Planetarian

Zzzz, it's been a bit. Sorry, I do that from time to time.

I've managed to completely finish writing Eleison, and now have found an editor that is willing to, well, edit everything for me... for a price of course. I think I'll do so once I have cash available. From here on I'm going to start working on a short horror story that I've had in my head the past couple days, and finally start world-building my next project.

Other than that, I've been playing a few VNs... finally finished Ef: A Tale of the Two, started Moon, and also finished, what the majority of this post will be about, Planetarian.
For those that don't know, Planetarian is a lesser known Visual Novel by Key. It came out after Clannad, and didn't have any Maeda influence.  The art director was the same as Rewrite, Itaru Hinoue, which is awesome, because I love her art style.

Basically what's going on in Planetarian is as follows. It's a post-apocalyptic world and the main character is a Junker. After a scuffle with a few fellow Junkers he ends up in a planetarium where he meets our main female, Reverie. Reverie is an android programmed to greet people, and basically run the showing for the Planetarium. Now, the apocalypse happened about 30 years ago, however, Reverie still acts accordingly, and practices her greetings as if there is nothing wrong, and customers still comes multiple times a day. The MC is very hot-headed, and tends to just be annoyed with Reverie throughout the first half. Eventually the MC is able to see the showing that was meant for the 250,000th customer, which is basically a recap of the world and the stars. The MC is greatly moved, but he must go, and Reverie goes with him, and I won't spoil the rest.

One thing about this VN is the setting and overall story in general is extremely depressing. It explores the mindset of both characters, and Reveries especially, is interesting. She doesn't understand anything about all of the death and decay that fell upon the city. When the MC tells her that nobody is alive, and nobody else is coming to the Planetarium, it simply does not compute. It takes awhile, but her character does develop a good amount, especially after leaving the Planetarium with the MC.

Overall I would say Planetarian is definitely worth the playthrough, seeing as I beat it in just about 2-3 hours. It's super short, but it gets the job done. If it was any longer I'd say the theme and setting were too oppressive, so be warned... this VN is not happy.

Anyways that about wraps it up. I'll probably write something about Moon next... maybe... who knows. Moon took me by surprise, I didn't expect it to be nearly as lewd as it is. For now, have a nice life, later.