/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Sekai/Denpa
WEE 3 - Late December release
>Grisaia no Meikyuu - Uncut release late December
>Grisaia no Rakuen - Steam release March, uncut release early Summer
Memory's Dogma - Code:01 Released, 02 onwards upcoming
Nenokami - Part 2 98.27% translated
2236 A.D. - 100% translated, Engine/QA work ongoing
>Maitetsu - 72.72% translated
Kokonoe Kokoro - 100% translated, engine work
Creature to Koi Shiyo - 100% translated, engine work
>Chrono Clock - 70.7% translated, kickstarted finished
Narcissu 3rd - TL+Editing done
>Tenshin Ranman - 74.87% translated
Darekoi - 100% translated Engine/QA work ongoing
Wagamama High Spec - 100% translated. Editing/Engine work ongoing
>Koikuma - 18.43% translated
>Hoshizora no Memoria - 81% translated
Fault Milestone 2 - Side Above released, GE still to come
Ley Line - Engine/QA work ongoing
SakuSaku - Engine/QA work ongoing
Baldr Sky - Picked up both 1 and 2
Fatal Twelve - Picked up
Project Lux - Picked up
>Her and Her and My 7 Days - 11% translated
Girls in Glasses - Picked up
Unannounced Project 1 - 100% translated, Engine/QA work ongoing
>Unannounced Project 2 - 17% translated
>Unannounced Project 3 - 100% translated


Frontwing
Grisaia: Phantom Trigger - April 28th release for Volumes 1 and 2
Grisaia no Senritsu - 2016 release
>Corona Blossom - Volume 3 IGG starting around December 20th, early 2017 release
>Sharin no Kuni - 2nd Kickstarter ongoing, goal reached, August 2017 release
Island - Picked up


Visual Arts
Little Busters - Picked up
Rewrite+ - Picked up
Angel Beats - 50% translated


Degica
Muv Luv Alternative - Winter release
Muv-Luv Photonflowers - Translation started
Muv-Luv Photonmelodies - To follow Photonflowers
Schwarzesmarken - Through Greenlight
Kiminozo - Picked up


Aksys
Period Cube - 4/25 release
Collar x Malice - 2017 release
Bad Apple Wars - 2017 release
Code: Realize fandisc - Picked up


Fruitbat
>Hakoniwa no Gakuen - 100% translated, in editing, Spring 2017 release
Seven Days - Late 2017 release


Other
Taisho Alice - December release for the 4 chapters planned
LoveKami Divinity Stage - December release
>Kyuuketsu Hime no Libra - Common/Mari/Calen/4 Bonus routes translated, Aoi 70%, Lycoris 50%, March 2017 release
>Dies irae - Prefundia up for upcoming Kickstarter, May 2017 release planned
Love Sweets - Picked up
Noratoto - Picked up
Hyakka Hyakurou - Picked up
SubaHibi - Official release planned
>Se-rua - Listed as getting a translation
Himawari to Koi no Kioku - On Steam Greenlight
Short Whirlpool title scheduled for Spring
Lucky Dog - Possible iOS released based on the ongoing text only fanTL
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>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread

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As always, this tracker is powered by anonymous like you, so post order numbers if you've got em'.

My fault for forgetting to post this update and missed getting included in this post but I do want to report it here. This should be included in next week's update.

Amagami is now at 2021/2308 original edition scenario scripts translated (87.6%).

>Maitetsu - 72.72% translated
>all ages
Only realized now. Shame, but I'm never buying a gutted vn again.

>>16204131
Order Number - 239835
Order Date - 2016-12-02 22:34:41

>>16204201
How many lines are in each script?

so how much money is /jp/ going to invest in the dies irae kickstarter?

Which HaraKano patch actually translates the whole thing menus, all scenes and whatnot. It seems kind of unclear

>>16204920
I believe the one without loli translates everything else, but the one with loli doesn't translate menus.

>>16204900
I think there's a reasonable middle ground. Mainly, looking at Japan, their X-rated patches are like a dollar or two.

>>16204873
I'll give them $300.

>>16204873
0$. Dies Irae is way over-hyped here. Many people didn't like Toko Babel and many people won't like Dies Irae which is even more chuuni.

As for myself, it's not a VN I'm particularly thrilled with. I'll most likely buy it when I care enough to play it.

>>16204873
I'll get the base game to support 18+ patches in general.

>>16204873
Just the base game. If they reach the artbook goal i could see myself going physical.

>>16205096
Toukyou Babel is all-ages kusoge.

>Bishoujo Mangekyou - 100% TL, 96% editing, 48% QC

>>16204873
Either nothing or physical. Depends on how the campaign is going, really. I don't want to support if it there's going to be delayed ero, but if it's close to the goal I don't mind chipping in to help people who do. I think the title is overrated but EOPs should be able to form their own opinions about it.

>>16204873
About 35 dollars because they don't have any rewards for people who don't know any characters. with better rewards I could move up to 100 dollars.

>>16205391
Where are you seeing this? According to the Progress page it's 100%TL, 85% Edit, 80% QC

>>16204429
They're trying to negotiate a way to release the 18+ version too.

>>16205562
On the site.

>>16205634
The Sekai PR person mentioned that they still got nothing. I really doubt Maitetsu had a chance. Maybe if they made a backroom deal with imouto patches instead of bitching them into non existence.

>>16203801
>Amagami - 1st day patch Released for PS2/PSP, "1933/2308 original edition scenario scripts translated (83.8%)"
>Lovely Cation- 43.7% of lines completed
>Lover Able - 33.31% translated

Nice.

>>16205370
If Sorcery Jokers does do substantially better than Tokyo Babel, then I could see Dies Irae doing well.

>>16205725
I know, maybe in 3-4 years we might be able to read Amagami.

>>16205737

I have very few other things to look forward to.

>>16205697
Their PR person also earlier said they had a solution. So one can only see this as a problem with deciding how much money is involved in this re-negotiation. I would assume Sekai want it for free, or to get more money for translating the extra lines. I can also see the company wanting Sekai to pay for the extra content and for the patch costs.

Hopefully Nutaku is somewhere inbetween solving those economical problems.

>>16205744

>>16205726
Part of Tokyo's Babel's problem was that it was all-ages and people thought it looked like a Persona rip-off. The issue I see with Sorcery Jokers on Steam is that MG doesn't do 18+ patches, so it will most likely sell like shit on Steam and the Steam page will mostly be an advertisement for the vn on MG's site.

Which ones are the ones Haro, BDH, and koestl translating? I'm avoiding those for sure.

>>16205837
BL and otome, Fata Morgana Fandisc, and Sona-Nyl. Easy.

>>16205837
>koestl
Why would you be upset with Koestl of all people?
I doubt that's warranted.

>>16205837
Are you mistaking Koest with Conjueror?

>>16204838

It was one of the first blog posts I did.

https://nishishitranslations.wordpress.com/2013/05/20/all-about-scripts/

>>16206261
>>16206286
Hi koestl.

>>16205726
I had no interest in either but after reading Conjueror-sama's review, Sorcery Jokers sounds a fun read even if the last part isn't great.

>>16206261
Koestl went on /vn/ during the controversy and defended Haro/BDH and basically was saying they didn't need to apologize for their hostile attacks, and that Conjueror deserved what he got.

>>16203801
>Rance 5D + Rance VI - December 23rd release

Do you think we'll be lucky enough to have it cracked by Christmas?

I've been out from this world for years at this point, does ixrec still exist?
Also who is translating dies irae? I remember it being a big title back when I was still interested.

>>16205837
No need to delete this one unless you're an MG employee, janny.

>>16206441

There's no drm to crack, so I would imagine so

>>16206441
It's from Alicesoft, if Haruka is any indication, it wouldn't have DRM.

Do you know, has someone managed to extract Musumaker HD's bin files yet?

>>16207016
If it had DRM, it would have an indication on the game page that you need internet access the first time you play to activate it, like the Supipara page.

Kyonyuu Fantasy Gaiden when?

>>16205754
Nutaku is not going to give them a cent to bring over sex scenes for a lolige.
SP outright lied when they said they had a solution that'd make everyone happy (big surprise there). Their PR backpedaling and saying they jumped the gun and they're "still in negotiations" proves they were full of shit, or that they expected they'd get whatever it is they're after easily. But they obviously haven't.

