A thread about all things Heaven Burns Red!Game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1973710/https://heavenburnsred.yo-star.com/Beginner FAQ! (EN/JP) https://rentry.org/vufyc93mHBR content play order guide (story, events, recollections) for beginners (JP/EN) https://rentry.org/3nfxh9zmEN:https://twitter.com/hbr_official_enhttps://www.youtube.com/@heavenburnsred_en_officialEnglish database for event schedules, styles, gacha & enemy stats etc.: https://hbr.quest/Main Story and Event Stories EN subbed by FLEreverse (Prologue, Chapter 1, 2, 3, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1 + Mari, Ichigo, Kura, Iroha, Irene and Swimsuit 3 events + AB collabs + Bond episodes) https://www.youtube.com/@seraph1305JP/general info:https://twitter.com/heavenburnsredhttps://www.youtube.com/@heavenburnsred_officialReroll Guide: https://game8.jp/heavenburnsred/425645Style Tier List: https://game8.jp/heavenburnsred/425643All SheIsLegend songs full versions: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKIr2ayXySvD5RjLRZORDzgALL Jun Maeda insert songs: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7njeqPki-I0xEARusLnD0wIsuzu, Risa, Charlotta & Yanagi ASMR + Music albums: https://mega.nz/folder/ILhywJ6Z#NG7FW81xv2y5L0LR8N_1pwAssets/Sprites/CG folders: https://mega.nz/folder/rJ0ARLTK#CHNMWomnFr9kbBa5kb-dxwBackgrounds & Gacha Banner folders: https://mega.nz/folder/YilzUYbD#ELfrc4VFFvEQtcCrBRrYuQPrevious thread >>4568437
Welcome to another Heaven Burns Thread, where we see the the future and finally take the next step!Big news, Chapter 6 will be the final main story chapter involving Jun Maeda. This essentially means the main story will be over after this. However, we do not know how many parts Chapter 6 will have. And WFS made clear they would support the game beyond the story's end.The 4.5th anniversary was amazing and gave us the long coveted IchiAo unison style. Finally a new yuri unison!This goes along with the anniversary event, It's a Wonderful Party, one of the highest rated events in a while and one that opens up a whole mountain of new questions and story possibilities. Just what is the Paradise Project?Squad 19A (Tezuka's old squad) has been announced as a proper new gacha unit and the first of them has already had a banner. They use Void element and seem to be relevant for Chapter 6.The global server just finished the very gay Minori event and will be getting the Truth Squad special event soon. 5.3 has also been announced to still release this year. They are nearly caught up now!For some reason they released Sharo and Yanagi ASMR which follow in the footsteps of Isuzu and Risa's in being yuri friendly and more like voice dramas. Sharo's is basically just 30 minutes of her gushing about and moaning Ruka's name.Nanamin's VA replaced Tsukasa's VA as a regular on HBR streams. The HBR 4koma has hit its final page unfortunately, but it went out with a very tantalizing 10 year flash forward which gave us lots of RukaYukki art!
Ichiko's paradise
>>4602039The greatest gay breakdown in all of HBR has finally hit the global server. Would any of us have believed that the incest would be this explicit when this game started? Ichiko is an absolute menace.I just wish she had called herself their wives instead of husband. This certainly makes up for the crappy wedding style at least.
>>4602049Absolutely based
>>4602049I wish they repeated her rant in the background, like they did Sharo's at one point.
>>4602171She actually does, starting from the "There you are. I will say this again" part. But unlike Sharo or Irene"s rambles it doesnt go on for the whole convo. Only for a few lines by the others.
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>>4602040>Yanagi ASMRWe only got a Sharo summary. What's happening in this one?
https://x.com/heavenburnsred/status/2099815508312817868New story event seems to be a story tie-in? It's clearly more serious than the usual stuff. Whoever is still not up to date with the main story really needs to hurry up.
>>4602975Is it possible it's Maeda writing again? Agree with the comments that it feels kinda Higuchi adjacent. First thought was 19A though.
