Hundred Line

The tranny in this game sounds a million times more like a woman than any of the women who voice men in the JP dubs
In fact if it wasn't for shit like IMDB I guarantee people wouldn't even be talking about the tranny at all.

So, what was this all about?

Women have been voice acting male characters for years, I doubt you'll even notice which character is voiced by a transgender if you weren't told beforehand

In one of the routes they reveal Junko Enoshima's AI was uploaded to the computer of the satellite and made the rest of humanity play a killing game

we shall never know

Sequel bait

tranny voiced character has a backshot mc cg

what did they mean by that

Wait, this is never answered? In any of the 20 routes?

Game is shit lol glad Kodaka sits on twitter begging for money and pays news outlets to write articles for it

Just play it with the Japanese voices. I've been playing it and it's a good game.

I fucking hate Gaku so much
He has only two redeeming qualities in the entire game

The asspull music against acid commander

The funny spirit ritual meme

Everything else is shit and the worst character Kodaka has ever written

Not explicitly, no
You can guess what had them freaking out like that but there's never an outright confirmation

In the Coming of Age route, he's one of the characters who doesn't abandon Takumi, at least.

EOPs get what they deserve.

it's okay when it's anime!!!!

kek, weebs deserve this shit

The crazy thing is his voice is genuinely hard to clock. There's like, one grunt that sometimes plays that sounds like a guy. I'm wondering if they used some kind of modulator or software to smooth the voice out.

picrel

The crazy thing is his voice is genuinely hard to clock

No shit, that's why anon posted the Behind the Voice Actors page. If it was *that* obvious he'd be posting voicelines instead.

Fire Emblem like games

The genre is turn-based strategy RPG. FE isn't the only one.

I can't believe you're the first person to comment on this.
Anyway OP if you're still here, this game is bonkers VN first, SRPG second. Keep that in mind.

this
If all I knew was one of the female characters was voiced by a tranny, Hiruko would be one of my last picks unironically
the va did a great job

Best guess would be asking Kodaka but knowing the cunt he would answer in a roundabout way, so we basically learn nothing.

But you can clock it. That or xe's smoked 50000 cigarettes.

anon has never met an alto in xis life

I dont get the hate for this emo clown.

My hate is that I can fuck her raw.

I'm tapped out at day 50. Nothing's happening in the story.

There's like 7 mysteries right now and none of them are given any attention.

Also half the cast just aren't interesting.

99% of the people that I've seen hate on her are the folks who still get assblasted about V3. Any reference to a killing game not happening is a personal offence to them.

How is the gameplay in this? Just fluff or does it actually work?

I wonder if she's as annoying as she seems with all her constant references and shit in JP too or if they felt they had to "spice her up"

You're past the worst of it imo. It picks up not too long after that.

It's first and foremost a big ol VN with some SRPG gameplay on the side.

What route is the Eve brainwashing minigame on? I'm trying to find it to jerk off to it

Requires a minimum amount of thought for the first ~20%
Becomes "every every encounter ends in 1-2 turns if you aren't retarded" in the next 20%
Afterwards you don't even have to fight as you can just skip everything (gotta watch the animations though, that's important to the devs) at no detriment to you

So basically the gameplay "exists"

It was enjoyable for me through the prologue- which is about 25 hours. After that, you get so OP, that you can one turn most encounters. After a certain point, you're able to skip battles entirely.

The real true ending

2nd scenario I think it's scripted though

Wish nips drew more, especially since third of all posts are made by westoids and another third is fujoshit

It is, I've tried slowing it down to 0.1x with CE to get different results but no matter when I would press the button it would always just pick the same thing

I don't think i've seen any actual gameplay, but I have seen a hundred out of context screencaps of characters just saying shit. I guess that's Kodaka's appeal?

The gameplay is a secondary aspect, just like the exploration for materials.
It's just like in Digimon Survive pretty much.

Why isn't this popping? This game feels tailor made for fanart. If this was Tumblr 10 years ago, it'd be gargantuan.

Can't say I'm too mad since all the most interesting options are scripted in to be selected.

Do the bond levels do, well, fucking anything, because the events themselves were fucking garbage and you're not even getting panties at the end

I don't think i've seen any actual gameplay

Atp I'm 99% sure you're the same Anon who's been saying this exact same shit over and over across the many LDA threads in this board.
You know exactly what the gameplay is like because me and other Anons told you that the battle system is that of a braindead easy TRPG that is essentially just padding because the main appeal is in the story and character building.

It's just extra dialog. Might as well level them up. After a point, you're just going to be doing simple explorations or sleeping to kill time.

I can slap 20 pixels together in MS paint and make some panties for your waifu Yugamu if you're that desperate anon

Kodaka makes VNs.
The gameplay is serviceable, but over time you easily overpower the action economy and there's enough repeat battles due to the nature of it being a branching route vn that you get the ability to skip repeats later.
That said a FE battle system centered around kamikazi and burst tactics is very themeatic

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So I'm a big fan of these Fire Emblem like games

The battle system and the exploration are secondary aspects, the game is mostly a VN.

but I heard that one of the girls in this game is voiced by an MtF transgender.

And that is related to any of the actual game's aspects... how exactly?
Anyway, if you use the English dub that's your problem.

What are some relevant rewrites?

