I was going to reread this vn on my phone but it says that the app is not compatible with my phone. Im using a Samsung Galaxy A15 running on Android 14. What can i do so that i can read this on my phone?
Follow-up to a post I made a few days ago further down this page:
I played this a week ago and lost my mind. It turns out I made a bad decision, of the 3 times you get to make one, and it gave me an uncertain and astronomically sad ending. I was torn apart by the thought "it's not fair" because I thought that was it. It was just over.
But I played it again and made different decisions. Good ones. I cried again when I got to see....
X
---SPOILERS---
X
...the future. I missed it. I didn't know if we got a life with Amicus. I didn't know that we got to see him. For me, this past week has just been filled with a hole in my heart at the idea that we never got closure and tonight, I got it. Finding out that we DO, in fact, complete the mission and spend the rest of our lives with Amicus... I'm so glad I played again. I'm so sad I missed it the first time.
X
---END SPOILERS---
X
Over the past week, I've dreamed about Amicus every single night, for real. I've never had a piece of media grip me by the throat like this. I don't know how to describe it. It's just a story. It's a fictional, alien wolf that kidnaps the reader who then goes through all kinds of traumatic events with tough characters and an exaggerated atmosphere.
But it just feels so honest.
I don't know if Howly ever comes through these posts but if they do, and they're reading this, then thank you for sharing your story.
It's somehow changed how I think about a lot of things and while I'm still unpacking why, navigating through what this story means to me, just know that your passion has invoked emotions in so many people. I'm sure you know it, but many folks are looking forward to more!
I know that I'm only going to be able to read through the story so many more times before I move on, but I don't want to move on. I feel like a part of me will hurt without Amicus. SOOOOOO I ordered a small poster of him and I'm gonna have it framed for the wall next to my desk LMAO gotta keep him close. I won't miss him if he's never gone.
I think that the art in this game is genuinely incredible and does a flawless job painting the world and locations that the player will see as they play the game. The music is subtle but greatly contributes to the atmosphere and brings some life to a VN which can easy become boring if too silent. I also think that the story told within can be deeply impactful to the right person and bring them joy, comfort, or a deep sense of longing.
I, however, do not like this game. Art and music are not things I am well educated on so I don't wish to criticize them and I do feel that they work incredibly well for this story, but it is the story that I greatly dislike.
Like many visual novels the goal is that you take the role of the protagonist and in this one that holds true as it places you in the role of a student visiting Rome for a time before you are kidnapped by a bara space wolf and shenanigans ensue.
I do not like any of these characters, least of all the main one. Amicus is agonizing to deal with as he slowly pushes past barriers set by the main character until he is doing the very thing he promised he wouldn't. The rest all have their own flaws and issues that you'd best play the game to fully understand.
The main character, default name Marco, is an idiot. For being a history student I've never seen anyone so doomed to make idiotic mistakes. His real flaw, though, is being too much of a person. This is present too in the fact that you can really only make about three choices in the game. Marco being his own person means that I cannot play the protagonist unless I choose to play Marco. I am not a history student, I do not enjoy being kidnapped and forced against my will to act in degrading ways, I least of all would be as weak willed as Marco to play along and rather fight tooth and nail for everything.
In that way the game loses me. I am not like Marco and so I cannot be him, least of all am I the kind of person to actually think like him and so my disconnect in the game grew.
This culminated at the end where god descends from the heavens and tells Marco that he and Amicus are a fated pair and that together they can stop the evil darkness from conquering their galaxy. You can, of course, refuse, but the game pouts and tells you that you die and how tragic if only you had done as you are told, in truth Marco is not the kind of person to resist so it makes sense. If you say yes and let the gods make the choices for you, you get the happily ever after that I'm sure many people wish they could have in their own lives.
I'm not that kind of person as I've stated so I am most dissatisfied with these events and further still I strongly dislike Amicus. For breaking every promise, for pushing every boundary, for being a pitiful fool who thinks that one can rule a kingdom on strength alone. In a way the story is exceptional as it writes a person I can dislike into existence.
