Recent content by wendeego

Probably the best visual novel I can think of to start with is True Remembrance. It's free, the translation is brilliant and is has absolutely no questionably-written sex, which believe it or not is pretty rare for this genre. Basically, I'd check out works in this order: BEGINNER--easily...

This is a pretty good review of what is arguably the second-best Japanese RPG of the past console generation. Granted, that's not saying much, but there's just something about it (the writing? the soundtrack? the sheer ballsiness of the story?) that makes it stand out, lackluster competition or...

Actually, Analogue and Katawa Shoujo are pretty different! The latter is a fairly well-written and unusually sensitive, but ultimately traditional visual novel. Analogue is more like a library simulator, with two unreliable librarians, and a harrowing mystery at the bottom of it. I dunno...

PC. It's only in Japanese, of course, but an English patch has been released. You'll have to apply the patch if you want to play the game. There's guides on the internet going into detail on that. Normally visual novels are incredibly expensive and hard to find, but as it happens you can buy...

Tick-tock. Tick-tock. Tick-tock. The sound of a clock. The sound of a clock. "Is it time? Is it time?" it continues to call. Tick-tock. Tick-tock. Tick- -tock. A doctor tormented by a shadow at the edge of his vision. A mysterious girl. A strong-willed black cat with secrets of her...

Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt wasn't so much the result of a couple of bored animators phoning it in, as it was one of the greatest animators of all time taking all the money that people threw at Gurren Lagann and going "You know what? Instead of making something that will sell lots of...

The first time I saw Evangelion 2.22, I was so impressed that I watched it again with my friend the same day. It wasn't until I finished the series itself, and read up on some of the problems people had with the film, that I realized that yeah, some of what made the original tv series so...

Evangelion 1.11 is pretty decent, but it definitely suffers from how similar it is to the source material. The visuals are drastically upgraded, but at the same time some of the quirkiness was excised from the original, and a lot of the character development as well. Not to mention that the...

Yeah, no kidding! There's so much weird stuff out there that hasn't been translated, too. Heard some really cool things about MYTH, for example, or anything by Shuumon Yuu,or Subarashiki Hibi, or Saihate no Ima--which is supposedly the best thing Tanaka Romeo's written since Cross Channel, which...

This is a remarkably sane viewpoint on an anime that generally drives people into hysterics, so congratulations! *clap clap* Otherwise, don't really have much to say that hasn't already been said. I would say, though, that I don't find the many convolutions of Evangelion's plot as important...

Well, to be honest...

@Deskimus: Regarding Forest and multiple endings: As for theories... tl;dr: If Girls' Work turns out to be a spiritual sequel to Forest (and it certainly sounds like one) I will be the most excited person on this earth you cannot believe. @Imperator DK: I'd argue to the grave...

Forest is a visual novel written by Hoshizora Meteor, and published by offbeat company Liarsoft. It might be the best game they've ever put out, not to mention one of the strangest and most distinctive visual novels of all time. "But wait!" I hear you say. "What the hell is a visual...

Regarding correlations between Forest and Umineko: the writer of Forest wrote a little visual novel called Kusarihime: euthanasia, which was about time loops and rural villages and legends. It would be a little suspicious that Higurashi was released later the same year, except for the fact that...