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name? looks cute

>>17484775
what's reverse image search

Post cuties. I still can't get over her after finishing her route. Might replay some of those H scenes again.

>>17484804
Was it actually decent beyond the porn?

>>17484804
are you playing on a 4k montor?

>>17439488
..

>>17484804
I love hikari

>>17484811
Story isn't anything amazing, but girls are great with lots of cute moments, dates, etc. and it was a fun read. No retarded drama in her route either.

>>17484812
Playing on 1440p monitor.

>>17484804
Almost DL'd this then saw it had 7 writers. No thanks.

>>17485122

Normal for moege. Each writer a route. In this case almost each girl one artist as well.
The rest was probably abused writing the way too long ero. Someone's gotta write the >1mb of ahn~

>>17485167
3-4 is normal, yes, but 7 writers is differently not standard.

>>17485202

But it is 4. Assistant writers aren't actual writers. They help out at minor parts.

>>17485419
Like H-scenes?

>>17484804
Starting Ushio route and she is absolutely adorable so far. Everything up to the confession has been so cute and innocent.

I can't believe I literally cannot CTRL in Vita ports

>>17486099
>cute and innocent
>so far
don't act like you don't know what's going to happen for the next 800kb of game

>>17486109

If Himawari, skip is F3.

Do you guys have a guide like other generals?

>>17487448
Sure do.

>>17487448
Or maybe you mean a guide to learn japanese? There's a quite a few going around.
Though I wouldn't ask for Japanese help on these threads some people get triggered very easily for some reason.

>>17487528
>Tsukihime gets 2 stars for ero
Every time I look I find something new and baffling about this chart.

>>17487541
People should just use this superior chart instead

>>17487551
...What's the catch? Do they all have feminine penii?

>>17487572
>>17487572
They're all cute games, that repel people that hate cute games

>>17487572
If only.

>>17487572
I know hanasaki and flyable heart have cucking maybe the others do too?

>>17487448
All you need to know

>>17487532
More like a FAQ or stupid questions for people getting into untranslated VN type of thing. Thanks anyway though, these are great.

>>17487603
By "know" do you mean some anonymous guy on the internet said so, or have you read them?

>>17487766
I read Hanasaki, and stopped reading flyable heart after finding out it has cucking in the fandisc who fuck a monkey after losing poker or some game.

>>17487551

Gonna pick up Geki Tama. Thanks!

>>17487812
*where you fuck a monkey
I don't know how it auto corrected to who.

>>17487551
Just so people know, I made that chart by hitting "random" on vndb and picking VNs with easy-seeming screenshots and decent art, for the sake of trolling DJT. The one I'm posting now and the one in >>17487532 are serious. Stay frosty.

>>17488055
Hello Quof!

>>17488341
Not quof.

>>17487448
>>17487532
>>17488055
>>17488341
>>17488342
Hey.

>>17488055
The troll chart looks legitimately better than this one though, Quof. Why would you ever recommend Hatsumira to another human being

>>17488396
>another human being
>another
Are you implying he is human?

>>17488396
At the time it was memorable to me for having a noticeably higher vocabulary level than most other things I had read at the time which put it an optimal choice for the "tough but not overwhelming" criteria. It also tries hard to have a colorful story, characters, and even deeper meaning to the events that occur so despite it's flaws and failures I didn't feel bad putting it on there - I'm pretty sure more people will like it than dislike it, anyway. It's got a 78 on EGS after all, not too shabby. In fact, it's precisely because of it's flaws I like that it's there. Hello Lady could easily replace it as a "tough" game that's actually really good, but would you want to put Hello Lady on a guide meant for people with a weak grasp of Japanese? No way, the potential for soiling a kamige with poor Japanese is just too high. So putting mediocre games there is comforting in a sense - you'll note Gunjou no Sora is the only game on there that's more or less "flawless" so to speak.

That said nowadays I would probably replace Hatsuru Koto Naki with "Dungeons and Daimeiwaku", as D&D is significantly shorter and lacks the almost offensively poor WW2 allegories/edgy protagonist. I would also want to replace Hello Lady as it frankly has pretty ugly art and that's a barrier of entry for people with poor Japanese but I currently haven't read any games with a similar setup as it (good blend of semi-constant action/sci-fi) so I would leave it for now.

>>17488443
Why are you putting games you have never even read on there?

>>17488446
I've read a fair amount of all of them, though I didn't finish all of them. Good enough to get a taste of the language. Note that the guide is centric around language difficulty, not the quality of the games themselves (if quality is the point, just read any other recommendation chart). That said no game is kusoge, just flawed. This is evident from the respectable EGS scores (which all rest around 80).

>>17486136
My heart can't handle this. So much lovey-dovey stuff happening...even the ichaicha parts are cute as hell with headpats and stuff. Enjoying the loli oneesan dynamic since she's always spoiling the MC and to taking care of him (in many ways) despite looking younger than him. The other girls' reaction to them were funny too.

There's pretty much no drama in this route, but it feels shorter than Rairai since there's not as much plot either with only 1 ending.

>>17488732

Then play something else to calm down a bit?

What kind of dumbass route structure is this? They should have just went pseudo-kinetic instead.

>>17489359
It's just three>one>true.

>>17488913
This looks like it'll make me dokidoki in another way.

>>17489492

People are only a little weird. Nothing to fear.

>>17487528
>scenario
>writing
Isn't that the same thing?

>>17489813
"Writing" here means prose.

>>17487528
Wasn't that chart made by Asceai

>>17489813

>scenario
What happens?

>writing
How is it presented?

Writing is the tool to convey the scenario. You can have a great scenario with crappy writing. For example the narration is bland or repeats a lot of stuff for no reason. By that I don't mean normal padding, just for example repeating whatever has been said a line before or repeating 20 times some plot-point because the author fears the reader forgets it.


You can also look at it like this: Scenario is something you can and should judge based on the whole work. Writing is something you can judge based on a small excerpt.

I can't bear the wait any longer, I'm cryogenically freezing myself until Sakura no Toki is out. See you guys on the other side

>>17490314
Thanks for reminding me I don't have anything I'm even looking forward to for the next long while.

Mushi no Me Matsuri upload when?

SNuff FLag - あるいは睡蓮へ光が射すように - torrent when?

>>17490454
When you buy and upload it, anon

>>17490636
Uh-huh

>>17490402

>>17491292
Where did you get that?

>>17491392
Don't reply to him, he wants you to suck his dick.

>>17491392
http://www.dlsite.com/home/work/=/product_id/RJ190480.html/?unique_op=af

>>17491672
I don't have a credit card, how long until it's in DLSite EN?

Anyone here played maggot baits? Is the story decent?

I'm back after playing about 2/3 of it. Don't fucking bother. It's bootleg Steins;Gate/SAO with dumb jerkoff humor.

This is going to be a true kamige. I can feel it.

>>17492391
Reminds me of that cunt who made her booyfriend suicide.

>>17492387
Good thing the art is shit so I was likely never going to play it anyway.

>>17483726
No I already told you I can read everything I come across. My problem is just the reading speed.
I want to be able to read as fast I do in English but the problem is I tend overlook things when I go that fast. So, I was wondering if there were ways to like in English you skip things that aren't nouns, adjectives and verbs and look at the centre of the text, to maximize reading speed.
I was wondering if there was something similar in Japanese.
It's okay if you don't know, you don't have to answer, I was just wondering if somebody did know.

Finally, finally, I am going to get to my first vn sex scene. All this hard work has paid off. God is good. God is good.

>>17492387
I thought it was a fun ride.
Not a kamige or anything, but good entertainment.
They sprinkled enough new info once in while to keep the reader interested to know what is going on.
It does seem like bootleg SAO/Stein's;Gate at first,but it ends up pretty different.

>>17492602
Am I the only one who finds the character design of the one on the right (I forget her name), and the other characters who like like her in the series insanely jarring?

>>17492740
No.

>>17492740
Yes.

>>17492740
Yeah I really don't like the cowtits/small head and neck combo, but goddamnit if I'm the heir to the household and have to save these wandering spirits, I will make a sacrifice and fap to that cause.

Marshmallow doesn't seem to be running at silky smooth 60fps for me. Is this normal?

>>17492740
Yeah. As someone else pointed out cowtits + small body parts will always be a shitty combo. The distorted as fuck face is the worst offender though.

>>17492559
Do you have brain damage?

>>17492849
What?
I just want advice or tips on reading faster.

>>17492855
It's okay if you don't know how to, you don't have to answer.

