Hello, internet person here. I read and very much enjoyed the Horror from Beyond Time, even if it took about nine months to make it from bookmark to brain. Still a few things in bookmark state but they all brain in the end.
I'm glad you enjoyed it, internet person! That story was an idea brewing in my head for at least that long. If you keep reading at that current pace, I may actually keep up with writing as fast as you can read it
Oh my God, Danganrompa...I've had such a hard time pushing that rec to other gamers, and it's not for lack of trying. Not just a great detective game, not just a great VN, not just a really interesting story with lovely twists, not just a slappin' soundtrack...I think unfortunately it comes off too "Japanese-weird" to people who aren't accustomed to such aesthetics, or they associate it with other things in same genres negatively. Which is a shame, since part of the enjoyment comes from knowing such conventions and the game thumbing its nose at them. And like, yeah, it is kinda violent? But it's all wrapped in such an absurd comic-book style that I feel like the (objectively really horrific) murders are a lot less upsetting than they would be otherwise. I mean there are a lot less tasteful ways you could do a The Devil on G-String plot. Such a good time that I wish more people would...give a shot.
Terry Crews played it on stream once! I introduced the game to my wife, and she liked the first enough to finish it and rate it... a 7 out of 10.
I think the Ace Attorney visual novel /adventure game hybrid series is probably a more accessible version of the visual novel mystery concept. It has less cultural strangeness, and a much stronger start: each game kicks off with a case being fought in a courtroom, while you have to get through a few chapters of text for Danganronpa to really start the gameplay.
Glad you're still reading and part of this internationally distributed book club! I'm looking forward to the next installment as well, I may tap you again for early feedback when the time comes
Hello, internet person here. I read and very much enjoyed the Horror from Beyond Time, even if it took about nine months to make it from bookmark to brain. Still a few things in bookmark state but they all brain in the end.
I'm glad you enjoyed it, internet person! That story was an idea brewing in my head for at least that long. If you keep reading at that current pace, I may actually keep up with writing as fast as you can read it
Oh my God, Danganrompa...I've had such a hard time pushing that rec to other gamers, and it's not for lack of trying. Not just a great detective game, not just a great VN, not just a really interesting story with lovely twists, not just a slappin' soundtrack...I think unfortunately it comes off too "Japanese-weird" to people who aren't accustomed to such aesthetics, or they associate it with other things in same genres negatively. Which is a shame, since part of the enjoyment comes from knowing such conventions and the game thumbing its nose at them. And like, yeah, it is kinda violent? But it's all wrapped in such an absurd comic-book style that I feel like the (objectively really horrific) murders are a lot less upsetting than they would be otherwise. I mean there are a lot less tasteful ways you could do a The Devil on G-String plot. Such a good time that I wish more people would...give a shot.
Terry Crews played it on stream once! I introduced the game to my wife, and she liked the first enough to finish it and rate it... a 7 out of 10.
I think the Ace Attorney visual novel /adventure game hybrid series is probably a more accessible version of the visual novel mystery concept. It has less cultural strangeness, and a much stronger start: each game kicks off with a case being fought in a courtroom, while you have to get through a few chapters of text for Danganronpa to really start the gameplay.
Glad you're still writing here. Keep it up. Looking forward to the Seven Suitors follow-up.
Glad you're still reading and part of this internationally distributed book club! I'm looking forward to the next installment as well, I may tap you again for early feedback when the time comes