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Do you guys actually read vns?

>>18683335
Yes.

>>18683335
No

>>18683020
What does Kisaku mean demon maker?

>>18681653
Mei was the only entertaining character in the main cast. I love her smug

>>18683335
Maybe.

did silkys plus give up on this series due to poor sales? I haven't kept up with vns for two years so i assumed another game would have been out by now.

Who are your favorite imoutos of all time? The very greatest you've enjoyed.

My favorites.

Fuuka
https://vndb.org/c12096

Kirino
https://vndb.org/c34480

Anzu
https://vndb.org/c6410

Yaya
https://vndb.org/c18851

Yuu
https://vndb.org/c3214

>>18685097
Fujimori Yuu

>>18685097
Ruili from Kikokugai
Nelly from Fata Morgana.
Then we descend into full nukige territory.

>>18685097
Don't like most of the ones who are heroines. So it's a little different.

https://vndb.org/c2848

https://vndb.org/c23429

https://vndb.org/c52251

https://vndb.org/c38093

From yandere over psychological nutjobs and generally characters where the whole "imouto" thing isn't just ignored or waved away after 2 minutes of drama.

>>18685097
This weirdo
https://vndb.org/c10714

>>18685097
https://vndb.org/c63833

https://vndb.org/c35739

https://vndb.org/c8524

https://vndb.org/c7241

>>18685097
https://vndb.org/c15099

>>18685097

I got distracted for a while but time to finish Kurayami 2 - though it's so obscure I don't think it's going to spark any discussion.

Chizuru Route
Man, this one doesn't quite work I think.

There's like 2 main elements to this route
1) Chizuru gives you a PDA on a previous birthday and for most of the route, you communicate through it because you were on different components of the train when it crashes.

Makes things feel a bit impersonal to interact with the heroine in this manner. Also there's an extremely dumb plot point where Chizuru may or may not be alive when you get to her, so she somehow managed to program several messages to be automatically sent when several keywords are detected. An amazing amount of suspension of disbelief is needed to accept that considering her replies are very on the point.

2) Some kind of a music theme where the MC wants to become a conductor but he's also going deaf so it makes him emo. It has a really dumb resolution the doctors mixed him up with another patient with the same name - he's an old man, so of course his hearing is going, but the MC's loss of hearing from a cold will eventually clear up. Making this sillier, the information is delivered to the player... by the MC, so I guess he felt like being a whiny bitch for no reason.

Kirei Route
The nukige route? I think it's the only one where the train doesn't crash.

Kirei has sex with random men on the train because she's really existentialist and needs the novelty and stimulation. She has several monologues on the subject. I think there was supposed to be some kind of development from just being sex friends to love because the route is named "True Romance" but meh, it doesn't work.

It does have some cool meta surreal parts - this route diverges into 2 different MC early on with an innocuous choice between picking up a newspaper or sunglasses and when you get the Good Ending for either, the other section will have the other MC show up and comment on it.

Heroine Rating
Akane > Mamiko > Nomu > Kirei = Chizuru

Final thoughts upcoming

>>18685097
dunno about imoutos but this is the greatest ane

>>18686912
Thank you for whoever helped me find the game since I wanted to play it ever since the original PC-98 game.

Well, the original has a much better atmosphere with its PC-98 aesthetics while this one is honestly kinda awkward, I suppose. I also think the scenario is a downgrade since being trapped in an elevator is more tense than a subway though I guess that's just a matter of taste.

I really like the music in this VN - it doesn't feel very professional or high quality but I do think it really makes the mood for it.

This game had a lot of trouble on modern OS involving the colors - every graphical effect that it tries just turns into a mess. Also I heard there was an uninstall bug of some sort that had to be patched but the company is defunct - thankfully, the Internet Archive does seem to have it.

One thing I felt underutilized was that in Akane's route, several of the other heroines appear as unrelated minor characters - this element is basically never utilized in any of the other scenarios outside of a very minor Mamiko speaking cameo in Kirei's route.

So I have to ask - is there any other VNs that have a similar style but perhaps executed better? Basically, unrelated short stories with a twinge of surrealism to them? Let me know if there is.

>>18686967
https://vndb.org/v5715

>>18685097
Nanami from Chaos;Head

>>18686967
Shit, someone actually played something I uploaded. I always open for more requests.

will there EVER be a new eushully game

>>18684111
he explains himself in the job interview that hes a とってもきさくな鬼作

>>18688443
>will there EVER be a new eushully game
We got Amayui last year though?

Personally I'd rather Eushully take their time and make decent games over those card battle shovelware they pushed out every year after Kamidori.

Sorry for being a faggot and stuff, but what is the best place to get VNs?
Or is nyaa the only good option out there?
Hell, tell me where can I buy them otherwise.

I can't for the life of me find Kamidori or sengoku rance untranslated anywhere.

>>18685097
Chika, perhaps.
https://vndb.org/c29872

>>18690574
old nyaa was so much better than the newer ones

RIP

>>18690574
I've had success getting my eroge from anime sharing

Kamidori:
http://www.anime-sharing.com/forum/hentai-games-38/japanese-%5B110422%5D%5Beushully%5D-%E7%A5%9E%E6%8E%A1%E3%82%8A%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B1%E3%83%9F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC-600988/

>>18690574
animebytes nibba
signups are open just say you'll permaseed and don't half ass your answers and you'll get in

What should i read after hanahira?
With simple grammar but at least more interesting

>>18692344
Ask djt

>>18692344
ask djt

>>18692344
Check out stuff written by Mareni.

>>18692344
Try this https://vndb.org/v7230

Playing through strawberrynauts currently, its kind of boring so far but mikamo is an angel and a cutie so ill probably do her route then call it quits.

Well, Dengeki Hime is closing, might as well take this chance to ask you guys for sites you use for news and stuff.

Playing Dungeon Crusaderz 2 recently. I was at first a little surprised that it wasn't received that well, though I guess the story is incredibly standard and the characters not exactly the best either. But the gameplay wasn't bad at all. You didn't even need to do the common "let's grind a few levels or else you can forgot to start exploring the first dungeon". And it throws medicine at you, like there's no tomorrow, so chip damage isn't much of a problem either even if you don't want to use healing magic for that. Well, unfortunately I can see the issues now.

Somewhere early on I decided to ditch the priestess and took Regina into my party, who you have as reserve from the beginning. Regina can't heal nearly as much, but she's fast. Figured that'd be nice, which it really is. You need her. YOU NEED HER. She gets random encounter reduction. Only she does. And that skill is SO important once the game gets all like "well, you went through the wrong hidden wall my friend, start from the beginning". Near the end of the dungeon. Her random encounter skill can be used to laugh at the game when this happens, as it can be used to have no random encounters at all once you figure out the mechanics behind it. Forced tile encounters still remain, but they are mostly "guarding" treasures. I'd assume, your enjoyment with the game is way higher if you have her.

Now, the skill system is old school and mean. (pic related) You see what skills you need to open up "something new". What it is and how high level the previous skill needs to be is something the game doesn't tell you. So if you want to know a little bit about what a character can learn, you need to save skillpoints and experiment, or get a guide. SP are one per level, with plenty of requirements needing way more than 10 skillpoints spent on previous skills. Take droprate increase on the pic. Need 5 in exp+ and 8 in encounter reduction. How much does a skill level increase do? Who knows. It's awful in some cases, pretty good in others and not really something you'll ever know in cases like this droprate increase.
This does make things fun in some way, as it feels rewarding to do your builds. But you can fuck up stuff beyond repair as well. And you may never even know about things like encounter reduction.

This can already be mean enough, but chapter 2 had the great idea to force 2 of your characters repeatedly into 2 vs 2 battles. You can't even choose which two. Didn't use them? Have fun grinding. Build them up in a way you can't 2 vs 2? Cheat engine or you are done. It's bad. Like BAD. It's a fun system, but you use 5 characters normally. Building a knight to protect the other 4 to deal with the enemies isn't weird. In a 2 vs 2 situation, all the party skills are pointless. No squishis to protect. No damage.


It's really fun, if you want a dungeon crawler VN eroge hybrid. But sometimes the devs just didn't think at all. And if that happens, it's on a level it really hurts. It's really unfortunate, because the game does a lot right. I have more fun playing this than for example Gears of Dragoon 2 with its not at all existing balance (either randoms too easy or bosses impossible no matter how you tinker with the difficulty, something even its wiki warns you of). But sometimes, they just really fucked up hard. Once you are past that, it's fine again. But god damn it.

