Narcissu, a free visual novel

[Somebody'sPet]

First off, sorry if I haven't been in here in awhile. I've been very busy finishing up college, which I have now graduated and I'm currently taking three months off. I tried working with Cox communications, but they're mostly offering field work. You know outside work, such as climbing telephone poles and so on. I prefer to sit at a desk myself(beats the heck out of working in the heat).

Anyways, I was surfing around on the web one day and I came across something that was very interesting to me that I want to share with you guys. Its what you call a visual novel, not a graphic novel, a visual novel. They're extremely popular in Japan and across Asia. They're also beginning to create a big stir in the west as well. Narcissu is a 100 percent free visual novel and professional done too. It has excellent Japanese voice acting(its subbed, so don't worry), and great storytelling. The only problem is that I don't know If it would be technically appropriate for the christian audience. It does not contain any nudity or sex scenes whatsoever. It just the ending, that christians might find alittle bit odd. The program is 89mbs in size, and may or may not run properly on you machine. It runs fine on my 2.8ghz machine.

The article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissu

Main site to download it from
http://narcissu.insani.org/index.html

[Kumagoro]

Is it a dating simulation or just a regular novel-type story? So far, I think the only visual novels that've been translated over here have been dating sims. Check out:

http://www.hirameki-int.com/

Out of all of these, the only one I've played is Animundi. I like it, but as a word of warning it's shounen ai.

[Somebody'sPet]

Is it a dating simulation or just a regular novel-type story? So far, I think the only visual novels that've been translated over here have been dating sims. Check out:

http://www.hirameki-int.com/

Out of all of these, the only one I've played is Animundi. I like it, but as a word of warning it's shounen ai.

Narcissu is strictly a visual novel Kumagoro, but not the "choose your own adventure" type. Oh, since you know about hirameki international, you wouldn't have by any chance checked out Phantom of the Inferno? I enjoyed that one alot too.

Oh, they have another great free one that I just checked out the other day too. Its called Kira-snowdrop-. It every bit as good a Narcissu and only 16mb(they count the file size down by not having voice acting, but its still good). The only thing is that you need bittorrent or something that can download torrents.

http://altogether.insani.org/2005/resources/index/phase02-kira.html

[Kumagoro]

Oh, since you know about hirameki international, you wouldn't have by any chance checked out Phantom of the Inferno?

I've heard it's the best game they have on the market, but I havn't seen it in stores and my parents won't let me buy things on the internet, so that option's out. Have you played Hourglass of Summer? I've heard that one's pretty good, too.

[Somebody'sPet]

I've heard it's the best game they have on the market, but I havn't seen it in stores and my parents won't let me buy things on the internet, so that option's out. Have you played Hourglass of Summer? I've heard that one's pretty good, too.

I don't blame your parents for not letting you buy things over the web. My dad and myself try to avoid doing that at all cost. We have Phantom and Hourglass of summer at a local suncoast here in the mall of louisiana. It took suncoast forever to get phantom and even longer to get hourglass. Believe it or not Kumagoro, the visual novel genre is actually doing well in the west, alot better than what some people were expecting. I have played through Phantom and few times and loved it. The storying and voice acting is just flat-out excellent, and its a CYOA(choose your own adventure), so you can keep the story going until it reaches the "true" ending.

I hope you get a chance to check out Narcissu and Kira-snowdrop- soon.