Ah... this will be hard to go through without me sounding like a total nutcase.
So yes the MC is a human (logical reason given in-game that actually works) and there are nine love interests - 8 male, 1 female, all birds, plus the “no love interest” bad end, a bonus route and an epilogue. Only five of those routes have different ends (four are extended versions of those ends if you fit a certain criteria and all variants of all routes are needed to get the epilogue) and one is a game-over (you get no achievement for it and it isn’t required for the epilogue). The bonus route completely loses the idea of the game being a dating sim and is often one of the most praised parts of the series for giving depth and emotion to such a weird and zany world. It’s set in a school in Japan where the MC is the only human (and the only female, logical reason given) to be attending, and for the most part it’s just a cute parody game with intelligent birds being dumb but fully characterised in the process, but then it takes a turn for the (haha not saying spoilers) when the bonus route comes along.
As long as it's not weird just for the sake of being weird, I can get behind it. Since I finally have Steam, maybe I'll put it on my VN shortlist.
Above poster has this covered. You're a human and you date birds. It's less 'cloaca time' and more 'turns out there is more to this and it is rather depressing', though, which is the part that a lot of people don't get, and I think that part of it is that a lot of people think "VN/dating sim = porn"
I mean, some of them are, obviously, but it's kind of funny how the ones that are are worse for it (imo). I've only played two that had hentai in them, and wasn't able to finish either (one was an AU sequel to
Clannad,
Tomoyo Ever After, and the other was
Devil on the G-String, which was supposed to be good (and to be clear, the title is a reference to the classical music composition
Air on the G-String, not thongs)).
Oh yeah. Huge issue with a lot of stuff. As ever, I feel like NieR:Automata did this right, game-wise, but not much else in recent memory. If a plot doesn't screw pacing up, it'll screw something else up.
I need to hurry up and get that, then. I was debating between it and
Horizon Zero Dawn when they came out, but I got HZD because it was only $40 for some reason. And I still haven't played it.
anime is bad
edit: hello everyone
I mean, a lot of it is.
hi
hey good anime exists
gotta sift through a ton of trash though thats true
Like finding a needle in a haystack. Doesn't help that most of the community has dire tastes.
My sister can recommend a ton of anime (and also non-recommend quite few ehhhh ones), but since I’m more of a gamer I can recommend a solid two (three if you count my highly unpopular opinion that the Danganronpa anime is pretty good) anime that I have seen. One is Durarara (it’s a kind of slice-of-life... fantasy... gang story... thing... set in Ikebukuro) and The Devil is a Part-Timer (comedy about Satan working at McDonalds, while the hero destined to defeat him is forced to be an office worker or smthn like that). I haven’t really watched much else except Amnesia, and everyone knows my opinion on that one... (short version: the game is goddamn beautiful and amazing, the anime botched it completely minus the OVA, art style and soundtrack).
How does the order work for the Danganronpa anime? I want to watch it, and also play V3, but I'm honestly confused about what order to do them in (since it sounds like there are two anime seasons that occur simultaneously?). I've only played 1 and 2 (I don't want to play
Ultra Despair Girls if I can help it, 'cause it doesn't sound too good), and I'm not sure where to go next.
And on Amnesia, it's been my experience that most VN adaptations are terrible. I guess
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni was alright, but the VN doesn't give you choices and you just go straight through, which I think is the biggest issue in making them as an anime.
The two that I recommend are Revolutionary Girl Utena and Neon Genesis Evangelion. They're really interesting thematically and have pretty engaging narratives (Well Utena has weird bizarre episodes but-) they're two I actually really enjoy.
I used to be such an anime nerd but I don't remember the last time I sat down and watched anime
Yeah, if I were going to recommend an anime to some random person, I think NGE would top the list. Then probably
Death Note, or maybe
Code Geass. I also really like
End of Evangelion. Did they ever finish making the Rebuilds?
And I'm kind of the same way. I always bring up animes or games here, but I actually go through so little of them. Apparently my time management skills are so bad that I can't even waste time properly. Although with anime, since a lot of them are ~12 or ~25 episodes, at least they don't take that long once you actually get around to them.
I dunno if I could even recommend like over a hundred anime, but I constantly go out of my way to recommend CLANNAD any chance I get 'cause I still haven't let go of that naïve belief that CLANNAD is the go-to anime to feeling like a human being with a soul. Now that I got into One Piece, however, that's probably the most "I feel like a human being with a soul" anime I've ever seen (in the most positive, energetic aspect, anyway--yeah, still gotta get to the manga). But CLANNAD's always going to be the best romance in my opinion.
I know this is wildly unpopular, but I thought the
Clannad anime was garbage. I mean, to be fair, Nagisa's route in the VN was by far my least favorite, and it was the only one that the anime didn't go out of its way to butcher. So you were left with a lot of useless, undeveloped satellite characters in the anime, a directionless main character jumping around to random storylines unfeasibly, and then top it off with a wildly
deus ex machina ending (which to be fair, was also in the VN; but even there, it felt very tacked-on). I thought the world of the VN (for the most part...), so maybe I just don't like the way the anime compares, but... I dunno, I think it's just bad.
As for me, my favorite anime is probably
Ano Hana. I don't know if I'd necessarily recommend it, since people say it's overly melodramatic (which I can see, even if I don't exactly agree). I would recommend
My Teenage Romantic Comedy SNAFU (aka
As Expected, My Youth Romantic Comedy is Wrong). It's a dumb title either way, because it's not really a romcom that much, and it's more about how and why people interact with each other the way that they do. I feel like
Daily Lives of High School Boys is probably the funniest anime that I've watched, and then
Toradora! and
Cross Game are just solid all-around.
