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[Anonymous No.]

/jp/, can we have a Symphonic Rain thread? I like Symphonic Rain threads.

For those of you who haven't played it yet or have no idea what I'm talking about, please try it out. It's one of the best VNs ever.

[Anonymous No.]

>Symphonic Rain

[Anonymous No.]

>>7726978

Of course, this is the first response I get, because /jp/ is a terrible board for terrible people like spammers and bored trolls.

Okay, Anon, I'll bite. What makes Symphonic Rain so 'shit'?

[Anonymous No.]

I'll read it, if somebody can tell me an easy fix to the fucking 'No text is showing up.. at all' bug.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7726990
If (game == translated)
return "shit"
else return "game of the year"

[ZUN !barYV1VtIA No.]

>>7726978
>>7726990
Same person I'm hoping.

[KuudereStalker No.]

I still need to read this, OP. I heard that there's nothing sexual about this read at all, but they're all so cute that I can't resist. That image of your's made me want to read it, OP. Just to see that girl's chest, even if it's barely showing. It's just enough to make my cock hard.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7726990
Nothing really, it's a wonderful and deep VN that is certainly up there with Clannad and Artificial Angels

[Anonymous No.]

>>7726999

I got that bug, but I forgot how I resolved it.

Um, let's see. TLWiki says to get the Essai font from http://www.mediafire.com/?5edgbejigjz, copy it into your game folder and windows font folder, run regedit, run a search on Borland and add the exe manually with

Regedit
HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Software
Borland
Locales
Then right click, "New String Value"

>After that, edit the string you made. The Value Name should be the path to SR_qc.exe, and the value data should be MOO.

That help?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7726999
sure, you read the fucking readme.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7727018
>>7727023
Had the most simply thing worked, I wouldn't be having this problem, would I?

There's no "Borlands" folder in the tree-view.
I guess i installed it as something else.
How would I go from there?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7727008

Not at all.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7727035

What OS are you using? I have a 'Borland' folder under 'Software'.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7727048
Windows 7, 64 bit.
As I mentioned, I think it's because i made a custom install.
Did you install in the default directory?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7727058

How do you mean?

I honestly don't even remember how I solved the problem, or what 'Borland' is even supposed to be, as I followed the instructions on TLWiki blindly. My apologies.

[Anonymous No.]

MC was really shitty.
For the no text shit, install the font.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7727058
you need to edit the directory in SR.reg to wherever you installed it and then run that, you shouldn't need to edit the registry manually or anything.

[Anonymous No.]

I was just thinking whether I should play Symphonic Rain, OP. Your post determined me to play it.

Can anyone recommend me a playing order? I like to go from the worst to the best.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7727086

Fal, Lise, Torta is the commonly accepted route order. Anything else won't be as good anyway.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7727081
Still no dice, though it seems to be more correct. I'll mess around for a bit.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7727080
I don't think the MC was bad, and honestly, his problems were pretty messed up. However, I asked this before, and got some interesting answers about a year ago. Did anyone else completely misunderstand him in the first Da Capo routes? Normally VN protags are more active, sarcastic, and teasing. Every time the game implied that Chris did something ambiguous like ignore a minor character, I imagined confident indifference, not shyness. I was totally taken aback at how wrong I was during Al Fine. Anyone else have this problem?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7727116

You might want to spoiler that.

I was surprised too, and I think that was intentional on the part of the writers. The idea behind the perspective change was to show how restrictive first-person perspectives can be, especially if the owner of the perspective is crazy.

[Anonymous No.]

What is Symphonic Rain?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7727116
A bit, yes

[Anonymous No.]

>>7727116
I always thought Torta was being a bitch and overreacting when she told him how much he used to lose the focus of the conversation, since at that time you were having inner monologues.
then I just wanted to punch him because it was irritating

[Anonymous No.]

Read Fal's route and raged. Started on Lise's and got bored. The story was sombre to the point of oppressiveness and couldn't keep my interest.

[Cirno No.]

Hey /jp/ do you guise like touhou games? Wanna play with me?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7727122

A well-rated VN with a slow-paced, light atmosphere. Give it a go if you want something healing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7727120
He wasn't crazy, he was just a textbook schizoid
I thought it was interesting to see the world beyond Chris's eyes.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7727096
I just figured it out.

Go to your game folder. There will be a file called SR.reg

Double click SR.reg. Try the game.
If you installed it in C:/Program Files/KOGADO/SRTE, it will work. If you didn't, it will have created CurrentUser/Software/Borland/Locales for you, with a key that has an incorrect path. Change the path from C:\Program Files\KOGADO\SRTE\SR_qc.exe to (for me: D:\Program Files (x86)\KOGADO\SRTE\SR_qc.exe

You're welcome.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7727142

Oh ho ho. You haven't even begun to see why Symphonic Rain is so good.

Keep going, Al Fine is worth it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7727148
Ah yeah, I got it working a while after I was told there was a .reg file in the installation folder.
Sorry, didn't think to report back.

[Anonymous No.]

Can somebody refresh my memory regarding Fal's route?
At the ending, when you choose to go with her, or whatever the 'good' choice is. You end up knowing she used you, but still stay with her, right?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7727164
Yep, Chris is trying to help her

[Anonymous No.]

