Symphatic

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Had to delete about 4 pages and honestly got tired and stopped. The discussion was on-topic until someone brought up the tag debate. A tag debate is NOT an on-topic discussion. Then the arguments that came after were not on-topic. Even the weird "I'm an adult" flex wasn't on-topic, which let's be real, if you're a grown ass man you should act like it rather than getting upset for not understanding the definition of Vanilla sex.

Any more off-topic discussions will result in a warning and potentially thread bad. Thanks.
 

YogSothoth1982

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Yaezaki probably has the worst introduction to a character that I have ever come across, makes her seem EXTREMELY stupid initially and it doesn't help that most things around her have the most egregious laps of logic. The whole "oh I didn't tell you this essential information about The Queen because I don't trust you" before the arms deal, even though she had at that point said that she trusts him several times at this point just doesn't help at all. My god she's fucking annoying and I genuinely think that the story would be better without her being there.
Her introduction seems more designed to make players dislike her than the opposite. She's supposedly one of the "good guys," but the first thing she does is blackmail the MC by spreading false information about him... And all this after the MC has saved her and her friend. As a start, it's not exactly the best.

Miharu is actually really good, solid 'long term friends turned lovers' trope executed pretty well. Dorky, but lovable and pretty easy to relate to given that this is sort of an awkward 'coming of age' story anyway.
She is certainly the best LI, almost the only one we can say is really LI.

Chika isn't someone who even remotely feels like she's written to be an LI. Her entire story feels like a sidequest and feels more geared towards a "friend that you meet every now and then" type of deal. I'm genuinely not sure that the dev even intended to write her as an LI initially if she actually is one, just a character that feels very out of place with how much emphasis was put on her and how she's written.
The best thing is that if you decide not to talk to her (or drink with her, I don't remember exactly), then the MC doesn't participate in her story (she doesn't tell you anything about what she does or doesn't do, nor do you have the encounter with her father that I've read some references about).

Kaho is just.. no. Definitely not. Victim of the whole hamfist anime trope "mysterious stranger turns out to be fiancée!!!!!!" type shit that even when done as good as possible just ends up being an extremely annoying trope. She's also extremely sketch with how much she forces this shit, her dad having connection with MC's dad who was also connected to "big pharma bad" corpo. Just too many conveniences for this to not turn into some forced brainrot drama down the road.
I understand what you're saying, but, I don't dislike her.

Nao (I actually can't remember the name, I think it was this) will be the token yandere insanity bitch that will do dumb shit because 'muh trauma' and the MC will have to bend over backwards to appease her and it won't be a choice you will be able to make either.[/SPOILER]
The truth is that I can't see her as LI.
 

taishon

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Not sure if the following scene could fall into the spoiler category, but just to be sure, I'll leave my inquiry hidden in it.

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mike12013

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I agree with some of the comments here (that I can see, i think a ton got nuked)

This VN has some stuff I really like, graphically it looks very good, the lewd's and general animations are very good. I like how the MCs best friend is just.. a guy. He's not a genius, he's not a womaniser, he's not an idiot, he's not a comedy character he's just a friend. I think the general friend group is cool, and realistic to a school setting, the humour is sometimes great and Miharu is a great character, her path is fucking frustrating but I feel like it's designed to be so, it's paced well, though I feel like there could've been more sexual tension build up between her and the MC. They both go from "i want to do this but i shouldn't", to MC whipping his dick out and her going "i want to suck it"

Yaezaki is a mixed one. As of the end of chapter 3, I really like her character, but early on it was tough. As others have said, her introduction (outside of school) is hamfisted and makes her look like an idiot, but i feel that could be intentional. She's brash, she's emotional and it's gonna get her in trouble. The chemistry with her and the MC is cool, but I struggle to understand why she's effectively this celebrity at school, there's explanations but it's very surface level, she's from a famous family and is hot, to me that isn't enough reason for her to get the respect she does from people. Turn heads for sure, but it feels like people worship the ground she walks on, considering she's introverted and doesn't talk a lot.

Some of the humour doesn't fit and just seems like it's LOL LOOK AT THIS MEME. I enjoy a good memefest VN here and there, but some of them just didn't fit for me, especially in chapter 3. It's also slightly too kinetic for me at times, though chapter 3 is better, chapter 1 and 2 had me doubting whether it's a kinetic novel.

Overall, I had good fun, will be keeping an eye on it for sure
 

Reniere

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Any new update ? The last post about about it being 40%
that was april i think
 

Eternamite

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Progress Report #NH0.4


Script: 100%

Renders: 35%

Code: 45%

Music & SFX: 70%

Animation: 25%
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Hello world~ KS here with a quick update~
Currently at the most time consuming part - making renders
I realized the other day that I might have written too much story for this update... Like about twice as much as previous update in fact... That's way more than I had estimated before.

I kind of just kept on writing hahaha... Yeah I'm just giving myself more trouble every time.

I don't want to split it up into two updates, since I already promised... and the planned content as well as story/character development is a bit hard to cut up right now, so... Please give me a little more time. I'll try to make before October.
I just hope you'll like it when it's out. Anyway, time to get back to work!
Sincerely, KS
 
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