Do the bond levels do, well, fucking anything

No.

because the events themselves were fucking garbage

It is what it is. They're just like the convos you could have with the characters during free time sections: ways to expand their characters.

Relevant rewrites? None
Rewrites? I'll let the samefag poltards handle that one.

Girl here, boys look great, I hope I can pull yaoi routes

Its just extra backstory.
There is no love hotel or equivalent this time since they tied romance to routes specifically.
There is a secret bond even dialogue for everyone in routes where you learn the truth

There's fujo content, if you're genuinely wondering.

How the fuck do people managed to finish this game so fast
Still on my 2nd route but accidentally get spoiled

No rewrites, just extra flavor that no one asked the localizers to add.

I actually think the gameplay is the best part.

localizers inserted an Airplane! joke

holy based

Nvm, I forgot about Kako.

I can’t read does images :(

Does this shit ever show up again on this or any other route or was it some one-off forgotten gimmick just to waste my time doing exploration on maps I've already cleared of valuable items?

don't forget "He's blackpilled and now he's totally gonna rope"
still can't believe they actually put that in

Does this shit ever show up again

yes

kek. That's fucking awesome.

nah, you got somebody else. I've never posted in these threads before.
I see.

It's a 'convincing mini game' section

Do we have a translation for Darumi's finisher in Japanese? "You Get What You Deserve" is the English one, and I am 0% convinced that's not a rewrite.

This has probably been my biggest disappointment with the game so far; I genuinely enjoyed the gameplay in the first route and some of the initial fights of the next route when the enemies get powered up. It's nothing too challenging but I liked trying to optimise my unit movements and turns.

The problem is the difficulty just drops off a cliff after that and it feels like you're constantly replaying the same Fire Emblem maps except only your units are levelling up - I think I'd have chosen to replay some of the fights if they scaled in some way, but as it stands it's so boring that you're just better off skipping.

It's a real shame because it feels with only a couple of tweaks you'd have battles that people might actually want to play instead of skipping for ~80% of the whole game.

I found it funny that doing the comedy route first and doing the joke low power fights against the last bosses lets you skip the real fights in other routes

write these lines

no possible romance

was kodaka trolling?

Ummmmmmm she's too young

Stupid mobilenigger

but the age difference between Futaba and Joker was the same in P5? Why was that ok but this isn't?

More like """mini""" """"""game"""""""
Most annoying waste of time in this entire game afaiac.

I think that's part of the problem with the branching. You'd have to keep making harder, and more challenging encounters depending on how many routes you complete. It could be done, but I think ultimately they made a decision to not focus on the game that much.

Are their ages ever stated?

She says 95% the same thing and never shuts the fuck about it. She, Ginzaki and Magadori are all pure gag characters that have never anything of value to say but Darumi literally says the same two lines for 95% of her dialog and that's not even exaggeration. That japanese people never get tired of the same manzai routine proves japanese people are inherently autistic but making the entire personality of a character one gag takes the cake.

I genuinely thought the game would pull a scaling difficulty thing for obvious reasons but then there's fuckall
That shit's really disappointing

Only once, but yes it feels like a gimmick they completly forgot

Game is 200 hours long

Only ever post examples from the demo

At least pretend to actually care. This is just weak rage bait at this point. I’m sure there’s plenty of bad examples in the game if you actually cared about breaking it down. But this was never about analyzing the localization. It’s all shitposting.

I think it shows a lack of confidence. They absolutely could have scaled the difficulty, but they weren't confident enough to believe what they had could carry a 150+ hour game, so they basically just let you bulldoze fights after a certain point.

That's the issue with most conversations, I didn't even find it that annoying with Darumi. At some point you get tired of the whole

Tomato: You fap with sword!

Swordfapper: N-no I don't

Brown wife: Y-you can't say that

Blue edgeman: Oh for the love of murder

thing

I thought Takemaru used that sex change line in some other scene. Don't remember where though.

People who give a shit about localisation quality see from the demo that it's shit and don't buy the game

Whoa, that's crazy and unexpected.

Whatever you say, Nigger.
An Anon asked for examples so I pieces together the few that I have saved.
Keep crying.

No because and big spoiler
They are all engineered clones of the same person. They have the same age, 0

Kako correction

Problem with having too many translators I guess. Darumi says eroge and loli, Takemaru says sensei, so not sure why they couldn't just keep onii-chan and imouto-chan the way they are. I don't care what anyone says, some things are better left unlocalised.

Almost all the cast are like this when they are not plot relevant to a route.

Frankly the most obvious and glaring things like that were in the demo, there's a chance they were told to tone that shit down somewhat for the final game. Their random references become more descriptive instead of naming things IRL although there's still a bunch of those which is really fucking retarded given the setting.
The game has other problems anyway and I would probably be really fucking pissed if I paid money for it, so I'm just somewhat pissed now.

Bros, comedy route was my first route...

I just can't enjoy this shit game any longer.

Check twitter instead. A lot of people are still playing so fanart isn't being made yet. You're an idiot if you didn't expect the fujobait to get the majority of fan works though.

People who give a shit about localisation quality see from the demo that it's shit and don't buy the game but instead cry about it on 4channel for a MONTH

okay

Got to the point where i can make some choices and I'm trying to make the 'bad' ones first.

How come literally 50% of this route is looking at these clouds?

Hundred Line feels like an anime from 2009. Which is good and bad.

