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I know people will say I'm biased, but you can't spell biased without "I" and "based".

I like both designs quite a bit myself; but I feel like the remake one does a couple things that I don't like.

The original is a really good embodyment of the character and is able to do a lot with Takeuchi's more primitive art at the time, it manages to set her apart and highlight what her character is while not straying from what the rest of the VN is. That said it is obvious that like many other things og tsukihime that it is very much a diamond in the rough situation and that it does lack this aspect of polish.

The remake is able to address a lot of this by just 20 years of extra experience and in many ways is able to refine the overall design a fair bit; even if we have to put up with the sameface problem (even though Ciel suffers the least from this). My main gripe with the remake is her executioner outfit which goes from pretty badass but still rough to an immitation of Mash from Fate/Grand Order, while I do like a lot of the work put in the new outfit and all it does to try and improve; it goes from bland in comparison to the rest of the game to bland in comparison to the rest of the nasuverse. The big thing for me is the tattoos (or lack thereof), they worked as a really nice accentuation to her outfit and managed to make executioner Ciel a quite nice and detailed design especially in the original game; remake throws all of this out of the window for a more generic version of her outfit which would do well with the tattoos and early design documents show that they were considered and then later removed.

Title says it all.

TL;DR: start with the original here then move on to the rest, if you don't like visual novels then you can read the manga which has been translated on mangadex but that doesn't adapt anything from the far side routes. DO NOT START WITH SOME MYTHICAL TSUKIHIME ANIME, if you were to find it across timelines you can discuss how bad it is with our other fellow steiners (do people still get Steins; Gate references?)

Tsukihime is a work with a few adaptations and such, and knowing where to start may be a daunting task, this thread should help you get started. There are a few ways to get started and I'll be summarizing the main ones here.

Original Visual Novel

Pros:

• You get to enjoy the full story

Cons:

• Really old
• Very Long (~40h on vndb)

This is the general recommendation if you're in it for the long run, the VN has quite a few rough edges; but if you can look past those it is the best way to enjoy the story, just know that it is basically a book with some PNGs and music. It runs perfectly fine on Windows and will run natively on Mac/Linux when using a native onscripter-en, additionally a web version has also been made for platforms where onscripter-en is not a sane option.

Remake

Pros:

• Better art, music and story
• Officially available

Cons:

• Only on switch/PS4 (PS4 does not have an english translation)
• Requires patch for english translation (switch only)
• New timeline
• Only the first 2 routes

I don't recommend starting here as there are many cons and the remake changes the story quite a bit and currently only the first 2 routes are available which is a small fraction of the game.

Update: An official English release for the first part is slated for 2024.

Manga

Pros:

• Great art

Cons:

• Only first route

The manga is a good starting point for if you are on the edge or unwilling to read either VN, it only covers the first route of the game and pull some elements from the second route later on.

Notes

• For many Tsukihime goes from great to masterpiece in it's far side routes, these routes have not been adapted outside of the original VN
• The far side routes will be in the remake as a separate game for which no release date has been provided yet
• you can find more info on readtsukihi.me

News has it that Roa has reawakened; but the church has yet to ascertain his location, in order to aid our efforts in defeating him once and for all I have been tasked with creating an online place where we can collect evidence from all over the world instantaneously so we can finally beat that old fashioned self proclaimed princess to the punch.

This is a lemmy community focused on discussions about Type Moon's first visual novel: Tsukihime (lit: moon princess). I am not affiliated with the tsukihime subreddit; I'm just a random fan who wanted a place to discuss the series.

Most discussion here will likely be around the visual novel (original or remake), but related media is fine too (just like a certain cat), so discussions regarding plus disk, kagetsu tohya, or melty blood are also encouraged.

Fate, Kara no Kyoukai, Mahoutsukai no Yoru, DDD, and other nasuverse works should be discussed in their own community unless there is some tie back to tsukihime.

PS: Ciel best girl