/jp/ - Otaku Culture

This may not be the right place to ask, but I'm trying to install Monobeno and it just gets stuck after the first second, then nothing happens. Any ideas?

>>14073167
ignore me, I got it. Applocale wasn't working right.

>>14073180
I'd recommend setting the non-unicode program locale to japan. Applocale is very unreliable and doesn't even work for a lot of games.

did anyone else try Sorairo Innocent trial? I wasn't interested at first but I decided to take a quick look at it because Its a title from AkabeiSoft3, my favorite eroge company. and I was surprised, I expected something like Ao no Kanata, but it was differient. This one focus more on the slice of life part. all the heroines are really attractive, the art is pretty nice and the setting is cool, I didn't expect to take interest in Ultralight Aircraft before this. The only bad part is the horrible and complete shit MC. I thought eroge writers stopped making the self-insert beta MCs anymore. Except for his knowledge on airplanes he is beyond saving. It felt like I was playing with PrettyxCation MC.

Anyway, this game is my most hyped one next month, If you like comfy moege don't miss it.

Anyone played either Traveling Stars or Tenkiame yet? How are they so far? The former has good sales but not so good ratings on EGS, while the latter is the other way around.

>>14073000
This woman is sexy.

>>14074234
I'm playing both of them:

Traveling Star's common route is pretty good, I'm at the end of common route and I really enjoyed so far, will read my first heroine route today. As I metioned at >>14073497 the age thing was a little bothersome but I decided to ignore that, other than this I dont have any problem with it. The VA's were sound kinda bad at the start, but they grown into me as I play. All of heroines are pretty charming too, except saya, she just fucks every fucking scene she appears. Thanks to god that she doesn't have that much screen time and game lets you choose events of the day.

In short so far it definitely doesn't deserve the score it got from EGS, it should be 75-78 imo.

For Tenkiame, It has the second best e-mote I have ever seen (first one is Witch garden without a doubt), and have a really relaxing countryside feeling. As a someone who likes that kind of setting, I'm enjoying it more than traveling stars to be honest.

>>14074712
>The VA's were sound kinda bad at the start, but they grown into me as I play
Chloe and Saya's VAs don't have very many titles under their belts at all.

>>14074738
As I said I'm only at the common route so I dont know how was her performance at h-scenes etc, but so far I think Chloe's VA did a great job, or maybe best in the game. Her voice definitely fits into that kinda cool vampire personality, I'd like to see her more for sure.

But yeah Saya's voice was pure annoying as her personality, I dont think she'll be able to find many jobs in this industry. Also I didnt like the elf's voice too, she sounds just too unnatural.

Just finished the Kumika route of Subahibi's Looking-glass Insects. Haven't done the other route yet. I don't want to keep going. The other route will be Zakuro's suicide. I want them all to be happy. I want them all to live. Please just let it end here.

>>14074808
Err, I meant Kimika for that first spoiler tag, obviously.

>>14074994
You won't regret continuing. Insects might be hard to get through but it's really quite short.

>>14074808
You shouldn't be playing SubaHibi if you can't handle suffering.

Sakura no Uta will probably be more your taste instead, assuming it will ever actually come out.

>>14074712
I see, I'll go for Tenkiame first then. If I have more time I'll give Traveling Star a try. Thanks.

>>14073000
Source...

>>14074808
Kimika and Takuji make a better couple anyway, and you won't be disappointed by the karaoke.

How long did it take you to read Grisaia untranslated?

http://otapol.jp/2015/09/post-3918.html

Push!! is dead, this month's issue will be the last one.

/jp/, what are some good military or sci fi VNs you've read? I picked out everything on VNDB with the hard sci-fi tag that looked good, but the plain sci-fi tag is really large, and I don't think military even has a tag.
>recommendations
Rather than asking for a recommendation for me, I just want to hear what you guys enjoyed. Sorry if that breaks thread implied culture/rules.

>>14076036
Very long (> 50 hours)
https://vndb.org/v5154

>>14076076
You can't really trust those, some of the estimates I've seen had to have been read by people with one hand on the skip key and others are grossly exaggerated.

>>14076082
They've pretty much always been on the low side in my experience, which means the 50+ estimates are always accurate.

>>14076057
Stop acting like a newfag please. It's embarrassing.

>>14076207
I don't mind.

>>14076057
Gunjou no Sora wo Koete

>>14074752
Yeah, despite her relative inexperience, Chloe's VA did do a great job.

>>14076240
Is there a live torrent for that anywhere at all? It's something high on my list to play, if I ever find a copy.

>>14076274
Not a torrent but I'm pretty sure there are live links for it on Anime-sharing

>>14076057
>sci fi VNs
Chaos;Head, Steins;Gate and Chaos;Child. The first is okay though not that memorable but is needed for the sequel, Chaos;Child was lot more enjoyable in my opinion and Steins;Gate is one of my favorite VNs in general. It's also standalone so you don't need to play the other games in series.
Chaos;Child is sadly only available for consoles so you're stuck unless you have a jailbroken machine or are willing to import.

Also check out Nakazawa's sci-fi games. Ever17 is mostly pretty great with some boring middle parts, Remember11 is fantastic save for the extremely shitty (lack of) ending. I/O is good too, but goes to shit after the first five routes and Root Double was also pretty enjoyable save for the extremely boring final route. If you're playing Root Double get the PS3 / Vita Xtend Edition if you can. I heard they fixed the shitty pacing of the final route and moved some of the boring, needless flashbacks into post-game extra section.

If you're into mecha there's Baldr series, Muv-Luv and Muramasa. Baldr Sky Dive 1 & 2 have fantastic gameplay portions.
I'm not sure if you can exactly call Muramasa sci-fi (it's alternate history with flight-capable sentient power suits whose explanation is something between science / magic), but it has quite a lot of military stuff and shit about war especially in the final route.

Then there's (spoilered the game's name in case since it's a sort of genre shift, HINT: it's written by Tanaka Romeo) Saihate no IMA.

>>14076456
So there are! Thanks, I'd completely forgotten about DDL.
>>14076467
Ah, thank you very much. Root Double definitely looks like an interesting game, and naturally I'm quite interested in Muramasa. I never did end up playing any of the Sci;Fi games or Ever17 despite them being fairly popular in English circles so maybe it's time to get around to those.

>>14076274
It's on DMM

>>14076467
>Chaos;Child is sadly only available for consoles

I will never understand why VNs get made for consoles. This angers me way more than it should.

>>14076057
Hello World for sci fi

>>14076526
>I will never understand why VNs get made for consoles

See >>14076274 >>14076456

>>14076537
Even if I owned a console I wouldn't buy the game. Games become console exclusives simply because there are poor people? Doubtful

>>14076550
Even rich people torrent shit.

>>14076550
>Games become console exclusives simply because there are poor people?

Because there are lots of people who can afford buying games but would rather not if they can easily torrent them

>>14076568
>>14076570
There are far more poor people than upper class people

Is there a recommended route order for KKK?

>>14076748
Leave Rindou for last, I guess.

>>14076748
Uninstaller's route -> drop

>>14076748
The game consists of one long common route with only brief branches in the middle. Which pair you selected the most (or was it which pair you selected in a certain branch?) decides whose epilogue you see. After clearing all the epilogues the game jumps straight to the final ending.

