Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 8:25 am
Yurika Good Ending! ^_^
Okay, so it's a fact that I'm not into fantasy. And yes, the bits when the elven culture was explained were moving slow for me, but little did that matter, because I found that at heart this was a romantic game. And after a while (in the last third of the game) I even accepted the surroundings and I guess the old rule came into effect that it doesn't matter where you are but who you are with. And so on my first playthrough, I got the good ending with Yurika and couldn't be happier.
Uff, but where are my manners. First of all, congratulations on finishing - and shame on you for finishing, you've completed a project that was 4 years in development, now our wisecrack words that long-time-in-dev projects are doomed are useless! ^_^ Well, myths are made to be broken, and congrats on having the willpower and motivation to pick this project up and see it finished - I can only imagine how great that must feel. And maybe our days will be wonderful some time as well ^_^.
This was a long game, too. Worked very well with the character graphics, their variety and also the CGs (a lot of them, actually). I appreciated the effort that was put into even kind of embed them into the photographs and scenes to make them more naturally connected to the game, that worked well. The music had varied sound quality, but it worked for me perfectly. The only thing that took me getting used to was the nature of the BGs - not because they combined photos and 3D and at times it felt a little inconsistent in style, not because at times the surroundings were described so vividly, that I wished there was an extra background to show how it looks, but because at times the perspective wasn't all that spot-on. It's actually relatively easy to adjust to it, since the perspective isn't terribly wrong, but I'm personally very sensitive to it.
Nevermind, the game got me hooked from start to finish and that felt great, I haven't been so immersed for a very, very long time, and if I'd have to highlight just one thing besides the wonderful childhood memory picture, it would be the unveiling and slowly progressing romantic development. It just fitted my taste perfectly, and thank you again for bringing this game to us, it was really great. You really kept us waiting so long, and it was such a surprise for me to see the name Elven Relations on the completed games list, I thought you were working on something completely different and I felt like one of the very old chapters of this community's history was pulled out and closed (ah, the memories). Send regards to SunKitten, her style has changed, but it still has the warmth that was so nice to see in Selena.
Congratulations again. I'm not very keen on having a RPG-ish battle sequence in there, but you do as you like For me, this VN-only version will most probably stay the memorable one.
As for including it in the RAA, I assume the permission is given since I saw it in the readme.
Okay, so it's a fact that I'm not into fantasy. And yes, the bits when the elven culture was explained were moving slow for me, but little did that matter, because I found that at heart this was a romantic game. And after a while (in the last third of the game) I even accepted the surroundings and I guess the old rule came into effect that it doesn't matter where you are but who you are with. And so on my first playthrough, I got the good ending with Yurika and couldn't be happier.
Uff, but where are my manners. First of all, congratulations on finishing - and shame on you for finishing, you've completed a project that was 4 years in development, now our wisecrack words that long-time-in-dev projects are doomed are useless! ^_^ Well, myths are made to be broken, and congrats on having the willpower and motivation to pick this project up and see it finished - I can only imagine how great that must feel. And maybe our days will be wonderful some time as well ^_^.
This was a long game, too. Worked very well with the character graphics, their variety and also the CGs (a lot of them, actually). I appreciated the effort that was put into even kind of embed them into the photographs and scenes to make them more naturally connected to the game, that worked well. The music had varied sound quality, but it worked for me perfectly. The only thing that took me getting used to was the nature of the BGs - not because they combined photos and 3D and at times it felt a little inconsistent in style, not because at times the surroundings were described so vividly, that I wished there was an extra background to show how it looks, but because at times the perspective wasn't all that spot-on. It's actually relatively easy to adjust to it, since the perspective isn't terribly wrong, but I'm personally very sensitive to it.
Nevermind, the game got me hooked from start to finish and that felt great, I haven't been so immersed for a very, very long time, and if I'd have to highlight just one thing besides the wonderful childhood memory picture, it would be the unveiling and slowly progressing romantic development. It just fitted my taste perfectly, and thank you again for bringing this game to us, it was really great. You really kept us waiting so long, and it was such a surprise for me to see the name Elven Relations on the completed games list, I thought you were working on something completely different and I felt like one of the very old chapters of this community's history was pulled out and closed (ah, the memories). Send regards to SunKitten, her style has changed, but it still has the warmth that was so nice to see in Selena.
Congratulations again. I'm not very keen on having a RPG-ish battle sequence in there, but you do as you like For me, this VN-only version will most probably stay the memorable one.
As for including it in the RAA, I assume the permission is given since I saw it in the readme.