/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

/a/ told me I should actually come here for this. I wasn't sure.
Anyway, one of my friends is obsessed with this 'game' and got me to play it. I'm only to the temple, but I have a question.
Why is it I only survive when I'm intentionally trying to kill myself to get the Tiger Dojos? I choose the "This is probably going to kill me." option, only to find out that I get through fine.

[Anonymous No.]

cuz shiro is an idiot

[Anonymous No.]

Whether you survive or not is based on Shirou's luck stat so it's almost completely random.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6093085
Really? It's not set depending on your response?
The Tiger Dojos make me think that everything is set in stone.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6093099
It's always the same, what he meant was the choices that sound dumb are sometimes "correct" because Shiou's in the story has really weird luck.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6093099
Don't listen to
>>6093085

[Anonymous No.]

>>6093107
Alright.
You know, my biggest complaint is that, while the fighting and action scenes are pretty cool, and I don't mind the pretend planning sections, the rest is so BORING.
Are ALL visual novels like this?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6093128
no they aren't. FSN is just famous for having shit tons of boring shit in middle of stuff.

[Crimson Moon !LDZA86tD3Q No.]

>>6093128

Not at all. Nasu (the writer of F/SN) has a very bad problem with excessive, windy exposition.

Don't worry, it WILL MAKE UP FOR IT.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6093128

if you want a concise story with no boring shit in the middle read saya no uta, its pretty fucking short.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6093128
FSN is infamously known for bad pacing and huge exposition dumps. But if you don't like slice of life, VNs are probably not for you

[Anonymous No.]

>>6093140
So why all the love for the series? I see fan art all the time.
I like the characters though. And the plot is interesting. It's only the execution that leaves something to be desired.

Also, did anyone else just turn off the music and play your own?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6093152

It gets better later. It's not the best VN ever, but it has high production value and has some pretty epic story arcs.

But if you want stories without filler, VNs are not for you.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6093152
You have to trudge through all the boring stuff to get to the epic scenes that come up later. The boring scenes aren't completely useless either since they're supposed to make you grow attached to the characters.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6093152
You pretty much answered your own question.

Also, you should play with the music, if only for Emiya. Otherwise Shirou manning the fuck up won't have as much of an impact.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6093152

i thought their music was decently ok, didnt really decide to play my own

also if you downloaded an ok version there should be a route guide somewhere, if not just google it

[Anonymous No.]

>>6093150
Well... I like slice of like webcomics and comics? I admit don't read many manga anymore.
>>6093166
I did the first few hours I played. But I like my Pandora better. How much better does the music get after the prologue? Because that's when I stopped listening to it.

Ok... another question...
When do I finally get to beat Shinji's ass with a pipewrench?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6093166
I liked Kotomine's themes and Lorelei too. But admittedly some of the tracks, mostly the "shit we're in trouble" tracks, just sound like stupid noise.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6093179
The music is mediocre throughout the game, but there's a few gems in there that make it worth it, particularily Shirou's theme: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKrtcuXP7RA

And Shinji will get what he deserves, most of the time.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6093179
Someone just played Bioshock or was on youtube.
You get to beat him up later, but not with a pipewrentch.

[Anonymous No.]

Tsukihime still tops FSN with the
>[ ] Go alone vs super bad guy
>[X] Stay together with strongest being on planet to fight super bad guy
LANDSHARKED ENJOY DYING LOL

[Anonymous No.]

So, is FSN is full of boring but had gems enough to warrant finishing it, what are some other good VNs. And I don't need some massive list, a few of the better ones would be cool. And a quick rundown of the contents would be nice.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6093242
FSN has a weird contrast of FUCK YES YOU ARE THE BEST SCENE EVER, BLOOD PUMPAN THROUGH MY DICK AS I EJACULATE LASERS AND VODKA moments and 3 hours straight of slice of life/cooking.
If you want something completely different try Cross Channel. Ending is insanely depressing though.

[Anonymous No.]

Awesome, now we have TWO recommendation threads.
It's becoming the new Touhou!

[Anonymous No.]

>>6093257
Yeah... I dislike the cooking bits. It's... unneeded. And I could have explained Saber's and Rin's staying in the house a lot better then Protagonist.
Why are ALL Japanese male leads like that anyway? Complete and utter morons.
>>6093267
How, do you ALWAYS have that large of a stick up your ass, or is tonight a special occasion?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6093242
I'm lazy so I'll just link you to their vndb summaries, the tag system should show you what to expect.

My favorites are
Swan Song: http://vndb.org/v914
Cross Channel: http://vndb.org/v66
Sharin no Kuni: http://vndb.org/v57
Remember11: http://vndb.org/v13
But my all time favorite has to be Symphonic Rain: http://vndb.org/v38
Hope it helped.

