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grvg

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Now that interest me. I love unlikable protagonists



I might play Chaos,Head this year but if I enjoy Chao;Head, I'll most likely play through Chaos;Child this year too

I'll be playing the rest of the Science Adventure Series for next year but for the Stein;Gate VNs, I'll wait on playing them until Stein;Gate Reboot comes out.

When it comes to Science Adventure VNs for next year: Robotics;NOTES and Anonymous Code are the ones I'm looking to play for 2025

But for this year I only played AI The Somnium Files (I hated the game, but the plot is fantastic) and Death Mark II (Loved the game)

And I'll be playing through Muv-Luv on Switch for this year

The main ones for the next couple of years

Gnosia
Aokana
Science Adventure (Playing some of these in 2025)
Ace Attorney (2025)
Muv-Luv Trilogy (2025)
Utawarerumono Trilogy (2025)
Death's End Re;Quest Duology (2025)
Another Code Recollection (2025)
TYPE-MOON's (All the ones that's been released here, also all 2025)
The Radical Dreamers (2025)
Ghost Trick Phantom Detective (2025)
The Fruit of Grisaia Trilogy (2025)
Clannad Series
Master Detective Archives Rain Code (2025)
Raging Loop
The Silver Case 2425
Tales From Toyotoki
Famicom Detective Club Series (2025)
Necrobarista Final Pour
Opus Echo of Starsong (2025)
A Space For The Unbound (2025)
Root Film
YU-NO A Girl Who Chants Love At The Bound Of This World
Slay The Princess (2025)
World End Economica
Bustafellows (2025)

If you like unlikeable protags, you'll love chaos head. That is quite the list you have there, you must be an avid reader! I'm all for hearing your feedback as you go through them.

I haven't forgotten your fata morgana suggestion, that's on my to do list - I've been on a sci Fi bender, trying to find the most brain melty stuff possible as I'm kinda into that.

Probably when I feel like absorbing some more dramatic tension inspiration I'll go through fata Morgana, but I've got sci;adv to do, as well as some, uh, paper novels? Maybe aegis rim, too (I know that one isn't exactly a vn though some people give it a vn pass) and then on to Fata Morgana.

Is fata morgana related to the fate series at all? I don't like looking up much on vns because any time I look up even basic info on a thing, somehow I find spoilers.
 

NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt

Biggest Trails Stan
If you like unlikeable protags, you'll love chaos head. That is quite the list you have there, you must be an avid reader! I'm all for hearing your feedback as you go through them.

Yeah I'm an avid reader. I read around 17 to 25 books every year. I read manga and comics too. When it comes to books though my main genres are Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror. But I try to read outside those three genres

I haven't forgotten your fata morgana suggestion, that's on my to do list - I've been on a sci Fi bender, trying to find the most brain melty stuff possible as I'm kinda into that.

I'm into anything when it comes to Visual Novels. So I might play Chaos;Head as my first VN next year

Probably when I feel like absorbing some more dramatic tension inspiration I'll go through fata Morgana, but I've got sci;adv to do, as well as some, uh, paper novels? Maybe aegis rim, too (I know that one isn't exactly a vn though some people give it a vn pass) and then on to Fata Morgana.

Aegis Rim was fantastic too and I consider that one to be a VN

Is fata morgana related to the fate series at all? I don't like looking up much on vns because any time I look up even basic info on a thing, somehow I find spoilers.

No Fata Morgana is not related to the Fate Universe at all. It's a Gothic Supernatural Romance. Also go for the true ending. It's a fantastic VN. It's my favorite VN for a reason. Also The OST is in my Top Ten OST of All Time. Listen with headphones on when you do get to play it
 

NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt

Biggest Trails Stan
Excellent! Did you use the committee of zero patch? If not, I recommend it - it dramatically improves the translation.