>>7727116
Nah, I always saw Chris as a sad, lonely, shy guy. But that interpretation does seem kind of interesting.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7727147
I'm not a fan of personality disorders caused by some form trauma in fiction but I thought it was well done here. Chris was pretty believable as a normal person at first but once Al Fine you see Chris for what he is. I also loved the dynamic that Chris was actually incredibly talented and a really good musician when in his head he is average[/spoiler[

[Anonymous No.]

>>7727171
Ah, now I remember, thank you.
It cuts out after she says something along the lines of "It's time for you to face the truth.", right?

[Anonymous No.]

Can someone summarize Lise's bad end? I never bothered with it since her normal ending was depressing enough.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7727182
Makes me wonder if Fal was stable enough to support Chris after the world falls on top of him if he finds out at all.

[Anonymous No.]

I used to think that the concept of the Fortell was silly. It's a magical keyboard that draws its sound from its player's mood.

But when I played my violin at a family friend's funeral and saw myself as her ring bearer in a slideshow picture, I knew that it wasn't silly at all.
Every instrument is an extension of its player. The trembling of the player transmits to the instrument and changes its tune.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7727188
Her bad ending wasn't that bad.
Chris and Grave both acknowledge that their performance was unsatisfactory. Chris goes on to improve himself to prove himself.

[Anonymous No.]

Is there anyway to make the + key in the performances... not a +? I don't have a + button on my computer (Shift + = = + for me, and apparently my numpad's + doesn't work)

[Anonymous No.]

>>7727220
It's on the /jp/ FTP

[Anonymous No.]

I can't find a working torrent for this anywhere. I'd be very grateful if someone gave me link to one.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7727215

It's not +. I forget what key it is but it's not + on a North American keyboard.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7727215
It's semicolon.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7727221
What is /jp/ FTP? Okay, this is probably a very stupid question, but please bear with me.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7727238
It's a server that is has a bit of everything, really.
Though it's down an awful lot.

[Anonymous No.]

Thank you <3

>>7727238
Am I allowed to give out the ftp? I never see the link posted anymore.

Anonymous // /jp/
ftp:// jpftp[dot]mine(dot)nu/

[Anonymous No.]

>>7727244
Alright, thanks for the answer. Where can I access it?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7727248
Alright, thanks a lot!

[Anonymous No.]

How old were the characters in Symphonic Rain supposed to be, anyway?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7728151
15-18 according to wikipedia

[Anonymous No.]

I'd like knowledge of /jp/'s server too.

Please?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7728157

It was in >>7727248. Check the archive

[Anonymous No.]

been reading this very slowly but im wondering when it starts to pick up, im around 12/15 doing fal's route first, is it just the way the vn is?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7728248
The first three routes are all kind of slow, but will fuck with you when you get closer to the end. Then you get to Al Fine which fucks with you pretty much right from the beginning.

[Anonymous No.]

I have trouble with the no text bug as well. Essai font installed in both the game folder and Windows, no Borland in regedit.

[Anonymous No.]

Is it normal to hate Lise? I just met her. She seems like someone would take her homework and she'd just sit there being like "ah" with a blank stupid look on her face.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7728788

I think you more just hate her archetype.

To be fair to her as a character, her route actually gives a good reason for that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7728824
Probably right. I don't mind if a girl is a little light headed, but she's full blown autism in here, at least during the first / second time you meet her.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7728843

I'll spoil it for you, if you want.

If I remember right Grave's been throttling her to get her to stop singing and focus on playing. So she has trouble speaking, is moemoe shy, and probably has a bit of brain damage if you think about it.

[Anonymous No.]

Fal is an angellllll

[Anonymous No.]

>>7728853
Don't even know who Grave is. I guess I'll find out when I ctrl through her brain damage.

>>7728858
Yeah. I think I like Fal the most.

I kind of feel bad for Arietta though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7728865

If you like brain damage, you'll love her ending.

[Anonymous No.]

Postan on SR thread.

I wish to re-read it again someday.

[Anonymous No.]

I guess it's time to work on my backlog. I hope this provides a heartwarming feeling, or at least some faps.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7728920
Your tears will lubricate your fap.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7728888
I hate you

[Anonymous No.]

>>7728888
That's very rude.

[Anonymous No.]

I think Chris is meant to appear normal throughout the routes excluding Al Fine because he's not aware of his problems at all.

I enjoyed Fal's route a lot even though a lot of people dislike her having completed her route but I have to say I was discontent through anything but Al Fine because I wanted to be with Arietta. Al Fine was very satisfactory for me.

Torta was my least favourite route. I guess I couldn't sympathise with her character.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7728967
I have a feeling I'll be like
Fal > Torta > Brain Damage

I have no idea what the Al fine routes are, though. I just started this VN today, and it seems like Chris is pretty normal, abeit really antisocial, to me.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7728976
I'm not sure but isn't Chris pretty aimless? He only cares about the fortell, if anything.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7728979
Seems like a normal antisocial college student to me.

Kind of reminds me of myself when I was a freshman-sophomore.

