Nestor's Cola

The long and short of it:

Someone (Anonymous) translated some ero doujin and needed a typesetter, I fulfilled that role.

AntiAgingAnon also did it at the same time- he did it faster and better than me. I still have a sense of accomplishment for what I did; I learned a lot about the editing, typesetting process and shit.

Link coming… sometime.

An aging young rebel
called What’s His Name
Wanted to be different
While he stayed the same
That he couldn’t
He just couldn’t
No matter what he would try
Told by his mother
An aging old thing
You better go see Clever
You give Clever a ring
Which he did
Called him up
Just so Mommy wouldn’t cry

Clever heard his story
About different and the same
You crazy This some silly game
Oh no, no it ain’t Like Mommy said
You gotta straighten up my head
Clever is so clever
Is your cleverness enough
Can you help this aging rebel
Do you really have the stuff
Bet you don’t have
Bet the bread that you’ll pass the buck instead

Clever sends our hero
To a funny darken room
Where a crowd of Cunning listens
Giggles in the gloom
That’s your problem aging rebel
Don’t you really know the score
You crazy, you think you’re gonna change this silly world
Better see yourself a shrink
Cunningly they argue about our boy
Who’s breaking down the door

Now he’s running down the dark
Diabolical awaits
Grabs him by the ankle
Ain’t it just like fate
Diabolical laughs
In an alley full of soot
Forget the same
you’ll be different now
Somewhat shorter on one side
Let go
Oh no
Would you ___ diabolical inside
Panic in his brain pulls and gets away
Loses him a foot
It’s a dark and evil day

See him running, limping blood
Something soft is just ahead
Something soft is Gentle
He’s fallen at her side
She comforts him with kisses
He dreams of suicide
Gentle is so gentle
Grabs the trouble by its root
Bandages his stump
Cuts off his other foot

So you see, it seems to me, a gentle kind of cruelty
Aging Rebel’s older, a little wiser maybe too
Gentleness has fixed him
Does he look like me and you
Footless and fancy free
Think how happy Mom will be
Footless and fancy free
Think how happy Mom will be

No Name Losers (site down as of 4/9/2009) released a standalone install of ef – the first tale recently. This is somewhat irregular in the fan-translation community, so cue the shitstorm. Ethical standpoints aside, it’s certainly an interesting move. I don’t particularly care about those things; I am not going to throw my two cents in and comment about whether they were in the right or wrong. I am not a moral authority and I have no leg to stand on. What I’m doing at this point is the same thing I’ve done with every game up to this point: I’m going to play it, I’m going to write a review about it, and that’s going to be the beginning, middle, and end of my involvement.

As a preemptive strike I’ll say this now; I’ll delete any comment on the debate of right or wrong. This post will have a review of the game itself and nothing more.

Story: I’ll admit: I’ve been trying to play this since the 9th, and I can’t get into it. I can tell that the girls have substance, there’s more lurking beneath the surface, but right now, all I can think about is doing something else. I can’t play it. Part of it is I’ve taken a break from playing these games, the other part is that it’s just not particularly interesting to me.

Interface: Seems pretty intuitive. It is intuitive. moving around is easy enough. Saving, loading, autoread, etc are all one-click functions, easy to get to. there’s even a “Boss Button” (though why you’d play it at work where a boss could see you is something else entirely)

Patch/ Patching: Even though this was a standalone install, you need to install a font that comes prepackaged with the download. It also takes time to install. Mine took @ seven minutes or so.