I always just assumed that they were told they never existed in the first place, that all of their memories are fake, and that they were actually the invaders all along.

Good news is you endured the absolutely worst route, it's only uphill from here keep going, you will make it.
If you want some significantly better routes as a palette cleanser, spare eito

They are mentioned in Japanese. Kako and Ima are 15 and Eito and Takumi are 17. This was removed in English because if not they'd probably have to bring the ratings up since Takumi has sex with Nozomi/Eito, you see Eito's bare ass, Hiruko is hinted at drinking, all the sex jokes, almost see Darumi lewd, Takumi impregnates Eva etc. But like the other anon said I don't think we know their actual ages. It's difficult because they're not exactly normal humans.

That side of the tree is just low budget, low talent ass

Where is the ______?

I don't think they ever mention ages in japanese.
But Kako and Ima mention that they are in junior HS, which makes them 15.

spare eito

NTA, but keep in mind that if you do that you might either hit a lock that requires you to complete a bunch of other endings OR you'll fall into the Romance Route.

Darumi has the retsnom route and that's about it. It did make her shoot up in my personal enjoyment though. Kyoshika sucks though. No clue why she's popular.
Mainly a problem with the 2nd LDA people. They suck.
They do in their introductions at the very start iirc

no image

Why didn't they just center the text in the box? "No image" makes this look like it's a beta.

wow you're actually forced to do gaku's retarded exorcism plan in order to unlock story lock 1. now i hate him even more

Fuck that egg line is so bad. No one knows what that means but terminally online retards like myself.

I don't even understand how that plays into anything other than making you remember that Gaku is a fucking retard

In the common route I was surprised how fun the gameplay was and how they always included meaningful new stuff in every story fight that made the battles fun and exciting.

But after the common route anything "gameplay" related of this game is a pure dread. They didn't even try designing battles.

Hot.
What on earth did she do to darumi to break her this hard?

almost none of the weebs here actually know that much japanese unfortunately

I don't even understand why saving him leads to the truth ending. He didn't do anything important after that.

I did play the entire game in japanese and the only Darumi line I remember is "let's go".

seriously, i was so confused on why it wasn't unlocking since i had done most of them until i googled which ending i was missing and my heart sank

I wish I saved her dog voicelines from this part. Shit had me diamonds.

I know the gameplay is basically pointless after the original route but is the meta strategy to give Takumi all the blood power ups because you have him always available and he has the best super?

Discussion of a game's bad localisation persists as long as discussion of the game itself does

Okay

Yeah, basically.
Tsubasa is around for most routes too, and she's quite strong too, so maxing her out is good too.

Enlightened superior beings prefer to put all their eggs in Tsubasa's basket.
youtube.com/watch?v=zEhT-uEKIBI

Maybe I'm being a hardass, but I still don't get what people are seeing in the gameplay early on, even. You posted an Engage memepic so I assume you're not new to the genre. But beyond the superficial, the gameplay is actually nothing like Fire Emblem and the maps are so retardedly low effort and repetitive. The enemies are helpless piñatas who can't possibly threaten you, waiting on you to crack them open, and I don't find that fun even from a optimization/movement autism standpoint. In Fire Emblem, enemies actually get, you know...a turn, even if they're not always super dangerous to your designated juggernaut.
In this game you have these absolute shitter cannon fodder enemies who, even if they somehow attack you, do at most 1/3 of your HP. And in doing that, they actually push you closer to a free ultimate. The game is just too kind, as if it's afraid of alienating VNfags.

making you remember that Gaku is a fucking retard

that's a good thing

Takumi (+ Nozomi) is the meta boss killer
Tsubasa is the meta map clearer

Listen, if you want regurgitate the the same posts for time immemorial while other people actually talk about the game, more power to you.

pretty much, if you're ever in a pinch don't forget that you can just use a desperation potion on someone useless(read gaku), use his suicide special(preferable taking some enemies out for the ap) and then get free 100% voltage from that + damage for takumi

nta but some of the localizations are just insanely shoehorned in. a random pop culture reference where there wasn't one before isn't localization, it's just bloating

The combat is better than Emblem's because there's a crescendo to the battle, like a TCG game.

In Emblem, the crescendo is based on the unit count and fear of unit death, which means you're always playing maps by inching out units in groups.

Hundred Line fixes all this by having AP that carries over per turn and increments during your turn, meaning you can play advantages out rather than just keeping an eye on enemy attack ranges.

It's all very clever, the best part of the game.

In Emblem, the crescendo is based on the unit count and fear of unit death, which means you're always playing maps by inching out units in groups.

yeah if you're shit lol
Here's peak Hundred Line gameplay btw
Definitely not paying attention to enemy attack ranges, you got that much right!

Anon that might be an argument for like the common initial route but afterwards every single battle can be resolved by skipping a turn and bashing your head against the boss. Global AP that carry over into the next turn were a mistake.

Not him but I don't know if you're shitposting. Suicide attacks are already stupidly broken in SRPGs most of the time, that's why the better ones have perma death. Hundred Line not only encourages suicide attacks, it heavily rewards you for them.

gameplay with potions and attacks maxed out

It's like posting a video of FE7 with everyone promoted and at max level.

NTA but a ton of the FE series can be cheesed the same way via the warp spell and other means.

what were you doing in your free time anon?

