Microsoft Flight Simulator did not arrive today, but it is in the country, according to tracking, and it has also left Heathrow. I'm hoping that means it will be here tomorrow. In the meantime, I've installed my new SSD ready for that 150GB monster and am looking forward to a few pleasure flights.
In the meantime, I polished off Nurse Love Addiction tonight, and am very much feeling like I picked the "best" order for the routes. I mean, chances are I'd feel that way regardless of the order I picked them because you end up with the same total amount of information, but wrapping things up with the wholesome ending provided by Kaede, played by Asami Imai, very much felt like the best possible conclusion to everything that had come before. More on that… possibly on Thursday over on MoeGamer.
You may also have seen that I've set up a dedicated Visual Novels page on MoeGamer. Since I'm writing about my experiences with the things I'm reading, and these are ending up as multi-part features, I figured I might as well collect all the specifically visual novel-related features together in one place so people can easily access them. This includes both specific Cover Game features that happen to be on VNs, and stuff like my recent coverage of Nurse Love Addiction.
I like writing about visual novels, as it brings back fond memories of English studies in an earlier life. Yes, I was one of those weirdoes who actually enjoyed writing essays for the most part, both at school and onwards into university. I don't necessarily go into an article about a visual novel with a particular hypothesis or "title" in mind in the same way that one would with an academic essay, but my thought process while writing often ends up feeling the same way. Whatever the specifics of it, I enjoy it.
And while said articles may well "spoil" the story (in the same way an essay about a work of fiction "spoils" that narrative by necessity), I find that writing about what I've just experienced is a good way to process everything. I found Itsuki's route in Nurse Love Addiction a whole lot more striking after writing about it helped me figure out a few things, for example!
I think my VN articles are probably the clearest example of why I never regard what I'm doing on MoeGamer as "writing reviews". I'm not there to offer a buyer's guide or say whether or not something is "good"; I'm there to explore the things that I personally found interesting, and to analyse them in depth. Hopefully they're interesting to those who have no intention of or who are unable to experience the original media, and also provide some food for thought for those who have experienced the narratives themselves. And for those who don't worry about "spoilers" — such people do exist, I know a few — perhaps these writeups might also convince them to explore some of these narratives and experience the emotions therein firsthand, because doing so is very different to just reading about them.
Anyway, I'm rambling. Should probably hit the hay. Fingers crossed that I'll be able to take to the skies tomorrow evening!
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