Anyone who thought (or thinks) Maitetsu will get any uncut release outside of a fan patch is delusional.

>>16206735
>does ixrec still exist?
He killed himself after moogy destroyed his TL quality.

>Also who is translating dies irae?
Conjueror, Gare, Ludo, and GundamAce

>>16207210
>Anyone who thought (or thinks) Maitetsu will get any uncut release outside of a fan patch is delusional.
I just want to bang an imouto. Don't give a flying fuck about lolis.

>>16203801
>HaraKano - Complete patch released
Cool.
>Incest
Awesome.
>Unlockable Harem Ending
Yup.
>Pregnant Bitches.
Welp. Fuck this. *deletes torrent*

>>16207155
Hopefully eventually. It looks like Kyonyuu Fantasy sold quite well, so hopefully it shouldn't need to take too long.
After the current wave of products are released, they might announce it. I imagine.

>>16207380
Faggot.

>>16207476
I'd rather have the other brands. At least those won't be ruined by their title choices.

>>16205096
Dies Irae has a lot more going for it than Tokyo Babel which I will say was good if not a bit under rated. It has the whole /pol,edgelord Van Hellsing anime vibe. That can catch on to put in enough money to fund the game.

>>16203801
Strange seeing MG not updating for three weeks I believe.

I suppose there hasn't been much progress?

>>16207953

they just update every other week and the last update day landed the day after thanksgiving, so presumably they skipped it

>>16207953
Can't be bothered to write an update for a bunch of pussy grabbers.

>>16207964
At least try to pretend anon

Is DI actually full of guilt tripping

>>16206441
Nothing to crack. A torrent will probably be up within a few hours.

>>16207155
It might be announced at one of the smaller conventions next year.

Well, I suppose we can start speculating for next year's announcements now.

Escalayer or Oyako Rankan
Unlikely, but possibly Sengoku Rance
Kyonyuu Fantasy Gaiden
Sono Hana if New Generation sells well enough.
Maybe Fairytale Requiem (I can dream)
Go Go Nippon 2017
Some Clock up nukige
Obligatory BL game
Obligatory otome game
Maybe another Chuable Soft moege since moege usually sell well.

>>16207981
No it's just a dumb new meme. JOPs on /vg/ are working full time damage control now that prefundia is up and no censorship drama took place.

>>16207017
Yeah, there's a guy on fuwa who did it.

>>16208326
What JOPs? I'm 100% sure it's people with some kind of agenda, first they shit talked it saying it was a censored cropped release, and now they say it's chuuni shit and lie about the contents.
It has to be shills.

>>16208850
Please Bang My Wife is surely better than Dies Irae.

>>16208850
It's just bored people who like to troll.

>>16207953
They probably just saved it for next week since Himawari's coming out next week. 2 weeks after that is Rance too.

I'm expecting the Da Capo III preorder to be announced at one of those updates. Probably the latter one.

>>16208971
Does anybody even care about Da Crapo III?

>>16208850
>shit talked it saying it was a censored cropped release
This was true before the prefundia was up, and there are all valid complaints. They were also what dominated discussion on the jay after the Kickstarter announcement got leaked, and the complaints seeped over to other sites. This is likely why Light addressed them in the prefundia.

>now they say it's chuuni shit and lie about the contents.
This is only happening on /vg/ so it's obviously shitposters. Not sure why you'd ever listen to what those idiots say. That said, people have been calling DI chuunishit for years. This is nothing new, and it isn't likely to go away now that it's being localized. Even if the campaign fails you can expect people to say it failed because it's chuunshit.

>>16208982
>Da Crapo
DC II was fun and comfy. It's a moege with an anime so I expect it to sell fairly well. Maybe not PE levels but there isn't a reason to think it is going to fail.

>>16204131
Order Number - 240230
Order Date - 2016-12-05 15:23:06

>>16208982
I liked the second game for the most part. All the routes except the true one had pretty bad endings, though.

So, yeah, I'll read the 3rd one.

>>16208982
Why would I care about a game called Crapo.

>>16208186
Alicesoft had two releases this year (well technically three).

Given how short Rance 01 is I think Escalayer + Rance 01 is possible

>>16204873
35$

>>16209976
I see the doing the older games first, because the remakes have references to the existing games, plus they're newer. I'd say Sengoku retranslation then Quest + Magnum.

>>16210727
They also have significant progress done on a Quest translation already, which would be more reason to pursue Sengoku and Quest/Magnum over doing the remakes.

>>16207380
my nigga

>>16207380
>Pregnant Bitches.
>Welp. Fuck this. *deletes torrent*

Are you gay anon?

>>16208850
The agenda is that they're JOPs. They can't handle the idea that one of their 'untranslatable' kamige could get defiled by our filthy gaijin hands so they'll say anything to keep it from getting funded.

Doubtlessly, once it gets funded, they'll double down on saying it's shit and pretend they never liked it.

>>16211293
Careful, the other guy who called him a faggot got del'd. We plebbit now.

Should i play rance 4 and 5 before 5D or can i skip them?

>>16211556

*3 and 4

>>16204873
0$. I'm not interested in overrated chuunige, especially when all the characters looks so fucking gay.

>>16211565
yes

>>16211556
You don't have to, but they help a lot. Especially 3, that's more important than 4 to VI.

What's the best version of Amagami? PSP or PS2? Mostly image-wise.

>>16211973
The one with ero.

>>16211293
Pregnant bitches in outdated art look like shit.

>>16212078

Then why you didn't even checked the vndb page? If you just shove everything into your torrent client then you deserve shit

>>16203804
>Baldr Sky - Picked up both 1 and 2
When did they pick that up? Wasn't that a year ago or something?

>>16212218
I did, and thats exactly why i said that it looks like shit.

>>16212308
Back in June.

>>16212318
Thanks, guess I should never get my hopes up regarding any Baldr related thing.

How long am I going to have to wait for translated otome games?

>>16212971
Become my girlfriend and I'll translate some for you.

>>16211290
Yeah, son!
>>16211293
Nah, fampei!
>>16212078
Yeah, they do!

I could tolerate it if the art was good but it's not. Nothing against the fetish, just not mine. However I can get down with just about anything as long as the girls are cute.

>>16212971
There's at least five in the OP posts, so not too long.

>>16212977
>plot twist its a gay dude.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/482450/?snr=1_5_1100__1100

Nitroplus Blasterz: Heroine is now active on Steam Page. It will be out in 3 days.

would this be the place to ask if eushully's games will be translated, especially soukouku no arterial or arterial of origins or whatever it's supposed to be called?

>>16215408
No, and those games will never be translated.

>>16215422
sorry to bother

>>16204131
Order Number - 240326
Order Date - 2016-12-06

>>16215408
I heard aroduc is translating them currently.

>>16215710
can't find anything recent from him, but he has a hidden board he's translating something on

>>16215754
Yes, only people who prove they are able to use capitalization and punctuation are allowed access to the hidden board.

>>16215795
the hell's your problem?

>>16215408
>if eushully's games will be translated
Who knows? Currently there's no translation project for any Eushully game. In future its possible that someone will start new fantl project or games will be licensed or nobody ever touches it forever.

I hated MG before it was cool.

>>16216189
Stop being such a vile asshole.

>>16216009
Let's get dovac to localize all ages kamidori.

>>16216358
You already see people say they "came for the porn and stayed for the gameplay", so I imagine them trying isn't that far-fetched. Though they would have to convince Aroduc to sell his translation if they don't want to do it from scratch, which might be harder with the way they handled Baldr Sky with him.

>>16216656
The people who say that often like the porn though and are often autistic about censorship though. All ages Kamidori won't sell well.

>>16206735
> Does Ixrec still exist.

He got a job. He may as well be dead.

>>16208982
The second one was mediocre, the third one is apparently the best in the series, by far.

I'm looking forward to it.

Man, why DOESN'T anyone release Eushully games? Caters to the VN and Steam gaems market at the same time. Test the market with Kamidori. Easy.

Hatsuyuki Sakura is another one I have no fucking idea why it isn't localized.

