Name: People call me Kaz
Age: 16
Nationality: Scanian
Location: Eslöv, Scania (currently occupied by Sweden)
Occupation: Student (aspiring mad scientist housewife)
Spoken languages: Swedish, English, Japanese, German, and a little Danish, Norwegian and Scanian (also studied Russian for a year but didn't really learn anything)
Interests: Anime (of course), languages, old cars, driving, trying to play instruments, singing, science, 80's computers, 80's futurism, synth music, swing and big band music, the 20's-40's, military stuff, RPG, travelling, cooking
Preferred anime: Comedy, science-fiction, anything with a cast of characters that don't suck
Disliked anime qualities: Tsunderes, too generic shounen plots, shoujo romance series, slice-of-life harem series, popular shounen series that could have been good but are just too overrated for me to like them, series that never end (except Gintama), yaoi and shounen-ai
:( hallå det är mina fingrar som kliar efter en match! och nej jag orkar inte vänta ett år tills uppcon, vad ska jag göra för att döda tid hade du tänkt dig då?
ska ni till stockholm någon gång på utflykt med eran klass eller så - säg till, eller om eran by har någon hydda ledig att sova i så kanske jag kan dra mig ner till det där stället ni bor i
It's "running from monsters-style" VN. XD
Most of the time it's the usual click & read stuff, but sometimes you need to run a bit. There will be a labyrinth-like map with some monsters walking around, and you need to find four special places on that map to advance the game. It's turn-based, you have an option to walk, to run, and to dash. If a small monster finds you, you can run away once, but if he finds you the second time - it's game over. If the map "boss" finds you - it's an instant game over. :)
>>>"Don't tell me you've bought all of those games? As far as I remember, illegal downloading wasn't an option back in the DOS/win95 days..."
Well I didn't really say that I was getting those games sometime in the DOS/Win95 days, I just said the games were made for these platforms. ;)) There was a guy here in Russia, and somehow he was able to get most of the games available at that moment. He hosted the smaller (less than 100 mb) games on his site, and he was selling the copies of bigger games. So I've got about 20 games via download. It was around 1998-1999. :))
Dai Banchou - Big Bang Age is probably the best game I've played. It's a conquest-style game, the main hero is a guy trying to unify Japan which is being controlled by different factions after the "Big Bang" mentioned in the title happened. You recruit various characters (there's about 100 of them), then you have the map where you station them, invade other regions or defend your own, build different useful buildings, explore dungeons and fight (in arcade 2-D style, simply choosing the characters and the attack types). Obviously, there's some talking and some H-scenes too (you need to trigger special events for them). here you can get more info about it.
Another fun game would be Figyu@Meito, by Escu:de. It's about a guy who's remodeling anime figures, and one day, one of the figures ("coincidentally", the figure of his favorite anime girl) comes to life and asks him to help her with various stuff. Basically, it's like the usual VN most of the time, but with the "figure-creating element" added. You need to buy figures, details, get requests and contracts, remake and repaint them, sell them etc. And not forget about helping the poor figure to get her real body or any other crazy thing.
I also like games by Cyc-soft. My favorites are made by Black Cyc division, but they're kinda...well, neo-gothic style, with vampires, demons, monsters, lots of blood, gore, dismemberment and other nice stuff. The best would be MinDead Blood, Gun-Katana and Extravaganza. Gore Screaming Show is fine too, but it's a generic VN, without any special gameplay elements.
Also, there's Senjou de Shoujo series made by Cyc-soft, currently consistent of two wargames about the girls' military squads. Pretty fun to play if you like the genre.
There's also some RPG's I like, most notably the Izumo series by Studio E-go! (there's four RPGs and one ADV), Izumo and Izumo 2 are directly related, Izumo 0 and Izumo 3 aren't. The anime called "Izumo - Takeki Tsurugi no Senki" is based on the 2nd game.
Another nice RPG is Ultimate Hunter by Xuse.
And you can always try Shikkoku no Sharnoth (the game I'm currently playing). It's a mystery story set in an alternative version of Victorian Era's England, featuring famous real and fictional characters like Agatha Christie, Charlotte Bronte, H.P. Lovecraft, Sherlock Holmes, Baron Munchhausen etc.
Well, I've been playing VN's (I don't really like the term "visual novel" though, since it's mostly related to simple click & read games, so I mostly use the broader "eroge" term) since late 1990's (I guess I'm one of few people who started playing eroge before they started watching anime). ^^
About 1/3 of my list are old games made for Win95/98 or even DOS, and most of them are translated to English. There's also a few newer games that were released in English by G-collections, Peach Princess or whatever, I think those are the most common games everyone knows about. :)
Others are in Japanese only. When I first played games in Japanese, I actually used the dictionary and translated if not every single word, but at least the menus, choices, skills and stats names (for ero-RPGs) and other important stuff. It was somewhat helpful, and I actually started to understand Japanese better.
Now I'm playing only in Japanese (using AGTH and some other translation tools). I still don't understand lots of words, but some games are just too good to miss the opportunity to play them. :))
Damn, I guess I wrote a bit more than you were asking for, but oh well~ XD
hey~! wow this is one of the few times i can find someone with high campatibility with me, since i tend to be super harsh in my ratings xD haha but we both don't seemt o go for the super popular kinds like code geass, clannad, lucky star and fruits basket. =D
