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Normal protagonist alright.

Is this a nukige or a moege? I know the line is getting blurred these days. I'm just looking to know if I should play it and expect a cute love comedy or if I should skip it because it's just another excuse plot for sex

https://vndb.org/v16657

>>17531724

... how about you look at the tags? Unless someone was being funny, it's rather obvious.

>>17531757
Oh, I forgot sexual tags are turned off by default.

I asked a long time ago and forgot but what VNs let you play as a girl trying to become the biggest slut?

I want to read another one of Maruto's works (but not WA2 just yet), how are Konnyaku and Damekoi in comparison to Parfait?

>>17531612
she was pretty lewd in her route.

>>17531612
＞What have you finished?
Some games.
＞What are you playing?
Nothing right now...
＞What are you looking forward to?
Mostly the upcoming Dies irae release. I've been waiting for a while now...
＞You know the drill.
What drill?

>>17531915
read WA2 first so you can go back and see how some of the ideas in his other games led up to WA2

>>17531956
Good one.

>>17531995
... you can do that by reading it last too. Which is way better.

>>17531996
Good one?

Why is it called 世界でいちばんだめな恋? Is it because the MC fucks / is in love with the middle schooler?

>>17532012
maybe

>>17531757
>Non-blood-related Mother as a Heroine
Jesus christ

>>17532032
Yu-No does it and it's freaking hot.

>>17531995
>>17531915
Read Chocolat if you want to see WA2' prototype.

Recommended route order for Tenshihane?

>>17532077
It''s not only WA2 prototype, it also has proto-Kazusa/Utaha.

>>17532273
Sun school first. The content in that part is exactly same apart from whether you choose to fuck one or both girls, so depends on whether you like 姉妹丼 or not. Only difference is H-scenes and few CG. There's no separate Mitsu route and I think completing either Hikaru or sisters ending is enough as far as flags are concerned.

Moon school:
Ikoi > Hanene > Sora (not really a spoiler since it's revealed on the game's website and early at sun school part but I went in blind) > True
Ikoi's route can be skipped if you want like one of the sun school routes. It's pretty short, nothing really special and a number of its events are also in Hanene route in another form if you only care about the main plot. The order of other routes apart from Ikoi in this part is forced.

>>17532349
I'd read Hanene first, it just feels more complete if you go through the whole moon side to her route.

>>17532286
Proto-Utaha is pretty much Naoko from konnyaku, Setsuna is an amalgamation from Umi, I'd say Rikako, Aoi and maybe a few more, she's well rounded in that regard.

>2017
>game releases in 1024x600
Why would you do this

>>17532511
Who are you quoting?

Really though, I'm scared that Favorite's next game will use a crappy blurry resolution again like AstralAir did.

>Browsing eroge floor of sofmap
>Bearded autist walks straight up to the cashier and asks in English "where's Dies Irae"?
>Cashier can't understand what he's trying to ask
>Autist gets flustered and retreats back down the escalator
Made me smile knowing he was probably from 4chan.

>>17532680
the absolute province of dies irae eops

>>17532511
With how prevalent 1080p monitors are, it should be the standard resolution for 2k17 releases.

Speaking of which, are there any that actually go higher than 1080p? Interested to know if there are any 1440p or 4k ones out there.

>>17532484
Koyuki from Mama Love reminded me of Setsuna quite a bit

Has Maruto said anything about going back to VNs after he finishes Saekano?

>>17532680
you found me. congrats

>>17533087
He said that he despises VNs and their consumers too much that he would rather die than ever associate himself with that hell ever again

>>17533583
No, but seriously. If true, sauce?

can anyone post that image that has babby-tier VNs for new moon readers? pls no bully

>>17533856
Use this guide instead.

>>17533856
Start easy with babbyge like Dies Irae and Muramasa, and work your way up to kamiges like JOKER -Shisen

>>17533856
More than genres, the difficulty depends on the scenario writer.

>>17533873
I tried reading Silverio Vendetta but the prologue made it feel like it was a bootleg dies irae.

anyone tried that new Softhouse Chara game?

How are 朝色 and 沙耶の唄 for someone in the upper beginner/low intermediate stage? I want to read more challenging works while also still being interested in the plot. Are these realistic choices for my level (I last read サツコイ, which was a bore)?

>>17534045
Read them and see for yourself. This is a very dumb question.

>>17534045
Saya no Uta was pretty hard even in English back when in read it like 7 years ago. Though I'm not too sure I remember that right.

>>17533980
it's basically a successor so

>>17532704
>With how prevalent 1080p monitors are, it should be the standard resolution for 2k17 releases.
You only say that because you haven't tried shopping for a PC in Japan. 95% of Japanese people use laptops for obvious reasons, and even today almost all new Japanese laptops have 1366x768 displays. 1080p panels are uncommon and typically only available on very expensive high-end models and imports.

I don't know how it ended up like this, but unfortunately it makes total sense that most eroge still top out at 720p.

>>17534051
I would, but installing them isn't exactly a quick and easy process. I just wanted to hear a knowledgable opinion before anyways, but you're probably right. You can't guess my ability.

>>17534071
I hope you're an ESL

>>17534101
Obviously. And I was like 13.

>>17533856
I should probably update it, add and/or remove some titles.

>>17531612
Can anyone recommend reading through '妹が痔になったので座薬を入れてやった件'?

Sounds like a ridiculous enough plot to be enjoyable.

https://vndb.org/v20488

>>17534481
looks like these people can

How do I overcome this feeling of "there's never going to be anything better than what I've just played. Why even bother?" I know it's temporary from experience but I've been feeling this way for over a month now and I can't start anything else.

>>17534581
Read some nukige just to fap, by the end of it you probably will have moved on

>>17534581
What VN made you feel this way dude? I can try and give some recs. I know the feel, though, I feel this from playing any VN since I'm pretty easily satisfied. If it has a sad OST and makes me cry then the game is kamige by my book and it's hard for me to just move on from it, but eventually I just do. Ocasionally, I will go back and re-listen to the OPs and EDs though.

>>17534581
You gotta play something shitty. Something dumb but fun that will reset your expectation meter. Then drop it halfway or wherever and pick up something else equally dumb. Repeat until you're sick of dumb/shitty stuff and will want to actively seek out something good to wash the taste of garbage off.

>>17534604
White Album 2. I even tried looking at Maruto's other works but they don't seem to be at all similar in premise.

>>17534626
Yeah, man, I feel you. The game really leaves an impression on you.

>>17534581
don't you have a backlog? read some game descriptions until something interests you or distract yourself with another medium until you feel like playing something again

>>17534481
HemoImo is kamige. Trust me, I'm one of those people on that list.

>>17535023
Just kidding. Although I AM one of those people listed, now that I am thinking back on it I have no idea why I scored it so high. It's just your run of the mill fap story, I think I scored it so high because it had some funny moments, but at most it deserves like a 7.

>>17535030
Oh, and she has the Sylvie look minus the horrid scars. That always scores extra points for me.

Really like the idea of Baldr Bringer, 11 heroines designed by 11 different artists is quite original. But if GIGA wants to even come close to Sky they need the MC full voice again, not the partial shit they did with Heart. And who is going to design the MC?

Which are your favorite heroines? 1 to 11 from left to right. For me 8 and 11.

>>17534481
can't believe i forgot to screencap the 痔 mahou shoujo eroge discussion in Chronobox, i feel it would be appropriate here

>>17535045
8 and 10 for me, leaning towards 10 more tho

>>17535045
after looking a bit longer i'll change my choices to 2 and 10

>>17535045
Man, this looks like a header banner for a random dmm gatcha game. Just add the title on the bottom part and you're set.

hnnnnng

>>17535045
>11 heroines designed by 11 different artists is quite original.
Yeah, looks pretty terrible too

>>17535140
Nope, it looks great. Group CGs will be quite a treat if they do them right.

>>17535139
Swimsuit ushio

>>17535173
That's a very piano dropped down a mineshaft kind of girl.

