GOODBYE SASUGASUGOI

Hello, folks. This is sasugasugoi speaking for the last time. After long hours of thinking, I came to a conclusion that I should shut down this blog, if my university schedule would allow me, temporarily. If my schedule serves me right, I might be able to come back by April again. I will not take down the blog so you can continue to see the tutorials as much as you need to but I will no longer be able to answer your queries, unlike before. I have already started to be inactive anyway, might as well be stably inactive for the mean time. 

To my partner Black Angel, thank you for all the help you've given me and the readers so far. I take my hat off for you and bow down. You deserve a cookie *hands cookie*

*Accepts cookie and hands you an entire cake in return, for you deserve it* Thank you sasugasugoi for this wonderful experience, I can honestly say I enjoyed working on this blog with you. It's sad that the blog is shut down, but I look forward to your next projects! Keep me updated! And I'll be more than glad to continue to help if you decide to reopen this blog. 

To everyone, thank you for staying this long. Even when I started to be inactive, I could still see that people still drops by everyday. This blog usually gets a 150-300 pageviews daily. Thank you for that, even when I just fail your expectations by not giving you new worthy updates. 

Until we meet again, everyone! Bye!


P.S: If I come back, I will start including BL games in the tutorials. Get ready just in case, fujoshis, though I'm sure you don't need my help anyway. Just to impart something personal, here is a skecth drawn by one of my friends, colored by another and hindered by me. XD This is our chibi version. I'm the black cat anyway. 

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Nowhere Safe: Unintended Silence

            Nowhere Safe: Unintended Silence is developed by redpandastudios or VisualNovelGames. com. This is not an otome game but meh, whatever. Once again, I'll let their site do the talking: complete info here.  Maybe it was just my glitchy internet connection but I can't seem to connect to their site. Looks like it's back now ヾ(´･ ･｀｡)ノ”

          
SYNOPSIS: 
         Kimiko Yui has been unable to leave her house for over ten years. When her daughter comes down with a mysterious mental illness that requires a chaperone at school, Kimiko finds herself more desperate than ever to conquer her agoraphobia once and for all.

- 5 different endings- One bonus ending- Lots of choices- Robust soundtrack

TITLE: Nowhere Safe: Unintended Silence
DEVELOPERS: Red Panda Studios / VisualNovelGames.com
GAME LENGTH: Short (2 - 10 hours)
http://vndb.org/v12577

REVIEW:

           Target Audience: Once again, they present us a 16+ game. Be careful in playing this. This really isn't meant for innocent ones. I mean, if I was a newbie to a visual novel game and I chanced upon this immediately, I would probably be scarred. It's not an innocent vn for an innocent reader. 

           Story: Too dark. It's a short visual novel full of heavy drama and psychology. I have nothing against dark plots. On the contrary, I love them. However, this visual novel needs a comic relief to balance the heavy plot. If it's too heavy, there would be no emotional climate for the readers to enjoy since the tone is pretty deep already and just gets deeper without something in the script to pull it up. On the other hand, I commend the use of psychology in the plot. It's a new taste in the visual novel stories we get. It's very emotional and realistic. I really love it since it had me on the edge of my seat during the whole playing!

           Characters: I don't like the characters. Except for Naoki. I mean, let's face it. All of them are pretty messed up in their own ways. Kimiko (main protagonist) is too damaged, paranoid/lashing and weak-willed to be a decent protagonist. I mean, sure, she had a pretty bad experience but it's been ten years. Buck up, woman! Kento is a bit blank at times. Like, there's really no significance in him being there. Yes, it's nice meeting you there but we can live without you.  ( ´_ゝ｀) Aya the friend is pathetic. If you and another female's chest bump while talking, you wouldn't find it immediately strange or take notice of anything that resembles sexual harassment. Get your mind out of the gutter, girl. Kazumi is just evil. There's no hope for her. Dr. Hamasaki is just too asdfghjkl to describe. Dr. Bento (or whatever) is just plain stupid. Who the hell spanks a child with problems in a therapeutic session? You still have the guts to ask for the bill? Argh. I could sue you for child abuse! Naoki is the only normal here. (●´∀｀●)

           CG/Art: Of course, it's cute. Lightly colored for a dark plot. I laughed a lot when Kento is down to his boxers. What? He looks cute for a prickly guy. I lol'ed when Naoki decided to visit Kimiko in boxers and singlet too. Kimiko was like, "Wow, I can't help but think that's a really intense outfit...". Are you freaking serious, woman? Naoki just showed up in his underwear and that's your reaction? Seriously, woman, you're like a hermit. Unfortunately, we don't have CG which would surely make things more interesting.

           Music: A nice soundtrack to accompany the story. It's high quality with no noise to grate your ears! Unfortunately, we always get to hear the dark and suspicious music. The light-hearted ones are just used to the neutral scenes, just something to keep the scene from being in mute mode.  

           Setting: Because our heroine is agoraphobic, we just went around the house. Which is the probably the point of the novel. 

           Difficulty Level/Gameplay: The options are really hard to choose from because they absolutely feel the same. It's not a type of difficult that is really puzzling but for me, it's because there's just not enough clues for me to get by. The plot is one of a kind and unpredictable since it tackles a human mind. Hell knows how random their minds get. The options are a wild jump in the lake. To get through this, you need to think of a particular approach. This is not an otome game wherein you have to understand the obtainable guy's attitude or personality. In here, you have to think about your action and the consequences it will cause the people around you since this is quite the psychology game. If you blindly choose, you're really lost.

