/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Oreimo Tsuzuku - 246/268 scripts translated, 181/268 through TLC+Editing, 84/268 scripts finalized
PersonA - 44% translated
Rewrite Harvest Festa - 22583/30040 (75.18%) lines translated
SakuSaku - Common route + Konami route fully translated, 45160/49257 (92%) lines translated, 31858/49257 (65%) lines finalized, Konami + Mio route released
Starry Sky In Summer - 173/177 scripts translated
SubaHibi - 100% translated, 2nd editing pass and QC remain
Tasogaredoki no Kyoukaisen - 100% translated and edited, QC and technical work remains
Tsujidou-san no Jun'ai Road - 12/323 scripts translated
Ushinawareta Mirai wo Motomete - 4282/35056 (15.7%) lines translated
>White Album 2 - 8974/35275/35275 (25.44%) lines of closing chapter translated
Witch's Garden - 37311/67201 (55.52%) lines translated, 2221/67201 (3.31%) edited, prologue patch released
Yosuga no Sora - Translation status is Common route 100%, Sora route 100%, Nao 78.42%, Kazuha 100%, Akira 89.73%, Motoka 32.17%, Common and Kazuha fully edited


Official work

JAST
Shiny Days - Delayed until Sept 18th
>Sonicomi - Fully translated, in editing
Sumaga- Fully translated, in editing
>Trample on Schatten- main scenerio 100% translated and edited, extra content 33% done
>Flowers - Fall released planned, 75% translated
>Seinarukana- Translation and coding finished, waiting on LE materials.
Django - 1st half of 2016
Sweet Home - In translation
>Sumeragi Ryoko - 90% translated

MangaGamer
Sonohana RHWM - 9/25 release
Euphoria - In beta
Free Friends 2 - 100% translated and edited
>Higurashi Hou -Onikakushi released, Watanagashi in scripting
Kara no Shoujo 2 - In beta, demo released
Bokuten - 66.5% translated, 30.05% edited
>Da Capo 3 - 57.2% translated
>Gahkthun - 100% translated, 56% edited
>OZMAFIA - 77.3% translated
>House in Fata Morgana - 76.09% translated
Myth - 21.70% translated
>My Boss Wife is My Ex - 90% translated, 70% edited
Kuroinu - Being released as 3 seperate chapters, 18.13% TL 18.13% edited
>Supipara - Ch 1 84.2% translated, 68.63% edited
>Yurirei - 50% translated, 37% edited
>Himawari - TL and editing finished
>Beat Blades Haruka - 42.5% Translated
Umineko - Picked up
>Tokyo Babel - 22% translated
Negai no Kakera - Picked up
Princess Evangile W Happiness - Picked up

Sekai/Denpa
>Fault Milestone 2 - Side Above released, GE still to come
Grisaia trilogy - Both All Ages and 18+ version of the first game released
Clannad - 100% translated, mostly edited, 4Q 2015 release
WAS - Kickstarter finished, delayed
>Atom Grrrl - 73.88% translated
>Narcissu 3rd - 1.43% translated
>Narcissu 4th - 1.15% translated
>WEE 3 - 6.66% translated
>Nenokami - 7.18% translated
Kokonoe Kokoro - picked up
Shizuku no Oto - picked up
Sacrament Sheep - In Beta
Memory's Dogma - Kickstarter reached goal
G-Senjou - Summer release
Chrono Clock - Picked up
Root Double - Picked up
Tenshin Ranman - Picked up
Witch Boy - Picked up


Other
Muv Luv Trilogy - Kickstarter planned
Eiyuu Senki - Summer release
Moenovel is working on another title
Lucky Dog - Possible iOS released based on the ongoing text only fanTL
Work being done on a fanTL of Shin Koihime with hopes of getting it licensed
Wish Tale of the Sixteenth Night - Kickstarter succeeded
Harvest December - 3DS ports being released
Norn9 - November 11th release
Code Realize - November 24th release

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>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread

>>14086990
Why do you always call it Clover Day
Stop triggering my autism

>Iinazuke wa Imouto-sama - Released

You, uh, know that this is literally partially edited machine translation, right? Literally every other line has obvious English errors. Not reads poorly. Things like is missing or has extra punctuation just tossed around.

>>14086994
>Beat Blades Haruka - 42.5% Translated

He really hates Haruka, doesn't he?

JAST? Green? I have no idea how to handle this.

>>14086994
>Da Capo 3 - 57.2% translated
Any second now.

>>14087044
Don't worry, it's not really. Dan88 just hadn't updated it for the last six months.

>>14087041
Haruka is 80% H scenes, so around 50% of the total lines are moaning and dick sucking sounds.

>>14087062
If only they named it Beating Blades Haruka.

>>14087058
It's weird how Seinarukana's progress update is that they're doing nothing.

Bundles gonna inflate total overs to over a hundred thousand.

Post em' if you got em.

>>14087062

The H-scenes don't go any faster than anything else. Surprising, I know. I'm just working a lot.

>>14087143

Powering your way through with nothing but your dogged enthusiasm

>>14087151
Maybe he's a fellow cucumber enthusiast.

>>14087128
MG probably just increased the IDs to confuse the likes of you. There's no way they'd sell that many.

>>14087216

It's the bundles inflating the order numbers anonymous, I thought that much is obvious. Over 2000*6 orders from the groupees bundle and counting, and even more than the groupees bundle(judging by sales popularity)*5 for the indiegala bundle and counting

Himawari finished! Now how long until Mangagamer gets it out?

>>14086990
Wait ... someone translated Iinazuke wa Imouto-sama?

I quiet enjoyed that. I'll have to look into it.

Anyone know where I can torret a copy of haramin?

>>14087035
He does not discriminate. Anything is included as long as it has a page or is finished. It's silly to pick on one single thing when there's tons of stuff like that listed in these threads.

I thought Suba Hibi was translated last week, but it's here again this week.

I'm confused anons.

>>14087454
It was finished but the patch was only shared with a few people. Word on the street is that it will be out this week. Later today, from what I'm told.

I see you've been paying attention to VNTS2, since you included Atom Grrl.

What if VNTS man is actually the person who creates those other threads too, but he takes off his tripcode as part of his scheme?

>>14086994
Where do all these Sekai Project progress updates come from? They've literally never provided them before. Shit, between this and Denpasoft finally being used, is Sekai Project actually doing stuff now?

>>14087413
You're waiting on FrontWing then, as apparently they have to actually make an engine to put the Vita game onto the PC before they can release the game.

>>14087432
>>/vg/115981871
It's a masterpiece.

>>14087432
Yeah mate it was done by this dude called Google

>>14087524
>>14087540
>waah these guys aren't qualified to translate my games for me for free!

Either learn Japanese or shut the fuck up, you entitled shits. These people owe you nothing, and do not answer to you.

>>14087544
Your meme is not very funny.

>>14087524
>>>/vg/115981871

>>14087545
>It offends me so it's a meme!

Suck a dick.

>>14087544
We seem to have entered an endless recursion of time

>>14087557
I don't blame MangaGamer for choosing BBH over a Rance game (in fact, I don't care about either). What bothers me is how they played the 'buy our shitty games and we'll bring you better games, we can't get you the good games directly unfortunately' card once again, and this time we have proof it's bullshit. They intentionally went for BBH instead of Rance, then lied to the community about being forced to take BBH while they really totally wanted to do Rance immediately. We have to buy their games, otherwise Rance is truly impossible for them!

You guys keep complaining about how Dovac lies to customers, but how is this any better? Or is it okay this time because it's MangaGamer and MG totally is doing everything for our best interests and not just because they're a company trying to make money?

>>14087557
Koichoco soon.

>>14087558
the difference is that mg has good translators

Musumaker is at 15%, in case no one knew.
It's nice~

Hey guys, someone just announced a translation of Subahibi! They're pretty fast, so I think they might have it done by 2013.

pc-98 get

>>14087586
Nice, I'd lost all hope when Moogy dropped his translation project. I hope they finish it quickly.

