It was inevitable but I assumed it would happen sooner, but I have become addicted to Visual Novels. Through a culmination of a lull in manga addiction, fan fiction and a general lack of wanting to work at all, I started my first novel since I finished Tsukihime. I started with a copy of ‘Sagara Family’ (an english port) which I borrowed from a friend and haven’t been able to do anything else since.

Every spare bit of time I had went to going through this visual novel. And when I was done, I went through it again trying to obtain a different route. It was n addiction not just to play though the storylines but for 100% completion. I have never felt a need to want to complete something completely to 100% before but this is what kept me playing. In the end after unlocking the special end storyline, I was at about 70-80% complete with the majority of what wasn’t gone through yet were storylines from the loli character route which I forget the name to. At this point, it had been a couple of days and actual school work that should have been completed wasn’t.

I learnt a bit about myself from this. I was always a bit skeptical of believing how addictive visual novels could be. I played through Tsukihime more for being a fan of the franchise than anything else and I wanted to see it in its original form. But Tsukihime never completely forced me to want to complete it fully. To this day I still haven’t completed the Kohaku route I so wanted to. And as for ‘Sagara Family’ as well, I believe I will never go further now that I have stopped playing them.

I have a few more borrowed but my instincts were telling me to actually be cautious of these and  go through them slowly and when I actually have time to spare. Open Book season for chemistry students started this Wednesday and I felt it was prudent 3 days into my 2 week deadline that I should actually get to work. Starting a new game or trying to complete the last will be murder on my grades. I’ll get to them at some point.
Plus, I haven’t watched anime for days now. I miss those. I’ll probably get back to actual anime blogging on burning the backlog for the time I was distracted. =P