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Let’s play master and servant: my introduction to the visual novel
The visual novel is strange creature. It’s a quintessentially Japanese medium so that alone makes it worth mentioning on this blog but this peculiar mix of ideas and storytelling is something that I’ve...
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“Twilight fades through blistered Avalon…” Fate/Stay Night’s Fate route
My blogging kohai has a lot to answer for. With one full story thread of the Fate/Stay Night visual novel under my belt I can see where he’s coming from in terms of the connections that hold everything...
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Fate/Stay Night’s Unlimited Blade Works route: an inconvenient ideal
The first route of F/S N was the main inspiration for the TV series but what’s unlocked at its completion, Unlimited Blade Works, isn’t represented much there so came as a pleasant surprise to me. It...
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Heaven’s Feel and Fate/Stay Night retrospection make me write a long post again
I made it. The final route of Fate/Stay Night in its brutal, beautiful, painful, compelling entirety. The whole run of Heaven’s Feel after the divergence point is an experience similar to the time I...
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Tsukihime, the visual novel: overview
The original Tsukihime VN is another case where I saw the adaptation before the source material which is something I normally try to avoid. On the plus side it’s the arrangement that leaves you more...
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Tsukihime, Near Side route (Arcueid and Ciel)
The first route of Tsukihime focuses on the aspect of the story concerned with Arcueid’s battle against the True Ancestor Roa and the vampire Nrvnsqr Chaos, with poor old Shiki caught in the middle. I...
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Tsukihime, far side route: here’s to Akiha
Looking at the screencaps I took while reading my way through Tsukihime it struck me how many of them featured Akiha. As a general rule I screencapped whenever I felt a given moment was especially...
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On Narcissu, on reflection
I don’t know if my readers take this for granted but I don’t set out to write *reviews*; not the objective, completely logical or helpful variety, anyway. I’m doing this article for instance purely on...
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I want to know where this road goes
Something very important was supposed to happen this week: Mahou Tsukai no Yoru would’ve finally seen its official public release. Sadly it’s been postponed to “sometime this winter” and of course...
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Katawa Shoujo
I hadn’t followed the development of what’s commonly known as ‘that 4chan eroge about disabled girls’ but since the finished product isn’t really anything like that, maybe I was better off in blissful...
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