CoZ is apparently recommended for all of sci;adv, though I've only done chaos head

I've been playing the VN on Switch

Didn't know there was a fan patch for it though. So far the English Translation has been good
 

NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt

Biggest Trails Stan
grvg grvg

I'm Five hours in and Glasses Otaku Girl finally revealed her true motives and thinks the MC is the Newgen Killer. I just got to Chapter 2. The MC talks about how he knew the bus he was supposed to be on was going to crash so he didn't go on that bus that day. His classmates got injured but I think noone died. He pretended to not talk just to spite his parents. He was misdiagnosed with PTSD. And with him being accused of being Shogun, he's says there's a possibility he might be Sleepwalking.

I'll be playing more later tonight but that's where I'm at

The story is good and I'm hoping it gets better. So far the twists are good and I'm invested in the story.

I think there's some cool visual effects. Whenever a person speaks you can see they animated their mouth. Whenever I'm back at my room on the computer chatting, there's sometimes a mixture of Dialogue Box and what being typed on the computer screen with Keyboard clicking sounds and showing what being said on the computer scene in the chat board

These are some really cool effects and they immerses me into the story even more
 
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grvg

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I'm Five hours in and Glasses Otaku Girl finally revealed her true motives and thinks the MC is the Newgen Killer. I just got to Chapter 2. The MC talks about how he knew the bus he was supposed to be on was going to crash so he didn't go on that bus that day. His classmates got injured but I think noone died. He pretended to not talk just to spite his parents. He was misdiagnosed with PTSD. And with him being accused of being Shogun, he's says there's a possibility he might be Sleepwalking.

I'll be playing more later tonight but that's where I'm at

The story is good and I'm hoping it gets better. So far the twists are good and I'm invested in the story.

I think there's some cool visual effects. Whenever a person speaks you can see they animated their mouth. Whenever I'm back at my room on the computer chatting, there's sometimes a mixture of Dialogue Box and what being typed on the computer screen with Keyboard clicking sounds and showing what being said on the computer scene in the chat board

These are some really cool effects and they immerses me into the story even more

The story is just getting started, haha. It is fantastic through and through and tbh the initially unlikeable main character thing never bothered me but it's a caveat I like to notify people of before they play it.

I appreciate you letting me know how you've enjoyed chapter 1, feel free to keep sharing - I absolutely love seeing what other people think about things as they go.

I'll probably expedite Fata Morgana and go for it in the next week or so :) I'll let you know how it goes.
 
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NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt

Biggest Trails Stan
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Got to Chapter 4



It's interesting how delusional the MC is. So I've been liking the Protag alot. I think the Pink Hair Girl is hot as fuck. Also there's been four murders now. MC buys a fake sword and has a mental breakdown and than the hot pink hair chick comes and calms him down. He's hopefully not scared of her anymore since in his Delusion which might be real or fake he saw her crucifying someone

 

grvg

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Got to Chapter 4



It's interesting how delusional the MC is. So I've been liking the Protag alot. I think the Pink Hair Girl is hot as fuck. Also there's been four murders now. MC buys a fake sword and has a mental breakdown and than the hot pink hair chick comes and calms him down. He's hopefully not scared of her anymore since in his Delusion which might be real or fake he saw her crucifying someone

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Yeah, Rimi is best girl, though there is a very close second for me. Its amazing how absolutely nutshit and also dumb the main character is, but they do an AMAZING job at keeping you second guessing. Some of his delusions are obviously delusional, but then some of it is pretty reasonably not delusional, and some of it is factually happening. The amount of "what the fuck is going on" pressure is unparallelled lmao.

I still haven't 100%ed Chaos Head because I don't like how it handles going through routes, but hopefully I can finish by this weekend. I actually started Steins;Gate on a whim (Ive just finished watching the anime with my wife, who hates vidya and most media but gets into a good scifi story every year or so) and couldn't resist seeing how the VM is compared to the anime. Unfortunately, Ill be pushing Fata Morgana back, but it is still on my to do list!