>>17532704
Senshinkan is in 4k

>>17535256
Localization when?

The skin tone in Mashimaro is fucking disgusting. Whose idea was it to make everyone a glowing yellow?

>>17535045
I like 1 the most, but 3 is basically Yuri with different hairstyle so she'll probably be a fun character.

>>17535045
Did they remove the gameplay focus video that showed the game being a downgrade to Sky and Heart again? The one showcasing the new slow-paced spam combat and big frame drops?

I love healthy all-ages VNs.

Why do nearly all of the minori heroines these past years have such comically massive tits? It's pretty offputting even outside of the H scenes.

>>17535724
Because that|s what their buyers want.

>>17534397
AstralAir SUCKED

Uh, can anyone point me to a walkthrough for
とある母親の過ち～縁篇～ please?

My google skills have failed this time and mediaclip has no page on it.

>>17535724
Tits literally saved them from bankruptcy after Supipara failed.

>>17535854

Supipara actually has some mighty fine tits. You just don't see them.

Does anyone have [CRAFTWORK] flowers ～ココロノハナ～ by any slim chance? It seems to be impossible to find on the net

Does anyone have あした出逢った少女 (https://vndb.org/v464)) or 妹 わたし、どんなことだって… (https://vndb.org/v465)) by any chance? Same here. Can't find anywhere.

>>17536026
Both are available in the usual places.

>>17535895
Uploading along with the single CD

>>17536026
You can find ddl links for those in google

While we're at it, does anyone have a link for Pieta? I remember some anon mentioning an upload for it a few threads ago, couldn't find anything.

>>17536159
>>17536159
https://mega.nz/#!rN0TgTaR!A0_W0tpzkmQJyuWxe2fwzdKGpHVRTk0Ppf86F2NAcVQ

Here you go

>>17535895
[981211] [CRAFTWORK]FLOWERS ココロノハナ
https://mega.nz/#!FwtxGAhJ!SGeKP0z5MK4OPCv0UW0cpkSsixTm-nRwnvIh_K1lsnU

[981221] [CRAFTWORK] flowers～ココロノハナ～ 初回特典singleCD
https://mega.nz/#!4lkxTACL!o8ujvOGuJNfwmk-wJZ3wWHNm3Yocg07xJuQk9KV4CIA

>>17536340
Thanks, it's greatly appreciated

>>17536400
Don't forget to post your impressions here because nobody ever does for these old games

>>17536470
I will when I get to it. Thanks again, anon

>>17536203
>>17536340
Thanks for these.

>>17536499
>when I get to it
So you won't. Always weird how people ask to get spoonfed here but never even plan on playing the games soon.

Ginharu is one year old today! I wonder when tone work's will announce their next title.

>>17536569
Well, I plan on reading it just not RIGHT now. At the later date it may be impossible to get at all

>>17536597
I wish I could enjoy their games especially that one but they are so god damn boring

>>17536597
Next year at the earliest I bet.

>>17536340
Not the person who requested it, but I got this message when trying to mount the game img file:
>The disc image file is corrupted.

>>17533873
I wouldn't say SOL nukige is easy take a look at bimen games, I would definitely say they aren't for beginners.
Most nukige that I read tend to be more complex than your typical moege.

>>17536824
>I wouldn't say SOL nukige is easy take a look at bimen games, I would definitely say they aren't for beginners.
Kinda funny to see this; I just started the first one today after only reading 4 VNs to completion and the first hour or so of a couple others. From the beginning to the first H scene I've already found half as many new kanji as I found in the entirety of another VN. Outside of the high amount of new vocab it doesn't seem that bad so far though. Don't see it as something I could tackle as my first or second VN though, yeah. Pretty cool to finally be reading it though considering it was one of the VNs I wanted to read before I started learning the language.

>>17536876
Out of curiosity anon how many moege do you see reference old writers and expect you the reader to know about them?

>>17536908
Interesting, perhaps I've spoken too soon.

Still something I was able to google and kinda figure out, but seeing that is still enough that if I saw it while reading, it'd stop me dead in my tracks while I google what it is. Seeing that makes me wonder if there's a bunch of references to old writers and stuff in the first game that have gone / will go right over my head.

I suppose there's no easy way for me to tell if something references old writers/stories unless I happen to know about the story, the characters directly mention the book/writer, or I happen the google the quote and see it's from some famous author or story. Though I suppose that's the nature of references and literary allusions in general though, rather than specifically a language difficulty thing.

I guess in this case it's more a matter of "if you see some quote like that, will you be able to google it and read (in Japanese) about the source of the quote"

>>17536758
I mounted the .ccd with Alcohol just fine

>>17534839
Source?

>>17537012
saucenao and iqdb both return the correct results

>>17532680
how hard is it to learn simple japanese before going to an event like this
dies irae no eroge ha doko ni arimasu ka

>>17533856
IMO there's no such thing as a babby-tier VN. Just pick something up that will keep you interested and have a Japanese dictionary on-hand.

>>17537027
Sorry, but that should be a "wa".

>>17537040
this
it depends on the theme the game goes for, a SOL yuri moege wouldn't talk about things of a more complex nature.
Unless it present itself a VN that does.

>>17536621
>but they are so god damn boring
I find all the romance and the lack of serious drama enjoyable as long as I'm not reading it all day. Trying it read it on the same pace like a typical VN will burn me out quickly, but reading it as a side dish after doing something else, like after reading a more serious VN makes all the comfortable slice-of-life and romance scenes feels better to experience, like there's always this VN to fall back to after a tiring day. It's not like there are important plot points, grand story, or any complex stuff that I have to remember anyway, so might as well take it easy and read on the pace that I feel comfortable to.

>>17537085

Language complexity is a thing for everyone anyway. It doesn't matter if you are native or not, there's always gonna be "easy" and "hard" text.
When you start out, you simply want to start with what's generally considered "easy text". Meaning relatively common words, short simple sentences and so on. Yuri is often recommended, because early on voice acting is usually considered very valuable, which still having usually "easy text".

I'm having a field trip with all the 催眠 releases this month.

>>17537193
Kangoku Academia hype. Did anyone play サイミンアップル？

>Release Tayutama 2
>nice
>Release Tayutama 2: After Stories
>meh
>Going to release another title. 2 heroines have fluffy ears.
DAMMIT THEY'RE FUCKING MILKING IT!

>>17537275
CUTE

>>17536908
Would being better at the language help you in this situation?

>>17537415
I'm just telling him that not all nukige has the same difficulty of regular moege.

>>17537434

>17536876 here. My post was more of an agreement than anything, as it definitely doesn't seem like something that's good for a first read in terms of difficulty, but the post was also mostly just a "oh hey I'm finally reading this and so far it's not knocking me on my ass like I thought it would based on what I've heard about it, even if it has a higher density of new vocab than the moege I was reading".

>>17537434

>>17536876 here. My post was more of an agreement than anything, as it definitely doesn't seem like something that's good for a first read in terms of difficulty, but the post was also mostly just a "oh hey I'm finally reading this and so far it's not knocking me on my ass like I thought it would based on what I've heard about it, even if it has a higher density of new vocab than the moege I was reading".

ついつい出てくる

>>17537653
What's with the cropped text on the bottom? Did you not want people to know that you're posting about Light's new game?

Damn, they even adapted the release year on the advertisements.
>2238

There's way too much attention to detail in this.

Wtf JC is stealing my waifu's catchphrase.

>>17538453
Brown's boobs always look disgusting for some reason.
Probably a combination of the sagginess and shine?

>>17538493
Here's a better look at them.

>>17538500
>tfw no JC route

>>17538500
Yep, pretty disgusting.

>>17538512
Honestly she's the weakest out of the 5 so I don't really care about it

>>17538500
gross

>>17535173
cute chest

>>17538453
With how dominating Ushio's victory was in the official poll do you think we'll see a fandisc where she's the main heroine? Apparently her popularity was quite the shock to marmalade staff so I wonder.

