Now, THIS was nice!

Visual Novel Community Archive, 2000-2009
#1

Visited the products page yet? Then, I wonder if you have seen this there:

It’s a new picture from LMM!! Very nice!! They should post some new stuff now and then, I think, since that will help keep the interest of people, who might be a little bored, when they just get to look at the same pictures for so long. American game sites (and others too) usually releases at least a new screenshot now and then, to keep the interest of the fans and the players. Perhaps PP should do something like that, like posting a “picture of the month” from any of their so far unreleased games on the site…

#2

It’s pretty cool to see new pictures every now and then, but it may not be a good idea to show too many pictures considering the nature of bishoujo games. I mean, if you’ve seen loads of the pictures before playing the game, you might miss seeing new pictures while playing the game itself.

This is different in comparison with mainstream 3D games, where seeing the graphics before playing the game don’t spoil surprises and beatiful artwork that is contained within the game before you play it.

Still, I really really really want to play Little My Maid…

#3

I’m starting to feel like Bishoujo games are like Pokemon. I gotta catch them all! hehehehe. I really hope we see this game over here sometime soon!

#4
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Originally posted by TurricaN:
It's pretty cool to see new pictures every now and then, but it may not be a good idea to show too many pictures considering the nature of bishoujo games. I mean, if you've seen loads of the pictures before playing the game, you might miss seeing new pictures while playing the game itself.

Oh, I know that, but they could still post one picture each second of third month or something like that. In that way, they'd not reveal very much and still keep their loyal fans and customers happy [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/smile.gif[/img]

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This is different in comparison with mainstream 3D games, where seeing the graphics before playing the game don't spoil surprises and beatiful artwork that is contained within the game before you play it.

Not all that different, actually. Sometimes a screenshot in a mainstream 3D game spoil quite a lot too (depends on what the screenshot contains. The same work for bishoujo games too; it depends on what the screenshot contains). Besides, even if I saw ALL the pictures in LMM, I'd still buy and pay the gmae, because that I'm interested in the whole story, not only the beautiful pictures [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/smile.gif[/img].

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Still, I *really really [b]really* want to play Little My Maid...[/b]

Me too [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/frown.gif[/img]. But the time comes eventually when they release it. But it remains to see, I guess...

#5
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Originally posted by smog:
I'm starting to feel like Bishoujo games are like Pokemon. I gotta catch them all! hehehehe. I really hope we see this game over here sometime soon!

Well, it's not all that far from the truth [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/smile.gif[/img], In most bishoujo games (except for the single-path ones), one of the fun things about playing the game is to explore the whole game and find all CG's. As long as you haven't got 100% in your CG gallery, you know that there's a certain part of the game you haven't discovered yet [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/smile.gif[/img]

#6

I like the idea of screenshots too. Too bad there aren’t extra CG’s like TCI. Remember the Trio in the bath with the squirrel. I don’t consider the first contact CG’s as being too revealing or using non-character CG’s like landscapes and structural parts. The problem occurs when you start to see CG’s that are critical to that ending. I guess the best screenshots would be the first contact ones.

#7

Well, I hadn’t checked out the product pages for a few months now, and I must say I like what they did for the page. It looks very tight, you can see all the products at one glance, no need to go to another page.

#8
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Originally posted by smog:
I'm starting to feel like Bishoujo games are like Pokemon. I gotta catch them all! hehehehe. I really hope we see this game over here sometime soon!
Seeing how many bishoujo games are released a month (in Japan), you'd need to be a billionaire... and live eternally to play them all! ^_^'

#9

Sounds like a good reason to live forever. The smeg with bloodsucking, live forever in order to play all the Bishoujo games in the world is enough incentive.

#10
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Originally posted by bokmeow:
Sounds like a good reason to live forever.

Indeed. Hey, why not go to Arabia and search for a lamp that contains a Genie? In that way, we'd get threee wishes: The first wish would be that we'd all live forever, the second wish would be that the Genie created a high, black tower filled with computers and all bishoujo games in the world and the third wish would be that we'd all know Japanese as well as any Japan does [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/biggrin.gif[/img]. Now, imagine the days after that... [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/biggrin.gif[/img].

But seriosly speaking even it'd be fun to live forever and play bishoujo gmaes, we have to remember that not all bishoujo gmaes are good (some people here even says that just 35% of all the adult bishoujo gmaes created in Japan could be considered to be "good" ones... So if we played too many bad ones, we might grow a little bored after a while [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/smile.gif[/img]

#11

Well, everything has cons and pros you know. What’s his name from the Sci Fi community said this of Science Fiction novels: 90% of science fiction… no, actually 90% of anything is crap. It’s the %10 that keeps us going, living the good life, you know? So I would say 35% is already 25% better than one’s first expectations, don’t you think?