>>16217264
Because you would have to cut out loads of H content?

>>16217264
They have 0 interest in the Western market. They've already been approached about this iirc.

>>16206735
I might be wrong but I think he is the one working on Rewrite+

>>16216208
Stop memeing "vile ashole" every time when someone comments about something that you don't like (like rape scenes in eroge...), autist-kun.

Fuck, now is the time to read eroge to make sure I enjoy it before you EOPs ruin it.

But for some reason I'm feeling more like reading Western fantasy these days.

>>16217624
Try the Black Company or Malazan.

>>16217652
desu I'm reading The Name of the Wind, still at the very start.

I considered going for Ikusa Megami Zero, but instead felt drawn to the Western stuff.

But damn I'll have to read Dies Irae before you guys get it. Gotta hope for delays.

>>16217652
If you feel those are too grimdark/serious try Codex Alera.

>>16217658
>The Name of the Wind
The gold digger whore of a main heroine ruins it.
To each his own I guess.

>>16217505
Hi bad haro.

>>16217661
If I dislike it, I'll just drop it partway.

Moekuri is on MangaGamer.

>>16217902
All ages crap does not belong on the Jay.

>>16217624
>>16217652
If you're looking for a good way to spend a lot of time, nothing's going to beat the stormlight archive

>>16218077
I don't really like starting a series that's not complete. Sanderson is a nice author though.

As expected, Moekuri took the MangaGamer release slot on the 16th, filling up the remainder of the month aside from the 30th. Although obviously any title they find for the 30th would be third party release, being just a week after Rance VI.

Looking ahead to next year, it seems that the Propeller title and Da Capo 3 are next in line for MangaGamer, with Bokuten and SukiSuki behind them. Another Higurashi chapter probably isn't all that far away either.

>>16216189
Seriously, explain to me why hating anyone else but MG is cool, but this gets deleted.

Sekai project is shit

>>16218406
And don't even try the "off-topic" bullshit on me, because I can point all the posts which are off-topic in this thread:
>>16218301
>>16218077
>>16217661
>>16217659
>>16217658
>>16217652
>>16217624
>>16214897
>>16212977

>>16218463
It's simple, really. No one bothered reporting those posts.

Try reporting them and I'm sure they'll get deleted after awhile.

>>16218469
are you a wizard

>>16218424
>my anti-SP post is the only thing that survived the delete wave
really makes you think....

>>16218424
thanks Sherlock

the hotpocketer is literally a MG shill

>>16217969
So I guess SG0 doesn't belong on this board, then?

>>16218658
It doesn't.

Will Trinoline bomb?

>>16218332
Weren't they planning to release the answer arc all together due to the series dropping sales? They might only be translation checking and editing it, because Kai's translation wasn't nearly as bad as the first 4 chapters.

>>16218730
Probably not, but I don't see it being super successful either.

>>16218658
Speaking of which, what did you all think of this? I thought it was really good.

>>16218730
Any future minori title released in the West, aside from possibly some new title with Eden in its name, will likely be a sales disappointment when compared to Eden just because it is far harder to launch a new franchise now that the Steam market has cooled down. That said, it could do well by more traditional MangaGamer standards even if it ends up being a far cry from what Eden put out, and could easily out perform Supipara (but that isn't exactly a high bar).

>>16218777
well, half the thread is incapable of reading anything without grabbing their dicks so

Is Rance ever going to be on Steam in the future? It looks like a good game they would fit into the visual novel with RPG gameplay elements.

>>16218841
Please don't make dumb posts for the sake of it, this isn't /vg/ where you need to bump constantly.

>>16218821
>It's hard to launch a new visual novel m franchise on Steam

I do not think that is true. It's just the hard part is that there really is not much that caters to people's tastes(mystery, violence, psychological, gameplay elements that are simple to play but immersive like Danganronpa or Rance,) or a lot play it safe(Moe, Slice of life easy fanservice).

If anything I believe it's the play it safe games that get decent sales but nothing groundbreaking unless it's an anime or it actually does something unique.

But I think it is possible for a new franchise to be made successful and to be ported on Steam if it's newer from Japan. Because they know what Steam will allow and what it will not and can actually fly under the radar in terms of creating new visual novels and maybe try to get the M rating.

Plus they have a lot of franchises to analyze their success and their failures. By next year we should see much better games coming to the West.

>>16218730
It has porn, so it will definitely do pretty well. Especially when it's post-Supipara slutty minori porn.

Hello. I am japanese fan of VN, and I have a VN that I like that I want to share with western fans. This game is called 冠を持つ神の手 God Hand has Clown and it has a very interesting relationship system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASM3d8iiYYg&list=PL2366DF6387F513D7

I never see western people play it, and creator never know western game fans. But they are big fan of western culture. There blog http://wheat.x0.to has always so much middle Europa information.

>>16220370
do you have an english version? i'll play it, if you do

>>16218914
>mystery, violence, psychological
Like Fata Morgana and Myth? The fact is those didn't sell well even if people liked them. Even Kara no Shoujo 2 didn't sell enough to get a hard copy run until Doddler revealed that it didn't sell very well so people started buying it.

>Plus they have a lot of franchises to analyze their success and their failures.
The problem is that they don't always understand why something succeeded or failed. The Nekopara clones not performing to expectations likely has Frontwing and Sekai Project baffled.

>By next year we should see much better games coming to the West.
For the next year or so maybe. Steam sales have dropped considerably for non-famous series with anime adaptations, so once the Japanese devs realize this most will back out of the market. Steam also thinks vns shouldn't cost over $10-$20, so the quality of vns that will come over are not probably what your're hoping for.

>>16220282
Too bad they won't let us get it demosaic'd.

>>16220282
>Especially when it's post-Supipara slutty minori porn.
It might not be. They're also targeting it at the western audience, so who knows if the porn will be any good or not.

>>16220370
Probably better to ask the untranslated VN thread.

Most people in this thread can't read Japanese

>>16220282
Doing "well" in this context can mean a lot of things though. Minori was considering the Western audience with Trinoline (like other studios have with their own projects), and decisions and sales expectations for it would have been set after Eden was released on Steam. Eden is sitting at 60k-70k on Steamspy, and benefited from being released during the middle of the peak of VNs popularity on Steam. It could do very well by MangaGamer's standards, but still be a rather disappointing title for minori now that the market has dropped off and a repeat of anywhere close to that level of success is unlikely no matter what the project looks like.

Although nothing would have been more disappointing for minori than Supipara, where nbkz came over to AX to help sell the title and was counting on it being a hit in the West to revive the partially completed project after Eden's success. Needless to say, that did not and will not happen.

>>16220370
Messy art style. It kinda works.

>>16220395
No, I think without Japanese person NEVER played it. I'm Japanese and played it. I hope western can read this ;(

>>16220607
I still ask creators about english version. But never response. This game is perfectly no name around English.
It was from 2009. best free game of the year 2009 (second).
Japan have too bad promotion to indiegames. Only one magazine cared this game.