>>14087657
This Herkz guy doing the editing seems relatively unknown, but apparently he's a nice guy and a hard worker. Should be a breath of fresh air after all the trolls.

>>14087664
I heard he sucked 37 dicks.

Fun fact: I started learning Japanese at about the same time the Subahibi project was announced and I read it in Japanese a year and a half ago with relatively little difficulty.

If I'd started learning Japanese at that point a year and a half ago, I could still probably have read it before the patch is released.

vvav+herkz: slower than learning Japanese twice.

>>14087682
Was it good?

>>14087694
It made me gay for Scaji.

>>14087479
They put up a proper progress page a couple days ago, thus a bunch of updates (and additions of stuff that was missing)

https://sekaiproject.com/progress.php

>>14087710
>progress may decrease or increase without warning or reason.

??? Why would it change if there's no reason for it?

Also what does "not migrated to our project tracker" mean? Why wouldn't they migrate it?

For Whom Would You Destroy Everything For?

>>14087721
Fucking hell

Imagine this being the extent of your Steam library.

>>14087733
Maybe he keeps a separate account to buy weeb shit on.

>>14087735
Maybe, but that's a bitch move. My Steam library is great. Pick a letter.

tiny(remove this)url.com/sekaiproject

I'm liking this version of the SP progress page better. Also fuckin' spam filter, but that's reasonable enough.

>>14086991
>jast updates a lot of things but leaves out sumaga

Are they planning for christmas release or something? It's been in editing forever now.

>>14087717
What the hell? I though you were joking but that IS the actual disclaimer.

What's the fucking point then?

>>14087775
It'll be canceled.

>>14087775
Christmas 2025.

>>14087782
That text scrolled very slowly so I had to wait a long time to see it, too.

>>14087775
>Sumaga
>Release

Hahaha

>>14087775
After Jango maybe

>>14087044
>>14087775
Same as Sekai Project, the Jast updates were the result of them putting up an updated progress page, as opposed to any actual recent work.

>>14087044
Same as Sekai Project, the Jast updates were the result of them putting up an updated progress page, as opposed to any actual recent work.

>>14087717
>Why would it change if there's no reason for it?
They don't mean it like that, retard. It means they don't need to provide the reason.

>>14087911
Wow, Dovac once again showing he's king of awful wording. They should really get someone else to write this stuff.

>>14087919
No, your ESL ass is just bad at understanding.

>>14087455
Where have you been told this though

>>14087951
Here, several months ago.

>>14087926
Really, dude? You'd defend Dovac on this, when he's known for his questionable English?

>>14087951
I've been talking with koestl on IRC. We hang out pretty often now, actually.

>>14087966
What can I say? I am on the side of justice; the people involved are irrelevant.

>>14087969
Not much justice in this one considering it is actually pretty poorly worded. Tell me how you'd interpret this sentence: "Morde feels like a fighter who is overly constrained by mana and perhaps should not be."

>>14087978
My interpretation of a completely unrelated sentence has nothing to do with this. If you don't think the phrase "without warning or reason" exists, you can always google it.
Spoiler: It does.

>>14087988
It would show to me how skilled or unskilled you are at interpreting things and would explain why you think this is not easily misinterpreted. It may be a thing people say but you cannot deny that "without reason" can also be interpreted as "for no reason". It would have been significantly more clear to say "with no warning or reason given."

>>14087544
To those that missed it, this is a copy paste of what an anon said yesterday:
https://archive.moe/jp/thread/14066964/#14084080

After that post there was some discussion because an anon disagreed with it.

On another note, please sage your posts guys.

>>14088138
Does sage actually make it so that the thread can still be bumped after it hits 300 posts?

>>14087682
How did you learn Japanese? Grinding everyday?

>>14088138
Oh, the second, unimportant VNTS thread. I don't care if that one turns to shit.

>>14088520
How else would you learn Japanese? It certainly doesn't come for free by watching animu.

>>14088530
Good, it's better off without your presence anyway.

>>14088581
With such quality, it does look better off.

>>14087682
I'd like to learn Japanese but first I'm mastering English. By the time I do learn Japanese up to N2(too poor to go to Japan to complete N1) I should be a good enough translator. Then again, people want simplified translations these days with 3 syllable words every 30k lines or so.

>>14088584
GET A LIFE!

>>14088589
I am by using the time savings from not using that other thread as requested.

>>14088534
Reverse osmosis.

>>14088592
On watching anime porn and jacking off. Really livin' large, bitch!

>>14087682
could you post a bit about how you went about learning japanese?

>>14088653
Basically, I followed this handy guide:
https://99phoenixdowns.wordpress.com/2012/07/28/intro-to-playing-japanese-visual-novels-with-agth-atlas-and-translation-aggregator/

koichoco fuckin when

it's been "in editing" for the last year and a half

>>14088709
I swear I saw this exact post just last week. I was considering searching the archives and reposting my response to it but lazy.

>>14088649
It really is.

>>14088716
If you haven't noticed, somebody is posting old posts to this thread for some reason. Perhaps so the bump limit can be quickly reached.

>>14088746
How silly, I fill the thread with banal arguments and other such stupid comments enough on my own as it is. They don't need to help me.

How am I supposed to post anything if Insem doesn't post anything?

>>14088803
You could try contributing actual discussion to the thread.

Here's the thing. Even if the Fate/stay night translation had better writing (as the translation itself is solid), people would still be moronic about it regardless of that. Of this I'm certain. People are just completely stupid about anything that's popular, even if it is a genuinely good thing. You can see this pretty clearly with their reaction to the Ufotable anime adaptation, which also had no real problems with its translation. You have idiots calling it fucking Naruto just because someone dares to like it. They don't care about translation quality. They care that it's popular so they've decided to find anything that they can portray as a flaw. Incidentally, Attack on Titan's manga translation really is shit and I wish the person doing it would get taken out so someone better can take over.

>>14088746
Weekly reminder that this is what /jp/ considers bad translation.

>>14089223
>Machine translations are bad
>REMEMBER THAT ONE TIME ONE PERSON SAID A METAPHOR WAS BAD!? PROVED U WRONG WOT WOT

>>14088746
It's one of the scripts Ti9 uses when he feels like shitposting. He does it to kill /vn/ every few months when he feels like there's too much on topic posting and not enough shitposting.

>>14088848
I actually usually do that. You could see I wasn't a new IP. God bless anonymity.

Apparently Aroduc's translating Gears of Dragoon.

>>14088520
>>14088653
Grinding with Anki plus eroge erryday. Same way as most people here, I'd guess. Started with Tae Kim, then read easy moege while grinding some basic vocab so reading things wouldn't take thousands of years. Did some kanji, mainly to learn how to differentiate them. More vocab. I probably spent more time with Anki than I should have, but whatever.

Anyway, the important part is to just read tons of shit to familiarize yourself with the language. I used Furigana Inserter to look up vocab, and Google for grammatical constructions. As soon as you think you can handle it, get some J-J dictionaries. I use Daijirin with Rikaisama for quick lookup, and dictionary.goo.ne.jp where that fails. You can ask questions in #tanoshimi (where you might even get an answer) or some other place where Japanese speakers hang out.

>>14088587
Uh, why would you need to go to Japan for N1? In any case, JLPT is pathetically easy and doesn't really mean much unless you need it for a job.

>>14090072
> why would you need to go to Japan for N1

To get the real native speaker experience and learn some obscure slang while in Hokkaido.

>>14087071
Release never.

>>14090448
That has nothing to do with the JLPT, though.

>>14090448
That has nothing to do with JLPT N1, though.

You guys never talk about me anymore.

>>14091132
Don't worry, I'm always thinking about you.