And FSN really is worth finishing. Once I got to know the characters enough, the SoL didn't even bother me that much anymore. Worth a read for the epic climaxes every route has.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6093304
Here on /jp/, we put sticks in our asses for fun. You should try it.

But seriously, Shirou is a special case of retard. His autism is justified, wait til the second route to find out about his mental defect.

[Anonymous No.]

Once you're done reading Fate/Stay Night, read this.

Repeat
Once you're done reading Fate/Stay Night.

http://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/index.php?title=Fate/Zero

[Anonymous No.]

>>6093304
Cross Channels protag is by all rights, a completely evil bastard with an insane amount of mental defects.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6093325
I'll need to come back for that someday then. I only play FSN a few hours a day, if that.
>>6093307
I'll try and check that out.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6093304
Shirou's a sword, swords don't think.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6093345

F/SN should only be about 12-20 hours long, depending on your reading speed.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6093357
If by 20 you mean 50, then yes.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6093362

What the fuck.

I only have 3 days (~75 hours) on my timer of F/SN.

I read exceptionally slowly.

And I repeatedly leave F/SN running in the background for stretches.

Shrinking it down, I read for maybe 22 hours.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6093357
I real a lot faster then it puts the text on the screen. It's gotten to the point where I just tab foreword until its all there, pausing only to see the character's reactions. I thought maybe turning the scroll speed to max would help.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6093383
Not him, but I doubt you're estimating it right. I read so fast I have to have it on max speed for it to not be snail pacey, and I'm still pretty sure one route took around 10 hours. If I remember correctly, my first run of Fate route was 12 hours, although I did look at the weapon and status screens every now and then.

[Anonymous No.]

Hey OP, I'm here to give you my opinion and you have to agree with it if you want to be my friend on myspace:

UBW (2nd route) > HF (3rd route) > Fate (1st route)

[Anonymous No.]

>[ ] Go alone vs super bad guy
>[X] Stay together with strongest being on planet to fight super bad guy
LANDSHARKED ENJOY DYING LOL

Jesus Christ, This so much.
That day I learned that in order to survive in Nasuverse,
you need to think like SHONEN HERO.
Suddenly everything makes sense

[Anonymous No.]

>>6093431
We are so through, Bob. I'm taking you off my friends list this instant!

[Anonymous No.]

The worst bit about F/SN is how the best characters didn't have routes

[Anonymous No.]

>>6093480
But Archer and Kotomine did have routes, what the fuck you on about?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6093480
I keep hearing people talk about 'routes.' Even Tiger talks about them.
What does this MEAN?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6093498

Major plot branches, basically.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6093498
VNs usually have different routes, which means the story deviates depending on the choices you make. In FSN's particular case, there are three routes (meaning three playthroughs) and the playing order is enforced, you have to play Saber -> Rin -> Sakura.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6093515
>>6093498
Don't bother with Sakura's route.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6093522
Disappointing? Boring?
Oh god, is it nothing but cooking and cleaning?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6093530
Yeah it's pretty much your typical VN scenario.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6093533
I don't know what that means. FSN is my first VN. And I'm not done with my first play through yet.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6093530
HF (Sakura route) is hate it or love it. But it has a lot of faults.

Pacing terrible even on FSN standards, unlikable heroine, more cooking scenes than Saber and Rin routes together, etc. Admittably though, the climax is the best moment in the whole game.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6093544
... You beat Shinji's ass with a pipewrentch? Because if it's like that I'll play it for just that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6093530
Halfassed chart I made during the stone age to represent my enjoyment of the three routes.

Yellow= Saybuh
Red= Rin
Purple= Suckura

[Anonymous No.]

>>6093544
Plus Sakura is a disgusting, worm-infested slut.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6093556
I'm guessing the sudden spike of awesome in the middle of HF is this?

[Anonymous No.]

Play a better game instead like "Violent Semen Inferno" or "Adultery: His Wife is a High School Student" (from the makers of Violent Semen Inferno).

[Anonymous No.]

>>6093556
I don't buy that chart, it's not that the first days of Fate or UBW are really fun either... there is just stuff about the rules and similar scenes in Fate/UBW about... really nothing.

At least HF did argueably better with that stuff, as was explained quickly in one day (along with Kiritsugu true nature) and centered in Servants deaths, Mabo Tofu and the Shadow first appareance until Day 9.

The real turning down point in HF are days 11, 12, 13, with ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. At least days 14, 15, 16 redeemed that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6093575
MORE COOKING
MORE EATING
Are you fucking kidding me? Even topless, eating is still just eating.

[Anonymous No.]

Wow, this is still here?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6095487
It's been less than 12 hours.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6093852

>The real turning down point in HF are days 11, 12, 13, with ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. At least days 14, 15, 16 redeemed that.

The final 3 days were as long as the entire rest of the route COMBINED. They better have redeemed it.