I'd suggest saving Habaki & Rindou for the last and Yakou & Ryuusui right before them, though on the other hand the first "route" you choose probably ends up having the most impact since having to replay the whole game and the brief branches 4 god damn times really fucks with the pacing. Thank god there was a chapter / scene skip.

tl;dr I'd personally recommend
Keishirou & Sakuya > Soujirou & Shiori > Yakou & Ryuusui > Habaki & Rindou

>>14076808
Also mentioning this just in case, but make sure you've finished all routes of Dies Irae beforehand.

>>14076808
Thanks, I'll follow the order you suggested. And yeah, I just finished reading Dies Irae about a week ago so everything is still fresh in my mind.

>one long common route with only brief branches in the middle
This actually sounds more appealing to me than splitting the story up into four short stories. I was a bit worried about that since the game is supposedly a lot shorter than Dies.

Finally finished Rance 03. The plot was interesting, a lot of the characters were enjoyable to read about and some of jokes made me chuckle, which is more than a lot of comedy games manage (and less than what some serious ones end up doing). It's definitely the best out of the Rance games I've played (01 and 2).

Still, there was one thing about it that I found annoying: the gameplay. While the battle system was competent and an integral part of the game, it was infuriating at times. There were occasional boss fights that turned out to be a pain to deal with and while trying to figure out the best combination of skills and characters to get your underleveled party through a fight, trying the same thing several times had the hadit of ruining the pacing of the scene. Mind you, there were few formations that make your party basically unkillable while you can slowly chip away the enemy's health so it wasn't that big of a deal.

Also, random encounters. Fuck random encounters. The cards in the dungeon are one thing, those I can deal with, but the game gave me a fucking random encounter almost every time I traveled between towns. They were also completely random, varying from small fries you can one shot to party wipe. Not to mention some fights begin right as you enter a location, which means your carefully laid plans can go up in flames before you even reach the enemy.

Anyway, I'm thinking of skipping 4 and its side stories until the remake comes out and moving onto 5D. I've heard some good things about Kichikuou, but I'm not a huge fan of its style of gameplay so I'll probably play it sometime later, maybe after 04, maybe sooner. Either way, is there anything significant in 4 that would affect my enjoyment of the rest of the series or is it safe to skip?

>>14077446
you'd want to play R4 at least before R9, but otherwise you're fine really.

>>14077446
Skipping IV will be to your detriment if you intend to play IX

>>14077588
>>14077640
How long is it? If it's about the lenght of 2 I can probably just blitz through it in few hours and move on knowing that the remake will probably add decent amount of content, but if it's considerably longer I don't think I'll bother. It's not like I have to play IX right now, I will have to come back to the series once X and 04 come out anyway.

>>14077650
IIRC I spent 2 days on it while fucking around or you could spend about 30 minutes reading a lets play of it the game instead as the dialogue is the only important thing from IV unlike with III.

>>14077650
Just read this and save yourself about 10-14 hours. http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/lets-play-rance-iv-legacy-of-the-sect-nsfw.86140/

>>14077681
>>14077690
I'll give that a read then. Do 4.1 and 4.2 have anything relevant to them?

>>14077865
A few references here and there, but nothing major. It's not worth playing but may be worth reading a let's play if you're curious. Shouldn't take more than 20 minutes.
http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/lets-play-rance-4-1-4-2-nsfw.90546/

>>14077865
Strictly speaking the only truly must play games plot wise are 03, VI, IX and obviously X when it is released.

They are the games that relate to the central narrative of the game.

First two games just introduce some characters.
IV is pretty useful in regards to Rance IX (III, IV and VI are good for IX, Magnum for working out what happened in the true end)
It doesn't impact any other games.
4.1 and 4.2 are pretty much irrelevant. Genri and Kisara make appearances later and the assassin is referred to in IX.
5D just introduces a couple of characters and has a major Feliss event.
Sengoku has a pretty critical event to Rance's motivations in the next two games (but Quest doesn't have much of a plot and narratively Patton is the protagonist of IX)

>>14078275
I'll keep that in mind. Is there more to Sengoku than Sill being frozen? I played some of it a long time ago and it was actually the game that turned me away from the series until now.

>>14078335
Just introducing a couple of characters like Kenshin and Sen but mainly references to previous games.
And Miki and Kentarou will be very important in X but they'll be reintroduced there

>>14078335
It's no more important than VI, IX or 03.

there was so much I wanted to write about this game, but now I'm just baffled by that final path...wat. wtf even happened?

still, it made for a nice catharsis after all the suffering, and I actually appreciate that they kept it subtle instead of going off with some meaningless explanatory infodump in the end. it's not like you can sensibly resolve a groundhog day type scenario in the first place.

elsewhere, the art of rin-sin with the animated CGs and sprites (especially the lips, even if they werent't fully synchronous) was great, and the same goes for the music of keishi yonao (though I have no idea for which specific tracks he was responsible). at the very least, I can say that I don't regret my time playing this game, I also give it credit for making me stay up until half past seven one time.

>>14078461
So did he tell him?

>>14073000
I played elf all stars 3 mahjong and got interested what game she is from. But then it turned out to be nothing but disgusting suffering for her. And I wish didn't.

>>14078529
No, he was bluffing.

>>14078551
it couldnt be helped.

>>14075417

What's this from ?

>>14078734
Follow the conversation, loser; it's literally in reply to the game release announcement.

>>14078738
It's not the same game dumbass.
http://www.eternal-will.jp/alpharide/character.html
Is anything here related to the pic i quoted itself?

>>14078734
It's Traveling Stars.

>>14078754
Thanks man. I've been searching by character tags and they give me shit.

>>14078975
About time.

I'm about to quote Dies Irae in my university entrance essay

Is that a good idea

>>14079327
It's not like you want to go to uni anyway.

>>14079327
be more specific, who are you quoting

>>14079327
Sure, uni is overrated anyway.

>>14079333
Motherfucking mercurius

>>14079327
Is that what you're planning on quoting?

>>14079339
no

>>14079341
Then lay it on us

>>14079327
Paraphrase it, don't quote it

depending it might actually go well
or you might give the person reading a good laugh

depends on how much you can be taken seriously

>>14079327
誰がなんと言おうと螢がNo,1！！異論は認めん。私が法だ黙して従え。

>>14079327
Why did they have to kill her off in the "grand route". In the most pathetic way, too. Fuck this VN.

>>14079417
Because of her screentime in the other routes andher story being done, you don't get in the way of the Rusalka/Rea route.

>>14079417
Because she was pathetic, people kept telling her during the entire game, it was fitting to have her die like this in the last route

>>14079422

Rea was at her worst in her own route. Why did she have to turn from quirky snarky gothic loli into a lovey-dovey pillow, bleh.

I also never understood fan love for Rusalka. Loses to the other Anna in every regard.

>Angel Beats! VN adaptation

Is there any reason to play this?

>>14079490
Not really.

>>14079490
Is someone going to ask this in every single thread? Is this the birth of a new meme?

>>14076076
>>14076082
>>14076103
http://erogamescape.dyndns.org/~ap2/ero/toukei_kaiseki/o_game.php?game=14237#total_play_time

Erogamescape has good ratings for total play time.

>>14079554
Still probably people ctrling through have the shit, but at least you can look at the high end and get something somewhat accurate.