Funny people were asking about ages and I JUST got this FTE. I didn't even realize they were younger.

The problem with the suicide attack is the voltage gain, but it is the worst part of the system.

what exactly made gaku confident enough to think he was the MVP the first time around? or that he would be chosen as team leader
man got ONE single compliment that his class weapon looked cool and it immediately got to his short-ass head

It's not my webm, but everyone has figured out the same stupd bullshit. You don't need maxed resources, just about 5 of each relevant potion, which is obtainable early. And then upgrade Basa's skills.
Not at all. This works on EVERY battle. Warp is limited and only works on certain objectives. Even then, it can be tough to pull off a warpskip. Tsubasa stomping is brainless and free. There's no reason not to play every map this way once you see it.

what a dogshit game

I gotta say, I'm glad this game doesn't have permadeath like FE.
Almost everyone just resets for it anyway, it's kind of nice to see a game embrace it.

Is it a heavy plot hole that the enemy commanders don't attack all together?

There's no reason not to play every map this way once you see it

There's no reason to put self imposed challenge onto yourself to test how the developers intended for players to beat this scenario

You don't even need maxed out potions for that. 2 desperation potions are enough.

use a desperation potion to kill off one of your useless characters

have enough voltage to give Tsubasa +2 atk on low HP

use a desperation potion and an attack potion

now all of your hits deal 4 damage, most enemies have 4-8 HP

add +1 attack when you have enough voltage on top

I mean shit maxing out everything will just give you +2 atk, it doesn't really matter that much if you deal 5 damage or 7 at that point, the overpowered part is having a no fatigue areal attack

みんな壊れちゃえ・・・
Let's all break

Daily reminder:
Kill Gaku. Behead Gaku. Roundhouse kick a Gaku into the concrete. Slam dunk a Gaku baby into the trashcan. Crucify filthy Gakus. Defecate in a Gaku food. Launch Gaku into the sun. Stir fry Gaku in a wok. Toss Gaku into active volcanoes. Urinate into a Gaku gas tank. Judo throw Gaku into a wood chipper. Twist Gaku heads off. Report Gaku to the IRS. Karate chop Gaku in half. Curb stomp pregnant Gaku Gaku. Trap Gaku in quicksand. Crush Gaku in the trash compactor. Liquefy Gaku in a vat of acid. Eat Gaku. Dissect Gaku. Exterminate Gaku in the gas chamber. Stomp Gaku skulls with steel toed boots. Cremate Gaku in the oven. Lobotomize Gaku. Mandatory abortions for Gaku. Grind Gaku fetuses in the garbage disposal. Drown Gaku in fried chicken grease. Vaporize Gaku with a ray gun. Kick old Gaku down the stairs. Feed Gaku to alligators. Slice Gaku with a katana.

Well no...because the gameplay is very boring and repetitive, you quite literally fight the same battles and bosses over and over and over again. Are you seriously suggesting doing a challenge run of Hundred Line? Am I understanding you correctly? Who would want to subject themselves to such abuse?

I expect one of you NEETs to draft up a 5 paragraph essay explaining why this is a significantly better phrase to use.

DRV3's ending was the biggest tragedy that ever happened to Kodaka. It made him think that breaking the Fourth wall is good writing. "Dude it's all fake anyway so I don't have to explain shit"
Never get an anime. I hope your company shuts down. I hope you never make videogames again.

self imposed challenge

for intended way

Are you retarded? The developers had their shot at designing the game and they failed. "Self imposed challenge" is a way for the player to cope and try to make a bad game a little bit more fun, it has nothing to do with the developers vision.

Who would want to subject themselves to such abuse?

don't say that, you'll attract the serial battle players...

In this first route? No, maybe related to some religious reason if you wanted to reach
As for after the prologue The supreme Commander sends them one by one so she can easily absorb their power

Yeah no one does that autism shit, people just play games normally.

Oh but you're not minmaxxing

oh but you're not smart enough to figure out the game

I won. I'm enjoying the battle system, you're not. Whose smarter know

No the supreme commander has a giant ego.
She would gladly drain her comrades once they are useless if it gives her one iota of power.
Likewise, she would rather give her enemies time if its more entertaining.
She has a selfish godcomplex to where its her motive for making choices that arnt sound if you just wanted to win the war.

is it ever explained why dahl'xia is so insanely tanky and has such a perfect defense that he can just walk straight through the wall of flames? and how did vexness even defeat him in order to imprison him in the first place or is this just another plot hole to add to the list

Can you have sex with her?

holy shit anon it's been 8 years
kekaroo

autism shit

Nigger it's using three potions
Three fucking potions
Why the fuck wouldn't you use them

It only ends up showing the problems with it though. For years disingenuous casualfags have argued most people just reset in FE "so it doesn't matter" - to excuse anything from casual mode, to Phoenix Mode, to turnwheel.
This only highlights that it DOES make a difference. You literally suicide units for energy in this game, and then face no consequences for it, not even lost time. If you couldn't do that, you'd have to actually learn to play the game.

yeah

"Self imposed challenge" is a way for the player to cope and try to make a bad game a little bit more fun

It's inherent in games with stat systems. You stay on par with the game's levelling, so that it doesn't become too easy or hard.
You don't abuse Wiki entry tech so you can see how the developers intended players to normally beat something, then you can stress the design of an encounter.

