Where to find it: You should be able to get it on PS3, or the better version on Vita. Here's a text-based let's play!. Just ... ignore the commentary in italics by Feinne - it's a kind of fanfiction where a character from AT2 tells bedtime stories to their children, and is not at all part of the story.
What is it, in summary? Welcome to the Soleil, a colony ship where humanity has lived for 5,000 years trying to find a new place to live after destroying their last planet. Unfortunately, humanity is currently under attack by the Sharl, who kidnap humans and take them away to Do Terrible Things to Them. You are humanity's last hope. Can you guide Delta, Casty, Ionasal and their friends towards an outcome where humanity survives?
Ar nosurge is a story about communication and how things are usually better when you use your words to communicate rather than fester in silence. This is included in every aspect: magical attacks are based in people sorting issues out rather than ignoring them, the main character arcs are about getting things out in the open and discussing them, and the main resolution of the game is about seven people joining hands and singing a song to create a new world.
But don't let that fool you, because it is also a game where people can do terrible things because they think they are in the right, or that they've deserved it. It takes a long time and some very unexpected help to win that happy ending.
What do you love about it? So while I do not love the miscommunication trope, I do love the trope where feelings are converted into music, and Ar nosurge explicitly has that as a game mechanic. Everyone is genuinely trying to do the right thing from their perspective, and they actually have reasons for why they are not communicating with the other side that make senes with who they are. The characters are also very flawed and human, and the down-time segments are entertaining (if somewhat fanservice-y). The first hour or two is dire, but once the game hits its straps it's a fun romp.
I also love it because of the potential for horror. The player is a tangible force in this game. You literally control two characters, and while one is not sentient one very much is and is increasingly perturbed as things go on. I also laughed at the digs Gust make at parts of their own fanbase, because if you have ever seen some of the more redditbro JRPG fans, you know exactly what I mean here.
Also, everyone agrees that the music is top-notch. Even if you hate the fanservice (totally valid), the miscommunication trope (me too) or lesbian femdom, you'll find the music is an aural treat.
What sort of things are you likely to request for it? I want all the fic about how the player exerts influence on the sentient character and how it horrifies them but also they need the power to keep going.
Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfil your requests? Ar nosurge is the section of canon! The whole universe is the EXA_PICO universe, which includes Ciel nosurge and the Ar tonelico series, but the characters I requested are not going to be familiar with any of that. (Well, Casty would for Ciel, but it was a long time ago for her.)
Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence) Ar nosurge contains fanservice at the beginning (you're going to see some boobs and asscracks, is what I'm saying), psychological horror, amnesia, body control, memory manipulation and control, genocide, suicidal tendencies, breaking of the fourth wall, references to suicide, and people dissolving into fuel.
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Ar nosurge: Ode to an Unborn Star
Date: 2021-08-22 02:22 am (UTC)Media: Video Game
Approx length: About 50 hours to play.
Where to find it: You should be able to get it on PS3, or the better version on Vita. Here's a text-based let's play!. Just ... ignore the commentary in italics by Feinne - it's a kind of fanfiction where a character from AT2 tells bedtime stories to their children, and is not at all part of the story.
What is it, in summary? Welcome to the Soleil, a colony ship where humanity has lived for 5,000 years trying to find a new place to live after destroying their last planet. Unfortunately, humanity is currently under attack by the Sharl, who kidnap humans and take them away to Do Terrible Things to Them. You are humanity's last hope. Can you guide Delta, Casty, Ionasal and their friends towards an outcome where humanity survives?
Ar nosurge is a story about communication and how things are usually better when you use your words to communicate rather than fester in silence. This is included in every aspect: magical attacks are based in people sorting issues out rather than ignoring them, the main character arcs are about getting things out in the open and discussing them, and the main resolution of the game is about seven people joining hands and singing a song to create a new world.
But don't let that fool you, because it is also a game where people can do terrible things because they think they are in the right, or that they've deserved it. It takes a long time and some very unexpected help to win that happy ending.
What do you love about it? So while I do not love the miscommunication trope, I do love the trope where feelings are converted into music, and Ar nosurge explicitly has that as a game mechanic. Everyone is genuinely trying to do the right thing from their perspective, and they actually have reasons for why they are not communicating with the other side that make senes with who they are. The characters are also very flawed and human, and the down-time segments are entertaining (if somewhat fanservice-y). The first hour or two is dire, but once the game hits its straps it's a fun romp.
I also love it because of the potential for horror. The player is a tangible force in this game. You literally control two characters, and while one is not sentient one very much is and is increasingly perturbed as things go on. I also laughed at the digs Gust make at parts of their own fanbase, because if you have ever seen some of the more redditbro JRPG fans, you know exactly what I mean here.
Also, everyone agrees that the music is top-notch. Even if you hate the fanservice (totally valid), the miscommunication trope (me too) or lesbian femdom, you'll find the music is an aural treat.
What sort of things are you likely to request for it? I want all the fic about how the player exerts influence on the sentient character and how it horrifies them but also they need the power to keep going.
Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfil your requests? Ar nosurge is the section of canon! The whole universe is the EXA_PICO universe, which includes Ciel nosurge and the Ar tonelico series, but the characters I requested are not going to be familiar with any of that. (Well, Casty would for Ciel, but it was a long time ago for her.)
Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence) Ar nosurge contains fanservice at the beginning (you're going to see some boobs and asscracks, is what I'm saying), psychological horror, amnesia, body control, memory manipulation and control, genocide, suicidal tendencies, breaking of the fourth wall, references to suicide, and people dissolving into fuel.