/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>20533493
This year was a year of disappointments for me. Several games I looked forward to at least somewhat ended up being just bad. And not just a little bad either.

There was only one game I could consider having given me a somewhat lasting impression, and that Hitotsuba, even though or perhaps precisely because I only played one route that I quite enjoyed. I really like the whole "flying" stuff, and while it definitely could've been more, what I got wasn't bad at all. That's something. Though the beginning has some really dumb scene(s). Also props for the route choice. You better remember more than just the boobs of the girls. (or chicken out and use a walkthrough)

Done with common in hitotsuba. The flying part is really not its strength. The battles are, so far, extremely simple and there's not been put a lot of work into the whole idea either. It's kinda a common issue with these kind of stories, time pressure and just things feeling impossible, but this one got hit pretty hard here. The first training was also against some pretty good team, while they couldn't even really fly in a formation yet. Supposedly that helped them a lot... which is not how this works. If you don't even know the basics and haven't played against some normal people, you don't even understand how and why these supposedly good guys are so good. It's like someone new to a beat em up game trying to go against a pro player there. They will learn about as much as when playing against hard AI. "whoa, I got beaten up and have no idea what happened"

The rest is quite fine. And is luckily most of the VN, even though the whole flying thing became quite a bit more prominent in the last hour or two of common. I also like how you don't choose girls in this. Nope. You choose planes.