I want to see a comparison between the play time and the total audio time for some of these games.

>>14080071
>ctrling
Maybe it's just you that's the slow one? I usually get the exact same time as the averages on there.

I wish more VNs weren't harems/porn games. I don't mind sex if it enhances the story or experience but I just want to read good fiction.

Are there any special tags to look for on VNDB for people like me?

>>14080080
Do you actually listen to the audio?
The first grisaia was quite long so 30 hours for all 5 routes seems unreasonable.

>>14079327
>>14079336
>literal high schooler
So this is the group of people who loves DI here, I see.

>>14080082
Sex sells. It's not a Japan-only phenomenon. It's what no-name authors have to put up with if they want to get published.

Many top Western authors were published in Playboy before they become famous. http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-writers-published-in-playboy.php

Or Lovecraft, Robert E Howard etc. published in pulp magazines.

>>14080082
Eroge is eroge. If i wanna play normal games i won't play be here.

>>14073372
Thx i am very excited for this now

>>14080082
Story-driven VNs aren't exactly rare.

>>14073372
>OP sung by 真理絵
I'm sold.

>>14080082
Just skip the sex scenes if you hate them so much. Sex is very important imo.

>>14080160
I skip sex scenes. It's not that I don't like sex, it's just that I've pretty much seen it all before and the writing tends to regress and become boring. I can only read about afureru mankos and dekachinpos for so long.

>>14080082
Literally go read a book, eroge clearly aren't for you.

>>14080141
>>14080141
Also the op composer is 西坂恭平
Iam sold just by him begin there.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u-WKgsVV080

>>14079554
>can't access Erogamescape

Am I no longer a noob if I figure out how to do this on my own?

>>14080140
They're not exactly common, either.

Did she supposed to be ugly in the game's world or something? Seriously sometimes I cant understand moege logic.

Does anyone have a link for 機械仕掛けのイヴ?
Everything I find are dead ddl links and torrents and the ninetail pack is incredibly slow.

>>14080105
If you can't take a joke or realize that was a joke you should consider who's the actual high schooler here.

Then again, not catching on sarcasm is a strong sign of autism more than anything

>>14081330
She's probably just being humble.

>pic related actually died years ago and someone else is taking her form

shit twist, buyers remorse/10

>>14081330
That is one beautiful background. I love the way the water is done.

>>14081410
enough to distract from the characters of the game I'd say

>>14081405
Did you just massively spoil a game for a bunch of people or are you just memeing?

>>14081429
Not him, but it was the first I believe

>>14081348
Buy it like everyone else.

>>14081388
Jokes are supposed to be funny

>>14081330
She has little demon wings on her head, obviously that means it's impossible for anyone normal to find her attractive.

>>14081330
She's never actually seen how she looks before due to not having a reflection.

I read on the archive that the append patch from Trample on Schatten gets ride of the DVD check but whenever I run Schatten it still tells me to insert the disk. If it means anything md_cv3 and md_gra2 delete themselves after I run the append. Also, it didn't ask me for the directory so I directly pasted it into the main game folder.

>>14081348
Seems to be dead everywhere, indeed. My upload speed is utter shit, try asking people on #tanoshimi, many of them read it in last month.

>>14082427
Also, this is R+

>>14082427
Alright, after fiddling and mounting the original disk again, the game at least lets me play, but it's black and white and quite glitchy

Sorry if this has been asked before but how can I get Parfait to work on windows 10?
I tried hex patching and changing compatibility but it didn't work.

>>14082844
>windows 10

>>14081330
>supposed to be ugly in the game's world or something
I am reminded.

>>14083101
There was an explanation for that, at least.

>>14081959
If this was actually the explanation it'd be fucking amazing.

>>14083211
I can confirm it, she has never actually seen herself until they take a group picture during her route.

>>14083237
Or it was the scene before that one where Souma tested if she came up on photograph, I already forgot.

any info when "Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke o - Deatta Koro no Omoide ni" gets a translation start?

>>14083240

>>14082844
Play the Vita version instead.

>>14080188
Eroge are porno games, If you want literary merit read a book.

It's sad how most weeaboo EOP never realise this, they think "this is actually good writing, why do they include porn - it only degrades it!". The porn is not "included", it's a porno game therefor it has porn.

>Character names that are never given furigana

What are you supposed to do, guess?

>>14083444
Listen to the voices. They are often rather common names so you can usually guess them anyway.

>>14083429
>If you want literary merit read a book.
People like you really need to fuck off.

>>14083461
＞＞＞/ｖｇ/

>>14083456
There aren't always voices.

>>14083444
> What are you supposed to do
Learn japanese.

>>14083479
0/10

>>14083469
If there aren't voices there are usually furigana or as I mentioned, the name is so common you're expected to know it. At least I have never come across a game with a character name I can't read, but if you find one (like you probably have as you're complaining about it), you can always check the dev's website or just google the name. This really shouldn't be an issue outside some really obscure names or those that use very uncommon kanji.

>>14083493
>you can always check the dev's website or just google the name
That's what I had to do. I'm used to there being furigana or voices so I guess when you have neither you're on your own.

>>14083479
Even Japanese people need a reading to know how to pronounce most names.

Why they never let us to fuck the sexy teachers ;_;

>>14083919
https://vndb.org/v/all?q=&fil=tag_inc-177.tagspoil-1

>>14083924
Teachers in nukige aren't sexy because they are fuckable.

>>14083429
>If you want literary merit read a book.
I think you misunderstood, that wasn't my point. I said porn was boring to me. I read VNs with 0 "literary merit" and enjoy them, but still find the sex boring. I'm a pretty heavy fetishest so vanilla sex scenes really don't offer me much.

>>14083429
>Eroge are porno games

Obviously, but I don't understand why VNs in general need to be so saturated with porn. The medium doesn't need porn to thrive.

>>14084007
>The medium doesn't need porn to thrive.
The medium is barely scraping by as is.

>>14084010
Because VNs are almost always associated with eroge and people become hesitant to explore the medium.

>>14084007
Porn is required in porno games, otherwise they cease to be porno games.

>>14084086
Visual Novels do not need to be porno games.

>>14084016
Console VNs lack the connotation and they're doing even worse than eroge despite the console market being considerably bigger in japan than the PC one.

>>14084090
Doubtful.

>>14084093
What about all those anime spinoff VNs that keep coming out on the Vita? They're way cheaper than, say, a Blu-Ray set, so surely there's people buying those.

>>14084099
They don't actually move that many copies based on what I've seen, though fans of the series do buy them. The market for them isn't that large, but they do tend to make their money back from what I can tell. If you look at them on Amazon or any such service, you notice people who bought it also bought other merch related to the series.

>>14084113
I always wondered whether business like that operate out of love. If there's no profit why bother otherwise?

>>14084093
I'm not convinced. It's been a while since I've talked to a younger Japanese person that owns a newer console. PC gaming has grown quite a bit in the past few years as well.

>>14084129
You can make the money back on something like that when you produce them for really cheap and there is a level of guaranteed sales as a part of the fanbase will buy literally anything with a brand attached. A lot of those anime spinoffs are actually pretty bad.