Go to class, do whatever's required, bail and play video games. End up haphazardly studying before tests/doing homework at the last minute, go back to class, etc. Mind pretty much on video games.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7728983
Fair enough.
I still think Chris stands out from other characters in this aspect.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7728999
You also already read it and know what happens in Al Fine, because from what I can tell from spoilers, he's mentally disturbed or something.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7729006
He is, but I don't think that has anything to do with him being without ambitions

[Anonymous No.]

>>7729010
That's not very rare. when I was freshman-sophomore (Saying this because I eventually changed), my goal in life was to get a job after college so I can play more video games. Didn't really think of it past then, just wanted more video games.

Of course, since then, I've thought about it more. But at the time, all I really cared about were video games.

On top of that, this is a visual novel about music. I figure they're just cutting out some boring parts that don't have to do with music or being painfully pussywhipped by angel cook with great personality but is really really pushy Fal

[Anonymous No.]

>>7729015
>angel cook
Wait, Torta?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7729022
Reread the last word of the spoiler~

What's this Piova thing with a bar at the very bottom left of my text thing. It's getting shorter and shorter.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7729034
Ah, my bad, I only ever remember Torta's cooking. What'd you think of Asino?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7729038
I think he's just a friend that you don't see very often (What, once every 2 weeks?)

Like the kind of guy you say Hey when walking down the hall. You're not really friends, but you can't really say you're not friends because you treat him better than an acquaintance.

People sure are interesting, huh.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7729050
I just finished Fal's route (non Al Fine). I have a few objections though.

[Spoiler]There's absolutely nothing wrong with using people. Using people is how we interact day to day. Without using people, we can take a transaction as simple as eating. We use the chef to give us food, and the chef uses us to give us money.[/spoiler]

What's wrong, at least what I believe to be the line, is manipulation. However, at no points in the route did Fal ever show that she's manipulated you. Yes, she asked you to play with her, and she's pushy as fuck, but at no point did she lie to you for the sole purpose of using you. For example, if she told Chris in the beginning she liked him when she really didn't, that would be manipulation. Instead, throughout literally the first half, they were still on the fence about whether they'd actually be partners, waiting until the last moment. In addition, doing favors for faculty in exchange for favors later isn't manipulation. Extracted, it's just using people for mutual benefit. Absolutely nothing wrong

I don't see the forced drama here. Fal sure is nice though.

[Anonymous No.]

I just finished Fal's route (non Al Fine). I have a few objections though.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with using people. Using people is how we interact day to day. Without using people, we can take a transaction as simple as eating. We use the chef to give us food, and the chef uses us to give us money.

What's wrong, at least what I believe to be the line, is manipulation. However, at no points in the route did Fal ever show that she's manipulated you. Yes, she asked you to play with her, and she's pushy as fuck, but at no point did she lie to you for the sole purpose of using you. For example, if she told Chris in the beginning she liked him when she really didn't, that would be manipulation. Instead, throughout literally the first half, they were still on the fence about whether they'd actually be partners, waiting until the last moment. In addition, doing favors for faculty in exchange for favors later isn't manipulation. Extracted, it's just using people for mutual benefit. Absolutely nothing wrong

and my opinion on Asino hasn't really changed. Sure he might have a light narcissism complex about how he's nobility, but that doesn't change the fact that he's not close enough to be a friend, but not far enough to be an acquaintance.

I don't see the forced drama here. Fal sure is nice though.

[Anonymous No.]

I just finished Fal's route (non Al Fine). I have a few objections though.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with using people. Using people is how we interact day to day. Without using people, we can take a transaction as simple as eating. We use the chef to give us food, and the chef uses us to give us money.

What's wrong, at least what I believe to be the line, is manipulation. However, at no points in the route did Fal ever show that she's manipulated you. Yes, she asked you to play with her, and she's pushy as fuck, but at no point did she lie to you for the sole purpose of using you. For example, if she told Chris in the beginning she liked him when she really didn't, that would be manipulation. Instead, throughout literally the first half, they were still on the fence about whether they'd actually be partners, waiting until the last moment. In addition, doing favors for faculty in exchange for favors later isn't manipulation. Extracted, it's just using people for mutual benefit. Absolutely nothing wrong

and my opinion on Asino hasn't really changed. Sure he might have a light narcissism complex about how he's nobility, but that doesn't change the fact that he's not close enough to be a friend, but not far enough to be an acquaintance.

I don't see the forced drama here. Fal sure is nice though.

Fucked up spoilers 2 times in a row. :(

[Anonymous No.]

>>7729270
>Fucked up spoilers 2 times in a row. :(
And here I was getting excited over 3 new posts.

[/spoiler]
Chris also doesn't seem to be too bother about being used. I don't think manipulation is quite the right word, but things that seemed coincidental were actually Fal's work.[/spoiler]

[Anonymous No.]

>Fucked up spoilers 2 times in a row. :(
And here I was getting excited over 3 new posts.


Chris also doesn't seem to be too bother about being used. I don't think manipulation is quite the right word, but things that seemed coincidental were actually Fal's work.

oh, irony

[Anonymous No.]