>>17492387
Thanks brave soul, I was tempted by the EGS score but now I can save myself the strain of excessive eye-rolling.

>>17492387
The problem I see with games/anime/VNs like these is that they're way too hyped up.
It's fine when a new company does well or something known to be okay does decently.

But when something just goes up and beyond amazing it becomes open to so much criticism and people will look for any flaw possible. If they don't find it downright amazing too they treat it like trash.
Something that should really just be decent turns to awful because people held really high expectations, rather than be considered decent.

It's quite sad really. I hate the masses for this.

>>17493010
Like take Danganronpa quite a few people like it and it's popular.
However since people talk about it and it's popular, if somebody doesn't find it amazing as those people they treat it like garbage and be in a rush to let others know too.
If it weren't popular or highly rated. People would just treat it as decent or okay.
Same with nekopara, it's got decent art and girls but became open to so much criticism, since it's so popular.

>>17493035
>If it weren't popular or highly rated. People would just treat it as decent or okay.
see
>>17492849

>>17493041
He very clearly means the people who just think it's meh would treat it as such. If the vast majority of people heap praises upon a work and someone thinks its just okay, many times they clearly feel the need to bash it. But if it is thought of as just okay, they will not. It's not that complex of an idea and it is something that becomes pretty apparent after being a part of various communities for several years.

>>17493041
It's true though, disagree all you want but with almost any really popular media if you don't agree with the masses. You tend to hate it more or tend to voice your opinion more.
Neon Genisis Evangelion, Nekopara, Twilight, Persona, Justin Beiber etc.
Almost anything really.
Sure you might consider them bad, but would you really hate it as much if it weren't popular?Most of the world thinks like this. Even 4chan when it's memes go viral or to reddit and they don't want them anymore.

>>17493010
there's too much remarkable content on the internet, both remarkably good and remarkably bad. you can't get anyone to pay attention to something unless you claim it as either a 10/10 or a 0/10. hyperbole reigns king in the internet, just look at the rapidly growing phenomenon of clickbait title phrasing.

no one has time to spare for the 7/10s of the world. gotta adjust your opinions if you want anyone to listen.
>I hate the masses for this.
please don't do this, it makes you sound like the kind of person who unironically uses the word "sheeple".

>>17493061
Well, yeah, when something you don't like happen to be popular there's the extra question of "how do so many people like this shit?" nagging at you. It can be frustrating.

>>17492844
If you mean Mashimaro, it has been said in a previous thread that the engine doesn't seem to be handling 1080p very well. It lags a lot especially with visual filters and transitions. It's their first 1080p game so I hope they fix it in their next release.

>>17493069
>you can't get anyone to pay attention to something unless you claim it as either a 10/10 or a 0/10
Most people pay attention to the 8s and 9s though, 10s seldom occur. That said you sort of develop your own taste after a while and go for things you like. Or you find a group that share similar tastes. If somebody likes something from that group, chances are others from that group will do too.

>>17493079
>"how do so many people like this shit?"
People have different interests, beside most of that 'shit' is just okay or decent.
Even I'm guilty of this. Like I hate FMA, I don't understand why people can sit through that, yet however that opinion of mine was formed when I kept hearing how it is the best anime ever. When watching it seemed lackluster and I normally would have written it off as something I don't like but seeing the overwhelming positivity I tend to look down on it more. I'm pretty sure you would do the same too. It's more of a human thing, really.

>>17493110
>It's more of a human thing, really.
sorry mate but that's a contrarian hipster thing.

>>17493126
Everybody does it though.
Take a look at youtube videos of things like Justin Beiber or Twilight or something very specific to a group. People who aren't teen girls or middle aged mums dislike the shit out of them. They normally would of left it alone if wasn't as popular. However that notoriety draws hate from people who aren't the target audience.
Even take shit like furries or yaoi. People hate them as they're popular and get talked about a lot, otherwise they would been written off like scat or gaping or something that isn't as popular but still induces gagging.

>>17493141
>furries and yaoi are popular and get talked about a lot
>still using Bieber and Twilight as examples of popular things
friend I know this isn't the place for it but you might consider getting out more.

as for the actual point, most sane people don't hate things that get popular. they might raise an eyebrow or not understand the appeal but rarely does anyone ever hate things based on their popularity outside of what we call contrarian hipsters. aka the dregs of society that inhabit message boards such as these.

most of the time that "hate" you're talking about comes from misinterpreting the feeling you're getting when someone finds enjoyment in something you don't. it's simple jealousy that they get to enjoy it and you get left out. but it's much easier to call the thing shit and save your ego with that smug sense of superiority. you can't be jealous of them having fun if they have shit taste, right? nevermind the actual quality of the thing. that's not as important as you'd think. just the enjoyment. if you enjoyed something you'll do all sorts of mental gymnastics to justify why you did.

polite sage for offtopic armchair psychology.

>>17493170
>it's much easier to call the thing shit and save your ego with that smug sense of superiority.
Yeah this is what I mean I guess.

>>17493010

To be fair, I have no idea how that game got THAT good of a score, and I sure as hell wasn't hyped about the game, nor do I think a score ever influenced my opinion about a game. I'm not too far in, but there's one general flaw, that's VERY apparent and has appeared in several very different places already: The author doesn't care about anything else but advance the story exactly like he wants to. Everything else has to bend. And that can turn REALLY bad. Let's just say: It doesn't take long until literally every character feels like a moron, because they have to act in weird moronic ways to get the story the way the author wants.

I'll still continue it, but generally speaking: Of course the game would end up getting less flak if it had a less positive reception. But that's just because you'd already know it's "not that good anyway" based on the overall reception. If however that isn't the case, you kinda gotta explain yourself. It's the same like if you like a not that well rated game. Gotta say why a little more detailed.

>>17493190
give us some spoilers on how dumb it gets, if you're up for it. i want to feel that sweet sweet smug superiority.

I think the problems with Apeiria's reception are:
1. It's way too complicated for the average moebuta's intellect. They simply won't be able to comprehend the science and infodumps in it.
2. It's also way too much of a bakage for super serious scenario people. Rapid pacing and mood whiplash is common.

So in conclusion it won't be very popular with people who lean strongly into either side of the spectrum. If you can deal with these points and consider yourself to have broad taste it's honestly a fantastic game at what it does and definitely deserving of its rating.

>>17493200

One isn't really much of a spoiler, given that it's a fanservice scene: Girl falls naked on the protagonist, so she literally sits on his face. This is kinda a "transfer from real world to game world" thing, so why that happens is okay.
So they then talk and talk and she's like "btw., where are you? I hear your voice, but didn't see you all this time in this room?" She also never realized she is naked, even though she was naked before the transfer, looked around the room and whatnot.
So, how in the world did she never look down? How can she not realize that the voice is coming from under her? Also, fun fact: They aren't alone in that room. The other heroines are also there. Not a SINGLE comment is given by them, which is hella out of character as well. All for one shitty fan-service scene.

I hoped it was just stupid to show some random fan-service CG and he was forced to write dragged out scenes to accompany them. Showing them for 2 text-boxes would be a "waste", right? Well, this kind of thing happens in the story as well.
When shit starts to hit the fan and the issue with the mmog starts, the AI is sent there to deal with it. She's supposed to be able to think like humans and shows that several times. Basically she is almost like a human, which is kinda the point. And yet she doesn't find it strange that she spends literally half a year in that mmog sending her status report hourly (her time, mmog is 365 faster than the normal time), with nothing in the situation changing and not getting any message from the outside anymore.
It's fairly ridiculous. If you have even somewhat of a brain, you'd ask if everything is alright after 2 weeks of no progress and no message. That's roughly an hour real-time. That's WEIRD. Even the most positive person would get antsy after a month. 6 fucking months till she is like "I kinda wanna get a message? Hello? Plz?"? Sure is strong AI here. Also gotta love how the other heroines are still like "let's think first! I'm sure that'll give us a solution, because it's not like we didn't get any good idea for a WHOLE DAY already. Oh and it's just the AI there, so don't go there as well and risk your life plz!".. of course the almost 100 trapped people in heavy risk of losing their lives are not taken into account. They are forgotten. Juuust like the presence of the heroines during the first mentioned fan-service scene.


It can be such a mess. It really can be. I personally also found the one battle I saw so far horrible, but... whatever. The biggest flaw is really just that the author sacrifices way too much to get the story to go the way he wants to.