You might wonder, if you've read this far, why I'd rate a game I dislike so strongly, so highly. Simple, because I think that while I dislike the characters, I dislike the story, I dislike how it ends, it made me dislike it. It did so fairly and on it's own merit, it pulled no punches and did not try to appeal to me. In that way I know this game is not for me, it is for others.
I have colored the game as I saw it when I played it, I imagine it is likely that when you play it it will be much different, but play it. I don't think it was a waste of my time, The devs had something to say and they said it. I don't like it, but that doesn't mean it will be that way for everyone. I might play more Echo Project games in the future, hopefully I like them more, but regardless I imagine they will be as well made as this one.
If I was younger and read this. I would have been hooked into being a furry way faster. I'm 36 now and have a different perspective in life now reading it.
Overall i absolutely loved it. Amicus does play a predictable role for most of it and messes up surprisingly. Other characters all have motives which most are revealed and others still seem hidden.
In the end section I completely disagree with the relationship built and the lack of communication needed to really bond these characters. Having a relationship of being alone and only to kiss your loved one in the morning to have them returned exhausted for MONTHS, to then LEAVE FOR 8 YEARS. They needed to have much bigger conversations. I would have loved to have seen adult conversations what we face as we grow. HOW can we make this relationship work, How can we show affection, how do we date the one we love. Amicus is rightfully so taken to his duties. Leaving Marco alone for months with only 1 person to really converse with? I have been in a relationship for 10 years. These things need to be addressed or they build up.
Story up to the climax 10/10, story afterwards is a bit toxic for what is asked and hard to swallow. They use magic to foreshadowing the future and maybe it's enough? I am hoping for more in the future, maybe a comic, short vignettes, slice of life.
It has been a while since a story has left me with a silent warming sadness, a dull mixture of joy, love, bitter sadness and yearning. Happy pride month!
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me encanto el juego es super gay y rico
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I was going to reread this vn on my phone but it says that the app is not compatible with my phone. Im using a Samsung Galaxy A15 running on Android 14. What can i do so that i can read this on my phone?
This is genuinely one of the BEST VNs i've read in a while, post adastra depression hits hard though, so thanks for that, Echo
Follow-up to a post I made a few days ago further down this page:
I played this a week ago and lost my mind. It turns out I made a bad decision, of the 3 times you get to make one, and it gave me an uncertain and astronomically sad ending. I was torn apart by the thought "it's not fair" because I thought that was it. It was just over.
But I played it again and made different decisions. Good ones. I cried again when I got to see....
X
---SPOILERS---
X
...the future. I missed it. I didn't know if we got a life with Amicus. I didn't know that we got to see him. For me, this past week has just been filled with a hole in my heart at the idea that we never got closure and tonight, I got it. Finding out that we DO, in fact, complete the mission and spend the rest of our lives with Amicus... I'm so glad I played again. I'm so sad I missed it the first time.
X
---END SPOILERS---
X
Over the past week, I've dreamed about Amicus every single night, for real. I've never had a piece of media grip me by the throat like this. I don't know how to describe it. It's just a story. It's a fictional, alien wolf that kidnaps the reader who then goes through all kinds of traumatic events with tough characters and an exaggerated atmosphere.
But it just feels so honest.
I don't know if Howly ever comes through these posts but if they do, and they're reading this, then thank you for sharing your story.
It's somehow changed how I think about a lot of things and while I'm still unpacking why, navigating through what this story means to me, just know that your passion has invoked emotions in so many people. I'm sure you know it, but many folks are looking forward to more!
I know that I'm only going to be able to read through the story so many more times before I move on, but I don't want to move on. I feel like a part of me will hurt without Amicus. SOOOOOO I ordered a small poster of him and I'm gonna have it framed for the wall next to my desk LMAO gotta keep him close. I won't miss him if he's never gone.
To the stars!