>>4603063If it's a story tie-in then chances are high Maeda's hands are involved.>19AHonestly highly possible. Their little introduction episode was okay, but I feel like we need a bit more to really get their position in the main story.
Maeda hasnt written a 31B event since at least Byakko's. I dont think he even did the 4.5th anni Ichigo event? So even if it was a Higumin event there is no guarantee it will involve Maeda.
Uhhhh... yeah I got no idea what this even is about anymore. Those visuals are completely crazy.....maybe Fubuki?https://x.com/heavenburnsred/status/2100177880915509365
Yeah, sorry to spoil it before the stream, but the styles are already up on HBR quest, so you would find out one way or another.It's Fubuki and Risa-mama. I don't think they will do another Risa event, so we are getting a Fubuki event. Not too sure on whether this will be a story tie-in anymore. However Maeda did say he wanted to write the Fubuki event, so maybe he will.
Fubuki's SS3. Looks absolutley AMAZING. I would roll for this just because of the art alone desu.It's a fire debuffer style. Has Fubuki's gimmick of her sacrificing her own DP.This is a very solid style, but I think there are better fire debuffers right now.
Risa's SS4... well it is kind of hard to gauge, because it's ult has a unique attribute. Infantalisation? She is a healer mixed with a lightning debuffer of all things.I dont know if going all in on the kindergarten teacher is really a great idea for a style. It makes sense for her character, but it really lacks imagination. When will they give her an actual volleyball style?
>>4603710>Looks absolutley AMAZING. I would roll for this just because of the art alone desu.Same here. I'm excited for more fan art of her too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx-3PY_s9jIFubuki's event trailer... yeah this has a very different feel from the usual events. Fubuki is one of the few characters actually allowed to be a harsh bitch (next to awakened Tsukasa), so she will bang heads.
>>4603751It's two Maeda events in a row... we're eating good as they say.
>>4603752Did Maeda write the Ichigo anni event? It didn't feel like his writing at all.
>>4603753Just rechecked the credits, it was him.
>>4603753Yeah. With the Fubuki one I was 98% sure just by the trailer dialogue it was him.>It didn't feel like his writing at all.Haven't read his older works yet besides starting his novel recently, but the Ichigo one felt extremely HBR Maeda to me. Also this Fubuki event feels very Nekogarizoku no Osa coded.
>>4603756Somehow missed it then. Probably because I was crying through the Aimi version of Dance Dance Dance.>>4603757I mean yeah he wanted to write the Fubuki event, so I didnt doubt that.The Ichigo event was just... how should I say this? It felt a bit too subtle for Maeda.
>>4603757>very Nekogarizoku no Osa codedNo way Maeda is gonna let anyone else touch Fubuki and Seika in a meaningful way.
>>4603751>mentally ill Fubuki gets mind broken by 31D treating her nicely>lashes out and tries to kill 31A>somehow all of it has romantic overtones with Ruka???Maeda really loves shipping every single mental case with Ruka.
>>4603065>Their little introduction episode was okay, but I feel like we need a bit more to really get their position in the main story.Hopefully we get to see 19A Tezuka in flashbacks too. Was doing anki and noticed a speech similarity between Tezuka from Communication Breakdown and Takamiya and it made me imagine how they would all interact, must be extremely funny to have Tezuka in that group.Before this short story I thought they weren't necessarily on the best of terms after splitting up. But apparently they were working together in some capacity still.
>>4603851>mentally ill Fubuki gets mind broken Since this event requires chapter 3 she probably "knows" too.
>>4603935I just can't Imagine 30-something looking Tezuka in the middle of all these teens. With 31A she felt like their guardian who goes on a field trip with them... And the nightly "unison training" felt like straight out of an erotic doujin about the protagonist molesting the neighbourhood milf
>>4603940It would be the kind of despair that fuels her passion, but how many gosh darn people are gonna find out the truth before the current chapter. It gets a bit annoying to have to imagine all these girls were in the know retroactively when they behave like usual in the main story.
>>4602449What is it with WFS and turning lolita senpai into a Gundam anyway?