>>14084135
It's growing slowly but surely. The rather subpar PC ports japanese companies keep pumping out is a proof of that, though PC getting a good market share is still pretty far away.
Handhelds are a big thing there, which is why a lot of games get vita ports instead of PS4 ones. They are by far the most dominant gaming platform. PS3 is still somewhat alive there and you could still see new games coming out for it not that long ago. Xbox isn't doing very well at all.

>>14084135
Mobile gaming is really big over there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynR0tXjt7xU
This OP still gives me nightmares.

>>14084148
I wonder how poorly Chaos;Child sold because of it being console exclusive.

I finished Evenicle, I liked it quite a lot overall, but I would have really preferred Aster taking Natal as his wife instead of Croix, she was so boring on a personal level and I honestly liked Natal, she developed a lot.

>>14085110
If Natal was going to be a wife then the person who would have been substituted out would have been Erimo.

>>14084338
The Xbone version sold 1415 copies and the Playstation versions have sold at least 15k. It probably sold more than it ever would have if it were PC exclusive.

>>14085135
Croix was just so shoehorned at the end though, you even have to do her three events in the same chapter.
I'd rather have less wives in the story but with better quality romance-wise than Tio/Erimo/Croix, Towa was great so she can stay.

>>14085167
>Croix was just so shoehorned at the end though
Erimo is a even worse case than that, Erimo was literally thrown in for poor and stupid reason. At the very least with Croix you have Aster gushing over her whenever she gives him attention and it's shown that Croix herself likes Aster. Erimo gets almost nothing.

>Less wives
The story is all about Aster wanting more wives so he can fuck more women, Less Wives defeats the purpose and your missing the point. I found Towa to be cute but rather boring, I'd rate most of the wives above her and Erimo is clearly dead last

>>14085185
>and your missing the point
The point is having entertaining characters, half of the wives are nun-level, a coupe of sex scenes that don't make them wives and done, I dislike having characters that are basically non-entities most of the game being important because they are tied to the main character.

>>14085195
>The point is having entertaining characters
So you did miss the point completely, Nice to know

With that comment how could you like Erimo above Croix? Croix is instrumental to the plot and Erimo comes off as no more than a ascended extra that helps you progress twice in the story, Her becoming a wife just comes off as a last minute decision.

>>14085195
>The point is having entertaining characters
That's what the strive to achieve but Aster getting wives and fucking them is the point.

Anyone who finished Rance three. How many カキン枠 are there? I can set seven skills, but it looks like there is room for one more and I wonder whether I already missed it.

>>14085110
Natal was used as the typical Alicesoft "tragic" heroine and it suited her character type. I would have preferred her being a wife instead of Erimo or Towa as she has development unlike the those two.

>>14085265
3, one after Sapphire another after the Tentacle monster and the final one after Ithere

>>14085278
>after Ithere

What? Is that a name?

>>14085339
Yes and it's his official name despite not sounding anything like how it's pronounced. Aizel anon, Aizel

>>14085353
Ah, yes. Weird.

>>14085353
What is it with Alice soft and romanizations that don't make sense. There is also Gele (pronounced like Jill would be) and Noce (Noth) for example. For a long time I also read Sill's name as Shil or Siru.

>>14078461
i thought that site is dead, its still alive eh?

>>14079417
Thanks for the spoiler asswipe.

>>14085874
cry about it, nerdo

>>14085874
Acta est Fabula is six years old dude. Would you be mad if someone told you that Aeris dies or that Snape kills Dumbledore?

>>14086208
Not him, but people do tend to play VNs at a random pace. I'm still picking up decade old titles here and there while still checking out the stuff that comes out every month.

>>14086314
>still checking out the stuff that comes out every month
Why? It's all shit.

>>14086326
hope springs eternal

>>14085110
> Natal as wife
Fuck you. Natal should've died in horrible and painful way. Or at least committed suicide once she realized that she betrayed people, her ruler and all her principles and killed many innocent people. Just going "oh, that was accident, I'm going to be arrogant noble knight once again, kahahaha" is most terrible part of evenicle.

>>14086567
You mean where she becomes depressive and goes to hospital and then decides to go on a journey to better herself?

She'll appear in the sequel anyway

>>14086584
> then decides to go on a journey to better herself
She accepted queen's offer so it doesn't matter.

>>14086208
The main reason that the "it was his sled" argument doesn't work is because Dies Irae is a fairly obscure, 2000-era Japanese novel whereas FF7 and Harry Potter were huge western pop culture phenomenons. It's not the date that matters so much as how likely one is to already know the spoiler.

Just finished Subahibi, and there's a few things I'm failing to understand.

Two cases are shown in which Takuji knows more than he should be able to. The first is as mentioned in 終ノ空II, the phrase 終ノ空, which appeared only in the amusement park scene of Rabbit Hole I. The second is Zakuro's conversation the rooftop, right before her suicide, albeit with names replaced with Riruru. The former can have some fairly mundane explanation such as Takuji having at some point visited the attraction himself (unless it only exists in the dreamworld?), but the latter I can't find a simple explanation for.

Ayana is another point of confusion. What she is, and what her purpose in the story is are both unclear to me. She, like Takuji above, also demonstrates knowledge beyond what she should be able to have learned as a normal human, such as when she implies she knows the consequences of the one choice in Insects. Her repeated disappearing acts also strongly suggest she's not a normal human. Many characters observe her so for her to be an illusion/delusion she would have to be shared. She could be something along the lines of what Yuki was in 向日葵の坂道, though I'm also fairly unsure of what that is.

Ayana's hypothesis #7 in 終ノ空II can explain these things, but as Yuki notes, that opens the possibility for any number of crazy explanations and is as such fairly unsatisfactory to me. Can anyone shed some light on these mysteries?

Also, Kimika best girl.

Just finished RNG the video game aka Rance 5D.

Who the fuck thought any of this was a good idea?

For anyone who doesn't know, the combat in that game works completely on dice. You have 3 party members with skills on numbers 1-6 which you can move around as you wish between battles. Every round of combat a dice is thrown and characters use whatever skill is in the resulting number. This means you can spend turns spamming a completely useless move or an enemy can land on an instant kill move three turns in a row (yes, there are skills that literally one-shot everyone). Whether you win or lose is completely based on random chance.

Not only is the combat random, exploring is too. There is a roulette table with coloured orbs and you get whatever encounter the wheel lands on. You can spend time to add certain kind of orbs in the wheel and there are items you can use to always land on certain kind of encounter.

Speaking of time, the game is timed. You have only a certain number of actions for each chapter before it's game over. Picking items up, talking to someone and even opening the menu all take time. The fact that some puzzles rely on you just stumbling into something certainly doesn't help. To finish a chapter you need to land on an event five times, but the number of them resets to 1 after every time you get one.

While the plot and characters weren't awful per se, they weren't that great either. I'd say it's barely better than original 2 and about as short, if not shorter. The "gameplay" was just a pain though, and my horrible luck fucked me over several times, forcing me to repeat simple encounters and drag the game on far longer than it should. This is definitely the worst Rance game I have played thus far and if it was longer I wouldn't have been able to finish it.

>>14087267
Yeah and it's shit and save for introducing Rizna and Copandon the only important thing plot wise is what happens to Feliss.

VI is in my view the high point of the series though.