>>17493250
I agree with the naked scene being done bad, but your latter complaints are pretty off the mark IMO.
The AI's first priority is her master's orders, so it's not strange to think that she'd persist that long. She has achieved qualia, but it's clear she doesn't think quite like a normal human yet.
And as for them waiting for reports instead of going in on there own, it's understandable too.
Nobody wants to risk their life, especially when you don't even know what's going on and if you can make a difference.

I believe it

>>17493297

She is supposed to think like a normal person. That's why I wrote, "sure is strong AI", because what happens there is just convenient story-telling. Either it's just an AI that follows orders, or it's not. And she is clearly depicted to be not like that. Which is why she at some point does eventually do something a normal AI would perhaps not do. Depends though. Even a normal AI would probably deal better with such a situation, because having a routine to prevent infinite loops is quite handy. For example the ai not accepting any order where there isn't a clear 100% way to get it finished without at least giving a warning.
Anyway, she understands what's going on. She knows that while her order is to report hourly and "deal with the situation", the goal is not to report hourly but rather to solve things asap. If there is NO PROGRESS over a very long time (=weeks), not asking makes 0 sense. You don't have to be particularly intelligent for that either. It's forced as hell. It needs to bend so the author's story idea fits.


As for the latter one, I disagree about that. There are pretty much 2 ways of dealing with a situation. Either you actually deal with it, or you don't and ignore it. Whatever you decide on, you do. In this case, they decide to deal with it. So you gotta follow through.
There'd be no problem if they'd never committed anything and chose to just look. They didn't, understandably. While you can't really say it's their entire fault, if they had just spent 2 days in bed before and not done anything, they'd not need to deal with the situation. So feeling bad just ignoring it is alright. So, at the point where it's fairly clear that you cannot do anything anymore from where you are AND you know something bad is going on, do you REALLY need to discuss things? Everything has been decided at that point already.

Now, I'm not even saying that that character behavior is necessarily bad in a story, but it should be referenced as what it is: Being wishy washy and afraid. It's human enough, although it's not very appealing. But even that aside, that in all their arguments they only talk about the AI and not at all about all the people still there is ultimately the same kind of thing as before. The author wanted a scene where they argue about the AI. Having another (much more convincing) point would just destroy the need for that. So it was ignored. Which leads to my main complaint about the whole work: The author ignores things that don't fit into his wanted scene-progression, and bends characters to get it to somehow in some way work. Not just in these two scenes, it happens in minor scenes as well.

>>17487551
I have no idea why this got deleted, it was a legitimate warning.

Just so people know, I made that chart by hitting "random" on vndb and picking VNs with easy-seeming screenshots and decent art, for the sake of trolling DJT. The one I'm posting now and the one in >>17487532 are serious. Stay frosty.

>>17493723
>The one I'm posting now

>>17493723
It didn't get deleted

>>17494011
>>/jp/thread/17484497#p17488055

>>17494014
Presumably because rules allow trolling only on /b/.

So you admitting you made a chart to troll DJT pals here on /jp/ probably isn't kosher.

>>17494190
Yes, warning about trolling is grounds for deletion, thus hiding the warning entirely. You're so smart, anon.

So when do you think we will get a PC version for this?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sUJUVMbh1cY

>>17494340
Never.

>>17494340
Considering the LN sucks dick and is written by Chiyomaru, who cares.

>>17494479
The anime was good though.

>>17494600
no it wasn't lol

I'm reading Unred Night, Mizuryu Kei Land and Chaos;Head rn to prepare for Chaos;Child :)

How do you edit characters on vndb? Twinkle Crusaders's protagonist's name is written as "Shin" instead of "Synn".

>>17494758

>>17494758
what is this even supposed to mean? His name is "Shin"
Synn is just a shitty romanization because japanese doesn't have the "si" sound.

>>17494758
Japanese people don't know how to romanize. The purpose of romanization is to make someone who doesn't know Japanese well pronounce it right. No need to listen to them here when they don't know what they're doing.

>>17494758
エミリナ = Amyrina was easily the worst offender in that game.

Is it a good idea to read Hanahira as my first vn in japanese?

>>17494818
Not sure what you mean by "good idea", just read what you want

>>17494786

The question is what was first. Did they fail in transforming the western name to Japanese or the other way around?
With foreign names I'd not be surprised if it's mostly the first, meaning the their "romanization" is correct, as it's not really a romanization, but rather the name it was supposed to be in the first place.
If it's Japanese names, then it's probably a romanization fail.

Unfortunately it doesn't matter for vndb. The original romanization has always priority there. Even over an official(!) western version.

>>17494818
It was the first one I read. I didn't mind the story, and it's only like 3500 lines. At first it was slow going, but then I got better and by the end it was smooth sailing. Just try it, and if it's boring just try something else.
Also, I'd recommend you to set a goal of say 200 lines at least per day, then try to progress up to like 500 and over.

I'm between n3 and n2 and I'm reading Ley-line

Its fairly hard though ;;

>>17492740
I found her character to have really hot h-scenes, but I couldn't really care much about her personality since she was kind of boring. Iyo and Iris were my favorites.

>>17495017
>really hot h-scenes
Pretty sure she's gone from the game after the first one

>>17495072
It's not like Kikyo looks any different.

>>17494850
By "original" romanization, do you mean what's in the original game?

>>17494758
In this case it's definitely supposed to be Synn because he's a 魔王 and and Synn is an archaic way to write "Sin" https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/synn

>>17495239

Romanization by the original dev, regardless where. I somewhat remember there being a case where a Mangagamer (I think) romanization wasn't used in favor for some random one found in an official Japanese artbook or guidebook or whatever, but don't ask me which game or whatever.

That's a whole lot of kids. There's probably an eroge with that kind of fetish as well.

I might be retarded, but I can't find an untranslated version of Hanachirasu. Looked on sukebei by searching 刃鳴散らす, but only found english version.

>>17495650
Is the MC a tentacle monster or something? (Or maybe it's someone other than the MC narrating in the image)

>>17495776
Nitro brands pack

>>17495776
>tentacle monster

Why do you get that idea? A normal woman can get that many children.. if she's fairly active and gets enough medicinal help and is lucky at least. There are.. special circumstances here that allowed that though.

That said, I'm not sure about the tentacle monster for one of the "protags". Not yet. This is heavy heavy lovecraft. And without saying too much... they are a thing of sorts.

>>17495650
slut

>>17494340
i can't wait for another belated DMM release with AIDS audio quality in videos because they can't into bink
or maybe they'll finally do steam releases since they said they were going to
and then they'll still be shit ports but they'll be easier to buy

Anyone know where I can find a DL for Setoguchi's CARNIVAL? https://vndb.org/v1001

Been looking for days and haven't been able to find anything on any public sites, and don't really have access to private ones so can't look there.

>>17496674
Bump
I've been looking for this for a while now too.

>>17497068
I heard there's a torrent for it on animebytes but lol at getting an invite there

>>17496674
>>17497089
Yeah, it's on AB. I'm uploading it now

>>17497092
Thanks a lot, dude

How was Trinoline on a scale of 1 to teaching robots how to love? It's minori so I'm not expecting much outside of porn and lens flares but is the dead imouto robot handled decently well?

>>17497161
Technically Not Incest out of 10

>>17497164
The worst kind of incest, then. I mean like how much does she "beep boop does not compute" versus how much is she essentially human but with mecha ears or something superficial and irrelevant.

>>17497184
I haven't read it, that's just all my friend said about it lol

>>17497186
Damn, alright then.

>>17497193
I suggest looking up Japanese reviews for the game.

EGS gives it rather average scores (median 79, average 77) out of 101 people so take from that what you will

>>17497092
https://mega.nz/#!82wESKpY!hSori7ASUKtoj646ep_k3Hpi8HCQ1gVldIpd-CmPLds

Might need to use virtual clone drive to get the install to work properly

>>17497212
thank's a lot dude!

>>17497208
I'll take a look, thanks. Mostly I just want to know how "robot" it is, though going by everything else minori has done I'm not expecting much.

>>17497212
Works great, just needed to mount the discs and install and everything works fine!

>>17497212
>>17497212
I'm at uni now, I don't wanna get in trouble, I'll download when I get home. In about 8 hours

>>17497212
Thanks anon I'm not sure if I plan on playing it at the moment but I'll download it just to have around. Your efforts are appreciated.

https://vndb.org/v6955

Anyone here play this recently? I downloaded this when a link was posted here a month ago and am only now just getting around to trying to set it up. However even after mounting the discs and trying to run the installer, it comes up with an error message that it can't open pietaexec.exe, but upon looking at the files on the disc, it's clear that this file is indeed on the disc.

