Phelpssan

Phelpssan, 10 months ago

I had forgotten about this last week, but I actualy had Trails into Reverie preordered!

Got it early in this week and started playing. Didn’t have as much time as I’d like, but I managed to reach Act 2, and just got to the Reverie Corridor.

Really want to play more as C since his party is the “new” one, but early-game is mostly focused on Lloyd and Rean.

Phelpssan, 10 months ago

So far only only started a couple:

• Saint Cecilia & Pastor Lawrence
• Tiny Senpai

Want to start:

• Jujutsu Kaisen S2
• My Happy Marriage
• Atelier Ryza

Phelpssan, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

I honestly don’t know.

Finished the pack of VNs I was playing previously and now I’m trying to decide which game from my gigantic backlog is next.

Phelpssan, 10 months ago

It’s a possibility, a got a few lined up to play. But I played three of these recently so I might need a break.

Phelpssan, 10 months ago

Haven’t heard about this one before, looks like this is ecchi VN with Ninja Catgirs?

There’s only reviews for the first game, but they don’t look too bad at least, average around 7.

Phelpssan, 10 months ago

I’ve been on Visual Novel mood, finished Robotics;Notes Elite earlier this week (which was excellent!) and started playing the sequel, Robotics;Notes DaSH. Just completed Phase 02 of the sequel, and managed to unlock the five different routes that branch from this point.

However, so far DaSH has been a disappointment. The plot of the early portions of the game is just terrible, and Daru’s perverted jokes get old really fast with him as the main character. Since there are hints of some bigger conspiracy behing the nonsense of these early parts of the game I’ll hold my judgment until I finish the game, but it’ll have to be some really great twist to make up for this painful start.

Phelpssan, 10 months ago

One of the aspects I don’t like much is replaying it multiple times to get the full picture.

Most (all?) modern VNs have some kind of “skip read text” function so you can get quickly to the parts of the story you haven’t read yet, but I’ll give some suggestions assuming this is something you also dislike using.

I’ll also be assuming you want to play on the Switch. Anyway, there’s several ways to go.

• There’s something called “Kinetic Novels”, VNs that don’t have any choices/branches. I haven’t played it yet, but Witch on the Holy Night is a highly-regarded game of this type that just got a Switch release. There’s also a demo which you can try.
• There are games like Raging Loop that have multiple branches you’re required to go through to get the “true” ending, but also feature a very convenient in-game flowchart that lets you know where the branches are and allow you to jump straight to any choice, so the whole “reading the same thing multiple times” is kept to a minimum. This one is my usual recommendation for VN beginners.
• If you don’t mind using a guide there’s some games with only one “good” ending that don’t require multiple playthroughs if you make the right choices. The House in Fata Morgana is a fantastic choice if you want to go with this route.
• A similar idea of “use a guide” works for some of the games that have multiple endings but the “true” ending is reachable with a single playthrough. I know this is the case for Steins;Gate.
• Games that have branches but no “true” ending might work, I know that the first Grisaia game is like this and I think this is also the case for Aokana. The Grisaia sequels kinda assume you played all of the routes from the first game, but getting the different endings is very easy anyway since there’s only a few choices - just save at each one of them and try different answers.

Phelpssan, 10 months ago

It’s from the same author as Tsukihime and Fate/Stay Night, and I believe it’s the first novel from this author to get an official english release.

Phelpssan, 10 months ago

Stack still exists and I think those rules are mostly unchanged from 2013.

I haven't played tournaments in a while, but instead of the DCI I believe they are using the Wizards Account. If you have played Magic Arena then you already have one, if you haven't it might be worth installing and playing a bit to get a refresher on the game and see some of the recent sets.

There's a store locator that may help find some place to play: https://locator.wizards.com/

Finally, about building decks... first find out where and against who you're going to play. Since there's a bunch of different formats (Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Standard, Commander) it's best to find out what is popular at the place you want to play before building a deck.