Otowa, a city once razed by a devastating earthquake and the resultant fires.
A beautiful European cityscape now marks the present, as if it were from a fairy tale; almost as if to mask the memories of that calamity…
Prologue: A beginning of the story “ef - a fairy tale of the two.”
The night before Christmas.
A man visited a church in Otowa.
He was to fulfill a promise made in the distant past.
A woman greeted him.
The two of them calmly talked about their bygone days.
“Each step of life would be taken together.”
“That was what we thought.”
“But then…”
“Our hands drifted apart, yet they arrived here through unique paths.”
What happened in the time they were separated?
They were there to find out.
The girl said,
“It was during this time, one year ago.
Those doors opened, and he wandered in from the cold. It was a lone young man.
A part of him resembled you… Yes, there was a pining essence within.
That may be why I acted the way I did.
For a short time, I thought I would involve myself in his fairy tale.”
Chapter 1: Otowa - Winter
Hiro Hirono is not only a full-time student, but also a professional shoujo manga artist. On the night of Christmas Eve, he happened upon two women.
The first, Yuuko Amamiya, was a mysterious lady who continued to wait for someone at the church.
The other, Miyako Miyamura, was a girl who had her purse stolen and snatched Hiro’s bicycle to pursue the culprit.
This winter, Hiro will waver between his artistic dreams and the reality of school.
Upon seeing each other again at Otowa Collegiate, Miyako presented Hiro this question: “It’s all too much for one person. Can’t you just run away from it all?”
He will be charmed by the free-spirited Miyako, who is bound by nothing.
However, there is yet another girl with her eyes on him: Kei Shindou, whom he thinks of as a sister and a childhood friend.
This driven and confident girl, a starter of the basketball team despite her short stature, will try to show Hiro another path.
These students will coalesce within this idyllic school life.
Their relationships will be taken a step further, yet what has tied them together is about to become hopelessly tangled.
The choice between dreams and reality…
His heart torn between two girls…
Hiro must find a single solution for these two conflicts.
Chapter 2: Otowa - Summer
Half a year after the events of the first chapter, the passage of time brings both new relationships and the birth of a new tale.
The girl who became hurt by the events at the conclusion of winter met a young man named Kyousuke Tsutsumi.
A cameraman in the film club, he was usually rather aloof, but the objective view passing through his lens didn’t overlook a fairy tale that hadn’t quite seen its finale.
Hiro Hirono had grown since the first chapter, and Yuuko Amamiya was still waiting.
While watching over everyone, she took it upon herself to take action once more.
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So by your "Shut up,MG’s works is perfect ever ¬¬" sentence crap, you're actually complimenting the group who "fans-translated" the visual novel.
because the old fantranslated version was excellent
It´s about time for more games.
if i could use proper japanese, i would give a shit of learning proper english to translate it into english, simple reason, i prefer my native language.
so, be more friendly with the translators, even if its not 100% perfect english, be happy to not learn japanese.
ill check back soon
Will Seed :)
after you've finished, you cant'see either the cg collection, or the movie opening, or the BGM collection.
You can finally see them in ef - First tale.
so please help, or tell me what I need to do to get the game to work.
I used the torrent link dl and I know Iv'e install it properly.
Little help?
the crack really doesn't work
1. Download the game for any of the mirrors provided. I downloaded the one broken down in the numerous parts, but I assume the contents are the same regardless.
2. There should be one big file if you downloaded it via torrent or one click. If, like me, you downloaded the 11 parts, it should be the same regardless: Just extract the files into any folder. I would recommend using Win rar as there is a 30day free trial and it automatically extracts ALL the files so you just need to click extract once.
3. When you get the extracted fines, there should be 3 folders \Crack\ \Font\ And \Setup\. For get the other 2 files for now- For get the font one in general, as far as I can tell, it has no purpose. Still, it might be important to the game, that I'm trying to say is don't fuck with it. Go into Setup and click, well, setup. It will try to install itself, just follow the instructions and install it where ever you like, just make sure you remember where, the installed folder is important. It will ask you for an activation code, but forget that, you don't need to worry about it. I'll explain in the next part.
4. Remember where you put that installed folder? Good. Now the last part is real simple. The ef_first_en.exe (Don't sweat if it doesn't say exe, that's not important, don't do anything stupid like trying to rename it) in that folder will ask you for a activation code, right? That sure is a predicament right? Well, If you disobeyed my instructions and checked each folder regardless, You should already know there's one in the crack file! If you didn't, good boy/girl, 10 points for following instructions, and now you know regardless. Anyway, like I said, real simple. Just take the copy of the game in the crack folder and replace it, (i.e copy it in) to the where ever you installed the game! To clarify, what you need to do is move the copy of the game in your CRACK folder to the folder with the copy of the game that ask for an activation code! Got it? If not, read over what I said, cause I'm not saying it again.
And there you have it~! Hope this was helpful to anyone who is confused~ To be honest a guy in the comments explained it to me, I just took what he said and made it a littler easier to understand~ Enjoy the game!!! ^_^
it awesomely helpful for me
is this the first one?
it awesomely helpful for me
Thanks
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OK, so I've played maybe two dozen VNs by now, and it bothers me that this VN has such a good reputation. Sure the art is nice but the story and characters make me downright angry.
Especially Miyako and Hiro, the first heroine path and protagonist. Midway through the first half of the game, Miyako reveals an ugly side so ugly, and does something so unforgivable, it had me actually cursing the bitch outright. That wouldn't have been a problem if we were able to make Hiro do the right thing and dump her, possibly also spit in her face. But Hiro just forgives her, despite possibly doing the worst thing she could have possibly done to his pseudo-sister and long time best friend.
As a result, I have to completely flunk the story of Miyako - 0/10. GARBAGE. It's a childish story of jealousy, pettiness, bitch teens and other shitty little things that makes you wonder why the developers wanted to tell such a daft little story about awful people.
Kei's story makes it almost worth it, the way she is able to get back her confidence after public humiliation and the scum she is surrounded by. But it's somewhat soiled by the second protagonist's weak/ flimsy motivation to get involved with her. 6/10.
This has me annoyed as all hell, and I'm in no rush to play the second "tale". This is like the VN version of Twilight. Utterly reprehensible - a story for small minds. If you're a sociopath you might enjoy it.
Overall story: 2.5/10.
Characters: 2/10
Music: 7/10
Art: 8/10
Translation: 9/10
Total verdict: 4.5/10
you see the crack shortcut?... copy it then go to Local disk C proram FILES Minori(Note:I just written the default location on my pc, but just look for the file location of Ef) then click the ef file then paste the crack there....
The executable is exactly the same as official one you get by buying the game from Mangagamer (minus DRM component ofc). If in doubt, you can send the .exe sample to your antivirus vendor, who will manually verify it and update their database to whitelist it.