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Post by netharspinos on Sept 28, 2016 6:39:28 GMT -8
(My apologies if a similar thread already exists, my brief glances did not reveal one) After putting it off for far too long, I spent the last four days burning through LD & RE as one does with a jolly good book. Though I had my reservations with LD-the wave of Steam-based criticism from the early days of release still lingering in my mind- I gave it a fair chance. And it was a hell of a ride. The battles were full of tense moments, the revelations were appropriately shocking and the music to accompany it all could not have been more evocative. My three most memorable points, I think, were... 1) The final flight of the Sunrider. a desperate sprint under fire from everyone ending with a heroic collision course, it truly felt like the end of Shields' tragic journey.
2) The Liberation Day Massacre; I had entirely forgotten that this was going to happen. I actually found myself wholly anticipating the first gunshot right before it went off...but not from who was holding the gun. At the time I wondered if Lynn had somehow swapped places with Chigara a la SA, but 'twas not to be. Though the truth was far more intruiging and horrifying!
3) The identity of the Wanderer. This made me burst out laughing, though it also pleased me to know a tiny bit more about her, and to see her having a greater role in the story. RE, meanwhile, was a lovely (and much appreciated!) little side-tale of which I wish to spoil nowt, lest I cover the entire post in spoiler tags. Ultimately however, Asaga is best girl. That Claude ending, though. Marrrrrvelous.
A little disappointed there was no harem ending, unfortunately. And no love for Cosette either? For shame. All in all, an excellent tale well told. My largest thanks to the chaps at LiS for making the Sunrider series, and although I have doubts about obtaining Starnova-I dunno, idols have never really interested me-I thoroughly look forward to the next installment(s?) of the Sunrider saga. Ta! |
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Post by neppi on Sept 9, 2017 7:21:04 GMT -8
For my part, I wanted to say thanks too. This game really offered me so much fun. Game time on steam: 311 hours  (yeah I'm modding thats why). I really was soaked into the story - the music, the tension, the narrative style and of course these super hard battles (at least at the first run) were good balanced to give an excellent game experience. It was even better after I installed the MoA in LD port because the first game was too laggy for me. The fight with the Legion took ages. You might consider to offer a DLC containing the MoA in LD port Mod. This could bring some extra costumers  REALLY Never the less, I'm as well one of these persons not liking Chigara as much but I think: Its her part of the story to be like she was: Kayto fell in "love" with Chigara right after Ava was rejecting him. I mean Chigara was always the girl who gave him comfort after a hard fight Ava wasn't able to give , so its clear why he fell for Chigara. However I think the main canon girl is still Ava, even though Asaga could also be the 'final'-girl. But I don't think Kayto has any romantic feelings for her so I bet on Ava. (Personally Asaga emoticon_asaga2_small or Icari would be my favorite (Icari clearly if she was a bit less Tsundere emoticon_icari2_small )) I'll try Starnova for sure, I mean you need money to go for a final arc of Sunrider, don't you? And I'm sure the novel will be interesting. I still haven't played the Academy of Sunrider so still some money to get from me  |
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Post by vincent on Sept 9, 2017 7:39:18 GMT -8
(My apologies if a similar thread already exists, my brief glances did not reveal one) After putting it off for far too long, I spent the last four days burning through LD & RE as one does with a jolly good book. Though I had my reservations with LD-the wave of Steam-based criticism from the early days of release still lingering in my mind- I gave it a fair chance. And it was a hell of a ride. The battles were full of tense moments, the revelations were appropriately shocking and the music to accompany it all could not have been more evocative. My three most memorable points, I think, were... 1) The final flight of the Sunrider. a desperate sprint under fire from everyone ending with a heroic collision course, it truly felt like the end of Shields' tragic journey.
2) The Liberation Day Massacre; I had entirely forgotten that this was going to happen. I actually found myself wholly anticipating the first gunshot right before it went off...but not from who was holding the gun. At the time I wondered if Lynn had somehow swapped places with Chigara a la SA, but 'twas not to be. Though the truth was far more intruiging and horrifying!
3) The identity of the Wanderer. This made me burst out laughing, though it also pleased me to know a tiny bit more about her, and to see her having a greater role in the story. RE, meanwhile, was a lovely (and much appreciated!) little side-tale of which I wish to spoil nowt, lest I cover the entire post in spoiler tags. Ultimately however, Asaga is best girl. That Claude ending, though. Marrrrrvelous.
A little disappointed there was no harem ending, unfortunately. And no love for Cosette either? For shame. All in all, an excellent tale well told. My largest thanks to the chaps at LiS for making the Sunrider series, and although I have doubts about obtaining Starnova-I dunno, idols have never really interested me-I thoroughly look forward to the next installment(s?) of the Sunrider saga. Ta! [MAJOR SPOILERS for LD in case anyone hasn't read it] While I do have to give the story credit where it's due and also how the story was improved somewhat after version 1.0. I already stated this in a thread I created but it's bringing up the second most memorable scene for you. I am still skeptic on whether or not it was Chigara or Lynn, while the extended cut did say Chigara on it along with the dialogue captions during the massacre, we also have to remember that during Sunrider Academy a very similar situation happened where the same two characters switched and they also had mixed up dialogue captions/tags, this also including that they were able to share memories and while knowing how the Mindstream was structured, something like this could have been possible. Among this, another reason why I am skeptical too is because Chigara was also stated to have not lived at Diode for long and also not holding any sort of noteworthy mastery of the technology there, this then leads me to not believe that she was the one fighting Alice in the mindstream since she wouldn't have been capable of fighting Alice within it due to it being Diodian Tech along with the fact that she had less experience with it, it's kind of a home-field sort of thing. I feel as if her character would also have no purpose to really do anything much more than fight Alice after, everything had been established at that point for her character to be finished while we were still scratching the surface into Lynn's Character. Plus the idea of Chigara and Lynn switching before the celebration would also add depth to Chigara's Character because it reflects the good side of her mindset along with it's flaws, being able to make what she would think is the right decision along with considering all circumstances of happening to her, but also not thinking of the one thing that was out of her control, which in the words of Sun-Tzu's Guide to victory, that would have been heaven. Heaven as the idea of the environment and or details of what was out of your control, she herself could not have controlled what Lynn would have done and it would just say so much more about Chigara's Character if she improved upon this rather than just dying and getting a personality switch for no reason at all after winning a fight in which she shouldn't have won. |
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Post by NewGuy on Sept 9, 2017 18:27:29 GMT -8
Sunrider Academy was the first visual novel I've ever played and honestly, i'm loving the series. I loved Ava's story arc in Academy and it has already become one of my favourite games of all time. I've always been more interested in a story rather than anything else but I've always stayed away from visual novels, thought i wouldn't have fun but oh boy was i wrong. I've already finished all the arcs in Academy, finished MoA and just finished Liberation Day's main story, just [RE]TURN left, i'll be starting that soon. Sola and Ava are definitely my favourite characters, I love how cold Ava seems but deep down, you know she actually cares for Kayto, her arc was honestly beautiful. Just like netharspinos, i'm not so sure about Nova singers but after all these great stories, i'm sure it'll be a great game as well so i'll be buying it when it comes out. Really looking forward to the next chapter in the Sunrider series. Thank you all for making such a great game and story  |
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