The Fubuki event is actually bonkers. But I cant deny it kept me invested.
>>4604089Absolutely. I can't believe Fubuki's backstory is simultaneously this banal and batshit insane.Are we just supposed to accept this as the status quo for her now? She can win the war on her fucking own.
Haven't read it (global peasant) but the story of an indie one-woman DSBM band sounds fascinating.
>>4604172That is (mostly) really not what the event is about. Though it does play some part in why she is so suicidal.
Fubuki SA is a pain in the ass. But for the Asami mission I need to get 2 million. Ugh.
Alright, I have finally taken the time to play Misarin's Snap Event.It was pretty fun. Way gayer than I expected too. 31D really is the poly squad at this point. I mean, they even included Aina as one of the love interests? Truly galaxy brained.The basic idea of Misato having to go on multiple dates at once reminds me of old VNs/anime gag episodes. I laughed a lot actually. The ending was predictably saccharine, but they did literally frame it as if she was cheating on all the girls.I've also noticed the orca reference to Aina's event, so this takes place after that. Same as Fubuki's event... I guess they treat Aina's event as the latest status quo of 31D.
>>4605415Aina: I am shocked how they really went with it on her. From Misarin using Orca language to say some sexual stuff to her, to the gag about her indirectly saying she is trying to catch Misarin for herself. They were holding hands when holding the fishins rod too. Crazy official crackship.Risa: Genuinely super sensual? Misarin is such a gay mess around her now. Having her whisper in her ear or pressing her massive Risas against her back gets her genuinely excited. She straight up had to avoid Risa sucking her finger, because she thought she might lose her mind.Akari: When stretching as a warm up before playing Tennis Misarin has an entire gay monologue in her mind about how Akari's Akaris are pressing against her and goes into insane detail about how Date's body is perfect in all the right ways...
>>4605417But while her canon reactions are gay enough, her fantasies go above and beyond. During the event you can make choices and only one is correct and canon, but the other two are always delusions Misarin has out of sleep deprivation and exhaustion. And the things she imagines... absolute yuri kino.She can imagine Risa actually measuring her temperature by touching foreheads which makes her nearly orgasm, she imagine Akari giving her CPR where she goes on a rant about how perfect Akari's body is and that she wants to be with her forever. And for some reason she imagines that Aina wants to lick her whole body from head to toe...This snap was more explicit on the yuri than even that Amari one!
>Bartender Minori eventHow do you mix a Yanagi?
>>4606205By making the best cocktail you can imagine and then adding unnecessary high heels to it.
Persona collab on global soon
Using Sharo's marriage skill forcefully on girls is the best.
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>>4607470Irene is into it
Oh my goodness. I never realized Hisame was trying to give subliminal messaging to Inori... She is actively corrupting her!
Which of them is better for my ice team? I saw some tier lists put this Shiki in their comp, but I don't really get why.
>>4607796I guess because her Ex skill has no usage limit and she has Ice Mark to buff full ice parties. Personally even if I had that Shiki, I'd still use Tsukasa because I get the Ice Mark from Aoi, too.
>>4607797Oh she has ice mark? I didn't even realize. I also got white suit Aoi, so I guess, there is no point for me to use her. Thanks for the info.
>>4608145This is a reference to what happened in the Fubuki event btw.
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>>4609116Huh. I don't think there is that much of a height gap between KareTsuka?
I can't believe JP is doing an Angel Beats collabs rerun with nothing new, not even new styles. Like why not give some to the girls who only got an S?
>>4609641Pretty suspicious that they added relic orbs for all AB chars, including the two S-style only Hisako and Shiori. Fubuki Event is ending in two weeks, so maybe AB4 with new styles on the 16th?Giving new players some time to go through the first three stories.Iirc last time they rerun AB, the older stories relaunched a little earlier before the new one came out, too.
>>4609902I don't really feel like we need an AB4, but you are right that this implies a new incoming AB banner at least.