>>18690574
Plebs that only read entry level shit use nyaa and animebytes. True eroge connoisseurs seek the rarest titles from clubbox and Japanese P2P

I was expecting a mystery novel when it suddenly got all chuuni at the end of the prologue. Might as well as ride this VN all the way to the end.

>>18694792
Good luck.

>>18694792
I wish 'guy coming back to hometown' would get as insane in the end as ashita deatta shoujo.
They just never do.

Seems like both etatoto and Untei are not that well received so far for this month. Please save us ASa Project

>>18694132
>either randoms too easy or bosses impossible no matter how you tinker with the difficulty
GoD 2 was really bullshit with this, but I still kinda liked it and I've been thinking about checking out the rest of the series like Enbou no Felsis or Kikaijikake no Eve.

>>18695897
Untei is pretty fun, but it feels very rushed and unpolished.

>>18695897
Shigeta will hopefully save eroge with Paradise Ocean. Biggest worry is whether the mini-games end up being fun or just gimmicky shit, but supposedly they should take little time from the story parts and the guy responsible for Twinkle Crusaders PSS seems to also be in charge for this one's gameplay as well. Regardless it's a bit weird they went for nine rather than one polished game system. Fingers crossed.

Also I really shouldn't have dived into the game's website because it mentions some sort of a grand end aside from the harem and heroine ends, though I quit the page without reading further right after seeing the words. I should probably just stop browsing unreleased games' websites altogether. Not that things getting varying amounts of serious later on is a new gimmick for the writer or anything, but I still think these things are better experienced firsthand.

>>18696292
I can't handle the art in Paradise Ocean. Maybe it will grow on me.

Are there any lolige where the MC actually loves the heroine you choose instead of just using them as a glorified fuck toy? I was just playing Lowすぺっく and the MC is such trash to the girls, doesn't actually care about them much less love them. In normal nukige I don't care but it's always pretty disturbing to me how most MCs in these games are extremely predatory and take advantage of the girls constantly, almost like 3D pedophiles. No heart or love involved. It's fucked up.

>>18696784
Himawari

>>18696784
Any from the Lolita series by porori.

>>18696060
I'll probably do so as well. They are supposedly a little better with the story as well. Not like that's super important if they gameplay is fine.

>>18696784
Oniichan daisuki is pretty much pure love from what I've seen so far.

>>18696292
The grand end is being written by the guy who did もののあはれは彩の頃. I didn't read it so I don't know if it's any good but since Shigeta is the director for PO, I still have hope that it will turn into something cool.

>>18696784
https://vndb.org/v7635 and the sequel

>>18696784
Itazurakko hits a pretty nice niche if you got a thing for twins, incest and pure love, but production values wise it feels like a budget 3D game with constant loading times mid-scene and shoddy optimization despite the low number of H-scenes (in the good route at least) not justifying 3D in the slightest, as the vast majority of time is spent reading it like a regular VN. Though I played it with a toaster back then and don't know how a modern rig will run it. As far as I recall the H-scenes in the story had preset positions that couldn't be changed either like you'd normally expect. Also no 3P with both twins for some reason.

I went in with zero expectations for a quick fap but stayed for the cute. Also the girls' teacher also supposedly has a route as well, but I didn't bother it with or the evil route.
http://www.itazura.biz/01_it-pro/pro04/main_cha02.html

シルヴァリオ ヴェンデッタ or 虚空のバロック?

>>18699932
They both seem to suffer from the "garbage first few routes, cool last route". The Silverio games are quite a bit better received.

>>18700182
I enjoyed most of Trinity's routes side routes, and the final battle in Vendetta's Chizuru had a pretty great climax.

Going to be living in Japan soon. I have a mac, and I'm can't afford to buy a new computer soon. Would it be possible for me to say, buy an eroge off Dlsite, install and play it at an internet cafe?

>>18701694
Shouldn't you be worrying about other things right now, besides finding a sustainable way to play porn games

>>18701738
I wouldn't ask for help with that other stuff here, now would I?

Does anyone really hate how there has to be romance in games that have literally nothing else to do with it? Like, I don't want to read about the protag and a girl stumbling over their first kiss in a game about hard sci-fi.It's one of my biggest complaints about eroge and it kind of kills my mood to read on when such a scene is juxtaposed right after a bunch of interesting plot developments.

>>18701694
Just use a VM.

>>18701790
That's what the eroge medium is at its core and what sustains it financially unfortunately. Things without that exist but are the exception, more commonly found in the doujin scene.

>>18701694
When I went to an internet cafe it actually had a bunch of eroge available on it already, alongside the AVs and stuff. So yeah that's possible, although I'm pretty sure it's more expensive in the long run than just buying a cheap laptop/tablet.

>>18701790
>>18702423
galge will always feature cute heroines in leading roles, which will always limit the means of the format to produce a genuinely "serious" work. those that attempt to do one despite this limitation will always create ridiculous stuff only mentally stunted manchildren could take to heart (you know who you are)

>>18702837
You sound insecure.

Don't you just love it when the writer shoves their views down your throat?

>>18702952
He's not wrong though

>>18701827
I can't wait. The new heroine is just an extra.

>can't cum to H scene
NO MY VANILLA PHASE CAN'T BE OVER YET

The fabled nude Noah

>>18705385
Embrace the new.

I see people talking about a translation of Kusarihime but I just can't find it. Does it exist?(Sorry to request but wsr didn't help.)

>>18705881
I'm actually translating it as we speak. It won't be finished for a while, though.

>>18705903
Oh goodness, you deserve a medal

A little follow-up on Dungeon Crusaderz 2. It gets even worse.

At the end of chapter 3 it takes away characters and gives you random characters without asking you. Never used them? Have fun with sudden lvl1. It even forces a new lvl1 character into your party in the middle of a dungeon, when high level character are actually around. They just get automatically kicked out of the battle party and you can't change that. Trading a lvl50 for a lvl1 seems like a good idea for this dev.

I have no idea what they were smoking when they designed some of these things. Did some math on some skill learning and realized how you can't even have all skills on a character, not like you'd ever want to grind to 99. Coupled with the really blind progression in the tree and many skills being utterly useless (i.e. any negative status stuff, as bosses are immune anyway), it's quite annoying. You can literally build a character for 40 levels just to realize that this isn't actually good, because the skill in question sucks ass. Requirements also sometimes force you to level awful skills way too much. Starting mage attacker needs to level her reflect skill to 10 to get MP regen. That skill does nothing. Yeah, sure MP regen is decent if you wanna be lazy, but that's it. And reflect? Mage doesn't take magic damage anyway, it only works for her. Just the turn it's used on. And obviously won't damage enemy mages either, because they are fucking mages too! Just no.


Honestly. I'd call the game near unplayable without cheat engine. Near the end the game just does way too dumb things, though you can beat it if you love to grind unholy amounts because of awful game design and perhaps just starting fresh because you "messed up" too many builds (=the part of the skill-tree you focused on turned out horrible without you being able to know). I'm just done though. Messed around a little more with cheat engine for some testing, and some things are just beyond OP, while others beyond useless. It's.. awkward. My favorite part however was when my speedy lvl99 character didn't act first in a part full of lvl1's and one lvl14. She only had at least 10 times the speed of everyone else. It nicely sums up this game though.
The game can be really fun, but some design decisions are so bad, they really ruin things. And you won't see any until at least 10-ish hours in with things getting really bad close to the 30 hour mark.

Damn, I remember the anon(s?) talking about all the typos and stuff, but I haven't really encountered any until today. This is at least the 5th or 6th one I've seen in a few hours of reading, and it's starting to get on my nerves, even though it's really no big deal, but still. (I'm on the latest version but it seems like they didn't fix this.)

>>18705881
If you want to read a better Liar/Rail title, someone is currently translating Albatross Koukairoku into brazilian portuguese

I am playing 少女グラフィティ and the OST is fucking amazing, it's bean a while since I stopped clicking just to listen to the BGM.

I loved Golden Hour OST too, these guys have talent.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qUCNMtXirLY

>>18707393
Talking about amazing soundtracks, I personally really love 信天翁航海録 OST, its so different from all the usual stuff you hear in VNs.

