@Rinibunny413 I don’t see a problem with deciding the full order although as @Akashelia mentioned, the work to opening up another route takes a lot less time, unless you want to fully reread everything.
However, I think it would be a good idea to finish picking the next route and deciding on the speed going forward. After those polls comes to an end, I’ll set up polls for deciding the order of the last three routes.
I’m even thinking of making just one thread full with the choices needed to unlock each of the remaining routes. It depends a little bit on our speed going forward though.
Absolutely. While I might not do the pacing polls after each chapter as before (you might notice I skipped them for this latest one. Trying to avoid poll fatigue while needing hundreds of polls everywhere ), I think it would be a good idea to check in when B side is being read how people are doing.
Oh… I might have to steal this for myself actually.
However, one needs to keep in mind that each route needs to be completed to be able to unlock the last couple of main story chapters. And as far as I know, this means playing both A and B sides. I don’t think bad endings are necessary for that. But I am pretty sure there are extra unlocks from 100% the game (getting all bad endings, memorabilia and probably(?) the archive), since we decided to not do those as part of the club though, they’ll be more of extra curriculum for those who feels like it (and I might set up a thread after we finish the club for those bits).
So if skipping Limbo’s path for now, or only semi-completing it, one would need to finish it some time before all routes have been finished, to continue with the main story together with the club.
I figured as much, it’s more that because I haven’t read most of chapters 2-4 yet, in order for it to make sense with the pace I’m going, I might want to skip the next route you do and take my time going through those early chapters and plan to catch up by route 3.
So let’s do it like this: I’ll let the current pull for route 2 stay open until Sunday. And then on Sunday, I’ll do poll(s) for route 3-5, and I think within a couple of days it should be fairly clear which route will be the third one.
I’ll also do as I was thinking about, and do one thread around then for unlocking all the rest of the routes, that way you can use that to figure out your choices.
Is that alright? (I would do the next route(s) poll now, but then I’d either have to lock route 2 poll right now, which I just asked more people to vote in, or… I have no good idea for making the polls )
Are you sure? Did you see that in a guide?
In the English guide I’m following, I can only see the routes for each of the guy, so I don’t know about that. And when I finished Limbo’s route, it unlocked some more Limbo - Teuta related slice of life content. So I assume each route completed unlocks a but more, but yeah I don’t know if there will be more to the main route (would be nice!)
Yes, I read that in a guide and in a review around the time I was nominating this. But I would strongly suggest not to go looking unless you are fine with spoilers. I believe even the names of those extra bits of main story/not-part-of-a-route story is spoiler-ish.
Alright, I’ve closed the poll for the second route and シュウ won. So we’re reading his route next.
The reading pace poll will be open until next weekend.
And because it would be helpful to some people, we’ll decide on the order of the rest of the routes. So, three options left. You’ll be able to pick two routes, and whoever gets the most votes becomes route 3, the middle amount of votes becomes 4, and least amount of votes becomes 5.
Pick 1-2 guys to help decide who will become route 3 and 4:
Should we have an option or poll or whatever for following the suggested route order from before? That’s what I’d lean towards doing personally, but if you guys aren’t interested in that I understand!
There are at least two suggested route orders. For example, one of them put them in order of light hearted to most heavy topics. And I can’t remember what the motivation was for the other order. (I’m not mentioning which is which to avoid any type of spoilers.)
The info I have about the routes are that they are more or less completely separate, so order doesn’t matter in that regard.
I’m kinda voting with this in mind, not so much voting the ones I’m most looking forward to. I guess I’d also rather end on a strong note than on what for now is my least favorite (I mean I’d love to be wrong but…)
I’d like to give people as many days as possible to vote in the currently open polls (links high up in OP), but also want to get things settled so I can get things in order. Decisions, decisions.
If you haven’t voted yet for routes 3-5 nor in the reading pace poll, and you plan to read together with the club, please do! I’ll keep them open minimum until Wednesday night my time (central european).
I probably should leave them open a whole week though…
Edit: Unrelated, but I started to look at setting up all the choices for the main chapters for シュウ and remembered that is the one kinda weird route that have two different memorabilia for good ends in his A side (which supposedly you have to set up already in the main chapters…), so I was looking through all three guides I have linked, and I think more or less all of them have different choices for getting to both memorabilia, despite them being rather different. So dang weird. Like one will say pick A to get M1 and B to get M2, and then the next guide will have the exact opposite for that choice, but make another choice exactly the same that also seems like a critical choice…
I need to think about how to organize this to make it easily digestible…
@Scylie Any chance you can roughly calculate how much we’ll be reading each week on average for the rest of B$? I understand it’ll probably include bad ends and such, but I’d be interested in knowing. Since schedule B seems to be winning the rest of the VN would be read over 15 weeks.
Hmm. As in actually calculate based on the play time data on ‘How long to beat’? 'Cause that’s all I could maybe offer, since the only transscript I could find doesn’t include the character routes. That would be more ‘guesstimate’ than calculate though, really
Unfortunately(?) Bustafellows has a ton extra things (side B’s, extra unlocks, main/character route variations, …) & the notes on How long to beat aren’t that detailed, so it’s a bit hard to say which times really include which things For example, when someone says “Main 5 good endings”, does that mean including Side B? Probably yes but I can’t be sure
Also no clue if they used a guide or just played until they unlocked everything… etc etc
Well, I gave it a shot, but since this is based on shaky data and maybe more importantly my questionable math skills… please take this with a major grain of salt
Okay, so the main route is ~150k characters, and the last 2 main chapters (ending) are ~41k combined (actual character counts).
Calculated/Guesstimated other counts:
~ 78k per route (on average), good ending only (probably including side B, probably including the parts to unlock the route first)
~ 56.6k for the bad endings of all routes combined + whatever extra stuff there is to get to 100% memorabilia (no clue what or how much that is)
Total: 149.7k (main) + 78k * 5 (routes) + 40.8k (main ending(s)) + 56.6 (bad endings + extras) = ~636.6k. Minus a couple thousand probably because you only need to redo the main route 4 times and not 5, but that part is included in the 78.
So if we’re not counting bad endings & extras for the club it’d be roughly 78/3 = 26k per week for the character routes part. And then 40.8/3 = 13.6k per week for the ending.
@rokon Is there such a thing for B$ and is it different from the extra main story chapters I’ve been mentioning? Because if you look at the schedule post, we have the four other routes plus two extra main story chapters after that on the schedule. Those are the only things I’ve seen in guides, except for little extra episodes.
@Scylie Ah! I didn’t realize it was only for the main story. Sorry!
), I think it would be a good idea to check in when B side is being read how people are doing.
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Or I made it up, one or the other. xD