So after playing F/S N I wanted more from Type Moon, so I DL'd Tsukihime (I can't believe Mirror Moon expects me to buy this game >.< such fucking moral fags [sorry gay posters])
I played through the Ciel route first, and I fucking LOVED it. I loved the immersion of this game. I can't wait for games like Heavy Rain that'll only take what visual novels already do, and take it to a much higher level... although Nasu's writing is really nice. I loved how he does his horror scenes the most. The distortions, the weird spacing out, the repeating of words, the leaving out of words, they're all really cool technique that's unique to a VN. The game creators also do a nice job in both F/S N and Tsukihime, really making you feel creaped out with some images (I accidently got into the Near Side route [?] with the 3 girls, and I got FREAKED out when I saw the picture of Satsuki early on... the music they used when she first appears and then subsequently afterwards with the image... man I got freaked out. Check my F/S N album and the last pic to see what I'm talking about.)
The artwork was a major step down, but it felt more natural also, like pencils and sketches. And not only am I getting used to it, but when it gets to those really important scenes (like the last scene in Ciel's route) the artwork is just beautiful.
The game is also a LOT less linear than F/S N. Most of the choices in F/S N are either live or die ones, or worthless/cute/touching ones. But in Tsukihime, like with Satsuki, Ciel, etc you can miss out on some really nice scenes. You have lot more routes, and it seems harder to distinguish where and how to get (without the use of a walkthrough) from one route to the other.
