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GAME: Witch On The Holy Night

+ Aoko is a great character; the animation effects are cool; there is great incidental writing between the characters.
− The narration feels more like an Excel macro; being a kinetic novel might turn some folks away; Nasu's writing.

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+ Aoko is a great character; the animation effects are cool; there is great incidental writing between the characters. − The narration feels more like an Excel macro; being a kinetic novel might turn some folks away; Nasu's writing.

The writing is a plus, but also a minus? Did you mean prose for the negative there, or were there narrative decisions you disliked?

At any rate, I'm waiting for the physical release. It should be a great read.

FilthyCasual wrote:

Quote: + Aoko is a great character; the animation effects are cool; there is great incidental writing between the characters. − The narration feels more like an Excel macro; being a kinetic novel might turn some folks away; Nasu's writing. The writing is a plus, but also a minus? Did you mean prose for the negative there, or were there narrative decisions you disliked? At any rate, I'm waiting for the physical release. It should be a great read.

Those are summaries of what they wrote in the review. They said the dialog writing was great, but the exposition/narrative writing drags on. In other words, it's par for the course for anyone already familiar with Nasu's writing. As someone who read all of Fate/Stay Night in college, I don't know if I'm willing to plow through another visual novel of his, but I definitely would like to know the story, so it's tempting.

FilthyCasual wrote:

Quote: + Aoko is a great character; the animation effects are cool; there is great incidental writing between the characters. − The narration feels more like an Excel macro; being a kinetic novel might turn some folks away; Nasu's writing. The writing is a plus, but also a minus? Did you mean prose for the negative there, or were there narrative decisions you disliked? At any rate, I'm waiting for the physical release. It should be a great read.

Those are summaries of what they wrote in the review. They said the dialog writing was great, but the exposition/narrative writing drags on. In other words, it's par for the course for anyone already familiar with Nasu's writing. As someone who read all of Fate/Stay Night in college, I don't know if I'm willing to plow through another visual novel of his, but I definitely would like to know the story, so it's tempting.

As someone who read all of Fate/Stay Night in college, I don't know if I'm willing to plow through another visual novel of his, but I definitely would like to know the story, so it's tempting.

I would say that the writing doesn't drag nearly as hard as F/SN or Tsukihime can at points. I would say that it's to the point that it's probably the easiest Nasu VN to recommend to a newbie, though the fact that it ends inconclusively means that it doesn't quite reach the highs Tsukihime or Fate does. Still, I'd be more than happy to buy and read a sequel.

How does it end inconclusively? Obviously there's more story that could be written, but this story is complete in itself.

Dark Mac wrote:

How does it end inconclusively? Obviously there's more story that could be written, but this story is complete in itself.

Witch on the Holy Knight feels like the first story arc of a larger story rather than a complete story. This is mostly because while the characters are solidly developed, their character arcs don't feel resolved.

encrypted12345 wrote:

Dark Mac wrote: How does it end inconclusively? Obviously there's more story that could be written, but this story is complete in itself. Witch on the Holy Knight feels like the first story arc of a larger story rather than a complete story. This is mostly because while the characters are solidly developed, their character arcs don't feel resolved.

Some of the characters go on to play significant if not large roles in other stories- Tsukihime, Garden of Sinners, etc. So this is only ever intended as their own story, before they go on to other people's, and as such it does well.

This is not true, Mahoyo( this new adaption, not the old light novel) was always intended as a 3-parter.

bahamutzero89 wrote:

This is not true, Mahoyo( this new adaption, not the old light novel) was always intended as a 3-parter.

That's interesting. I'd not heard that, so thank you for the correction. That said, I still wouldn't hold my breath. This particular novel was supposed to be released way back in 09, after all. And a cursory glance around seems to indicate that they what to do the rest of Tsukihime first, so who knows how long that will take.

Is the translation good? I'm wary of how it is after what happened with Chaos;Head, even if it's from a different company.

Is the translation good? I'm wary of how it is after what happened with Chaos;Head, even if it's from a different company.