>sprite was bought out by a soshage company

amayui and bunny black made it on the MG survey top 20

>>18709640
fuck, source?

>>18709815
Their official website
https://fairys.tv/information/2018/03/28/id-166/

It's not clear yet what this will mean for sprite though, but since there have been no news about Zwei for two years it's safe to assume they've been having internal issues for a while. We'll have to see.

Who is hype for pic related?

>>18711489
Are those nipples I see?

>>18711489
Mods!

>>18711489
Poor anon probably didn't even notice when he posted.

>>18709640
Looks like they just pivoted to soshage. The company that bought them was founded on October of last year and hasn't released anything yet. Wouldn't surprise me if this company was created by them. They did it before when they spun off fairys from Selen/sprite and then bought sprite.

There was already an Aokana gacha game on DMM which was moderately successful before they suddenly jewed the hell out of it.

It begins. GIGA is now whoring out the Baldr Force and Sky heroines.
https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/979261962151276544

>>18712268
And that's two spoilers for Force right on the banner.

Seeing people train ranging without an undead chicken backpack pains my autism

>>18712268
Okay I'm playing it right now.
Force: Bachelor and Ren
Sky: Sora and Rain
Heart: Tsukuyomi and Nagi

The force heroines are free event units while the Sky and Heart are paid gacha units.

Also, I just looked at Bachelor's h-scene and she gets dicked by the Goddess Kiss MC. Based on the collab story it seems to be a parallel world where none of the Baldr MC exists so the Sky and Heart heroines will probably get dicked by the Goddess Kiss MC too. I guess GIGA doesn't give a fuck about the series anymore.

>>18709056
too bad you're absolutely sick of it by the time you finish the game because it repeats so often and is so short.

The start screen bgm which is pretty cool is also barely played in the actual game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWdTEw7Shog

>>18713193
>all-ages
Pass

>>18713212
No one cares about what you do.

>>18713193
Looks great, can't wait to play it.

>>18712432
I can't think of too many DMM kusoge collabs where the respective protagonists exist except for those with other DMM kusoge.
I remember laughing at one autist on EGS sperging out about some DMM kusoge collab with one of Hulotte's titles even.

>>18714983
It's all just self-insert silliness. And as far as I know, you yourself will always be you. No matter what "avatar" you use. Baldr went there some time ago, even if you'd argue that the older games may not have worked like that yet. Was one of the bigger complaints about Heart as far as I remember: It pandering too much to modern otaku self insert needs. The one afterwards doesn't even try to hide this anymore. So having the heroines in random gacha games where you can get lewd scenes with them would be a logical next step I guess.
Of course, if this actually makes the kind of otaku mad that they try to pander to, that'd be funny.

>>18713193
Meh

少女グラフィティ is a godtier nukige.
The H-scene and CG are so damn erotic, you will fap to every scene. the main heroine is absolutely fantastic as usual from More. the writing isn't that good but it's a modern mystery-youth setting and engaging enough. The other heroines are cute and one of them is fucking voiced by Ogura Yui.
The BGM is also the best I heared in years.

This was certainly worth the wait. I really want to support the makers, so I'll order it.

>>18716399
I'm past the stage where I was able to fap to vanilla, but glad to see you so enthusiastic about your masturbation!

>>18716399
I can't fap if the writing or situation isn't good enough. I'm being unironic.

>>18716624
There is a scene where you do it standing from back in alley, and she ask the MC if at the end if her pussy was better than his dead girlfriend, and she won't let him do it again with her if he didn't answer her. All just to prove that the MC is a trash.

>>18714983
Yes but their h-scenes tend to be flashbacks with their respective eroge MCs. At least that's how it is with the X-Overd x Hello Lady collab and the Girls Cross Chronicle collab gachage.

That Hullote x Dragon Providence collab is the only example I can remember where the Gacha MC actually fucks the eroge collab heroine. I mean, not even Alicesoft is okay with their heroines getting fucked by random gachage MCs. The recent Rance10 x Aigis collab, for example, only goes as far as Sill getting tentacle raped. Even collabs between two gachage on DMM tend to be completely vanilla, they don't fuck each other heroines. The only exception was Red Corruption which ended up being infamous due to it and that game is dead already.

So yeah, it's pretty surprising Giga okay'd this shit. If its Noi, Shizel, or Chinatsu I can understand, they're sluts in the first place. But the one getting fucked is Sora and Rain, the main heroines of Sky. Well it's a 10 year old game so they probably don't give a shit anymore.

I wonder if Baldr Heart heroines will get the same treatment. That game was pretty recent.

Another fan disk for 見上げてごらん.

lewd

>>18718232

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqGuPxegAeg

Seems good enough. I guess I'll grab the Steam version when it comes out.

>>18718239
What's wrong with her chest?

(onii chan daisuki)
if eroge are for entertainment and wish-fulfillment, then why does this protag start thinking about whether making a baby is alright after already proposing suddenly on the same day? Nevertheless, some choices in eroge make me wish that I could see how many people chose each on their first run. Has any game ever released such a statistic?

>>18718530
One tit being way bigger than the other is a serious problem. Don't discriminate. There's a reason she doesn't wanna go further than holding hands.

>>18718407
so what is this series about? can you just play this one without knowledge of the previous ones?

>>18718944
It has recurring characters from previous games but you definitely can start this one (MO8) without playing previous games. Basically it's a very old romance series with every game is remotely related in some way. Not sure about other people but I personally like how they pull drama in this series and find the characters likable.

https://sukebei.nyaa.si/view/2461354
>[180330] [ゆずソフト] RIDDLE JOKER/リドルジョーカー

>>18719440
Thanks for making me check and see butterfly seeker was out.

>>18719440
100% save when?

>>18719972
Obviously out already. Not like it takes long to clear.

Uh oh, sounds like a bad idea. I should say no. Fancy shops are just for little girls, there's no way a guy would ever want to manage one

>>18720061
Oh shit, she's on to me!

>>18720082
cute!

Wow, lot of loli in this thread

>>18719440
Yuzusoft sure is popular. Between both torrents that are out on nyaa, there's already over 6000 people downloading it and probably some more who have finished already.

I've just finished Riddle Joker. Quite bold for Yuzusoft, honestly, didn't expect that h-scene in the end where the imouto character gets gangbanged in front of the protag by a gang of thugs while some dude beats your crotch repeatedly with a crowbar. It kind of came out of nowhere, but I'm glad that they're taking a new direction with their games at least.

>>18720835
It's all legal!

>>18720871
>and probably some more who have finished already
Going by previous games, probably not. They're close to 3mb in size. Some hikkis might have already finished a route though.

>>18720934
I think he means that some people have finished the download already. I went for the base game torrent myself and the download finished pretty quickly.

>>18720934
Given the context, he probably means that some finished the DL and don't seed anymore.

>>18720917
I also like talking about things that never happened.

>>18720971
>>18720972
This. Base game torrent finished very fast for me as well. Still getting the Girlcelly one for extras and it still hasn't finished. Almost reaching 10k peers total now.

>>18720924
No complaints from me

>>18720286
Is she legal?

riddle joker stuck at 98%, anyone else?

>>18722305
nope

Finished the Nitta route in Satsukoi.

Well, I really liked that the dad story was more fleshed out, than in the Nao route. It felt like an actual integral part of the story now.

With that said, I find the ending itself quite lukewarm. It just feels really weird to have an intense fight that the whole route is leading up to, only for it to end with the mom running away. I understand that Ruri didn't wanna eat our MC at first, since even the first and only time she ate someone, she had to do all that blame-shifting on the mom so that she wouldn't go mad. She said that her goal is to make the species extinct. Now, if onii-san had been a bit smarter, and less strictly sticking to his promise to Yuu, he should've just let her eat him when she was in her red-eye-mode, starting to masticate on his oft-injured arm. Then she would've became more powerful and potentially killed mom.

Also, the fact that the MC came back to life twice was kind of cheesy. But this might just be me. Also, I thought that the ending got a bit too hamfisted about this theme of "the ones you hurt can love you/you can love the ones you hurt". Not bad, though.

The event where Yuu was killed was also a bit too sudden and deus ex machina-ish.

I hope there's more closure in the last route

>>18722268
>Iris loli
she's probably pushing 6

>>18722305
>>18722318
98.2% now
this is absurd

>>18722336
Don't worry, the game doesn't lack closure. The first two endings are a little weird, because you don't really know everything yet. Once you do... well. You'll see.