#12

Dude, 35% is too generous. 10% is definitely more like it. I actively try to avoid the crap but once in a while I still wind up with some in the end. But the good stuff I do get makes it all worth it. T_T

I’d rather wish for my own bishoujo to make hot love with rather than a tower of games but that’s just me… ^_^;

#13
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Originally posted by Yanachan:
Dude, 35% is too generous. 10% is definitely more like it. I actively try to avoid the crap but once in a while I still wind up with some in the end. But the good stuff I do get makes it all worth it. T_T

Well, even just 10% is quite a lot of games, considering the huge number of bishoujo games in Japan. Also, everyone has certain tastes too, and might be fans of more genres than others (for example there may be people who're just interested in adult bishoujo game RPG's nut not any of the other branches), so to some people, 35% would be a better number, but to others 10% would be a better number [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/smile.gif[/img].

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I'd rather wish for my own bishoujo to make hot love with rather than a tower of games but that's just me... ^_^;

Hmm? Now I don't quite understand? You mean that you'd wish that the characters in a bishoujo game got alive and started to fight over your body? ^^;;, or would you wish yourself a place as one of the characters in a bishoujo game??? Or am I totally wrong?

#14
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Originally posted by Spectator Beholder:
Hmm? Now I don't quite understand? You mean that you'd wish that the characters in a bishoujo game got alive and started to fight over your body? ^^;;, or would you wish yourself a place as one of the characters in a bishoujo game??? Or am I totally wrong?

They both sound good to me although I'd prefer a bishoujo become real before me rather than me become a character in a game. ^_^;

[This message has been edited by Yanachan (edited 05-15-2002).]

#15
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Originally posted by bokmeow:
90% of science fiction... no, actually 90% of anything is crap.

From the ones I've read I'd say 99% is crap, but then again, hardly anything grabs my attention these days. ^_-

#16
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Originally posted by Zorian:
From the ones I've read I'd say 99% is crap, but then again, hardly anything grabs my attention these days. ^_-

Well, I myself hardly read any Sci-Fi at all, but I read quite a lot of Fantasy, and i'd say that of that genre, 50%is gold, 20% is silver and the remaining 30% is Bronze (which I try to avoid [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/smile.gif[/img])

It's all about personal taste,through...

#17
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Originally posted by Yanachan:
They both sound good to me although I'd prefer a bishoujo become real before me rather than me become a character in a game. ^_^;

[This message has been edited by Yanachan (edited 05-15-2002).]

Ah, yes, wouldn't that be nice! Which character would you wish to be alive right before your eyes if you had to choose one, by the way? (I don't know myself, althrough there's plenty of bishoujo girls that I could think of [img]http://www.animenation.net/forums/images/smilies/kawaiismile.gif[/img]

#18
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Originally posted by Spectator Beholder:
Ah, yes, wouldn't that be nice! Which character would you wish to be alive right before your eyes if you had to choose one, by the way? (I don't know myself, althrough there's plenty of bishoujo girls that I could think of [img]http://www.animenation.net/forums/images/smilies/kawaiismile.gif[/img]
Hmmm, I dunno either. Too many to decide and some of them I don't think would translate well into real life... ^_^; Some of the girls I'd like to see are Mizuse Nayuki from Kanon, Shiobana Reina(night version) from Chushaki 2, senpai(lol) from To Heart, and Lucifer Nanari from Metamol Fantasy.

[This message has been edited by Yanachan (edited 05-18-2002).]

#19

That was quite alot of girls, Yanachan . I myself, well… there’s lots of girls I would like to come out of an adult bishoujo game… Well, I’d certainlt not mind to have one or more of the girls from Little My maid here at my home (and in that way, I’d have someone who could clean my messy room for me ), but I’ve also throught of a couple of others, like Multi from To Heart
(URYYYYA! )

Hich makes me think of one thing… is “Urya” kind of like the “hiya” we use here in the west when we clean floors or makes some other hard work? I through of this a litle, since “urya” is also used by Takayuki in TCI when he cleans the floor

#20
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Originally posted by Kagami:
On May 24th, there's a game coming out from Mink called "Realize Me"

http://www.mink.co.jp/lineup/realize/

...It's about a guy who suddenly gets the power to open "gates" that pull bishoujo game characters out of games into real life. [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/smile.gif[/img]

... Now I've seen everyting [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/biggrin.gif[/img]. sounds like a cool game, through [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/smile.gif[/img]