>>7729270
There's no "forced drama", the game is great exactly because it manages to have rather realistic character development after make you think it's just a classic moe game. If you're talking about how people say she's a bitch it's just people who got hit by the previous mentioned developments harder than it's supposed to.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7729294
Coincidental? I just see her as being extremely, extremely pushy and adept in cornering (Much akin to my mom), heavy in layin' on the guilt trip. Then, you just need a backbone and to learn how to say no, there's nothing wrong from either person's pov.

I'm not saying she manipulated Chris. Rather, I'm saying, the only way using someone is debatably wrong is if she HAD been manipulating him

Which coincidences are you talking about, like oh surprise, Asino comes in unexpectedly while you're making out with Fal? From their conversation, Asino wasn't understanding that she wasn't interested in him, and this is how she flat out told him. I don't agree with her method, but there wasn't manipulation. It would have been manipulation if and only if she started fucking him in front of Chris. But then this would be NTR and I wouldn't have started this VN to begin with.

>>7729301
Forced drama as in they're making a big deal out of nothing. ie: "omg I'm >using< you to cook me lasagna because it's fucking delicious and I love your cooking" (See? Not a big deal, but I can pretend it is)

[Anonymous No.]

>>7729342
The coincidence I had in mind was the umbrella thing, which, by the way, completely fooled me into thinking the rain was actually real. I don't know if it's technically manipulation, but it seems to me she planned out a lot and moved things in her favor.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7729359

That's not something you should discuss with someone who's only read Fal's route.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7729365
>>7729359
I just got spoiled!

Thanks for being courteous about it throughout the entire thread though :o

I was thinking about spoilers in the shower, and honestly, I don't really care for them. In most scenarios, you can look at a book and say "Oh, he saves the pricess. The end", but its really about 'how' it happens that I'm more interested in.

And from the spoiler text, that isn't manipulation. That's just careful planning.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7729365
>>7729372
Sorry, I didn't realize.

[Anonymous No.]

I'm curious what you could consider manipulation. She plays on his mental instability to get him to think she's a nice person. Then leads him on and makes him fall for her just because she wants a skilled Fortell player as her partner. Comparing that to "using" a cook to get food or whatever is just silly.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7729391
Of course, as someone that didn't play Al Fine, I don't know any of this yet.

but I think, she falls in love with him too in the end, so the relationship isn't purely a "I want to use you" relationship. In addition, there's no 'deceit', which I want to emphasize. She isn't lying to him at all. If anything, she's empathizing with his disability.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7729407
That's pretty much what I think as well. Her being a bitch to Asino also means she's relying solely on Chris, for example.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7729411
Well, I don't even see it as a Chris problem when she was telling Asino off. Based on Asino's reaction to her saying she wasn't interested in his nobility, it's clear that they've gone over this before. She had probably told him before that she wasn't interested, and he wasn't getting the message. Again, while I don't agree with having him walk in on her like that, I don't see anyone getting manipulated in this context.

She never 'solely relied on Chris' until they signed up together, and even then she still has going solo as a backup method. With her personality, she'd do well with or without Chris.

[Anonymous No.]

I'm disappointed that the side stories haven't been translated yet.

[Anonymous No.]

Just started it. It feels pretty nice, but because you guys like it, it definitely can't be nice or happy.
Yeah, I'll be ready for rape, sluts, AIDS ex machina and NTR.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7729430

Well, you'll be pleasantly surprised with the final route.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7729432
So, good end with one girl, others get fucked?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7729436

Maybe.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7729436
Actually, Symphonic Rain is kind of different in that regard. Usually with many VNs like this you tend to feel really bad for the heroines you didn't choose, but in Symphonic Rain it actually seems like every single route would have been better off if you'd ignored her. Besides the Phorni route I guess.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7729455
I wish Phorni was my friend, ;_;

[Anonymous No.]

>>7729455
I don't know, only really seems like that in Lise's route. And her life was shit from the beginning, so that's debatable.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7729455
So best course of action is to not play the game at all.
Got it.

[Anonymous No.]

The Lise and Fal short story makes it seem like neither got over their problems like they did in their respective routes. Instead, they both miserably envy each other for no real reason at all.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7729469
Best course of action is the bad end you get when you pick no one.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7729476

I wouldn't say Lise envied Fal. It was more like she looked up to her.

[Anonymous No.]

Symphonic Rain was an excellent read. Unfortunately while I was reading all kind of interruptions seemed to pop up so I couldnt enjoy the story to its fullest and ended up thinking it was "ok". However the story grew up in me in such a manner that i can't help but think fondly of it for the rest of my life.
However the one thing which really bothered me was Chris Godly ability with music without practicing at all. As a violinist I know the minimum practice for someone to be good is 4 hours a day. God, Im so fucking Jelly

[Anonymous No.]

>>7729518
Fortells are magical instruments, I ain't got to train shit

[Anonymous No.]

>>7729551

This. The ability to play the Fortell has nothing to do with practice, but inborn talent. That's why Fortellists are so special.

[Anonymous No.]

That's a surprise for me to find a symphonic rain thread. Sorry, I just have to bump.

I enjoyed it a lot. A nice visual novel. I loved reading it through Torta's perspective. I disliked her until I could see what was happening in her mind. She was an interesting character, in my opinion.