>>18722588
Check if you're actually missing a piece from the .iso. If it's already finished then you can start installing and just wait for the extras to finish later.

>>18722336
Would probably have been a better chance of killing mom if MC (forgot his name) didn't stop nee-san from running after her as opposed to losing his arm. But I don't think murdering mom really fits in with the themes of the story. Like with that sequence with MC's dad. Forgiveness and all that. Yuu's death was pretty tacked on I agree. But not as tacked on as the entirety of Nao's route.

Also, call her Ruri

>>18722588
100% for me. Probably not going to read it for a while though, had enough of Senren Banka and Yuzusoft as of late. Although the art is really cute...

>>18722305
Dunno what's wrong with the Girlcelly one but its stuck there for me as well. The other one finished ages ago.

>>18722932
>the other one
There is the other one? How do they differ?

>>18723006
Take a look for yourself. The other one is just the iso, no extras like OST and chara CDs.

>>18720871
Their Youtube channel is also way more popular than other eroge companies', both in subscription and number of views per videos. Even the countdown vids they deliberately hide still easily get over 20k views each.

>>18696296
It is different than the usual stuff but I find it oddly appealing. Checked the gallery and apparently there are plenty of good ero scenes so that and the minigaems probably will convince me to try it.

And talking about upcoming titles, how was 9-nine Episode 1? Episode 2 is coming soon.

Any good review sites besides the usual?

>>18723846
http://advgamer.blog.fc2.com/

>>18724599
he said good

So how is Butterfly Seeker?
Is it turned out retarded in the second half like Shinsou Noise?

>>18724997
You probably don't want to ask that 1 day after release. Even if someone already finished it, it's probably a huge fan of Shinsou Noise as well.. or something.
I myself might check it out, but it has the lowest priority of this month's mystery-ish titles. Shinsou Noise really wasn't good. The art is worse as well now, which doesn't help. The other three mystery games seem all more appealing to me.

>>18725305
Other mystery games this month? What are those?

>>18725339
Same question

>>18725339
As far as I know the games with at least a mystery component to them are:
-Akumade, Kore wa ~ no Monogatari : Azurite's second title, by a new writer.
-Butterfly Seeker : You obviously know this one already. By the ones from Shinsou Noise under a different brand.
-Kieta Sekai to Tsuki to Shoujo : Fortissimo writer.
-Fatal Twelve : Doujin, all ages, but still fully voiced including the protag as far as I know. Their first work was pretty good if you ask me. Wouldn't be surprised if it ends up being the best title this month for me.

Those should be pretty much the "plotge" of this month. The new Memories Off could also have some mystery components, seeing how the game seems to be fairly enforced in terms of playing order, but a look into the cast on vndb told me: Play the damn series from the beginning.

https://gaming.youtube.com/watch?v=R2jvGvYZmBw

>Fully voiced MC
>Back sprites

They surely went all out this time. The writing and music are just what I expect from this series (in a good way). Too bad they won't be releasing the Steam ver any time soon, and it's supposed to be the last game.

>>18723271
Don't go there expecting Masada tier flashy stuff. I mean, there are a few short action scenes, but it's more about the character relationships than anything else. Lots of talking and living together with the main heroine. The investigation to find the villain is used to glue all these scenes together. It also ends with a cliffhanger, it feels like an intro, it's short, so it's difficult to judge at this stage other than loathing its episodic nature. Expecting the sister chapter to live up to the hype, because she's easily the best character all around.

>>18726641
>sumeragi + setoguchi
dick is superhard rn

>>18713193
They couldn't do it with Romeo. What else to say? They'd better off like age.

>>18723271
Best to wait until it's complete. 9koro was more like a prologue with introducing the characters and touching slightly on the plot. Most of the mystery is still unresolved so you'll have a long wait if you decide to start it.

https://re-tryment.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRGnlWKoIjU

After Re LieF there is now... Re Start. The new company branch is named after the OP song of the former, so I guess it's the same people. It also says "Last Project" when it's only their second one?

So, these faces are there. The comedy maybe not quite yet, but the characters seem fun enough.

>>18727354
Keep in mind that April Fool's is in full effect right now. I wouldn't take any announcement made during the next day or so seriously.

>>18727850
It's the start of the fiscal year in Japan. Yeah there are some jokes but they're usually obvious, most of the announcements are going to be legit.

http://eukleia.co.jp/eushully/


wow... so thats what theyve been doing all the time... very productive

死語？？
I've read it in another erotic game just the other day!

>>18727354
maybe last means "latest" in some funny Japanese English way?

>>18727354
How can one human draw art this beautiful?
It's a miracle this guy is wasting his talent on eroge.

Why does Yuzusoft hate blood-related incest so much?

>>18728492
It's just a boring plot point that companies don't want to write around. "Sex?! B-But we're blood related!"

>>18728614
>write around

Oh please. Why would you write around it? It's just a fetish. That actually causing drama or making characters worry about it would just be annoying, right?

There's a reason why I hate imouto heroines. Fuck that shit. It's done right maybe one out of twenty times nowadays. Heck it shouldn't even matter if she's blood related or not. You don't just randomly fly romantically on your brother if you actually see the guy as family and your brother. It's weird. It's not normal. But it's been so normal in eroge by now, that all of that is commonly forgotten and ignored, so some people still cling to blood related sister, hoping it's done better. Usually isn't though.

Where are all the good April Fools jokes?

>>18728754
Blood related makes my dick harder than non blood related does for fetish reasons.
But given the competency of the average eroge writer I'd rather they just gloss over it than regurgitate quality plot points like "I'm going to act angry and depressed because I want to fuck my sister but can't for two hours" "oniichan since we're siblings you can't fuck me but I guess I can suck your cock" "and then suddenly everyone isokay with me fucking my sister because we love each other and we live happily ever after the end".

I think the last time I had seen it handled passably well at all was that one minori title where the brother didn't know he was giving his older sister the dick until a ways into her route.

>>18729477
Paradise Ocean itself is a joke. Just finished Arika route, and it was short as hell.

Like I'm literally hoping this game is some kind of a joke of being "ironically" shit played by the writers who are currently laughing at the unknowing players and there will be some sort of ebin twist or it will otherwise get really good later on, rather than being actually a rushed out shitty cash grab. This isn't even passable level as a moege.

>>18729477
The current state of visual novels is enough of a joke, we don't need more.

So I had the grand idea to replay some PC98 games. But as it turns out I forgot how to properly configure the damn emulators. The games show properly, but I am getting nothing but gibberish for text. Anybody here remebers how to configure the fonts, please?

>>18730917
Nevermind, just figured out how from some 10+ years old post in some long forgotten forum.

>>18716399
>Ogura Yui, the eroge CV one.
>Not Misonoo Mei, the Nolan North of ero voice acting, tier.

Seems awful. Get some new blood in the industry already.

>>18731541
There's plenty of newish VAs in the industry but they're mostly doing DMM games and low budget nukige.
It probably doesn't help that said DMM games are basically uncredited roles. I've heard a bunch of VAs I like across several of them but outside of two if them whose names I found by complete chance I have no idea who they are.

>that scene in princess witches where you fuck one of the heroines in the closet while you watch the other masturbate
l-lewd!

>>18731642
I want to say that sounds like this artist's story: https://vndb.org/s353

It looks like she started in low-budget nukige, miel/norn is pretty much the poster boy of low budget nukige, and then she started to get picked up by MBS Truth, OLE-M, Squeeze and voice OVAs. She still looks to be a pretty no-name CV compared to Misonoo Mei or Ogura Yui but she's got her own thing going for her.

>>18694132
It always feels like such a strange shift to me when VN companies decide they have to do a dungeon crawler

>>18731839
what the FUCK

>>18731839
Shit.

>>18731839
I'd play it.

>>18731839
great

>>18731839
A lot better. Blonde hair is shit.

>>18729976
It has a grand route.

>>18731839
Legitimately looks better.

>>18731839
Unironically looks better than doshikuro.

>>18732331
wasn't there a real black patch for that or was that also an april fools?

>>18732375
There was, but it looked like crap because the designs didn't take in consideration actual black. Also only worked for the sprites.

>>18732375

Is 雨恋 worth playing?

>>18732520
yes

>>18732520
no

Speaking of blonde. This blonde here is great. Perhaps too great.