>>17538537
Ushio was a near perfect application of gap moe

This is adorable

>>17532680
Why is he trying to buy a novel game written in Japanese while not knowing a word of it?

>>17538556
Ushio-chan is indeed perfect compared to that ponkotsu Kanon.

>>17538566
Ushio would be my first choice if Raiha wasn't the thing that made me try the game in the first place

>>17538537
i was a bit lazy so i only did 1-5

>>17538580
i wonder if the 2nd poll is even more in favor of ushio

>>17538580
Kanon being that high is the only surprising thing out of those results. Ushio is >>17538556 and Shizuka is just illegally adorable

>>17533873
>filename
Do you have number 1?

>>17538537
>>17538580
Marmalade haven't made any fandiscs for their older games though.

I am very curious to see the results of the second poll which ended last week.

>>17538592
maybe they'll pull a moonstone and decide to release mashimaro2

also i really liked how they did ushio's lowkey heart pupils, i like the subtleness over the super obvious pink heart pupils you usually see

>>17538589
>>17538556
Would you marry her?

>>17538616
No, I'd rather take responsibility for Ushio.

>>17538616
She would never marry anyone here since youre ugly inside and out

>>17538603

In that case you aren't gonna see Ushio though. Mori Dreamers 2 has only a random bonus ero scene for the old heroines once you've beaten the main story.

But hey, could be. Takes place 10 years in the future with a certain other loli (now less loli) being the single heroine. Or maybe she comes back as a main-heroine in the next game with a different protag. (or is that too ntr for otaku?) Many choices.

>>17538613
That swimsuit looks uncomfortably tight on the crotch.

>>17538623
It probably is, she's only wearing it because she wants to tease/attract the protag

>>17538613
Rairai's whole "ミナ・ラカスタン・シヌア charm" is adorable

is ever17 good

>>17538635
I could tell what it meant right when she first said it but that didn't stop it from being adorable. Loved her reactions every time she got caught off guard.

>>17538638
Yes

>>17538403
A future with eroge.

What is the title on that?

>>17538403
What's that Aqua supposed to be a parody of?

>>17538638
It's decent. Don't expect a masterpiece.

>>17538997
But it is a masterpiece.

>>17538638
Definitely a masterpiece. Don't get spoiled and enjoy.

>>17539011
If it's the only sci-fi VN you've ever read, maybe. I mean it's not bad, but it's got a lot of problems with pacing and plot holes, and the ending is pretty silly and contrived. Still, it's worth a read if you're into that kind of story/setting and are willing to turn your brain off and just enjoy the ride.

>>17538638
Go for 999 instead, it's almost exactly the same thing except with better pacing.

Should I play Daitoshokan or Noratoto? Which of these two games has a better cast? I wanna play something light-hearted and fun with a pretty memorable cast. If any of you guys have ever watched the US version of "The Office", I want something similar to the atmosphere of that show.

>>17539325
Daito probably, Nora is also fun and all but takes a serious dip in quality when you hit the routes by getting unnecessarily (and badly handled) dramatic. But beware, best girl in Daito is locked behind true route.

>>17539075
Tsumugi is really one of kind heroine, I didn't see yet a heroine in eroge like her.

Any recommended route order for the White Album remake? Or just go for Rina and forget the rest?

>>17535045
Most don't fit or feel like "Baldr" at all. I like Elis and Torio, and that's about it. At least they got Kikuchi back for a single heroine, but I'm not sure that's a good tradeoff for worse gameplay than Heart, and a grand finale penned by the Zero guys.

>>17535166
>group CGs
Will never happen.

>>17538592
They did an extra with Sera in Primal Hearts. I'll just take whatever they thrown in.

Houkago Shippo Days review

For those who don't know what this is, it's a short all-ages moege with 2 heroines by August set in the same school as Daitoshokan. Basically an original standalone game with a few references to and cameos by Daitoshokan characters.

What stands out about this game is how short and complete it is. They basically condensed an entire standard moege, from introducing the characters and setting and backstories, to general slice of life and light drama, to romance and confession and going out, to conclusion and living happily ever after, into a couple hours. Some might say this weakens the impact it has since there is less time to get to know and love the heroines and get invested in the conflicts and relationships, and they would be right, but on the other hand, a common complaint about VNs is how much "filler" they have, how they tend to be excessively long when the story could easily be told in a much shorter timeframe. This VN is exactly that, a condensed moege with all of August's standard amazing production values and presentation, but much shorter than pretty much anything else like it. If you're okay with the lack of H-scenes, I'd say it's definitely worth a read.

>>17539892
Haven't read Daitoshokan yet, can I just jump into this without missing out on too much?

>>17539892
Looks like August is testing the waters. If VNs can get to that length of gameplay and it's lucrative, other VN companies will follow.

>2 hours
That sounds really bad. You mean my favorite heroine will have 30-60 minute screen time?! I just want my 60 hours (with filler) back pls.

>>17539900
Yeah it's fine, you're obviously expected to have read Daitoshokan first and you'll miss a few references but you can just read Daitoshokan afterwards and get them then, there's no spoilers or anything.

>>17539940
It's more like 3 hours, and there's only 2 heroines. But I don't think it was ever supposed to replace full-length VNs, it's more just a bonus story rather than a new business model.

>>17539940
It was a short game they sold at Comiket, obviously they wouldn't make a full length game.
>>17539892
Those heroines have ero scenes in the other fan disk if I remember correctly.

Why so Flyable Heart so SUGOI?

>>17539960
>>17539962
I thought that was a deal breaker. Thanks for clearing it up.

>>17539964
enjoy getting cucked in the FD

Trying to do the battle sim for the first battle on hard mode in Twinkle Crusaders and keep getting murderhouse'd on the first turn. Is there something I'm missing?

>>17540245
Never happened

>>17540299
Yeah a bunch of of their heroines do, and with a monkey too.

>>17540310
Link me proof or it didn't happen

>>17540328
Very few untranslated eroge have wikis, it's almost impossible to prove unless they have one or somebody plays through it and shows screenshots.

Still looking at the screen shots somebody is fucking multiple girls.
If its the protagonist from one game it can't be the protagonist from another.
http://h723.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-20.html
http://h723.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-86.html
Not to mention there tentacle sex.

Still I could be wrong and instead of listing all the protagonists in the character's page they put a monkey for fun.

>>17540344
That's the Unison shift game, not the FD to Flyable Heart

>>17540344
All the heroines from previous games only have sex with the protagonist of their respective games.

Don't spread weird rumors about games you haven't played.

>>17540383
my bad it still involves those characters though.
>>17540389
Have you played it? Some other anon played it said they all have sex with the protagonist of this game, who's a shape-shifting monkey. I assumed he shifted to their respected MCs.

>>17540411
>Some other anon played it said they all have sex with the protagonist of this game, who's a shape-shifting monkey.
LOL. No, that's not remotely accurate.

Strictly speaking, they aren't having sex with anyone, since the scenes are all made-up scenarios in ero-manga that the protagonist of Prismatic Princess is selling to raise funds for the idol group. But even in those scenarios it's still the protagonists of their games.

Seriously, do you really think they could have had moege heroines fucking some other dude without it causing a shitstorm?

>>17540344
Sigh, only one way to find out. Anyone have a link for the game?

I really really doubt they'd put out an NTR FD for their moeges. I don't remember any outrage either.

only extremely sad individuals could even have this discussion above

>>17540468
“But I don’t want to go among sad individuals,” Anon remarked.
“Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Faggot: “we’re all sad here. I’m sad. You’re sad.”
“How do you know I’m sad?” said Anon.
“You must be,” said the Faggot, “or you wouldn’t have come here.”

>>17540468
You sound sad, everything alright lil' buddy?

oh god this scene was hilarious, i love how kanon gets totally overshadowed by ushio and then acts jealous.

>>17540534
That's because Ushio is best girl, followed by Shizuka.