I did try manually taking all the files from both discs and putting them in their own directory, but then trying to run the game leads to error messages like "could not find install.ini so it is possible the game is not installed" despite there clearly being a file by this name in the directory. Of course I try running as an administrator and all that good stuff, but to no avail. I do realize this is a somewhat obscure game though, so its understandable if no one has run into these issues.

>>17497512
Try running pietaexec itself.
Had a similar problem when installing Axanael.

>>17497533
Yeah that one gives the same install.ini error despite that file clearly being there. This is kind of a shame because this game looked pretty interesting. Usually I can figure this shit out just by trying shit until it works despite not being super amazing with computers and stuff, so hopefully I'm just retarded and overlooking something obvious. There is a no CD patch that I of course ran and it seemed like it ran properly and everything.

>>17497546
try installing to your desktop instead of program files or something

As expected it can't be helped. He's fast! It's too much.

>>17497554
I'll be damned. That did the trick. You're a legend. I can honestly say I don't think I would have thought to do that. Never encountered a situation where I had to do that. I suppose that now gets added into the bag of tricks to pull out when things are giving me shit.

>>17497512
Try run as administrator on the installer.

>>17497572

>>17497224

It fucks up everything robot related fast, so you can drop it fast as well. If you have absolutely no idea about AI and whatnot, have fun with it I guess? Expect really shitty melodrama though.

>>17497161
Read Yorino instead.

Guys help me out, I'm unsure whether to play Aokana or Noratoto next. What should I expect with these?

>>17498824
>What should I expect with these?
They're moege for the most part. Aokana is more plot centric whereas Noratoto is more comedy centric. The latter is also much shorter. Pick whatever you're more in the mood for based on that.

>>17498824
Mediocrity.

>>17498824
AoKana is an amazing work with very high production values, some of the most creative and in-depth depictions of a fictional sport ever written, and generally very strong drama, cute SoL, exciting competitions and one of my favourite girls in any VN. Noratoto is mostly bad but has some hilarious comedy, although I'd recommend the anime over the VN.

>>17498877
>exciting competitions and one of my favourite girls in any VN.
You have extreme shit taste and like blatant mary sues.

>>17498824

I can help you with Noratoto.

>>17498928

As we are discussing moege, who are your favorite moege writers?
I'd like to enjoy moege, but so far haven't come across any I'd like. With the sheer quantity there must be some gems out there too, no?
So what moege authors go beyond the cookie cutter shit and actually write interesting geemus? Preferably with a decent protagonist too (do those even exist in moege?), I can't stand zero personality self inserts.

>>17498938
She's not romancable and the other girls are shit in comparison.

>>17497212
Thanks anon

>>17499083
Depends what you mean by moege. The ones that "go beyond the cookie cutter shit" are often argued to no longer be moege, but you can try things like Kanishino, Princess Witches or Hatsusaku for high quality games with moe.

>>17499083
Konno Asta is probably the best pure moege writer I know of.

>>17499086

That's too harsh. Nobuchina was so good precisely because she wasn't a heroine. Pato was a much better girlfriend anyway if you ask me. Though I know a lot of erogamers hate cute girls they can't penetrate.

>>17499083

That's not how it works with moege. They are way too character based for a single author to be a guaranteed success for you. So even if someone wrote a route you loved, this same author probably wrote several other routes you'd not like.

>>17499142

I'm still confused about this one. All I know of this guy has serious padding issues and way too forced drama without consequence. The latter is especially annoying, as I can't even take any drama he writes seriously anymore. Plus, he wrote the second fandisc of Konosora. That's in some way like a KO criteria by itself.

>>17498938
I'm pretty interested in this game but I heard it suffers from the same problem most moege have, it blows its wad with the common route and the heroine routes are shit.

Anybody here play amagami?
Is it worth playing I hear good things about it but there's no ero and it's a dating sim, so I'm not too sure.
Is the vita version that much different from the ps2/psp version ?

>>17498938
Jesus, even the jay can't get this meme right. This site is truly finished.

>>17499410
It's very good for what it is. Not sure why you're looking at it if you don't like dating sims though.

>>17499387

The main route is quite alright. It's not perfect, but I wouldn't call it shit. The other routes are an issue, but you don't have to play them if you don't want to for ero or Nobuchina jokes. The main-route + common is pretty much one flowing story. The rest feels in some ways more like extras... although it's like half the game, so it's a bit weird.

Regardless, I'd still recommend it to people who like comedy and don't mind moege too much. Even if it's just Pato's route + the omake from the guide book, it should be fun enough.


That said, while it's a moege, don't confuse it with a mainly romance focused work. That's not what it is, or at least I fell like that. It's there, but the game cares more about the funny stuff and somewhat of a "plot" than mindless flirting and dates.

>>17499426
I like them but I have yet to play a dating sim without any sex, I guess I just picture it being tame. I mean if it's decent and well done I'll give it a go.

>>17499419
It's just for fun

>>17499442
Which game is this? Looks good.

>>17499083
Fureraba's idiot protagonist is a bag of fun, and the game's route structure in general works completely without harem stuff, with the player focusing on one girl from the word go. The game has name input at the beginning but you'd be better off leaving it at default because the default name is voiced + the protagonist's personality is pronounced enough to not really be a self-insert. However I didn't like Hayase Yuu's other games that much (to the point I couldn't really finish even one route) so he might be a one-trick pony or simply overexposure in my case, though I'm still having pretty high hopes for Making*Lovers since it looks like they're doing something a bit different with it.

Shigeta's games are pretty fantastic and I can wholeheartedly recommend all his games I've played: Pricchi has an actual story to go with the moe so it's hard to call it a regular moege and an amazing protagonist to boot, Twinkle Crusaders is way more light story wise and the protagonist is also decent if not as pronounced + he's voiced in battles like Pricchi's protag and completely voiced in the fan disc's main story. As bit of a downside Twinkle Crusaders' main game is seriously fucklong. MagiCha was also pretty great for two heroines at least, though its card system is a bit wonky and the main story has kind of crappy pacing with the vast majority of the game having no main plot stuff whatsoever (yet clearing all the heroine routes is required) until the very final route when things finally kick into gear. Nevertheless it's great if you're looking for moege and Orietta was pure love. I'm hyped for Paradise Ocean as well.

LxC and Cation games in general are more self-inserty, though LxC's protagonist really rubbed me the right way and has more character than the rest, however some of the routes in the first game supposedly have really shitty drama. Other games don't really delve into that sort of stuff or at least the routes I played didn't. Cation games in general seem to get a bit too heavily into H-scenes when the dating starts, much more than the other games I mentioned. Also of note is that the the games have different writers, with Insider's LxC1 and 2 being my favorites and leaps and bounds above the rest.

>>17499451
Fureraba.

Anyone got this ?

レイジングループ

>>17499584
Yup.

Anyone know of any visual novels with scenes similar to this one from Sousei Kitan Aerial?
(Linked below because I'm pretty sure jp is a blue board)
https://exhentai.org/s/b0d8ebc5c7/511598-778

>>17493723
Serious question, what's a good vocab level to start reading VNs at? I'm up to N4 and I'm very familiar with Japanese grammar.

Has there been any new chuuni this year?

>>17499591
Could you upload it?

>>17499631
Just do it. There's no right moment.

>>17497512
>>17497554
Whenever you have issues installing things, try selecting a path that doesn't contain any spaces or isn't too long

>>17499584
If I'm not mistaken, it'll be out 24th on Steam

>>17499665
No.

>>17499688
Thanks.

>>17499631
> what's a good vocab level
What's a vocab level?
If you're starting out I recommend reading things you did in English in Japanese like Gyakuten Saiban or even Pokemon or something. That way you're not stuck wondering what's going on with the plot.
The best thing to do though is read things you enjoy. Manga, VNs, Games etc. just things you like.

>>17499683
Was 3rd according to their twitter, simultaneously with the switch version

>>17499726
>>17499683

They changed it to 24

Do you guys know any good harem VNs?
It doesn't have to have sex. But I kinda want nichijou life of girls dotting over the MC, ecchi happenings and wacky crazy fun, the mc doesn't have to date or end up with a girl, I just want that crazy nichijou life as friends.

>>17499937
harukuru

>>17499949
This?
https://vndb.org/v9198
I thought it was a plotge that involved sciences.
Still it seems like what I'm looking for, with the harem and ecchi. Hopefully it's fun times too.
Thanks anon.

>>17499937
Try this one
https://vndb.org/v16070
It's may not be the harem you wants but if you want slice of life with group of friends doing crazy stuff with a lot of comedy, this one fits.