I didn't do serial battles nor do I plan on doing too many routes since I'm just tired of this shit by now so I just looked it up.
Jesus Christ pretty much every single time period listed here contains a battle, who the fuck thought this was a good idea

If games like FE has a built in reset button I'd agree with you.

forgot pic

I don't even get why people that can't read japanese try to become aware of bad translation. Either you become aware and learn japanese or you just stay ignorant and enjoy translation. People that pick the third option of becoming aware and suffering are legit retarded.

Not using them. I play the game fair. You're all the idiots trying to break the game.

Fire Emblem like games

That's like calling Fallout 4 a "Halo-like game".

Based Stella Glow Hilda ending.

vore route when?

yeah no one should willingly subject themselves to that
my heart breaks for anyone who accidentally hopped on that route. there isnt even any new lore to be gleaned from it

Every FE has had either a soft reset button combination, or a return to menu/reload button (Radiant Dawn, Engage). It's been there since day 1.
Casual mode and all the later do-over bullshit they added have obfuscated this fact, but you were always intended to have the option to at least reset.

In the prologue it isn't.
In the rest of the routes it kinda feels like she's creating an ideal scenario to absorb each of them herself.
She can't harm her own people because of religious shenanigans so she sends them to their doom at the hands of the LDA, then she comes at the last minute and absorbs them before the LDA can.

Either you become aware and learn japanese or you just stay ignorant and enjoy translation

How about wanting a quality product made by people who do their job properly, is that too much to ask
Even if I understood Japanese well enough to read the entirely of a 150-200h VN which I don't right now, buying the game would mean that I condone these practices since there is no way of buying a PC version that isn't vandalized to some degree

Japanese doesn't translate to English anyway.

Huh? Ah it is of that thing

Yes. Although, scary feeling

Is it ever explained why he is impenetrable

He basically has a jacked version of Shouma's hemoanima.

How DID vexness defeat him

His guard was down and he let her. He doesnt want the young to fight, the first commander you always kill who wasnt remotely ready for this war, is his son

Weebs who barely know Japanese have always been the most insufferable group of people. It's nothing new.
The weebs who know 0 Japanese are unironically less annoying.

So, about Nozomi, why did they remove her memories about having conversations with kid Takumi, but leave out all the stuff about her mother and shit during the first timeline?
Hell, how did Nigou remove her memories about Takumi but somehow he had no idea that she's not actually one of the cloned kids?

Every single system of the game breaks the game. The items, the buildings, the supers, the voltage gain. Fucking everything. And even if you self impose challenge, most maps after the prolog are literally are always the same shit. People are not trying to break the game, they are trying to endure endless boredom by making the suffering take less time.

Even if I understood Japanese well enough to read the entirely of a 150-200h VN which I don't right now

Not sure what the point is of using an impossible theoretical as an example.

He doesnt know

It's unreal how different these two lines feel. Japanese is untranslatable.

Let's all break

Min'na kowarecha e

You mean "Let's break them to pieces!" or something similar.
A bit of extra flavor while retaining the point.
That is proper localization.
Literal translation is a meme pushed by literal drooling retards.

It's OK anon, I understand you have no argument so you need to base it on half a sentence taken out of context, I'll rewrite it for you:
My Japanese is impeccable so I have no issues reading a 150-200h VN. Buying the game would mean that I condone these practices since there is no way of buying a PC version that isn't vandalized to some degree.

Erm... actually I know enough Japanese to pass the N4, and you are TOTALLY wrong about that. You are just woke and/or lazy.

Even if I understood Japanese well enough to read the entirely of a 150-200h VN

What has time to do with anything? The level of japanese needed is low since 50% of dialog in this just endlessly repeats the same gags.

But let me make it clear, stuff like the Takemaru or Kako lines should not be allowed.

I hate it

So I'm going to lie about knowing nipponese

And play the game anyway

kek

Doesnt darumi also have different finisher lines depending on if shes fatigued or not

Yeah I passed N4 myself and localization adds much needed flavor, the japanese is soulless and sterile.

modern dubs dab on the cringy japanese pedo squeaks so hard its not even funny

sohooo close to dead

no argument

It's OK, I understand you're mad, but I still won't support trannylations
I still need to look some things up and I certainly can't read it as fast as I can in English. That would stretch the entire experience to 300-400h which is honestly a bit too much for me. It's like playing Pathfinder WotR in turn based. It's already a long ass game that will take you 120 hours to compete but some people feel like it should take them 400 hours instead.
It still doesn't change the fact that I'm supporting shitty translations by buying a translated version on Steam.

I'm le otaku but I have never anything interesting to say

What did she mean with this? She is more boring than the normalest of normalfags.

i never understood that either, so they caught her snooping around, removed her memories of meeting takumi and seeing the kids, but didn't put any new measures in place afterwards and she was just able to casually stumble upon them AGAIN and even get into one of the pods(why were there even more pods than children, weren't they in there their whole lives?) without anyone noticing

What bothers me is I want to have only sex with two women in this game. Shizuhara and Tsubasa. I would only have sex with Kako because she is the youngest but I don't think she is particularly attractive.

I laughed at her panting like a dog for Hiruko

Kako is boring and too old to boot. If only there were invader lolis you could hide in a dungeon.