I think that the art in this game is genuinely incredible and does a flawless job painting the world and locations that the player will see as they play the game. The music is subtle but greatly contributes to the atmosphere and brings some life to a VN which can easy become boring if too silent. I also think that the story told within can be deeply impactful to the right person and bring them joy, comfort, or a deep sense of longing.
I, however, do not like this game. Art and music are not things I am well educated on so I don't wish to criticize them and I do feel that they work incredibly well for this story, but it is the story that I greatly dislike.
Like many visual novels the goal is that you take the role of the protagonist and in this one that holds true as it places you in the role of a student visiting Rome for a time before you are kidnapped by a bara space wolf and shenanigans ensue.
I do not like any of these characters, least of all the main one. Amicus is agonizing to deal with as he slowly pushes past barriers set by the main character until he is doing the very thing he promised he wouldn't. The rest all have their own flaws and issues that you'd best play the game to fully understand.
The main character, default name Marco, is an idiot. For being a history student I've never seen anyone so doomed to make idiotic mistakes. His real flaw, though, is being too much of a person. This is present too in the fact that you can really only make about three choices in the game. Marco being his own person means that I cannot play the protagonist unless I choose to play Marco. I am not a history student, I do not enjoy being kidnapped and forced against my will to act in degrading ways, I least of all would be as weak willed as Marco to play along and rather fight tooth and nail for everything.
In that way the game loses me. I am not like Marco and so I cannot be him, least of all am I the kind of person to actually think like him and so my disconnect in the game grew.
This culminated at the end where god descends from the heavens and tells Marco that he and Amicus are a fated pair and that together they can stop the evil darkness from conquering their galaxy. You can, of course, refuse, but the game pouts and tells you that you die and how tragic if only you had done as you are told, in truth Marco is not the kind of person to resist so it makes sense. If you say yes and let the gods make the choices for you, you get the happily ever after that I'm sure many people wish they could have in their own lives.
I'm not that kind of person as I've stated so I am most dissatisfied with these events and further still I strongly dislike Amicus. For breaking every promise, for pushing every boundary, for being a pitiful fool who thinks that one can rule a kingdom on strength alone. In a way the story is exceptional as it writes a person I can dislike into existence.
You might wonder, if you've read this far, why I'd rate a game I dislike so strongly, so highly. Simple, because I think that while I dislike the characters, I dislike the story, I dislike how it ends, it made me dislike it. It did so fairly and on it's own merit, it pulled no punches and did not try to appeal to me. In that way I know this game is not for me, it is for others.
I have colored the game as I saw it when I played it, I imagine it is likely that when you play it it will be much different, but play it. I don't think it was a waste of my time, The devs had something to say and they said it. I don't like it, but that doesn't mean it will be that way for everyone. I might play more Echo Project games in the future, hopefully I like them more, but regardless I imagine they will be as well made as this one.
If I was younger and read this. I would have been hooked into being a furry way faster. I'm 36 now and have a different perspective in life now reading it.
Overall i absolutely loved it. Amicus does play a predictable role for most of it and messes up surprisingly. Other characters all have motives which most are revealed and others still seem hidden.
In the end section I completely disagree with the relationship built and the lack of communication needed to really bond these characters. Having a relationship of being alone and only to kiss your loved one in the morning to have them returned exhausted for MONTHS, to then LEAVE FOR 8 YEARS. They needed to have much bigger conversations. I would have loved to have seen adult conversations what we face as we grow. HOW can we make this relationship work, How can we show affection, how do we date the one we love. Amicus is rightfully so taken to his duties. Leaving Marco alone for months with only 1 person to really converse with? I have been in a relationship for 10 years. These things need to be addressed or they build up.
Story up to the climax 10/10, story afterwards is a bit toxic for what is asked and hard to swallow. They use magic to foreshadowing the future and maybe it's enough? I am hoping for more in the future, maybe a comic, short vignettes, slice of life.
It has been a while since a story has left me with a silent warming sadness, a dull mixture of joy, love, bitter sadness and yearning. Happy pride month!