Anonymous22 wrote:Yeah, there was never going to be a Kenji or Misha route. This was never considered, except maybe as a joke. Tired of hearing this rumor circulate.
Whoosh.
Damn. A22 comes out of hiding to say I'm full of shit. It's almost flattering.
Looked back at my sources, and I was clearly misremembering what I had read. Looks like Aura and Silentcook said that a Misha route would be the most likely route in the (not gonna happen) event that there were more routes. Obviously not monolithic, considering Suriko's answer to a similar question.
There may have been side comments by individual devs to similar effect in AMAs or other interview-like formats, but I was wrong on this point. Apologies to the devs for perpetuating a false rumor.
Don't read too deeply into it. There is no reason to apologize.
There was never any chance of there being more routes. There were barely enough resources to complete the game you got, and the sketch the game was based on had five romanceable girls. Going beyond that is just masturbation.
Xanatos wrote:(Also, I continue to mentally pronounce 'cpl_crud' as 'cripple crud'. I have no idea why and it makes me feel bad.)
I do that too!
I always thought "cpl" was short for "corporal" but to be sure, you'd have to ask him yourselves.
It is.
Confirmed in ask thread.
By me.
I feel proud of myself.
But we have these great fan fictions for all of your Misha needs. Like the list that Allistair posted on the first page on the thread.
Granted, I'm not a big fan of Misha, but I think an actual route, even if it's made by the fans in form of the fics posted on the forum is pretty awesome. Seeing Misha "With her hair down" in a sense amazes me. What kind of person does she act like alone, not in public? How would she react to a romantic relationship?
*Shrug*
Emibro, [Hanabro],[Lilly Lover], Rin Kin, Feminist, Two-timer
Currently: None.
To do list: Clannad, Chaos;Head, Steins;Gate
Finished: Toradora, Katawa Shoujo, Analogue: A hate story, Narcissu.
ProfAllister wrote:If memory serves, the devs posted in the "Ask" thread that they had considered the possibility of Misha Route, Kenji route, etc., but ultimately decided that it was better to stick to the Original Source Material. So, regardless of how desirable ANY route would be, the Original Source argument vetoes any and all extra routes.
As far as fan works go, sure, why not. Interestingly enough, there only seem to have been three serious fan attempts at an actual Misha route. (I haven't found any others, but your Google-Fu may be stronger than mine.)
1) DrSciencePhd's Route (Completed) - Extremely short in comparison to the canon routes.
2) Doomish's Misha Pseudo-Route (In Progress)(On Semi-Hiatus) - Undergoing a rewrite. Original here. Doomish is evidently extremely busy, so updates are sporadic.
3) My own humble attempt (In Progress) - Only including this here for the sake of completeness. I don't have near the resume of Doomish, but I do consider this a serious attempt. So far, I've been able to maintain a schedule of updating on Thursdays.
Since I'm currently working on one of the three, I will refrain from making any judgment on the other attempts.
Refined_Malachite wrote:How does one go about installing the route?
...I'm sorry, I've been on the internet a long time and cannot tell if serious.
<KeiichiO>: "I wonder what Misha's WAHAHA's sound like with a cock stuffed down her throat..." <Ascension>: "I laughed, cried, vomited in my mouth a little, and even had time for marshmallows afterwards. Well played, Xanatos. Well played." <KeiichiO>: "That's a beautiful response to chocolate."
Being unavailable to dicks is kind of the point oflesbians.
....more seriously, the reason that she has no route of her own while being very prominent, cute and in need of hugs might be so that the player will be genuinely tempted to cheat on Shizune, because you're sitting behind a screen, and would normally tend to be more logical about it - "Staying faithful will obviously give me the good end, I'll play her own route later to get her naked".
The way it is probably simulates a RL adultery scenario more closely
Lesbianism or at least bisexuality do seem more likely, since it's implied that her crush on Shizune has persisted for years, way past that middle-of-puberty~ish orientation phase. The distinguishing characteristic of a phase is that it fades by itself over time. but admittedly, there's no way to be sure.
kendrix wrote:Being unavailable to dicks is kind of the point oflesbians.
....more seriously, the reason that she has no route of her own while being very prominent, cute and in need of hugs might be so that the player will be genuinely tempted to cheat on Shizune, because you're sitting behind a screen, and would normally tend to be more logical about it - "Staying faithful will obviously give me the good end, I'll play her own route later to get her naked".
The way it is probably simulates a RL adultery scenario more closely
Lesbianism or at least bisexuality do seem more likely, since it's implied that her crush on Shizune has persisted for years, way past that middle-of-puberty~ish orientation phase. The distinguishing characteristic of a phase is that it fades by itself over time. but admittedly, there's no way to be sure.
The reason she has no route is the devs didn't feel like unboxing it. It's still in that box Hisao delivered to Kenji.
<KeiichiO>: "I wonder what Misha's WAHAHA's sound like with a cock stuffed down her throat..." <Ascension>: "I laughed, cried, vomited in my mouth a little, and even had time for marshmallows afterwards. Well played, Xanatos. Well played." <KeiichiO>: "That's a beautiful response to chocolate."
All of them? I noticed he deleted "Misstep", but...
*checks*
Uh, yes, it seems he deleted most of his stories including his Misha route which is a shame, really...
"With apologies..." seems to be still there,though.
Parliament wrote:All these Doomish fics being linked reminds me why I miss Doomish
Does he have a pastebin and does anyone know why he edited away all his fics?
He has a pastebin, but he wiped that, too. As I understand, he decided that he doesn't have a future in writing and should move on. He also considered the content of much of his work to be something he no longer wanted associated with his name. I don't really agree with his decision to purge, but it's his decision to make.
Jesus, I thought that he'd just gotten rid of "Misstep" and his stories that were closer to "really not goddamn cool, man" than "pretty alright". I could understand his removal of works like "Cutter", but............
"Shiina Mikado vs the World" and "Braving the Storm" were in my headcanon, man. My headcanon. You do not mess with a man's headcanon and expect him to assent. Especially not by outright deleting it. I am genuinely saddened by this turn of events. Still, I suppose it was his own work to delete as he saw fit. I just wish I could have saved some of them.
Prof, please, for the love of God, don't delete your Misha route. Even if you decide that it was all a mistake, abandon it, distance yourself from it, or burn/delete everything else you've ever written because you begin to feel a violent disgust for your works. Please. We can't lose any more good fanfics about her. It is not a possibility.
