@Toony:
Here, something interesting to read...
http://www.tsukikan.com/misc/rebirth-of-the-origin.html
So Nasu really does go by that green mushroom thing. Such an odd avatar. It's everywhere in his games though.
I'm kind of glad it'll differ from the ancient novel quite a bit, I couldn't find english translations anyway. Release date is said to be April 12, 2012 right now I think. The demo is out and it's pretty nice so I don't see it changing hopefully. Poor poor director Tsukuri. He's basically editing
a Nasuwork."Choices have been removed from the story to let users completely immerse themselves"
SOUND NOVEL MAN that's right the demo didn't have any choices!
Although I will miss the constant death scenes. :[
Is there any explained reason why Aoko's hair isn't super hot crimson red vermilion in Mahoyo?
Oh that's right! I've been busy so I forgot to mention but I started Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective or whatever a few days ago since it was on my DS game list along with 999.
It's great. I'm on chapter 16 now and I don't have anything really bad to say. Capcom should just focus all their energy on VNs and localizing.
Wait so if I got this right...07th Expansion's Umineko 8 was full of choices when they usually do complete sound novels while Type-Moon's Mahoyo is going to be a sound novel when their games are usually full of choices?! Well at least Higanbana should be a sound novel but it's not part of the When They Cry series anyway.
Yeah that was a good read. Thanks for the link Kobold. I understand why the game icon is a blue bird now.
EDIT:
Holy crap I'm trawling through the earlier pages of this thread and it's pretty funny. Oh I made so many mistakes...I even thought Baccano! was originally a manga. And then there's Detective Conan which I can now hardly remember reading at night as well as the watching to the end of Soul Society in Bleach which was somewhat enjoyable and flipping out over Gurren Lagann when I can say I like Gainax's Neon Genesis Evangelion
way more. And then I did all the VNs and crazy shit this year. I've phased from battle shounen shit to murder rape torture psychological mystery murder death blood shi ne korosu goroshi DEEP mindgames gambling omae OMAE OMAE TEMEE KISAMA ZETSUBOU SHITA
Boku wa...
Yeah this is corny. I don't know. I like when things don't go
main characters way. I like when a character is in despair. I like when a character is mentally broken. I like when a character becomes paranoid and scared. I like when a character makes desperate decisions. I like when a character actually thinks about themselves and their situation. I like when a character knowingly makes the wrong choice and hates themselves. I LIKE when a plot comes all together amazingly.
BUT
I don't like mindless violence or gore or pain. I don't like excuses for motivations or impetuses, if a character is going to be two dimensional make them UNIMPORTANT TO THE MAIN PLOT. I don't necessarily like bad endings, happy endings are fine but don't over freakin' do it. No tears to revive the dead or just sudden HAPPINESS.
I don't like melodrama. If you're going to be serious please don't make it over the stupidest shit in the world. It's the main reason I can't watch almost anything on television because
it sucks. You know how much I care about your family having idiotic drug problems and laziness or if this team of hunters CAN FIND BIGFOOT? Zero. Nothing. That's comedy material unless you have some crazy fantasy shit to throw in, in which case HELL YEAH
BUT
I also like characters who are nice and caring when done well. It's such a nice privilege to see a character do something heart warming, it kind of makes my heart melt. Stuff like Liar Game and Kaiji is full of this but they also have a lot of despair to go along as well. I also like when characters think through on what the best thing they can do to solve a plot. Whether that being finding the truth, solving the truth, defeating the truth, etc etc. It just works well. Now not all battle shounens can be mediocre but they need to keep things going well. Just please make the characters developed, the plot interesting, and the music rad as hell. Even if the series sucks I'll make sure to listen to your music whenever I can.
Also...anybody heard of Dangan Ronpa? Some guy started a LP on SomethingAwful and I've read the prologue so far. After I finish Ghost Trick I'll probably keep reading that. I cool english translation would be
Bullet Rebuttal and the OP says it's a cross of Ace Attorney and Battle Royale and I can see why he picked those two mainstream-ish names because it's nothing like either at all. It's its own ridiculous ball game. Whenever I hear somebody say something is a Battle Royale ripoff I cringe because Btooom and Cage of Eden both kind of suck and Battle Royale isn't too good from the four volumes I've read. It's definitely better than Cage of Eden and Btooom but it still pisses me off! Well that's for another post I need to stop editing this...