>>16220775
Btw 2 creators made it 2009

>>16220996
ステマやりたいならこっちへ
>>16196017

>>16221021
あなたはステルスマーケティングの意味を間違えているんじゃない？
そんなことはどうでもいい。英語圏のだれもこのゲームを知らない。私は日本のインディーゲームの市場と環境が真面目にクソだからだと思っているけど。英語圏の誰もアンディーメンテすら知らない。

>>16221052
その救世主ごっこはステマと大差ない。

>>16221062
誰もが知らないものを知るチャンスを持っている。君は自分の無知を一つ解消するチャンスを救世主ごっこという言葉で貶めようとしているだけ。どうぞ自分の好きなゲームの中に引きこもっていてね。

>>16221082
さよう、崇高たるすかぢ様の至高名作『素晴らしき日々』と『サクラノ詩』を体験した俺には他のゲームがまったくもって不要である。

>>16221143
ここは日本のVNスレッドであって、固定ゲームのスレッドではないよね。他のゲームに関心が無いならお家にお帰りなさいよ。そうじゃないならせっかくの日本語スキルを生かしてプレイしたらどうかしら？（笑）

>>16221154
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASM3d8iiYYg
すまん、そのアートが好みではない。もっとモエっぽいのが好き。

>>16221173
そうなのよ。このゲームは萌えじゃなくて、すごく珍しいシリアスなタイプで、他に見たことが無い。
アートは地味だけど、攻略キャラにメイドの女の子がいる。彼女は田舎者で、同じく田舎者の主人公に親近感を持ってる。主人公は王になる使命を持っているんだけど、王になろうと頑張ると彼女は遠慮して心が離れていく。適度に愚かなところを見せなければ攻略できない。
逆にいじめ抜いて最後は殺すこともできる。彼女に限らず全てのキャラクターに何種類かの殺害エンドが用意されている。
つまり、このゲームは、キャラクターの運命を操作して楽しむゲームなんだ。かまいたちの夜とときめきメモリアルを足してもっと精巧にした感じかな？
説明がとても難しいけれどね。答えてくれてどうもありがとう。

ちなみに萌え系なら沙耶の唄が好きだよ。

>>16221181
面白みのないあらすじとは言えないと、俺でも認めざるをえない。
英語に訳せば、より多くの人に届けられる。

>>16221021
>>16221052
>>16221062
>>16221082
>>16221143
>>16221154
>>16221173
>>16221181
>>16221197
If you want to write in japaneses then >>16196017 or /2chan/ is you tread, don't spam moonrunes here, nerd.

>>16221197
ありがとう。私は君の日本語のように流暢に英語を話せないけど、後でトライしてみる。
膨大なテキスト量があるから、最初のプレイヤーは本当に限られる。
良いプレイヤーが見つかることを心から願ってる。

>>16221200
I'm native Japanese but trying English.
this game is not "eroge".
more like serious game. I do not know how to say it and fixing to >>16196017 topic.

>>16221200
Fuck off /vn/
Writing in Japanese is perfectly fine on /jp/

>>16221209
That thread is for discuss about "untranslated" visual novels (what are you doing now) and this one is for "english transladed VN and anything reladed to it". Writing here in japanese is so impolite as writing in spanish or english in 2chan.

>>16221205
>>16221209
あのスレの住民は日本語ができる…筈

>>16221224
¿Donde dice eso? No te inventes nuevas reglas, capullo.

>>16221227
勘違いしないで。あのスレって「Untranslated VN General」だもの。このスレではない。

「Untranslated VN General」の住民なら日本語が話せなくても、少なくても読める筈。まぁ、機械翻訳を使っている連中も少なくないだろう。

>>16221221
Go back to /vn/

>>16221290
Go back to /pol/

>>16220370
Dang man that doesn't even have a page on VNDB.

>>16220370

I say it again - 冠を持つ神の手 "God Hand has Crown" and it has a very interesting relationship system.


download (free)
http://wheat.x0.to/game/crown/

play video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASM3d8iiYYg&list=PL2366DF6387F513D7

cretor blog
http://wheat.x0.to has always so much middle Europa information.


playing wiki
https://www12.atwiki.jp/godcrown/



I write an outline of this game.
This isn't eroge. I accept art is not moe style, but this is very serous game it's VN. isn't porn. it have a state system of similar to tokimeki memorial but completely different human relations and stories.
The world is almost equal to low fantasy. player is human kind of 三足族 (Sansoku race) who lives in world グラドネーラ（Gladnerra , and they don't have gender naturally. They choose male or female by adult's ceremony and get gender via a period of holy hiding in one month. (you can choose gende just before ending. Homosexuality is a taboo in this world/ages, so when there was fiance for you, it's possible to betray him or her.)

player character was born in countryside. But he had "king's sign" in frame. The Kingdom Littant welcomed him with regulation. the kingdom had another prince with same sign. You have to spend during one year and compete for this place by him (Weill, he still not got gender too) . But when having no interest in a king, you can practice sword, meet friend , and spend freely anything.

This game has a romance. It isn't only love. There is 4 of feeling status of love, friendship, hate and dislike.
friendship - dislike, and love - hate are on 2 lines which correspond respectively. main characters of everything has this to player character. And "player character have it them" too. player character is not player. player likes more god of hand.
In other words, you're loving her, but you can makes situation that she isn't loving you same time. can opposite of course.
When you gave feeling state big as a fascinating point, only one times can use "treversed switch". people has big loving becomes very hateful suddenly. That was expressed. Of course, a player character and the NPC are confused. a one character NEED this switch for romance. it's is really original game system. (For example this character hated player characrer from starting point for some reason.)

for moe fan -
The art is quiet. But there is a maid girl in this game. She's a hick person and has intimacy in player character who comes from country too. It's friendship. When you keep not standing out, to get her romance would be easy. But if you aim at a king, that isn't easy. She have big complex hersef. she is ignorance and country her accents. another maids mean to her. She's getting away from you so when polish yourself. You have to keep foolishness certain degree of in front of her.
If you want mean her, it's possible to spite and abuse her grossly. even killing is possible by the end.

To fantasy fan.
There is a swordsman. He's a friendly man, and He's similar to our a bit. he is not negligent of practice and am also good-natured, but the skill of sword is while being ordinary forever. before some years, he had the big dream of knight. and going to kingdom. his familyr waiting his success on hometown. He feels that in a complex terribly.
You can bring friendship with him up. But if you improved your sword skill and defeated him by kingdom official match, he'd hate you eventually. The human heart isn't easy. All people of this game have" life".

And. There is "king" in this country. She isn't a queen. There are no words equivalent to "queen" and "sister" also "princess" in Sansoku race.
She's strict and is a good king for political. There is an age difference of the 30 years old of role. You can yearn for her like mother. she accept - she is strict king but another face is mother of prince. But it's a romance? I want you to make sure her "love ending" by yourself.
When seeing Toriel in Undertale, I remembered her.


This game has the quite many ending variations. with character is have 4 lines, married, betrayed and friendship, killing, almost them so variationable (prince have 4 root of kill ending!). plus your own destiny also reflected to ending. whether you're a king by the behavior you took and its ability will walk the way besides that. knight etc.

" God Hand has Crown" or your hand is a god, and whom to give a crown entrusts you. finally, I can say this game is you control player character and NPC story and destiny like clown or toys. but NOT easy. they have egos.
There are no cases that I watched a game of a similar concept in other ones. Regretted is that all this is Japanese. A good player is hoping to appear.

>>16221401
Thanks for the recommendation Japanese friend, I'll be sure to give it a play in deference of your passion here.

>>16221415
C:

>>16221401
サンキュー此処からも頑張ってください！

>>16220398
>Like Fata Morgana and Myth? The fact is those didn't sell well even if people liked them. Even Kara no Shoujo 2 didn't sell enough to get a hard copy run until Doddler revealed that it didn't sell very well so people started buying it.

Well Myth was kind of low end and no one really thought it would amount to much and Fata Morgana for what it's worth does have a fanbase albiet small. These are niche games that are not made by professionals in the industry. As for Kara No Shoujo that is not even on Steam. I am only referring to Steam overall.

>The problem is that they don't always understand why something succeeded or failed. The Nekopara clones not performing to expectations likely has Frontwing and Sekai Project baffled.

More or less though they do see enough success to keep trying to port visual novels over and even bring a new universe of Grisaia. There is a reason why it is selling enough for them to keep continuing.

>For the next year or so maybe. Steam sales have dropped considerably for non-famous series with anime adaptations, so once the Japanese devs realize this most will back out of the market. Steam also thinks vns shouldn't cost over $10-$20, so the quality of vns that will come over are not probably what your're hoping for.

Well of course because if you produce poor quality and put not a lot of work into something you get nothing in return. The only ones that will fail and back out are the ones that believe they can make money off a game with cut eroge from a storyline or do not have that much funding to begin with.

As for the Steam believing VN's should not cost over 10-20$ that is subjective to each game. Danganronpa sold well and it has been in the 20-30$ range, Steins;Gate is in the 20-30$ range. I really do not see how this is an argument, except maybe if you are referring to Visual Novels that are not long and do not have that much quality in them for being at those prices then sure.

By the way if there was not a lot of sales why is Psycho-Pass Mandatory Memories going on to Steam, and why are we continuing to get better than we were a few years back? Certainly if the market is as bad as you claim there would not be any new visual novels in the market.