About the rain, I started to think that raining all day was strange indeed. But... It's a game, so whatever. I was surprised and felt good when we see that it's psychological.
There's one more thing that I don't seem to understand. Remember when Chris and Torta were walking in the town, and they went to a place to eat, but the person who sold them food actually started playing music too? (sorry for bad english) Around this part, a drop of rain, or water, falls on Chris' face. But there is a roof, so it couldn't be possible. What was the point of this, anyway? They even repeat this event twice...

[Anonymous No.]

>>7730227
Didn't it have something to do with Chris's state of mind?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7730227
I thought it was meant to be a tear.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7730235
I thought this too.

[Anonymous No.]

You know what ? I wanted more of SR.
Fal and Lise did not overcome their problems, so I'm unsatisfied. But oh well...

[Anonymous No.]

>>7730292
What would she overcome? Talking?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7730292
Didn't read the side stories?

If there's one thing I took away from this game that carried over into my life, it would be a new mindset about rain. All my life I've really disliked getting wet because of rain, and was always careful to take an umbrella with me or at least some protection if it was supposed to start. However, after playing this I started to realize that it wasn't that bad after all. If Chris could walk to school with his fortell every day and not care about the rain, then I could handle a few showers every now and then. Even though it was all in his mind, I still feel the same way. It's all about whether or not you think you can take it or not.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7730320
I think nobody minds rain after reading this.
I don't, anyway.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7730235

It was almost definitely this.

[Anonymous No.]

Fairly ordinary game. Nice songs here and there. Wasn't a bad read I suppose.

[Anonymous No.]

So hey, what's everyone's favorite song? Mine is easily Fay, Phorni's special song. I'm also partial to Fal's ending theme. Also, anyone find it interesting about the theme's of everyone's first song? Torta and Fal sing about rain, but only Lise sings about a sunny afternoon. I think that Fal composes her song before she finds out about Chris though, unless I'm wrong...

[Anonymous No.]

>>7731530
Yeah, fal composes her song before meetiung chris, she had been practising way before with Asino and all
My favourite is melody, great tune and easy to play.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7731530
Look at me
Listen to me
だれかを愛して~

Rain Musique. I just love Fal's voice.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7731530
I just can't pick one

[Anonymous No.]

>>7731530
1. Himitsu (Torta is love, best heroine and really great lyrics in the context of the game)
2. Namida ga hoo woo nagare mo (best melody hands down, great use of the harmonica, vocals are lovely)
3. Fay (makes me smile)
4. Ame no musique (great melody, Fal's voice is godly)
5. Melody (I love the way this song flows, great vocals as well)
6-a. Lyceenne (soft listening, great song to chill with)
6-b. Itsu demo hohoemi wo (same reason as above but it has a less softness)
7. Hello! (in my opinion I think this has the best vocals in the game, the rest isn't as good so it feels uneven)
8. Sora no mukou ni (Great song but not as memorable, engrish "in the rain" puts me off a bit but the rest is pretty sweet, like the song was meant to make this look like a moe galge with not much depth)
9. I'm always close to you (I just can't get into it)

Don't get me wrong, I like all of them but these are just my opinions.

[Anonymous No.]

All right.

I'm back, and I finished Fal's and Torte's route. Near the beginning of Brain Damage's.

A few questions:
1, maybe kind of obvious, but I kind of don't remember since I just played it at ~3am- Why was Fal naked in OP's picture? When confessing to Chris she decided it was a good idea to strip? This is an all ages game, right? I kind of overlooked it at the time.

2) What the hell was up with Torte's good ending? Chris sees Ari, Chris walks Ari to train, Chris doesn't call after Ari, Ari disappears meaning Chris picked Torte, suddenly Torte hates Chris and they have an extremely strained relationship, only barely catching her on his trainride home. Then they never talk to each other ?

I kind of liked Torte's bad end (Arietta's good end.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7731855
You really should keep reading at that point.
Well, whatever.

>Torte's good end

Remind me, is this where Ari walks away and undoes her ribbon?

[Anonymous No.]

1 all ages=/=no sex, they rage fucked. It isn't rape because Fal is A-OK with it.
For two you should keeop reading and that isn't Ari's good end

[Anonymous No.]

>>7731855
Keep reading, that will answer all questions and then some. You haven't even gotten to the best parts yet.

>>7731870
Ari doesn't wear a ribbon.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7731881
Sorry, I'm so horrible with names

[Anonymous No.]

>>7731870
>You really should keep reading at that point.
? What's that mean? I'm taking a tiny break, I'll get back to reading Brain Damage's tonight. I'm kind of really tired right now, Anon~

>Remind me, is this where Ari walks away and undoes her ribbon?
Yeah. I'm not so confused about that part, but more about Torte's reaction to the whole thing. I mean, if Chris picked her over Ari, shouldn't she be... happy? Instead, what happened was Torte didn't visit that night, and then Chris didn't see her until they decided to go home. They talked on the train, and then I think they never see each other after that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7731886
Keep reading, that is all I am going to say. If you keep being dense someone will spoil it for you.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7731896
So what you're saying is

I'm correct in being confused about #2

All right. I'll keep reading. Thanks Anon.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7731886
If you think it over you should be able to find it out for yourself.
When in doubt, keep reading.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7731530

Melody is my favorite track. It gives me the same exact feeling as Let Me Laugh at the Cool from AA Investigations. That is, the feeling that I was just trolled beyond belief, and that the troll is now laughing her ass off at me.

