1/19/2019
I’ll have to take a break from Doom whilst I play my other PA games, but I definitely plan to go back to it.
Soooo…next game: World End Economica ep 3
I’ve been playing it alongside Doom, so this isn’t a daily update like Doom was. I also won’t be able to talk much about the game since it’s a visual novel and yknow
completely story-based.
But just in case, disclaimer: There may be mild and/or accidental spoilers below. Read at your own risk.
I don’t think this even needs to be stated, but the art is adorable.
I really don’t know what it is about this game in particular, but there’s something about the art that caught my eye compared to other VNs. Maybe it’s the details they put into not only the character but also the background.
I absolutely love these video sequences put in near the beginning of VNs too. My first experience with one was from when I played Mystic Messenger, I believe, so they always bring back warm feelings about MM.
Man, this guy has a defined nose.
It’d be interesting to meet someone in real life who calls themself (themselves?) Eagle.
To the king of pessimism.
This is my favorite girl. She’s adorable.
Going into this series, I didn’t expect economics to be one of its major points; that’s definitely a really unique aspect. I literally learned what a “naked short” is from this VN. (Copy and paste definition for anyone else who is curious: “Naked short selling, or naked shorting, is the practice of short-selling a tradable asset of any kind without first borrowing the security or ensuring that the security can be borrowed, as is conventionally done in a short sale. “)
As serious as a moment as this is, I really wanted them to kiss right here.
..Is that bad? 😬
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Skip to the end dashed line to avoid them.
I won’t have much to say here anyway. I don’t know what I could say besides: ;—;
This is probably one of my favorite scenes in the game. I’m not sure if it’s an ability to relate to his words or what, but it tugs at my heartstrings even just looking at the pictures I took to post here. ;-;
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Just another appreciation picture for the art.
Credits:
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Ay, new modes. At least, I’m like 96% certain CG mode and Music mode weren’t there before.
I explored the HD edition as well to see how different it was. The graphics don’t really look different, which is what I expected because of “HD”. It seems like instead, they changed the layout of things a bit and also some of the config menu, which I’ll talk about more in a sec.
Pictures from HD mode:
End breakdown/review:
Overall, I loved the game. It’s beautiful and the dialogue is pretty well done.
A few issues I did have, although maybe I did something wrong, were
- I couldn’t open the Steam Overlay whilst playing
- I couldn’t use F12 to take pictures. While playing, I had to alt+tab and put the pictures in Paint, which can be a little immersion-breaking to say the least.
- Auto mode is a wonderful addition, but obviously, it can’t be super consistent. Some dialogue is really short, so you have to wait awhile for auto mode to go onto the next text box, and some dialogue is very long, to the point where I worried about finishing it before it went on to the next text box. This wouldn’t be worrisome, but I didn’t see a “backlog”/text history while playing.
Now, a lot of these issues appear to have been fixed in the HD version. In that version, I could open Steam overlay, take pictures via Steam, and there was a text backlog that you could view while playing.
So now I’m going to discuss auto mode a bit more. Not a lot of VNs that I’ve played have this option. Either it’s read all the dialogue, skip read dialogue, or skip all dialogue. Even if auto mode isn’t always the most convenient, it was really nice to just be able to lay back and enjoy the story (..and not accidentally clicking and continuing the story before intended, haha). So yeah, overall, I looooved auto mode. and the game in general of course. Sure, I did have some issues, but none of them major and I would 100% deal with them all again.