May 1, 1945- Germany.On the eve of Berlin’s collapse, a group of men and women carried out a certain ritual. To them, suffering defeat in the war meant nothing. If anything, the countless lives lost in the battle served as a catalyst to their sacrificial ceremony. Whether or not their attempt bore fruit ― not a soul knows. Following the war, they faded from sight, mind, and eventually into the realm of myth.
61 years later ― Japan, 2006.
Ren Fujii, a young man attending high school in Suwahara City, finds his friendship with his old buddy Shirou Yusa shatter to pieces following a certain incident, ending in a vicious fight that sees Ren hospitalized for two months.
The season shifts from autumn to winter ― to the dawning weeks of December, with Christmas on the horizon. Having lost his best friend, Ren leaves the hospital with the intention to rebuild his new life without Shirou.
But even that plan soon falls apart. Irrationality that defies the realm of common sense begins to assault and devour the city. Abnormalities soon seek to destroy everything Ren holds dear before his eyes with overwhelming violence.
He must change, even if it means crossing the boundary between the ordinary and the extraordinary. His desires are hardly anything grand. All he wants is to return to those days of old. Back to those days filled with simple, everyday joy.
The battle with the Longinus Dreizehn Orden. A continuation of that war full of madness, carnage, and maledictions. What future awaits Ren at the end of his road…?
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I heard that you don't need to clear a route when playing the paid mangagamer version to unlock the +18 version. You can directly play the +18 version right away from the start.
On the Dies Irae kickstarter, an R18 patch was released. Is that patch compatible with this?
1. Download the R18 patch from the Dies Irae Kickstarter (there's one available to non-backers) and put it into the main installation folder
*if you run the fabula exe, it won't work
2. Find the Amantes Amentes 100% save file from a website called sagaoz
3. Place cgmode.dat, global.dat, and read.dat from the save folder you downloaded into the save folder located user/appdata/roaming/light/dies irae ~amantes amentes~/save
*there will probably cgmode.dat, global.dat, and read.dat already in there, so take those and put it somewhere safe in case you want to revert it.
The fabula exe should work now and you can experience the 18+ version without having going through the steam version first
Also, most of the time the villains are just sitting around trying to have "intelligent conversations" were they will say the same thing 10 times but in synonymous fancy pants terms, and it just gets annoying. It's like the writer sat there with a thesaurus and a monocle in his eye thinking he's hot shit.
The final nail in the coffin was how each character has like 5 different names/nicknames/street names, you keep having to scroll down the character list in VNDB to know who the fuck was just mentioned. Add to this how the names are usually German and hard to read, it gets even more fun.
If you like easy stuff, Shinza Bansho (Dies and VNs from the same franchise) ain't for you