>>16220370
Surprisingly it is written in such simple vocab i can understand it well enough. I like it for that reason alone.

>>16221883
Maybe I'll give nippon anon's game a try myself then, if it can help me practice and leave the EOP life.

So this is the power of viral marketing. SP could learn a thing or two.

And janny won't delete this spam which has nothing to do with VN TL.
Further proof that MG, for which janny works, is shit.

Looks like Sharin it's trying to go for a Thunderclap to spread their social media reach. For their Kickstarter stretch goals.

https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/50908-re-sharin-no-kuni-project

If this works out maybe the Fan disc will be reachable.

>>16221964
What is also surprising is that it already has met it's goal

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tokyootakumode/re-sharin-no-kuni-project/updates

>>16222013
The first day they got like 50k. Surprised they only barely passed 80k now.

>>16222013
They should have included the whole fandisc and not the fandisc chapters to the upper pledge.

>>16221922
I got banned for 3 days for making a negative post about Dovac. I really doubt the moderator works for anyone.

>>16222169
Nice try, Haro.

>>16221964
I doubt the problem is people, it is more likely most people don't have any interest in the reward badges etc. and have nothing to spend their money on. Last I checked nobody wanted the laptops for example.

>>16222189
There is that, though I also think that there is just a general disinterest in Sharin no Kuni. Either people haven't heard of it, or they don't care enough to join a Kickstarter for a game they played half a decade ago. Not like there is any shortage of newer titles coming out at the moment.

>>16221401
Seems like a pretty good game.

https://twitter.com/ShardShinjuku/status/806608800191016960

Looks like another one of those with kouryuu. Seems like it'll mostly just be shilling that OELVN mangagamer's publishing though.

>>16224430
The full description lists Myth and Go Go Nippon as well, but the OELVN title seems to be the main focus.

Last time around half the interview focused on Supipara, but we got confirmed 2016 release dates for Sonohana/Himawari/Rance along with a bunch of other info.

>Se-rua - Listed as getting a translation
https://mikandi.com/app/16584

Is this thing an android port or what?

>>16224519
>can now read nukige on the go
What a time to be alive

>>16224519
I wonder if they'll throw it on Nutaku (and/or elsewhere) down the road or if it was just translated to have an R18 game to sell on that android platform. Content wise it looks quite tame for a Softhouse Seal title so that shouldn't be an issue for any R18 distributor.

>>16224430
Not a ton of stuff, most of the focus was on the OELVN title.

The standard MG answer was given when asked about 18+ patches for Steam (That they were told not to and others are going to be in a grey area). Da Capo 3 was singled out when talking about upcoming releases after Rance early next year, with Bokuten and Pygmalion mentioned beyond that.

>>16224563
Couldn't you just buy a netbook or a tablet and do it that way?

>>16221876
>why are we continuing to get better than we were a few years back?
Japanese devs haven't caught up yet with the fact that the English market has cooled and good sales are much harder to come by. Many are hoping to get Nekopara numbers, which isn't likely to happen at this point.

>>16225578
Why does everyone assume Japan expects Nakopara numbers? By the end it may have grossed a lot of money but not more overall than any 10$ moege does.

Himawari soon!

>>16221876
Danganronpa, Steins;Gate, Psycho Pass (along with Clannad and Muv Luv for that matter) are all titles that are better known to the broader anime audience. They are titles that would succeed no matter what the market as a whole does. You could release F/SN for $50-$60 and it would sell ridiculously well because it is F/SN, and that would mean absolutely nothing to how Wagamama High Spec will sell. Most Visual Novels are not these titles with broad existing crossover appeal, so using them to argue how the industry is doing as a whole is not particularly porductive.

The Steam market is still going to be profitable, however the 5 and 6 figure sales on titles like Eden, Nekopara, Go Go Nippon, and so on is what drove a lot of the initial activity, and those huge numbers are largely what have disappeared. Momentum is going to carry it for a while. Looking solely at cashing in with low effort Nekopara clones, Nekopara was released two years ago, yet the parade of clones only started at the beginning of the Summer. KaraKara was first out of the gate, followed by Corona Blossom, Wild Romance, LoveKami Divinity Stage, Whirlpool's attempt, along with probably a half dozen more unannounced. All of those projects would have been approved long before the market cooled off and the upcoming titles aren't going to be canceled at this point.

For full length titles, you have had a few failures such as Tokyo Babel and Shuffle, and the companies probably would have been disappointed with how titles like the second Grisaia title and Root Double have done if they based their expectations based on something like Grisaia's success. However these never surged as strongly as shorter titles did with the biggest hits being tied to anime and successful Kickstarters. There hasn't been a ton of recent Steam releases to fully judge how much of a fall out they are seeing, especially as far as moege goes, but it doesn't seem like another previously unknown Kindred Spirits type hit is coming along soon and Shuffle would have probably been a big hit a year ago. Da Capo 3 and the beginnings of Sekai's moege parade will provide a stronger test early next year.

>>16225228
It is sad that MG thinks nobody can ever make a mistake. The Steam representive was obviously wrong about patches. Steam has nothing to do with what you do to files on your own computer, and never has.

At most they care about what screenshots you submit, and if paypal cuts ties with them for selling porn. (And if paypal cuts ties with Steam, they would lose a lot of money themselves so it seems unlikely)

Wow. Dies Iraes will be mosaic free. Guess this should be one of the best kickstarters in years.

>>16225932
But I like mosaics.

>>16225942
You can read the Japanese version then.
Or look at the CGs.

>>16225932

That is actually quite a surprise after Muv Luv, Grisaia, Sharin, and Chrono Clock retained them. Pretty much every big crowdfunding project of Japanese titles to date has retained mosaics, with the only exceptions being a couple smaller IGG projects (Ne No Kami and Corona Blossom Vol 2).

>>16226336
Is your name in the credits worth $100?
Is seeing the first episode of an anime earlier worth $1,000?

I hope we have a silent hero here that uploads Himawari as soon as it's out.

>>16217485
I've talked to someone who was on the original VN project, and I got the impression they just passed the scripts off to VA/Key. I don't know who's actually on the project now.

Do we know if Himawari is also going to be discounted on steam when it comes out?

>>16226978
They generally do a Steam discount at launch (like everyone else), but I wouldn't be surprised if it's not as good of a discount as the current one.

>>16225886

It doesn't matter if the steam rep is "wrong" MG's steam rep decides if they can publish on the platform and if they asked MG to not create patches and MG does it MG might get shitcanned from the platform. Whatever your rep says goes, that's how Steam works.

Just listened through that podcast Kouryuu was in. He really tried to sell Rance, but those nerds weren't having it. Damn OEL crowd.

>>16227160
Which one? Source?

>>16227160
People who primarily play Western indie games are prudes or at least the most vocal ones are. It doesn't surprise me.

Also, rape is probably too offensive of a topic for their safe space even if they were cool with more vanilla eroge.

>>16227242
http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=130336&cmd=tc

Most recent episode.

>>16227160
As much as I like the idea of Rance doing well, trying to tell your average person to play a game where the main character is a rapist isn't going to go well no matter how you put it.

>>16225750
>Why does everyone assume Japan expects Nakopara numbers?
It's not an assumption. Peter Payne from JAST said it's the case. The Japanese devs haven't realized that it's the exception and not the rule of sales. If that's why the devs are motivated lately, then them realizing those sales aren't normal will kill some interest in the western market.

>>16225983
Seems fairly obvious that whoever is running DI's campaign browses the jay and likely other places. They addressed most of the issues that were brought up here but not really mentioned anywhere else (cropping comes to mind, specifically) so it shouldn't be a surprise if other things people want get touched (no mosaics). Also means Light won't try to peddle the physical goods to the Japanese, or they have some other method to keep them from the uncensored artwork.

>>16227261
Rape in games is meaningless. It is the exact same image, but you add the context that "This girl suffers". You could just rewrite it as the girl crying of happiness and you suddenly made it a friendly and positive sex scene.

>>16227503
>Rape in games is meaningless.
If game unvoiced than I agree with you.