           Screenshots:

Welcome onna. Let's meet in Canberra. Just make it in four days. 

I'm about to leave here (*´・ｖ・)

Should I give you some hardcore BL (Boys' Love) visual novel made by Nitro+chiral like Togainu no Chi? I'm sure you'll change your mind. （=｀〜´=）

Woah, Kazumi. What happened to you? You were a loli not so long ago! 

Hella growth ( ꒪Д꒪)ノ

Really, Kimiko, really? He turned up in his underwear! （￣□￣；）

Oh so that's how Kimiko looks like. ヽ（・＿・；)ノ

All in all, it's a nice game worth trying. If you're looking for a silly otome game, wrong place. This is too mature for that. If you're in for a psycho-deep story, ride on board!

DOWNLOAD LINKS:

Just give them a visit and a hello!
 http://visualnovelgames.com/Nowhere-Safe2.html
          

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Maaan, trouble trouble~

Relevance to this picture? None. I just think it's nice. ( >w< )

Black Angel is very busy in real life right now. We can't proceed with the goodie we want to give all of you.
Without her cooperation, I'm pretty much dead right now.


On the other hand, I bring you good news!

I will update the Starry Sky ~in Spring~ Installation tutorial for Windows 7.

Win XP is obsolete nowadays anyway. Have to cope up. I might be also be doing a tutorial for Windows 8 when I managed to get an installer. Cheerio Windows users.

Sorry, Mac users.  I still have no intention of doing tutorials for Mac since I am seriously allergic to Apple and their products. They always make finding softwares completely complicated and costly. Sorry, I decided to lay my hands off them a long time ago. At the current flow of things, I don't see any reason to change my status quo.


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HAPPY ANNIVERSARY SASUGASUGOI BLOG!

Aw, thank you guys. I love you all! <--- Forever Alone

It's been  a year~

Last May 7, 2012, I created sasugasugoi.blogspot.com, a blog dedicated to helping otome gamers everywhere. We survived a year of struggling of uploading, making tutorials and answering/debugging everyone's concern. We had 54 899 page views since creation with an average of 150-300 pageviews per day from audiences from United States, Indonesia, Philippines, Russia, Australia, Canada, Malaysia, United Kingdom, Germany and France. Thank you for a year of interaction with us. Forgive our incompetence and we hope to do better this year. 

Our year's agenda is to upload all the otome games we possess to spread the otome game madness. 

Now, I mentioned in the previous update post that we have a goodie prepared for all of you. Too bad, we weren't able to make it on time. There's just two of us working on it after all. We'll just inform you in a few more days. We're actually busy in our real lives but we're trying to make it and we don't want it to be crappy. Sorry for raising your hopes like that.

Wish us luck! Please take care of us this year too~ 

Just some eye candies to make up for my incompetence. Stupid me.

This is "Free!", a new anime coming by July. Yum.

Since this is the currently airing otome game-turned-anime.
Brothers' Conflict will come soon.
Don't  worry dears.

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Otome game heroine second character design

Man, sorry for the inactive blog. We're currently busy having a life and making the otome game. Just to let you know, the script is not yet done. Frankly speaking, a lot of things are not yet being started yet. My irl partner went AWOL *huff*. Without contact, you can pretty much guess what happens. Note to all of us: Hang in there!

WE ARE APPROACHING THIS BLOG'S ANNIVERSARY! I can't believe that I really started all of this a year ago. We have a surprise goodie for all of you on this day! I hope Black Angel revives so we can prepare it. Just three more daysss :)


Here's a second heroine character design! (So you know that I'm not just having a life)

Another WIP (work-in-progress) but only minor finishings are left anyway.

Frankly speaking, I like this design better. You can compare the effort I spent compared to the other one. I mean, just look!

This is ridiculous right?

As for the male character designs, well, just wait. ;)

 Remember: THREE MORE DAYS UNTIL THE ANNIVERSARY~ ♥

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ASDFGHJKL---------!

OMFG. 

HERE IT IS, GIRLS! KYOTO ANIMATION HEARD US! 

NEW ANIME COMING! 

*drumroll*

Hello swim bros. We meet again. kyaaaa~

Kyoto Animation will reveal their next project on April 26 on 10:00 pm , of course their timezone. Niconico will stream the event so ready your bandwidths for a non-lag buffering video.

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Black Angel's Updates!

  

Konnichiwa minna!! Black Angel here!! I'm probably going to be inactive for the next week due to standardized tests and AP mock exams (ugh how I detest history) and what not, so I apologize if I answer your comments a bit late ^_^ for I am not as fortunate as sasugasugoi and I still have school for the next month *sigh but at least after that is the summer break which means a lot more free time to live my otaku life post on this blog!!! :D

                Also, you may have noticed that my Always Remember Me installation tutorial is unfortunately gone from this blog for piracy reasons since it's an English-made game and all, so sorry about that. However, if you do have any issues with getting the game, you could always email me for help ^_^. Hmmm, I really don't have anything else to say right now, if you have any questions and/or comments, feel free to leave them below! Ja ne!

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