>>17500009
I played it, I love Hikari, the other girls are shit though.
One girl loves vibrators,
One girl loves her brother Asuka and is using you as an escape.
One girl lovesAsuka and is using you as an escape.
Your sister makes fun of you and isn't that great.
The lesbian girl is your typical annoying lesbian.

>>17500030
Yeah we know

You have shit taste and thin skin, we know this since you bring it up every time someone mentions this game

>>17500042
Hikari is the best girl though, you can't deny that.

>>17500030
lmao the insecurity flowing from this post

>>17500052
I'm indifferent about her

>>17500075
I just don't like them really.

>>17500196
Because they lightly teased you which you consider bullying

>>17500228
No I don't like them cause of their miren towards Asuka which kinda ruins a moege, Wakabe isn't that great of a genki girl the vibrator is just me shitposting, it still is slutty though.
I didn't like the imouto cause she's not faithful to her bigbro like good imoitos and I just hate lesbians in general.

>>17500244
>Asuka
He's dead, are you afraid he's gonna pop up as a zombie and NTR you?

One of the girls was his sister and one was barely his friend

>>17500259
>He's dead, are you afraid he's gonna pop up as a zombie and NTR you?
Doesn't really matter if he's alive or not it's just the fact a moege has a girl who still wants another guy, that ruins the route for me.
I get you clearly like them and that's fine but I'm sure other people like me would feel kinda bad that you're dating somebody who has feelings for somebody else. Sure it makes for a good story but not really a moege, at least to me.
Still feel free to think what you want. I kinda want pure love moeges.

>>17500290
Literally everything you've said is a complete lie based on your own insecurities, please don't spread your false perceptions of a game as fact in the future.

>>17500312
They clearly liked Asuka to some degree, even having some dialogue where they say they see the MC as him in some ways, I'd actually prefer if the mc was him instead to be honest.
I'd really prefer if it wasn't an issue to begin with. It obviously doesn't bother you, but I just don't like my moege like this... Feel free to call me a stupid moebuta.

We just see Moege differently. I just don't like it and you do.
Nothing wrong with that.
Plus I just don't like them in general.

Not quite on topic, but this is the general: trying to remember the name of an eroge from the '90s . It was a version of Uno where you got a semi-interactive CG with the girl who lost (just stripping, gradually vacuuming the mist as she gets out of the bath, etc.) Windows 3.1 or a very showing its age PC-98 port to Win95. I don't remember if it was translated, but it was definitely passing around the western scene at that time in the same packs that included things like the Lakers games and Dragon Knight 4.

>>17500368
>clearly liked Asuka
You didn't even bother to read the routes, did you

>they see the MC as him in some ways
Because Hanasaki was a kid and was clearly influenced by someone he thought was adult and cool, Hanasaki and Asuka was a lot closer than both his sister and Ayano were

>I just don't like it and you do
You overestimate how much I liked it, I just don't like the same bullshit being brought up every time it's mentioned

>>17500384
This? http://lunchbox360.blog.fc2.com/?no=348

>>17500406
Yep, that's it! Thanks, anon!

>>17500391
>clearly liked Asuka
to some degree
>You didn't even bother to read the routes, did you
>Because Hanasaki was a kid and was clearly influenced by someone he thought was adult and cool, Hanasaki and Asuka was a lot closer than both his sister and Ayano were

You are half right I read it but held CTRL a few times when things got boring, it's a habit.
It's been a while since I read it. If memory servers right

Inori is bitchy cause of her brother, she treats Hanasaki the way she does because she sees her brother in him plus he can be annoying. Their relationship was partially built from her seeing him as her brother, if she didn't see him as that their relationship would develop differently. Maybe she would've been shyer or more withdrawn etc.
Kuon on the other hand repeated the same year because of Asuka and refuses to move on, that's her miren.

I guess from these I grew to dislike kuon because of how much another guy had that much affect on her life. And inori from how she grew to like Hanasaki while partially seeing Asuka in him and she threatened to cheat on him for not fucking her good enough. I get it's a joke but I've dropped heroines for far less. Plus she's just kinda dickish in general to Asuka. I'm not really a fan of those kinds of characters.

Still that's what I remember, I may wrong about this. I'll proabably re-read their routes this weekend, to see make sure. It shouldn't take long.

>>17500466
>CTRL a few times when things got boring
Did you hold down CTRL for the entire Hikari route?

>>17499704
>What's a vocab level?
JLPTN5-N4/Elementary/Middle/High/College School for vocabulary and not Kanji. I decided to skip learning kanji individually since I'll be able to grasp what they mean anyways through learning vocabulary

Finished Otome Domain.

Completely unremarkable, though by no means bad either. Drama in heroine routes is the usual flimsy jealousy, "I'm not good enough", or "just be urself" type of stuff and planned marriage because that drama is in every single ojousama heroine game at least once, overall everything you'd expect out of this kind of game with no surprising solutions or other unexpected stuff at all. The reason I'm specifically mentioning these is that I feel a bit cheated since some anon in an earlier thread described Otome Domain with words such as "wild ride", "unlike anything I've seen in eroge", "meta" or "shocking" that forced him have to calm his nerves, like what the fuck dude how have you managed to play only moege that are even lighter than Otome Domain? The game's drama is vanilla 101.

Kazari and Yuzu's routes were both rather boring though piss fetishists might like the former as a heroine. Only Hinata's struck a chord with me a bit. I liked how it emphasized somewhat more that the protagonist is a boy in girls' clothing since he was able to befriend her better due to understanding Hinata's chuuni stuff and liking boyish hobbies in similar vein (playing games, discussing what is the coolest real life gun, airsoft etc.), a thing that doesn't really get brought up in other routes and I would've loved more of that type of antics. Her last drama was pretty similar to Yuzu's normal trite with characters acting like retards for a change, though Hinata route's last scene was pretty clever and I personally liked it. Another shorter drama I sort of liked was in common route when the protagonist is about to leave and the girls have a surprise birthday party for him. That scene was pretty heartwarming.

Much of the humor is "the trap protagonist is actually the girliest cutest girl in the school" or other usual running gags as per regular eroge operating procedure. Overall a game you start, look at the trap protagonist and heroines then decide whether you like them enough to do their routes or drop the game, since it's not like they go through some profound changes during their routes so no need to be scared of missing out on something big. Would've preferred them to just focus more on SoL or humor in fact even if they weren't really remarkable either, since the drama definitely isn't the game's strongest point. Though there were few annoying parts, thankfully the drama doesn't get overbearing enough to hog play time to the point it really starts to grind your gears.

Essentially a "you get exactly what you order" type of game.

Anyone here read Sakura Musubi? I've seen it randomly really highly rated by some EGS users.

When did this thread become Japanese-learning central?

>>17500941
The only remarkable thing about this game is the online radio which is funny as fuck and helped the game increase its popularity since it won the best female radio award.

>>17501213
Not sure but there's a whole different thread just for that....

>>17500030
>>17500244
Thanks for selling this VN to me. I'm interested now, it's interesting to see a cute moe girl eroge where the characters don't 100% revolve around the MC and have lives outside of his influence.

>>17501213
When the retards from some /a/ general were forced into /jp/ and discovered these threads.

https://mega.nz/#!CMlCQbAS!RfSYjhrP6Qn3LAYBHzyFwlV31ZGsySpJ_uxt9G-eijQ

>>17501213
When some dude who actively helps and encourages them emerges in the thread. Like there isn't any need to be hostile since we were all starting out at one point, but a simple pointing in the right direction to a more relevant thread seems appropriate.

>>17500466
Stop self inserting into protags you aren't supposed to. VNs are moving on and so you should.

>>17501528
Thanks!
So this going to be an Episodes format, or this is just the demo for the full game?

>>17501665
That link in particular is the demo for the full game release at comiket 92

>>17501665
It's a demo. You can easily read it in a couple of hours. The full game will apparently be over 2mb (!) and have routes and such.

>>17501700
So the full game was released? or are they going to release it in comiket this winter?

>>17501722
No, it's just episode 1 so far. No release date for the full game yet.

>>17501528
Y-you too!

>>17501727
Thanks, since they released episode 1, the full game won't be so far I hope.

>>17501749
I hope so too, because I'm hyped as fuck.

The "Only Virgin Heroines" tag in Parfait is wrong, it should be removed. 2 of the 5 main heroines aren't virgins.

>>17501781
dropped

>>17501781
Only one of the five isn't, actually.

>>17501794
Didn't Rikako and Hitoshi fuck while they were going out?