>>17540539
i honestly don't know what marmalade was thinking making kanon main heroine, i'm still in the early parts of the game and ushio has already had a bunch more screen time with the MC than kanon. i saw on the poll that they never expected ushio to be this popular so i guess that's it. ushio+shizuka spinoff when?

>>17540544

Kanon is the ultimate "standard heroine". You've seen her type of main heroine for years. It's just getting outdated by now.
That said, I have no idea what people find of Ushio myself, so at least in that regard I can't fault Marmalade. To be perfectly honest, I find her similarly weak. She is just a glorified "look how cute her failing to be like an onee-chan is". And that just wasn't for me.

>>17540671
>It's just getting outdated by now.
I couldn't help but groan when Kanon explained the whole bunny mask background early in the story, it's so painfully obvious what that will lead to

Finished Hotaru's route in Amatsutsumi.

I liked the ending a lot but it took way to long to get there.

Everything after the first meeting with the original Hotaru up to the ending twist felt like it was dragging out the route for the sake of it. Ichaicha can be cute but it needs to be punctuated with variety which this route spent a long time without, and when the characters spent a whole day visiting places in town just to "revisit their memories" it was boring as shit. I also expected the original Hotaru to appear much more than she did but I guess I have to do the other choice to get that.

Unfortunately I'm disappointed with Hotaru's route. What started off as a strong route just lost its momentum entirely after the awesome original Hotaru scene and only regained its feet at the very end. Just another example of VN writers needing to cut the bullshit and write more concisely to deliver a stronger story, but nips love their artificially drawn out scripts so of course they loved this.

>>17540730
Someone has to get her second ending.

>>17538673

I try to name my screens so you can find it based on the name. Just vndb it.

>>17538987

It's not a parody. Those are at least mostly actual games. That somehow still get sold in ~230 years, but you know. Some like it retro...?

>>17540782
Ahh, thank you friend. I've been on 4chan too long and assume the worst in people. Sadly I didn't even bother looking at the title of the image.

shit keeps freezing, any idea how to fix it?

Can someone upload Django vn? or at least give me the link because torrents are dead.

>>17541492
Make sure to update the game.

>>17541650
grabbed 1.02 patch from sdev site, it didnt fix it though. Oh well, just gonna play prequels first.

>>17541659
>Oh well, just gonna play prequels first.
Wait what? Why did you even start the third game first? Fucking idiot.

>>17534481
I knew I saw this somewhere

I see Ushio as an interesting opportunity to learn if it's the personality or appearance that makes me totally indifferent to the typical older sister types. The answer is both

>>17541602
Don't even remember when I downloaded this.
Count you'reself lucky kid, get it while it's hot
https://mega.nz/#F!R4sjBQwL!E6WvIrMclxa6m09WwlUOfQ

Dumb question probably, but does that Ushio character have a route in ましまろ? Everyone is praising her and I kinda want to try the game, it'd suck if she didn't have a route.

>>17541791
>>17542056
She does anon but Shizuka (the brown haired loli doesn't)

>>17534481
It's not as crazy as the name suggest, unfortunately

>>17542056
Yes, she has a route

>>17542056
Ushio is adorable. Worth it just for her route.

>>17541993
Thank you, baby.

Will ouchi surpass fureraba as /jp/'s fav moege?

>>17542634
Two people spamming something doesn't make it a favorite.

>>17542651
I was going to reply making a comment about how that's actually a fair percentage of this thread but then I checked and there are 80 IPs in here and surely more lurkers. More than I would have thought

>>17542651
I'm pretty sure there's more going by the screen resolutions of the screen shots. Also other people asking for links and giving in to trying it.

>>17542651
>>17542673
Ya there's definitely more than 2 people spamming it.

>>17542661
>80 IPs?
Shit, really? I always had the impression there were only ever like two dozen people on here, maybe the occasional couple of visitors wandering in.

>>17542700
He's new. Threads stay for days and many people have dynamic IPs. My IPs count for 3-4 in this thread alone.

This thread is actually 11 people, 10 unique IPs and 70 of my proxies

>>17542801
I'm not sure if I'd qualify half the disgusting neets in this general as people but whatever.

>>17542801
nah, mate, it's only ever just been me and you. all the others were proxies.

>>17542813
Nice try kettle

Kanon route is actually pretty cute too.

So after 3 months of Hitofuta the stage is set and it's actually established what it's about. Kinda. Still, this was probably the meanest stuff this girl did so far. "Playing for 4 hours" is not very nice. At least the other ones died fairly fast..?
Yeah, that's what the VN is about, more or less. A normal girl transferring into a new school, making new friends.. and at some point starting to act weird and kill them. Your protagonist, all right. But it obviously can't be all there is to it, and there sure isn't. This is where another girl comes into place, trying to stop and "rehabilitate" her. In part to save that girl's sister.

I have a feeling this will be getting veeery ugly. This is literally some "everyone is kinda insane" setting, without devolving into utter nonsense. I wouldn't even mind if the protag seat would completely change to the one at least somewhat sane girl, because her position is so nice. You know it's great if not even someone who's supposed to be your ally of sorts is actually really helping you that much and more about the "fun" involved. Regardless of if that kills someone.


Anyway, for a free little VN this actually shapes up to be interesting enough. If you like your nutjob girls with super powers along the lines of "able to recognize lies" and whatnot else.

kek

Any great action/supernatural vn?

>>17543603
Almost all of either of the two?

>>17543603
Ayakashibito

>>17537702
He's nasty /a/ renegade from one-page google search championship threads.

>>17537653
I wish you would just die.

>>17543614
Nobody in these threads has ever given a shit about your dumb general thread in some other board. The world does not revolve around your interests.

Finished Nana route in 迷える２人とセカイのすべて. Was originally gunning for Suzuran because her type's right up my alley but dropped her and switched teams, for reasons I'll get into later.

So the first two arcs - probably like 2/3rds of the game - were real enjoyable. Fun cast with good chemistry, good pacing, decent music. Probably the best way to describe it would be that it had great editing. Someone clearly went over this and snipped bits here and there and tightened up some corners and cut out some useless bullshit and threw in some lines that tied things better together. Also the timing on OST changes and sprite changes was spot on. Little things like that tell me time and effort (and most likely a big budget) went into this thing. As such I caught myself enjoying it a lot more than I thought I would, I initially expected overblown chuuni bullshit with overdesigned cute girls but instead I just got solid urban fantasy with overdesigned cute girls. There was of course a bunch of "why didn't they just ride the eagles into Mordor" fridge logic things but most of them got smoothed over with a line or two of explanation and for the ones that didn't, I had enough good will towards the game to sweep them under the rug. Plus the token male friend got to be cool a decent few times. All in all, good times.

If there's one this I gotta complain about it's that I think Vier was way better in general as everybody's daughteru-type loli, the cast dynamics worked pretty well that way and she was also friggin' adorable. They spent a long time pushing the whole "this is your daughter now" angle and then bam, they age her up real quickly and go "whoa check out those tiddies, I bet you wanna fuck your daughter now, eh?" way too quickly. Or maybe I'm just too vanilla for that kinda shit.

Then the third arc comes around and just plain shits the bed. Maybe it's because the first two had end goals the cast was taking steps towards, while the third had an end goal that got reached relatively quickly. But since this was technically supposed to be the ichaicha girl time part of an eroge, they needed to drag it out longer (ignoring the whole time-sensitive major plot thing) with assorted vaguely disconnected bullshittery. Most of the conflicts in that part felt annoying, forced, and random. Nana's was tolerable, some good parts and some questionably what the fuck is this parts, and an unsatisfying ending with a giant LOL U FUCKED UP stinger that basically said "play the true route, dickweed". Okay, fine. A bit of a letdown but I'm still coming away from it with a mostly positive impression. Nana herself was great but the way they handled some things in her route left a bad taste in my mouth. Really the whole thing serves as a reminder that endings are important to your overall impression of a work, that last bit can really make or break all the rest of it. I might go back in and take a stab at Nayuta's because I liked her character but this time around I'm nowhere near as willing to put up with dumbfuckery. I doubt I'll do the true route because a) Vier is for hug, not fug and b) the game is long as hell and I'm already kinda burned out.

