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>>20079096
Asairo

>>17305002
>I wanted to try Asairo but somebody told me it was long and boring and tried hard to be 'artsy'.
Asairo is anything but long mate, so yeah I guess you should take that someone's opinion with a grain of salt. Even if you don't agree with some of the themes I found all the character likeable and once the real deal bits hit it's a wild ride all around. If by artsy you're thinking of something along the lines of Saihate no IMA that has some really non-standard stuff, infodumps, long and slow-paced main story that's not to everybody's liking there's really nothing like that in Asairo and it's actually really accessible.

Asairo was my first Shumon game as well and I only later went to check out Mikan. Like I said earlier Mikan has a handful of neat ideas, but the execution is quite a bit lacking and the game itself also has plenty of predictable cliches even its main story, not to mention the system is fucked: skip only unread text function doesn't work, the true endings require shitton of flags and there's only a handful of save slots. It's certainly different but I don't think the good parts compensate the somewhat boring and predictable parts enough, nor do I think it's representative of Shumon's better games Asairo and Itsusora.

Also speaking about stuff in general, many people seem to hold mistaken preconceptions about several widely liked games and that they're somehow going for 2deep4u artsy fartsy appeal and are only enjoyable in that mindset when in truth they're only or also top tier entertainment. I originally avoided Muramasa years ago because some pretentious people were writing up "oh this is so deep and artsy" reviews and I thought it was only going to be appreciable for those kinds of people or required "prepping" with the writer's earlier works first, but it was actually a fantastic game overall. Same thing with Shumon, you don't need to "prime" yourself for his games first, people just recommend the handful same because they're considered his best.