If you're the anon I think you are it should be good if you've played 03.
A certain former enemy makes a comeback and really develops a lot

>>14087267
5d is basically a filler game that servers to introduce Rizna, Copa and a very important scene for Feliss. The gameplay is a gimmick but it's very easy to abuse the wheel with save file scumming and comes with the bonus of being easy and fuck on top of being a rather short entry

It's most definitely not the worst entry in the series though even if we ignore remakes, 02 is still the worst in the series even with Kaikai making it "playable"

Thankfully because it's short you can now move on to the best entry in the series in my opinion, VI.

>>14087300
>ignore remakes,
Ignore the old 90's games*

>>14087267
>>14087297
>>14087300
If he's just played 03 then that scene where Sieg transforms into Gele

>>14087309
Gele states in her scene that her body is only a loli due to lack of life/power, Seig just transformed into what he knew Gele looked like instead of the Gele in Sel's mind.

>>14087315
I know.
More the oh fuck it's Gele feeling I had and I had played III nearly two years before I played VI and she's pretty much a joke in III who gets beaten in the lamest game of tag

>>14087321
I had a similar Oh fuck moment and went all out to get Seig to get out of that form which in hindsight is pointless. The fight with Annis is scarier though

>>14087297
If you think I'm the anon who has been going through the series over the last week or so, you would be right. I'll keep doing it until I reach IX, though I probably won't post my impressions of Sengoku (if I bother with it) or any other already translated game, at least on their own.

>>14087300
>>14087304
Considering I've stuck to the remakes (I just read that LP of 4 somebody posted) I can't say anything about the originals, but 2 was rather inoffensive. I played the original version with updated graphics and thought it was just bland. Outside a couple of puzzles (like that fucking teleport maze with Bard? and Sill) I didn't have any particular problems with it. It may be just my nostalgia for shitty 90s dungeon crawlers that made it bearable though. 5D in comparison was just annoying due to how little I could affect anything. I think writing-wise 5D is superior to 2 while 2 is better as a game (and still pretty bad).

>>14087392
>I just read that LP of 4 somebody posted
Glad to see it was useful.

I never really had any issue with 5D's gameplay myself due to abusing saves so it has always been a rather enjoyable game for me, I even re-play 5D regularly due to Rizna. 02 was as you said bland overall and the gameplay was sleep inducing, thankfully I don't ever have to touch it again unless TADA makes his dream game.

Although even with that being said I'd rather play 02 over playing Quest again

>>14087392
Post your impressions of VI please.

Why are animal noises usually voice-acted by people in eroge? People who are barely trying, at that. Is it a running industry joke or something?

>>14087267
You can actually do some planning with it when you get the item that lets you get extra treasures in some places and extra battles, if you get the bugs that make a dice roll more likely and by making good combinations of attacks for the characters. And doing the events in time is generally trivial as long as you only do the roulette with one choice as it will soon fills up with green.

But yes, time limit plus a random system was a very bad idea.

Speaking of Rance, are there any other scenes as hot as the casino loli in 01? That's probably the best fap I've had in months.

>>14088043
> casino loli
Did you fap to CG set or something? She's old hag.

>>14088110
Loli is body shape, not age.

I just got the ending credits and then it continued with the chapter title "Episode Find Truth". How much longer is the game?

Also, I should have all the flags for the 評価：SSS ending. Should I bother with the bad ending afterwards, or are the differences minimal?

>>14088190
IIRC "Find Truth" was really short and just reveals the main twist. Make sure you get Ushio's epilogue and her H-scene before moving to the second game as they're canon in the second game's Ushio epilogue and the third game's main story.

>Also, I should have all the flags for the 評価：SSS ending. Should I bother with the bad ending afterwards, or are the differences minimal?
There's no other endings for the main route, the game just gives you a rank depending on how well you answered to all the questions and a reward wallpaper if you got the highest rank.

>>14088207
Okay, thanks

At what point will Rance 6 get good? I'm few hours in (just got Sill back) and it has had probably the weakest start out of the series thus far.

>>14088207
You forgot to warn me about how cute Ushio is. I almost died.

>>14088571
She does a proper tsun->dere progression throughout the three games, too cute.

>>14088434
Once Zeth starts collapsing

>>14087102
Here you go dude:

The phrase tsui no sora likely comes from a jumbled up memorization of that one beach scene where Yuki is doing exercises with them.
If I remember correctly, that Riruru Zakuro scene comes after Zakuro's death has already happened and Takuji/Yuki was there to witness the last few seconds of it. The Riruru version is rather short and the character names replaced with Riruru, so it's possible that it's just a memory of the last few seconds before her death.

Ayana is a metaphor for what is unknown/outside of language. This is made clearer by the way she only refers to herself in name alone. Going with the main theme of the story, the mystery of what Ayana is isn't supposed to be resolved.
This goes together with the ending hypothesis, where anyone of them could be correct and it's a waste of time trying to think too hard about it.

>>14088611

>>14085278

How can you not love Towa?

>>14088611
Thanks for the reply. I went back to check a few things.

>The phrase tsui no sora likely comes from a jumbled up memorization of that one beach scene where Yuki is doing exercises with them.
>「つーい、つーい、出ってくーる、次の空～」
That makes a lot of sense. I completely missed that first time.

>If I remember correctly, that Riruru Zakuro scene comes after Zakuro's death has already happened and Takuji/Yuki was there to witness the last few seconds of it. The Riruru version is rather short and the character names replaced with Riruru, so it's possible that it's just a memory of the last few seconds before her death.
Not sure I agree with this explanation. Neither Yuki nor Takuji were on the roof, and it would be hard to hear from ground level. Takuji specifically was waiting for the elevator when it happened. Though Takuji is not exact the most reliable of narrators, so I suppose I can accept it being him being on the roof but repressing the memory.

>>14088611
>>14088625
>Ayana is a metaphor for what is unknown/outside of language. This is made clearer by the way she only refers to herself in name alone. Going with the main theme of the story, the mystery of what Ayana is isn't supposed to be resolved.
>This goes together with the ending hypothesis, where anyone of them could be correct and it's a waste of time trying to think too hard about it.
This makes a lot of sense too. Maybe I should go back and read Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, which I neglected to before playing the game.

Ramius or Riche?

>>14089329
Ramius any day, although Riche's desire to slaughter Hannies is hilarious.

>>14089028
Most of the other heroines completely outclass her basically, being cute isn't enough with that cast of girls.

>>14089329
Ramius.

Guys I'm thinking of playing Natsuiro Recipe just because of art and relaxing feeling, but to be honest I dont really care about making food theme and I almost dont know any shit about japanese foods too, do you think I can still enjoy that?

>>14090310
I only read Ryouka's route so I can't speak for the other ones, but as far as the common route and her route the food wasn't the main part of it. While the main part of the common route was the restaurant, they didn't exactly go into extreme details about cooking or food itself. I was pleasantly surprised that there was only one scene with girls repeating how delicious something was.

My favorite part of the game was the mood and pacing; it really feels like a slow, quiet village. While it isn't exactly the most exciting, the plot still moves at a steady pace and never felt boring or tedious from what I read. Seeing the protagonist and Ryouka slowly become a couple was great, also how they handled the little point of drama was refreshing as well.

>>14090341
>I was pleasantly surprised that there was only one scene with girls repeating how delicious something was.
Thank god. I've grown to dread food scenes because I'm sick of hearing the same old 「美味しい！！」and 「う、うまい！」every time.