>>4609903Yeah banner only could be a thing unless Maeda has something to tell.Btw I forgot to add, for people who missed the stream there is a free 10-pull ticket you can get through the webshop with the serial code ANGELBEATS.
>>4609904The webshop's kinda bad to use desu. But thanks.
That guaranteed AB SS ticket was pretty good. Yui was the only character I didnt have because I didnt pull her with my 50 free pulls during the AB3 event period. Now I have all characters. My accolade collection doesnt feel that gaping hole anymore.
Lolicon shippers actually got fuel recently, which is absurd.
>Fubuki after her insane event has to be restrained to contain her power level
Pompom, protector of Earth.
I've always struggled to make a good dark party. I've recently been really lucky on a bunch of generally good Dark styles, but I just can't find any good synergy. Like yeah... unison Wakki is good, but she doesn't jive with this team when I actually play. She clearly wants Unison Bungo in the same team.I love using Isuzu for her free infinite ult and I somehow got so many dupes for her that I max LB'd her, but her being a token character completely goes against this team's synergy.Having Phantom Ruka and swimsuit Aoi on the team might be overkill for debuffs actually?I don't know. Can this team be salvaged or do I need to reshuffle?
>>46102971. You aren't running the Admiral2. Main attacker isn't High LB3. Yamawaki at low LB so she doesn't give the OD boost and can't be the main attacker4. Missing Byakko, probably trade Isuzu for her if you get her.
>>4610413I dont have SS3 Byakko.I also dont have cheerleader Misarin.Obviously I can't pull more LBs for Ichigo and Yamawaki out of thin air. I'm still grinding resonance shards.But that seems to tell me that aside from Isuzu the team isn't awful? Just needs to be raised a bit more.
>>4610426>the team isn't awful?Yeah you're running most of the strongest characters (see https://game8.jp/heavenburnsred/535263) but you are missing the Glue that makes everything stick together (the admiral). There isn't much room to improve aside from that + Byakko and higher LB's on your core chars (DPS and debuffers need the most raw stats since they need to roll against the enemies border). Maybe check your dark units if you have any of the main attacker from the wikilist at higher LB's since they should just out DPS Ichigo if they are LB3+.(even SS1 Natsume from the green tickets could help) But to be honest i'd suggest just waiting for a banner with Misarin in it and grabbing her.Also Wakki doesn't need resonance shards but just normal ones despite being purple so if you need a way to spend them she's your best bet.
>>4610484>check your dark units if you have any of the main attacker from the wikilist at higher LB'sI got unison Ruka at LB2 and Oktoberfest Adel at LB3. But then I would have to replace my demon minion Adel with her, which would severely limit my buffs...>Wakki only needs SS shardsOh really? I totally missed that. In that case I can at least get her to LB2 right away. I have been neglecting getting SS shards, because I am saving for resonance shard (which are twice as expensive).
>>4610522If you have to post Ai slop, please at least make sure it doesnt have body horror like this.
Birthday girl Irene gets some art.Controversial take, but gayest 31X member. Yes even more than Sharo who is basically Rukasexual.
Irene's bday screen
>POV you are a girl about to get your heart openedMy game froze during the master skill animation which made me snicker
Witch Yukki! A Halloween style in October? They really have outdone themselves.She is another small time elemental resistance removal style, like Fubuki. I honestly don't know what they are going for with these. But having an Ice Yukki was long overdue. Now we can have a full 31A ice party.
Also a sweet fishing Megumin S style.
Also this really nice Citadella collab illustration (cute Byakko)... I would love to actually go eat at these kinds of collabs sometimes, but flying to Japan for that would be insane.
I love how this collab is taking time to establish Sharo's gayness for no reason.
>>4611390Kinda ironic that they made Yukki of all girls into a magical character.
>>4611395Imagine being new to the game specifically for this collab and this random Russian girl suddenly starts yandering about the protag you just learned about in the Prologue.
Be modest Karerin or Tsukasa will get jealous
Tenne is a sinful girl
Looks like these bingo missions will last until the 10th day of the 28th month, so we got plenty of time.
