ISLAND 
This was read officially during those dates:
Start date: March 1st, 2024
End date: Aug 2nd, 2024
But any reader are welcome to join and comment on ISLAND at any time!
(I am putting the participation polls here on the top of the first post for easy access, if you are new to this thread, skip the polls and read beyond for more info)
Where are you in the VN right now?
- Prologue
- Route A
- Route B
- Route C
- I am not reading this VN yet
- I am no longer reading this VN
Which parts have you completed (at least once)?
- Prologue
- Route A
- Route B
- Route C
- The other endings
Suggestion of template to post your thoughts / questions
Write in the title which part it is about and at which save you are, if applicable, or / and include the flowchart:
example 1:
Thoughts up to save 1
Blurred flowchart image here
Thoughts here
example 2:
What is this?
We are going reading ISLAND as part of the Visual Novel Book Club!
From Steam’s description: *Sanzenkai Setsuna awakens on the shore of isolated island Urashima with no memories of his past. Befriending three local girls, Rinne, Karen, and Sara, Setsuna’s quest to discover the secrets of Urashima and how they tie into his own past - and future - begins. *
VNDB Link: ISLAND | vndb
JPDB deck: Island – Prebuilt decks – jpdb
Where to buy
Steam: ISLAND on Steam (has both EN and JP) (will probably be on sale around March 14th, put it in your wishlist!)
Nintendo Switch: https://store-jp.nintendo.com/list/software/70010000035734.html
DLsite: 【45%OFF】ISLAND [フロントウイング] | DLsite PCソフト
Pace
Tentative schedule
| Date | Start | End | Char count | Total char count |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prologue | March 1st | April 5th | 110.000 | 110.000, according to me |
| Route A | April 5th | May 10th | 110.000 | 220.000, according to me |
| Route B | May 10th | June 14th | 110.000 | 330.000, according to me |
| Route C | June 14th | July 19th | 396.000 | 735.000, according to me |
| Other endings / read slower | July 19th | Aug 2nd | 44.000 | 780.000, according to me |
I only made a schedule for the “real” endings, depending on how it goes for everyone and how much participation there is, we will have a vote later to know if we also play the bad / alternate endings.
We will be reading at our own pace and posting in this thread whenever we want to talk about something related to this VN (so you are free to follow the schedule or not, and there won’t be new threads every week). The plan is for everyone to finish within 22 weeks (August 2nd, 2024).
We will be using choices as a reference point. You don’t need to wait until you hit a choice to discuss the game of course, but it would be a good idea to note in your post where you are so people don’t accidentally get spoiled (can say something like after choice 1/before choice 2 + character count if you have that available to you).
Guide for choices
First guide option: Seiya guide
Alternative guide option: Steam Community :: Guide :: ISLAND Walkthrough
Below you will find the choices to complete the main endings from that guide.
First, you have to play the Prologue.
That will lead to either:
Route A - Karen
Route B - Sara
Route C - Rinne
Probably only expecting small variations in the Prologue, while the main routes are completely different.
Prologue + Route A
Prologue
Go left
...Setsuna
I'm Sanzenkai Setsuna. / Try guessing my name! / Don't go falling for me!
Get ready for a showdown
A: / B: / C:
Abort your mission
Travel back in time / Go and find some glue
Give them the two-hour version / Give them the full director's cut
Flirt with Kuon / Mind your place
Go to the beach
Main
I'll find myself here on the island
I was born into this age
Accept the here and now
Say anything at all
Prologue + Route B
Prologue
Go left
...Setsuna
I'm Sanzenkai Setsuna. / Try guessing my name! / Don't go falling for me!
Get ready for a showdown
A: / B: / C:
Abort your mission
Travel back in time / Go and find some glue
Give them the two-hour version / Give them the full director's cut
Flirt with Kuon / Mind your place
Go to the beach
Main
I'll find myself here on the island
I came here from the future
Keep your mouth shut
I can't die for her
Wipe her tears
I have to tell him
...
Yeah / ......
Die together
Prologue + Route C
Prologue
Go left
...Setsuna
I'm Sanzenkai Setsuna. / Try guessing my name! / Don't go falling for me!
Get ready for a showdown
A: / B: / C:
Abort your mission
Travel back in time / Go and find some glue
Give them the two-hour version / Give them the full director's cut
Flirt with Kuon / Mind your place
Go to the beach
Main
I've already found myself
I'm Setsuna / I'm not Setsuna
No, they don't exist / I don't know / I've just witnessed a miracle
The same / I'll have a lemon one / Corn on the cob
Skim over the rest of the article / Reread the entire passage carefully
...
You're right / You're wrong / I don't know
Your chest / Your butt
Suggested route order
You can only play Route C if you have completed the other routes, so I suggest that we do A, B, C.
Step by step for Textractor on PC
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Open Textractor
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Open ISLAND, if you have attached it to ISLAND before it connects automatically, otherwise I believe the step was to pick “Attach to game” and choose ISLAND.exe in the list of running programs
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Load your save / start a new game
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After the first sentence is loaded, in Textractor, click Search for hooks
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Say OK
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Choose Search for specific text
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Write down exactly the first characters, for example here it is: “「ったく、” and the 「 is important too, and OK
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Takes a bit less than 10s and they are found
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Go through the list, few of them will be perfect, few of them have some artifacts like this:
If this is the case you can just switch to another one, they don’t disappear.
Now I haven’t had any success with saving those hooks and reusing them when I reload the game, so I just do that every time. Maybe someone will chime in with a way to do it. Though the way I do it doesn’t feel tedious to me, because I also have the text from the previous session saved so I can just copy paste the last sentence I played.
To have the text saved, you can have Texthooker open and the addon Lap Clipboard Inserter – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US) (Firefox) and Textractor set up with Copy to Clipboard. When you activate Clipboard inserter, everything you copy in your clipboard, comes in texthooker.
Now don’t be me, and turn off Clipboard inserter when you stop playing and do things like putting passwords in your clipboard from a password manager 
JL: Dictionary with overlay you can use when you play fullscreen
Its also worth checking out JL if you read in full screen mode. It works a lot like yomichan (you can hover over words to look them up etc). There’s an always-on-top overlay and it’ll get the text from textractor to show it on the overlay. GitHub - rampaa/JL: JL is a program for looking up Japanese words and expressions.
It lets you import your own dictionaries and I think you can set up mining to anki with it as well. Here’s a random screenshot I just took to show how it looks
Change between window mode and full screen by pressing F11
If you go under the system settings, there will be a setting to change it to windowed mode there. You will have to restart the game after changing the setting for it to take effect though.
Discussion Guidelines
- Please use spoiler tags for major events in the current chapter(s) and any content in future chapters.
- When asking for help, do your best to provide context. Pasted text, screenshots, descriptions, etc. Unlike book clubs we can’t flip to relevant pages, so we may need a little help identifying exactly what is being discussed.
- Feel totally at ease to ask questions or give your thoughts, any time! Clubs live and die by participation, and asking whatever question you have, no matter how silly it may seem, helps others who are reading it and even the answerer themselves.
- Have fun, and do your best to interpret anything said with as much good faith as possible
Participants
- I’m planning on reading along / ahead
- I’m planning on starting later
- I am no longer reading this VN
- I have finished this VN
Which version are you reading ?
- PC
- Mac
- Switch
- Other
On the Flowchart, you can see the name of the “chapter” (they are seamless in the game) and you can see those names on the saves too.
close to buying it.
maybe if you happen to have two computers in your household, one could have the EN version and one the JP version 