Im really excited to see what you think of the chapters moving on, as you've really moved into the meat and potatoes of chaos head as opposed to intro stuff lol. It is a huge shame that the anime is apparently terrible, as I would love to introduce more people to it. It is peak paranoid fiction, and a few other genre buzzwords I could throw around. It is really inspiring.
 

NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt

Biggest Trails Stan
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Yeah, Rimi is best girl, though there is a very close second for me. Its amazing how absolutely nutshit and also dumb the main character is, but they do an AMAZING job at keeping you second guessing. Some of his delusions are obviously delusional, but then some of it is pretty reasonably not delusional, and some of it is factually happening. The amount of "what the fuck is going on" pressure is unparallelled lmao.

I still haven't 100%ed Chaos Head because I don't like how it handles going through routes, but hopefully I can finish by this weekend. I actually started Steins;Gate on a whim (Ive just finished watching the anime with my wife, who hates vidya and most media but gets into a good scifi story every year or so) and couldn't resist seeing how the VM is compared to the anime. Unfortunately, Ill be pushing Fata Morgana back, but it is still on my to do list!

Im really excited to see what you think of the chapters moving on, as you've really moved into the meat and potatoes of chaos head as opposed to intro stuff lol. It is a huge shame that the anime is apparently terrible, as I would love to introduce more people to it. It is peak paranoid fiction, and a few other genre buzzwords I could throw around. It is really inspiring.

Got to Chapter 6 in Chaos;Head Noah

I'm a little into Chapter 6



And Earthquake strikes Shibuya. Plot is getting good too. Lot of stuff is finally revealed during Chapter 4 and Chapter 5. The fifth NewGen Murder happens where a guys brain is taken out, he's basically brain dead but his heart is still beating. The guy dies from malnourishment due to needing the brain to fully function. The short hair girl finally explains to the MC what exactly a Delusion is which makes the MC wonder if the bus crash is his fault since he might have just thought it and that it wasn't a seeing into the future ability he has. Aldo the old man Detective is following this lead on a weird theory where Shubuya had a weird gravitational effect and that tends to effect people mentally, he compares it to how there's more crime under a full moon. The story is getting darker but I've been enjoying it. BTW I like the MC but when he whine, his Japanese Voice Actor did a good job annoying me

Also I think there's something up with Rimi. She's Serial Killer Nice



I'm going to be 💯 this game
 

grvg

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I had to turn off the voice acting since the MC whining grated on my nerves 👀

Haha! I unitonically never actually listen to voice acting in vns, I cruise through it at the speed of my, erm, reading speed, and completely tune out voice acting besidesnthe generalities of their voice.

Even In vidya with English voice actors, I get annoyed if I can't skip spoke dialogue and just read it

But I can imagine listening to like 20+ hours of *fearful stuttering* would be sanity destroying

What chapter are you in? I wanna say something but can't until I know where you are lmao
 

NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt

Biggest Trails Stan
Haha! I unitonically never actually listen to voice acting in vns, I cruise through it at the speed of my, erm, reading speed, and completely tune out voice acting besidesnthe generalities of their voice.

Even In vidya with English voice actors, I get annoyed if I can't skip spoke dialogue and just read it

But I can imagine listening to like 20+ hours of *fearful stuttering* would be sanity destroying

What chapter are you in? I wanna say something but can't until I know where you are lmao

I'm on Chapter 7 still

His classmates are calling him a fake psychic
 

NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt

Biggest Trails Stan
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Got to Chapter 8. I think I'm about halfway through it. I'm at the part where MC starts to read his essay he wrote as a kid. It was title Whose Eyes Are Those

After I finished that scene I stopped playing for the day. I'll be reading more tommorow. I know the VN only has ten chapters, so I'm almost done with the Common Route and will immediately start going into the True Ending Route as soon as that opens up
 

NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt

Biggest Trails Stan
grvg grvg

I just got to Chapter 9 and Chapter 8 was a banger regarding twists


MC being a Delusion himself

Yua having a twin sister who was one of the murder victims of the first NewGen Murder

Finding out that Sena Dad experimented on her Mom and finding out what her dad did to her mom was Dark and Disturbing. I can understand why Sena wants to kill him



Question how many Visual Novels have read so far?
 

grvg

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grvg grvg

I just got to Chapter 9 and Chapter 8 was a banger regarding twists


MC being a Delusion himself

Yua having a twin sister who was one of the murder victims of the first NewGen Murder

Finding out that Sena Dad experimented on her Mom and finding out what her dad did to her mom was Dark and Disturbing. I can understand why Sena wants to kill him



Question how many Visual Novels have read so far?