Ruka waste zero time, huh? That's our ladykiller MC.I wanna point out that during all of these bonding talks and base exploration scenes Jonkler doesnt appear once too. lol
>collab part 1I hope part 2 takes a while to get because I spent almost all my quartz getting Collab Tsukasa and Queen.
>>4612012Not sure how to tell you this anonette, but the second banner will come out in a week at most. Global only has this collab for 3 weeks instead of 4 like JP did. So better prepare fast, because Phantom Ruka and Violet are about to drop and they are super good.
>>4612431Are you serious? This is a slow thread. Take the t minutes to check the images already posted. Especially when it was like three posts up >>4611703
New Iroha and Mari styled! 32D gets surprisingly a lot of stuff. Mari is rarely one style ahead of Adel for long. I expect another A-san superweapon soon.
Psycho nurse Mari? I guess it suits Halloween, but I hate the cleavage window. They just keep trying to sexualize Mari for no reason. Though somehow her succubus outfit was the most modest??A light debuffer with a wholly new insane debuff skill. This is actually insanely stupidly broken. The only downside is that it only work on enemies weak to light.... So you need white suit Ichiko to use this Mari on other elemental fights.
FrankenIroha. Honestly, sick design and suits her character super well. She has a wild nearly horrific artstyle that makes her draw things that dont fit together, so it all makes sense. And the crazy eyes in the ult animation are great.Very generic healer/buffer. Basically Risa's SS2 revival, but with dark field instead of motivation up. Too bad field are not as effective as they used to be. But still, this is a very big field.Hit count up buffs are generally good, so nothing to complain about.
>>4613671Do you just really hate women or something? You seem to really hate seeing them. Or have you just been osyopped by Twitter to have the sensibilities of an 80 year old catholic woman?
>Persona 5 part 2 banners>got nothingPic related>>4613671Mari's usual clothes do usually hide that she's actually quite stacked in the chest department.
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>>4613688Are you retarded? It is literally waifufag bait. On /u/ we don't appreciate sexual fanservice of one character aimed at the audience. Go back to whatever pit you crawled out of tourist.>>4613697The banner isn't done yet. You still got time.>Mari's clothes hideWho cares? What has that to do with the fact that WFS are retards that always try to put Mari into skimpy outfits to make horny males roll for her? My issue is that this retarded sexualized angle doesn't suit her character at all.The Marifag at WFS always gets his way. It's like that idiot who put Ichigo into an idol outfit or Tsukasa in a slutty bunny suit flirting with men on the title screen. They need to be kicked in the balls.
>>4613777I love Amari. I can totally see this scenario happening in a memory episode too.
Oh the Iroha snap event also came out alongside the new styles.
>>4613833Hijab Mari incoming
>>4602047>>4602043>>4602688Oh, really hilarious. AI slop, this board can't get any worse.>>4613833At some point you have to give up at the game because Mari at this point is like a waifufag's housewife material. People stopped talking about AdelMari since B.C 400 and it's not just because they don't have enough event.Some character sprites on the spritesheet is cut like this one in preview/savedAny fix?
>>4613984We already got a lot of AIslop deleted, calm down. Also fuck off about "this board" BS. All boards are getting flooded with AI crap. >Nobody ships AdelMariMaybe not in your hetfag community. Amari got more support by the devs than any non-31A pairing. They literally got an event and a snap event just for their coupling. Point me at any other fucking events that exclusively exist to ship two characters?
>>4613984Christ, I went on a deep dive into my 4 year old ghetto-ass Python code looking for which part of the process crops the hat incorrectly, but the problem was already fixed long ago. I just never regenerated Ai-chin's file because I didn't know she was affected. I uploaded a fixed version just now.If you find another with a similar issue, let me know. No promises that I can fix it though. I've wanted to rewrite this whole pose generation thing every time there's a change to the system, but at this point the game will go EOS before I get around to that.