In general think discussing translations is kind of boring since 99.9% of a time a translation is going to be worse than the original so it's just kind of beating a dead horse to go into how much worse it is and why.

Why are you listening to non-canon voice acting? Just switch the the cannon voice acting option in the menu. I believe it's labeled "Japanese" in the English menu.

What the fuck was up with her having altered memories about her uncle taking the role of her mother in the 2nd route, like I get it's to confuse the player and her memories could have been manipulated into thinking that but what's the fucking point

Anyone bothered by the fact that the characters in the academy seemingly barely interact with each other? What's funny to me is that everyone liked the fake Momo but literally no one cares about the real one.

What the fuck was up with her having altered memories about her uncle taking the role of her mother in the 2nd route, like I get it's to confuse the player and her memories could have been manipulated into thinking that but what's the fucking point

what's the fucking point

it's to confuse the player

Yes. I'm bothered by a lot of the characterization. It's unbelievable to me that Kurara has friends.

planning on doing S.F and mystery and then finally stepping away from LDA, which of these routes would you guys say are written well enough to be worth doing too?
cult
CoA
retsnom
vexness
box of blessings
romance
they're the only ones i haven't done besides comedy and serial battles(not doing that shit) but i don't really feel like doing all of them, feeling burnt out as it is

Got my first 6 endings (mystery route) and want to kill myself already.
Why is this game so fucking tedious.

I really laughed hard at this gameplay section. It's like the 12 year old son of one of the devs did a 2 week internship and they put the section he developed into the game.

Its almost like being an otaku actually makes you a cripplingly sheltered and inexperienced person

this and all the other "chase" sequences were just sad to experience, actual 5th grader game design project vibes

Ahaha

Cult is kinda funny but if you're someone who would completely hate shit that is somewhat similar to "hypno" you will hate it too
Retsnom depends on whether you hate Darumi or not, if you do, skip it
Vexness is OK, not great, not terrible, depends on whether you want to know more about the character or not, it's pretty short too
Box of blessings - lolno
Romance - if you're into waifushit
Haven't done CoA yet, I doubt I will

Why do anons punish themselves, though? I've gotten 8 ending and I feel fine about the game...
Mainly because half of those were quick "bad ends," and the others were routes I actually wanted to do. I'm not trying to be completionist.
Game is tedious, however.

retsnom, coa, and vexhness
cult if you really like fanservice

Anyone else seething hard that they didn't program precise markers for the corridors so every time you want to talk with someone in a corridor you have to do a humiliation ritual where you walk the entire corridor?

The entire side scrolling part is total shit and I'm surprised it made it into the game at all.

More padding to add to the pile, I can't even be mad anymore

Cult was funny and entertaining. May not be your thing but I found it interesting. Depends on how much the idea of Takumi being worshipped like a God sounds to you. Takumi can get quite fucked up in that route. Retsnom is good if you want Darumi development. V'ehxness gives you a little more of the commanders and Tsubasa, it's not that long either so I say try it out. I would reccomend all of those.

CoA is uh... if you like slice of life, power of friendship type stuff I guess? It's nice to get more of the flame boy and Eito is funny as fuck in it. Blessings is a joke and borderline just comedy 2.0. It's written by the Boruto writer so expect the same level of ""quality"". Right now it is the least liked route by the majority of people. If you're one of 5 people that love Gaku go for it. Romance was dogshit to me. Only go for it if you like Kurara, Kyoshika or Tsubasa (and even then Tsubasa had a better romance in the killing game route

Absolutely.

Game desperately needs quality of life changes. Game will never get them.

The entire romance route should have been idolshit fueled fever dream. Might as well go full VN in there.

don don iikuyo!

So cute

Does Darumi get any interesting development in KG? I didn't do that one before I did SF, I really liked that it wasn't a required route but then SF spoils the entire thing anyway because FUCK YOU

thanks fellas, sounds like i'm going to go with vexness since it's short and i do like her, and cult sounds interesting too. every other route(besides maybe the latter part of KG) has made darumi extremely annoying to me so probably gonna skip retsnom

It should have been an external porn patch for the game.

Does the game ever reach a hype level comparable to the final prologue boss? In the true ending at least?

I thought it was her route. Turns out she was a side character.

The entire side scrolling part is total shit

Agreed. It's just one of many ways the game uses to waste your time pointlessly.
Holding a button to skip a cutscene, the animations of each character entering a battle, the icons of the characters in the map not representing their positions (picrel), the flowchart "Before decision" not always taking you exactly to a decision but sometimes forcing you to go through a battle or 2 and probably a few other things I'm mis-oh yeah, the persuasion minigame that you can't lose too.
Yeah, THLLDA has a lot of fat.

Is the romance route really that bad? I would imagine if it was good and not tacked on people here would especially like it.

Also saving the game doesn't save it exactly at the point you are but a little bit before that. I don't even know how this happens.

Its mid.
Its only 3 of the girls ends abruptly if you pick one of them.

CHADgon Ball reference

This is a scholar-approved ending.

Does Darumi get any interesting development in KG?