Fuck Fal, seriously.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7731975
Why isn't there a buttdevastated pic with Fal's pic?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7731975
>Fuck Fal
see
>>7726948

[Anonymous No.]

>>7731886
Oh man, it's great seeing someone who hasn't played the game yet go through it. Enjoy the rest, man. And don't read any of the spoiler tags.

I said don't read them, dammit.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7732115
every time

[Anonymous No.]

I just finished Brain damage's route

It's pretty uneventful. Her dad's a douchebag. And she has no backbone. That's pretty much the summary for the entire route.

Fal > Torta > Brain Damage.

How should I do the Al Fine route? Good and then Best?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7734179
One of the Al Fine route ends is exactly like Torta's route, the other one is devastating.

My favorite SR song is Ritsuko's version of I'm always close to you.
The new intro is beautiful, and there's a single line that's different from Phorni's version:

Phorni
>今がすべてとちゃんとしていたはずなのに
>Even though I should know that now is everything.

Ritsuko
>今がすべてとそう思って生きてみるの
>I try to live believing that now is everything.

And she did. She gave SR her all before she died...

[Anonymous No.]

>>7734391
My favorite is this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o2pQq3SDq0&

I'm a sucker for piano.

[Anonymous No.]

All right /jp/. I finished the Al Fine Good and Al Fine True end. I got a password, kitchen knife. Do I even have to remember that at all? Probably not, right?

In any case, this had a lot of information on Torta and Chris. Still, while I'm a lot more envious of Chris and have somewhat more pity for poor little Torta, I still gotta say

Fal >~ (Closer this time) Torta >>>> Lise

And yeah. Al Fine answered a lot of questions that I had.

Mega spoiler: $5 says Phorni is Ari's dead body, particularly because she disappears when Chris breaks up with her in Fal and Lise's routes, and she disappears when Ari dies in Torta's route

>>77347151
I liked Feel the rain better. The cello's reverberations work well with me.

I'll play Phorni's route tomorrow.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7734897
The password's to download the Phorni (Kasahara Hiroko) version of Sora no Mukou ni, I believe. I don't know the link, though.

>Kasahara Hiroko
>Sora

Which reminds me, I can't wait to hear her voice again in the Ever17 remake.

[Anonymous No.]

I punched a wall with Lise. Goddamn. Also I don't know if it's just joking in here, but it wasn't actual brain damage, but fucking up her throat + some kind of PTSD-trauma. And MAN did I go "oooooh" when remembering that 20 minutes talk between Torta and Lise out of nowhere and the "This isn't you atoning, right?" at the end after Al Fine.

Fal gave me a terrible Okay.jpg feeling at the end. It wasn't rage or anything. Can't express it with anything but pic related.

I did get pissed off with Al Fine's normal ending. I was expecting a continuation from Torta's ending, but it cuts in the same exact place. Fucking cocktease. Though the true end made up for it somewhat.

[Anonymous No.]

I finished the entire thing /jp/~ Aren't you proud of me?

Phroni's route was sweet. What a nice ending. I don't think it's really fair to compare that route to the others though, it just doesn't really feel right, kinda like she's cheating since she lives with Chris and so on and so on.

I hate it when visual novels end, /jp/. Even if they're nice endings, I always get a feeling of loneliness. But a happy loneliness, not a self-pitying loneliness.

I liked this Visual Novel, it hit close to home. My name is Chris, I'm really into music, have been for my entire life (piano). and I went to college in a long distance relationship. Also really introverted with an amount of friends you can count on your fingers. There's also a ton of other similarities, but that's the main points.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7737815
Do you like Calzone too?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7737815
>Phroni's route was sweet. What a nice ending.

It really isn't when you realize that it was all fake and Torta arrived home before him, determined to 'play' Ari for the rest of her life.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7740058
I don't like you, anon.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7740058
Wait what? Did I read this route properly?
I'm going to have to download this again.

[Kudryavka !!wEyYEw5OlKU No.]

>>7740058

[Anonymous No.]

>>7740058
Wouldn't he notice Torta not being around? Chris is a simple child but not that bad.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7740183
It still wouldnt explain the magic singing and all. I DONT KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE

[Anonymous No.]

>>7740172
He is just kidding.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7740188

That's just it though. Torta isn't mentioned in Phorni's epilogue at all. It's like she's ceased to exist.

Furthermore, Chris mentions that Ari seems 'different', which he credits to the time she spent as Phorni, but...

[Anonymous No.]

>>7740309
Go away, I'm not talking to you anymore.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7740314
You do realize it is an utsuge right?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7740309
Alright, I will re-read her end tomorrow just to clear my head. I don't care if you are messing with me, the seeds have been planted.

[Anonymous No.]

but It has to be Ari, because she's trash at singing.

Yes, Torta doesn't get mentioned, but that's because she's pretty irrelevant. She's hardly mentioned at all during the entire route.