>>4613994What are you talking about man? My hetslop community? Half of this game's playerbase are pedophiles, I don't want to be associated with this shit. Point here is that event/story relevance matters - last time I see that snap was 400 years ago. Plus, there is only one artist that do AdelMari and that artist also do fucking WakiMari anyways so my point still stands.>>4614001It will come in handy in archiving the game's content, fuck WFS. Towatsugai's archives was not proper due to the lack of people working on it as a very obscure gacha yuri, but with HBR minus maybe 85% of the playerbase it's gonna be doable. While at that, some people are working on ripping the models too, so consider this like an archiving process before this game eventually EoS due to Persona curse or someone who definitely is not a hitman from Slovakia killed Kaki with clean shot to his head.
>>4614160Oh you are a low IQ troll. No wonder your posts were this terrible. The stink of /vmg/ never quite left you.
It's nice to see that WFS finally gets the holiday styles in the correct months at least.
>>4614164I don't even visit /vmg/, just go outside dude. People like you are the reason why I don't post here lest you get to enjoy the HBR yuri stuck in the Chinese social media realm or locked twitter accounts/lost in time. I didn't archive all this shit for people like you.
>>4614314You are not an actual HBR fan. You literally just spout garbage in every post with relentless autism. Nothing is lost with you not posting here. It's actually a detriment everytime you blight this thread with your nonsense. Going on about pedophile delusions and Persona curse BS or even your utter disregard for the actual yuri in the game. You never actually contribute anything you just come around to shit on the game, which is just fucking weird.I really suggest you change your shitty attitude or leave.
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>>4614366Stop responding to the obvious shitposter.
>>4614366>>4614406You do you buddy. You two are too brainrotted anyways
>>4614430Literally every post of yours is full of brainrot phrases and buzzwords. Have some self-awareness.
>>4613673It's literally just an upgrade to Risa-mama, making her style redundant.
Maeda is dying.
>>4614904>would rather put his last strength into project than get full on cancer treatmentHoly fuck... he really is the dying artist trope personified. They didn't write anything about the chances of treatment actually succeeding, so I assume chances were slim?Shit... There won't be a Key miracle this time it seems
That explains the announcement that chapter 6 will be the final Maeda chapter.
>>4614904>The Cancer are winning
>>4614496I posted like 2 times in this board after 3 years and this one is the third, ragebaiters got your mind fucked up dude.brainrot phrases this buzzwords that, i'm genuinely horrified at how just (x) + slop alone is a buzzword for you. Truly sad. What do you even define as a fan of this game? To buy everything WFS release? Do I need to glaze over Yunyun's big fucking tits style or Yuina x Ruka to be a TRUE fan? Please don't be pretentious, I know a Twitter retard larping as a 4channer from the get go just by how you talk. Save yourself some dignity and stop replying to my post, you're even posting my friend's art and it feel disgusting to know that people like you should not even get to see her art in the first place. I'd tell you to be self-aware first, but you're most likely a WFS apologist so I assume you might not even have enough intelligence to understand that being a fan means you are fully aware of flaws that the community and the game has and you have to accept that criticism is unavoidable. Otherwise you're just another numbnut gormless dickhead #482 consumer filth in the gacha pipeline. Fuck off my sight.
>>4615077>I only posted three timesYes, the issue is that all of those were full of brainrot buzzwords? I was talking about what you posted in this thread after all. The fact that you lack the self-awareness to even get what I am talking about is really embarrassing.You hang out on discords and think that makes you qualified to act high and mighty? lol>twitterJust another deflection used to poison the well. I've not spent a single moment on twitter beyond saving art. I don't post there or read posts. Swing and a miss. You're in too deep. The self-righteous bullshit and deluge of nonsensical retard terms are big red flags for what you actually are.You are the worst kind of "fan". The type whose only purpose is to shit on the game you pretend to like. All posts exclusively focus on some kind of superiority complex towards others who actually enjoy the game or are trying to portray the devs as the literal devil who do everything wrong. Belittle the writing, shit on the characters, downplay anything that people might enjoy. How is a fandom supposed to function with goobers like you exactly? At least your "friend" makes art. At least whales pay for the continuation of the game and story. At least I discuss the actual game's contents and enjoy/spread the yuri.You are doing nothing but whine. You're so out of touch that you think your opinion is fact. You pretend there is nobody who cares about Amari, because you dont. You pretend there is only one artist who even draws them, when this thread alone has several different artists who did stuff for them just recently.Your mental dissonance is actually pitiful.