Oh and I guess it's worth mentioning this is the first time I've ever not hated Aoyama Yukari's voice. HOWEVER

>>17543871
And then there was Suzuran, who techically I did first. Suzuran's route was the most mind-bogglingly awful thing I've read in quite some time, to the point where I had to stop, go back, and try another girl to see if they were all this terrible because it was retroactively making me dislike the game because of it. Straight up bafflingly terrible. It can't be that the writers hated her because her arc and character were pretty solid and consistent up till this point. Maybe even good. And she gets this godawful Frankenstein monstrosity of a route of stiched-together bullshit asspull nonsense that raises more and more questions the more I try to think about it. The most bizarre part of it all is that the rules of the place they're in change drastically (for the better) in Nana's route. If the culprit is multiple writers then they clearly had both carte blanche to do whatever, and were under no obligations to ever talk to one another about what they were doing. Also they got the janitor to write it and he'd been locked in the supply closet with ammonia fumes for too long. Holy fuck. Nothing made any goddamn sense, and on top of that they kind of forgot that you're supposed to be a couple at this point also? So no decent ichaicha as compensation either.

Christ. I keep trying to remember the good points of the whole vn but then this route's utter bugfuck insanity worms its way into my head instead. The proverbial dog turd in an otherwise delicious sandwich: yeah the sandwich is great but it's pretty fucking hard to ignore the turd in it. And that's the worst part, I think, and also why I'm so butthurt I'm writing this novel-sized review. It's that even in that clusterfuck there were still good parts, moments of fun and joy, but only just enough to remind me of what the rest of it was like instead of the cocktwaddle I'm being served.

God damn. That route almost ruined the whole thing for me. If anyone else reads this, which isn't necessarily a bad idea since it's still a pretty solid urban fantasy, stay the fuck away from Suzuran. I know she's a cutie but it's not worth it.

>>17543871
>>17543879
I really got to finish this last bit I remember they found a talking skelington.

>>17544127
Shit man that's like a third of the way in. Game's long.

there is a disturbing lack of eroge about road trips.

>>17545078
heard good things about 風雨来記

Lonely mashimaro poster I'll be your friend don't worry

jk loser

>>17545110
huh, neat. thanks for that.

>>>/vg/187469836

>>>/vg/187472643

>>17545169
I will never understand board wars

>>17545275
Psychological safety cushion for the mentally ill

>>17545275
I agree. 4chan should just be one big thread so everyone can discuss everything together.

So I guess nobody is playing anything here this month? I'm still kinda hoping someone is going to play that esperanto thingy and writes about it, so I can see if it's about as awful as I imagine. But maybe I have better chances on the yuri board for that..

>>17533856
Just read Noratoto. I don't think there's easier VN out there except hanahira that would bore you to death.

>>17545832

There are. Also, Noratoto is quite heavy on comedy and that's not a good idea.

It doesn't really matter too much, but if someone is actually asking for a really good work to start out with, something along the lines of Hanahira or Tsui Yuri are just great, as they are very easy, short and fully voiced (all characters). If you don't just want the SoL of Hanahira, Tsui Yuri has some yandere stuff as well and is actually good if you ask me.

>>17545804
It's a a backlog month.

>>17545804
Visual novels are dying.

>>17545804
I'm just waiting for Dies irae to finally come out.

>>17546462
Rairai is a cutie, even JC is trying to copy her.

>>17546462
>>17546512
>つってね
How would you translate this? Google is saying "stick it" but that sounds a bit too rough for someone like her to say. Maybe I'm just overthinking it.

>>17546563
Go to djt.

>>17546563
http://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/%E3%81%A4%E3%81%A3%E3%81%A6%E3%81%AD%21%21

noratoto eat your heart out

>>17546616
>poo
xD

Sakusaki route 1: Really shitty. Worst girl out of the way I suppose. Still, a whole lot of nothing in this. So instead of the heroine, have some Miu line from the route.

I could probably write a rant about why this was so shitty, but I'll spare you. I expected it to be the weakest route, so as long as it gets better now, whatever. But god was it retarded. If it had been at least only boring... but nope, they had to make it retarded on top of it.

Ero is looking good so far, at least in that aspect it should have no trouble beating Heart

http://products.web-giga.com/baldrbringer/special.html

>>17547002
As if I play Baldr for ero.

>>17547012

They need to change this, so the gatcha will be working out.

How are eroge games so large?
I mean sorry if the answer is obvious or something like they don't use compression.
However anyway I look at it.
Music loops and probably wouldn't be longer than 3 hours if put together unlooped. Which would be about 300mbs.
Most have like what 30cgs and a bunch of sprites. Say 80 pictures. Lets be generous and say thats 500MB.
Writing is about a few mbs.
So what's left?

I just don't see how these VNs go for a 3GBs or more. Some even go for 5GBs.
I mean I get if it's high resolution or if it has special effects but most medium sized VNs fall under 3GBs.
Am I just calculating the image or sound files size wrong?

Could someone please translate these? I tried in the drawing for google translate but the options weren't appearing.

>>17547151
Uniform
Bra
Skirt
Pantsu
Highsocks
Shoes
Evening

>>17547137

Usually images are saved without using anything special to abuse the fact that a lot of them are variations of others. As such a normal eroge has easily 500 images. (all the sprites, backgrounds and CG + variations)

Add to that low compression voices. Also they have 4gb space on the dvd. Why overcompress voices?

So the game I'm playing right now has 500mb backgrounds, 1gb event cg, 300mb sprites. Then you have all the videos (ops+eds) at 700mb, a ~1.4gb voices (usually 20-30 hours in full price games) and a good 300mb for music, sfx and whatnot. Seems to fit quite well.

>>17547160
>昼
>evening

>>17545804
I am waiting for 手垢塗れの堕天使 Crack.

>>17545804

>>17547401
This game is taking language communication themes to the next level, I didn't expect this from a yuri game.

>>17547401

The question is if the writer just didn't understand the difference between entertainment and a lecture book, or if it's actually something you can just read without giving a fuck about esperanto while if you somehow care, you could kinda learn the basics or whatever. And how atrocious the voice acting is.

>>17538638
I think it was brilliant for its time and deserves its meme status, but after zero escape its probably not worth spending the time on.

>>17541492
how does this play? it looks kinda like tetris?

>>17547002
Why. Why the hell does the next Baldr game have to have 11 character designers? It looks stupid.

>>17547401
>>17547479
Wait, is that some real language?
I thought esperando had latin alphabet.

>>17548251
It uses a different alphabet, but it's still esperanto.

rude but cute

Played through Kaseki no Uta. I vaguely remember seeing a cool looking MAD of it years ago in some random collection I downloaded, so when the game popped up while randomly shuffling through EGS and the premise seemed interesting enough, plus there were a handful of 埋もれている名作 tags I decided to give it a shot.

Pretty lukewarm last impressions. Lots of the game relies on plot convenient science bullshit, much of which is delivered as infodumps at the end of the true route and I've already played my share of both time loop and virtual reality games so that type of stuff doesn't really manage to make a lasting impact either. The doll training simulation parts in particular stand out like a sore thumb and their sub-plots don't really tie that well into the main story as only the interactions with the system itself are important. The "dolls aren't actually made to be sex toys" twist also kind of falls flat due to its obviousness but also due to the simulation characters being left away from the main plot. I felt that development time were maybe better directed more into fleshing out the real world itself, additional foreshadowing or something else. If I had to compare those parts to something vaguely similar I'd think of something like C's Ware Mikan's subplots, but worse and much more detached.

