to pull out. I guess the idea is that the experience is so fast with a nukige that you're "already pulling out" in little time, done with what you came to do, as compared with a more story-based eroge where your goal is to not rush it. I dunno.
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Yumina the Ethereal
Well I decided to go ahead and start. Honestly, I don't think I'll be going very far. It's really REALLY lame. The main girl is this forced "quirky airhead", and the main guy is the usual "lazy guy". It has been a bunch of really bad attempts at humor so far. The voices sound like they put bags over the VAs' heads. Also the music sounds like elevator music. I guess this is what I should have expected from something licensed by JAST. Licensed VNs are hardly ever good! |
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I just watched the first half of The End of Evangelion and something happened to me that has never happened to me before.
I got physically nauseous. I won't go into detail, but an anime literally made me feel sick to my stomach. I've seen all sorts of horrible, terrible things, even in real life, that barely affected me. I've been horribly desensitized to gore and messed up stuff in general, and yet, a scene in the movie - an animated scene - made me feel like throwing up. And I still feel a bit nauseous even now. I just... I can't explain it. |
09-07-2013, 08:59 PM | #5490 |
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C'mon VGM...it's just blood, flesh, and semen.
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Just watched Monogatari 10. Felt a bit rushed, but another great arc nonetheless.
Spoiler: show Hope the series can keep this up (unlike Nisemonogatari). (Incidentally, I did not know SHAFT head-tilts were a thing until now, but I won't say no to those either~)
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When I saw Madoka in the movie theatre, I heard audible giggling every time there was a SHAFT head tilt.
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I think I made a post about at least one of those movies...
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In other news, I've been watching To Aru Kagaku no Railgun and it has been fairly decent so far. Some questionable moments... as in, ecchi ^_^; I'm really on a roll with that lately, feels like all the anime I've been checking out recently has just been full of that. Regardless though, this one is pretty tame about it - it's basically a point of comedy relief. It's also not overbearing nor is it in every episode, it's pretty spotty... but overall the premise is interesting enough to want me to keep watching. Essentially, it's a superpower show. Set in an alternate Earth/future, just about any and everyone can develop some sort of superpower. The story follows four girls and their lives in the city as they learn to harness their powers and use them as part of a sort of citizen police force called "Judgment", whose task is to follow and subdue potentially dangerous criminals before the actual police arrive (more or less). It's not anything groundbreaking or fantastic, but it's entertaining to say the least. |
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I don't have time to write about Monogatari episode 10 but that was absolutely my favourite episode of the series so far. Fucking beautiful.
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