>>4614904Just read about this, shit sux. Key's cryan games got me into visual novels, so I owe him a big debt of gratitude. Using the last of your strength on yuri is a worthy pursuit indeed.
>>4614904Unironically, ending HBR with cancer actually winning wouldn't be such a bad idea here. Perhaps with a similar note of that you could still fight, but the scenario having little chances of succeeding so they'd rather live out their last days without fighting.Let out all those bottled feelings.Enjoy some final moments together.See the world burn holding hands.I know I know bad end yuri blabla, but it'd fit.
>>4615766Doesn't really make sense with them saying the game will continue after the main story finishes, unless they want everyone to get their own bad ending...Maeda has said from day 1 that he started the story with the ending in mind and that it would be a bittersweet ending that some people might hate him for. I doubt he is changing horses now, but it will most likely not be a fairy tale ending regardless of his personal situation.
>>4615768That's the thing. I don't feel the game SHOULD continue. Make a new one if you really want. If the original creator is gone, you gotta decide if you REALLY want to continue it, because it won't be the same no matter what. Would be a good chance to cut out the bloat and make a stand alone VN/game out of it.I feel like you can maybe achieve this without a clear cut, but for example I feel like the entire cast should change which is rather.. unlikely to work out without a full on new game. This is likely just gonna get a part 2, with the same chars and some other story.
>>4615769Okay... but Maeda is really only there for the main story (occasional event left aside). Most of the actual content in the game has never been done by him. So any epilogue chapters or events would be done by the writer who have already been doing most events, bond episodes, memory episodes and snap events anyway.It all obviously depends on how the main story will end, but with the Project Paradise stuff we got recently, I have an inkling at least. I'd say wait and see, but generally speaking nothing works against continuing the game in some form as is. Many Key works unlock a different title screen and epilogues after achieving the true ending, so this would just be right up their alley.
>>4602039>Game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1973710/If anyone wants to play the steam version on linux there's a way now. https://github.com/iceyear/hbr-open-launcherI tested it and it works fine, apparently it should be safe since it's just a wrapper that passes command line arguments to unity. Also works on macos via notproton if you can patch the files on a linux machine.
>>4615770That doesn't matter. We all know Maeda created this work. Without him HBR would have a male protagonist and would be a normal harem game that would've likely died a year into its runtime like so very many of its kind.I personally just don't believe a work that only came to exist because he actively fought for it to exist in this very way should just continue.Yes, there were other writers. But in the end the entire thing was his baby and to my knowledge even if he didn't write all the events, he was always having the last word.
>>4616339Man, must really suck to be a Linux user and having to jump throgh hoops for every little thing. Like playing a game on Steam.
>>4616356I think you are projecting now.... Sure Maeda insisted on a female protag, but the original pitch for the story came from WFS. And games are made by comittee, not by a single person. Maeda's ideas are hit and miss. A lot of the good stuff in the game came from other minds.One thing that will definitely suffer without him is the music. As insane as it always sounds, basically all vocal tracks in the game were written or composed by him. With like a couple of exceptions. At least the instrumental BGMs are mostly done by someone else, but that is still a heavy hit. There are other good Key composers or course, but it will be weird.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ65x1JK7HQThe official channel is streaming AB3. I guess that is a sign that this will be the last AB rerun, because they are archiving the event this way for the future.
>>4616508They did the other ones too.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8dnXIZMD-chttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF-9gPtUfn0Definitely for archiving purposes. If they do this to regular events, then we can worry about EOS. But for collabs, this makes sense. Right now the only recordings of the collabs are by people who play them on their channels, so mostly streamers who talk over them.Not sure how they are dealing with all the choices though. Like the mutltiple choice song lyrics in Beautiful the Blood etc.