I decided to play pretty much without a walkthrough because I wanted to try out solving a mystery game by myself for once, and probably because I haven't learned from other eroge and I'm mad. Luckily it's only somewhat difficult and not something that requires moonman logic: you can make do by taking notes and the difficulty amounts to savescumming "which arbitrary room hands me a flag" vs. "which another arbitrary room ends the current day phase", plus it has a nifty system keeping track of flags and I must say I got some satisfaction when the last flag fucking finally clicked, but I couldn't really recommend the experience. I was first worried this game was going through the way of Mikan with very limited save slots considering the amount of decisions, but the game opens up new 10 slots after you've used the first 10 and so on.

General tone and characters wise the game is mostly "dark mystery rapey mansion with mean owners" and while I haven't played those type of games that much myself I'm presuming this game isn't making any great strides in that field either. While there's plenty of H-scenes, many of them are extremely short (some even only a few lines long) to the point I was actually surprised they went out of their way to draw CG for them, especially since the game is most definitely a plotge first. Overall maybe something you could appreciate more if you started playing eroge much earlier and hadn't already seen similar ideas in many other newer games already, but I'm thoroughly a spoiled modern eroge scrub and at least for me the game didn't manage to do much.

Also the game doesn't loop its BGM for some reason (though the music does start again if reloading a save), not sure if only a bug on my end. Which was kind of a shame because there were a handful of tracks I liked.

jesus christ Kazusa's true route is fucking brutal. I thought it couldn't get any worse after that last Takeya scene, but holy shit.

Why is she so cute.

>>17549186
Fuck, the feels really hit hard during that part. He literally had to destroy all of his relationships and give up everything for Kazusa.

>>17549289
He destroyed people, noit just relationships.

>>17549271
She feels more human than the average bitter and full of hatred, which makes for a strong gap moe.

Do the choices in Asairo do anything? It's enforced order and no bad ends, right?

>>17550542
An additional 'sex' scene in chapter 2.

>>17550542
I remember there's a handful of bad ends, but they're only a few lines long and happen immediately after making wrong choices so you'll instantly know where you fucked up. No need for walkthrough.

>>17548263
Whoa! That seems really cool. Thanks for recommendation.

I better not catch you stupid JOP fuckers talking about the #1 kamige of 2017 after it releases in English tomorrow. You hear me?

>>17551103
This isn't sakuta though.

>>17551103
As I still have to read VNs with texthooker I'm really tempted to try the english translation for smooth exprience. The one thing I fear is the translation will butcher the material. Please tell me not to do it.

>>17551132
Don't do it.

>>17551132
Subahibi is a once in a lifetime experience that you will never ever get anything like again. Better to fully relish in its maximum glory or you will regret it until the day you die.

>>17551169
>>17551174
Thanks anons. You gave me strenght to prevail.

>>17551187

But you could check out the english translation with your highly competent Japanese knowledge and then talk about the horrible translation quality. That's a nice thing as well!

>>17551193
After 6 years of translation they better have it right.

>>17551241
Translation went slowly so the 6 years don't reflect quality, just the lethargy of the translator. Frontwing isn't using the edits by the old group so that's irrelevant too. Time does not equate to effort whatsoever.

>>17551103
>#1 kamige of 2017 after it releases in English tomorrow
More like the #1 kamige of all time.
Subahibi will change some people lives, I know it because it happened to me.

>>17551103
WRONG

>>17551103
Didn't read this in Japanese, not gonna read it in English.
Lest I become a fanboy of fanboys.

>>17551666
To be honest I feel like this with many titles. All those games that are on every recommendation chart and have huge fanbases... They honestly turn me off a bit for some reason.

>>17551685
>for some reason
The reason is your hipster syndrome.

>>17551103
Joker by the great oyamada shin is the true kamige of kamiges

>>17551691
>not liking popular thing is called being a hipster.
I just don't like the cancerous fanboys in general. It could be the best VN ever made but the fan base will turn me off.

>>17551722
Yes anon, that is the definition of being a hipster. Hating something solely for being popular even though you have never experienced the actual thing yourself. Good chances those exact same "fanboys" already exist for all of your favorite things too, and no one forces you to interact with them in the first place. But I'm not really interested in doing convincing here, you're the one suffering a lower quality of life by cucking yourself out of potential enjoyment for petty reasons.

>>17547401
i messed

>>17551772
>hate
I feel you are proving my point.
At any point did I say I hate this VN? No, I've never played it. There's nothing wrong being a fan.
I hate the over top fanbases, where any deviation is considered treason. Normal fanbases you can expect differences of opinion, somebody can come up and call it shit or not like it and you respect that, sure you might feel a bit offended but it's nothing to cry over.
However for things that become immensely popular, any type of negative view is considered attacking the game itself. It essentially becomes giant cesspool where where everybody loves X and must attack all neutral and negative opitnions of X.
It's absolutely nauseating just thinking about it.
I avoid franchises like this so I don't end up like these people. Or if I do try I do end up liking them, but avoid the rabid fanbase in general.

>>17551824
The fact that you can't just fucking ignore fanbases is what makes you retarded. But it seems you're too stupid to get that into your head.

>>17551824
Okay, you don't sound like a hipster. More like someone with extreme social anxiety and insecurity that is afraid of being shunned for his opinions so you don't even try in the first place. Perhaps you even made bad memories in the past and are suffering some kind of trauma now. That's sad, but I hope you get over it. Though I want to mention again that you can consume media without talking to other people about it if it bothers you that much. No point in missing out on media that you might love for external, avoidable reasons.

>>17551860
>>17551867
You really are proving my point.
Fine let's say it's not your Subahibi but instead Nekopara, Let's say it gets talked to shit and every thread or discussion is just people wanting to fuck the cats. I come up and say I have nothing against this game but don't wanna play this game anymore because I worry I'll will achieve super fanboy mode and end up like you who treat it like the best thing ever made.
Then they get mad at me like you are now. To me you both are the same.
Even more I haven't insulted the game and am getting shit for just not wanting playing it, it's essentially you must stay quiet or love it like us. Sure my argument is that I don't want to play because of the fan-base and I agree normally that's stupid but then again I have to remind myself what I'm dealing with.
The fact you >>17551867 bothered typing all that up, makes me question this person's sanity. I mean seriously this is something I'd expect somebody to say when they 'really' hurt somebody and you'd have a carefully worded response.
Normally I'd say this is a well written insult, but this isn't the type of post you'd expect with somebody not wanting to play a fucking game. Rather this kind of mindset is really scary to say the least and says a lot about the individual in question.
I'm considering screencapping this to remind me of the type of borderline insanity of individuals this fanbase comprises of, not to say they're all bad, but just people like you go way overboard and are creepy.

>>17552026
I'm not mad at you because you don't want to play some stupid VN that I haven't even played myself, I'm mad at you because you're a fucking retard.

>>17552042
>I don't like visiting Tumblr because it's a hivemind and you can't voice an opinion, I also think some of the people are mentally insane when it comes to defending what they like. I don't hate all the content they talk about or the site itself just the fanbase.
>You're a fucking retard

Wow anon you sure got me...

>>17552026
is this pasta?
it is now ;)

>>17552026
You read some really weird things into posts. No one cares that you won't play a game. No one is giving you shit for an opinion. You were given advice so you can have more fun and less stress, yet your insecurity kicks in again and you feel like desperately defending yourself against... nothing. I don't mean this as an insult, I'm serious when I say you are suffering some severe psychological issues and you'd do well to talk to someone about it. I know you're a little on edge right now and will want to have the last word so I'll end it here, but good luck.

You should just play some eroge.

>>17548848
Have you ever pley "mugen kairou" ?
i felt somewhat similar atmosphere.

>>17552108
>You read some really weird things into posts. No one cares that you won't play a game.
>I don't want to play this because the fanbase is fucking cancer, and I worry I'll end up like them.
>You fucking hipster, i-it's not like I care.
You're so tsundere anon

>You were given advice so you can have more fun and less stress,
lol Insults and viciously defending the game count at as advice, huh? I also must of missed where you said I could have fun and stress less, maybe you forgot to type that, while you were 'not' giving me advice.