Anybody here played kiminozo yet? I just watched the anime and tbh even though i liked the ending, i wish the MC was more caring to Mitsuki or even hooked up with Akane. Is the VN any better?

>>14084007
You think otakus hate porn in porno games? H-scenes is the most important reason why they buy eroge!!

>>14091926
>Is the VN any better?
It worse.

sakura no uta finally gets a release and its delayed again

>>14091933
Holy mother of
How?

>>14092056
MC is shit.

>>14092098
God dammit.
I'm still gonna play the VN for based Akane.
Not gonna play the other routes if it's worse than the anime. Wish me luck!

>>14092209
Does she even have a route in Kiminozo?

>>14088571
Is she referencing his small penis?

>>14092209
don't forget it's one of the longest VNs ever. The pacing isn't very good either.

>>14092436
EGS lists it as only ３０時 though, is it really that long?

>>14092457
4.05MB of text. It's in the top 10 longest for sure.

>>14092305
Yup she's a side heroine! Its even hinted in the anime that she has a crush on Takayuki.
>>14092457
>>14092436
>>14092469
Thanks for the advice bros. Really liked Akane's voice actress (its Michiru's first role!) so i am going through with it. Probably gonna skip alot of stuff that is in the anime though.

>>14092018
Whats another month after years of waiting =D

>>14092788
You do know there is no way it's going to live up to all the hype, right?

>>14092796
It just may, I'm just hoping it's solid throughout.

>>14092812
It will probably be alright, SCA-Ji is that kind of writer, but it won't be mindblowingly awesome or nowhere near great enough to justify years of waiting. People will either praise it to high heavens to justify waiting for it for so long or shit on it because it wasn't what they expected.

>>14092822
>or nowhere near great enough to justify years of waiting.
I'm not really bothered by this, it's not like he's been working on it for 10 years.

>>14092822
Or they might just be like me and judge the game on its own merits.

>>14092880
Yeah, but you'll probably be drowned under at least one of the aforementioned. That's just how hype works.

>>14092880
Well aren't you special.

>>14092822
I don't know, if it actually manages to continues the build up seen through the trial then it could become the number 1 eroge of all time.

>>14092910
I'm interested tell me more of the trial

>>14092923
If you don't want to read it someone did a little review in the archive.

>>14092391
No

>>14093018
Did that scene hurt your self-insert fantasy?

>>14093036
The protagonist is too 素敵 to be self inserted into anyways.

>>14093080
I'd rather self-insert into some 素敵 motherfucker than a loser.

>>14093036
I just answered the question?

>>14093085
Oh ok, MC seems like a dick here then.

>>14092910
I liked the trial but now you're just exaggerating. Best in the last few years, sure, but not overall.

>>14093157
Yes, but I'm saying what if the quality continues to increase exponentially like it did in the trial? What if the next 3 chapters get consecutively better? Surely you agree it will be number 1.

>>14093179
It's very easy to get absurd and obviously false predictions if you extrapolate anything like that.

How to beat the Hunyking in 3 without hours of grinding?
Menad's passive helps, Sel heals, but once it starts throwing magic attacks it starts to out damage my healing.

>>14093157
Best of all time is a tall order, but in any case, the trial showed that Scaji's still got it and knows what he's doing. We won't know until it's released, of course, but I could easily see it surpassing Subahibi, which a lot of people already consider the best eroge of all time.

>>14093860
Use Barres's and Aten's magic defense skill to absorb the magic attacks, or go ask /haniho/ for help

>go to c88
>buy positive c;c positive trigger set
>clear file sealed with a paper written "MASSIVE SPOILERS, DON'T OPEN BEFORE CLEARING THE GAME OR YOU WILL DIE"
>it's just the limited edition cover with the sumo seal pasted over everyone's head besides Nono

Talk about disappointment, at least the wallscroll is cool though.

What are some good Vita-exclusive novels? I just bought Second Novel and am looking for more.

Anyone have a full scan of the Subahibi artbook? The ones I can find only go up to page 102 of 154.

>>14094706
There are literally zero Vita exclusive VNs. That Fortissimo sequel was exclusive for a while but it got a PC port.

>>14093082
That's not self-inserting then, unless you're not a loser irl, which I doubt.

>>14094725
Then what is it you fucking nerd?

>>14093245
>obviously false predictions
How is it obviously false? The game isn't even out yet and I have backed my prediction up with the quality of the trial over time. Sounds to me like you don't want the game to be number 1?

>>14094052
This was so well played I'm not even mad

Guys I like ツンデレ

>>14095791
That's pretty serious, you know. Have you considered getting help?

>>14095794

Nah I don't need help I'm a perfectly healthy individual!

>>14095807
Are you sure? Acknowledging you have a problem is the first step to recovery.

>>14095839

Tsundere is the best!!!

>>14095909
You poor soul.

>>14094720
Damn, vita fags btfo

>>14096133
PC ALL THE WAY BAYBEEH

クロガネ回姫譚－閃夜一夜－ PC版 never ;_;

>>14094720
Shit, I was determined to prove you wrong, but... there's some otome games, a few anime spinoffs, and uh, this thing I guess?
https://vndb.org/v16610

>>14096319
Otome games simply moved from psp to vita, it's funny they are still releasing for psp a few.

>>14096291
Actually I guess I missed this one somehow. So there's your Vita exclusive VN.

>>14096133
btfo >>14096330

So one of DMM browser eroge, Flower Knight Girls, is celebrating the fact they reached 550000 players mark. That's half million of people paying for shitty browser porn with tackled on automated "gameplay" (you just click single button to progress it).
Yet VNs are considered to be great if they sold as much as 10000.
Pretty much obvious that whining about "declining demographics/ecomony" is baseless, demand for anime porn is even stronger than ever. Maybe its time for VN devs to pull their heads out of their asses and realize its their business model what is actually flawed.

>>14096489
>paying

>>14096489
The difference between KFG, which is a simple free to play browser RPG and a VN is that one is considerable financial investment while the other is free.

>>14096500
One highest-rarity girl costs from 500$ to 2500$ depending on your luck, and most of my "friends" there have at least 1 or 2 of them in their main teams.
Even Onikage (owner of dualtail/ninetail company) posts screenshots from mobage he plays, and its obvious he pays tons of money at every of them. Like, he got maxed out Pipin in last event in Aigis, which would cost him about 10000 yen at very least. That's full-price eroge sum here.

>>14096505
What this is really a testament to is the fact that gachas are addictive and psychologically, $10 every few days over the course of a month feels like a lot less than $150.

>>14096517
That too, but it's whales that bring in most of the money while most players will pay either very little or nothing at all.
It's a testament to the fact that otaku are no longer willing to fork over thousands of yen for games tey haven't played.

>>14096526
I think it's also somehow easier to psychologically justify continually paying for something you can keep indefinitely, rather than something that's finite in length.

Also, at the end of the day a lot of these are "social games" in the sense that if you couldn't talk about them with people (or post screenshots to Twitter or whatever) you wouldn't play them.

I can't imagine anything like a traditional VN remotely succeeding in this particular way, though. Maybe if they were serialized like manga or the way actual novels were back in the day they could catch a piece of this "I have fifteen dollars to blow right now, what do" market.

