A Flatlining Love Life - Let's Play Fading Hearts! [Mercy-Killed]

[trancehime]

my brain is melting

for fuck's sake. even ZYX Studio writing is fucking better than this trash. you know. the people who made fucking "Lightning Warrior Raidy" and made two more games in a goddamn SERIES

at least those games didn't TRY to hide that they were shameless and gratuitous excuses for sex!

holy hell!

for the record, it would be nakigeemu and not nakageemu which is more like "friendly game"

[Tengukami]

Thinking about the "story" last night, I'm pretty sure Alex is the creator's self-insert/wish fullfilment. I mean he goes on and on about the stats-building-heavy dating sim he would create ... within a VN that clearly put more attention to detail in stats building than actual plot. Alex is also a PUA, what every Nice Guy hates, fears, but secretly wants to be.

[Iced Fairy]

Thinking about the "story" last night, I'm pretty sure Alex is the creator's self-insert/wish fullfilment. I mean he goes on and on about the stats-building-heavy dating sim he would create ... within a VN that clearly put more attention to detail in stats building than actual plot. Alex is also a PUA, what every Nice Guy hates, fears, but secretly wants to be.

Yeah I noticed that too.  "The flaw in VNs is they don't add more numbers like my VN does!"*

And I'm sure one could write an entire treatise on how Nice Guys and PUAs both consider women to be soulless robots who react like a computer to social inputs, and how this can make VNs really really creepy, but for now I'll simply say "Ew."

*Stats are terrible and one of the reasons ESR isn't done.  I regret every day adding stats to the game, and the huge waste of potential and time they turned out to be.  Then again I suppose stats is all this game has going for it.

[trancehime]

*Stats are terrible and one of the reasons ESR isn't done.  I regret every day adding stats to the game, and the huge waste of potential and time they turned out to be.  Then again I suppose stats is all this game has going for it.

I don't know, man.

I mean Tokimemo's foundations are built on stats and that's a mammoth of a dating sim/VN series as you could get using stats.

It's just all about the execution. Of which this has none.

[Shizumarashi Mayuzumi]

idk this game might be somewhere around Tokimemo 3-tier. :V

[trancehime]

idk this game might be somewhere around Tokimemo 3-tier. :V

worse

easily

And I was more talking about the general success rate compared to isolated cases like that one...

[Shizumarashi Mayuzumi]

And I was more talking about the general success rate compared to isolated cases like that one...

Yeah I know it just seemed like a good chance to make a crack about tokimemo3. :V

[FinnKaenbyou]

OK I know it's awfully early to say this, but I think I'm going to have to kill this off.

I've played a lot of bad visual novels in my time, but Fading Hearts takes the cake in every aspect. The art is questionable, the music is either droll or absent, and the story makes me sick to my stomach. This is a game which I have been making explicit efforts to avoid playing, doing anything and everything that comes to mind in order to do anything other than this. It is causing me genuine anger and frustration - not even comical annoyance like in House or the lighter parts of Cafe 0, but actual genuine 'the world is a worse place for this game existing' anger. In short I'm just not having FUN with this LP, and even if people are enjoying it I don't want to put myself through such an ordeal every time I want to crack out an update.

I got this feeling in the final update of Cafe 0 and the last quarter of MGitP. I only finished those two LPs because I was so close to the end I felt I should finish the job; when I've got ten endings of this thing ahead of me and pretty much the entire game left to go, I have absolutely no desire to keep going.

Apologies to people who've been hoping for more of this. I am already forcing myself to keep going, and it's really going to show in what I produce. No-one wants that, so I figured ending it now before things got horrible would be for the best.

tl;dr fuck this game, worst $15 I've ever spent

[Hello Purvis]

It's all good, my friend.

Here is are some Jamaican Mice to make it all better:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7Tc8C6qZ3c

[Jq1790]

Hey, you're the one who was trying to amuse US.  If you're not having fun, there's absolutely no reason to continue with it.  I wish you luck in finding a better VN next time.

[Edible]

When your lampooning of the game is literally the only redeeming feature of the game, it's probably time to move on.

[Tengukami]

Rou you are a brave soul for even making it this far. As much fun as it's been for us to snark from the sidelines, you're the one who's had to slog through all this. Totally understandable.

*tips fedora*

[Yookie]

Was fun reading this so far but it really helps noone if it physically pains you to do this.
May you have good luck on potential future adventures.

[Raikaria]

So..., the best moment of this game is the uninstallation? Right?

Revel in it.

Then laugh at every 'positive' review of this garbage on Steam.