>yet your insecurity
You mean not wanting to be around crazy. Yeah I'm insecure

>I don't mean this as an insult, I'm serious when I say you are suffering some severe psychological issues and you'd do well to talk to someone about it.
Bravo, amazing work, in using using polite passive insults anon. You been practicing huh? I too agree it's a amazing way to finish off a post to tell somebody off while at the same time sucking your own dick at how smart you 'think' you are, yet achieving nothing.

>I know you're a little on edge right now and will want to have the last word so I'll end it here, but good luck.
Try not trip on your tail which you run, faggot.

In all honesty if you were the one that typed >>17551867 you need to get a life. It's a just a video game, defending it that much isn't good for anybody.

>>17552197
Just the fact that you've been writing out essays for hours now shows how retarded you are.
Retard.

>>17552206
Might also want go revise basic maths if you think it's been hours.
It's long because I'm quoting him, though, that should of been obvious, retard.

Also if you're talking about the other posts that simply me refuting my point of not wanting to be around the insane.

Just finished Shiho's first ending in Natsukuru and this game is amazing. I don't know why alot prefer Harukuru but the pacing, jokes, characters are much better in Natsukuru for me. This one also gives me a similar feel to Looseboy's Sharin no Kuni that I wanted so much.

Also Reika-Oneesan is love. I want her to step on me and call me trash.

>>17552365

She won't do that. She'll break your arms, legs and then forces you to shit on the piss you've already let out. After that she breaks your neck and leaves you to rot in your own crap.

>>17552365
The pacing is better but the climax isn't nearly as satisfying. After getting THAT conclusion in Harukuru you have certain expectations and imo Natsukuru doesn't deliver on them. Also it's kind of like reading the same story in a different shell and whatever you experience first feels more special. That said I still like it a lot.

On another note I don't know how to feel about Watanabes upcoming game. Really long LN tier title, simultaneous English release on Steam priced at $9,99, generic plot description... I miss Sumikko Soft.

>>17552410
I knew she is a crazy sadist but I still fucking love her, looking forward for more screen time of her. Even though this is a lolige but the best girl isn't a loli, I am sure Watanabe did this on purpose.

>>17535045
>But if GIGA wants to even come close to Sky they need the MC full voice again, not the partial shit they did with Heart. And who is going to design the MC?
I'm afraid it can be worse, i.e. unvoiced & faceless MC. All the infos they have given us so far give hint to that.

https://youtu.be/4v9t9Xaf4wk?t=786

>>17552444
>On another note I don't know how to feel about Watanabes upcoming game. Really long LN tier title, simultaneous English release on Steam priced at $9,99, generic plot description... I miss Sumikko Soft.

I am personally looking forward to this, Watanabe did a lot of research abot America and Americans culture while writing this, he even wrote a lot of stuff while asking questions on twitter. I am interested to see how a VN written by Japanese guy and aimed to the western market looks like.

>>17552444
>>17552496
>Watanabe's upcoming game
Wait what, when did this happen?

>>17552506
>In present day America, Kiri Hattori and Mary run a little Japanese café in the heart of a city suburb. During the day, these beautiful girls lead a shy life of cookies and tea, but during the night, they become hunters donned in ninja apparel. It just so happens that Kiri is descendant from ninja royalty, and Mary, well, she is a ghost. It seems that this world is not so normal upon a closer look. In this world, Dark Beings inhabit the night and threaten the life and safety of those who comes close to their wrath.
>On a peculiarly stormy night, the girls offer room and food to a mysterious little girl stranded in front of the café. As if this was not enough, the night unfolds more mysterious as the Headless Horseman strolls into town. While the 3 girls grow closer on each passing day, it seems that the mysterious little girl, Lily, brings more than just questions and confusion with her to the little café.
>https://vndb.org/v21435
He's been posting about it on twitter for almost a year now, anon.

>>17552506
I don't know when did they announce it but he has been working on it since the release of Akikuru
https://vndb.org/v21435

So I'm finally getting around to replaying Tsukihime untranslated, either I'm retarded or the fan terminology deviate massively from the original text, how the actual fuck did they come up with some of theses translations? some of them I suspect are a result of poor etymology.

>>17552518
>>17552530
Shit, I'm sorry. The rock I'm living under doesn't get twitter. Thanks though.

>>17552518

Is he ditching the male MC? If so, that at least explains why the western market. You can't exactly do that with eroge, unless you go Yuri, which is kinda restricting, and/or all-ages. Both being not exactly the hottest in Japan.
The typical 9.99 worries me though. That's another 5 hour game. I'm not really into those. If they'd at least do 10-15 hour games, like the JP mid-price games, I'd be much more happy with these "western aimed VNs". That'd be a pretty nice length.

>>17552444
>I miss Sumikko Soft
Wait, what happened to Sumikko Soft? Please don't tell me they went bankrupt.

>>17552544
wasn't the translator like 16 at the time and could barely into English?

>>17552600
No clue, but it seems like the entire community has gravitated towards the terminology Mirror Moon invented and defend it religiously, plus It completely alters the aesthetic of the Nasuverse and adds a level of complexity that wasn't intended.

>>17552600

You are confusing that with the original writer and Japanese.

>>17552630
I'm curious as to what other classics have been butchered, I wonder if it's worth going back to read some now that I can compare both. I remember hearing Kira Kira got absolutely gutted out of its relatively good prose or something?

>>17552634
dohoho

>>17552660
>I remember hearing Kira Kira got absolutely gutted out of its relatively good prose or something?
Yes, Setoguchi is good. Same thing for his Swan Song. Sharin no Kuni also has a notoriously bad translation, the game is only known for zeee tweests in the Western community but the actual writing is very solid. Can't forget Crescendo too. Really most TLs are quite bad, especially older ones.

>>17552634
Fate/Strange Fake has been the only Type Moon product with passable prose, even Nasu has acknowledges the dreadfulness of Kara no Kyokai.

Why are you guys pirating eroge? Don't you feel bad?
Collecting them is fun too!

How do you feel about SCA-JI confirming Apeiria is kamige?

>>17552955

Drugs are bad.

>>17552955
Makes kusoge, has kusotaste.
Things are as things should be.

>>17552856
I will buy them when I finally get a wage I can live off.
Just 10 more years.

>>17552955
I'm just suprised how after writing Nanairo Reincarnation and its successor Silky have come with shit like Apeira.

>>17552856
But I buy the games made by companies I like.
I'd perhaps buy more but too many companies use gaijin blocks and DRM for me to want to buy their stuff.

>>17552856
Don't have a salary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG62aHI-43I

Damn, anyone try this here? It seems to work pretty well.

>>17553764
does it run on 3.60?

>>17554373
Ushio is very l-l-lewd when she switches gears.

>>17555045
>tfw no option for 孕ませるin ushio route

>>17555045
>おにーちゃん
Dropped.

>>17555045
>おにーちゃん
Picked up.

>>17555045
They wasted too many of Ushio's H scenes on weird angles. Is it too much to ask for loli onee-chan cowgirl?!?

>>17555317
I'd insert man of culture pic here but on mobile atm. Got so hard from the gap moe when she said it.
>>17555139
Missed opportunity here.

>>17555139
>>17555045
>>17554373
lonely mashimaro poster :(((((

>>17552479
I doubt he will be faceless, maybe at first (when he is mech) but his human form should have specific facial features. Voice who knows, would be neat if they deliver full voice MC again but there are 11 heroines that require full voice as well...wonder how big the install size will be.

And the CG count too, around 15-20 unique event images per girl would be acceptable imo.

>>17555139
Don't smol girls die if they get impregnated?
Or have all sorts of issues?

>>17555673
Have you seen the earliest births wiki page? Having a child young is not a problem in this day and age, at least medically. Ushio is petite, sure, but her body's old enough.

>>17555139
Preggo loli rarely even looks good imo. Even a company like Tanukisoft can't even get it right. And of course, most games that do feature pregnancy only show the super obvious 9month huge belly, instead of say a progression, showing it at 3mo, then 6, then 9. I remember playing an Emote nukige a few months ago that had something like 4-5 different pregnancy sprites for the main heroine.

