It is time, to enter, the world of Ever17 -the out of infinity-.

This visual novel’s supposed to have mad plot twists, I will have to see it to believe it.

They’ve made a plethora of wallpaper images available for download from the official website, so you should go and take a look see at that if your screen size is 1600×1200 or smaller. People like me running on a 1920×1200 resolution are not so lucky though. Some clever cropping and background “space” filling may be in order to stretch the image to that size properly.

I’ve also managed to secure the CD cover for “Find the blue”, the game’s opening single.

I haven’t laid down an order yet but I think I will.

I cried, again…

I actually had accidentally spoiled myself of its emotional climax when I was jumping around. My original intent was to get a grasp of the storyline in question but as you can see, that didn’t really work out.

So you know, I thought, hey, I’ve got my manly wall setup around my heart now since I know what’s coming, I’m not going to be affected by this, no sir.

Yeah, just no. That was absolutely painful, I need to stop doing this to myself. I ought to take a break away from sad stories.

You may cry your heart out when you get to the ending, don’t say I didn’t warn you. Holy cow, that was heart wrenching.

I did not have much of a reaction at first, but as the ending played itself out, it just got progressively worse. I started off with the usual hacking coughs but then that evolved into sobs and sniffles. It ultimately spiraled down into tears.

It took me about four and a half hours to complete the game though I’ll admit I was doing other stuff once in a while so one could definitely finish it under that But, it’s probably quite difficult to find four or five uninterrupted hours in this day and age. ;)

I just finished creating a very simple page for the game on Wikipedia. Please contribute any information you happen to find onto the page. I’ll be adding more information to it in due time. It’s rather bland right now since I only wanted to get the page going.

So I was surfing around yesterday when I happened upon a new upcoming visual novel collaboration by Nitroplus and 5pb. named CHAOS;HEAD.

My perceptive readers will probably quickly notice that the characters look surprisingly like those of Myself;Yourself, the Futakoi series, or the Memories Off series. The obvious response to that of course is because it is by the same character designer, Mutsumi Sakaki.

Nitroplus has always had a reputation of making dark and suspenseful games and CHAOS;HEAD is certainly no exception. After some further research online about the game and its plot, I decided to give the game a go and downloaded the trial version yesterday. It didn’t want to run on Wine so I ended up booting into Vista this morning to give it a whirl.

I did not understand as many of the lines in the script as I did with ef’s demo but I still really enjoyed playing through the game. It gets pretty freaky at times and you can really feel the main character panicking when it seems like someone’s out to get him. The part where the protagonist confronts Yua near the end of the demo is particularly creepy. Although much of that scene’s credit probably has to go to Chiaki Takahashi who has really done an awesome job voicing that yandere. The other seiyuus also do a very good job. You folks will probably recognize Hitomi Nabatame, Daisuke Ono, and possibly Hiroyuki Yoshino. The score of the game, while matching the scenes quite well, is subtle enough to not divide the player’s attention and thus, does not detract the player from the gaming experience. It kind of reminds me how the music “works” in Final Fantasy XII in a way.

CHAOS;HEAD will be released in about three weeks on April 25th. Check out the usual suspects online if you’re interested in purchasing this visual novel.

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□■どこよりも早い!! 6月の新刊予定(2008年6月10日発売)■□

◇灼眼のｼｬﾅSII
著/高橋弥七郎
絵//いとうのいぢ
ｺﾐｯｸ/笹倉綾人

Nope, we ain’t getting a XVII just yet.