Tomoyo After

[crooksy]

There is no way i can express my gratitude to the entire Doki VN department in words, so i will just say this:

THANK YOU for that amazing experience that was Tomoyo: After Story. I will forever remember what i have just experienced.

But this. Oh lord. For the entire duration of the Tomoyo After: After, i had tears in my eyes, and towards the end the dam breached and i sat there crying like a kid for 10 minutes.
This is the most emotional experience i have ever had, and i would recommend it to anyone, anytime.

I wish you all the best of luck for any future VN subbing.

Took the words right out of my mouth. Although, the experience left me slightly jaded. Perhaps I was hoping for a different outcome because of Clannad, than what TA:IAWL offered. A part of me feels as if there was a degree of punishment exercised by Key and the VN team to Tomoyo fans out there with the way this one ended. I am unsure, as these mixed feelings are hard for me to grasp.

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It is said that ME edition offers a happier ending, and that something extra can be gained from completing the D&T mini-game. I have yet to complete the latter so I cannot say with any certainty.

With these guys, I am so amazingly grateful in this day and age to have played this game,

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I'd previously listened to the song 'Harmony with Sorrow' before I even played the game and it sounded amazing, although it gave me a sad feeling for some reason. I played the entire game without once hearing the song, only the different version named 'Harmony' which didn't seem to be as sad in my opinion. Towards the end of the game once I heard this song play for the only time, I knew what had happened and I immediately felt heartbroken and burst out crying like a 5 year old child for the entire time that the epilogue was playing and Tomoyo was typing out her story on the keyboard. This game had such an impact on me and even though Clannad After Story had a huge impact on me, I wasn't bawling like a baby for anywhere near the duration that I cried for this game. I guess to sum it up, I'm grateful to both Doki and Key for making me experience this amazing story. The several years wait was more than worth it.

Cannot wait until you guys release the Memorial edition patch! <3

EDIT: GIMME DAT TOMOYO AFTER ANIME SERIES, one can always hope

[Silly Helen]

There is a manga, though. It doesn't illustrate things too well and it is really short, but it shows things in a different perspective.

The thing I'm really, really looking forward to is the Memorial Edition. The fact that Tomoya is voiced and it has extra dialogue and stuff really... rustles my jimmies. Jiggles my giggles. Rambos my stallones.

I'm hoping to see more of Takafumi and Kanako, though. I feel like there was more to their story than what they showed us. :c

[NanayaEmiya]

Hello everyone, could someone please clarify and confirm this:

"the player must finish eight of the mini RPGs games called “Dungeons & Takafumis” which are available during certain scenarios as the player continues to play the game."   (-from information section, http://doki.co/visual-novels/clannad-tomoyo-after/)

If you've finished D&T, click spoiler:

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My understanding is that Dungeons & Takafumis does not end in just one playthrough and beating this mini RPG game eight times regardless of rank will unlock something. Is this theory right on the money?

[Cellular Mink]

First of all, I'd like to thank everyone at Doki for releasing this marvelous patch! (Yeah, I know I'm late, so shush. >: O  I was busy finishing the VN!)

It was a joy to play through, and right now, I'm still working on playing Dungeons & Takafumis.  It's an entertaining little game, and the story is hilarious.  (On that same note, Kanako is a riot.  I love her.)

One of my favorite things to do is to play through all of the "bad" endings.

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In particular, the part where Tomoya fails to build the school was an interesting one.  Hypothetically, if Tomoyo knew that Tomoya would die in the end, which path do you think she would choose?  Would she rather have led a meaningful life after Tomoya's death, or would she have chosen to live every day with Tomo and Tomoya while losing the more emotional aspect of their relationship?  Tomoyo After certainly gave me the opportunity to reflect on my own principles and the decisions I would have made were I in the characters' situations. 

Does anyone know what happened to Tomo in the end?  Did her mother end up passing away?

Oh, and also...  I was incredibly surprised by the same ending I mentioned earlier, particularly during the parts where Tomoyo manipulated Tomoya using her body.  That was extremely dark. o_________o;  If you played through that ending, you know what I mean...  However, I was happy that Tomoyo was able demonstrate her emotional strength during those 3 years of Tomoya's constant memory loss.  That's one thing I know I would not be able to do... but who knows.  The power of love can be amazing, as was proven in this story.