But it has become more common over time though, so there's that at least.

>>17555735
Mind sharing the name of that nukige if you remember it?

How do you guys have so much time to read so much shit. I'm glad when I can finish one per month

>>17555751
Done with college and can't find a job.

>>17555739
I'm fairly sure it is one of the いつまでも息子のままじゃいられない series, probably #3. I remember it especially because it had all the pregnancy options available in the sprite viewer those games come with. There's a small chance it might be some other nukige like Mama-haha, but I'm fairly sure that didn't use Emote.

>>17555763
It especially pained me to play Tanukisoft's latest title, Onii-chan daisuki! Despite using Emote it was used quite poorly in game, and the sprite viewer was downright barren compared to what your typical Emote using nukige offers. Frankly, I was disappointed except for the seiyuu work.

>>17555801
At this point the only company I've seen use Emote worth a damn is Hibiki Works in their Cation titles. They should write a guide or something for using it.

>>17555816
It's probably because they actually do poses and movement that isn't just fumbling around mostly.
Makes me miss animated sprites.

>>17555393
Why do you post emoticons?
Do you not find it cringey, or are you just posting from mobile?

I'm not sure anymore if this is some game about an astroid going to crash on earth in a world where semi-immortality is a thing, or just a major eroge meta discussion. And I'm not sure I even care anymore. Miu's voice-acting is also a little too good, it starts to feel unfair for the other girls.
Unfortunately I got sick, so I'm not playing this for a while. It's too fun to read with a hurting head and all.

Finished my second route of Hatsukoi. I must say it pleasantly surprised me. I was a little discouraged when I got a little taste of where they were going with the story, but I must say it turned out to be better than I anticipated. Where this game truly shines is its characters. I really like every character in the main group, and I really enjoy the dynamic between them. Additionally, even though it might look a little dated, I feel the art in this game possesses a sort of charm to it that isn't present in Nonohara Miki's more recent works (Tanuki Soft). That isn't to say the art in those works are bad. I actually think they're very well done, but there's just something about the art in Hatsukoi that I really like.

Now I'm faced with a really tough decision. For the remaining routes I have a heroine that I know virtually nothing about (she appears once or twice in the common route and zero times in the routes I've played so far), a heroine that is decent, and a heroine that I really really like. I know it'd be optimal for me to save the best for last, but I'm not sure if I can wait any more. Hopefully I can still work up the motivation to do the other girls' routes after I do my favorite heroine's.

>draw a girl
>give her feminine curves and bumps in all the right places
>call it a boy
will this plague ever cease?

>>17555906
ricotte is way better desu

>>17555906
I read that so long ago I barely remember it, but I do remember liking it quite a bit. I appreciated what they did with the sister route in particular.

>>17556058
Have you played both? I was definitely heavily considering picking that up after I finished this. Was there anything you specifically liked about it?

>>17556060
Yeah she's the one I really like so I'm fighting my urge to do her route now because I know I should save her for last.

>>17556068
ricotte is cute, structure is cool (you pick a path at the start), largos scenario is very good

http://fate-extella-link.jp/

I have wasted so much time on this bullshit, it's glorious.

>>17556200
Take a rest

>>17556220
Not until I write a bestseller. But the cat keeps harshing my buzz.

>>17556220
Just googled this game and it looks good. Is it actually fun?
Looks like a better version of Madou Koukaku's gameplay (SLG+RTS).

>>17556279
i like this game which has many historical parody.
what's more it's free game.

https://www38.atwiki.jp/illuminate/

Anyone know a VN like noratoto, but without terrible drama?
I really liked the common route, but couldn't stand the rest.

>>17556616
Asa Project games.

>>17556623
Are you trolling?
Asa Project routes are below garbage

I've played the ML trilogy/chronicles, and watched the kiminozo anime like 12 years ago (All I remember was TRUCK and it was my first 鬱アニメ).

Is the Kiminozo VN still worth reading at this point? I've heard it's basically muvluv sans mechs and everyone dying, but I mostly remember Akane being angry at Takayuki and Takayuki + Mitsuki being depressed together, which doesn't really match that image all that much. (Then again, it was 12 damn years ago and I was 14)

>White Album has an amazingly real story about shitty people messing up each others' lives. Man, what a wonderful thing to witness.
Would you say this is a fair assessment of the WA games' plot?

>>17557236
>it's basically muvluv sans mechs and everyone dying
Lies. It's mostly serious relationship drama and covers most of the main part of the game(after the car crash). It's definitely better than the anime since it has more scenes, more details on the scenes themselves, better characterization (Takayuki's mindset is much more understandable there and he has his own moments, like when he gets seriously mad at Ayu when she calls Haruka's old story book a junk, but won't make him more bearable if you hate hetare protagonist in the first place, he will only get better on the after story after the big drama is settled down), and much more content like side character's routes, afterstory to the 3 main heroine's routes (Haruka, Mitsuki, Akane), and the IF scenario where the car crash never happened or potentially where Takayuki rejects Haruka's confession early in the game. It's definitely an improvement to the anime.

Is it worth reading though? It depends if you can tolerate seeing RUGP errors every 30 minutes or so and saving often just in case of error (especially when you're using skip fuction, it will crash often when skipping). If you can endure that, yes, I recommend reading it if you like realistic relationship drama with no magic bullshit whatsoever and able to tolerate the MC's indecisiveness for hours.

>>17557819
>crash

Reminds me of when I installed Owarinaki and just tried to run it once to see if it works. The next time I started it it said something about some fatal error and it would like to turn everything (sound, music...) off so I can check what's wrong... or something. I don't even know.
Their engine is.. something.

>>17557744
Kazusa was an absolulte trainwreck, but on a superficial level, both Haruki and Setsuna were relaly nice people.

>>17556110
Is largo one of the heroines? And hmm I'm not sure how much I would like picking a path at the beginning. One of the things I really like about Hatsukoi is the sheer number of choices and how not many of them are obvious when it comes to what route they'll send you towards.

The blind girl looks cute though. I hope her route is good if she has one.

>>17557925
yeah Kazusa was probably the second most fucked up heroine in the entire game, after Chiaki of course. though I can't really agree about Haruki and Setsuna being really nice people. Tbh, I can forgive a lot of Haruki's actions because I can imagine anyone else spilling their spaghetti when their flanked by two hotties like Setsuna and Kazusa, but i still think the dude is pretty fucked. just look at how he acted in Chiaki's route or Kazusa normal. though you could chalk that up to depression or because of his circumstances which were all caused by Kazusa so whatever.

Setsuna is pretty weird, it's hard to have an opinion on her since i can't really tell what she was ever thinking. I like how they pretty much show that she's such a good actor that even Chiaki can't understand her, i found that whole part of chiaki's route pretty hilarious.

>>17552544
>poor etymology
I've noticed this, for instance 徒 is translated Apostle, It seems like the translator is projecting Christian themes found elsewhere onto non-related terms, a more accurate translation would simply be ordinary/common or perhaps normal.

Kanon route was surprisingly good. Feels more like a true route compared to Ushio and Rairai with a lot more story (and some drama), background on the MC and jii-san as well. It also ties in strongly with family theme and title of the game with more focus on Marshmallow Tree. Overall quite enjoyable and heartwarming route.

Did Marble Candy Soft die? Haven't seen anything about them in awhile, but maybe I'm not looking in the right place.

>>17558647
Sorry but your lack of familiarity with Japanese is showing. 死徒 is a pun on 使徒, both being read as しと. With all due respect - that meaning, I'm not trying to be a dick here - you should definitely spend a lot more time with Japanese before criticizing other people's translations. There's no shame in being bad at Japanese, but at least give it a pretty solid 4-5 years of studying or some such before you start treating yourself as an authority.

>>17560529
I sincerely hope not. Tsuushinbo is pure art.

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>>17560776

12 = a dozen
24 = 2 dozen
256 = 2^8
what is 8096 ?