I actually like the theme of this game so far. Things are quite exaggerated, and perhaps too much in one case, but giving some sneak peaks into different "living" situations is a nice idea.
You have the girl in a big and crazy family. Then one who is a single child where the father kinda has to do everything, while mom and daughter are incapable of doing things like housework or cooking. Then you have one who no longer has a father, with some coffee shop run by her and her mom and finally a girl who lives alone in a one room apartment. It's also the order you seem to be encouraged to do the routes based on a staircase system, though I'm not quite there yet. As in go from "many people" slowly but surely to "alone". Protag rotates, so it's not getting old, but also so he's not becoming part of the family and you simply keep the point of view from someone outside, until that probably changes in the routes. Goes from a father who's worried about his daughter being able to survive alone later on, over loneliness and/or much more important focus on family bonds because there's just not a lot of family, to overprotective behavior and perhaps too much buzz. You get it all.

My only problem so far is that the girl with the big family really drowned in it. She's comparatively normal while her family is very... special and generally very exhausting. It's probably something they just exaggerated too much. Otherwise it works so far. It's not very serious, but the underlying themes are well laid out so it could be a rather nice experience. Of course, Asa Project and routes are always a bit of a thing, but I feel this has a better chance of succeeding for me than their last title at least. Which, while that's a good thing, it's not really saying that much. I really didn't like that one very much.

https://omochikaeri.wordpress.com/2018/04/01/april-2018-eroge-releases/

SofthouseChara's new game for me.

>>18732705
Steampunk hype, apparently Tesla makes an appearance? Haven't looked this forward to a title in a while.

>>18732705
Steampunk for me, hopefully it's good, but I'll miss the otome-like stuff from earlier entries.

>>18732705
Palette's next 9-nine- episode I guess, pretty dead month for me. At least I have asapros new game to get started on soon.

>>18732740
>but I'll miss the otome-like stuff from earlier entries
What do you mean?

>>18732705
Guess there's no need to rush with new things this month. Might still give the Softhouse Chara one a try though, depending on how the gameplay is.
Will be interesting how Steampunk not completely done by Sakurai is going to be though. I'm several titles of the series behind, so I won't play it, but the writers also having worked at Shinsou Noise makes me wonder. That game had way too many problems.

>>18732705
I'm kind of glad I didn't like that short trial for the new steampunk game because that gives me the month off from new releases. For me, the main draw of the steampunk series was more the adv presentation and how sakurai worked within its limitations. I'm not a fan of sakurai's more long form prose in those 殺戮のマトリクスエッジ LNs, and I don't care enough about the setting to be interested in what other writers do with it.

>>18729976
How's the "gameplay"?

Oneechan no Yuuwaku is the only thing that matters this month.

>>18733036
もっと！孕ませ！炎のおっぱい異世界エロ魔法学園！
如月真綾の誘惑

>>18732520
Maybe

>>18732864
Well most of it won't be written by Sakurai, I think. It's just the source material is based on a novel from him, so perhaps some lines will be copy pasted. New writers + NVL format in the railsoft engine actually made me more excited for it than if it were another "standard" Steampunk title tbqh. And who knows, maybe if this game does well we might actually get Vulthoom (yeah right).

>>18732805
The relationship/romance in general in steampunk games always felt really female/effeminate, closer to something you'd find in a shoujo/josei manga.

>>18732520
i don't know.

>>18733135
I mean I'm curious why you think this one is any different. If you look at the designs there is a ton of ikemen looking male characters that are clearly very female targeted. The style of the series seems the same as always.

>>18732983
Shite, though I haven't unlocked all the game modes yet. Basically you can do these very simple mini-games or assign the protagonist and heroines to jobs and have them grind money in real-time while you play the normal VN mode. With money you can buy stuff to improve the efficiency of jobs and extras like system voice and cursor icons, whether there's something else I don't know yet.

So far all of it seems completely separate from the main game itself, aside from the tutorial at the beginning. Like "it never gets mentioned again" type of separate, at least judging by the first route. I'm failing to see the point of it, but hopefully there's something later on that justifies this shit.

>>18733135
I'd not go there. Steampunk puts equal focus on characters and the protagonists aren't for self-insert purposes, but actual characters.
In other words: The steampunk games really work unlike most normal VNs and more like normal books. Shoujo is kinda the opposite of what you normally get in the VNs we play. There's a lot of idealization going on, just for the guys, while the girls take a bit of a backseat. Usually. There are exceptions like Sabagebu which doesn't give a shit about anything, not like that's really romance. It's actually a really weird shoujo. But yeah. Equal focus on males and females is not the common with VNs.

>>18733204
Don't tell me this is going to be another Magical Charming. That would be so fucking awful.

While talking about Shigeta games, he had another new game announced. This time with the Magical Charming artist.

http://cabbage-soft.com/

Aokana Misaki fans rejoice

https://twitter.com/watanaberyoichi/status/980408052342910977

>>18683020
Is it okay to skip HaruUso, NatsuUso and AkiUso?

I am most interested in Fuyu Uso.

>>18733335
No.

>>18733335
Yes

>>18733036
That game looks really good.

>>18733204
for a second i thought you were going to put her in the garbage, it all went down hill from there

>>18733204
Can you assign heroines you're already talking to? I have a feeling they probably overlooked something like that.

I'm getting Espoir flashbacks. If only they gambled off their debts instead of working to pay them off.

All the descriptions of bodily functions, how good the other party's tongue feels in one's mouth, the other's body heat, their hushed breathing, how much their tongue is sticking out, whether their nipples are erect or not, I think these have the wrong effect on me. Instead of providing a means of escaping from reality, they instead remind me of it, and I honestly can't get excited this way now.

I remember reading in this thread once, how an anon said that manga and so on is better for masturbation. I think maybe that might be true, since instead of getting a description of all the details, you get more of "showing", and there's more room for you to fill in the "gaps" in your head. Of course, with textual representation, you get to fill in (most of) the visual part, and it might just be a problem with me that I find this less arousing. So maybe it's dependent on how each person's brain is wired.

Or maybe I just overdosed in the last few days and that's why I can't really get immersed. This is kind of a meta post, but I imagine you guys must think about stuff like this too.

I just want to get back to a purer experiencing of VNs, one where instead of thinking "here comes another 5 lines of 「んっ、ちゅっ、んんっ…」" I'm able to self-insert and think "yes your moans are very sexy girl!".

Cute cute cute

>>18734463
this isn't riddle joker

The Re Tryment game is slated for 2019.

>no april fools from august

>>18734567
>last project
That's a shame, even the art alone is so good I want them to continue.

>>18734851
Remember Final Fantasy?

>>18720286
Are there any upcoming lolige to look forward too? There doesn't seem to be anything in April

finished YUuna route in onii chan daisuki. I realize how stupid it is to do a non-blood imouto in a game that is about the imoutos, but I don't care. I enjoyed it.

The leadup was good. I liked that these two, Yuuna and the protag were able to get together despite having very limited time to spend with each other. I especially enjoyed all the instant messaging going on.

One thing that I especially liked, is that the game didn't just devolve into a mindless sex-fest after getting to the part with actual insertion. The part with the remote controlled vibrator was especially well done. Pic related was also quite funny in a way.

>>18734463
I was slightly disappointed they didn't let Nene play out the crazy obsessed perverted stalker girl role for a tad longer. It would've been pretty fun.

Finished Paradise Ocean, because I had misplaced faith in Shigeta and believed he could never pop out an outright bad game and it would get good later on if not as moege. Joke's on me, this game managed to be both boring or rushed kind of bad and "I can't believe someone actually wrote this shit" full retard kind of bad.

First off the game completely drops the ball after the short common part: the heroine routes are short with little or flimsy drama, there's time skips often, and after confession you're bombarded with H-scenes one after another. As the worst offender Ao's route has not two or three, but fucking FIVE H-scenes in almost perfect succession with a minute or two long normal scene between the fourth and fifth, others are literally one after another. This pretty much happens in all the other routes as well. It's then followed by one last drama out of nowhere that lasts for a total of one scene, cue credits. The ichaicha and dating in general are minimal as well, every route is just short drama > bombardment of H-scenes > maybe a few scenes more > credits. The main part of the game feels like a group of corporate suits gathered up together and said to themselves "alright, we only need the very basic minimum of what's demanded of eroge" and they rolled with that.

