White Album 2: The Greatest Soap Opera of All Time
Added 2024-03-09 21:58:25 +0000 UTCPatrons can view this video without cuts!
Even over a decade after release, White Album 2's staying power hasn't wavered. Through complicated and flawed characters, forlorn loves, and soap opera drama, it's become decisive, infamous... and one of my favorite VNs of all time.
Script & Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TRPkbhP2voRu19p6afPKFbxtv6N14j0XtSebmplG5Wk/edit
This month's shout outs:
https://www.youtube.com/@PauseandSelect/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@SeanSeanson
00:00:00 Intro
00:04:56 Story Outline
00:07:02 It's (Not) a Sequel
00:10:00 The Main Trio
00:18:51 On the Sidelines
00:25:29 Flow of Life & Prose
00:31:49 The (Lack) of Presentation
00:42:39 Patreon Break
00:48:38 [SPOILERS] Season of the White Album (IC)
01:01:08 [SPOILERS] Uncomfortable Stillness (CC)
01:04:44 [SPOILERS] Koharu & Progress
01:13:59 [SPOILERS] The Mari Dilemma
01:28:53 [SPOILERS] The (Dis)honesty of Acting
01:38:26 [SPOILERS] Setsuna Lives in a Society(tm)
01:43:15 [SPOILERS] And Then, to Coda
01:46:32 [SPOILERS] To Know Nothing
Music list:
White Album Remake - White Album (Piano)
White Album 2 - Todokanai Koi
To-Heart - Unspoken Strength (Kotone Himekawa)
White Album 2 - Koi no Youna
White Album 2 - Odayakani Suguyukutoki
White Album Remake - TENSION
Kizuato 2009 - Kaede
Tenshi no Inai 12-gatsu - The Snow's Affection
White Album 2 - Mihatenu Yume
White Album - Morning Sun
White Album 2 - Shizukana Fuyunoyo
Sakura no Uta - Maiagaru Inga Kouryuu no Hikari
YU-NO - Mio Shimizu
Routes - Pristine Air
To-Heart 2 - The Daylight Darkens
Tenshi no Inai 12-gatsu - Tender Grace
White Album - Looking Up at the Stars
Legend of Heroes IV - A Bustling Street Corner
Night Slave - Prep (Options)
Utawarerumono - Gekkoua ~Fumiriru~ (Leaf Piano arr.)
Oretsuba - Yuugure no Koutei de Hashagu Kimi wo Mitsumeru Madobe
White Album - White Album (Leaf Piano arr.)
White Album 2 - After All ~Tsuzuru Omoi~
Routes - Carrying You (Strings ver.)
Umineko - fall
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 - One Last You (Piano)
Ys II - Palace of Solomon (Ys Healing arr.)
Tenshi no Inai 12-gatsu - All I Saw Were Stars
Parfait - Sunlight (Re-brew arr.)
To-Heart 2 - Each to Their Own Future
Rewrite - Sorrowless
EVE Burst Error - Office (Marina)
To-Heart Animation - Hitori no Toki ni
YU-NO - Movement 2 (Daytime)
Umineko - Novelette
Sakura no Uta - Yume no Ayumi wo Miagate
Umineko - Loreley
Higurashi - Conviction
White Album 2 - Seiya
To-Heart Animation - Suki to Ienai, Itoshisa II
White Album 2 - Shiawase no Kioku (Piano)
Kanon - Pure Snows (Piano arr.)
Tenshi no Inai 12-gatsu - From Beyond Eternity
Umineko - En-Course
Tasogare - Silver Thread
Tsukikagerou - To the Sea of Amber
Umineko - slowmotion
Higurashi - You (Umihigu Piano arr.)
Kakyuusei 1999 - Tada Ichido Dake no Eien ~love story~
White Album 2 - Powder Snow (Guitar Solo)
White Album 2 - Toki no Mahou
Comments
There's another visual novel series I recommend. It's called Sakusei Byoutou. It's kind of similar to Yakin Byoutou, but with the roles reversed. It's a trilogy that deals with only one linear path that reveals more and more about the characters and why they act the way they do.
Lael Hochberg
2024-03-17 05:44:29 +0000 UTCOh, and I forgot to ask, do you have a Discord server by any chance?
cuba200611
2024-03-13 19:58:06 +0000 UTCHave you ever thought of doing a video on music in visual novels? It'd be interesting to see - such as talking about the history of music in VNs, going back to the early days (such as looking (and listening!) at Soft Studio Wing's Shiro to Kuro no Densetsu trilogy for MSX, which included audio tapes that the games would show visual cues to indicate when to play music tracks from the audio tape, along with their later titles for PC-88, up to and including Mirrors, one of the only two games (the other game being the incredibly rare CD-ROM release of Dios from Zainsoft aka Sein Soft aka Xain Soft - what a company they are! - go look at Macaw's streams of their games; he gives lore on the company) released for the PC-8801MC, which had a CD player), along with how music ties to the story, atmosphere, characters, etc. of a VN. PS: Soft Studio Wing's logo says "FINE STORY & MUSIC" - and I do like the music in their games. PPS: Also regarding Soft Studio Wing, one of their titles, Hadou no Hyouteki: Legend of the Melvel, has a plot that goes pretty gonzo (it involves investigating a cult mass murder and the jungles of Vietnam, for one thing). I watched Macaw play though it, although he called it via a translation of the title: Target Wave. He still hasn't played thru Onryou Senki yet, which is their magnum opus from what I know. Well, that's enough blabbing from me for now.
cuba200611
2024-03-13 06:30:50 +0000 UTC
