But the best thing in the entire game is John the... . Hope he'll show up more!
That whole scene certainly got a few laughs out of me, even though my University Tours never came close to that one, haha.
Let me write a Review, since I really enjoyed reading the VN so far. Love the Artwork, Characters and Story.
Some inspiration has been taken from other stories
obviously, but that's nothing new in the Art World. Just like Berthold Brecht wrote the
Dreigroschenoper leaning heavily on
Beggar's Opera from John Gay. The Original Work was quite popular in London, but Berthold Brecht's
Dreigroschenoper took it to complete different level. Brecht retained the basic plot and characters but shifted the setting to Victorian London, sharpened the social critique. It had a very high cultural impact back in 1928, and still is today considered one of the most important Plays in and works of Brecht. It is still played on stages today, and studied by literary scholars.
Or like Composers have taken up inspiration from previous works, improving and adapting it with their own vision, famously depicted in the old Movie Amadeus (albeit heavily dramatized from the play), where Mozart works on Salieri's March,
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and later using the Motif on his Opera La Nozze di Figaro,
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.
Of course this is just something that happened in the Movie, that March was not composed from Salieri, but from the Composer of the Movie to make it seem like Mozart used it later for his own Opera. Salieri would have never composed something this boring for the Emperor.
But Mozart was no stranger to taking inspiration. For example, the opening theme of Mozart's Piano
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bears a strong resemblance to the opening of Johann Christian Bach's Keyboard
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. Mozart took this simple idea and developed it into a more sophisticated composition.
And many, many years later, another Austrian, Georg Kreisler took Mozart's composition, and wrote a great Cabaret Piece
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. (German Lyrics, so I guess the Play of Words will be unfortunately lost on the international Audience of F95).
Or a very famous example, Mozart's
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was influenced by
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. Mozart used Haydn's work as a model for his own famous Death Mass, likely improving and expanding on the original concept.
Hope this can put some perspective to the claims of this VN being just a ripp-off. Drawing Inspiration or borrowing ideas from previous art..... that's how we get Art. Because, Dreamlink is not a plain plagiarism like Terry Brooks' terrible
The Shannara Chronicles which almost just renamed the Characters and rewrote Tokien's Masterpiece
The Lord of the Rings word for word - not literally, but it is not that far off.
Keep up the good work Kid.
(Guess this is the most odd review on this Forum ever)
