I was a bit busy with IRL stuff and trying to survive this crazy summer without AC xD
I’m dedicated to reading now with most of my free time.
I’m still at the beginning and probably won’t make it until August 2nd.
I jumped from my chair at this scene haha (where the vase fell) 
No worries, the club doesn’t shut down there, everybody can continue at their own pace 
Unfortunately, I managed to finish only a single scene in the whole month since my last post. Reading VNs just doesn’t fit well into my life and schedule right now. I definitely want to finish this monster, but not sure when I’ll next have the time to keep reading at a more steady pace.
Thank you, I needed this reminder that I still have a loooong way to go.
I have to confess that I still use Google Translate (try not to look at it too often, but still keep it in the corner of my desktop). Even if I reach well N0 and beyond, I don’t think I’ll ever be able to read scientific Japanese!
Haha funny, @AzusaChan had shared the exact same screenshot
(This comment)
Yup, we share the same love for obscure technical Japanese! 
That is funny 
Some of those scenes with Momoka are a big jump in difficulty compared to all the other text in the game
Wow, I finished Rinne’s route and started Winter / Never Island a few days ago. I knew that there was something more after Rinne’s route, but I didn’t know that it would be almost a separate game in a totally different setting. The music is great, and the story looks interesting. I have only read a couple of scenes, so I don’t know much about it yet. But I’m really happy that I kept reading until the end of Rinne’s route to see this!
Hehehehe welcome to Winter! Thought it was really funny how they even changed the main menu. Enjoy 
Over the course of the last two weeks, I read two more scenes and encountered two bad endings…in bits and pieces, because I kept being interrupted by days where I didn’t have my computer.
Looks like I picked a very bad moment to take a long break there - it was so confusing to get the bad ending where Sara pretends to be her mother and the conversation dissolves into a dead end of weirdness, because Setsuna doesn’t get it. At first I thought it was confusing because I didn’t remember some clue that came before, but it turned out later during the “good” route that it was just confusing on purpose.
Welcome back!
Haha this game
I got this scene today:
And it sums up so much of the game!
おかしな話だって？
Yes, indeed it is. Loving every minute of it though!
Today I read until the next major choice and died again. My ending count is now up to 35% 
This section was full of suspense, and I liked the conversations with Karen and Kuon and the gradual reveal of the time travel box. But the scene in the shrine was weird. For one thing, Sara’s behavior didn’t make sense given that if her time travel theory is true, she just has to wait the rest of the night out and then she’ll disappear. For another, how many hours can some people talk in a burning wooden house drenched in kerosene when their clothes are already burning, guys?
Btw, does anyone remember if anything special happened on August 24th in Route A? Did they even celebrate or mention Sara’s birthday? It’s been so long I can’t remember.
No I think nothing had happened. But that’s normal in a VN, it can be a big thing for one route and never be mentioned in the other ones!
I just figured they could easily have turned that into a clue. There’s a bad ending in Route B that implies Sara’s theory is true and if she doesn’t time travel, reality is retconned so that she never existed in the first place (it’s very vague, though). So, if she’d just vanished at that point in Route A, that would have been confirmation.
But anyway, I should probably wait until I’ve finished Route B before I try to even get into any time travel theories.
This is not an uncommon trope in VNs but always make me super uncomfortable “oh thanks to you and to you only I can accomplish my dream/ I’m alive” “hm okay sure, but on my next playthrough I’m gonna go for someone else ok sry bye”
Sorry, couldn’t help it 
I’m in the valley of neverending epilogues again.
I finished Route B last night, and managed to find Route C with the aid of the guide (probably would never even have found it without it).
All in all, I liked Route B better than Route A - I felt it made better use of the creepiness of the setting and had less drawn-out scenes that were just banter. I also think it was interesting to compare the two routes. Setsuna often felt like a completely different person in the two timelines. I suppose it’s because he doesn’t remember his past, so he doesn’t have a stable emotional foundation and no grasp of who he actually is, so he’s very impressionable.
I was a bit disappointed by the ending, because what happened in the last scenes before the epilogue is never really adressed.again, and all the important questions remain unanswered. The second epilogue felt kind of tacked on, too. For most of this arc, Setsuna and Sara feel connected by their shared sense of destiny and their conviction that time travel exists and in the end, Sara even tries to set herself on fire, because she’s so sure she’s bound to end up somewhere sinister otherwise…and then in the epilogues, it’s like it never happened and they get all lovey-dovey all of a sudden.
Bah, I want to discuss the last part of Route C with someone, but it’s impossible to do so without posting spoilers… 
@Boodil how are you doing now? Have you started Route C?
@KaiserFranz are you still reading Island?