>>17501812
It's possible I'm remembering wrong since it's been a while, but I don't think they were ever going out. Didn't she reject him due to the thing that happened in the past?

Does somebody know where i can download Hanachirasu ost? I can't download from baidu.

>>17501781
Just finished reading this and the tag is right actually, all of them are virgins, even Ema.

>>17502096
Are you sure? I only remember her saying something about it having been a while.

>>17502169
Look at her first time CGs again, she's bleeding a ton and crying. So either that or she was on her period, which I think would be something they'd mention.

>>17502185
Huh, I'll be damned. I didn't notice the blood when I played it. So she was just pretending like Kasuri, I guess.

Not that I care that much either way. Honestly it's kind of weird if she didn't have sex with her husband at least once, but that's eroge I suppose.

>>17502185
I'll take the writer's word over an artist's CG which was probably added because japs get off to deflowering.

Do you read all the girl's routes in a game even if you only like one or two of the girls?

>>17502266
I read the one I like only
I mean, if I didn't bother with a character, there has to be good reasons for it. I guess I'd feel more inclined to clean everything up if I bought the game and didn't want to leave a huge chunk of it untouched, but that's not always the case

>>17501781
DISGUSTING

>>17500466
Of course not, I'd even read it a second time.
Still I'm sensing some hostility from your posts, maybe you do like them that much and I struck a nerve.

>>17501568
It's not that I'm self inserting, just when you play as any character or have a main character. You kinda want them to succeed. Stories where your character is picked on for comedic affect isn't done well half the time. Sure he makes jokes and causes trouble in return for others and if it was evened out I'd be fine. However it's really not the case. Some anime/games/VNs do this and just rip apart the MC, sure some might like it but I'm not really a fan.
I'm playing through Kuon's route again now, Asuka really impacted her. It feels like he was the MC of another game or some cool guy that people look up to. It would be nice if he was the MC.
In the end I just don't want some guy who takes shit from others, that said it's a moege you kinda want the MC to be the star of a show.

>>17502611
whoops meant to quote>>17500532 for the first reply

>>17502266
Definitely not, unless I have to

>>17502266
Depends on the game. Some games it doesn't matter whether you like the heroine or not, you have to do the route for the story. For others (moege/charage) you can just do your favorite and call it quits.

What's the best comedy VN you have ever read
/ エロゲスレ/ ?
I'm really having a blast with noratoto

>>17501528
Gonna wait for the full game, I couldn't endure it if I read this. Though I wish we heard something about continuing Chuusotsu, I'd be more excited for that than SF.

>>17502845
Renai0
I've been thinking of trying noratoto for a while, but I don't like the girls other than the fang girl.

>>17502863
Just ctrl scenes where she isn't in if you want, not like you miss anything relevant.

>>17502863
>>17502999

>>17503019
?

Have anyone read https://vndb.org/v19964?
I'm in a mood for some good suspense and this looks interesting.

>>17503044
Suspenseful, at least in the beginning

This may sound weird as fuck, and completely out of context, but I have read ones about a girl that hates being seen as a "female". Like they hate being expected to wear cute clothes, hold hands and have sex by Males because they have a pride and like being seen as uniqe individual, now this a completely s feminist opinion, but when you think about, I really hate being seen sloley as a male too.
I know I shouldn't confuse 3D with 2D, but after playing bunch of moege seeing a lot of scences where the heroine blushes all the time, go on date wearing cute clothes and first they do ask the MC how they looks, how they accept a dick after a few days of dating makes me a bit guilty.
" Is this what the characters really want?", " are they really happy with only dating the male MC?"
What do you think guys? Is this normal or I am turning into a feminist?

>>17503044
Yeah but I wouldn't recommend it. It's basically the Disney version of 伝奇 and 館モノ stories.

>>17503072
I think you're reading too deeply into your anime porn, and that you should probably play something besides vapid moege occasionally.

>>17503072
It's normal I think.
I don't think you can completely separate 2D and 3D. People put their own assumptions into 2D, and people carry some of their 2D experiences, biases into the 3D world. It goes both ways.

>>17503072
The whole romance just gets old. I lose interest as soon as protagonist and heroine starts dating.

>>17503072
>how they accept a dick after a few days of dating makes me a bit guilty.
That's just horny teens really, I think you're thinking too much.

>>17503044

You can look at the game in two ways:

-2 unsatisfying routes which feel utterly pointless in the whole scheme, aside of the main-plot which is fine. In fact, the heroines of these 2 routes should probably not even exist.

OR

-Utterly underwhelming final route that fails at being a true/final route. Many of the little mysteries left open in previous routes are not explained, nor does it bother to use all its characters.


No matter what though, the game is heavily lacking in some way. If you want some suspense, you are probably better off reading something else.

>>17503061
>>17503079
Thanks. If it really isn't too good, could you give example of a suspense VN that you would recommend?

>>17503072
You're having an impasse with what's known as gender roles. They are pretty ingrained in Japanese society but especially in otaku circles where otaku have a mental image of the ideal woman who's very feminine and submissive, real women aren't completely like that because they're individuals so otaku run to escapist media (3D pig disgusting etc.). But as others said, maybe you're looking too much into games made to satisfy these otaku, like moege, but if you look for other kind of games (especially older ones) you might find quite a bit of exceptions to the rule.

>>17502232
http://virgindb.g.ribbon.to/?%A4%CF%B9%D4%2F%A4%CF%2F%A5%D1%A5%EB%A5%D5%A5%A7%20%A1%C1%20chocolat%20second%20brew%20%A1%C1
>処女率 100%

>>17503329

Newer stuff as well though. It's changing. You still get your old-style stuff every now and then, but it's not as dominating as it was at some point. The ero writers are usually still very old-school, but well. Imagine you are an ero-writer. It's kinda understandable. It's less of an issue for works which are only written by one person, or there's at least no separate ero writer, but the latter can be hard to find out.

That said, there's still a long way to go. The biggest issue right now is often less the girls, but more the protagonist. Most are either walls or a heavy heavy mary sue. For a medium that's so heavily about romance, it's quite amazing how rare it is to have a work featuring an actual couple, as in love between two characters. If one side is just shallow (or a mary sue even), then the other side automatically suffers as well. For example, why does she love a wall?
This still comes from the dating sim ages, but if it's not a dating sim, it's just unfitting. In a dating sim, you can usually answer the "why does she love the protag" with "because I fucking tore my ass off trying to get her as a girlfriend!". The relatively high amount of interactivity helps. Removing all of that however means it's a story, and more often than not.. it fails at being one because the pivotal character, aka the protagonist, isn't actually a character.

>>17503353
i keep forgetting this exists

Is Himanatsu the only game where you raise a kid from child to late teens?

Well shit I've always viewed the ideal male as being masculine and the ideal female as being feminine before I even got into mongolian fap games.

>>17504095
The ideal female has a dick actually.

>>17504114
True, but it's a feminine dick.

>>17504095

Welcome to 2017. Where females become more and more male, and males more and more female.


That aside, gender stereotypes are really from yesterday. You know it's a sad world if that shit is actually applied to gay couples as well, where you don't even have different genders involved...

>>17504142
Idealism and gender politics can't change natural biological tendencies, my dude. Feminine women will always be more desirable to the average man, much to the chagrin of Tumblr landwhales.

Any good eroge with lots of gun fights? Played Tokyo Necro recently and want more.

>>17504192
Scarlett

>>17504197
Wasn't Scarlett a lot more about battles of wits though? Kurou even outright tells Akito to leave the rowdy stuff to SWAT and other experts of violence.

I like how Misuka and Subaru have almost no idea about what the other one goes through and looks at them in a way that's so very different from how they think about themselves. It's pretty crazy, although fitting, given what kind of character Subaru is. Pic related gives an idea.
Shows once more how powerful different pov's can be.

Anyone knows why Making Lovers don't want to launch? Stupid Buriko Engine... Tried with Locale Emulator with fake Japanese interface, nothing. Trying NTLEA - nothing too. Agh, that's awful!
I just press the .exe, and nothing happens.

>>17504684
The promo game worked just fine for me. Try the usual stuff. Japanese system locale, Japanese date and time, Japanese system language (either through Windows itself or Vistalizator).

Alternatively, they seem to have uploaded all the content of the promo game as videos on Youtube.
http://www.hook-net.jp/smee/makinglovers/main/character/chara1.html
https://www.youtube.com/user/hooksoftofficial/videos
Wondering why they didn't do so in the first place since all the promo has is short cut up scenes and no explicit content.

>>17504684
Are you using AlphaROMdiE?