>>14091132
Nice 'literally', Dickens. Maybe I'll get to pick up on your grand moral high-mindedness, where someone who (probably) hasn't experienced homelessness, or an inescapable abusive relationship, or a suicide of a close friend, or real hunger, or addiction, or an unhappy family life, who would decide for everyone everywhere that having every need of every human met is a bad thing because you're too simple-minded to see the world as anything but this black-and-white Zoroastrian mythos where every joy must have a price paid in suffering. I admit (again) that Huxley is not a scientist or a sociologist. What if, in such a society, education was revered as a virtue? Imagine these people versed in Shakespeare and Thoreau, worldly and well-traveled and consciously choosing to support a society that works out so well for so many. I mean lordy it's like you've got this Stockholm syndrome for your own first-world-problem existence. 'Going through the motions'? Do you know how many human beings live in slavery right now? One in every 250 people live with 'going through the motions' and you would refuse them a world without beatings and dehumanizing conditions because you don't want them to 'seek pleasure instead of meaning.' What the hell does that mean? That's supposed to be an ultimatum? Why the hell not both? Meaning is one of the greatest pleasures!

>>14091676
I was intrigued by this and found the source. What a fucking blowout.

White Album 2 updated. Yeees

>>14086990
Why is Little Busters still there?

>>14091816
The white album 2 project is notoriously terrible.

Fuck you, Kojima. Hurry up and release the Subahibi patch.

What happens to Yoake Mae Irona whatever?

>>14092370
That one is fully translated but it got dropped in the middle of quality checking and the hacker doesn't really give a shit anymore.

It's not just visual novels you can play if you learn Japanese. Those are just the biggest thing. But there are so many good Japan only video games that you can finally appreciate after having mastered the language. You don't have to let what you play be determined by what people decide to translate. It is definitely worth doing if you like Japanese stuff.

>>14092273
Why is Mahou Tsukai no Yoru still there ?

>>14092631
I removed it in my thread but this faker stuck it right back in.

>>14092635
He must be a commie shill.

>>14092507
I have seen a lot of good Famicom games too.

>>14092639
I think he is Herkz himself.

>>14092300
Still better than nothing anon. I heard they fixed the horrible translation in IC

>>14092681
Truth. Shin Onigashima, nuff said.

>>14092792
>Still better than nothing

Uh oh.

>>14092792
>Still better than nothing anon
What kind of fucking retarded reasoning is this?

>>14092973
People are stupid. I think it's better to just insist it's a legitimately good translation, regardless of whether it is. For bonus points you can say people have bad reading comprehension so that they look like the idiots.

The Muv Luv Kickstarter reversed their idea of having $120k for Muv Luv and Alternative as a $250k stretch goal. Now they are just using $250k as the base goal for the trilogy.

>>14093283
>Now they are just using $250k as the base goal for the trilogy
Can see why, since there is no point in just releasing Muv Luv without Alternative. Though it would have been funny to see people pissed if it didn't make the stretch goal.

>>14093283
I expect the actual base goal will be even higher. Sekai Project style.

>>14093283
How in the nine fucks are they justifying that cost when all they're going to do is re-release already completed work?

>>14093516
Only a mere $60,000 of it is for Ixrec's shitty mess.

>>14093516
>>14093540
I don't get how there isn't an uproar with people calling them out about this. We're not on Ixrec's turf anymore, we don't have to play by his rules. He won't be able to delete any posts criticizing the translation. Surely they must realize they're dealing with a hot mess.

>>14093577
They say they are polishing the translation, but while it is a shame, the truth is that the English VN market simply doesn't care. As long as it is readable and the reader enjoyed the visual novel, the reader will say "It was a good translation." If anything, saying Ixrec translated it is a plus for the company because he is a well known translator and people reading his translations without knowing better think they are fine.

Fuck it. I don't care about Subahibi anymore. I don't know how these guys can possibly be so slow at polishing a finished translation, but they've done a great job of killing all hype.

>>14093614
That doesn't excuse misrepresenting the cost of their work. All that's going to do is hurt people who aren't greedy, deceptive assholes.

I would laugh so hard if that Muv Luv kickstarter did not reach 250k. It would make the whole thing pretty pointless

In other news, the MG groupees bundle finally ended at 2110 bundles sold and 322 bundles left over.

>>14094431
I wish. So much. But I think we all know they'll easily hit it. That depresses me.

>>14093516
Normally speaking I'd say it's to cover license costs more than anything but I don't understand how the licensing is working here. It might just be the money age wants for whatever generally.

Honestly though at this point it's just a marketing scheme.

>>14094431
32% goes to development and holy SHREK. The highest stretch goal is $720K. At least they're gonna be rebuilding that rugp engine and I hope good ol' Doddler gets the job.

Where the fuck is that Subarashiki Hibi patch? I am too dumb to learn Japanese, so don't even start with that nonsense.

>>14095102
Same. This is PISSING ME OFF.

>>14095164

You mean they aren't just leading you on, waiting for an 'official release' like Maria did?

>>14095184
I actually think that's what's happening. You know how Sekai Project is going to be announcing things later this month? ...Yeah.

Holy shit. Taco cat is taco cat backwards.

>>14095184
I doubt this is the case, because herkz got into an argument with Doddler on twitter about Maria doing that and whether or not Mangagamer and Maria fucked over Rancefags or not and herkz was pretty critical of the whole move. Though, hypocrisy is well within herkz's faggotry radius so maybe.
>>14095249
There is no shot in hell Sekai Project will be localising Subahibi. No shot in hell. There's no way they'll want a bestiality VN attached to their name and no way they'll get it on steam.

Kara no Shoujo 2 is October 30th release.

>>14094699
I don't know why people are so eager to pay for VNs that have already been translated. Which is weird because I always see people saying "Nah they shouldn't localize this, people have already played the patch" about other games. Obviously they should, because people would buy it anyway.

>>14095388
Generally people are retarded. Some of the biggest hyping retards and presumably future backers are people who could just buy the existing W7 versions because they think they're contributing to some sort of cause.

>>14095398
I've seen some such retards here. They never respond when some people point out how dumb it is to do it just to "support the industry" and what not.

>>14095330
>bestiality

Every time I hear something about this game it gets more ridiculous. This is great, but at this rate I won't get to be surprised when I actually play it.

>>14095388
Not everyone is sharing your street junkie nigger mentality. Stealing is wrong. You need to pay for services you received even if you are not risking punishment for not doing so.

>>14095411
The H-scenes ended up disappointing me too. I really was expecting a riot and, don't get me wrong there's definitely some absurd and fucking hilarious stuff, but it's no way near as bad as people make it out to be. The bestiality scene itself is only three lines long. Really there's very little that would be out of place in a Rance and certainly nothing like Euphoria or something.

That being said the story content tied to those H-scenes can be pretty emotionally burdening.

>>14095405
Personally I would support the industry in certain cases if it wasn't corrupt horseshit. I'm disappointed age went this way but it's not like I should expect much from them anymore I guess.

>>14095413
Except paying for something made by pirates is fucking dumb.

>>14095442
Yes, age is now """pirates""", stealing their own property.

>>14095462
Shut up Herk.

>>14095284
Actually it's tac ocat

Herk the Jerk.

>>14095411
Subahibi isn't really a game that you play to be surprised or shocked by, though the way people tend to describe it makes it sound like it is.

Post more cute loli

>>14096125
This is certainly a great thread to ask for that in.

>>14096028
Is that right? That's a relief to hear, because I did indeed think it was like that from what people were saying. That actually makes me more interested in it since it means it doesn't rely on that and presumably is just something with good writing.

>>>/a/14096196

>>14096232
Great link.

>>14096231
It's sort of a difficult game to describe without making it sound very different from what it actually is, especially since "what it is" varies rather wildly from chapter to chapter. Anyway, just play it, it's a fun ride and definitely deserving of its reputation as one of the very best VNs.

