I'm finally out of that Katawa Shoujo - proofreading thing, just a couple things to check in order to control if I really did it but I'm quite confident. As I already said, it's a good novel - and considering it's freelance the rating should rightfully rise from just plain "good" to "superb" - but playing it again and again just for the sake of reading every single line in the script was starting to make me sick.
Anyhow, this posed me in a troublesome situation (ah, were all my problems like this!) since I found Da Capo to be quite boring and therefore proceeded to free the hard disk space it not - so - rightfully occupied. The abrupt need to format everything helped a lot in this - and I'm seriously thinking I'll have to change my PC before this year ends, sadly.
Back in topic: I got to choose the next step, and the choice fell on the newly translated Kazoku Keikaku - Family Project.
Right now I think I've just finished a sort of "introduction", as I'm starting to discover something more about the people around the main character. Anyhow I want to achieve at least a complete gamethrough before giving a serious judgement on this Visual Novel, therefore what follows is to be considered as opinable, partial and slanted.
What I felt so far is almost surely based on the sheer difference between what I read and what I got. Actually every review of Kazoku Keikaku I found spent words of appraisal with most reviewers pointing out at how this Visual Novel is considered as one of the very best (if not THE best) ever. It's therefore quite logical to think that my delusion is only due to the fact that whatever I was expecting was more than whatever I might have got, no matter what I was actually expecting (sounds like brainwashing, uh?). In my personal taste, characters range from "slightly above average" (Aoba was an interesting subject but so far seems just a girl born with a silver spoon in her mouth, while Chunhua looks really sweet but is too much light - headed) to "plain boring" (Masumi. To describe my opinion of her would imply rating this blog as "Mature"). The story is good and nice, but nothing exceptional.
All in all, my judgement of Kazoku Keikaku will be determined by what happens starting from the second I'll click its icon tonight. Right now titles like Clannad or Tsukihime or Ever 17 are still from another planet, compared with this. I'm eagerly waiting for that dramatic capsizing which would explain those enthusiastic reviews, and I just hope I won't end up like Drogo in the Tartar Steppe...
Which actually happens to be pretty good, seriously =)