>>7739898
He was pretty cool. Surprised they actually played together.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7740753
In addition to that, she was in physical therapy for half a year.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7740782
Also, Torta would be doing a vocalist solo in a few days. Phonri and Chris left as soon as they were done with the final, not even getting their results. They didn't tell Torta they were leaving so soon either.

[Anonymous No.]

Are the high scores you get in free play... recorded anywhere?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7729034
It's meant to be a representation of the rainfall and Chris' mental state. When he is most unhappy, it rains more and so the bar is longer.

>>7741492
If you use the original .exe then you can submit your high scores to a scoreboard.

My favourite song was Rain Musique because not only is it the kind of jazzy/bossa nova song I'd like but because after getting a bad end trying to get Ari's route in my first playthrough, Fal was my next choice. It took me a while to practice enough to be able to play it even though all the other songs required no practice at all. I guess the effort I put into it makes me feel pleased each time I play it.

As for Chris feeling a wet spot when listening to the Calzone man play a tune, I think it's meant to be ambiguous as to whether it's his imaginary rain or a tear as the level of rain is directly related to his emotions. However, I personally think it's a tear.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7743514
Alright, I see the the high score thing.

Man, I thought I was good, and then I look at Rain Musique (I liked that one too) and people have 2x my score on that one. Kind of daunting. How is that even possible, something like you gotta hit all the notes, but hit them perfectly so they don't give you the peasy 8/9 points or something.

@Calzone: It couldn't have been imaginary rain, as he's never seen imaginary rain indoors. So it would have been a tear

[Anonymous No.]

Rain Musique master race reporting in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxDZAdFXTsQ

[Anonymous No.]

I was so hyped for Symphonic Rain... and then I learned no hentai.


All that loli gone to waste.

[Anonymous No.]

Chris should've sung Kokoro no Ame. It's basically his theme, and it sounds like it was written for vocals.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7743514
Ah...and doesn't Marco (the calzone vendor man) ask him if Chris is alright after he feels the 'rain'? I'm quite sure it's a tear if so

Also...sorry for this (spoilers for Lise's route ahead)

Dear Ari,
This is a story all about how my
life got flip turned upside down.
If you have a moment just sit right there
and I'll tell you all about how I became the Piova heir.

In west Piova raised to play,
in the practice room is where I spent most of my days.
Chillin out, maxin, relaxing all cool
and playing some fortell outside of the school.
When this really cute girl, she was singin real good.
Started my heart thumpin' in no way you could.
I played one lil song and her dad just glared
and said 'You're dead if you lay one finger on her hair'.

I waited for a train and when it came near
I saw the sign said "Phorni" and it had sprites in the mirror
If anything I could say that this train was rare
But I thought nah, forget it, yo homes to Grave's lair!

I pulled up to the gates around 7 or 8
And I yelled out to my fairy
Yo homes, smella ya later
Looked at my princess as I sat in my chair
And played her a song, so that she'd know I'm there

I told a friend I'd post this someday, just keeping a promise

[Anonymous No.]

>>7744283

Yes the calzone man does do something like that, personally I like to think it's part of the hallucination, but a tear nevertheless.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7744122
I fail at this game, practiced Rain Musique's <VXV<XV part a dozen times and I still can't get it correct.
I can still get a perfect evaluation and advance the plot, but it leaves a bad aftertaste.

[Anonymous No.]

Finished Fal's route, going to Lise next.

Is Lise's route shorter by any chance? The walkthrough has less choices for her so I'm hoping this is the case, since she seems like an unlikeable, helpless girl.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7750884
Use Ctrl and skim through her sections. The routes are pretty isolated from each other (With exception of Torta's)

I didn't like her, but I do like Lycenne. Hello! Kind of sucks though (outside of the cello version). Her voice was nice though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7750907
>Use Ctrl and skim through her sections
Are there seriously people who do this?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7750914
Depending on the VN and person, I've heard of people who can even read pressing ctrl.

Personally, though, I don't do it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7750935
>>7750914
Yes. I can mostly read everything using ctrl when it's stupid pedantic bullshit like Lise's route. For anything that takes an ounce of thinking, I have to read it without ctrl, but Lise is pretty "pity party omg my dad hates me ; ;", on top of being an unlikeable character.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7750961

You are a terrible person and should die. It's people like you that shit all over decent VNs and kill the fun for all of us.

[Anonymous No.]

I thought Symphonic Rain was fairly good but not great. The character routes were decent enough but Al Fine was really shitty with its terrible twists.

[Mirrored !EhE8ram93U No.]

>>7753714

Let's face it. Not every line of dialogue in a VN or even every narrative passage deserves to be read. Many can be skipped over. In fact, many actually should be skipped over to make the work better as a whole. Poorly written ero scenes. Meaningless slice of life bits that can be removed from the narrative without consequence. Etc.

As VNs cater to both intellectual types and pandering retarded faggots, sometimes they will contain large sections that appeal to the later. Those sections should be skipped. Like Redwall's Picnic Scenes about scones.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7753776
It must be nice to be able to tell which lines are good enough to be read and which aren't before you've even read them.