>>14096254
Great post.

>>14096257
Shit post.

>>14096262
Shitpost.

Mahoyo translation is out.

https://vndb.org/r42858

>>14096265
Stop spamming.

>>14096273
That's a partial, you doofus. Here's the full patch:
https://vndb.org/r31616

>>14096278
You first.

>>14096285
What are you talking about, spammer?

>>14096295
You.

>>14096297
That was my first post in this thread.

You know what I fucking HATE?

>>14096786
I assume you hating yourself is a given, so we're supposed to answer something different, right?

>>14096791
Yes. It would have also been funny if people guessed a bunch of things and I just said "No, myself." but that's ruined now.

>>14096818
I'm really sorry for spoiling your joke!!

>>14096832
Well I didn't have that joke planned, it's just that your post made me realize it was a good idea. But I can't do anything with it at this point.

>WEE 3 - 6.66% translated
I knew Sekai was the devil

>>14096973
Yes, Sekai is Chinatsu.

https://twitter.com/The_Doddler/status/643815387587481600
https://twitter.com/The_Doddler/status/643816230747418624
>So KnS2 is up for pre-order. I'm anxious, because I really want to see this do well. We worked really hard to make this a great release~
>I am somewhat worried that there isn't a market for serious games like this after how Cartagra went, though I hope I'm wrong.

Didn't KnS sell decently? I mean, its hard-copy was even re-printed. I didn't see Cartagra being discussed a lot so this is probably the reason for lack of sales. However, it's worth noting that the few I see talking about Cartagra usually say positive things.

>>14097721
Lotsa people probably didn't even know it was connected to Kara no Shoujo with that title. It's like if they were to call the next Rance game "Butt Fight 2000".

>>14097721
Be nice if they stopped delaying any ig game they have until halloween.

>>14097930
What?

>>14097930
There's no intent to delay, the game isn't even done yet and it's open for preorders.

>>14097721

Tellin' you dodler, I'd buy both of them in an instant if they were physical copies.

I already made that mistake with KnS1 and had to pirate the game just to run it (the DRM seemed to not understand itself and choked when it tried to run). The result might be the same with the boxed version of course, but at least I get -something- other than a broken executable from it.

It's always so disappointing to see 'digital only' when I go to MG's site, and in this chicken-and-egg we only both lose because I won't pay for a game twice and you won't get a sale.

>>14097721

KnS got normalfag exposure via kotaku
Cartagra got fuck all.

Cartagra sold somewhere in the neighborhood of a thousand copies. It's not a massive failure like ef was, but considering it was a marquee title, that's a big disappointment

I'd wager if kns2 fails, it probably means enjoy your moege/nukige/chuunige future

>>14098501
>enjoy your moege/nukige/chuunige future

I probably would, to be honest.

>>14098772
If Cartagra and KnS2 fail, I don't know why you'd think fringe chuuni stuff will do well. You're going to be stuck with nukige and their endless parade of Shuffles and Evangelines.

Why did ef fail?

>>14098501
I don't think it sold even that much, otherwise they would have given it a hardcopy already.

>>14099077
not enough epic feelios

>>14099077
Because it already had an English patch out for years and there was a lot of assholism from both Minori and the fan translators, so it was tough to convince anybody who knew anything about it to support them.

>>14099084
Like in the epic Sakura series on Steam?

>>14098501
I'd feel sorry for doddler considering he basically reprogrammed the entire game.

> We're assembling a joint task force to tackle this. A mix of dedicated fan translators and professional translators from Japan will work directly with the creators of Muv-Luv series to ensure the highest quality translation for this release.

Sounds like it will be biggest kickstarted VN disaster.

>>14096196
CUTE LOLI WAS NOT POSTED

>>14098501
Here's an idea. Actually advertise the fucking game.

>>14099403

>>14099411

To what audience

KnS/Cartagra is in the weird spot of not being something that's porn enough to find a good audience via 4chan ads or lewdgamer or such, and places outside of that don't like to run ads for porn sites.

>>14098501

I'm going to feel bad about it, but I cannot justify the expense of the game for what it offers me. It is not going to deliver what I want at the rather large price point.

Pygmallion, Tokyo Babel, Yurirei, Myth, House in Fata Morgana, Himawari-- all of these actually still do not offer that kind of value to me. But I will buy them because they are close enough where I want to reward the direction and invest.

I feel like there is just such a gulf in cultural ideas about pricing for these mediums. I think Muv Luv Alternative is worth $60. I think Cross Channel is worth $40. I think Comyu is worth $30. I think Majikoi is worth $20 (+10 per each new arc).

I cannot buy Cartagra or EF at their prices. It's just not enough quality to price ratio for me. It's like WEE. I pirated WEE. Still have only played up to the OP movie and then was too bored. It's not as good as its price.

>>14099033

chuunige will do well because steambux and steamexposure

>>14099475
When you read Cross Channel in Japanese (if), you'll realize it's worth more than you can imagine.

Romeo is that smooth with words. Teenage-aged Ixrec or some crazy Christian are no Romeos sadly.

>>14099524
Not that guy, but I'd love an example of what makes it so special.

What I'd like to know is how some teenage kid got away with shitting out some awful Cross Channel translation and didn't get roasted for it until he left the scene out of embarrassment.

>>14099589
>teenage kid

There you go

>>14099606
What do you mean? If anything a teenager should be able to get away with less.

>>14099589
At the time the scene was still young and not many people knew enough Japanese to be able to judge. And he certainly did get shit for it well before he got a life and a girlfriend. Hell, Ixrec himself admitted it sucks and said he wanted to redo it someday. (Hopefully that day never comes.)

>>14099589
>>14099645

If it happened now, he would be probably using Fuwa as his home forum and support base.

>>14099645
Anyone who wants to redo something that sucks "someday" instead of "right now" is never going to get it done. So yes, there's nothing to worry about. Procrastinators unite, tomorrow.

>>14086991
>Seinarukana- Translation and coding finished, waiting on LE materials.
SOON

>>14099645
The translation is fine as it is. There is no need to redo it.

>>14100153
Just like Sumaga, right?

>>14099475
Are you in the third world/a kid/unemployed? A game that gets me ~20-30 hours for $40 is not expensive; doubly so when it's in a niche genre. The prices you list don't seem at all sustainable from a business perspective when you consider the titles might only hit 1k sales. Slashing prices and selling more copies instead doesn't really work unless you have a large potential audience, sadly I don't think porn games currently do.

>>14099475
This Steam sale mentality honestly makes me mad. Majikoi is worth $20? I don't even like Majikoi and I still find that offensive. We live in a world where soulless assembly line games like Call of Duty that sell by the millions will run you $60 and you think fucking Cross Channel isn't worth that much?

There's a guy on the MGSV board named "Herrx" and he attempts to shitpost by asking the same question over and over even after people already answer him. Hmmmmm, very familiar.

>>14100450
But my friend, demand is the oldest and greatest indicator of value.

>>14100347
This girl's hair bothers me. I want to pick her up by it and swing her around like a flail.

>>14100551
same problem here, i'ts not really a Eroge but still a "kind of Light novel" (with Gta and other shits)

>>14100878
That's a pretty normal hairstyle though. I've seen it in real life, though obviously not purple.

>>14100966
well... i think at least the braiding should take all the hair, i mean she should have long hairs with braids not like " short hair with two noddles of long hair made for 2 tiny braids" thats weird

Eric Hitchcuck

>>14086990
how much longer till SubaHibi ? I It seems like it the only thing worth looking forward too these days, Why the fuck are no good games being translated any more. Will we ever get root double or 12 riven now.

>>14101351
> good games
> root double or 12 riven
kek

>>14101359
Fuck you dude, Gatchan knows what he's talking about. Every game needs old people, fuck these high school students. Not literally though, that happens in all of those other games already.

