2x2 Love spoilers

What a spectacular conclusion to the event. It was truly an honour to get pounced on by Privaty and Arcana at the same time. In my personal opinion, I felt like this was the best non-story event we’ve ever had.

I haven’t played VNs in years, but why can’t more VNs have the option to display all the possible routes like what they did here? I guess you could say I have some massive skill issues, but I find it very tedious to keep track of my progression based on save files.

  • DundasStation@lemmy.caOPM
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    2 days ago

    Ah, forgot to add that the final BGM you unlock made me feel bittersweet. Yes, we’ve completed our mission. But it’s also the end. :(

  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of this World YU-NO did it great on the PC98 back in the 90s.

    I guess its just that NIKKE isnt a visual novel game.

      • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        It had a timeline and each converging path was displayed just like the one in NIKKE. But in YUNO one of the game mechanics was that you collect gems that act like save states. You leave a gem at a point in the story, and then later on you can instantly teleport back in time to any gem you left in the story. Then once you collected all the gems you beat the game and got the epilogue and true ending.

        The “map” it was called only ever showed what you unlocked, but divergent paths were obvious.

        • DundasStation@lemmy.caOPM
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          2 days ago

          Yeah the map would be quite helpful for me. This feature being missing in most VNs is why I don’t play them anymore. I really don’t have time to go back to every save file to try every single dialogue.

          • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world
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            1 day ago

            I have tried a lot of VNs but I haven’t liked most of them. Most of the ones I did like happened to be eroge on the PC98, ironically (yes yes, “I read PlayBoy for the articles” “I watch hentai for the plot” and all that, but actually unironically).

            YU-NO is probably my favorite, despite some of the content being pretty disgusting to me (it was a different time and culture and I ain’t the culture police, its just offensive to me). Its pseudo-science techno-babble approach to time travel was super interesting to me, and the Epilogue was so crazy its like I got to play a whole second game after beating the game. Peak art and music as well.

            I also remember liking DESIRE on the PC98, though it too had content I am not a fan of. It also had an interesting story, and the art style and music is peak as always.

            I also liked XENON Mugen no Shitai, but I didnt get to play the whole thing because the English translation was incomplete. Still, the story was pretty cool to me.

            Policenauts and Snatcher were both amazing too, though I played Snatcher on the SEGA CD, and Policenauts on the SEGA Saturn. They both incorporated lightgun controller shooting parts, which was pretty cool. Hideo Kojima worked on them too, which never hurts.

            Danganronpa is maybe borderline VN, and I liked those. Well, except for V3, that games ending was trash, and some of the cases were meh.

            But I also tried VNs I didnt like. I guess it just comes down to how much the story can hold your attention.