A little bit, but only a little. Killing game is mainly for Tsubasa and Yugamu development and also Eva, the commander you keep prisoner, and her daughter Kamyuhn. Nozomi was okay in it too. Killing game is personally my favourite route so I shall shill it.

probably gonna skip retsnom

I won't push you, just wanna add that I hated Darumi before it and now I like her. If the idea of being an outcast with a mentally ill girl who genuinely appreciates you and grows to love you in a way that feels natural sounds appealing go for it. If not then skip.
It's my least liked one, but I also despise Kurara and Kyoshika.

yea, i get we see everything from Takumi's perspective but game is alergic to giving characters relationships that dont involve (you)
there is material for nice interactions and development but you rarely see it

It would probably be received better if it included every character but it's like 3.2 girls, so if the one you're interested in isn't part of it you're not going to like it. You also have go through the whole romance content in a linear way so if your girl is included and she's the third one, you still have to go through the first and second one.

game is alergic to giving characters relationships that dont involve (you)

Basically every route but killing game. I wish the twins got a route.

Frankly they should have just ditched the entire bond system for optional group events

Fun romance VN's involve lots of choices love triangles and all sorts of goodies. Kusoge romance VN's are pick your girl's CG. Guess which type the romance route is.

It's unreal how much the game would be improved just by being able to deactivate ding dong, including Takumi's thoughts before going to sleep and after waking up.

There is no true ending

Truth/2nd scenario is pretty hype with the revealed plot twists and Science.Fiction. is almost mindhack levels of insanity but none are true ends

Is the romance route really that bad?

As someone who's going through it as their 1st ending (because the game cockblocked me from getting what is probably a true ending-like ending see ) it's whatever.
Takumi went back in time to save Nozomi, and while there's shenanigans involving the Revive-o-matic malfunctioning and wiping out some of his memories, he still remembered his goal, so falling into this route feels super ooc to me and I'm not interested in romance either.
I'm still going through it because I want to unlock all the CGs and get all the endings in my save, but yeah, I don't see the appeal.

Second Scenario is tragedykino and is the closes thing to a True End.

but S.F.

Shit sux.

lolno
So much shit goes unanswered that it isn't funny

super ooc

I mean, you cah have Takumi reject the three girls and confess to Nozomi instead.

Evas real personality is great

It feels like the devs don't really play video games themselves. At least I can't explain the boardgame minigame any other way.

I love her

no rewrites

Why are you lying? They outright removed some characters saying their ages.

They just kinda sorta copied the Dang it Ron Paul minigame because they were too lazy. But yeah it's garbage. It doesn't even matter for resources past the common route. Who the fuck thought this whole thing was a good idea.

It's crazy how many CGs are there for absolute throwaway moments.

you cah have Takumi reject the three girls and confess to Nozomi instead.

Oh, that sounds nice, but still, I don't know man.
I imagine that happens in the last few days or something? I'm still in the Kyoshika Chapter.
The thing is: the basic premise of the route is 3 girls and 25 days to spend with each of them, but like, Takumi spending those rounds of 25 days with those 3 girls feels ooc to me. Like something he wouldn't do when his goal was to go back in time to make the right choices that would create a happy end where no one dies and everyone lives to escape Earth before World Death.

I think the game is an example of throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks with the caveat that they went and picked up everything that didn't as well.

It doesn't even matter for resources past the common route

How else get resources? I hate this literal torture but I want to max some skills.

characters saying their ages.

First time I hear this. Any examples?

I meant it more in the sense of it doesn't matter for resources past the common route because you don't have to take the whole time spent/resources gained thing into account anymore since you can just jump back a day or whatever and you're keeping your resources anyway
Just use CE and give give yourself all the resources you need

Tsubasa has no romance route? What the fuck is this shit???? I'm fucking seething right now. Fuck this game. Fuck this game. Fuck this game. FUUUCK

drop monopoly

drop side scrolling

drop nozomi

There. Game instantly improved by a few points.

She's one of the targets in THE Romance Route.
I also heard she indirectly has a 2nd route since she's one of the girls that end with Takumi in some other route or something like that.

She does, but you're forced to endure two different romance routes first

nigou you stupid? She has 2 romance routes

I think KG qualifies?

drop nozomi

I will never get making a 150 hour gamer full of shit instead of having a 75 hour game where all the quality is concentrated, dev time is reduced by a third, players are happier. Reviews are better.

How out of touch do you need to be to market a game with "more = better" in the year 2025?

The only time this character was tolerable when she started shitting on Nozomi.

Deal with the traitor and go along with darumi's life goals. Forget romance route it's shit.

Throw that one in a freezer while at it.

we want to give this character a jack-o-lantern as as a face mask

not this is too generic we are le creative, make it a tomato instead

Box of Blessings is four branches of the exact same copy pasted content with original content just for 1-2 ending scenes

WHAT THE FUCK WERE THEY THINKING

Boruto writer
Same shit for Conspiracy, but at least that routes takes 30 minutes to complete.

pukes

Not him but I puke all the time genuinely surprised to see the puke archetype in fiction.

based milf fucker

shut up tsubasa

I don't see the issue with any of these. They maintain the meaning of the original completely and inserting extra flavour is perfectly fine since Japanese is an incredibly dry language where a lot of meaning and soul are left up to subtext.

but muh extra reference

again I don't see the issue. Is anything being lost or ruined by kako randomly referencing It? It's just turning a flavourless filler unimportant line into a reference. At best you'll get it and it will make you laugh, at worst you won't get it or won't find it funny and you can just ignore it. Like genuinely WHY should your reaction to the kako line be anger instead of just indifference? Even the takemaru line where you could argue that your political views could make you angry about the meaning being changed... but both lines are saying the same. Both the translation and original are saying that a male tranny = male so takemaru can punch them. So again WHY is anyone angry at this? This is not a V3 Kaito situation where they removed him hatting fags in the translation.

