Well, it easily took me well over ten hours but I’ve finally finished Coco’s route. The method in which the writers meld all of the storylines into one narrative is really very smart and the way in which the plot unfolds is equally brilliant. Whenever new information arises to explain something, a new mystery is also presented. This keeps the reader guessing all the way through to the end. What’s also cool is that there are some random hints populated throughout the game that actually leads the reader astray purposely to maximize the shock value to the readers.

I’d highly recommend this visual novel to anyone that has the patience to sit through all the text that this game has, it’ll definitely be worth your while.

I haven’t gone through any of the game’s bad endings yet though I’m not sure if I’m going to get to those right away as I’m planning to shift my focus to CHAOS;HEAD and replaying FFXII instead.

I’ve been working on Coco’s route in Ever17 and it’s driving me insane. A lot of really shocking stuff has been revealed thus far but there are still many unsolved mysteries left. There’s also a feeling on the back of my head that’s causing me to doubt the recent revelations I’ve been presented. It could all just be a charade after all, I don’t know.

I should be done tomorrow, I’ll report back then.

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.

Every time I listen to a track from FFXII, I start wishing I was playing the game right then and there. :/

Since I took care of XII, I can finally get going with Revenant Wings. A grin quickly formed on my face upon booting up the game as I was able to hear the familiar soundtrack of FFXII once again. It was also nice to see the cast from the first game once again.

Since I’ve only played through one stage, my opinion probably isn’t worth much, but I’d like to note that I enjoyed it quite a bit nonetheless. Given that it’s a real-time strategy game, it shouldn’t be surprising to know that the battles were extremely engaging, much like its predecessor.