What were your thoughts?

[Soliloquist]

On which edition does this English patch work? And where can I actually purchase the version on which the English patch can be applied?

I'm new to this whole visual novel stuff; I thought I'd give it a try.

Help would be much appreciated. Thanks!

[Yokusuma]

Do I report errors here? I keep getting crashes when the first MV starts loading ... what do I do? 

[AMH]

Ugh, I stayed up until 3 AM achieving these feels.

My jaw literally hung open, and I stared at the dialogue for a minute when Tomoyo said

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she has been going through the same painful cycle of his memory loss for THREE YEARS. Telling the same story, going to the same places. Even Tomoya got tired of her asking about it at the end of the week, yet she did it every 10 days with a smile on her face.

Also, I finally playing after 100%ing the original Clannad and AS back in 2008 or so and reading the Tomoyo After manga around then (because Tomoyo was my favorite character), so I sort of knew what type of ending to expect. However, it does seem like he just has a speech and walking impediment, and he's starting to recover. I didn't get the impression that he dies, which would be too sad for Tomoyo All because of that damn rain in the village! So what makes people think he died?

[Rokudaime]

@Yokosuma & Soliloquist
I'll reply to both of you in the same post.

Do I report errors here? I keep getting crashes when the first MV starts loading ... what do I do? 

Please report errors in the "Tomoyo After Game Error Thread". Read through the topic btw, and the last few pages here: http://doki.co/2012/09/22/tomoyo-after-english-patch-v1/#comments  Chances are your problem has already been posted by someone else and answered before.

On which edition does this English patch work? And where can I actually purchase the version on which the English patch can be applied?

I'm new to this whole visual novel stuff; I thought I'd give it a try.

Help would be much appreciated. Thanks!

This patch is for the Standard/Regular Edition of Tomoyo After. It does not work on the Memorial Edition (which is superior). The patch for the Memorial Edition is being worked on however, and will be out later. As for where you can buy the game...The Memorial Edition is available a few places, but the Regular Edition is extremely hard to come by. Have a look at the thread I posted a link to above, in my response to Yokosuma. I believe the main places where you can get the game are listed there in the comments.

[Morlok8k]

hey guys, I dont know if this has been mentioned anywhere, but i thought i'd share a small experience:

I'm playing TA on linux (Ubuntu specifically), using the RLVM engine.  In order for TA to load, it requires the font "msgothic.ttc" (MS Gothic) to be in the game directory.
I copied it from my Windows 7 computer.

now, MS Gothic is an ugly font.  So i recommend that you copy "ARIALUNI.TTF" (Arial Unicode) instead, and rename it "msgothic.ttc".  it works fine, and looks SO much better!

[Morlok8k]

I've noticed that with repeated playing of Tomoyo After, that i'm seeing less and less scenes with the blue leaves/ivy around the text box.  what is the significance of this?

My first play had blue ivy until i got to Tomoyo After: After.  then the leaves vanished for that section.  Now I'm only seeing the leaves occasionally in the earlier sections.


I really noticed this when i had two Tomoyo After games running side by side (one running in RLVM and one in Wine - as i'm using linux).  the Wine window was a fresh install, the RLVM save had been played through a lot.  The fresh save file had the leaves, but the old didnt.

[ERIZO]

> Hello, comrades.
> Who do I speak with about Tomoyo After ME technical issues?
> I would really love to see THIS version of the game in English (and Russian respectively), but before you are done with translation it's like swimming in the ocean of odd squiggles.
> So, to be brief, there are some questions we would like to ask:
> Are there still problems with text insertion into the ME version, if yes - what are they?
> Will there be rlBabel to LB and ME, if not - why? If yes - what problems are there and how are you going to solve them? (or solved them)
> We are interested in the correct memory maps for 1.5.9.1 or 1.6.0.1 engines, we failed to find the correct address for FontQuality, and we are not quite sure about the rest though it still works... + there is no Glosses support in 1.6.0.1.
> Probably we can help solving some problems?
> Eagerly waiting for your reply,
> Yours sincerely, Erizo.