Also speaking of H-scenes, for some reason every heroine’s first scene gives you several choices to remove specific pieces of clothing, which would lead any sane player to expect these will actually affect the following H-scene. This is not the case, except on the most surface level: aside from the undressing CG itself the actual following H-scene has the heroines stark naked regardless of your choices. I went back to count and in Ao’s first H-scene after the choices she was clothed for a whopping dozen or so lines before proceeding to actual fucking with her being naked. Why provide these options at all?

The mini-games are shovelware tier grindy drivel like I previously mentioned and are completely separate from the main game (other than game modes arbitrarily unlocking in particular routes). To give you examples of these shining beacons of game design:
- fishing game where all you do is spin an Osu-like wheel to reel things in
- easy mode Osu-lite music game where you can click anywhere and the circles all appear in the same place, strangely with actual good songs like Pricchi’s second OP or Pandora no Yume’s ED theme.
- box pushing game
- top-down sailing game where you have to crash onto things scoring points and avoiding hazards
- game where you select an exploration tool and place, then click and wait in real time: in addition to the already existing real-time automatic leveling and grind but you have to come back to check it every minute or so, speaking of which you can only access the work mode during heroine scene select (so you have to load a save) rather than any time because the people who designed this shit were retards
There’s no reason to dive into them EXPECT OH I GUESS TO UNLOCK THE FINAL ROUTE YOU HAVE TO GRIND 3 BILLION CREDITS BECAUSE FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU. Oh what is that, you wanted to unlock all the characters for work mode at the start to reap the benefits of passive money and EXP gain to lessen the later grind, tiny as they are? Too bad, tittymonster arbitrarily requires you to complete her entire route because no reason, so if you’re unfortunate enough to be playing this shit game you should play her route first.

But perhaps the final route itself that’s by completely different writer than the rest of the game will be fantastic redeemer justifying the rest of it being bad to make some sort of a point, right? Welcome to the world of ridiculous asspulls and sudden development for characters who barely received any screen time and only surface level characterization in the actual main part. Who the hell needs foreshadowing, right? Also the route itself is short as well. Think Shigeta's MagiCha but even more out of the left field. Weirdly enough this part's main drama and finale reminded me about a completely another game’s true ending that I also played somewhat recently and didn’t like that much either, for those curious (obviously spoiler, not a game by any people who worked on this to my knowledge) Tsukikage no Simulcrae to be exact. Even now the idea itself isn’t bad per se, but it’s so god damn rushed here that it makes the other game look like a masterpiece in comparison.

This game fails on so many god damn levels: it fails as moege, it’s got horrible “gameplay” that’s separate from the main story aside from being an arbitrary requirement for the last route and while I was originally hoping it would be given a proper plot justification it seems I was in the possession of monkey’s paw because the justification also managed to be ridiculous, and it has a really rushed main story. Only music was OK. Do not play this.

>>18738460
Thanks for the warning. That sucks, I loved the silly shiny art.

Anyone here been playing Riddle Joker? What are your thoughts on it?

>>18739131
Probably my least favorite yuzusoft game since dracuriot. At least the girls are all cute, so I might still finish it.

>>18739151
That's weirdly hot. Which route?

>>18739205

>>18739151
Can't believe they teased me with that shot only to not deliver on an actual footjob scene. I almost feel tricked.

>>18739131
I'm enjoying it. Mayu's route has been pretty decent so far, and handled the initial drama pretty well.
Common route was kind of dull though, and could've used a bit more variety in group centered scenes.

>>18726641
I miss bamboo's madpost.

any good vns with an mc that has a side character child/little sister/younger relative that he is taking care of? Stuff like 時を紡ぐ約束 i guess.

>>18740211
ExE

>>18740211
>that he is taking care of
>thinking such a thing is possible without protagman fucking the everliving shit out of them eventually

>>18738460
>Shigeta
I don't even know how you could have those expectations. Magical Charming was kinda okay, though the true route was absolutely terrible. But Gaku Ou was just really really meh and Unmei Senjou no Phi downright bad to the point I dropped it pretty fast. I'd argue, what good points Magical Charming had was more the exception than the norm for this guy.

Now, these other games aren't too short. If anything, some of them are too long. But that means that you wouldn't necessarily get a better game if it had been longer. Unless you quite liked Gaku Ou and whatnot of course.
Btw, if you just need a certain amount of credits or whatever, trying cheat-engine is always an option. If it's too annoying otherwise of course.

>>18740495
I mean i dont mind if they have a route, i can just ignore it (ill probably do it anyway though). I'd just prefer them being a support character.

>>18740497
He's mostly known for his first three releases. Those + MC makes four very good titles to his name which is more than most writers in the scene can say about themselves, so the expectations are justified. It does look like Pixel Mint was just a meme brand to try out some experimental stuff though, he has another game coming which will hopefully be more fleshed out.

https://twitter.com/pixelmint_jp/status/980100381198860290

A shame about PO, the seiyuu work in this skit is so fucking good.

>>18740564
Also just noticed it's the blue girl seiyuus only role so far... hope she appears again somewhere in the future.

>>18740552
I'd look at more recent works rather than the older ones. Doubly so if the game in question looks like it's more in that style. Whatever a writer did like 10 years ago generally means little to what they do today. Regardless, he's at best hit or miss. The new game showing that apparently one more time.
But, well, even the supposed "very good" stuff of him isn't something I liked THAT much, so to me it comes fairly naturally to doubt this guy. I know he can do something good, but for me it feels like you have to search for that. Maybe next time, though if that's already announced, it could mean pretty bad things for it given that Paradise Ocean was already rushed.

So far reading this has been both really enjoyable and a massive pain in the ass. Reading through the bout was genuinely tiring so I'm taking a break. However, I got to say that I really liked that speech, bgm and art are fantastic as well. Though my inability to read the fight scene fluidly is probably due to the fact that I'm retarded.

Karigurashi has an awesome new and progressive feature in its CG view menu! You can untilt CG! This is the future! Will we soon get the option in during the actual play through as well?

>>18741316
Is that the untilted CG? Still looks pretty tilted to me.

>>18696925
if you ever get to Felshis keep in mind that for some people the patch actually makes the game unplayable, except for one specific scene that activates when you get to floor 14. You need to put the patch just for it and then remove it.

Noooo. This isn't my IM2 remake.

>>18741316
Karigurashi looks generic as fuck, but I can't help but love this girl's appearance. I want to protect that smile.

>>18741403
Good.

>>18741373
You can only do 90° steps, so this is already "untilted", yes. It's not perfect, but you can imagine how it looks normally.

>>18741429
I'll write something, once I'm done. But I can already say that if you are in for the blonde it might be fine. The other characters are a bit more of a problem.
The problem is that the game is mostly comedy, but still acts as if it's some true love moege of sorts. So the confession, dating and so on feel weird with characters other than blondie where they get the mix of serious and silly right with a decent buildup of the overall relationship. Her route is next, so I don't know how that's going to be yet though.

Honestly, the first two heroines were weird. I'm not sure how to describe this, but there's just a lack of care of the characters to make the "romance" plausible. If you love someone, you care about them. If they actually seem hurt, you try to help them. If you don't give a shit, you don't love some. Guess how a "confession" feels right after very obvious and multiple times stressed "I don't give a shit" feels? Extremely fake and pointless.
The style of this game would just work better if there'd be no need for romance, but alas they were meant to make a moege. And that would perhaps still not be THAT bad, if they didn't magically get blondie fairly right, as even with her sillyness and all her weird faces, she's actually quite caring and you can talk to her normally. Sometimes. It's a little like Nobuchina from Noratoto for example. Add a fairly decently growing relationship and the protagonist part also fitting, and it works. (so far) With these things however I'm always wondering: Do I think the other girls don't really work because blondie is my favorite, or is blondie my favorite because the other girls don't really work? I feel like it really helps that she has the mom she has. She can't just be an idiot. That wouldn't work. Pic related. And yet, unlike the Kouhai, she only has this one Mom and not a whole big family full of crazies where she just drowns. Ah whatever.

tl;dr: Blondie is great, rest is weird.

>>18740211
Artemis Blue

>>18740211
The eroge called 素晴らしき日々.

