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Sabbo2011-04-18 05:21:23

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Intro! (aka. How do visual novels & dating sims even work, anyway?)

Welcome, one and all, to my blinder than blind liveblog of the Visual Novel Shuffle, wherein I learn what's so great about visual novels, Dating Sims, and not having a life. And maybe I'll be lucky and learn whether I should be referring to it as "reading Shuffle!" or "playing Shuffle!".

To begin with, this is the official English translation of the original visual novel. This doesn't mean I can't still laugh at any shoddy localization I may find though. Woo!

Next, I suppose I should let my dear readers in on exactly how blind this liveblog is:

  • I have never played/read a visual novel before. (Although I am familiar with manga, anime & Light Novels)
  • The most I know about Shuffle other than that it is a male-oriented dating sim visual novel is a brief glance around half a year ago at the introduction of its trope page. I forget essentially everything I had read there.
  • The closest thing I have ever played to a dating sim was Persona 3 and Persona 4. I don't know how these compare, but right now I'm gonna guess that unlike in Persona, the Tenchi Solution is not an option here... not that it was really an option there; they never really addressed how the protagonist was essentially a male slut. :/
  • And finally, I have never done a liveblog or anything like that before, so excuse me if this isn't up to standard (And I welcome advice regarding this).

All that said, I really should get on with this now, shouldn't I?

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I open up Shuffle, and it seems kinda standard for any computer game - A couple of company logos, and a couple of blocks of text... but wait; why did the first block go away in a second, while the second (much smaller) block take several? Time to go back and print screen this, methinks...

Ah, it was a parental advisory notice. A bit suspicious that something three reasonable paragraphs long was only visible for mere moments, no? I bet Manga Gamer don't even really believe what they wrote there, for the most part.

As for the other block of text, that told me to go read a translation note pdf, which turns out to include nothing I, as an avid manga reader, didn't already know. Almost. I suppose I'll learn the rest as I go along.

The opening menu has a bunch of options, and I spy "Config"... Woah. So many options, and I have pretty much no idea what any of them would do. I think I'll leave it all default.

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That said, the only thing left to do is start up the game/novel/whatever it is, which can wait until tomorrow morning. Time to exit then, I suppose.

...And I hear a Japanese girl say... something... when I click Exit. She spoke a bit quick for me to hear what she said, so I cancel my exit and click it again, only for someone else to speak. Hm. After cycling through what I assume was all of them, I only understood one: A quiet girl, not unlike Yuki Nagato, saying "owari".

The End, huh? I suppose it is. Until next time!

Comments

24.66.195.248 Since: Dec, 1969
May 8th 2011 at 11:30:59 AM
yes it is good good good
ShieldOfDoom Since: Dec, 1969
May 8th 2011 at 12:14:36 PM
I think you're doing fine, really.
neobowman Since: Dec, 1969
May 10th 2011 at 9:20:58 PM
It's a great read. I enjoy following you through it. Shuffle is a relatively short VN so you should get through it pretty quickly.
FurikoMaru Since: Dec, 1969
May 15th 2011 at 3:34:44 PM
I really wish the liveblogs had stayed in their separate subfora based on media. I know at the height of the fad there were too many for that to be reasonable, but this new system's so isolated!
Sabbo Since: Dec, 1969
May 16th 2011 at 3:12:09 AM
Do you mean everything should go in the Liveblog subforum, or everything to go in the subforum of the media it represents (such as this going in Visual Novels)?

But yeah, this place is definitely too isolated for my liking.
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