>>14101359
Sorry but I actually want something to read, I liked it when we had something big to look forward too. everything getting translated is meh these days. I miss the umineko era, as in not just umineko but how many good games were being translated. its all fucking manga gamer and jasts, etc companies fault. They aren't doing shit, just taking away translations.

>>14101395
It only takes a year or to two become proficient enough to understand most of what is going on in your average VN. Just about as long as the average translation takes, with the additional advantage that you don't have to give a fuck anymore when your favorite game isn't translated at all.

So, what's your excuse?

>>14101395
None of these games you listed are "big". Himawari is at least 100 times better. Heck, even Tokyo Babel is 10 times better than that mediocre shit.

>>14101419
He's right about one thing. Where the FUCK is Subahibi. I swear, if I ever get a Death Note, Jason Herkston is going down.

>>14101351
Gahkthun

>>14099432
Porn games advertise themselves though. You can quickly on the cover see "oh cute girls!"

When you look at the typical "real deal" titles, the covers really say nothing at all. Mostly you can just determine "Depressing/Sad game".

If you can't sell something on the cover, you better have a really good word of mouth system prepared.

>>14101419
when was anything big translated then? it seems like at least we got bigger vns back then, now its all boring school life shit. At least clannad and kanon had a good vibe and characters to it even though it was in that genre, kinda. no actually now its just trash school girl vns. no name waste of time shit is being translated when we can actually be getting stories translated. I dont get it. All this shit on the front being translated looks like crap. Muv Luv Total Eclipse and even Amagami maybe might be a bit better, Amagami still will never go anywhere and its still just another bit better school romance game.

>>14101451
>Muv Luv Total Eclipse
>better

>>14101451
oh and fuck didnt see Mahou Tsukai no Yoru, I thought it was canned. When was that re-picked up? When fucking type moon is even not getting the attention it should be getting, you know your in a shit era of translated vns. Its fucking disappointing, we were doing so well too. shit was coming out like crazy and it seemed to be getting better then it all crashed. What ever happened to ixrec anyway? he was part of that golden era a bit.

>>14101451
Oh, its milf autist. No wonder you cannot comprehend even basic English.
Himawari, Tokyo Babel, Gahkthun, Pygmalion — all of them are "stories" of the kind you want, but instead they are actually GOOD stories, not some wacky "ebin tweeeest" shit like infinity series.

>>14101463
Don't get your hopes up, it's like Baldr Sky where they're just leading us on and showing no actual evidence of progress but saying "We're totally working on it, honest!". I have to assume the creator of this thread is a member of the team and he just stuck it in there to troll.

>>14101468
>Himawari
I read that shit a long ass time ago, It was ok.
Also im not on the up keep but Tokyo Babel and The Shadows of Pygmalion actually looks good, I missed it on the list. I guess its something to look forward too. I knew about Gahkthun.

>>14101463
The only reason Ixrec released so many translations is because they were all shitty translations that he shat out with a machine translator. It's best not to hope for those days.

>>14101504
Himawari is a completely different game from Sharin no Kuni, Himawari no Shoujo, which is probably what you read.

>>14101504
> I read that shit a long ass time ago, It was ok.
If you can read japanese, why do you even care? Or you are retard who cannot even tell correct Himawari from wrong one?

Himawari tells a tale of love, tragedy, and sacrifice played out on two stages – Earth, and outer space. Enter Hinata Youichi, a young high school student and sole survivor of a tragic spaceplane crash that robbed him of both his family and memories roughly two years prior. Amnesiac but steady in his new life, Youichi manages to find solace in surrounding himself with friends: Amamiya Ginga, the eccentric son of a world-famous astronaut, as well as the tomboyish, yet ultimately kind-hearted quasi-childhood friend, Saionji Asuka. Everything changes, however, when an unidentified object crash-lands in Youichi’s hometown and he meets Aries, a mysterious – and similarly amnesiac – young girl from outer space. Who is Aries? What happened on that fateful day two years ago? And what secrets lurk behind the accident that turned Youichi’s life upside down?

Explore Youichi’s struggle in coming to terms with his lost memories while an entirely different story is revealed to have taken place far beyond the clouds, in the chilling void of outer space. What starts out as a young man’s light-hearted high-school adventure soon takes a more serious turn as both Youichi and the reader are led to face a sobering revelation: that not everything is as it seems at first glance.

Wait when the fuck did Kara no Shojo 2 get done, I missed that completely. Its on manga gamers page.
>>14101511
Oh guess im out of touch. art style is misleading though, is that part of the twist or something.
https://vndb.org/v210

>>14101468
Damn son, it took you that long? His personality and preferences are so obvious. I can immediately sense when he has entered a thread.

>>14101508
He was fine, people love to shit post about him though but he got shit done and that whole machine translation is bullshit. out of everyone, he wasn't one of them.

But seriously is Subarashiki Hibi the next good vn coming out? It seems like its just about done this time, editing/QC wise. last vn I actually read of cared about was I/0. I hope them getting bought out is a good thing because they were a good team.

>>14101537
You made the same mistake as this guy on the MangaGamer forum who called it a "no-name lolige" who we always laugh at. That is the art style of the first version of the game, back when it was some old PC indie game. Look at this site for a real taste of it:
http://mangagamer.org/himawari/

Though in any case it is still misleading, yes. Himawari is an extraordinary well-loved "real deal" game in Japan. It's famous for having tricked people into thinking it's about little girls and then they play it and it's actually a realistic hard sci-fi story that teaches you a lot about science.

>>14101547
Yeah, I don't think he machine translates. As I recall, he got some simple Japanese food translated wrong -- something even Google would've gotten right. Basically, he just kinda knows Japanese but his work is real.

>>14101537
>art style
Is it really so fucking hard to go read mangagamer page for it or google a bit?
MG licensed 2015 remake from frontwing, with brand new modern art. Screenshots on vndb are from older releases.

>>14101566
> he just kinda knows Japanese
He "translated" 茶の間 as "after tea". You can't seriously claim that he knows Japanese. He knows Ixrecese, which just happens to resemble Japanese a bit.

>>14101560
Probably, but it's taking for-fucking-ever because the editor is a big troll. Supposedly he's actually done with it but is just holding it back for the lulz.

Out of curiosity, did you hear about Lamento being translated? It was another important game that just came out so you might have missed it. That's a pretty good game. Yeah, I know what you're thinking, but it really does have a legitimately good story.

>>14101578
Hey, Kajiura makes music in languages that resemble real ones but aren't, and she does fantastic work. By that logic, Ixrec is awesome.

>>14101468
I thought people weren't actually all that keen on Pygmalion for some reason. Is that just bullshit someone's been spreading and it can hang with the best of them?

>>14097721
Cartagra was number 11 according on their top 10 sales blog post. Was the sales really that shit?

>>14101578
He knows enough that I prefer his translations over anyone else's.

>>14101582
>Lamento
How is the translation for it?

>>14101603
But there are no translations, only bad fanfics.

>>14101598
Darkstalkers was in the XBLA top ten and Capcom insisted the sales were shit, so.

>>14101615
One of the better fan translations out there, really. It all flows naturally while being accurate to the original Japanese. Nothing to complain about.

>>14099277
Does that mean Philip-san will tear his beard out fixing ixrec's shit and cursing Americans?

>>14101569
Ah well sorry I haven't been up to date with vns but I guess Himawari is a seriously good story then? Tokyo Babel also something big? I
>>14101615
I missed it because I haven't been around the vn world, im been doing my warhammer 40k hobby and reading books. also game looks gay as fuck, no thanks.

>>14099277
>professional translators from Japan
hahaha

>>14101615
It's got several inaccurate translations but still gets the meaning across without ruining the story. You'll be fine as long as you don't need to read the backlog, which makes me want to kill myself.

How does it feel that gravity falls and Steven universe have 10x better stories than 90% of the vns being translated.