So i want to buy a digital doujin but don't know the how to. Online seems like a no go because I can't use paypal on DLsite for it, and don't have a credit card anymore. Would it be possible to buy it locally since I'm in Japan? 晴姉との同棲週末 is the game in question.

>>18741954
You can just buy a prepaid credit card at a conbini.

>>18741987
How does that work? In the US I'd need an SSN, address and everything. Can i just go, fork over like 20,000en and then I'm set? I'd rather my host family not find out and spare myself a lot of embarrassment.

>>18742007
Yeah but there tend to be random hidden costs like if you don't use it within X time they take a certain sum and similar, gotta read the fine print. Prepaid credit cards exist in the US as well.

>>18741954
You can check if DMM has it. DMM accepts paypal.

>>18741954
Get a prepaid mastercard at your bank. The cost is usually $1 when doing a recharge operation and that's it. Check other digital distributors like DMM, getchu...

Why is it impossible to find Period Sweet Drops anywhere? All I found were dead links and unseeded torrents? Anyone knows where to get it, just recently finished Period and it wasn't enough.

>>18742603
You are extremely lucky
https://mega.nz/#!1k9iXZwB!e-uwaJRQviqkk6DBRm1n_ngA4zQ6d6jDGTM7XZR9jQo
https://mega.nz/#!Fw0FTaQL!ThrFSYGPo7MphsdpW8pEls6ycpgPyJT7_b7BdSDi4i4

>>18742603
How was it?

>>18742603
Go to clubbox search for ピリオド 080926

I'm going to be blunt (as usual), Riddle Jokers is probably a sign that Yuzu Soft is starting to stagnate as a company.

I'm not trying to be mean or bashing Yuzu Soft for the sake of it... but, after finishing two paths of this game, I felt hugely exhausted, despite the fact that the paths are actually shorter than some of their other works. The reason is fairly simple... the cast of characters this time around just isn't that interesting.

Part of that is that the protagonist himself is a bit too 'normal' for someone in his line of work. Another part of it is that the heroines all fall into standard Yuzu Soft archetypes (whether setting or the character personality), and as a result, I was able to figure out the specifics of the paths I played so far almost from the beginning. The most 'interesting' of the heroines, Ayase, I intended to leave to last, so I haven't played her (because she is the obvious main heroine candidate).

The common route is, at best, 'all right'. Of course, there are moments that made me smile, and the SOL is standard Yuzu Soft quality/style. However, I felt that they hit on all the wrong notes when they were handling the Astral abilities. One issue is that the balance between the oddly realistic/gritty moments and the rest of the game is horrible (those moments tease at a much more interesting set of possibilities), but another is that I honestly just got bored with what was going on too early. Yuzu Soft makes long SOL games, and as a result, every time I play one of their games, I end feeling at least a little fatigued. Worse, the humor is too mild to keep the brain stimulated most of the time, and the h-scenes are just... excessively long. Ichaicha in the heroine routes is excessive (I've been complaining about this since Dracu-riot, so that's nothing new), and... each of the first two paths I played (Hazuki and Mayu) had just enough of it to put me over the edge of my ability to endure.

Since this game was channeling Dracu-riot so obviously (isolated/enclosed environment, persecuted inhabitants, background efforts to destroy their refuge, etc), it was hard to escape the feeling that this was a pathetic attempt to relive what was best about that game. Unfortunately, because they traced the ideas so closely in some ways, the points where the game comes up short are just too obvious.

One of those areas is action. Say what you like about Dracu-riot, but its few action scenes were generally excellent (for what they were, action scenes in a charage) and the buildup was skillfully orchestrated. The same can't really be said about this game. While there are a few action scenes, the effort to narrate them and build up to them is rather... underwhelming.

Another is the secret agent angle... to be frank, the protagonist just isn't that capable. Oh, he is a decently-skilled fighter and his ability is cool in a way, but he falls apart whenever he hits an emotional block and he has a critical failure for an agent... he hates lying.

Last of all is the Astral-user issue... I have to say that this wasn't handled nearly as well as the vampires in Dracu-riot. There are very few times in the VN's common route where prejudice or persecution even comes up, much less becomes an issue (aside from the conclusion of the route), and there is no attempt to bring the situation 'to life' in the reader's mind, which is a critical failure, in my opinion.

Honestly, when it comes down to it, the reasons I couldn't bring myself to like this game are all involved with me inevitably comparing it to Dracu-riot. On its own, it isn't a bad VN, but I have had the unfortunate experience of having both played Dracu-riot twice all the way through and have helped as a translation-checker on the translation... so my impression of this game was further ruined by my excessive involvement with the game it was imitating in structure.

I couldn't bring out an unbiased opinion here, so I'm not going to say you shouldn't play it... but if you do, play it before Dracu-riot, not after.

>>18742615
Holy fuck thanks a lot
>>18742622
I was first hesitant to play it since it felt like your average junk vn, but it turned out to be very enjoyable. It's a fluffy experience, and some of the characters I hated in the common route turned out to be favorites after playing their route.
>>18742637
Thanks, I'll try this too

>>18741954
Most online stores accept conbini payment. You just order it online, they give you some numbers to punch in at a conbini ATM, and then you can pay in cash.

If you're staying for very long, I'd highly recommend opening a bank account with a debit card. Makes things much more convenient.

I’m reading one of the Kizuato remakes (2009) and the updated art keeps making me forget that it was originally written in 1996.

I keep having moments like “Wait why does her phone have an antenna? Oh yeah.”

DJT is being flooded with fake questions by a crazy person who lost an argument, so nothing is getting answered, can I ask my Japanese questions here for now?

>>18743966
No.

>>18743966
Just look for some Japanese Discord server or something, don't try to learn Japanese on 4chan of all places.

>>18742648
Thanks for the review. It's always a shame since the heroines are so cute, but I guess that's just how it is.

Agree with you about the ichaicha. Moege should focus on humor more if they're not going to write a half decent plot. Or at least remove some of it completely if that's too hard. It might not have happened in Riddle Joker, but it's especially unbelievable when they say to each other that they're going to get married, or end up marrying in high school, really unbelievable. Try waiting a few years?

>>18742648
What a shame. I'm still going to play it for the imouto route though.

Ive seen it so often in eroge I feel I have to ask... what exactly is the erotic significance of hot candle wax?

>>18744210
BDSM temperature play.

>>18742648
yuzusoft just needs to get better writers period.

>>18732594
thanks for the impressions. asa project games always has great characters and theme. the art is really good too

>>18742615
Not that guy, but holy shit, thanks. I've been looking for this for a while. Do you have links for 聖剣のフェアリース, by chance? It's one of those games I keep looking torrents/DL links for and all I can find are no seeds and broken links.

>>18742648
>Ichaicha in the heroine routes is excessive
I suppose this comes down to personal tastes, but ichaicha with the heroines is always one of the parts I look forward to the most in Yuzusoft games, and I'm generally disappointed when certain heroine routes don't have too much of it, so this is more of a positive from my perspective. I'll probably play it next.

Are there any other eroge that are like YU-NO's first half in the sense that they are very nonlinear and give you complete freedom?

Never posted in these threads before but I'm about to start Mahoutsukai no Yoru, took me a while to get it going since I accidentally downloaded one that was partially pre-patched in English first

>>18746022
Get ready for Nasu's best work yet

>>18742615
While I'm at it, do you have the mega links for other Littlewitch works as well? Clubbox is slow and a pain to run.

>>18746865
Here's a mega for Sugar Coat Freaks from the archives
https://mega.co.nz/#F!NgEHxIhT!foxALxc4bxQJgzg-jaMy7Q
And pass: 請體諒上傳者的辛勞基本問題去爬文並隨手做好資源回覆的習慣

Don't know about the other titles though

>>18746865
>>18747105
Look for them at Eyny (where the Mega link is from).

Is it bad if I knew exactly what was going to happen here?

Finished blondie's route in Karigurashi now. While she worked better during common, her route had the same issues as the stuff before. So I'm done now.

I think they heard that their common routes are the best and figured to just do one big branching common route. That... did not work. At all. The relationship that's supposed to form during a route is shallow and feels fake. Most of a route's joke is the other heroines trying to NTR the protagonist away from the heroine, with the protagonist usually being super fine with that. It's supposed to be funny, but given how MUCH this happens: No. Completely aside of that he is supposed to kinda love this girl he is going out with. You can't help but wonder if that's really true. I think they just did it to keep the common route feeling, but that really didn't work.
One of the big reasons this happens is that the gimmick of the VN, the "karigurashi", isn't stopped during the routes. This makes about 0 sense though and leads to a lot of issues. Who's route are you on again? Sometimes you might forget.