>>17502863
>Renai0

Still mad at how completely the game crumbles once you hit the character routes.

>>17504877
Is even Nokia garbage? I've been wanting to read it just for her facial expressions.

>>17504942
Yeah it's just a bunch of bad drama and suffers from a lack of facial expressions. Not as bad as Mayo but still not good. The only routes which aren't garbage are the twins, i.e the most boring girls.

This is the most boring as fuck part of the VN ever. I really hate this girl now.

>>17504997
I don't know why I even hope anymore.

Any good VN with non-virgin heroines? I'd be a nice change of pace from these saccharine, pure love stories.

>>17506002
Playing an eroge with non-virgin heroines is like drinking non-alcoholic beer.

>>17506002
Yu-No

>>17506007
But arguably the best eroge ever made Yu-No has mostly non-virgin heroines.

>>17499584
This is very good.
Just completed it on my PSV last night.
Do them a favor and buy it.

Ad:lib's new moege has a trap as a supporting guy this time. They already did that once before, though I didn't read that VN. Wonder if he'll be as good as the guy in Doko Dona. Probably not, but one can hope.

Anyone else thought this to be better than Muv-Luv Alternative?

>>17504942
I don't care what anybody says I FUCKING LOVE this game so much it's in my top 10.

The references to classic/modern history, philosophy, sciences, mix of computer science and fiction, the story, and especially the characters. My only problem is the battles could use work, the more difficult ones are just making the bosses damage sponges also also the mc kinda get's shoved aside and treated by dirt by people, I wish he was more chad-like like. He is pretty cool looking.
I'd expect nokia to treat him like a fine dick like the slut she is, so I was kinda let down.
All the girls have such amazing designs and personalities. I wish you could date them and I wish some of them were more involved in the story like Reiko and Rina, Mirei too.
Kyouko is the best girl, I wish she'd tease your dick more, so is Reina I wish she more more involved.
Though all the girls really are best girls.

>>17504942
nokia is pretty decent she's funny

Anyone have magnet for Himawari with new CG? All I can find is the old one, ps2 version or the english one.

>>17505006
I hated her so much god damn I'm so glad Hotaru made that game worth it.

>>17506057
But my Henkaku...

>>17507582
i think you can find it on nicoblog or something.
I don't know much good places to get vpks

What's the VN with best protagonist?
Seriously I have enough of eye rolling due to all these self inserts.

>>17507601
Cross Channel

>>17507601
Rance?
Most amazing VNs I know have non-self inserts for protagonists.
Hanachirasu
kikkougai
Steins/chaos
Liar soft games like fairytale requiem

It's mainly moege that does that. Even then I'm watching love story between that mc and that girl, replacing the guy with a cut in feels like a job to their relationship

>>17507601
初恋１／１

>>17507599
It would require updating most probably since it seems to have come out this year

>>17507601
Hello, World

>>17507644
3.61+ doesn't work?

>>17507651
Not on Henkaku, since Henkaku is 3.60
They might find a way to make newer games work one day, but it might never happen.

She's truly too good for this world. Also yet another new sprite. This game's sprite game is on point.

星降る夜のファルネーゼ demo was released a week ago and this is literally Phoenix Write eroge version. The game is also directed by Nakazawa Takumi, the director of Ever17. A very promising title for next month for sure.

>>17507946
>Phoenix Write eroge version

We already had pretty much two of those this year. This is getting a little much. Okay, one ended up being more of a shitty and buggy nukige, but still.

>>17507946
But is it actually any good?
>Nakazawa Takumi
This doesn't exactly inspire confidence.

>>17507964
In this one you actully play as a lawyer and you stand in court and face off the prosecutor. It's the closest eroge to Phoenix Wright so far I guess.

>>17507964
Are you talking about tanteiseven and chronobox?
Those are just mysteries.
This is a lawyer game.

>>17507981

One of them had a lawyer protag as well, it simply was not in our time though. I still haven't touched it because vertical text and all. I really should though. As much as I'm used to horizontal, it's really not much of an excuse. It was fairly well received. (Though as the recent Apeiria once again shows, that's not necessarily meaning anything of course)

>>17508006
>I still haven't touched it because vertical text

>>17508006
>I still haven't touched it because vertical text and all.
I know 4chan is known for autism, but this is pretty next-level.

>>17508006
What's the name?

>>17508031
Not him but it can be annoying if you're not used to it. I've seen people in this thread that don't like speech bubbles in eroge.

>>17508031

If you have barely to no experience with that, you are WAY slower with vertical than with horizontal. At least for a while. And that makes it annoying.

>>17508061

Help yourself.

https://vndb.org/g645?fil=tagspoil-0.tag_inc-645.olang-ja.length-0~2~3~4~5;m=0;o=d;s=rel

>>17508099
Read an LN or a few manga. It takes no time at all to get used to vertical text and be able to read it just as fast or faster than horizontal. Vertical suits Japanese much better than horizontal in my opinion, wish more VNs would use vertical.

>>17508099
https://vndb.org/v16858
This, right? Looks pretty interesting and the EGS score is pretty high too.

Guess I have something new to read. Thanks.

>>17508153
Apparently the mysteries in it are laughably bad if you played Gyakuten Saiban/Danganronpa before and the characters are generic. Pretty nice art / representation though, might give it a try for that alone (and the two preview H-scenes on vndb being very hot).

I'm looking this very name of obscurity. Could someone share? Please. https://vndb.org/v21176

>>17504833
Tried to used, nothing happens too. Windows 10... Agh, stupid eroge engines, I really can't understand why they doing such shit things... I can't even play their games! Arrrgh!

>>17507946
Produced by Nakazawa Takumi, not directed or written by him.

>>17508248
I posted it in one of the previous threads

>>17508124

Yeah, I know, which is why I wrote it's no real excuse. I just gotta be not lazy once.

>>17508178

Must be really bad, given that Danranronpa isn't exactly good there either. I just hope it's not forced 50 obviously wrong ideas before you are allowed to finally talk about the right thing.

Any nostalgic vn that is set on the beach?

>>17508755
Uh... ISLAND?

>>17508755
What are the defining characteristics of a "nostalgic" VN?

So yeah I re-read some parts after every bodies' suggestions and really don't know why I missed those parts that I was confused about, I was a fucking retard. So yeah sorry about that.

I really liked this VN, I just wished the heroine routes were more fleshed out. Yurugi's oddly feels like a bad end. I mean the protagonist even asks 'if being happy like this was the right thing to do' when the route was about to finish. I mean way to kill the mood. He doesn't do that for the other girls, it hurts me because she was the best heroine.
The sex also feels kinda shoe-horned in and the bugs were kinda annoying.
I feel a weak point is the card games, I mean just by telling people's reactions like if somebody is incredibly confident or really quiet, you can tell who's gonna win, however that feels more like a Japanese thing.
I also think kukuri should be the cover girl instead of Sayo it feels that way.
I also find it strange there's no police and everybody just goes along with the bet conditions from their pride alone.

Still overall a really amazing VN.

>>17509264
>So yeah I re-read some parts after every bodies' suggestions and really don't know why I missed those parts that I was confused about, I was a fucking retard.
Nice, now reread Sakuuta from the beginning and actually pay attention. Maybe you'll get it on your second try too.

>>17509300
I'm admit I fucked majorly up reading this. But I never touched SakuraNoUta. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only person who's still not fluent in Japanese in these threads. I mean we don't have id tags or flags so I don't know how to convince you of that.
Sorry...

>>17507601
Makoto a shit

Anybody got the recently released voiced 蟲ノ目 ?

>>17509439
DLsite has it.

>>17509461
I know, just wanted to know if the additional scenarios and voice acting are worth the price.

>>17509470
>doujin voice acting
no

Finished Ema's route last night. Well, that was a wild ride. The main conflict made all other routes so far look like child's play in comparison. Now on to Rikako's route.

>>17509470
http://yotsutsuji.com/matsuri/character
You can listen to the samples here. They... aren't very good, but servicable if you don't like playing voiceless games.

>>17509490
>>17509511
Thanks, i'll just save the money then.

>>17502863
>>17504877
I really got to finish this.

been gone for about a year, what have been the best releases of 2017 so far?

>>17509650
Istoria, Re;Lord 3

>>17509650
Suicide Fence trial?

Finished Dear my Abyss. Already.