>>14096526
I think it's also somehow easier to psychologically justify continually paying for something you can keep playing indefinitely, rather than something you'll play for a finite number of hours and likely not come back to. Also, at the end of the day a lot of these are "social games" in the sense that if you couldn't talk about them with people (or post screenshots to Twitter or whatever) you wouldn't play them.

I can't imagine anything like a traditional VN remotely succeeding in this particular way, though. Maybe if they were serialized like manga or the way actual novels were back in the day they could catch a piece of this "I have five dollars and an hours to blow right now, what do" market.

>>14096489
Free to play do you understand it?

>>14096576
If he didn't understand after the first two posts a third one isn't going to help.

Is there a good music themed eroge with rhythm game slapped in?

>>14096592
Aside from the obvious, you mean?

>>14096539
I'd definitely pay for bi-weekly non-school serialized VN if they would commit themselves to at least a year of releases.

>>14096736
>bi-weekly
I mean every two weeks, or twice a month.

I missed the last couple of months, how did Fairytale Requiem go over? Cause I'm going through it right now and this whole everyone's a 誰でもいい slut according to the cuckoo-tv thing can't have gone over well with the usual vn crowd. I realize that's probably something that'll get explained later but even I'm getting a shit-ton of unpleasant complicated feelings and I'm usually okay with this stuff.

Should mention I'm on the Swan Lake twins' route and the way they're balancing the fairy tale with the actual plot/story is quite interesting. Artstyle is so gorgeous it shouldn't need pointing out, and I love how Odile's theme has the Black Swan Princess' theme from the actual ballet mixed in.

It's also relentlessly depressing. Enjoying it, but yeah.

>>14096867
I found it really interesting throughout, really liked how it mixed both the fairytales and the actual setting.
Remember to do the bad ends too, really worth doing, even if most are really short.

>>14096736
Most of the time that kind of format doesn't fit the medium as you need to have player input and routes.

>>14096915
It could work for kinetic games.

>>14096920
That's a format that doesn't seem to sell all that well. Maybe something like a mystery that comes out one route at a time could work.
Actually, Tiny Dungeon's format was pretty much that and Rosebleu's newest game sells routes as DLC.

>>14096867
Most Liar-Soft fans are females who don't give a shit about purity.

Perfect maid is best.

Mitori's route ending was badly done though, happy I did that one first from the FD.

>>14096867
I really liked it, probably my favorite work this year. The true ending (not the bad one) was especially satisfying. Nice message about escapism, too. They really got creative with this one, we need more things like this.

It's also one of the few recent works with bad ends that are relevant to the story at that.

(minor spoiler) One of the girls, though, is the true/canon lover of the MC. She's also pure. That'll remove all bitter feelings.

>I realize that's probably something that'll get explained later
It is, don't worry.

>even I'm getting a shit-ton of unpleasant complicated feelings
Yeah same here, but it's also one of the reasons why I enjoyed it.

>>14096951
Stop.

>>14097434
>is the true/canon lover of the MC
And coincidentally best girl and the one who deserves it the most, such a strange occurrence.

>>14097447
Completely agree. Makes it all more satisfying. I had a smile all over my face.

>>14097434
Stop what? You started it.

>>14097473
うそだろ。。

>>14097462
It was so heartwarming how the only reason she was there was because she was looking for him and not even the brainwashing worked properly.

>>14097490
Yeah, she was really strong. The MC also noticed that throughout the entire game, she was the only one trying to snap out of it all the time. She was my favorite since the very beginning, but I was expecting her to be shunned away since she didn't look like the main heroine (that was Alice), so I was pleasantly surprised.

Also I saw several people getting to the bad true end and thinking that was it. If you're missing scenes from the scene gallery, you're missing the actual true end.

Also talking about main heroine shifts, I really like this twist where the main heroine turns out to be a different heroine from the one shown in the cover and the one hinted to be the main heroine in the first half of the game. Special points if the real main heroine turns to be superior to the "fake" main heroine. A recent example was ヒマワリと恋の記憶 which also surprised me pleasantly (picture, top = "fake" cover shown in the game box, bottom = real cover after twist).

>>14097548
Yeah, those are my same thoughts Japan's boner with Alice in wonderland in general kind of made me hope for the worst, but Gerda is basically the fairytale ultimate childhood friend and damn if she doesn't shine throughout.
The bad end for the true end is really good too, in a way, seeing the MC turned into Pan, killing the one nice doctor in the whole clinic and finally deciding for mass suicide was interesting to say the least.
Also the game made me read The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf because it kept mentioning Inger even if it wasn't relevant.

Does 時計仕掛けのレイライン -朝霧に散る花- 初回版 contain all of the story?

>>14097571
Yes, the bad ends in general were presented very well.
If you like dark endings I'm pretty sure the bad true end would be your favorite one, it was well done for a bad one, but I like good aftertastes so I prefer my good ends.

>>14097568
Few games bother to do something like that because they really love plastering the main heroine all over.
I can think of stuff like Daitoshokan (Shirasaki), himawari no kyokai (Yomi) and Parfait (Yui), all cover heroines who weren't the main ones.
Obviously not including stuff like hoshimemo where the main heroine is completely hidden.

>>14097612
Don't get me wrong, I preferred the actual true end better because it nails the climax with Dorothy burning the complex to the ground after reuniting with Ikeno and bringing just a bit of real magic to the story, but it was nice seeing such a fleshed out bad end since the ones in the main story, barring Odile's, were super short.

>>14097637
>with Dorothy burning the complex to the ground after reuniting with Ikeno and bringing just a bit of real magic to the story
Oh, that was my favorite scene I'd say after the final scene where they fly out and rip out the pages of the fairytale books (Fairytale Requiem?). The girl in the black dress being Dorothy was pretty obvious since it was hinted at all the time, but Ikeno's dedication (and naivety) and the climax of their reunion was beautiful. Also the whole thing with the drugs was kind of shocking, it's rare to see non-nukige touching these themes.

I'm surely expecting more from the writer. It's her first work, it seems (not counting Teito Hiten as she was assistant).
Still, the best aspect was the art. CGs were beautiful.

>>14097675
I really like the artist, Akira is great, but there's something about the artwork from both this and Valusia, namely the coloring.
It's surprising how he's gone from stuff like Forest to this.

I started Sakura Taisen 2 on the dreamcast yesterday, and I'm surprised they managed to make Iris somewhat likable since the first game when you just spend the majority of time wishing her dead. I suppose introducing a worse girl helps a bit. Sucks that you still can't target an empty square with an area attack, though.

>>14097707
>you just spend the majority of time wishing her dead
uh... you're the first person to ever think that tbh

>>14083429
>>14080124
>>14080508
>>14084086
>>14091931
This shitty meme needs to stop. 7th Expansion games in Japan, which completely lack 18+ content, sell way better than pretty much every generic shitty copy and paste nukige out there. This kind of attitude does nothing more than encourages shitty writers to rely on porn as a crutch to flood the market with more generic games that look copy and pasted.

There will always be a market for nukige, but it should never flood the entire market.

I'm downloading the AliceSoft pack from nyaa while I still have the chance; but the thing is, I'm totally unfamiliar with their catalog outside of Rance. Is the pack even worth DLing or should I just cancel it and especially target rance? Seems like this pack only has 4-8 (assuming sengoku is 7) so I'd need to individually download 1 and 3 anyway. Plus 4 is getting a remake, I think?