Apart of that, this game also isn't really that funny. There are a lot of crazy characters, and one disgusting and awful one with way too much screentime, but once you know them they are really one pattern. This is also true for most heroines. I feel like the only heroine who somewhat regularly drops some funny lines is blondie. One is just lazy, another mostly just "there" and then there's one who's gimmick is being pissed. This also leads to weird relationships other than the one with the protag. Blondie is supposed to be best friends with pissed girl and be fairly badly off with "mostly just there" girl. It commonly feels like she gets along better with the latter. This game really needed something genuine. Something that's not just LUL. Or, alternatively, not act as if it has that. Completely ditch any romance, potential serious things and whatnot and just go all out on dumb. But then it'd also need some actual jokes and characters that are useful for more than just being weird. Could've been a good 3 volume gag manga though. For a 20-30 hour moege it's not enough.


With all of that, all of the potential it had also remains unused. The family stuff could've been nice. But don't expect that to go anywhere. Like at all. In this last route I read there was a grand total of 15 lines towards the end dealing with it. Wow! As such, don't expect an ending. Don't expect anything, actually. It can be funny sometimes, especially at first when stuff is still fresh, but it loses its charm pretty fast. The character routes honestly just suck.

>>18748438
This your first asapro game or something? I really can't tell if you did like the previous games and just not this one or don't like asapro in general. They have a peculiar kind of humor that not everyone will like, but if you do their games are great and there is nothing quite like them in other eroge. I've heard pretty much the opposite of your post, compared to previous games this time around all their routes are pretty enjoyable and some people even went so far to call it their best game yet, over ren0 and hitoren.

>>18748469
I've tried two other games by them. Their one before this and an older one: Acchi Muite Koi.
The one before this I didn't like at all. It wasn't particularly funny, had a miscasted heroine and was generally not my thing. I don't think it was well received as back then similar opinions like mine were pretty common here. Acchi Muite Koi however could actually be genuinely funny and the routes I've read weren't THAT bad either. They never forgot what they wanted to be, while still building something that had at least SOME substance.

Both of these other games still remembered to make relationships genuine through all the comedy. Of course, as a result you actually need to have a break from comedy at some point, which Karigurashi just didn't have. If it got serious, you can bet that within the next 20 lines that WILL change. The result is just that the routes feel pretty much exactly like the common part. If you are fine with that, that can be okay I guess. Though the always repeated jokes are still an issue. I however don't think it's very good.
I'd actually go so far to say that no moege that has the protagonist hook up with the heroine in question right after you enter the route can be considered good. This either leads to important scenes preparing that to be in common, which means the heroine's behavior afterwards in the other routes is probably not making sense or the protag feels like he "loves everyone" while that then changes with the flip of a switch. Or it leads to at least the protagonist jumping from "I don't really think of her in a special way" to "I love you" within 20 lines. Karigurashi also combines this with the weird NTR attempts by the other heroines in a route, which makes you wonder if there's actually romance, or what's going on. To me that's pretty much a no go in these kinds of games. This happening in all of the routes pretty much in the exact same way also adds to the problem. Well, okay, I won't bother with the fourth and last main route, but I doubt it'd change.


So, yeah, it's in part a personal thing. Things like that it doesn't do anything with what it has available is more objective. Also stuff like the voice balance being fucked. You can fix that yourself, but shouldn't they realize that they randomly have one character at half volume after some time? Probably. They didn't though. Sometimes changes to normal volume as well, which was especially fun.
Really, this would've been a good few volumes long gag manga. But I feel like it fails at what it wants to be: Something that actually has romance.

Just let me fuck Miyori already.

>>18748838
Fandisc.

Honestly though, they give the spit monster a sub-route, but not Miyori. Poor 40ish year olds.

> they give the spit monster a sub-route
Now I have a reason to pick this up.

I need something really horny to play.

>>18749293
Games don't have feelings. Unless you were doing for some weird kind of metonymy, in which case I'm sorry.

>>18745246
all nanpa games, and they do freedom a lot better, most of all the first one

>>18696829
Reading the newest one right now, thanks for the recommendation

>>18750104
That's not the newest one.

I just finished the common route > started the hiyori route and so far this is the best game I have played in 2018, also imo this is the best asaproject game as well, at least definitely far better than puramai wars or sankaku ren'ai which makes me very happy.

Thanks to having lots of sub characters comedy doesnt feel forced as their last two titles and all of heroines are pretty much likeable, also the family theme & living two days with each heroine feels very fresh and different than some classic moeges. I'd definitely suggest this game if you ever played and liked an asaproject game since you'll like this even more.

I never thought I would seen the word tilt (in the anger sense) in a vn, now my life is complete(?

>>18746865
That game was really cute, shame it killed Littlewitch.

>>18744796
Not that guy, but you're still lucky
https://mega.nz/#!QjYywa6B!ZbyKbjiBBu4d1dHQNCQ8yid0WiSDZzWgzBsJZNP5FLI

I'm sure since I played Suisei Ginka no Istoria that 桂艶丸 (katsutsuyamaru) was Ootsuka Houchuu by the voice but I can't find any source to confirm it to anex it to his vndb page, and I guess I can't put it without any fundaments....this is vexing.
I gues meanwhile I will create a separate seiyuu for his other name.
If someone knows anything about 桂艶丸 please tell me, I googled it but I can't find anything about him anywhere.

What's a good recent horror mystery VN?

>>18751323
This month, Butterfly seeker and 消えた世界と月と少女.

>「はぁっ、前も話しましたけどっ、赤ちゃんできても、責任、考えなくてもいいですからねっ？」
>「好きなだけ中出ししてっ、んんっ、育てるのは私、頑張りますからっ、あっ……、あなたは、あなたの好きにしてくれていいですからっ」

why even live

>>18753564
That's kind of fucked up

I am starting a petition for all nukige addicts and advocates of ero in eroge to be segregated back to their own thread.
All in favor say i

>>18753564
well, we live in the opposite world, where you dont even need to be the actual father to be held responsible by society for the mother and child

>>18753620

>>18753671
Don't bring society into this. That eroge scenario is purely a personal situation.

>>18753564
That's hot. What's the game?

>>18753998
https://vndb.org/v21432

http://aquaplus.jp/uta/zan/

>Ichikawa Saasha will never illustrate another eroge again
feels bad man

>>18753564
Sounds like she's willing to ruin her future kid's life by fucking a deadbeat guy, boner lost. I hate irresponsible thots.

So can anyone download the アクティベーション認証解除パッチ from here http://holyseal.net/cgi-bin/mlistview.cgi?prdcode=10450

Downloading the other patch worked just fine..

>>18755052
Didn't work for me either, just use the official site one http://www.akabeesoft2.com/support/act_pacth/sekisaba_acti.zip
Use a Japanese proxy if you can't access.

>>18753564
the depressing life of japanese office workers

>>18683335
I don't know.

>>18683335
I play them.

>>18683335
Could you restate your inquiry?

>>18755145
>http://www.akabeesoft2.com/support/act_pacth/sekisaba_acti.zip
Thanks that download did work.

This "playing tag" scene was one of the worst scenes I've ever had the pleasure of reading. This was so fucking bad. So many asspulls in such quick succession. My respect.
At first I thought the protagonist is just a dumb moron for overlooking the obvious. Then that was all planned of course. Then that actually wasn't planned and he is a moron after all, but it luckily worked out. And then a final asspull of asspulls comes that pretty much goes against the rules of this game of tag making you feel cheated. Whew. Could you do it even worse? I doubt it. "Hey, good job playing against the rules and lying. My respect! You won! I totally lost. Hahaha, this was fun!"

This doesn't exactly make me feel very positive about this VN. I know it's a new writer and all, but please.

>>18756610
Why does the text look so fucking bad in this game?

>>18753564
>virgin OL
...sure
>telling the loser MC to impregnate you, who gives a fuck about responsibility amiright?
ok this makes sense for young and stupid girls, but from an OL heroine?

as much as i love akabei soft's art i hate when they do retarded settings like this.

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>>18759294

>>18758605

>hataraku otona's entire cast of virgin OL