Zelrune

September 2020 report!
A day late but I don’t think anyone really cares lol. Anyway, all the puppies I fostered last time were all adopted out and are at their new homes, and now I’m fostering a mostly blind and completely deaf double Merle girl, although she has quite a few adoption requests so I don’t think I will have her for long. My rescue is very picky with adopters though, which I love. She is very sweet!
I haven’t gotten a lot done this month, most of it was finished within 2 days of the month ending. I only added one game to my backlog which I’m actually working on now because it looks so interesting, Elmarion dragon time! I am excited and ready for the Steam October Sales!

Half-Life 2
Pretty fun, but the more routes you play the less interesting it gets. A lot of cut content.

If My Heart Had Wings

7/10
20.9 hours
20 of 20 achievements

If My Heart Had Wings is all about Gliders, romance, and perseverance!
You play as Aoi, a boy recovering from a bicycle accident that left him running back defeated to his hometown. Back home, he meets Kotori, Amane, Ageha, Asa and Yoru! Together they join the Soaring club! Fix the glider and give your heart wings! Onward! The Morning Glory awaits!

First of all, I like this but I’m not quite sure I recommend it. Looking at a lot of other comments, “quite a bit of content was cut” is an understatement. The translation could be better. While I thoroughly enjoyed the first route, it went downhill from there. All the routes are incredibly similar, with some minor differences. It’s also a bit pesky because you can’t unlock some routes without finishing another, and the routes are very long. That being said, there is definitely an order you should read them in, and I’m thankful there is already a guide pointing that out. (Recommended Route Order by Capt. Pottypie. Korori – Ageha – Amane – Asa – Yoru.)

TL;DR It’s a great game that get’s less interesting the more routes you play, and by the end I was just happy it was over. I am very thankful of the “Skip all seen text” option in the settings.

Half-Life 2
I love this VN but it's unfinished. Part two is having an incredibly long delay.

Memory's Dogma CODE:01

8/10
8.3 hours
no achievements

Warning: gore, violence, partial forced amputation, suicide attempts and depression.
In Memory's Dogma CODE:01, memories of the dead can be digitized and stored online for 49 days, so people can speak with their loved ones once or a few more times before being permanently archived. You play as Hiroki, a loner with two friends, Kakeru a skilled hacker and Sorano. However, after Sorano dies of mysterious and suspicious circumstances, you and Kakeru visit the connect center where memories are stored to ask her exactly what happened. Strange darkness is lurking about, will you be alive long enough to find out?

I really do love and recommend this VN, however it is not without its own issues. Namely, the incredibly open-ended ending and the increasingly long delay of Memory’s Dogma CODE:02. I personally was looking for more information, reading through Kickstarter posts and in 2016, the scenario was 20% done, in 2018, the scenario was 100% done and was suggested to be twice as long as CODE:01. Either CODE:02 is going to be released tomorrow or sometime in the next three years.

Cece09

yep thats why fans fixed up if my heart had wings. Even if you don’t go for the 18+ content the text could do some fixing. I used it myself and ageha could not be fixed, just an ugly mess that the 1st time I played I completely ignored her. Cant say I was missing anything from it either, the whole childhood friend bit is annoying when they don’t just get together instantly

Zelrune

I didn’t use it because I’m not all that interested in seeing the 18+ bit, but mostly because apparently you can’t get the achievements if you download it. (Or, that’s what I was lead to believe.)
Although, after going through it once, the updated text is very tempting!

Cece09

Yeah achievements will get disabled
I do wonder just how bad the text is since I did lovekami last month and the text didn’t seem all that bad. It just makes me wonder what did they do to if my heart had wings that everyone hates it (apart from the obvious cuts)