[LadyScarlet]

Well, I understand. As much as I liked reading this, there's no reason to continue an LP if you're not having fun with it.
Good job on making it this far nonetheless. Hope you find a better VN.

[trancehime]

theres 10 endings in this fucking piece of garbage?

nobody wants you to kill yourself playing this stupid piece of shit

why the fuck does this game even cost 15 bucks anyway

goddamn

[Garlyle]

>Too shitty to continue

wow

wooow

wooooooooooooow

that's... wow

[hyorinryu]

>Too shitty to continue

wow

wooow

wooooooooooooow

that's... wow

Considering he finished Cafe Zero, that's really saying something. I'm tempted to google to see how bad it is, though going by what I've seen so far, I can guess.

[Garlyle]

Considering he finished Cafe Zero, that's really saying something. I'm tempted to google to see how bad it is, though going by what I've seen so far, I can guess.

I am so incredibly curious

not nearly curious enough to actually buy it but at the same time I really do want to know just how bad it gets if you find it let me know

[FinnKaenbyou]

OK, for those interested I can at least drop a few spoilers on how things WOULD have gone if I'd continued. Obviously huge spoilers abound but so if for some bizarre reason you want to play this game yourself you should look away now.

- Letting Claire suffer in her relationship causes her to become a dark magical girl. She tries to kill you, and either you kill her yourself or Mystica saves you. Either way Claire dies and the plot continues without her [at least until you crash into another bad end].
- Rina is Mystica [big surprise]. Luckily Ryou learns magic at some random point so you can team up with her to fight the source of the shadow demons.
- In Rina's bad ending you go on a trip to Japan along with Claire and Alex, and while you're away TRIDENT CITY EXPLODES, killing Rina. In another ending where you've killed everyone who could have stopped it, the shadow monsters overrun the city and leave Ryou as the sole survivor.
- Player, the mysterious pick-up artist Ryou made a deal with? It's Tracy, aka the maid from the cosplay cafe.
- Sophia is actually your DESTINED WAIFU because you two were totally a couple in your former incarnations. Unfortunately for whatever reason Sophia gets killed off in every single route and there's no way to save her. So!

I'm looking desperately for something small and simple to LP as a palette-cleanser. Right now I've got a couple of candidates so we'll see where things go from here.

[Raikaria]

What.

*Head explodes*

This is so stupid.

And what are the good endings? Are there only two actual GOOD END routes or something :/

[Garlyle]

- Player, the mysterious pick-up artist Ryou made a deal with? It's Tracy, aka the maid from the cosplay cafe.

okay this was actually slightly redeeming compared to it being alex

that's a very slight thing though compared to all the other argh

please play Magical Diary
no wait better yet Long Live The Queen

[trancehime]

http://www.twinfinite.net/2014/02/12/fading-hearts-review-best-meh-visual-novel-year/

i'm sorry but what?

"Most of the characters are written fairly well."

"Nor is he a Mary Sue, but his self-awareness and periodic tappings on the Fourth Wall are refreshing."

"Indeed, Fading Hearts has its fair bit of the epic as well as kitchen sink romantic drama." (>epic)

"Looking at the game technically, there isn?t much to praise aside from the artwork which has a unique, pleasing style of vibrant colors. Music is so-so, with no memorable moments. The writing itself is good, although there are enough errors to be noticeable and at times annoying."

Did Rou and this reviewer even play the same game

EDIT: This video shows footage of the game in its unedited original state, something which managed to melt Rou's poor brain further. It wouldn't be fair if I only subjected it on him.

[Yookie]

I usually just overlook grammar-mistakes or typing-errors but this is really over the top.
And the music is even less fitting than I thought.
Something else though: I misread "Mystica" as "Mystia" for the first two times or so the name appeared. :V

[Tengukami]

- Sophia is actually your DESTINED WAIFU because you two were totally a couple in your former incarnations. Unfortunately for whatever reason Sophia gets killed off in every single route and there's no way to save her.

Well, guess I can put this down to a "must miss". Though I suppose it makes sense in a VN with this much edge that any route with your true love would end in tragedy.

Wish I could recommend other VNs to blast through, but I'm sure something will turn up. Hopefully something slightly more coherent, like a VN based on Naked Lunch or something.

[trancehime]

Something else though: I misread "Mystica" as "Mystia" for the first two times or so the name appeared. :V

Let me just say you aren't the only one.

Well, guess I can put this down to a "must miss". Though I suppose it makes sense in a VN with this much edge that any route with your true love would end in tragedy.

I must say I agree with Rou in saying the world is a worse place with this game. And I still can't believe there are people who think this game is actually decent.