Which version play first?

[Antera]

Acta est fabula (+18) or Amantes amentes?

Both of them just released on Mangagamer

[kilicool64]

Play Amantes Amentes first. It's the superior version.

The only thing it doesn't have is H-scenes. If you want to get those as well, first finish AA, then take a look at this list to see where to find the H-scenes in Acta Est Fabula.

[Antera]

thnx

[sergej.krolik]

Originally posted by kilicool64:

Play Amantes Amentes first.

Bad idea. In current steam version of Amantes all CGs, backgrounds and sprites are significantly cropped which already is inferior experience comparing to Fabula.
Also It is very inconvenient and tiresome to search h-scenes AFTER you completed the game. You get only inferior experience again since h-scenes are losing their impact significantly when being watched separately, disconnected from already known story.
Whereas in case when you play Fabula first - you lose nothing. Extra stories provided in Amantes are all separated from main story in special menu and easily activated by instant (F7) "skip until next choice" which let you complete main routes second time in like 2 minutes. Extra ending is easily achieved as well by skipping until final choice in Rea route. AFAIK there aren't any more differences between versions textwise except in steam Amantes here all choices and routes are unlocked from the start whereas in Fabula you have to unlock them in order. Also in Amantes are couple of replacement scenes instead of hentai but they aren't important at all.

[kilicool64]

While I haven't read any of the H-scenes yet, if they're like in most eroge, then they'd just feel out of place in a story like this and bring the pacing to a halt. Whereas none of the replacement scenes I read so far had these problems. So I wouldn't recommend reading the H-scenes on your first run.

[BlackHayate]

Originally posted by sergej.krolik:

Originally posted by kilicool64:

Play Amantes Amentes first.

Bad idea. In current steam version of Amantes all CGs, backgrounds and sprites are significantly cropped which already is inferior experience comparing to Fabula.
Also It is very inconvenient and tiresome to search h-scenes AFTER you completed the game. You get only inferior experience again since h-scenes are losing their impact significantly when being watched separately, disconnected from already known story.
Whereas in case when you play Fabula first - you lose nothing. Extra stories provided in Amantes are all separated from main story in special menu and easily activated by instant (F7) "skip until next choice" which let you complete main routes second time in like 2 minutes. Extra ending is easily achieved as well by skipping until final choice in Rea route. AFAIK there aren't any more differences between versions textwise except in steam Amantes here all choices and routes are unlocked from the start whereas in Fabula you have to unlock them in order. Also in Amantes are couple of replacement scenes instead of hentai but they aren't important at all.

So it's exactly the same game except the bonus stories and the second ending? I bought AA and 1/4 of every cg missing is really bugging me. I also found out that some cg's are censored (e.g. removed blood). Now I question every single CG if it's censored or not and it's really tiring to doublecheck everything. If what you say is true I will just play through AF normally and read the extra stuff after I finished a route in AA.

[Harp]

The only non-porn cg that was censored afaik would be one with Spinne. The ideal version is the one on Mangagamer. If you're bugged that much by the CGs there's also the awesomness of Light refusing to fix a single typo. (translators have compiled everything, but Light adamantly refuses to fix it.)
It's all up to you which version to play, I think 4:3 is also available on the MG version of AA. Some scenes have been quite edited, I personally found the first (erotic) scene with Kei to be really weird in AF and preferred the all-ages version in AA. So yeah it's pretty personal, but enjoyable nonetheless either way.

[f-sh96]

Definitely play AA first, it's the suprior version in every aspect, it have 3 side stories and 2 routes true epilogue + the famous three colors ending

The only thing AA don't have is the porn, which you can download the patch later after you complet the whole game

The H-scenes have absolutely no effect on the story and your experience much like 90% of the other visual novel it feel out of the place and it there just for pandering sake

[BlackHayate]

Originally posted by Harp:

The ideal version is the one on Mangagamer.

I would love to but I already bought it on steam so buying it again is out of the question.

[Harp]

Yeah, the suffering exists for almost all of us sadly.