I've read Slay the Princess, the Muv Luv trilogy, and Chaos;Head.

I didn't even really know what visual novels were until muv luv, I had seen people post about it on /v/ and snagged it when humble bundle put out a muv luv bundle. Then I started looking into the medium more because I like reading with background music.

It's a shame, things like amazon Kindles could really open an opportunity for something like that. Light novels with illustrations and music?

It seems like you've been reading vns for a while, eh? Ironically, (because we've ended up taking a good bit and because of your, uh, tagline or flavor text or whatever that is called, I'm newish to forums as well) right as I started getting into vns, I also decided to do a trails run through, though life circumstances have made traditional Vidya into a luxury that I really don't have much time for any more
 

Thick Thighs Save Lives

NeoGAF's Physical Games Advocate Extraordinaire
ToHeart remake launches next year in Japan on PC and Switch. Hopefully, it will come to the West too after that.

As one of Aquaplus’ flagship titles, ToHeart gained popularity as a school romance story adventure game. It has been expanded to various forms of media, including a TV anime, and a sequel was also released. Today, a newly reborn ToHeart with characters rendered in full 3D was formally unveiled.


Screenshots:

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Aquaplus has also announced the revival of Jasmine, a visual novel first announced in 2011 before being canceled in 2015. Platforms and a release date were not announced.

The game’s staff includes:
  • Script: Yuuichi Suzumoto
  • Character Design: Hisashi Kawata
Here is the first visual, which is the same visual released at the time of the game’s original announcement in 2011:

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NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt

Biggest Trails Stan
I've read Slay the Princess, the Muv Luv trilogy, and Chaos;Head.

Slay The Princess is for next year

If I'm able to, I might play the first Muv Love Visual Novel this year but I know for sure if I end up not playing the first Visual Novel this year, I will be playing all the Muv-Luv Visual Novels for 2025

I'm still on Chapter Nine on Chao;Head Noah. So far it's really good and I kind of figured out a certain twist that was coming Ban partner being part of the Secret Society and Muwa ends up shooting Ban

I'm just gonna to finish the Common Route before my physical for Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake comes in the mail this Thursday. Once I'm done with DQIII HD-2D Remake, I'm going back to Chaos;Head Noah and doing all the routes since when I play Visual Novels I try to get all the good and best routes. I never go for any of the bad ending routes

I didn't even really know what visual novels were until muv luv, I had seen people post about it on /v/ and snagged it when humble bundle put out a muv luv bundle. Then I started looking into the medium more because I like reading with background music.

I got the Trilogy on Switch. But I have another version on Steam too. Reason why I was saying before the company that made the Muv-Luv Trilogy on Switch should have released a Version of Muv-Luv that had every Visual Novel and DLC and just sell it for 60 to 70 bucks

It's a shame, things like amazon Kindles could really open an opportunity for something like that. Light novels with illustrations and music?