What can I say. It was good while it lasted, but there's something missing. Or rather, quite a bit. Now for one thing, there was the fact that the game has an average length of 20 hours on EGS, while the game gets advertised as 25 hours. That may be kinda correct for someone like me when I enjoy stuff and read slow and relaxed... and get distracted by 4chan every now and then, but the game is maybe 700kb. That's Leyline 1 length, which sits at 11 hours at EGS, and is voiced. So I didn't expect this, at all. But there's also the story that kinda ends in a "wait... that was all?" way.

I tried to complete everything, just in case you can get past the final ending screen, but it doesn't seem like it. Which could just be a sequel hook and we get Dear my Abyss 2 in 7 years or whatever, which would be cool. But it could also just be a story with an ending where you still have more questions than answer.
That said, to an extend it's fine as it is. I don't think a work needs to answer everything. And I think the idea to show a story from the view of two "normal" girls, not directly involved in the greater things, although still getting dragged into it to an extend, is kinda nice. Of course they may not get to know everything, many character will remain enigmas and so on, but there's still a good amount of fun to be had. You can also rhyme yourself together a good amount, although you won't get clear answers.
Still, the one thing that's just awkward no matter what is the final ending. It just doesn't feel like that's it. And heaviest is probably Ruu. She is made to be quite interesting in her position (pic related), so I quite hope for a sequel of sorts at some point. It really needs one.


Aside of that, the presentation grows on you. While the characters are mostly silhouettes, there are a lot of backgrounds, which in a way is refreshing, even if they are photos with sometimes more and sometimes less of a filter. They are fairly well done. Music is mostly well done ambience, though towards the last third the game suddenly starts to have a few actual pieces of music and they are damn good. It's mostly just simple piano, but that didn't matter and fit with the mood. Really supported the somewhat heard wrenching scenes for example. (I've seen a lot of VN where those scenes are accompanied by so "overacted" dramatic music, that the music kills the whole impact instead)


tl;dr: I had a ton of fun, but I feel this is just part 1 or something. Regardless of a part 2 coming or not though, I don't regret reading it.

>>17509706
Try the previous game by the company. It actually has art and is much better.

>>17509691
I only played the first couple minutes. Did anything amazing actually end up happening?

>>17504733
I tried Japanese system language + Japanese locale + Japanese date and time on Windows 10. Nothing. Even with compability on Windows 7... Nothing. I really will fuck SMEE, I think. Where's their e-mail, I'll kill... Sorry, I'm really angry now. They are doing anything for not playing their VNs. Agh...

>>17509850
>Windows 10
There is your problem. You're an idiot.

>Look up Artemis Blue
>Huh, the setting looks interesting and the art is pretty good
>Read synopsis
>Pilots call this stretch from 500 feet to outer space ‘Artemis’s hymen’.
>mfw
Who the hell comes up with this stuff?

>>17509882
H scenes in that game made me drop it faster than lightning

>>17509926
You didn't like Haru's random rape fantasies?

>>17509788

The art thing is deliberate though. There's one part of the game where you see a completely drawn normal sprite.

If I had to take a guess it's part of the game's message. I already wrote this before but, the character are looking essentially just at silhouettes of the others, barely grasping what they are about and having a LOT of wrong ideas about them they attach onto them. The two main pov characters also get to know little to nothing what the other one goes through at the same time.
There are a couple of scenes where you can see the sprites drawn but don't see anything upwards of the mouth, as that's "cut off" at the top of the screen. That probably goes hand in hand with this. And the one time a full sprite without a silhouette is shown fits into it as well. It's a dream so to say. Explaining it too much would go too far, but essentially a character is "made" into what the pov character would want from them which ended up making them normally visible for a short time, until the game tells you the "it's just a dream you won't be waking up from, game over".


So, I don't think the visual part is bad for the game. It's actually fairly fitting with the themes of it.

>>17509954
I still lay restless at night wondering why

>>17509954
Wow, sounds hot. I heard lots of good things about the game, the priority is going up.

>98点 久しぶりにやりたくなったから3年ぶりにやったけど、やはり名作は何度やっても名作だ。未プレイの人には全力で勧めたい。
I never know how to feel when someone writes a super enthusiastic review like this but the game just looks like a generic moege. Do I bite?

>>17510316
What game ya doofus

>>17510333
あの晴れわたる空より高く

>>17510316
Haretaka? It is a generic moege through and through with the usual high school club project plot, just with lots of actual rocketry infodump, so keep that in mind if you decide to dive in. At least from what I played until dropping it.

I think one other anon in an earlier thread put my thoughts into words better but can't be arsed to search the archive myself. You could just try it out yourself if you happen to like the heroines and if not then drop it.

>>17510316
The main problem with itis that the four heroines routes are super same-y, literally same shit, different heroine, and Reimei was best at it.
I'd say doing 1-2 routes and the epilogue is worth it.

>>17510611
Is the epilogue not locked?

>>17510613
That's what savedata are for.

>>17509850
You didn't try everything. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=install+windows+7+virtual+machine

>>17507601
Hatsuyuki Sakura
White Album 2
Subahibi (It's my own Invention chapter)

>>17510316
Game stands and falls with your interest in rockets.

>>17510633
All the chapters protagonist in Subahibi are good though. but I have to agree that Mamiya Takuji is something on a whole new level. Man, I really can't wait for the English release this month, seeing people's reaction to Takuji is an enjoyment on its own.

any nukige that mimic this?
preferably no self-inserts

>>17503170
Can I skip the two filler routes?
If I can't, can I find a savedata for this?
This game seems to have the exact same problem of 時を紡ぐ約束, but I didn't regret playing it.

>>17510940
>Man, I really can't wait for the English release this month
Same here :D

>>17511047
>時を紡ぐ約束
I have a question about this, does MC fuck his daughter? I wanted to play it but I can't help but have this nagging thought at the back of my head that because it's eroge, they'll eventually go that route and cheapen the whole thing.

>>17511081
No he doesn't. It's a pure father-daughter relationship. The final scene in the epilogue with them will makes you cry your eyes out, the whole game was worth it just for that.

>>17511081
Also curious.
I will get it right now of they do

>>17511111
Thanks, that's what I wanted to hear. I have high hopes.

>>17511047

They aren't filler routes. They shouldn't be filler routes. That's just one way of looking at it. What was done in those was neither bad, nor unfitting for the story. It should've been part of it. But in the end, the final route didn't bother. It was underwhelming.
This is why I wrote, that it would've been better if the author would've just not included the respective characters and plot-strings, if nothing is done with it anyway. That way you could look at the final part positively. Alternatively the final part should've involved the other characters and their "story" as well.

Do note that you can't just completely avoid this by avoiding the routes either, as the first play-through is problematic itself as well. Also, the whole structure gets kinda killed then. In other words, it's not something you can easily fix with skipping certain parts.

>>17511129
I see, thanks. I am going to give this a try anyway just because I really loved the soundtrack
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SLdSLrqfxFE
The openning is really great too
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dvobRrghezQ
Also I really love mysterious heroines in Kimono.

>>17511113
what is the source of this picture

Is WHITE ALBUM －綴られる冬の想い出－worth reading?

>>17510963
anybody?

>>17510963
Aoi Tori, at least the basic premise

>>17511360
>Aoi Tori
https://vndb.org/v21523/chars#chars
It's not out

>>17510963
what doujin?

>>17511377
The trial is which he was commenting on

>>17511394
don't know just found it and was wondering if there's nukige like it

>>17511408
i see, i'll give it a go

>>17509799
Just play it. It's good.

>>17509650
Aokana EXTRA1
Chronobox

Both 80 on EGS

>>17503584
the only one with an entertaining , cute and not lewd plotline, you get to the lewd only on the pc version and after the marriage.

>>17511414
The art is hot and the girls are lewd. Still there's a quite a bit narration over actula actual voices so it's a let down.
The vampire is cute though

gettin' real fucking sick of loli senseis

ha ha
she is supposed to be an adult
but she is childish in both size and personality
ho ho ho
what an unexpected turn of events

don't forget to make her unpopular with dudes for that extra comedy gold

>>17512240
Loli onee-sans are where it's at.

What's a good place to buy digital eroge?

This shows up for the crack on Sukebe Elf that girlcelly provided. What do you do in this situation? Run it on a VM or just say "fuck it" and take the potential virus?

>>17512351
Japan.

>>17512435
>he fell for the antivirus meme
AV software hates cracks, even if they're completely benign.

What does it actually say about the file? If it's just some heuristically-detected nonsense, I'd just ignore it.

>>17512435
it's normal for cracks to be flagged as viruses by some antivirus, since they ARE modified exes.
You can just try running it on VR and try asking if anyone else got a warning.

>>17512435
Upload it on virustotal and see if it get hits.