[Anonymous No.]

eating together, laughing together, enjoying hanging around eachother: only normalfags don't get it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6095517

We don't read F/SN for things we could get in any other generic VN.

We read F/SN for DIVINE SKILLS, FLAWLESS AND FIRM
DO YOU HAVE ENOUGH WEAPONS IN STOCK?
and
KOTOMINE
KIREI

[Anonymous No.]

>>6095506
Sorry, I'm used to faster boards where I'd be lucky if it lasted more then six.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6095508
>The final 3 days were as long as the entire rest of the route COMBINED
I dunno bro, I read HF's last 3 days in about 4 hours where the rest of the route combined was about 12 hours and this was skipping through slice of life scenes with Sakura in them.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6095568

Welcome to /jp/.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6093530
It's the greatest route by far, it's just a bunch of underage Rinfags whining because they didn't get the point of the route (hint: Shirou's ideal isn't any better just because he goes "LOLRESOLVE").

[Anonymous No.]

>>6095594
I know maybe half a dozen of those characters.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6093530
Best route. Ignore the rest...the game wouldn't be complete without it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6095602
>>6095686
One or two good segments can hardly make up for how terrible the rest of HF is.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6095707
And fate/ubw were better? You must be joking...fate was "stay in the kitchen woman" for half the route and ubw took a while to get good.

[Anonymous No.]

Turn off sound, and you will miss this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF29ATE3PTE

Don't do that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6095718
Better than "LALALAH NOTHING BAD IS HAPPENING WHAT SO EVER AT ALL I'LL JUST IGNORE THE FACT THAT THE SHADOW HAS KILLED HALF OF THE TOWN."
Coupled with the fact that essentially all the good characters were killed off by the 6th or so day.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6095734
Exaggeration.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6095627

Really? Just Rance, Pran, and Touhou easily beat that. What are you even doing here?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6095755
I'm new shut up!
Wait... a lot more FSN characters then I though... Ok, maybe a dozen then.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6095780
Rance, Pran and Touhou are not from FSN.

[Anonymous No.]

Hey OP, you grabbed the Realta Nua patch, right? You're especially going to want it before you get to HF.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6095786
I know. I was simply stating that I saw there were more FSN characters then I saw at first glance. Adding them to my previous count, I know roughly a dozen characters in that picture.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6093530
Even bogged down by cooking and cleaning HF's fight scenes and climax are an absolute joy. Ilya is a true bro I was looking forward to MoS but it was completely disappointing instead I got to the pleasure see how far the bat shit insane protagonist can go on.

The last few days is just an orgy of awesomeness, read it man. Do it, even if you don't like Sakura, then do it for Shirou. Be there and see his iron mind and balls in action.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6095821
I'll eventually get there.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6095821
>then do it for Kotomine
Fixed, as not all of us like the turn Shirou's character took.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6095821
>Ilya is a true bro
God, she's so perfect.

[Anonymous No.]

Might as well ask here, anyone have a save for SLH that they wouldn't mind uploading?
I can't be bothered to skip through 3 routes just to watch one scene out of whim.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6095935

Sure, here you go
http://www.mediafire.com/?5b3642rfpm54gx2

Answer anything but the last question

[None !Nipaa0mi0. No.]

>>6095933
Ilya is the best Type Moon character.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6095978

(Ahem)

>Answer the question with anything but the last option.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6095978
>>6095983
Thanks, deleting all my saves for another run through probably wasn't a smart idea.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6093242

[Anonymous No.]

>>6096135
Did you not see the "I don;t need a massive list" part?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6093242
Depends on what your tastes are really. Do you want comedy, drama, action etc?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6096198
Defiantly comedy and action.

[A Certain Magical !HOMOfybeOY No.]

>>6096135
>unstranslated shit

[Anonymous No.]

>>6096209
For action I'd suggest Kikokugai http://vndb.org/v183 and that's all I can think of off the top of my head.
For comedy maybe Cross Channel (http://vndb.org/v66)) and Muv Luv (http://vndb.org/v93).). To note though both of these have very serious segments though, and Muv Luv experiences a very large direction shift in it's second half.
I'd probably avoid reading the VNDB summaries for these two as the both seem very spoilerish.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6096135
I'd like something like this, but with English translated VNs only.

Also, I am not the person you were addressing when you posted that.

[Anonymous No.]

Here's a solid list of translated VNs and links to download them. No ratings because that's just jackass opinions anyway. You can look up every single one on vndb if you really want ratings.

http://kureha.no-ip.org/k1/index.php?topic=243.0

[Anonymous No.]

>>6096302

Thanks.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6096302
All translated into English?
Jackpot!

[Anonymous No.]

Bumped

[Anonymous No.]

>>6098413
WHY!? Let this thread die already.