My review of A Midsummer Day's Resonance, the 2005 translation of a 2002 freeware Japanese visual novel. I reviewed it as part of a project to review nearly 30 translations from 2005-2008. A Midsummer Day's Resonance, which is a story about growing up with holograms coming from phones, turned out to be one of the better reads thus far.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/a-midsummer-days-resonance-vn-review/

#VisualNovel #VisualNovels #freeware #indiegame

If you decide you want to experience the adventure that is Midsummer Haze for yourself, I wrote a story spoiler-free guide to the endings and published it to a repository on my Gitea instance.

https://giteacoffee.emucafe.org/naferrell/altogether_visual_novel_guides/src/branch/main/Midsummer_Haze_Endings_Guide.md

#visualnovel #visualnovels #guide

Let it be said that Midsummer Haze's... interesting... random mechanic was not my only challenge. The EN translation is a patch for an indie Japanese VN from 2004 that went offline in 2008 or 09. In a separate post, I explained how I managed to find the original Japanese game... much searching and a lucky torrent.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/finding-manatsu-no-kagerou/

#visualnovel #visualnovels #torrents #research

I reviewed Midsummer Haze, a 2006 translation of a 2004 freeware Japanese visual novel, as the 24th review of my project to review nearly all of the 31 Japanese visual novels translated for the 2005, 2006, and 2008 al|together festivals. The game has four endings, and the third unlocks the fourth. How do you get the third? By re-doing the second until it triggers. How many times did that take me? FORTY-THREE

https://thenewleafjournal.com/midsummer-haze-visual-novel-review/

#visualnovel #doujin #visualnovels #freeware #WINE #lutris

Comments on games I’ve recently played:

Oxenfree 2: Lost Signals
A Long Journey to an Uncertain End
Can of Wormholes
Viewfinder

https://blog.zarfhome.com/2023/07/summer-miscellany

#InteractiveFiction #VisualNovels #Reviews #PuzzleGames

This is where #VisualNovels are at right now:
"Hi. I am a dragon. I have AIDS."
:blob_neutral_face:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9-ge-lkBYE

Taking a look at the second half of my #SteamSummerSale shopping - all in all, I ended up with 19 games for under $150.

#Blogging #NerdGirlThoughts #IndieGames #VisualNovels #CozyGaming

http://nerdgirlthoughts.game.blog/2023/07/13/steam-summer-sale-2023-the-final-cart/

AAAHH! That cliffhanger!

Also, the ending credits hit me in all the feels!

Anyway, I am still surprised and impressed by Rhegan's form of kindness.

I also had a feeling that 8 generations worth of memories were something hard for a teenager to deal with. Nice to see it finally being addressed in a way.

I still feel bad for Selphine. Just being royalty is already a burden. One with all those memories then...

#VisualNovels #FaultMilestoneTwo

Kotaku: This Horror Game Gives You A Virtual Girlfriend From Hell https://kotaku.com/indie-horror-game-demo-review-miside-yandere-sim-pc-1850608147 #gaming #tech #kotaku #singleplayervideogames #dokidokiliteratureclub #singlewhitefemale #wutheringheights #risebloodhunter #drewbarrymore #windowsgames #visualnovels #indiegames #linuxgames #tease #mita

Random thought: I wish I knew how to speak Spanish without becoming an anxious mess every time. *shakes fist at my language delay as a child & being ridiculed by my family because my #autistic ass took to learning English faster than Spanish.*

I would also love to speak Japanese for the sheer purpose of playing all the #jrpgs & #visualnovels that never got translated into English.

It seems like this chapter is setting up the Hyves corporation and Greus to be the villains of it.

Rhegan however is surprisingly considerate. That or it is Selphine's personality that is merging with Reghan's.

I never expected this game to have a nascent magical internet/blogging too.

And it seems like the Rurune's joke will be a recurring one...

#VisualNovels #FaultMilestoneTwo #VideoGames

This just amuses me as how you can take it out of context.

#VisualNovels #FaultMilestoneTwo #VideoGames

Para probar que si que soy #gamedev

Screencaps de mi primer juego programado pero de verdad! (Es mucha impresión programar para mí)

...pero mis #visualnovels se ven mas bonitas .

El programa que uso es microstudio pero todavía se me hace misterioso.

Is it just an excuse to talk about #ScarletHollow and the wonders of #VisualNovels?

Maybe.

Who's to say?

Hi, everyone! I'm Melody Wisp, and I'm a new English VTuber on #Twitch.

I use they/them pronouns and am multiply #disabled and #neurodivergent. I also work in #transcription and am studying #stenography :)

I try to stream from 4 PM to 11 PM EST every day.

I typically stream #VisualNovels, #RPGs, puzzles, etc. I also play #ToonTown.

#intro #Introduction #VTuber #EnVTuber #TwitchStreamer #MelodyWisp #Queer

A friend got me Re: Zero - The Prophecy of the Throne on steam because he knew I was a Re: Zero fan and, having watched up to the end of season 2 of the anime, when I heard Subaru lamenting the fact he doesn't seem to have any special abilities my reaction was basically https://youtu.be/7oIYfWtLk-4

#anime #visualnovels #rezero

Alright. Now that the Next Fest is over it is time to get back to this game.

I honestly didn't expect this game to start with a magical nuke so strong that it made the game restart on itself and change the starting screen. Melano is too OP!

Rune on the other hand I kind of expected to have those super-human abilities and I like her more and more.

The rules of magic also continue to impress.

#faultMilestoneTwo #VisualNovels #VideoGames

@71650bd2a9dca5f39fc51b9623c37d735900c4fbfe9f8cb78256d8a99f58522c If you care to join me in spirit for some old visual novel fun, you can download The world to reverse here:

https://apothes.is/hosted/at2006/theworldtoreverse.html

If you run to run it on Windows, the executable will probably work (it does under WINE, at least). If you want to run on Linux (you're making good life choices), replace the onscripter executable in the download with the newer version and execute it:

https://github.com/Galladite27/ONScripter-en/releases

Note you can also run the newest Windows version from here.

If you're using MacOS... good luck.

Only note on running that I encountered when I first tested it a few months ago is that it wants MIDI for sound. On EndeavourOS that meant setting up Fluidsynth and loading some ALSA kernel modules, but your mileage may vary.

#visualnovel #visualnovels #freeware #onscripter

Have dating sims led into the emergence of romance sims yet? By which I mean a mix of the characters being adults and past some of the awkward early relationship stuff.

#Gaming #VideoGames #VisualNovels

For those who are interested, it can be downloaded and played for free from the official source. It is a bit finicky to run. It requires a Japanese language environment. It also needs Japanese fonts or things won't display correctly (the default fonts I installed from the AUR did not work well here). I ran it on top of WINE without any problems after the initial configuration. Unlike most of the al|together translations, there is no native Linux version (this one was written in KiriKiri instead of ONScripter-EN).

https://apothes.is/hosted/at2006/collage.html

#visualnovel #visualnovels