>>16227503
"no"

>>16227503
>I'm bothered by the violence in the sex scenes but I can deal with other type of violence (like deat of others char)
Rape in games (can be from both sides) is a fetiche fantasy that even is like in the female audience. If you don't like it then well, deal with it like other had to deal with scan/guru scenes but don't claim that they're meaningless.

>>16227503
>Rape in games is meaningless.
No it isn't. I like to see a strong female protagonist suffer and earn her happy ending. The Black Lilith titles MG released are good examples of this. They all had a happy ending that could be achieved through certain choices.

>>16227583
It is because I "deal with it" that it becomes meaningless. I stop caring and only look at the CG, at which point it looks the same if it is consensual or rape in half the situations.

Reverse rape is more or less fine however. Not because of any moral reasons, but because the CGs tend to move from generic to unique. Like you tend to get to see the facial expression of the woman raping you, while you never see the faceless MC face raping women. (I should probably not say never)

http://steamcommunity.com/games/537100/announcements/detail/541952653229832268

The Yumehaven Shuffle release got updates with problems that shouldn't have been included with the release in the first place, such as

>The skip function has been fixed. If you hold down Ctrl, it will skip text.
>You can now made the text box disappear. You can do this by pressing Space.
>We have fixed the problem with the blurry images.

While Shuffle itself may be a lackluster, long translated title, if they plan more translations for titles that are not yet translated, it is not particularly encouraging to see the release state of Shuffle even from just from a technical perspective, even before getting into the other shortcomings of Yumehaven.

The Yumehaven Shuffle release got an update to address problems that shouldn't have been included with the release in the first place, such as

>The skip function has been fixed. If you hold down Ctrl, it will skip text.
>You can now made the text box disappear. You can do this by pressing Space.
>We have fixed the problem with the blurry images.

While Shuffle itself may be a lackluster, long translated title, if they plan more translations for titles that are not yet translated, it is not particularly encouraging to see the release state of Shuffle even from just from a technical perspective, even before getting into the other shortcomings of Yumehaven.

>>16227491
So DI will have sex scenes uncensored or just the violence/gore? I'm out of the loop.

>>16227503
That's meaning sufficient enough though. Sex is more than about what you see.

It also adds the context that the guy is a dick, which can be used for characterization and such.

>>16228051
Both, but the all ages version will take out the gore censorship too; not only the 18+ version.

>>16228051
The violence and gore will be added back to the Steam release, while the 18+ version will have uncensored H scenes. It's better all around.

>>16228051
They confirmed on prefundia last night that the mosaics for Dies Irae are going to be removed. They answered multiple questions asking about it with this response.

>For the production of the 18+ version, it will conform to the American standards, so the mosaics will be taken off.

>>16228059
>>16228064
>>16228076
That's really good news. They certainly know what people want. Both Steam and the 18+ version are the same story-wise right?
As in amount of routes and content.

>>16227467
I am guessing they largely have figured it out by now, but there are many projects in the pipeline that were fueled by the initial sales of Nekopara and the few other viral hits that aren't going to be canceled at this point.

>>16228935
With the Western release, it seems they are building a "super version" that is a combination of everything except the H-scenes, with the violence from Acta est Fabula and the extra content from Amantes amentes. Then the 18+ patch will just add back in the H-scenes.

>>16228989
Well they definitely have my money.

>>16229159
Hi DI dev

>>16220398
Fata seems to have done well now. I've seen it hovering around 2k-3k on Steamspy on a relatively consistent basis. Honestly, for a niche title like that, that seems good enough. I really doubt the license cost much too.

>>16229205
This place is constantly complaining about how companies like Sekai always screw releases up. I think it's good to support something when they do it right for once. I don't really have too much of an interest in titles like Dies, but the team seems to have a good head on its shoulders by making sure we get uncensored/uncropped release.

The only concern I really have is with Ludo being on the translation team. That guy fucked around in the Rance general for years and even back in 2014 he was still making very basic translation mistakes. Dude is also a literal nutjob.

I just hope he's gotten his shit together in the past few years.

>>16227160
Much like >>16227261 is saying. These are people who are just those types that want to believe they are some sort of hive of mind higher than thou society. When their tastes are shit. Its like they say you can be a millionaire but you cant buy good taste in art.

>>16227503
>Rape is meaningless.

Someone has not played Saya No Uta or Euphoria before.

Looks like Key just announced a new Visual Novel this upcoming summer.

>>16229866
Key has been releasing shit for a while now, what the hell are they doing?
They should hire some good writer again imo

>>16229988
I wonder that as well. Their artwork and music is usually on par from what i expect from them. But i hope they are allowing new writers to come up with something different.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/554290

Reminder that Himawari is releasing the 10th not today.

>>16229988
They're searching for their Maeda replacement since he's toast now that he's become Angel Beats in real life.

>>16229988
What ever happened to Naoki Hisaya? Is he still alive? Maybe they should try to convince him to come back.

>>16229988
Don't you dare talk like that about Nijima Yuu.

>>16229988
They're doing the others 5 episodes of Angel Beats.

Himawari is out.

>>16231225
Yeah but i'm getting this shit. Mangagamer common let me play

>>16231234
Looking at twitter you aren't alone

>>16229809
>2,332 ±1,263
Means it could've sold as few as a thousand copies. Though even the creator of Steamspy said not to use it to gauge sales of under 30k copies. It didn't totally bomb, but it wasn't really successful either. It also had a decent sale around fall on Steam, which likely moved quite a few copies.

>>16231225
I'm getting it with extra Steambux so I have to wait until it launches there sometime tomorrow, Seems like it'll be the later evening, too.

>>16230112
It's still releasing the 9th if you're in North America.

>>16231234
>>16231260
If it's Frontwing's doing, then good luck getting a timely fix.

>>16231260
>>16231276
Just got fixed, didn't take as long as I thought it would.

>>16231277
I hope it wasn't something like someone forgot to upload the game file.

>>16231276

Why would a MG download issue be frontwings fault? Use your head anonymous

>>16231264
Aside from today's individual Steamspy data, it has generally been in the 2-3k range on any given day, which is probably a good estimate and a better estimate than the error bounds on a particular day.

The big thing though is aside from specific individual Steamspy data, it has been getting reviews at a regular pace and has maintained a small but consistent concurrent user count (with minor occasional peaks at sales), both of which are good signs that it has continued to sell.

It's obviously no big hit, but it had looked like a failure at launch, and it seems to have clawed its way to an okay even if somewhat disappointing seller, and it will probably continue to sell at a steady pace for a while.

>>16231285
Well I just got it to work. Hopefully it is as good as it seems.

Conjueror, I bought this for you.

Man it's a shame that ds55 is too smart to bother wasting his time on these question platforms. It'd be so much fun to bully him about supipara

>>16227160
To be fair, I don't think he did a very good job describing it apart from what basic types of gameplay the games have. The guys interviewing him didn't know much about the series either. They asked if Rance was a dating sim where he could pick a single heroine and go down her route. Kouryuu kept repeating that Rance wants to fuck everyone, which might not have been the best summary to get someone new into the series.

Huh, I dont think there is an option in Himawari to change from full screen from windowed mode or the other way around. Also there is no obvious way to get into auto mode.

>>16231598
>to change from full screen from windowed mode or other way around
Alt+Enter seems to work, like in just about everything.
>auto mode
F4 seems to work, which is pretty strange.

>>16231598
Z works for me

>>16231654
>>16231712
Yeah z works for auto mode and alt+enter works for windowed, thanks guys

>>16231366

I don't even get why you need to whore out who you are and the VN you are translating when the activity is pretty much straight up illegal in the first place. If your product is any good, people will come to look at you and follow up on what you are doing.

Frontwing tweeted that they have "many posts and announcements to make over the next couple weeks."

Also LoveKami Divinity Stage is now listed as a December 16th release.

https://vndb.org/v20433 is probably going to end up being the title Whirlpool was referring to as getting an English release, having a low Japanese price and an early 2017 release.

>>16231321
>Conjueror, I bought this for you.

>>16231797
Working for mangagamer is illegal?

>>16232527
If you're Canadiense then I wouldn't recomend you to translate any loli game for any comany, who know who will be the next person calling to your door.