>>14101693
Both of them are overrated shit that people only hype up because they hate Japanese things and desperately want to show off how super cool their all-American cartoons are (even though Japanese studios work on the animation for those cartoons too...) because they want to feel good about themselves because they've got nothing else in their lives. It's kind of like MLP. You are literally a brony coming into the VN thread and talking about horsedick.

Maybe if you were talking about Adventure Time or something.

>>14101675
Why the FUCK would you ignore real deal games for such a petty reason? Imagine if someone ignored I/O just because they hated milfs. They would be missing out so much.

>>14101761
I'm only half kidding, come on its cartoons. plus cartoons were never even this good story wise besides maybe teen titans or some shit. Its was always anime in the 90s that had some story/plot.
Also Adventure Time is shit and I haven't watched cartoons since the 90s, just checked out these two shows because of the big deal they are getting. As far as cartoons go they are pretty good.

>>14101761
I didnt even know there was random hate from fucking two cartoon fanbases over anime. you cant even be taking this seriously.

>>14101801
>>14101806
Then you would know even less. Fucking miserable ass cartoons and their shit. It's a bunch of desperate trolls. Trolling. The MLP fanbase is here and they won't rest until they've ruined everything, they think they're so cool because they want to be anime but they aren't. Who even cares about America? I hate it.

>>14099426
Good job. You did a good job.

>>14101526
>high school
>amnesia

>>14101925

>>14101351
>how much longer till SubaHibi ?
36 days. Maybe 37 depending on which timezone herkz goes by.

>>14101774
I/O is about milf ? There is like one character above 20 years old.

>>14102631
did he specify 2015?

>>14102773
He didn't, but Scaji did.

why the fuck is sekai at tgs I thought they're too poor to do anything

>>14102758
I mean imagine if someone said that. It would be fucking stupid, like avoiding Lamento because "Ew gay."

>>14102773
Ignore posts like that, there's some meme going around that they MUST be delaying the release until Sakura no Uta comes out in Japan. They're just trolling. It will probably come out even later than that. The only date the team gave has been August.

>>14103095
How are they poor? All the kickstarter retards paid for their trip. You don't actually think the funds went to pay for "translators" of already translated VNs, did you?

>>14103636

><herkz> >It's completely done and ready to release, but Sakura no Uta was delayed another month, so Herkz had no choice but to delay Subahibi as well.
><herkz> i like this theory
><Moogy> lol
><herkz> although it would be cool to release the patch on the same day sakura no uta comes out... assuming it doesn't get delayed again

Whether "it" refers to the patch or Sakura no Uta is up to the reader's interpretation.

>>14104455
"It" doesn't refer to anything. It is the subject of the sentence.

As for the Subahibi patch, it's coming out this week.

>>14104455
Why exactly would herkz find that to be cool? He doesn't know Japanese. He's not going to be reading Sakura no Uta.

Why would anyone that can read Japanese care about this patch? It is just us Nipponly challenged fucks that are salivating like hungry dogs that care. It is not like we are going to be reading Sakura no Uta anytime soon after it it is released, if fucking ever.

>>14104567
It's just some idiots trolling because they think it's so awesome that people don't get to enjoy a great game.

>>14101622
Not a good measure. Tomb Raider sold seven million copies and SquareEnix declared it a failure. These companies are insane.

Darkstalkers was just a port of a game that everyone that cares already played long ago enough to not give a shit anymore. So it's more like ef.

>>14104820
Square Enix was lying or trolling or something though, because they're making a sequel to that very Tomb Raider.

Darkstalkers, meanwhile, is 100% dead.

What I'm trying to say here is that MangaGamer is wrong and Cartagra actually sold great. So don't listen to them, they don't know shit about their sales. Listen to reality.

>>14104567
Sakura no Uta is pretty tame with Japanese.

But Sca-ji likes to sparsely throw in less common words or archaic words like 剰え, 何時ぞや or さぞかし. These three I didn't know and had to look up.

And he also uses the vagueness capabilities of Japanese to great extent, so even if Sakura no Uta is easy to read as far as grammar and vocabulary, you need to be experienced in how Japanese works on the contextual level to understand it.

(That's why poor FuwaReddit friends, who'll machine translate it will get a more terrible result than usual. Machine translation might have endless vocabulary and might know some grammar, but it just can't follow context.)

>>14104841
Then also consider yourself wrong and that there are tons of good story games translated, waiting to be read.

>>14104841
Cartagra sold in 11th place last year, out of the games of that year + 2 or 3 games from the previous year. Cartagra took a lot more resources and time and probably money to get out then a lot of their other titles in that list. Even if it seemed to do well to us does not make it a success to MG.

What Doddler is more likely complaining about is more how he wishes that good story titles like Cartagra wouldn't lose to 7 nukige, a fandisc, and a bad indie RPG game. Story titles just don't look like a good idea when those are their top sellers.

>>14101598

Cartagra did somewhere in the neighborhood of a thousand sales, you can see that by comparing the order numbers and seeing that there was about 1500 orders during it's release window and accounting for the fact that there was a major sale and other games eating into that number, and also that it hasn't been on the charts at all since late 2014 means it's sales were frontloaded.

A thousand sales for mangagamer isn't really horrible, it's just average. One of their squirted out nukige can hit that. Infact, if you look at the top ten sales for that year, you'll see several handily beat cartagra.

It's more that there's an opportunity cost associated with pursuing something like cartagra over the classics like "Hypno-training My Mother and Sister". Why invest those money and resources when you could instead put that into something that'll sell the same for half the effort?

I just want Subahibi to come out so I can start playing it and change my Steam avatar to some girl from it. Maybe the one that smokes if I like her. At this rate it's going to have to be an anime girl instead.

>>14105275
That's the correct reason for wanting to play Subahibi, yes...

Besides, why not use her anyway? Yuki was my desktop wallpaper for a long time, long before I had actually played Subahibi. She doesn't disappoint, don't worry. Kimika is indisputably the best girl, though.

>>14105306
I feel like I should earn the right to use her first by getting to know her. I really should have just started the partial by now.

When KnS 2 comes out, they really should have a sale on the first two games and advertise it as the prequels. Cartarga especially needs to be linked to the more successful KnS. Work on your marketing, MG.

>>14105956
They'd probably have a lot easier time getting places to cover it if they did a jast and cut the superfluous h scenes out and put them in an officially unofficial free patch

>>14105956
This. How come MG marketing is so awful ? Cartagra wasn't a success because the game wasn't advertise and a lot of people don't even know that it's linked to Kara no Shoujo. It's really nice to see the characters of Cartagra in KnS btw, kind of nostalgic.
And also :
>no physical copy.

>>14106027
There are no places to advertise 18+ VNs. 4chan is already familiar with their lineup, and larger anime crowd sites will not accept banners for porn products.

>>14106032
>larger anime crowd sites

what about nyaa ?

>>14106042
Good luck advertising digital products to pirates.

>>14106048
Jast does it though. With J-list.

I think the concept of story porn games is just dumb. (Not to be confused with porn story games, which is good).

When there is very little porn spaced out by a serious story, the porn is just in the way. It also prevents the game from being marketed to people not interested in porn.

Meanwhile porn games are easy to market on porn sites because people who want porn will see the marketing. But these who want porn will not go for the story based games.

The guy is not too far off on the idea to butcher the title with removed porn and sell on Steam with an unofficial uncensor patch. Because weirdly enough it is attractive to buy a story focused game with porn in it, if you had to patch it back in. Since you are fighting Steams censorship, showing you are in control and all that. You probably didn't want the porn in the game to begin with.

>>14106101
>I think the concept of story porn games is just dumb.
I have the same opinion about any story without pornography.

>>14106060
J-List sells physical stuff.

>>14106122
Boxed copies.

>>14106119
Holy shit, way to miss out on some good fucking books then.