So avoid:

Comedy Route
Slasher Route
Romance Route
Box of Blessings Route

Have I missed anything?

I wonder WHY hiriko doted darumi so much-

Oh.
OH.

It's just turning a flavourless filler unimportant line into a reference

Why does every character have to speak like a reddit meme faggot for localization apologists? I will never get this.

Slasher is needed for one of the true endings.

You're forced to do slasher if you want to do the path with the story lock that explains some of the things that happen in other routes, so unfortunately it's kinda required unless you just want to ignore it

Why? Isn't it a pure meme route?

It's FLAVORFUL
Like FLAVOR FLAV

Artists always want to do more than what they can. To outdo their previous work. The "100 days, 100 ends" concept likely started as an itchy, obsessive idea and I imagine Kodaka was riding high during the initial burst of fun creative energy and good feeling. And then at some point it must have become obvious how logistically unwieldy the whole thing was, but at that point it was too late to back out or scale back. So at that point...you just rush it and cut corners, compromise where you can.

Not really
It is, however, kinda garbage, but the game wants you to do it if you want to remove the story lock from the "more context" route.

Because in an umineko length VN turning some of the filler lines into anything else other than filler is a net positive on entretainment value. I would agree with you if this was 4kids tier translation where they are trying to make EVERY line a joke, but one or two lines every 500 lines? No issue with that. It's not like it goes against the tone of the game, Kodaka is the kind of writer that constantly inserts meaningless references to manga/anime media in almost every scene anyways, so it's not like they even stand out as being out of place.

No, it actually brings up a couple new plot points.
The meme routes are Comedy, Romance, Cult.
Blessing is a """serious""" route but it's one of the worst things I've ever played through, so you can skip it.

This is probably it. The 100 endings was the pitch for the investors. The execution of that must have been purely soul draining and they had to hire too many writers which always ruins any story.

No one complains about cult though so I guess it's one of the better meme routes?

Is comedy route unironically the unfunniest route? The joke was basically "we know this route is shit but it's just supposed to be a joke so no hard feelings for wasting your time".

What's Anon Babble opinion of Box of Calamity?
I completed it yesterday, and half of it was pretty cool while the other half was a rehash.

is that the one that's written by the author of boruto?

Do you like harem setups where everyone wants to suck your dick? If yes, you'll enjoy it.
If no, stay away.

It depends on whether you enjoy being a cult leader and the stuff that comes with it, some people just seethe uncontrollably at the mere concept

cult isn't a meme route

I hate it mostly because I hated everything squid related, yes I know that's like a third of the game if not more

Depends if the dick remains dry or gets wet. Don't see much of a point of a harem route in a non porn game.

I guess it technically does get wet

Every ending is canon

takumi explains he is from the future

does a heavy info dump

predicts tons of shit just as he said

know a shitload

one of the things he predicted don't happen due to the timeline shifting

DO YOU SEE THAT HE WAS LYING ALL THIS AFTER ALL

Holy shit the characters in this game are completely retarded. The routes without Eito are downright not readable because the IQ drops into the single digits.

Knowing a shitload of confidential and the invaders intel doesnt mean hes from the future.
The more reasonable explanation is him being a double agent.
Also you have to bear in mind he killed a comrade for thoughtcrime on day 3

nah anon it makes sense
imagine living your life and one day you're kidnapped, find yourself in a classroom with 14 other students and being told you gotta fight for humanity sake.
You'd doubt anything and everything at first.
Takumi future dumps on Day 3 I believe, which means the cast barely knows shit about him. It makes sense they'd hesitate on fully trusting him.

This is a game by the guys that in one (or two, can't remember) of their previous games had a teen girl praise LGBT and trans shit in the most hamfisted manner imaginable. Yes, in the JP script too. No, it was not ironic or sarcastic.

I'd rather have filler than garbage references that feel out of place, or shit like Discord troonspeak, but that's just me. Having a few lines of filler dialogues is really the least of the game's problems.

It has huge appeal and easy for the eye.
If anything I can see kodakas new game recently announced doing worse for having a different art style

Wait, Komatsuzaki is confirmed to not return for the new game?

It's ok to be skeptical but the 5 people that didn't believe him were extremely nitpicky about shit and didn't give credit where it's due. They also fell in line because of some absolutely retarded shit every single time. Eito was the only character that provided grounded skepticism but also immediately acknowledged when he was wrong which is funny because most of it was acting.

I know everything about your life, I know your cats name that you never mentioned, I predicted the guy who is a complete psychopath and he admitted it afterwards. I even know your cup size.

No you're just lying. I don't trust you guy with answers for everything with super powers.

I mean, I dropped the game partially due to this. The writing is terrible. Especially the character writing is nothing close to danganronpa. Kodaka is a hack.

Some of the character designs in these DR-adjacent games feel straight up deviant art tier, particularly in the color choices. DR1 and 2 designs felt a bit more "grounded" for the lack of a better term, DRV3 was when it really started to show and from then on its bothered me.

Two routes are written by him
Yes, they are kinda shit
No, they don't include fagshit