Ah! You found where they were archived on that site. I spend three or four days hunting for them, as a friend asked if I had copies of Ayyo’s old reviews, and I couldn’t produce them. Thanks for that. There’s even his NO SPOILERGore Screaming Show review, and his NOTHING BUT SPOILERSGore Screaming Show review (I’m not a spoiler man myself… which is why having Ayyo work with me is a plus for people wanting a spoiler man).
Still… Ayyo enjoys GSS more than he did EXTRA. If you go to ErogameScape, EXTRA beats GSS.
Now that you pointed out the old EXTRA review, I’m going to need to write my own review, because I seriously do not agree EXTRA is 90+ point game. The music isn’t all that good (especially for a Black Cyc, “Death Neko Metal” production) , and I didn’t think of the plot points as creative. But I’ll save it for a future review. Needless to say, I put EXTRA in the 70 to 80 range.
Thanks for posting the links for the GSS review, Narg-san.
Anyway, I have a question regarding Gun-Katana, do I only have access to some of the endings if I play it at easy mode or can I access all the endings through playing that mode? I’m just curious if it’s like MinDead’s easy mode.
[spoiler=]You can’t unlock all the endings, until beating the game once with the FR Slayer ending first. The Escape ending doesn’t count, because its a “bad” one.
I know for certain, that the Alisson Maiden ending, cannot be unlocked until a second play.
Also, I don’t think you can get the Freedom ending, without first seeing the Freedom Dash ending. Not so sure, since I got Dash first…[/spoiler]
I eagerly await your Extravaganza review. I recently saw a Himena chan body pillow on Jlist . This might seem obvious but you do use a katana in Gun-Katana right?
I read his GSS no spoilers review a while ago, but I hadn’t seen the all spoilers one before :o. It’s made me more, rather than less interested in GSS, as there are still some plot points that weren’t fully covered in the review - plus it seems even better than I expected. Puts on list of future purchases.
Regarding the ‘Death Neko Metal’ - isn’t it just a general tag of sorts that Black Cyc uses in their games? The soundtrack for EXTRA seems to have been composed by a different person from MDB/GSS/GK, and similarly the YnK series used a different composer again.
But now that you know how it ends, it really spoils the surprise. GSS is supposed to be a mystery story - if you already know who did it, then there’s really no point to the mystery. Its like knowing the mother of Norman Bates from Psycho, has been dead for years before the movie starts (because he killed her for taking a lover), and Norman mimics her voice as a “split personality” out of guilt insanity (oops? :lol: ). Eroge aren’t like a Final Fantasy or Devil May Cry, where even if you know the plot, there’s still full rendered CG movies to make up for it. And at $90 a pop… well… I want the max experience for my money.
In any case, the MAJOR appeal to GSS is that many plot points don’t make sense, and then when you realize why after seeing the true ending, you get this massive “holy shit” feeling. Now you’ll miss that. That’s the problem with ErogameScape’s rating for the game: many people ALREADY knew the ending before playing it, and thus they rate it lower from that prospective.
What you’re basically saying is: When I say a game is really good, you don’t trust me that its really good. Fine, just ignore poor 'ole Narg.
Yea… that seems to be the case. Anything with a “heavy metal” theme song. The whole Death Neko Metal thing first showed up in YnK.
Off topic (not meaning to derail the thread): Actually with most eroge, I’ve been spoiled to a certain extent before I play them, since I usually don’t end up playing them until at least several months after their release. More often than not, it’s been unintentional - while reading an unrelated thread people sometimes mention how this reminds them of a certain character/situation/ending in another game, or when looking through sample CGs for a game, sometimes they have massive spoilers in them which clearly reveal plot twists or endings. With Yume Miru Kusuri for example, I knew what happened in almost all of the endings, and what some of the key scenes on each route were before I started playing it - but I don’t think this made the game any less emotionally intense. Although (most of the time) I don’t actively seek out spoilers, I find I just run into them inadvertently. Now that there are spoiler tags, hopefully this won’t happen as often :?.
With untranslated Japanese games, spoilers are often helpful for me, as they help me place the lines I don’t yet understand into context. If the story is considered to be say 30% of the whole product, then I can still appreciate the other 70%. Plus, i find them to be very useful for learning Japanese, although that’s another topic.
And yes, I should probably trust your recommendations more :). [size=50]Although if you hadn’t posted that link, I would never have known about it. :P[/size]
Oh thats cool, I wish there was a yuka one. Any way these are also games on my most wanted japanese eroge list. Sorry if my replys are random, I wish I knew japanese :roll:
From my viewpoint, the problem with Nagarusu are its so-so graphics (never liked this artist) and the predilection for physical torture (I like mind games more :twisted: ), don’t know if this game is really good.
I’m VERY surprised to see that the game file is 4839.33 MBs :o :shock: :shock: , however…
Is it an error?
The original game was sold on a double-layer DVD. I don’t see why they would sell double-layer if the game wasn’t that large - most DVD eroge are sold on single-layer discs. Even those were rare-ish in 2003, too.
Out of curiosity, I’ve delved deep into a notorious site of iniquity , and the (pirated) forbidden fruit I’ve found is listed as 998 MBs big.
I suppose that the “the game included vast amounts of dummy data to discourage piracy” theory is the right one (? :?: ).
I’m bringing this thread back again, Eien to Natta Rusuban is up on gyut.to! Which means foreigner people like me and you (unless your name is Ignosco and gyut hates your card) can grab this masterpiece, which I happen to be doing right now.
Bad news is:
It’s 5gb, and
need to use gyut downloader
nonetheless, the little download is steaming along (something like the 3rd largest eroge I’ve ever downloaded) and should finish eventually. 20% right now. I’m extremely interested in seeing what it takes for eroge to be controversial without outside (Equality Now >_>) assistance.