And no, "slice of life" scenes are far from meaningless if you care about humor or characters.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7753788
It's not rocket science.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7753776

I read all the picnic scenes, no matter how boring they got. Why? Because it was part of the fucking book, so I read it. That's how it works.

With your logic, I should just skip the whole book. That'd save time, right?

Furthermore, how the fuck does skipping anything make the work 'better'? It's still part of the work regardless of whether or not you've read it.

Parts you call 'meaningless' are often used to develop characters and, in games like Sharin no Kuni or Cross+Channel, are used to conceal important information about the plot often hours before the actual reveal. I don't believe it's difficult to understand why you should always read everything.

People like you are an insult to literature. Please take a toaster into the bath with you.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7750961
>"pity party omg my dad hates me ; ;"
What the hell, you don't find out until three quarters into her route. If anything she's the least drama queen around.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7753948
Calm the fuck down already and let other people read porn games how they want.

[Anonymous No.]

I finished Lise's path. Does it make me a bad human being if I didn't feel necessarily moved? It was too easy to see the end coming with all those hints, so it didn't really shock me. I more felt it to be the protagonist's fault for being so thick-skulled and not protecting Lise.

On Torta's path now. I think I'm starting to see some of what's to come in Al Fine.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7758091
It actually came as a surprise for me.
I expected Grave to ruin their lives by showing that Lyceenne wasn't an original composition of theirs.

[Anonymous No.]

Anyone here familar with Ritsuko Okazaki's discography? Any chance to get some descriptions, recommendations? Her voice is absolutely delightful, as is Hiroko Kasahara's.

>>7729518
It was EXACTLY the other way for me. It happened to be extremely rainy part of the year where I live (there were floods all over the place) and the rain was falling almost all the fucking time while I was playing in the span of two weeks. Long story short, the immersion I felt was simply out of the fucking scale and I will, like you, fondly remember the time I spent with Symphonic Rain for the rest of my life.

>>7758091
Track25, man ;_;.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7758431
Ritsuko Okazaki's so godly, she composed the themes for Manabi Straight four years after her death.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7758091
>I think I'm starting to see some of what's to come in Al Fine.

You're going to love it. That writing, so good.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7758988
Just started Al Fine. My impressions regarding the beginning: just as I thought. Though it was so heavily foreshadowed, I suppose not many would miss it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7731739
Have you heard the Ritsuko Okazaki I'm Always Close to You?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7759175
Were you expecting the thing with the rain though? I certainly wasn't. Hit me like a brick.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7760491
I was sure about the whole Torta/Arietta thing from early on in Torta's route, so from that, I figured out that as well when Chris read Ari's letters (the usual starting line), Marco said "there's no way it'd rain" or something to that effect and so on.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7760491
I didn't expect that but it didn't make me shit bricks or anything. It was underwhelming. Unpredictability is only part of what makes a good twist.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7760599
The apparently regular main character being schizo was underwhelming?

[Anonymous No.]

Does it have a good end or a bad end

[Anonymous No.]

>>7760626

Bad ends are really short, and there's that true end.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7760614
Yes because I couldn't care less whether the rain was real or not, and the source of his mental problems was just typical VN drama, not to mention predictable given that the Torta/Arietta twist was obvious and thus it was clear that something had happened to Arietta.

[White Ren !YLuFFdRcFQ No.]

>>7760672
> I couldn't care less whether the rain was real or not, and the source of his mental problems was just typical VN drama, not to mention predictable given that the Torta/Arietta twist was obvious and thus it was clear that something had happened to Arietta.

Same here. I agree completely. Didn't read it, but I agree.

[White Ren !YLuFFdRcFQ No.]

I couldn't care less whether the rain was real or not, and the source of his mental problems was just typical VN drama, not to mention predictable given that the Torta/Arietta twist was obvious and thus it was clear that something had happened to Arietta.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7760672
That seems more like a personal problem of you not getting immersed enough in the VN. The rain being fake, which is a very important part of the setting, the main character being schizo and you realising that there are at least 3 if not more people bullshitting him about it is kind of a big deal.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7760537
Marco said it couldn't rain because that part of town is covered. His big hint, though, was when Chris called Piova "the city of rain" and Marco complimented him on knowing the town's history.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7761358
Not because the town was covered, but because he was under a roof. ((And I thought Torta said it))

[Anonymous No.]

>>7760672

Are you finished Al Fine yet? No? Keep reading.

Torta's character is one of the reasons Symphonic Rain is so good.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7761836
I finished it back when it was first translated. It must just be like >>7760777 said and it's my own fault for being incapable of appreciating such brilliant writing and not at all the fault of the writing itself.

[Anonymous No.]

What is the song that kitchen knife unlocks?

I found a few of the other downloads. They mostly sucked ass.

It wouldn't happen to be 11 For フルーツバスケット from the For Ritz album, would it?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7761967
Ctrl + F "Kitchen Knife" -> Ctrl + F "7734897"
>The password's to download the Phorni (Kasahara Hiroko) version of Sora no Mukou ni, I believe. I don't know the link, though.

[Anonymous No.]

Finally finished Al Fine.
What did Torta say at the end of the 'good' end?