Archive for the ‘Visual Novel’ Category

It’s not where you come from. It’s where you’re going.

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009 at 19:54 | 13 comments
Categories: Review, Visual Novel

Yo dawg, I heard you like stories, so I put a story in your story, so you can read while you read!

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 at 03:50 | 24 comments
Categories: Review, Visual Novel

Romance in Fate/stay night: Fuyuki is not a cold dead place.

Sunday, December 28th, 2008 at 22:09 | 3 comments
Categories: Review, Visual Novel

Heaven’s Feel: With great responsibility comes great power.

Thursday, December 11th, 2008 at 17:22 | 7 comments
Categories: Review, Visual Novel

Unlimited Blade Works: The GAR is a lie.

Thursday, November 27th, 2008 at 09:47 | 14 comments
Categories: Review, Visual Novel

Fate: I’ll try not to talk about the mana recharging too much. Honest.

Thursday, November 13th, 2008 at 00:50 | 16 comments
Categories: Review, Visual Novel

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 [...]

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 at 23:55 | 8 comments
Categories: Manga, Omake, Visual Novel

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 [...]

Monday, May 14th, 2007 at 22:46 | 17 comments
Categories: Visual Novel

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 [...]

Thursday, April 26th, 2007 at 18:27 | 10 comments
Categories: Anime, Review, Visual Novel

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. [...]

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007 at 23:39 | 6 comments
Categories: Anime, Review, Visual Novel
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