>>14098057
>This shitty meme needs to stop. 7th Expansion games in Japan, which completely lack 18+ content, sell way better than pretty much every generic shitty copy and paste nukige out there
Higurashi did but everything after that bombed you know

>>14098057
Supipara bombed very hard, putting minori on the edge of bankruptcy while Perseus sold very good.
Higanba and RGD sold like shit.

>>14098354
Talking about WTC. Higanbana and RGD aren't WTC. They're like filler courses before the main event.

>>14098386
You said "7th Expansion games." If you meant only WTC you should have said that in the first place.

>>14098414
The worst part is, now they have to come up with a new animal with a distinctive cry and base a setting around that.

>>14098084
Alicesoft has like 120+ games.

Most not really worth playing.

I'd have in the should definitely play

Kichikuou Rance
Atlach Nacha (just a VN)
Daiakuji
Daibanchou
Rance VI
Sengoku Rance

Fairly Good
Galzoo Island
Rance IX
Evenicle
Rance 03
Sengoku Rance

Worth trying if you're interested
Haruka (just nukige)
Tsuma Shibori (nukige)
Escalayer (nukige)
Oyako Rankan (nukige)
Pastel Chime Continue
Toushin Toshi 2 (pretty fun if you like early 90s jrpgs)
Rance 01
Rance Quest Magnum

For completions sake if you're a hardcore Rancefag

Rance 02 kaikai
Rance IV
Rance 5D

If you really like Alicesoft but pretty meh
Pastel Chime
Pastel Chime 3
Diabolique

Meh
Pastel Chime (was good at the time I guess)
Pastel Chime 3
Toushin Toshi 3
Daiteikoku

On the image. Rance 03 was released on the 26th of August (two weeks ago) and is pretty good but in my opinion inferior to Evenicle. Early days yet on EGS but the median is 85 and the mean is 83 which seems a bit right (maybe take 1-2 from both scores to take into account the full Rance game released after VI and Sengoku factor).

If you don't want to play all the Rance games the most important ones plot wise are 03, VI, Sengoku and IX so at bare minimum they are the ones you should play.

01 is nice but not really required as is Magnum.
IV doesn't have a remake yet and whilst it does set up some plot lines for IX, VI is far more important there.

Don't bother playing Quest with out VI because half the fun for the first half of the game is getting to use characters from the previous games - half of which are from VI

Rance I is certainly not worth it. Just do 01
Rance IV is freeware

http://pastebin.com/H1MV81ba
For download links

>>14098414
No I shouldn't. 7th expansion is basically synonymous with WTC in the same way Microsoft is synonymous with Windows.

>>14097909
Impossible. She's a menace. She lost control of her psychic abilities and destroyed a whole theatre, killing who knows how many people, after which she took no responsibility, and in fact, when scolded, hijacked a koubu and went on to destroy more property. When caught that time, she plays the "where am I? what happened?" Card, proving how dangerous she really is, but then everyone just had a good laugh over it. Unbelievable. To not want child Psychers with no control over themselves to die is to not be committed to saving the world.

>>14097568
Kamimaho does that.

>>14097691
Isn't the artist Ooishi, a girl?

Koko kara Natsu no Innocence trial is out. Anyone read it already?

>>14098516
Thank you very much for the response, it took a bit for me to wake up.

>>14098516
> should definitely play
> Daiakuji
> Fairly Good
> Evenicle Rance 03
I wonder what kind of brain disease you should have to call daiakuji better than Rance 03 or Evenicle.

So guys I just uh finished White Album 2 coda routes and wow what an experience. First time a VN did this to me. Cried so many times I can't even remember. Best part has to be Setsuna and Kazusa fighting each other for Haruki haha. Kazusa Normal End is the the best IMO. Everyone got fucked up yet again thanks to Haruki cheating (having sex with Kazusa 24/7!) but after a year Haruki and Setsuna got back together. As they say time heals all wounds. Setsuna nearly gave up on Haruki but thanks to a phone call with Kazusa she knew that she loved Haruki with all of her body and soul. Just wanna say my impressions on this kamige =D

>>14099251
Nice bait.

>>14099217
>Kichikuou Rance, Sengoku Rance, Daiakuki and Daibanchou in his top tier.
I wonder what type of games is his preference

03's gameplay was pretty average.

https://vndb.org/t6744#4

post your favorite vndb users

>>14099395
Google-kun garbage and CG set voting has nothing to do with this thread, please make separate thread for your internet celebrities.

>>14099395
You.

>>14099254
Thx bro for reading =D

>>14096915
Telltale managed it with TWD.

>>14101103
There is no real player agency in most of Telltale's games and certainly no routes of any description. They are very much linear experiences with slight branching. Muv-Luv Alternative is the closest VN equivalent I know, or it would if it was chopped into small pieces. It's a bad comparison as they're two completely different mediums aimed at two different markets.

>>14101151
I'd say almost any fully animated vn would be close to TWD.

>>14101592
School Days is a thing, you know. The difference between TWD and a VN is that the former plays much more like an RPG with dialogue trees while a VN would give you an occasional choice.

>>14101614
What about this https://vndb.org/v3896 vn? It has a linear plot with many pointless choices almost like TWD.

>>14101630
Never played it, but from what I can see it still doesn't run on dialogue trees.

>>14101103
>>14101151
>>14101592
>>14101614
>>14101630
>>14101687
Visual Novels are just what it says in the tin: visual NOVELs. VNs, even the ones with a lot of animation, still use text as their pimary means of storytelling.

>>14101700
You can play TWD with subtitles.

>>14101715
Is there any prose?

How do you guys feel about skipping parts in a moege? Like just holding ctrl and blazing past. On the one hand, it feels gross to not read every bit of a VN. On the other hand, I'm only interested in half of the characters here and the scenes not involving them are kind of boring so I want to skip them. What do you think? The only time I recall actually skipping anything in a VN was the lacrosse arc in Muv Luv.

>>14101737
Of coursh. TWD is praised by critics for great story and text.

>>14101747
I often just skim through scenes I don't really care about, but keep my eyes open for anything relevant or interesting. Keep in mind that if you don't give a character a chance you'll never like them, just their archetype. Like, I usually hate tsundere's but occasionally, once in every few dozen game, I find one that's actually likeable and I would've missed it if I didn't pay attention to her.

>>14101737
It's basically an interactive movie. You can get dialog subtitled as well as sound effects spelled out but it relies on animation to tell the story.

>>14101765
It's not that I don't like their characters, it's just I'm really interested in two particular characters and anything between me and their routes is just an obstacle I don't want to deal with. This common route seems pretty long so I'm already acquainted with the other characters

>>14101782
I know where you're coming from. Personally I like to read games that are fun enough to read in general but occasionally I do end up playing a mediocre or boring game with one good heroine, in which case I do tend to skim through decent amount of pointless scenes knowing that I'll probably never play the rest of the routes and odds are those scenes won't play into the one I'm interested in.
My advice would be to play better games.

>>14101830
You should just, like, get a text hooker and write a script the skips every line expect the ones spoken by your favorite heroine.

>>14102346
Why?

>>14102387
Because.

Someone make a new thread

>>14102948
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