I've been meaning to watch through apocrypha, but like you mentioned near the end I probably need to watch through stay/night first (I've done the weird thing of avoiding the main series and instead watched stuff like the Illya spin-off and picked up f/go). Though, one of the out of context things I've seen shared around was the fight between Karna and Sieg as it being top tier best fight animation but I really didn't like it. If I were to put it into words it's too "style over substance" for my liking and the non-stop high action lessens the overall impact, fight scenes need nice lulls in action to properly build up impact. It also felt like it was missing proper "weight" on the impacts so there was never any moments where I'd go "Hell yeah" at an attack landing, it just fell into beam spam tier where you just start to zone out. I'll say the effects are really nice at least, but there's nothing else that really impressed me. Also, personal dislike of mine was how weird the two looked throughout the whole thing.
I think the reason the Karna vs Sieg fight was hyped up was because it was done by newbie animators and for the style of it. Honestly I found Chiron vs Achilles to be a better fight since the blows each of them gave were really brutal and had some impact. The story context also works since it's a teacher fighting his student, which is a basic trope but still works quite well and the fight had a lot of weight to it in terms of emotional weight for the characters as well as like I said, how each attack felt like there was some impact to it since you see how each get damaged.
Well, it is a dumb sex comedy, there's no need to look for Deep Meanings, Allusions and Metaphors in Reviewers.
I've found for visual novels I have a hard time playing them on stuff like computers, much prefer using my vita for them. It's weird I know, but at least with my vita I can lounge in bed or really play anywhere, I start getting antsy sitting for too long. Might see if I can find some portable options for the game or I might just give up and play the VN in short bursts.
Faggot otaku must think we're just being weebs.
Can confirm. (Although I have the 'tism so I still need subs - Japanese ones.)
BigOnAnime is someone that posts quite frequently over at the anime section on Blu-ray.com and they've always seem to be pretty knowledgeable there, at least regarding the going ons of the western anime market. I think the issue at hand is just different opinions on "proper" subbing regarding how much should or shouldn't be localized, an issue that always comes up regarding official vs. fan translations. From reading their points I think they're of the mind that as much as possible things should be translated into English rather than leave in Japanese words unless a word doesn't have a close enough English counterpart (at least this is what I'm guessing). Personally, I'm also somewhat of this mind because when taken to the extreme you get crap like this (Sadly couldn't find the "ONORE PRIME" specific screenshot I was thinking of
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Onee-chan means sister, but I'm used to poor translations that I knew what you were going for. If you like meme-tier "shoot your goo, my dude" subtitles, then by all means go ahead. No need to be a okama about it. Troma had something to do with that Totoro dub, right? It was pretty good from what I recall.
The unfortunate part here is that FSN does have a vita port for both the original game and the sequel, but of course they're japanese only. Yeah somehow even though the entire franchise prints money and most of the spinoff games have gotten official translations, the original VNs still never have. Part of me wonders if it's because they know most people played the fanpatch already and no one would buy it, but if Muv-luv is any indication I think there'd still be people out there supporting a popular VN's official release.
Finish Sexy Commando Gaiden, pleb. You need to balance out the moeblobs some more.