>>14106101
The issue here is that in Japan porn is a plus, yet overseas it is a minus. So if they want to mainstream these titles in the west they have no choice but getting rid of the porn. Pick the small yet loyal niche audience, or the large dregs of steam. Quality versus quantity. However, the eroge core audience is full of pirates, so it's more profitable to cater to the latter (see Sekai Project). The only reason MG and JAST are so stubborn about keeping the porn somehow is because their managers are eroge fans themselves. But soon enough they will have to follow the money as well.

>>14106305
SP isn't more successful than either MG or JAST. Bad translations, out right lying to their customers, complaints of being poor all the time, etc etc. What SP has over both of them is spamming so much that it is impossible not get noticed and written about. They have a good PR team.

>>14106305
Where do you 'porn is holding back the medium' people even come from?

>>14106329
Maybe MG should merge with Sekai Project and have SP do all their marketing.

>>14106341
The real question is why people like you are so paranoid that a post explaining the situation and not actually taking a personal stance gets taken as "porn is holding back the medium."

>>14106341
It is holding back exposure and advertisement, not the medium.

>>14106496
Porn doesn't need exposure, porn _is_ the exposure.

>>14106305
Did you ever visit steam forums? Steam population is no different from everyone else and they want full, uncensored versions with porn.
There's no real demand for censored games. Its not audicence problem, its problem with corporate faggots who are indoctrinated that porn is evil or are too afraid to catch flake from mainstream indoctrinated media.

>>14106305
>Pick the small yet loyal niche audience
This audience is growing in a much faster way thanks to Steam. And just before anyone brings this up, I'm not talking about the Steam userbase that buys the non-adult version.

>But soon enough they will have to follow the money as well.
I disagree. Refer to what I said above. Since the market is growing bigger, there's even less reason to stop localizing VNs with sexual content. Even SP has another brand to release adult versions of VNs. Releasing a version with sexual content and other without it is the way to go. No one should complain about censorship and you even make other people aware of the more niche market. No one loses this way.

Most of the west is prejudiced against sexual content and it's difficult to overcome those prejudices. I believe this is a big part of the reason why the market grows so slowly.

Noticed it just now, apparently MG is getting an interview for managing to get Yurirei on Steam.

https://twitter.com/MangaGamer/status/642547069144596480
>What would be the best way to get in touch for an interview about Kindred Spirits and the upcoming Steam release?

I suppose the interview will be posted on
http://indiegamesource.com/

Man, supposedly this is a nukige but I'm just getting a lot of character interaction right now. I wonder how often they're like this. I'm not against nukige but I like that they can apparently tell a story without having to cram one sex steam after another.

Man, supposedly this is a nukige but I'm just getting a lot of character interaction right now. I wonder how often they're like this. I'm not against nukige but I like when they can apparently still tell a story without having to cram one sex scene after another.

>>14106743
I think SP started using Denpa specifically because of Yurirei getting onto Steam uncensored. When the news sites exploded they finally realized just how massive that audience is. And that they actually can even get some of those games on Steam eventually. So they're actually going to be trying. Everyone's going to be trying. It's a good time to be a fan of sex games.

Maybe your whining got through to them. MG updated the KnS2 page http://mangagamer.org/kns2/

>>14106836
>I think SP started using Denpa specifically because of Yurirei getting onto Steam uncensored. When the news sites exploded they finally realized just how massive that audience is.
Anon, how new are you?

>>14107033
I'm pretty old so I'm tired of the kids who keep saying "How new are you". Fuck off.

>>14107130
Unless you were being ironic in your previous post, you demonstrated that you don't know what you're talking about.

>>14107202
Unless you were being stupid in your previous fuck you.

>>14106941
I'm not sure what you mean with updated because I looked at the site for the first time. But it was a much better page than I expected with new things I wasn't aware of, like online demo.

If I was a fan of horror games, I'd probably have gotten most info I needed.

Oh boy who's looking forward to more oelvn announcements?! https://twitter.com/dobacco/status/644617105040650240

>>14106941
I really hope it'll not bomb. I want my physical copy of KnS2 near the first one MG please.

Shiny Days is suppose to be out tomorrow, so one should probably expect another inevitable last minute delay to be announced shortly.

So i noticed you can flag games on steam for pornography, adult content, or child exploitation. I think if we keep flagging sekai's games with those we'll get them banned from steam

>>14106341
The medium as a whole? Not much. But as far as story oriented games go it is a massive detriment to marketing and its keeping them off of steam where they could be murdering crap like the sakura games.

As someone who would patch the h back in I don't even see doing so as a downside because it would still be there for the people who want it.

>>14107781
Cho is on Steam is isn't doing better than Sakura.

>>14107781
Cho is on Steam and isn't doing better than Sakura.

>>14107785
It also happens to be piss poor.

>>14107847
Less so than Sakura.

>>14107775
Well, none of them fall under the first two categories. Maybe child exploitation, considering his audience.

Who the fuck even needs Subahibi? Undertale is out. Play that instead.

>>14108574
No. I don't play western games.

>>14107781
Sex and nudity have been a part of every entertainment medium since forever. Not just niche kinds of stuff either, well respected and successful stuff. Ero is not holding back Eroge.

And completely clean VNs on Steam wouldn't slaughter Sakura, because the Sakura games are just cheap PG fanservice fap material, that's all they're good for. The only way to stop the Sakura plague is to get good decent porn on Steam.

>>14108624
Undertale is Japanese.

>>14108642
Aye. Even Epic of Gilgamesh (2100BC) had loads of ero.

>>14108792
The girl, displaying her bosom,
Shew’d him her comeliness, (yea) so that he of her beauty possess’d him,
Bashful she was not, (but) ravish’d the soul of him, loosing her mantle,
So that he clasp’d her, (and then) with the wiles of a woman she plied him,
Holding her unto his breast.
(’Twas thus that) Enkidu dallied
Six days, (aye) seven nights, with the courtesan-girl in his mating.

Hot stuff.

Erotic visual novels just need better writing than "oh oh oh chikubi" and such.

Is Shiny Days out yet?

>>14109741
>Release Date
>September 29, 2015
lol

Apparently Aroduc's selling horse armor DLC.

>>14109391
It's certainly better than the standard "Oh! Ah! *squelch*" that most VNs get.

>>14109944
Funnily enough, Hanachirasu is about on the same level as that passage, because Makoto is that good. I guess it just goes to show that the person translating the game can make a huge difference.

The witch boy game is on Greenlight, just got an announcement from the SP group.

I don't get why they have to keep getting their games greenlit though. I don't think MangaGamer has had to for a long time. Is it just that Steam thinks their games are so shit that they have to prove people want the games each time? Is this how Steam tries to stop the flood of awful games, but fails?

>>14110054
Oh, and the Kickstarter is up too. I don't even know what to say about that.

>>14110054

SP just does it as a marketing tactic.

>>14110054
They want to advertise the kickstarter also through greenlight.

>>14110056
>>14110065
On the kickstarter page
>$35,000 for the translation
How long is this game?

>>14110080

It was a freemium phone game originally

Why is this guy in multiple games? Is he their unofficial mascot or something?

VN newbro here, maybe someone can help me find some nice works.
What i read so far:
Grisaia no kajitsu
Chiru chiru michiru
Sakura series
i've already hoshizora no memoria installed, but the idea of reading the VN x-times to get to best girl is making me sick.

>>14110092
>freemium

For a visual novel? How?

>>14110486
Go read Fate/stay night and Umineko or I'll kick your ass.

>>14110505
You forgot MLA.

>>14110507
He would need to read Muv-Luv first, and that's an undertaking I can only recommend to someone with some REAL VN experience who won't bitch out before it's over. F/SN and Umineko are no bullshit, just damn good game right from the start. Either one is perfect for newcomers.

>>14110198
That is Souren Araya.

