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Actually Rin 1 wasn't longer than Kud's... I think it was rather short.

Unless I got into a bad end by accident.

Boring Komari is boring. Hurry up and develop a terminal illness or something. Not that I can't guess what the actual drama here is going to be but whatever.

Hm... I seem to be getting scenes that are only happening because I've completed Kurugaya route. Or they have may been there anyway, but I doubt it.

edited 19th May '11 5:17:05 PM by Arha

THAT may have been one of the harshest thing I ever heard...

Oh, you misunderstand. I don't want her to die or anything. I just want the route to be over. Wishing that they hurry up and die is reserved for characters I actually hate.

Although, to be honest, I'm not feeling any sympathy for her at the moment now that her drama has started. And not just because she kind of bores me.

Okay, Komari route finished. One of the weaker routes. Though not the weakest I suppose.

edited 19th May '11 6:08:08 PM by Arha

Which one would you say is the weakest route?

Hmmm. I'm not sure. I felt Komari's was needlessly dramatic and somewhat unsympathetic, Haruka's was kind of odd and didn't make me feel the emotions I think it wanted me to and Kud's kind of... I can't think of a simple description like that. It was like they couldn't think of anything dramatic for miss happy fuzzball Kud and skipped around and ended up with something out of left field. Probably Komari or Kud had the weakest route. I haven't quite gotten through the common route to reach Rin 1 yet.

I can certainly sympathize with your feelings on Kud's route. It certainly is hard to define what didn't work... but something certainly didn't no matter how much I wanted it to. And that's me who liked little Kud a lot.

Still her story was certainly not what I was expecting before I started to play. Given the images we got about the drawings on her body I thought she would have a more fantastic origin.

Yeah, I rather like Kud as well. She pulls off the whole adorably cuddly thing much better than Komari.

Indeed, I guess that's why Kud Wafter exists.

Huh... the Rin hookup was a little sudden. And if it's as short as you say I guess now's the time when I start waiting for the final patch. Good news is that apparently my cleared routes data will stay, though my saves themselves may mess up. Not that I ever use them.

edited 19th May '11 8:41:41 PM by Arha

Yup, and then a little while more for Ecstasy and three more routes.

Eh? That... that was a sudden ending. Well, no more Little Busters for now, I guess. Have to say that if the story ends like I think it might I might be kinda pissed off.

Why is Komari on the EX box, anyway? The three new heroines, the main heroine and... Komari? She's not the most popular heroine if Kud got the side story, right?

edited 19th May '11 9:45:17 PM by Arha

I doubt she's the most popular heroine after Rin, but I think she's the secondary heroine or something like that. She shows up a lot and is generally the second girl for everything. She's the first to join your baseball team, the second one you meet and such.

And indeed the ending was quite sudden. You're going off with your regular life and then boom, sleepiness kills you or resets the world or something.

Anyone read Planetarian?

I've heard it has a downer ending. Seems pointless to read it to me.

If I were a dictator who forced people to read V Ns, I would force everyone to read Planetarian. It's short and great.

So, it seems that since I have like thirty random saves that I never had any intention of using I was able to get back to the start of Kurugaya route despite being locked out of it. Go me. Although it means that I'm now getting the less shy Rin scenes on a file that hadn't had Rin route completed yet.

Also, the Synchronicle track is awesome.

edited 21st May '11 3:53:47 PM by Arha

Oh neo! Since you're here I just have to say something that was on my head while I played. I don't know why... but everytime I met Haruka in Little Busters I was reminded of you, don't know why.

edited 22nd May '11 3:09:47 PM by daltar

I suppose I should say I'm flattered but I have no idea who Haruka is. I feel like reading it before the translation is complete now.

Haruka is the crazy irresponsible purple hair girl.

You might as well start reading it. The translation is over 90% done so I imagine the final patch may very well be out by the time you get caught up. All that's left is Rin 2 and Refrain, after all.

About Haruka. Spoilers about her route. I find it interesting that her irresponsible, destructive behavior actually matches that of child abuse victims rather well. I'm used to her character type just being that way.

Also, I really do hope the translators don't assume a 'Mission Complete!' attitude after releasing the Refrain patch. I'm looking forward to Kanata and Sasami routes. Although Saya seems to be the vastly more popular of the three.

edited 22nd May '11 10:19:32 PM by Arha

I take that as a challenge. Finish the translated parts before the full patch is out.

Whether or not you meant it that way, I accept.

Well, if you have my reading speed for this stuff you can pretty easily do it. I tend to finish VNs a lot quicker than most of the people I know. The routes are also surprisingly short. However, it's still six routes and a decent length common route that has changing scenes depending on completion percentage.

edited 22nd May '11 10:22:15 PM by Arha

Just into the intro and I already know I'm going to like this. I love baseball.

I hope it doesn't let you down, Neo.

So far I really liked Little Busters for some reason. It just feels more... cohesive than Kanon and Clannad did. I think I like it better than those two so far. Depends on Refrain whether I'll keep that opinion.