Visual Novels

excoos me 4 dubl poast. Downloaded Narcissu anyway and went through it; it's a quick read, and not nearly as emotional as I thought it would be. Sad, yes, but...not as powerful as it tries to make itself out to be. Oh well, was still good either way.

This, basically. It's a good read, particularly in the last 4 acts; but I think it's really guilty of being a bit obviously manipulative and trying too hard to get the reader's pity and to move them deeply.

The way that they treated the whole idea of incurable disease and the choice between dying at home or 7F struck me as trying too hard, for instance. It seems to me that they tried to milk these two ideas to produce tragedy, because it seemed like they were really relying on that premise for most of the read- chiefly in the first 3~4 acts.

Still, it's a fairly solid read given its length. And for such as small visual novel, it has an amazing soundtrack.

Also, I'd like to ask Joe and Spidey about Yume Miru Kusuri. How long is it? Spidey, you've commented before that it's short; and VNDB has it tagged as a 10~30 hour long read- kind of a vague timeframe. Is that tag accurate, or it falls under the shorter end of that spectrum? Also, how is YMK about sexual content? It really does sound like a genuinely good read, but I don't know if it's for me or not.