>>16232443
A quick look, and it seems to be more of a Nekopara clone then the titles which have been considered as such. A title like Corona Blossom, while obviously structured to aim for Nekopara success, still was its own thing in the end.

Frontwing did a full reverse of their streaming restrictions with Sekai yesterday, going from you can't stream any of the Grisaia title Sekai had to you can stream any of the titles without restrictions.

Timing wise, I have to think the reverse was related to Himawari being released, and I imagine the same will apply there. After all they realized earlier in the year that the restrictive policy on Corona Blossom did them no favors.

>>16232929
First we will have to see how theses scum-yutubers-atention-drama can increse the sales of FW VN's.

>>16231865
Wonder if they're all Corona Blossom related?

If they've developed or licensed more vns for release, they're still likely vns made to copy Nekopara's success. The decisions for these would've been done before they realized how bad Corona Blossom sold compared to Nekopara.

>>16232983
I've heard anecdotal evidence from some indie devs that streaming didn't boost their sales at all. Or rather if it did net them any sales it was a very meager amount. They had people like PressHeartToContinue and LostPause stream their vn. And those are popular weeb streamers.

>>16231654
Just use a controller.

>>16233015
For something like Corona Blossom, I think it comes down to allowing others to stream is unlikely to hurt your own sales even if they don't help them, however if you are betting on a viral hit you have no shot without streams.

I don't know enough though to reasonably guess how it works out with something full length (Himawari and Grisaia) vs small indie title (Corona Blossom).

>>16233015
For something like Corona Blossom, I think it comes down to allowing others to stream is unlikely to hurt your own sales even if they don't help them, however if you are betting on a viral hit you have no shot of taking off without streams.

I don't know enough though to reasonably guess how it works out with something full length (Himawari and Grisaia) vs shorter titles (Corona Blossom).

>>16233060
Even with streaming nothing's guaranteed to become a viral hit. If it was, then Sekai's Nekopara clone would've been much more successful than it was. It's a very hit or miss method that has much more chance of missing.

>>16233078
Obviously nothing is guaranteed to become a viral hit, or even likely to become a viral hit. However you take your low odds and drop them to basically nothing if you forbid streaming all together on a title that you made hoping to become a viral hit.

>>16232443
>another nekopara clone
Good luck.

V3 is going to be 19GB in Japan. I wonder how big the English release will be.

>>16231321
Hello, brother.

>>16233596
please upload it

Uh sekai seems to have deleted all their tumblr posts. More shit to hit the fan soon?

>>16231865
Five dollars on them working with whirlpool

>>16234050
this. dont wanna support vile asshole.

>>16234050
It's only $30, just buy it.

>>16234146
I can only pay $30 zimbabwean dollars

>>16234146
I'm a third world poorfag and every day is painful for me. Please make my day better

>>16234146
Supporting MG in 2016, fuck no.

>>16234146
You need to be more carreful in what are you wasting you monoy; In my country for for that amount I can have some fun in a brothel or also I can buy a few Sakura games.

>>16234265
Well he's not in your country is he?

>>16234146
In my country I can buy two underage whores for 30$. I think it's better investment than for some no-name lolige.

>>16234305
I'm moving, where is it?

>>16234341
This is my guess but maybe is in Indonesia.

>>16234341
some slavic shithole. our lolis are pretty cute btw.

Does anyone have a link to playlists of the two different Himawari OSTs? I can't find anything except single tracks. I want to compare them

From the MG updates, Pygmalion is out of Beta, Da Capo 3 is still in Beta, SukiSuki is about to enter Beta, and Dal Segno finishing translation and editing.

Also they have 5 unannounced projects.

>>16234766
GH promised another game with lolis for AWA, what happened?

>>16234792

I said loli or NTR at the time and that I didn't know when the announcement was happening. There's plenty of shit yet for 2017 so just be patient.

>>16234792
Sure that wasn't Please Bang My Wife?

>>16234822
I don't know if that VN can be considered as NTR if it's consensual and in the end wa have a vanilla ending.
Oh well, at least is better than nothing.

>>16234083
That wouldn't surprise me, the Whirlpool site went up without any mention of the English release despite being a title designed with the English market in mind, so having someone else handle like Frontwing handle the localization wouldn't be a shock.

I hope there is a new Setsu-poo in Himawari to make fun of

>>16234766
Other than something from the Kyonyuu Fantasy series and maybe an Alicesoft nukige, I can't really guess what they are doing.

>>16234766
Bishoujo Mangekyou license confirmed

>>16234818
Oh wow, lil miss Vile Asshole decided to post on evil patriarchy forum again. So, what kind of feminist propaganda did you force MG to license this time?

>>16235211
Face it anon, it will never happen and the series will be tainted by that Finnish dude who barely knows English

>>16235210
We just got a bunch of announcements over the Summer after all, most of which aren't out yet, so the obvious guesses of "more from companies that they saw success with" aren't things to guess at this point, aside from Kyonyuu Fantasy.

>>16234766
>Hapymaher almost caught up to ChronoClock
kek

Just letting everyone now Nitroplus Blasterz is out, if you have Skullgirls its 25% off. But also if you buy Nitroplus Blasterz you can get Skullgirls for 75% off.

Im liking it so far.

>>16235338
CC will be major hit on both nutaku and steam and hapymaher will sell 500 copies on mg site, making purple soft SP-only company.

>>16235351
nigga i don't care about that. i just think it's funny how CC, which was announced 18 months ago, is close to being overshadowed by a 4-month old project in terms of translation progress.

>>16235351
Go awas SP shill...

>>16235211
*searches up game*
*looks at VNDB*

Damn i want it as well. MG could bring it over at the least. Vampire themes are usually interesting as well.

>>16235376
You forgot to raise your paws you fucking sissy.

>>16235376
Where do you cancerous faggots even come from

>tfw enigma uploaded at erogedl
Is it worth downloading?

>>16235439
Friendship route scares me off so no.

>>16235385
Reddit

Himawari is up on Steam now as well. While Steamspy numbers obviously won't be useful for quite some time, the concurrent user numbers over the next couple days should give an early indication about how well the title is doing at launch.

Himawari is out now.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/554290/?snr=1_5_1100__1100

30$ on sale. Definitely getting it.

>>16235642
>paying for all-ages kusoge

>>16235646
>not putting effort into your shitposting

I bought Himawari, it was worth.

>>16235679
Fuck off retard this garbage isn't allowed here

The red color...
I remember it...

>>16235679
Why does Frontwing consistently choose mediocre artists for their titles? I swear, none of their titles have good art.

Anyone else getting weird artifacting on the text when in full screen?

It goes away if I go windowed, but comes back if I return to full screen.

>>16235746
Yeah, always thought that was weird myself. They're a fairly big company but they always get these painfully boring/generic artists on their games. Grisaia was [just] decent and most of their games fall beneath that.

>>16231397
It's not even that complicated to describe. It's a JRPG with porn.

>>16234430
>Himawari OST's

All i know is there is this song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pajo2lmiDRI

and a fan patch for the Steam Version also replaces the new Himawari OST with the old and makes it loop. Which i am surprised it does not apparently.

http://www.memecartel.org/

I really wish i can have a side by side comparison.

Dovac's bitching on his facebook about a $10,000 limit on kickstarter pledges. What would cost $10k in a single reward.

>>16235925
Maybe they can sell the Soundtrack to the game on Steam for both the old and the new. if the creators will allow it. Himawari definitely is up there in terms of great songs for a visual novel.

>>16235925
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5PjCt2AsvA

Dude i think this is the old OST but im not for certain. But it sounds really good as i am listening to it. They should sell it on Steam as DLC. I mean why not? If we are paying 35$ for a game and it has a great OST why not have us pay 10$ more for both the old and new OST's.

>>16234766
Why is Bokuten taking so fucking long? It seems like nobody gives a shit about this one.

http://nekoparaova.com/
The kickstarter is going to start four days after christmas... when nobody has any money.

>>16235955
The old bgm is the generic doujin game bgm that makes it into a lot of different releases.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUxm_81O4fk

>>16235937
Lol what a ungrateful asshole. He should be grateful that Kickstarter has allowed Sekai to jew everyone out for this long and they still have 3rd party partners.

