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Continue reading#94 – Umineko No Naku Koro Ni – Episode 3: Banquet of the Golden Witch
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#89 – Umineko No Naku Koro Ni – Episode 2: Turn of the Golden Witch
So this took me a little longer than I had anticipated, but that was primarily because I was completely absorbed in Langrisser II, and I tend to only read in the early morning and late evening.
I’m quite wary about writing my thoughts about this here, because I imagine this won’t age well as I read more and my preconceptions are shattered. But oh well, here we go!
Continue reading#85 – Umineko No Naku Koro Ni – Episode 1: Legend of the Golden Witch
When I finished Higurashi last year it was with a weird mixture of satisfaction and relief. I’m not a huge fan of repetition or stereotypical anime high school settings – seen one, seen them all, etc. – but despite that, on the whole I found it to be a very enjoyable read! Maybe not the critically acclaimed epic that it often seems to be treated as, but I’ve read worse VNs than this…and something that I actually feel motivated to stick with for nearly 100 hours has to have SOMETHING going for it, right?
Enough time has passed that I’ve hopefully overcome my long VN fatigue, so it’s a good time to dive into this!
Continue reading#77 – nothing & nowhere
When I was younger, I used to imagine that there would come a time when I would simply “become an adult” – age 16, 18, 21, it seemed to vary depending on who I asked. Now I’m 31 and old enough to know better – there is no magic number where you simply “become an adult” and there isn’t really anything to mark the shift between being a child and being an adult. It’s just an accumulation of experiences. Your reaction to and ability to adapt or deal with these experiences isn’t even a factor.
Not sure where I’m going with this. Let’s talk about nothing & nowhere, which I’m still not sure if I should capitalise or not.
Continue reading#76 – Lynne
Through Primary and Secondary School, my best friend was someone who had the same name as me, was born the day after me, and seemed to be better at literally everything than I was. They were smarter, more athletic, more popular, their parents had more money – and weren’t scary like mine were – and they were just BETTER. Being a day older was the only thing I had over them – and of course, when you’re a highly competitive kid who gets jealous easily, you cling to any perceived advantage you have like it’s the most important thing about your existence – and god, I was so bitter sometimes. It took me years to get over my inferiority complex and stop comparing myself to this person.
Lynne dredged up some very old, very painful memories.
Continue readingHighway Blossoms: Next Exit
I played Highway Blossoms last year, and I was actually blown away by the quality of it – it’s not very often you get a visual novel fully voiced in English. It was a little rough around the edges, but overall I found it to be extremely endearing and well worth playing…or, uh, reading. VNs are video games, don’t @ me. Although maybe this should be 68.5 instead of 69, since it’s a side story rather than a new game persay. Oh well. Who’s keeping track anyway. Not me!
Anyways, I bought the expansion the second it came out and finished it over the weekend, because of course I did.
Continue readingRituals in the Dark
Friendship is a difficult thing. Growing up I didn’t really have any friends to speak of – and I was desperate to keep the ones I thought I had, to the point that I basically let them walk all over me – and as an adult I don’t have any friends either, something that both relieves and bothers me in equal measure. But one thing I have had more than my share of in my life is people who lie to me, speak to me only when it is convenient for them, and generally make me wonder why I even bother at all.
…ugh, let’s talk about this, before that becomes several paragraphs and I go off into a tirade about how much I hate people in general.
Continue readingThe Fairy’s Song
Approximately 3 years ago now, when I was just getting into playing games on a laptop with my shiny new Acer Predator 15, Steam recommended a game called Asphyxia by ebihime. The art style looked appealing and it sounded like my kind of thing, so I bought it and gave it a try. I was moderately impressed! Curious to see what else they’d released, I tried Sweetest Monster next, and…oh my god. Oh my GOD. There are no words. There really aren’t.
Fast-forward to present day, and I’ve made it a point of buying all of ebi’s VNs as they’ve released, although I have yet to read many of them. But this one looked like it was worth reading immediately, and after Higurashi, something lighter sounded like the thing.
Continue readingHigurashi When They Cry Hou – Ch.8 Matsuribayashi
It’s been an incredibly long, occasionally arduous, and interesting journey, but after 99.9 hours (at least according to my Steam log when I add individual playtime for each chapter together) I’ve finally reached the end of Higurashi.
Still not sure if I should feel satisfied or relieved.
Continue readingMonster Hunter World: Iceborne
It’s very rare that I play an expansion that significantly expands upon the base game. Quite often it’s a little extra padding that isn’t really worth experiencing, or just more of the same.
Iceborne, thankfully, was not the former. But it was most definitely the latter…and that’s not really a good thing.
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