Archive for the ‘Visual Novel’ Category
It’s not where you come from. It’s where you’re going.
Yo dawg, I heard you like stories, so I put a story in your story, so you can read while you read!
Romance in Fate/stay night: Fuyuki is not a cold dead place.
Heaven’s Feel: With great responsibility comes great power.
Unlimited Blade Works: The GAR is a lie.
Fate: I’ll try not to talk about the mana recharging too much. Honest.
The problem with anime references or puns is that they usually fall apart quite miserably when you attempt to throw two or more of them together. It’s the sheer futility of making a Yoko Kanno reference in a Nanoha post title (a Venn diagram would easily illustrate the naivete behind this), or stringing together similarities [...]
I’ve always loved Honey & Clover for being emotionally honest. The concept of the term “emotional honesty”, if it doesn’t exist in some capacity out there already, would be defined as the ability of the viewer to connect with the range of emotions portrayed by the character(s) on-screen — due to how the emotions portrayed [...]
I finished Air. After watching two out of four key Key works I feel a take on the genre would be appropriate so watch out for a hopefully extensive critique on the visual novel as a genre in the next two, three, maybe five days — in addition to that, I should be reading Planetarian [...]
I insist on coming clean about this: till a week ago I was one of those elitist bastards who wouldn’t touch eroge adaptations even if you paid me. Well, alright, maybe I would, but I always had a prejudice against them. Point being? The concept of eroges/visual novels/dating sims didn’t appeal to me at all. [...]