>>16235965
Interesting. I wish we were able to get an OST somewhere of it. I would like both the old and the new. Good music regardless.

>>16235960
Better get that Nekopara money before it runs out Dovac.

>>16235995
This one looks like it's Nekoworks directly and not Sekai, so I doubt Dovac getting any of this money.

>>16236026
I hope not. The jew doesent deserve money. Make Sekai work for it like Mangagamer or Frontwing does.

>>16236026
I could see Nekoworks paying Sekai to advertise though.

Not to mention that a sucessful KS may indirectly increase sales for Nekopara down the line, thus letting Sekai get more money.

Something i noticed is Supipara actually sold well this last Steam sale including Tokyo Babel from MangaGamer. But Gahkthun sold horribly. That is surprising considering there were people here who mentioned Tokyo Babel is a terrible Chunni and Supipara is not really that good.

>>16236264
I disagree with that assessment (or at the very least, being able to make that determination). Both saw a comparable bump in people playing the titles during the sale looking at concurrent users count during the Steam sale. However, random Steamspy spikes and collapses are common at the numbers both titles are at, and aren't going to be sufficient to make comparable sales determinations for a given week.

>>16235960
The Nekopara Kickstarter will likely succeed, even if it has some ridiculous goal. The franchise is still ridiculously popular and it can sell on "turn this joke into an anime".

>>16235959
It's being ported. That takes awhile.

MG forgot to mention that the first chapter of Kuroinu has finished editing. That's a likely early 2017 candidate as well.

>>16235774
Sadly an issue with all catsystem2 games. Surprised they haven't fixed it yet...

>>16235959
I'd be surprised if MangaGamer was expecting much out of Bokuten at this point.

Who is the one translating Bokuten?

>>16236800
DragonSamurai55

>>16236160
How would you increase sales past 300 000 on Steam anyway?

Proper version of Himawari is released, get it here instead of MG, https://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=878706

>>16236937
no.

>>16236937
Hey Janitor mind deleting this peasants post so we can move on talking about Visual Novels. We are rather bored of the troll linking torrent meme and acting like he is pulling a quick one over us. Its rather boring.

>>16237074
This MG dev is mad.

>>16236937
Thanks, based anonymous.

>>16236264
How can you measure that?

Is there any Himawari walkthrough?

>>16237128
He is using Steamspy its not 100% accurate. But it's what we have.

>>16235960
I think Dovac is schilling the game on the leddit VN because they are acting like its normal it is going to be 3 parts.

>>16236937
Before I forget Proper version of Chrono Clock, get it here instead of Sekai Project. They will just censor it all out. It even comes with a free Drama CD.

https://sukebei.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=1701752

>>16237655
Thanks, based anonymous :)

>>16235642
Definitely bought it. It's worth it for the 43 hours of content and remastered content alone. Can not wait to play it again.

>>16237700
>Can not wait to play it again.
I don't understand. If you've already played it, then wouldn't you have read the Japanese? Why bother with the English?

>>16237707
I think it's just giving support to the studio and reading to see if the translators did a good job for American audiences. I am sure in the next 5 days once everyone is done reading we will hear more if a verdict on Himawari and if it is worth it or not.

>>16237719
The game is also available in Japanese, that would be fine to support the studio.
As for checking the TL, I can understand the desire to do that, but he said "can't wait to play it again" not "can't wait to check the TL"

Tayutama 2 just released today along with some interesting announcements.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/552280/

They will have Ero patch two weeks after the game releases. And there is a blank folder for "Eng" meaning they will have someone translate the game soon.

https://twitter.com/lumpofsuger/status/807175191797207041

What is interesting is that it is rated T for teen.

Hopes are high that this game can be a success.

>>16237750
>Hopes are high that this game can be a success.
Not for me, I know VNs are a commercial product and everything so it may seem naive of me to say this, but releasing Tayutama 2 before Tayutama 1 really is a slap to the face, basically them saying they don't care about the users so much as getting the users' money. I don't want that to be successful.

>>16236800
The problem is not the translation but the porting process.

>>16236519
Let's see, that Propeller game, Da Capo III Suki Suki, Da Sengo, and Kuroinu part 1 are all translated/edited. And well, Bokuten, but porting can be a bitch I suppose.

Assuming once a month, MG's set until June, but I have a feeling at least one of the secret projects will be released by then since there's Anime Boston and Anime Central.

>>16237731
Maybe he already bought the Japanese version and wants to buy the English version so he could support it again?

For something they really, really like, buying multiple copies isn't unusual for hardcore fans.

>>16237836
Perhaps, but he could just buy the Japanese version twice. The English version is plain inferior and is just a digital copy anyway. Hardcore fans tend to buy physical copies.

>>16237810
>The problem is not the translation but the porting process.

Bokuten's BGI isn't it? Doddler could get that done in a weekend if he were really motivated.

The problem with bokuten is that it's an acquisition from back before mangagamer gave a shit about getting titles out in a timely manner, and basically no cares about it. DS55 stopped translating it halfway at multiple points to work on minori games and now that it's finally done, mangagamer's got more important titles to release.

>>16237750
The ESRB rating could be described as interesting, but it is also a mess waiting to happen with a planned unrated H-patch, especially if an English release comes down the line.

>>16237856

Can't really blame them, Bokuten is looking like a rather poor seller. The title isn't going to be immediately appealing and unlike Fata Morgana (and probably Himawari), it has no real prospects of a long tail either.

It's one shot was to try and sell as a "look at how explicit of a title we got on Steam", as after the Steam release was announced MG indicated they were going to be pushing the boundaries content wise. But between the common H-patches from everyone else, and the fact that even if it gets a lot onto Steam it is still a censored release unlike kindred spirits, that probably won't accomplish much for sales.

>>16237856
I wonder what new engine he's porting it too.

>>16238012
Probably Unity. Seems the go to engine as it is easy to make multiplatform.

>>16238044
Oh boy time for memory leaks

>>16236264
Gahkthun not selling well isn't a surprise. Though I have a feeling its ESRB rating may be a bigger restriction on a possible physical copy than its sale numbers

Even though Sona-nyl appeals quite a bit more to fujoshi, I'd be surprised if that did well.

>>16236264
>Supipara actually sold well

I dunno exactly how you're gauging that but the last minori fundraiser update was in november at $175,238 and this month's update is pic related. Not really too much movement.

>>16236264
Tokyo Babel sold well because it was almost half off. Might as well take the surge in sales numbers and divide it in half.

>>16238303
They need a little over 20k to make chapter 2. Winter sale will hopefully give it a boost. Otherwise summer sale is maybe their best bet. They could hit it tomorrow if they announce an eden* hardcopy.

All hope for chapters 3+ is dead.

>>16237856
>BGI
Speaking of BGI. is there a way to properly extract files from the latest archive format BGI uses?

>>16237953
>Can't really blame them, Bokuten is looking like a rather poor seller.
Why? Utsuge are quite popular, i'm sure that it will satisfy people who like sad stories. Besides, the art is beautiful. Fujimaru is as his best.
The chara-design and the girls are really cute and the plot seems nice too.
I'm really looking forward, but it's as if MG totally forgot about this title. There is no marketing at all.

>>16237842
The idea behind buying stuff in another language or for another reason is to show your support for that region. Buy buying Himawari he increases the chances that the author's other works or other similar works will be localized as well. Although, Island has already been announced for loc.

I mean, yeah, if you just want to support the developer directly then there isn't much point to buying it from a foreign publisher. In that case it's more of a novelty or collector's item, which is a bit odd given its digital nature.

>>16238519
The title almost killed OVERDRIVE so the English readers are skeptical of it. It also has some NTR.

>>16238653
Isn't Overdrive already dead though? Nips can have shit taste too so i'm not worried about that.

>It also has some NTR.
NTR? Well now i understand why nips hated it. The drama must be really hardcore.

>>16238672
The game is about why love won't work out no matter what you do. It's really not like OVERDRIVE's other titles at all.

>>16238347

Can't crass do bgi? It could last time I checked.

>>16234717

Hints/teases confirmed for January

>>16238698
Crass is very old and I said "latest" for a reason.

Is dies irae kusoge now?