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Clannad is getting retranslated, as was desperately needed.

>Q: Is there a chance that Clannad will be released in 2015?
>A: Re-translation will be necessary for CLANNAD so while we cannot confirm a release date just yet, we will strive to release CLANNAD in a timely manner. We’ll do our best to make that happen!

http://sekaiproject.tumblr.com/post/96959237651/is-there-a-chance-that-clannad-will-be-released-in

My opinions regarding Key's works and how they compare:

Being an 'English-only peasant' and having only started reading VNs in 2008, I only started reading Kanon well after having played later VNs. Though I understand its historic perspective, comparing it to later games makes Kanon feel kind of average. (I played 2.5 routes: Mai, Nayuki and half of Makoto.)

I haven't played Air since its translation project is cursed and it will never be translated.

I regard Clannad as one of the best VNs I've ever played. I thoroughly enjoyed its atmosphere, its slice-of-life comedy and its drama. I was constantly entertained with the exception of two parts, most of Kyou route and the start of After Story: the former for breaking character's personalities in a horrible manner and the latter just felt boring to me. (I played the entire game including baseball route.)

I always found Planetarian to be a tad overrated. It's a nice short story, but it wasn't as entertaining as Key's other works, the story was too predictable and the emotional ending just didn't evoke much emotion for me (part of it was the disconnect between how emotional the situation really is and how emotional the game makes the situation seem - it was just a random robot you've known for a day. What also played a major part was that it was about a robot (digital data using an artificial humanoid body) whose body was destroyed - the essence of the character (the data) could easily still be retrieved even from the 'corpse', and was in fact turned into a backup at the end of that scene).

>>9589051
>the drama is so forced it makes me laugh
Please elaborate. How is the drama 'forced' and what separates this 'forced drama' from 'normal drama'?

>the style is plain and boring
I and many others disagree. Clannad had a unique feeling to it that pulled you into its world. It was also filled with lots of humor that was very amusing.

>and the ending is a dragon ball rip off.
A wish being granted through magical means? It's an age-old trope, from way before Akira Toriyama was even born. Besides, 'the ending'? Clannad has several separate endings which are not part of a single 'main story' that would otherwise continue; that ending just happens to be the ending to After Story. The 'collecting lights' theme was also present throughout all of the story, occurring in every route, not just the ending.

Or was it perhaps that you were not aware of this because you have only watched the anime, which lacks the wonderful atmosphere, pushes the plot together into a mess that does not fit well together, condenses the drama so that it occurs without the build-up that is supposed to precede it, omits most of the visual novel's humor and only has one single true ending with the "routes" being things that just happen during the story?

For fucks sake, since when does /jp/ help random LSF developers churn out their garbage?

The main problem with OELVNs is WRITING. Almost all OELVN writing sucks. No matter how good your art may be, if your writing sucks the VN sucks. No matter how bad your art may be, if your writing is good the VN can be good (see Ryukishi07's works).

OP, there are no good OELVNs to recommend. Because OELVNs are 99% garbage. Go play a real VN instead before even considering writing a VN yourself.

Here's Clannad, good introduction to the medium:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RCPK1FWR
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=JYKVCD37
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=B8Y3RI50

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?1vg3gbb4viydpig

Now stop working on your VN until you've at least played an actual VN. Then don't come back to /jp/ until your writing is any good.

>>7857913
http://www.mediafire.com/?1vg3gbb4viydpig <-- probably not the latest, but fully works AFAIK.

Clannad.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RCPK1FWR
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=JYKVCD37
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=B8Y3RI50

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?1vg3gbb4viydpig

Now go away, /jp/ doesn't like threads like this or newbies like you. Use VNDB to get information on translated VNs and http://vnddl.webs.com/list.txt to download them, and don't come back unless you've played at least five VNs.

Clannad.

Download the game here:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RCPK1FWR
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=JYKVCD37
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=B8Y3RI50

Then replace the SEEN.TXT file in your game folder with this file:
http://www.mediafire.com/?1vg3gbb4viydpig

(Make sure you're using Japanese locale or AppLocale when installing or playing the game.)

Now get the fuck out.

<0055> \{Girl}「I...」
<0056> \{\m{B}}「It`s fine if you find it, right?」
<0057> \{Girl}「Huh...?」
<0058> Surprised, she looks at me.
<0059> As if she believed that she was alone up until now.
<0060> \{\m{B}}「It`s fine if you find the next thing that`s fun or happy, right?」
<0061> \{\m{B}}「It`s wrong to think that there`s only one such thing that`ll do that.」
<0062> \{Girl}「.........」
<0063> That`s right.
<0064> Times when we were innocent and naive...
<0065> We were all once like that.
<0066> \{\m{B}}「Come on, let`s go.」