>>14110505
You either forgot Ever17 or you wanted to save the best for last.

>>14110519
Yes. That is another one for patient, experienced people, I can't recommend it to newbies. There is, however, Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors for a more condensed experience with some gameplay.

>>14110505
>>14110507
>>14110512
>>14110514
>>14110519
I kinda look more for nice artwork. I played with the though of playing fate/stay night, but dropped it when i saw the 50+ hours on vndb. If the artwork isn't appealing, the only thing left is the novel part, and with only that i can read a book and fill in the visual part myself.

What i look forward to is the end of the grisaia trilogy and that sonohana 11 gets a translation.

>>14110495

They make you work/wait or pay to unlock chapters and so on. It's very common with otome games on phones.

>>14110562
You're a Sakura player. I don't think I would bother trying to give you good recommendations.

>>14110599
I expected an answer like that. Still thought it might be a good shot to ask though.

>>14110562
I've never heard someone say Fate/stay night doesn't have nice artwork. What the fuck?

>>14110656
>I played with the though of playing fate/stay night, but dropped it when i saw the 50+ hours on vndb

>>14110604
To be fair everything you say sounds like a massive troll opinion. The whole point of a visual novel is the reading part. And then to have only tried the Sakura series? How does that appeal to you but none of this other fantastic stuff does? The art isn't even anything special in those games.

>>14110664
Grisaia is also 50+ hours so the implication is that he was okay with that because of the art but not Fate/stay night. Which is bullshit because Fate/stay night has very good art.

Umineko I understand because the PS3 art is shit and the PC art has a very specific appeal, but goddamn, anyone who skips that is missing out on such a good story. I hope MangaGamer's Steam release is enough to interest people.

>>14110666
>To be fair everything you say sounds like a massive troll opinion
That's why i counted on many people shitting on me.
>The whole point
maybe for you, But if it's the 'whole' part, than there is no difference to an e-book.
>And then to have only tried the Sakura series?
Short, plain, high res pantsu
But i played grisaia and i liked the comedy, how the story was set up, cute girls and healthy sex jokes.
>>14110674
>Grisaia is also 50+ hours
Yeah you're right, it was exhausting, at some point i just wanted it to end. Might go aswell for more smaller works than one 50+ work. Damn i even skipped a monday off of work for this.

>>14110486
>i've already hoshizora no memoria installed, but the idea of reading the VN x-times to get to best girl is making me sick.

Try using the skip read function.

>>14110713
>But if it's the 'whole' part, than there is no difference to an e-book.

And how is that a bad thing? Reading is good.

I understand you more now though, and there are certainly translated visual novels that cater to your tastes. For example, I think Princess Evangile would be right up your alley, but it is another 50 hour one. Still, it's a thing you can consider, there's definitely no shortage of good things to read out there.

But, most of the good games are actually pretty long, honestly. How about one of the translated ones in this list though? They're a bit shorter.
https://vndb.org/p240

See if anything there tickles your fancy.

>>14110726
Yeah but then i think, 'why did they implement unlockable endings in the first place?' With that thought i might as well read them. But with THIS thought it feels like the MC is a manwhore. I didn't even make it through a 2nd ending in grisaia.

>>14110739
>Reading is good.
No doubt, but it's completely pointless to read something you aren't interessted in, which makes reading just boring or unfulfilling.
If i'm reading a VN i can remember better what i just read, maybe you know what i mean? When you read a book and finished a page and while you're at the next page you go like 'wtf did i read last page?'.
In that regard, I will have a look at them tomorrow, Thanks.

>>14110092
It look likely to be Sekai Project's first Kickstarter failure. 57k for a BL mobile game? Is even their audience going to go for this?

>>14110784
Probably not, but I guess they're testing how far they can go. If they can get the BL audience, they are golden. But I don't think they will, as NTY was simply a more interesting title.

I'm just glad this will be the first failure and not Root Double.

>>14110768
Which girl did you pick in Grisaia, then?

>>14110799
Root Double can be their second failure.

>>14110512
Umineko is a long kinetic though. As odd as it seem some people berserk the fuck out, if a VN doesn't have a lot of choices.

>>14110967
It won't fail unless they get stupidly ambitious with the base goal. It's an easy pitch with a built in audience.

They have what, 7-8 undelivered kickstarters? I hope at some point they tell them to stop.

>>14111006
I would actually think that for people who are new to VNs, it's better for a game to not have choices, so they don't get confused about what to do. Means they just have a book to read. And since they start with that game, they won't know any better about the other ones having choices.

Personally I am not a big fan of choices myself. I kind of dread that the story will eventually be interrupted by some meaningless choice when I'd rather just read without interruptions. Also Dread of the grave is really good.

>>14111180
I also feel that way. Fork sections for splitting story is fine, but when it is just point collecting that isn't even obvious what the points do it is terrible.

Saya no Uta for example has perfectly fine choice system.

Never7 for example was terrible because if I accidentally was too nice to someone in the beginning, it prioritized over being nice to another girl later. So I had to remember to be an asshole at the start to not accidentally get too many points.

>>14111180
A lot of people new the visual novels don't understand games without choices, they want that interactivity.

>>14110768
You should also look at If My Heart Had Wings if good art and HD graphics is what you fancy. That is one of the shiniest ones we have.

>>14110967
Like the other person said, that's not all that likely, but still, what's important to me is it wasn't the first. I don't want that game to be "the one where everything started going downhill." Plus if it's not the first then there's less reason to blame it specifically for the Kickstarter failure.

I can't wait for sekai's latest jewstarter to flop. People catching on to their bullshit and incomplete previous projects.

>>14110495
$0.99 per fap. They monitor your phone's camera just to make sure.

>>14111579
Oh, so I'm all good since I don't masturbate. Haha, suckers!

>>14109987
People tend to forget that in addition being fluent in both the original language and the language you're translating into, you need to be a competent writer in the language you're translating into as well.

Those are the three necessities of translating. These days we're lucky to get translators with one of them. I'm so depressed.

Does anyone have a picture of the old JAST mascot? JAST mentions her being a "cute supporting character from a game JAST USA localized" but I cannot actually find which character that was for some reason.

This picture is the current mascot. She's pretty cute too, but I want to see who it was before this.

>>14111592
... but you only said two things...

>>14111956
Being a competent writer and being fluent in a language are two very different things, unless you believe that any half-retarded person can churn out well-written books in his native language if they only chose to.

>>14112001
Don't be stupid. You can't be a competent writer without being fluent in the language in which you write. So what is needed is being fluent in the original language and being a good writer in the target language. Two things.
Saying you need to be fluent in the language you're translating into is just redundant.

>>14112104
Well, if you put it that way, then I guess yeah.

Though in the industry where even in professional circles we have barely one or two translators who know how to write, I thought it would still be useful to differentiate those who at least know the language from the fan-"tls" by ESLs.

>>14112104
There are people who know the language but have to real talent for it, there are plenty of people like that translating today. Of course there are people that don't know either language and are translating anyway. That's why the scene is ded.

>>14086990
Whatever happened to gensou no idea visual novel? Anyone has any idea on what happened with the guys that were translating it? It literally disappeared so randomly from my point of view, and I really wanted to help out in the translation. Sadly, I can't seem to find a way to contact the original guys behind it since their blog is already dead.

Anyone knows what happened?
Blog was https://raetl.wordpress.com/

>>14112508
The reason why the scene is dead is because most of the people who were dedicated/ insane enough to actually commit to finishing A translation have left the scene. Most of what is left is either shit, or people who bail once they realize they bit off more then they can chew.

>>14112537
https://web.archive.org/web/20141115110606/http://raetl.wordpress.com/

Maybe try the IRC that's listed?

>>14112812
That IRC is most likely no longer active too, since even their twitter page was erased.

Good luck naming a better artist than this person:
Fumio Aoki

>>14112924
Misaki Kurehito