私の目じゃない - not my eyes
So I said I would update more on the whole bartending thing, but nothing new has happened, so that'll come later.
I've fallen in love with some translations of Japanese visual novels. A visual novel is a computer program containing what basically amounts to a novel, but with background pictures and usually character pictures. Some have branching paths, where you can make a decision and it affects later parts of the story, but some only go straight through with no branches. Currently I'm reading/playing Umineko no Naku Koro ni (When the Seagulls Cry) and Chäos;HEAd.
The full title for Umineko may be familiar for some people - the same novelist previously created a game called Higurashi no Naku Koro ni (When the Cicadas Cry) that has been extremely popular and was reincarnated as an anime, manga, and I think as an actual novel. Umineko takes place in 1986 and tells the story of a family who has come to meet up on an island that their family head owns in order to have their yearly conference. A typhoon is scheduled to hit while they're there, and they end up stuck on the island. Because the family head is ill and supposedly going to die soon, all of his children spend their time squabbling over inheritance issues, while his grandchildren kind of chill on their own.
On the first night, they recieve a letter claiming to be from Beatrice, the legend witch of the island who supposedly fronted the family head ten tons of gold to get his businesses going when he was young. The letter claims that she will be taking back the gold and everything the family head gave birth to as interest unless someone else can find the gold first.
By morning, six people are dead.
It's really interesting and intriguing. There's the first arc, which basically goes through what happens until the typhoon passes, and then the second arc, where everything is reset because the main character, Battler, refuses to believe that witches and magic exist, and the witch wants to force him to submit. I've only finished the first two arcs, but I think it's super fascinating. Unfortunately, um, the pictures aren't that great, but the imagery of the text is fantastic, which means I was kind of squicked out by the deaths in the second arc. I'm taking a break before I start on the next one.
The game itself can be bought legally here or downloaded from a torrent. The English patch for the arcs that have been released so far can be found here.
As for chaos;head... ahhh, I'm still not sure what's going on! The pictures are gorgeous, though. Anyway, the main character is a male boderline hikkikomori, or shut-in, named Takumi. He figured out the absolute minimum attendence at school he needs to graduate and sticks to that schedule like glue. His main loves in life are an MMORPG called ESO and an anime character named Seira who he has delusions of. He has random hallucinations and just says that his imagination is so vivid that he sometimes gets sucked in to these daydreams. But Takumi-kun, daydreams don't actually work like that! I'm pretty sure you're nuts! v^_^
Anyway, he seems to be getting dragged into a case of serial killings against his will, and this thing Takumi says to himself sometimes gets repeated by other people he's never said it to. He gets these random times when he feels like someone is maliciously watching him, right? So the phrase he mutters when that happens is, "Whose eyes are those eyes?" which I guess it supposed to be the eyes that are watching him. (In Japanese, その目だれの目 is how it's written out onscreen.) I'll keep playing it until I find out what the hell is going on!
Anyway, if you want to play in c;h English, you'll have to hunt down the patch. Apparently some company has decided to translate some of Nitro+'s games (the people who made chaos;head), so the people making the patch took it down. I found a copy of the game and the patch in a torrent somewhere... mininova, I think? Good luck!
In any case, I am now tempted to create my own visual novel. I'll see where that goes~!
I've fallen in love with some translations of Japanese visual novels. A visual novel is a computer program containing what basically amounts to a novel, but with background pictures and usually character pictures. Some have branching paths, where you can make a decision and it affects later parts of the story, but some only go straight through with no branches. Currently I'm reading/playing Umineko no Naku Koro ni (When the Seagulls Cry) and Chäos;HEAd.
The full title for Umineko may be familiar for some people - the same novelist previously created a game called Higurashi no Naku Koro ni (When the Cicadas Cry) that has been extremely popular and was reincarnated as an anime, manga, and I think as an actual novel. Umineko takes place in 1986 and tells the story of a family who has come to meet up on an island that their family head owns in order to have their yearly conference. A typhoon is scheduled to hit while they're there, and they end up stuck on the island. Because the family head is ill and supposedly going to die soon, all of his children spend their time squabbling over inheritance issues, while his grandchildren kind of chill on their own.
On the first night, they recieve a letter claiming to be from Beatrice, the legend witch of the island who supposedly fronted the family head ten tons of gold to get his businesses going when he was young. The letter claims that she will be taking back the gold and everything the family head gave birth to as interest unless someone else can find the gold first.
By morning, six people are dead.
It's really interesting and intriguing. There's the first arc, which basically goes through what happens until the typhoon passes, and then the second arc, where everything is reset because the main character, Battler, refuses to believe that witches and magic exist, and the witch wants to force him to submit. I've only finished the first two arcs, but I think it's super fascinating. Unfortunately, um, the pictures aren't that great, but the imagery of the text is fantastic, which means I was kind of squicked out by the deaths in the second arc. I'm taking a break before I start on the next one.
The game itself can be bought legally here or downloaded from a torrent. The English patch for the arcs that have been released so far can be found here.
As for chaos;head... ahhh, I'm still not sure what's going on! The pictures are gorgeous, though. Anyway, the main character is a male boderline hikkikomori, or shut-in, named Takumi. He figured out the absolute minimum attendence at school he needs to graduate and sticks to that schedule like glue. His main loves in life are an MMORPG called ESO and an anime character named Seira who he has delusions of. He has random hallucinations and just says that his imagination is so vivid that he sometimes gets sucked in to these daydreams. But Takumi-kun, daydreams don't actually work like that! I'm pretty sure you're nuts! v^_^
Anyway, he seems to be getting dragged into a case of serial killings against his will, and this thing Takumi says to himself sometimes gets repeated by other people he's never said it to. He gets these random times when he feels like someone is maliciously watching him, right? So the phrase he mutters when that happens is, "Whose eyes are those eyes?" which I guess it supposed to be the eyes that are watching him. (In Japanese, その目だれの目 is how it's written out onscreen.) I'll keep playing it until I find out what the hell is going on!
Anyway, if you want to play in c;h English, you'll have to hunt down the patch. Apparently some company has decided to translate some of Nitro+'s games (the people who made chaos;head), so the people making the patch took it down. I found a copy of the game and the patch in a torrent somewhere... mininova, I think? Good luck!
In any case, I am now tempted to create my own visual novel. I'll see where that goes~!