I prefer reading physical books but I read alot more on my kindle since it saves space. Also being able to highlight a word and finding out the definition is a cool and helpful feature

It seems like you've been reading vns for a while, eh? Ironically, (because we've ended up taking a good bit and because of your, uh, tagline or flavor text or whatever that is called, I'm newish to forums as well) right as I started getting into vns, I also decided to do a trails run through, though life circumstances have made traditional Vidya into a luxury that I really don't have much time for any more

Yeah when it comes to Videogame Franchise, Falcom Trails Series is my Number One Favorite Videogame Franchise

Also these are the Ranking so far of all the Visual Novels I have played so far

Rating

The House In Fata Morgana: A+
Zero Escape Trilogy: A
13 Sentinels Aegis Rim: A
Chaos;HEAD NOAH: A (Ongoing)
Danganronpa: A
Death Mark II: A-
Danganronpa II: B+
Spirit Hunter Death Mark: B+
Spirit Hunter NG: B+
Danganronpa III: D
AI The Somnium Files: F

That's my current rating for Chaos;Head Noah, I'm not sure if I'm going lower it or if the grade will stay the same after I actually get through all the routes I want to get through
 

Magister

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I got through Chaos;Head Noah Common Route. It was fantastic despite the bad official English Translation
You should play Chaos;Child next. I heard that it is even better. Or you could try playing entire science;adventure series by release order.

I recently got Chaos:Head Noah on a Steam sale and I'm excited to play it with a fan patch after I finish Zero Escape 2 and 3. I also own Chaos;Child, but I just decided to wait for ;Head's official English release before playing it.

This year I got a lot of VNs, including the entire Muv Luv series that I got from Humble Bundle and Ace Attorney trilogy. I played the original AA games 12 years ago and they made me fall in love with visual novel-style storytelling and English. I bought them on Switch to refresh my memory because I forgot most of the plot.
 
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NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt

Biggest Trails Stan
You should play Chaos;Child next. I heard that it is even better. Or you could try playing entire science;adventure series by release order.

I recently got Chaos:Head Noah on a Steam sale and I'm excited to play it with a fan patch after I finish Zero Escape 2 and 3. I also own Chaos;Child, but I just decided to wait for ;Head's official English release before playing it.

This year I got a lot of VNs, including the entire Muv Luv series that I got from Humble Bundle and Ace Attorney trilogy. I played the original AA games 12 years ago and they made me fall in love with visual novel-style storytelling and English. I bought them on Switch to refresh my memory because I forgot most of the plot.

Yeah I have all the Science Adventure VNs on Switch. I hate to double dip. But after I'm fully done with all of Chaos;Head Routes I'll be playing the rest of the Science Adventure Series next year. I'm also waiting on Stein;Gate Reboot instead of playing Stein;Gate ELITE

I'm going back to Chaos;Head Noah once I finish Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake
 

grvg

Member
You should play Chaos;Child next. I heard that it is even better. Or you could try playing entire science;adventure series by release order.

I recently got Chaos:Head Noah on a Steam sale and I'm excited to play it with a fan patch after I finish Zero Escape 2 and 3. I also own Chaos;Child, but I just decided to wait for ;Head's official English release before playing it.

This year I got a lot of VNs, including the entire Muv Luv series that I got from Humble Bundle and Ace Attorney trilogy. I played the original AA games 12 years ago and they made me fall in love with visual novel-style storytelling and English. I bought them on Switch to refresh my memory because I forgot most of the plot.

You're gonna have a good time with Muv Luv! (though the first entry can be a bit grating)

I'm eager to start chaos child, though I'll wait till the steam winter sale to snag it. sci;adv is phenomenal, truly some of the best scifi storytelling I've seen.
 
To be honest, I liked the first Muv Luv. It's Alternative the one I'm having trouble finishing. Yeah, it's a legendary game and all the jazz, but it's SSSSSSLOW as molasses and loves flooding the player with exposition.

In comparison, I found FMD Muramasa much more engaging.
 

grvg

Member
To be honest, I liked the first Muv Luv. It's Alternative the one I'm having trouble finishing. Yeah, it's a legendary game and all the jazz, but it's SSSSSSLOW as molasses and loves flooding the player with exposition.

In comparison, I found FMD Muramasa much more engaging.
Yeah, I think exposition tolerance is a thing that should be discussed more with alternative. A lot of the game is discussing things like the number of arms that the mechs have, what actually constitutes an arm, and the weight distribution of the arms lol. Then it goes into crippling angst, etc.

