I have a character count going and I THINK most weeks recently especially we’re hitting a little above 10k? It’s hard for me to say definitively because my setup grabs EVERYTHING, like menu text and the pop ups when you enter a named building and etc, so it gets bloated and I have to guess how much is extra, but yeah.
Anyway yeah it might take a while but ultimately all that matters is if it hooks you after a while and you want to see where it’s going, yeah? You’ll be reading something in Japanese in the meantime anyway, and by the time you’re done or would be done you’ll be faster and it’ll be easier one way or another. Of course, I’m coming at this from the perspective that for VNs this is short so I’m happy I can slot it in easier than something that takes 80+ hours in your native language
Funnily this is one of those words that probably isn’t common? But I’ve seen it SO much in the kind of things I read. Thanks to Chaos;Head I knew this instantly.
Is this just the main story? Every estimate online from vndb or howlongtobeat and the like are 30-35 which is also exactly where I landed reading when I read it in English before. That time could line up pretty well if you’re including Requiem for Innocence, but I’m planning to wait til we get there to see about continuing to that (which didn’t exist back when I first read so I’m excited to have something new to see!)
While I played this before, it has been several years and my memory is hazy, so I really don’t want to read your list and jog my memory, but I can link to this post.
Not reading the trigger warnings but I appreciate! Time will tell if I regret
(just hoping that it’s not something similar to Wonderful everyday down the rabbit hole, I didn’t finish that one, too much for me)
Yes no pace set, just threads for the discussions. I’m guessing @Daisoujou will have the thread for chapter 1 up soon, and I don’t know when chapter 2 will be up, whenever one of us is done with chapter 1?
How did you time yourself though? See my playtime could be wrong, because I played on the Vita and it doesn’t track your time. I was sort of basing on the number of times I sat down to play and how long I played each time. I DID end up playing Requiem for Innocence though too, along with a few other little bonus chapters.
Thanks!
I think I do pretty well with games this…heavy. I’ve got to say that there were a few times were it was a lot even for me. I was kind of surprised. The only other game I’ve ever had this sort of trouble with was Corpse Party: Book of Shadows. Granted, I think a lot of that was the fact that the game had voice acting and they did too good of a job. I had to turn it off.
I hope you all “enjoy” the game. (it’s not really the kind of story you enjoy in a traditional sense)
It’s definitely a very unique experience, but that’s also coming from someone who hasn’t actually played that many visual novels. Maybe only a dozen or so.
I checked the Steam playtime, which is counting any time the program is open at all. Mine was like 32 hours.
Thank you! After getting started on my reading yesterday my biggest concern was just the way the text is a little challenging in Japanese and how everyone would handle that, but the people posting so far seem to be getting by so that’s a relief
Thanks! Will you be lurking as we go? Or check back here in some time? I have no idea how long it will take to read it, but I’ll write a kind of review here for sure!
As suggested, I added a poll to the first post to mark where you are.
After making the poll, I’m starting to get semantic satiation and “door” doesn’t look like a real word. I figured it’s easiest to mark where you currently are rather than having to select each one. And now you get to click the poll immediately instead of after chapter 1, which I’ve noticed people on this website enjoy doing.
sorry I couldn’t wait 
Starting now then!! we’ll see how far I can go today!
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Can you also make links to the different doors? Seeing as we already need the thread for door 2 
