What is the best option here?

This franchise is dead, isn't it? There's literally no news.

Genuflect

leave the room so I can eat lunch with Marimo-chan instead

Where did things go so wrong?
How did Muv Luv go from being the most successful Kickstarter of all time, to being ONE bad game away from becoming a dead IP?

The author did say that if the gacha flops it's over. Well, the gacha is having an EoS June 30th this year, so it's safe to say it is.

Alternative’s ending was dogshit. There was no meaning to the 50 hours of sufferage porn nor the slog of moeshit extra. The MC has learnt nothing and has colossally failed to achieve anything his development into a soldier should have helped him achieve. Sumika is rewtarded obnoxious whore and should have stayed gone. Getting iseaki’d back into your world after what felt like what should have been the rising action and resolve to fight till the bitter end was dogshit and made me regret ever picking up this dogshit Visual novel fags insist upon to be the best. Glad I read Muramasa after to cleanse my taste

You didn't understand what you were reading. By destroying Objective 01 they effectively save mankind because now, the BETA can no longer adapt to new strategies and technologies. Canonically, this does happen and is shown in the manga. Humanity wins.

You're right about his personal growth. In the end, the MC didn't learn anything and Meiya had to beg him to end her and not doom everyone in the process.

Sumika os obnoxious

Go fuck yourself.

the only good muv luv is extra

unlimited is fucking boring

alternative has an interesting scenario outline but it's written in this very padded, time wasting way like it's trying to waste your time

Fool.
They'll take note of which one you start with.
The only winning move is not to play.
run

The franchise was already on this path before the kickstarter when we got half a decade of nothing but fandisc content, TE being years behind and a huge amount of the story cut thanks to the author tracing drama, and Schwarzesmarken being a massive failure

I will always feel bad for Meiyafags, they ruined the game for themselves with their shit taste.

The mental gymnastics they have to put themselves through to justify making the objectively wrong choice is just sad.

the BETA can no longer adapt to new strategies and technologies. Canonically, this does happen and is shown in the manga. Humanity wins.

its been a while since i read but couldnt they just send another one of the nest boss brain thingies to earth or do they not have the coordinates for it, on the other hand maybe they'd just conclude it wasn't worth the effort

t. Kouki

had to make up some crazy alternate alien-infested timeline

extra was full of alternative foreshadowing alchaperthoncebeiteverugh

guy copy-pastes a great game (still JP exclusive) into a fun VN by making it more about the cute girls than the ayy threat and removing the part where you actually have to get good by becoming a grizzled time looping war vet IRL

original series that was cloned goes off the rails and no longer produces anything of interest

whoa why did ML also turn to shit when Kouki ran out of stuff to stea- I mean "pay homage to"?

duke nukem is jp exclusive???

The BETA were not attacking Earth, they're just mining robots. They spread from planet to planet, sending resources to their home world and self replicating. From their perspective Human beings were not enemies, they were simply other machines of unknown origin. The concept of warfare did not exist for the BETA.

The siliconian's homeworld is endlessly far away, and the BETA have been at this for countless eons. It's likely that the Siliconian's civilization doesn't even exist anymore.

Humanity also had a system to prevent more original hives from landing on Earth, so that was no longer a risk.

All I know is that the redhead cucks you or something so not that one

Literal used goods

Sumikatards can scream and yell about their superiority as much as they want, but back there, in the back of everyone's mind, will always be the twizzlers.

mining

yeah i'm aware, hence the 'worth the effort' part, but at least the system thing was news

Didn't the gacha launch fundamentally broken?

Massive spoilers.
She loves you more than anything but is captured by ayyyys and they perform cattle mutilation on her. And by that I mean "figuring out what makes humans compliant".

It's actually very grueling, specially when they begin disassembling all the parts that don't contribute to it, until eventually she's just a brain in a jar getting forced to orgasm endlessly.

Man looking at the uncensored CGs on Panda made me glad I chose to play the censored version, that shit goes into super Anon Babble territory

pic

it's not as shocking if you crop the giant penile clitoris like that.

There is no organized mastermind behind the BETA's spread across the galaxy. They simply consume and spread. I don't believe hives in different planets even communicate in any way.

I love Sumika, she's my favorite girl and one of my favorite characters ever. And also, she is the ultimate yandere of all animeverse.

She didn't deserve that fate, bros.

Why did they go for that generic style. Why.

Yep, it first launched sometime in 2021(?), I was there for its launch. Back then it was called Immortals.
First thing that caught my attention was horrible Engrish in the background but the biggest disaster was the bug that allowed to exploit pulls. So it instantly shut down and was put on maint for 2 years.
Then it got relaunched in 2023, now called Dimensions. 1,5 years later, it declared EoS.

When the character designs came out, it was obvious it was going to be bad. Although, I will admit, it wasn't as bad as it could have been.

It's amazing women can cum so hard they can open portals to other timelines.

so we make the women orgasm endlessly and enlarge their clit to monstrous sizes as we tear them apart

mr mastermind are you sure this will help us extract brains?

I don't remember the exact wording they used in the game, but from what I remember, Sumika called out to him non-stop while she was in the null-sensorial jail of being a brain-in-a-jar. What actually caused the portal to open was when they dropped the G-Bomb on Yokohama.

The yandere part comes later. Sumika subconsciously is in control of the loop, and on every timeline where she doesn't reconnect with Takeru, she mercilessly erases the timeline and starts over. She is explicitly the one causing Takeru to die and respawn, who knows how many times. She's also the one who rips off his memories. Because she's a jealous girl.

It makes perfect sense.

we need humans to stop attacking us and jeopardizing our mining operation

let's experiment on humans

humans comply if you make them feel good

this part of the human makes it feel good

but it's so small, let's make it bigger

and bigger

oh wait, turns out if you stimulate the brain directly, we don't need to keep scaling up the body

I still wanna know why they kept brains suspended in hives I'm assuming theyre like trophies or used as a resource? I dunno I probably don't remember, I'm assuming since they dont see us as real life forms its basically like taking a motherboard & cpu out of a computer when you disassemble it

What actually caused the portal to open was when they dropped the G-Bomb on Yokohama.

don't forget Extra Sumika's negative feelings focusing around October 22nd

Simple really he should've stole from someone else

to stop playing and save 80 hours of your life

joke answer: when they got rid of visibly erect nipples in character cgs
real answer: when they hired a tracer for the total eclipse game who then had to be fired which necessitated redirecting development resources from making routes for the other heroines and shit to redrawing everything

for serious though everything they made with nudity was successful while everything they made without nudity flopped. really makes you think.

Why would non-combat "machines" without knowledge of warfare have anti-aircraft lasers?

From their perspective, they were protecting themselves and their operation. They did not view humans as living being, because they did not view themselves as such, either.

From their perspective, humanity were no different from a natural phenomenon, a hardship to be overcome. Adapting mini lasers into something that shields them from humanity, from their perspective was no different from how we shelter ourselves from a storm.

leave the room so I can eat lunch with Marimo-chan instead

I think you meant to say you are going to eat Marimo-chan for lunch right?

If we are going to be mining asteroids at some point then we will need point defence to protect from being bombarded by smaller asteroids etc. So it does make sense to a degree.