Have you gotten to that one part of it yet? That's where it really impressed me. If you don't know you haven't gotten there, and don't look at anything to see if you have.

I can go into deeper critique of it - because I do have my critiques of it - but it's hard to without getting into spoiler town.

Honestly the justapostipn between extra being a silly moege and my knowing sort of where the plot goes in later installments was really interesting. I enjoyed thinking about what could happen and pondering extras plot with a bit of "anticipatory sorrow", and spent a bit of time wondering why other installments were called photonflowers and photonmeloodies.

Sorry for grammatical errors and run on sentences.
 
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Yeah, I think exposition tolerance is a thing that should be discussed more with alternative. A lot of the game is discussing things like the number of arms that the mechs have, what actually constitutes an arm, and the weight distribution of the arms lol. Then it goes into crippling angst, etc.

Have you gotten to that one part of it yet? That's where it really impressed me. If you don't know you haven't gotten there, and don't look at anything to see if you have.

I can go into deeper critique of it - because I do have my critiques of it - but it's hard to without getting into spoiler town.

Honestly the justapostipn between extra being a silly moege and my knowing sort of where the plot goes in later installments was really interesting. I enjoyed thinking about what could happen and pondering extras plot with a bit of "anticipatory sorrow", and spent a bit of time wondering why other installments were called photonflowers and photonmeloodies.

Sorry for grammatical errors and run on sentences.
I'm close to the end (The attack on the Hive using Sumika) and I agree that the action sequences are super engaging. As per that moment (I take you are referring to the CHOMP? I had it spoiled so it unfortunately didn't surprise me. Maybe that's the reason I found Takeru's PTSD stint more annoying than anything. He went from "I can't do it!" to "I must pull myself together" like five times and finally got over it thanks to hypnosis and drugs. Which is realistic I guess...

Also, and please note that I generally don't mind this at all, the way Muv-Luv handles the "Japan saves the day" trope kind of bugs me because it's subtle and pervasive. I can't quite put my finger on why - it's not like individual foreigners are dumb or useless or evil. It's more like there's a certain critique of every nation save for Japan and an "Imperial Japan must stand alone" undertone. Again, this generally doesn't bug me at all - Muramasa has a bit of the same and I felt it was perfect thematically speaking. But in Muv-Luv it feels... frivolous?

Don't get me wrong, it's a five star visual novel. The characters are top notch, the worldbuilding is great and so is the setting. It's just that I feel the way it develops is kinda boring and "tropey" in a bad way.

But hey it gave us Attack on Titan!
 

Thick Thighs Save Lives

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Just saw this news from Gematsu that Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club: TOKIMEKI Roadmap will also release on Steam next year alongside the Switch version. 👀

Visual novel game Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club: TOKIMEKI Roadmap to the Future will launch for PC via Steam alongside its previously announced Switch version on April 24, 2025, publisher Bushiroad Games and developer HuneX announced.

 

Thick Thighs Save Lives

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More classic VNs getting remastered.

Deets via Gematsu:
MAGES. has announced remastered versions of science-fiction suspense visual novels Ever 17: The Out of Infinity and Never 7: The End of Infinity for PlayStation 4, Switch, and PC (Steam). Both titles will be released digitally on March 6, 2025 in Japan and Asia, with the PC version being published by Spike Chunsoft. An “Ever 17 / Never 7 Double Pack” for Switch will also be available, which includes both games on one cartridge. It will support English, Japanese, and Traditional Chinees language options (in Asia, at least).
The “Ever 17 / Never 7 Double Pack” will be available in standard and limited editions. The standard edition will be priced at 7,480 yen, while the limited edition will cost 9,680 yen. The latter includes the “Ever 17 / Never 7 Sound Collection” DVD-ROM, which features 31 songs from Ever 17: The Out of Infinity and 24 songs from Never 7: The End of Infinity, which can be extracted as mp3 and FLAC files.


 
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