Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25555436-20150613000756/@comment-11188061-20150613030944

Live, your definition of eroges - or definitions in general really - are pretty extreme. Yes, it's R-18 and an eroge with sex scenes, but it is also has excellent length, visuals, music, story, 2D action gameplay and is the BEST Visual Novel I've played since forever. Like really, game length? I clocked 100+ hours. Branching paths? Every heroine path are different pieces that you join together one by one to reach the final story - you are NEVER bored. Branching endings? Each heroine (6 in total) has a Bad End, Normal End and True (Good) End, and they are all unique. There are even mini challenges or checkpoints you have to achieve to get the Endings or CGs related to that endings (Beat Boss A in 1:30 minutes, Do not die through Battle A, B, C etc), which if you look at modern games are usually done ridiculously simple or non-consequential.

Visuals and CGs are some of the best I've seen despite dated now, the music endures time, the story's epic - FAR better than that shit final puzzle of 999 Hours (though to be honest 999 Hours' strong suit is actually not to the story; not if you compare it to other VNs from the same author like Ever 17). The gameplay's super addictive. Years have passed and now and then I still sneak in a Baldr Sky boss fight or two or replay the whole final path because the build up to that point is so damn good.

Among the VN community it is given super high praise, but it is criminally underrated by people - especially modern day gamers who can't be arsed to sit down and enjoy their story without some 'core' action constantly distracting their attention - who hasn't played the game before. Perhaps the reason why it never made it to handheld consoles is because it just has way too much content - so much that unless they price it like $60 or more it can never justify the cost. It is in my opinion that good.

Oh, and I hate Umineko the more I tread to the end of the story. It is one giant 'HAHAHA FUCK YOU THE FIRST FEW ARCS YOU'VE PLAYED AND THOSE ANXIETY/POWER THINKING YOU SUFFERED? TOTALLY MEANINGLESS' in my opinion, and the 'Bad' ending makes no bloody sense whatsoever since it doesn't reflect all the lessons the protagonist has learned after everything.

Higurashi, despite the cheesy ending, played the theme much better in my opinion.