That put a smile on your face didn’t it? Got the satisfaction you couldn’t find in King of Fighters.
He needs to play XI.
lol I was just like lul wut ur joking rite. Went back to the hotel that night and looked it up, sure as fuck that kid had a dick. I was like “oh well, good thing i’m not some pedo into loli or else I’d be questioning my sexuality.” lol
It was fun as fuck to tell my friends I’d play GG with that were like, 14 and thought bridget was hot.
American Dad is quality.
It’s the second one. From the bits of interviews I’ve read with Nasu and takeuchi or w/e the CG artist’s name is, they seem to be extremely close to a real-life Japanese Garth Marenghi and Dean Learner.
I am certain that is the case for most of the people who play Melty Blood on this side of the Pacific.
The reason I brought this up is because I myself know ENTIRELY too much about the source material (never played it, but through the Internet I am familiar with the highlights and the gist of it). Just thought I’d warn anyone who might be feeling a bit too curious.
ShotgunSteve: Ordinarily, what plot exists for a given fighting game is nothing but harmless color. (Guilty Gear has a bit more than usual, but we forgive it because it’s amusing nonsense that borders on the badass. Bridget having a dick is just funny in a weird kind of way.) I just thought Tsukihime bore special mention because it was in this case the “plot” (the source material) that inspired the game, and not the other way around.
Guilty Gear’s silly backstory is merely the aesthetic extension of an already mechanically awesome game. Melty Blood is a veritable miracle, a well-made, well-balanced fighting game that is an extension (technically, a tribute of sorts) of a hack who couldn’t get publsihed slapping ghetto CG and gratuitous sex scenes into his terrible vampire fiction to become an underground success among Japanese nerds. It’s like a beautiful flower grew out of a mountain of horse shit, with a lovely scent that almost overpowers the stench of its substrate. How exactly we happened upon this good fortune is a mystery for the ages. Still, we probably shouldn’t jinx it by being ungrateful.
Wow, you’re awful. At least play the game before you criticize it.
I liked Tsukihime a lot.
I’m surprised so many of you didn’t like it.
The plot of Tsukihime is this: schizophrenic milquetoast-nerd-by-day/homicidal-rapist-by-night Shiki Tohno meets hot vampire Arcade Bumstead and learns entirely too much about vampires while having (the option of, at least) sex with said sweater-wearing vampire, his foster sister(they’re not blood-related but that’s still creepy as fuck), his childhood-friend-turned-maid, and God knows what else. There’s more to it than that, but not much more.
It’s porn with plot (or rather, a pitiful plot with porn attached, which is even worse) beyond the fortuitous arrival of a pizza boy, a pool cleaner, or a well-endowed black man. (Nero doesn’t count, because he doesn’t get laid, another large shortcoming of Tsukihime.) It is a recipe for failure, propped up by people who watch too much anime and are thus led into the delusion that Nasu is clever and/or capable as a writer, when really what he has is a mediocre anime script, animated by still screens with godawful narration superimposed.
And to top it off, it has vampires. VAMPIRES. Vampires have been garbage ever since Dracula. Even before Twilight, Anne Rice turned vampires irredeemably stupid. Aside from Castlevania and Melty Blood, NOTHING good comes from vampires these days.
It really is a miracle Melty Blood turned out as good as it did with this pedigree.
Except I won’t, because there is pretty much nothing appealing about Tsukihime to me. None of the characters intrigue me outside of their purely superficial nature in Melty Blood, and the story sounds like navel-gazing garbage to me. I’m thumbing through screens on the Internet right now by way of the Let’s Play archive and this shit is quickly becoming physically PAINFUL. This is everything I heard it would be, and WORSE.
For those poor fools who still want to see what you’re missing, here is the link:
http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/Tsukihime/chapter1.html
Not even beer could make this shit readable. And that’s not for lack of trying on beer’s part.
Ultima: Thank you. I had been itching to use the word “substrate” today.
what’s the plot? I see snake arms and deer summons and shit. WTF
Black deer and onion rings.
This is why you should play the game instead of trolling. There’s one sex scene in each arc. And each arc takes about 5 to 6 hours to complete.
EDIT: I take that back, you are already so sure of your own opinion that there’s no way you could possibly enjoy it. Just stop posting your unfounded opinion please.
That’s some high-level poetic shit right there. No pun intended. (no homo?)
All of Ben Reed’s posts are solid gold indeed.
If solid gold is flaunted ignorance with colorful wording, sure.
Its not ignorance. I read some of that Let’s Play… Ben Reed is right.
sorry but if you think a visual novel has a good story youre delusional. i dont even need to play the game to know this. the fact is any writer capable of constructing a strong plot and delivering it with artful language isn’t going to bother working in a medium that has absolutely no chance of getting attention, let alone respect, from people who are actually capable of appreciating literary talent. the audience for visual novels is lonely anime nerds i.e. the kind of people who care more about fanservice, escapism and wish-fulfillment than well-constructed plot, believable, well-developed characters, strong craft on the sentence level and social/philosophical relevance. i wont debate that the medium has potential but i doubt it will ever be fulfilled for the aforementioned reason that anyone with any real talent is never going to touch it.
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^owned him, u owned him
Visual novels are not much more than books with pictures that you click through rather than turning pages. So there’s no real reason for them to not have a good story, but Tsukihime doesn’t.
Yes, yes, real writers focus on writing books, and they are all of such grandeur. People crave well-written stories in their books, and want to be intrigued by the philosophical perspectives of that writer. That’s why Twilight is a popular book, amirite?