Arkham city is a bustling hub of commerce and industry, however Arkham is also a center of eldrich lore: home to Miskatonic University, an institution of higher learning with one of the most complete libraries of arcane literature in the world. In the span of two generations the town was built up to the status of prestige it now commands, an expansion helmed by the Hadou Group, an industrial complex and family dynasty currently run by the young Hadou Ruri. She pursues the peace and prosperity of Arkham diligently, against the forces of darkness threatening to plunge the city, and the world, back into a second dark age. Among the most sinister threats to Arkham City is the evil Black Lodge syndicate. Led by the charismatic Master Therion, his nihilistic outlook shapes the group’s destructive goals: with a circle of powerful sorcerers at his command, the potential for sowing chaos in the city is unmatched.
Former Miskatonic University Magic Academy student Daijuuji Kurou knows little of grimoires, but what he does know terrifies him - enough that he left his university life behind, and now practices a failing detective business in the shelter of an orphanage in a quiet corner of Arkham. But just when he thought his Academy past was buried, it catches up with him and pulls him back into the dark shadows of the occult: Hadou Ruri herself appears at his door with an offer he can’t refuse. The only way to combat the Black Lodge’s growing magical power is to find, and retrieve, a grimoire with the power to activate the mightiest Machina of all: Demonbane. The quest to find this forbidden tome will change Kurou’s destiny… forever.
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I'm just giving you suggestions since i don't have this game... yet.
I'm using CCCP, what exactly are the settings I'm looking for?
The game freezes up my computer
thats where is the crack!
just open the iso!
I finished the game one time and guess what I discovered? I didn't even get 25% of CG
it looks like I have to play it over and over,
The story is awesome full of plot twists and interesting characters,the H content is strange (some sizes are abnormal) also the scenes are randomly voiced -some parts aren't voiced- but there is enough voice,I only got like 40% of H scenes with my first play.
(I don't know if I was lucky or not,but no main character got raped maybe with a replay there will be one rape scene atleast)
These are some advices: while skipping go to window mode,full screen may cause a crash -it will happen-
the music is awesome don't desactivate it.
first off - a long game (at least judging by my standards and experiences of VNs, maybe they're skewed). I believe there are something like 13 or 14 chapters in total, so be prepared for that. If you're looking through the walk-through, be warned that some chapters will have multiple choices in them (especially the earlier ones) which is how I set my expectations in terms of pace, and then you can go multiple chapters without a single choice.
second off - the H scenes are... disproportionate and relatively few compared to the length of the game. They're not that good either to be honest, but that's just personal conjecture. Almost all of them either bordered on or were the embodiment of sadism, which in a game that develops its characters as strongly as this one is a bit disheartening. Then again the overall motif of the game is quite dark so maybe that's just a part of it. Towards the end I gave up on the H scenes and just played it for the story.
third off - like others have said, the beginning of the game is somewhat slow, and seems more like every other VN that I've encountered - you have choices, but everything has its set limitations/boundaries. The second half of the game just explodes in terms of thought required to grasp the concepts happening in the game, which is no less than I would expect from a game based on the Lovecraftian mythos. The twists and turns further lend to the intricacy of the story, which I am grateful for. I started this off as a mere curiosity, however by chapter 6 or 7 is really drew me in and I was genuinely interested/intrigued in what would happen next. Overall story really picked up speed and held my attention.
fourth off - the game can get quite dark. There are no explicit guro or vore scenes shown, however there are many allusions made towards that subject matter. Again, this game is based on Lovecraft's universe so if it wasn't dark I'd be worried, and it does a good job of portraying the primal instincts of insanity and fear in the characters/story (especially so in some of the bad endings).
Overall:
Story - first half: 6/10, second half: 9/10
Music - 9/10 (it's very intricate/mood-dependent, I would recommend listening to it during the game)
CG (non-H) - 9/10 (great settings and artwork in general)
CG (H) - 3/10 (seriously what's up with these?)
Takeli-li
June 13, 2011 at 2:21 pm
PC version has voices only in h-scenes, prologue and epilogue. Rest of game is unvoiced if you don’t use that patch."
Does this mean that, if, whenever I come across a H-scene, I switch the voice.npa file to the PC version, I will be able to get H-scene voices?
Is anyone up to solving this issue? I'm using Firefox at present.
There is no option in the CONFIG to go fullscreen
I'm like 15 hours in, and I've yet to find any main character I wouldn't feel the desire to punch if they were real.
Still hoping it gets better but I'm not too hopeful.
It's seriously irritating.
Because I have a PS3 and I THOUGHT (and the fuckers at Target TOLD ME) I got a backwards compatible one...I DID NOT. And they said "If you get a PS3, you're selling your PS2...so I had to...so I said goodbye to Ace Combat...goodbye to Xenosaga (ALL THREE GAMES)...goodbye to .hack//G.U. (which I got lucky and they remade, thank Christ.)...goodbye to Skies of Arcadia...goodbye to all the good games I grew up with...it was a sad day...still haven't found a good emulator (WHICH WORKS CORRECTLY) to emulate all these on...so I'm still salty about Bamco REFUSING to remake Xenosaga (and instead they give a big ol' FUCK YOU to fans of it and shove Kos-Mos into Xenoblade Chronicles 2 as a fucking extra...LOW BLOW, NAMCO-BANDAI.) And the PS2 version of the game was actually homemade...I had my friend mirror the data from the CD-Rom version and then re-map controls, re-work code, and then burn it onto a PS2 NTSC-U disc.
start the game -> press F / richtclick -> fullscreen