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Vertigo, you are bloody awesome genius!

While there are characters I personally dislike (no, not Jun, btw), I totally immersed in the story line. Damn it, instead of making one more VN to click-and-relax without using brain and perception, the certain extremely cruel personage did made it more interesting and readable than most of modern WNs. The pun is accidental just ignore it).

The small things like the mimics of characters during the dialogs... The clues and foreshadows.... Nagisa's "riddles", different speaking styles for different persons, when you, as far as I understand, are not native English speaker...

However ....

I really, really, REALLY, adverse to ask this, but. Can it be that appearing of 71st hamster (the one I expect between the one in store room and one during tea time with Uraha) depends on choices made before meeting with Emica?

I had re-played the last update (27.1) more than 50 times for now (few times for each choice option), but still this hamster is the only one of 72 that I've not caught yet, damn it!

VertigoAVN1 year ago

Well, howdy there. Thanks a lot for this, it's the bit of positive reinforcement I needed today. :)

Not Jun? That's a rarity. I'm glad to hear it, though. Too many people hate on poor little Jun.
I'm really glad to hear that you enjoy CH for what it is. :)

That's correct. I'm German and English is my second language. I do try to make sure that the characters all have individual voices - as far as that is possible in writing, at least.

Ahh, yeah. I assume you didn't have Yui as an option during the choice? She's only available there, if you took the panties early in the game.

Thanks again for your kind words!

DarthLaran1 year ago

Ghm... well, interesting, I have a feeling that I've taken them, but if you say so, I should assume that that had been during the other run. Not like I am really against the full replay ) Looks like I should properly delete all game data and restart hamster hunting too.

About Jun ... well, she is not my favorite one, but she is tolerable one. How should I say... I still have some (naive) hopes for her. I mean if some reasonable and kind person with virtue of patience and talent for teaching (so definitely not me) spent a few years to hammer the common sense and the way to keep herself together into her, she'll have a chance for good life. Otherwise ... Behavioural disorders are quite shitty thing for person itself in the first place.

However, the valley girl is incurable diagnosis if you take what I mean.

Speaking about "voices" - any plans to use more Irish (Scotts ?) for Morrigan and Ori? It is quite weird that Gan Ceann speaks the Queens's English, isn't it ?

Anyway, I am on my way to full replay now))

VertigoAVN1 year ago (1 edit)

If you didn't have Yui as an option, then yeah, it was the other run. :P
Going for a full replay including hamsters is something alright! Have fun with it. :)

Well, I'm not gonna take anything away in regards to Jun but she'll be fine. That much I can tell you. :)

Not a fan of Miri, huh? That's too bad. She's such an adorable girl. But I do get that she's not for everyone.

The thing with Morrigan (and Kuro) is that they mostly break out the accents when they're drunk - Morrigan more so than Kuro. It's a bit of a weird compromise but technically they don't speak English but Japanese and I decided that going with "plain" English for that works well enough unless they get drunk and bust out the accent. If you think about it too hard, it doesn't make much sense, but that's kinda what happens when a German guy makes an English game, set in Japan, with a character from Ireland that speaks Japanese, which is actually English because of the audience and a significant lack of proficiency in the Japanese language on the German guy's part. You get all sorts of weird stuff, lol. I hope you're able to follow that weirdly convoluted sentence up there.
But yeah, anyway. That's why Morrigan and Ori speak normal "English" most of the time. :P

DarthLaran1 year ago(+1)

The main issue with another run is that I, obviously, don't remember the exact choices I've made before and, being impressed by this issue with Yui I am not sure that I'll be able to make proper choices to get the full collection of hamsters this time. ))

The valley girls/guys are the kin I dislike the most and try to avoid to deal with at any costs IRL, you see. While I admit that she has her role and her character is rather suitable to this role, I can't help but distaste.

I did followed your sentence. And it gives me opportunity to be curious: what were/are your reasons to settle them in Japan? I mean I do know that they are in Japan from story, but I don't feel any Japanese vibe from it at all.

VertigoAVN1 year ago

Heh, don't worry. Most hamsters aren't locked behind choices and you should be able to find them just fine. It's only 2-3 that are, I think.
If you want a guide for your search, feel free to join the Discord - there's a list of hints for all of the hamsters on there.

I understand. We all have our dislikes and there's not much to be done about it. It's fine. :)

Eh, CH playing in Japan is based on some early misconception on my part, mostly. Same with CH playing in a "school" and being named accordingly, to be honest. CH being my first project of this kind had me make all kinds of mistakes early on that I now know better. Any future project will (hopefully) profit from my learning experiences here, though.

DarthLaran1 year ago(+1)

Hey, don't be Spaßverderber and suggest the reading of the walkthrough! )) If I read that will not be the hunt but a lazy stroll.

About Japan and "school", well with some stretching you can say that story about supernatural school girls is pseudo-Japanese one, but only for the ones who know about the Japanese culture by anime, manga and that ilk.

And now I am starting to think about list of completely non-Japanese things ... no, you don't want to read it)

Anyway, Crimson High is really awesome , so don't take this tediousness from evil me seriously.

VertigoAVN1 year ago

Thank you, I appreciate it, friend. :)

DarthLaran1 year ago

BTW, it looks like a minor bug, but still. During the checking phone messages in the Dragon-lady's guest room, one can check the messages from valley girl infinitely. Is it a bug or one more cruel play from you?)

VertigoAVN1 year ago (1 edit)

I assume you went with "No" for whether to answer her or not? If so, then it's on purpose to give people the option to go back and answer her. Might as well change it though, since it makes only limited sense given that rollback is a thing. Thanks for bringing it up. :)

Same goes for answering her if you haven't gotten her "special massage" early on. I'll change both.

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