/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Sekai/Denpa
Nekopara Vol 4 - 100% translated and 50% edited, November 2020 release
The Seventh Sign -Mr. Sister- - "Planning release", appears to have been rejected by Steam
Ley-Line: Daybreak of Remnants Shadow - "More programming"
Ley-Line: Flowers Falling in the Morning Mist - Fully localized, in engine work
Re;Lord Volume 2 - 100% translated+edited, awaiting engine work by the developer
Harumade Kururu - Awaiting engine work, 2020 release
>Rewrite+ - Main game 60% translated, Harvest Fiesta 50% translated, January 2021 estimated release
Love Duction - 100% translated and edited, engine work in progress
Hoshizora no Memoria (retranslation) - In QA, going to update existing release to HD version
Hoshizora no Memoria Eternal Heart - 60% translated
Island Diary - 100% translated and edited, Winter release
Creature to Koi Shiyo!! for Otome - Waiting on a third party
Miko no Kanata - 100% translated and edited, awaiting engine work
Memory's Dogma - Code:01 Released, 02 onwards upcoming
Tenshin Ranman - QA and engine work next, in "icebox"
NarKarma EngineA - Announced
Subete no Koi ni, Hanabata o. - Picked up
Sumire - Picked up
I Walk Among Zombies Volume 3 - Awaiting engine work
I Walk Among Zombies Volume 0 - Awaiting engine work
Sanarara R - 100% translated, 25% edited
9-nine- Episode 3 - 40% translated
Amatsutsumi - Translation and editing in progess
KoiKuma Fan Disc - 100% translated, editing ongoing, waiting on build from dev, 2020 release
Love's Sweet Garnish 2 - Translation and editing in progress, 2020 release
Kanojo no Seiiki - Picked up
Glass - Picked up
New Glass - Picked up
Amairo Chocolate - 100% translated and edited
Kimagure Temptation - 60% translated
Slobbish Dragon Princess - 90% translated
9-nine- Episode 4 - 30% translated
Karakara 3 - In Development
Secret Project 7 - listed

Sol Press/Panty Press
Shitsuji ga Aruji o Erabu Toki - 30% translated, 10% edited
>Nukitashi - 100% translated, 26% edited
Himawari to Koi no Kioku - 68% translated, 68% edited
>Irotoridori no Sekai - 100% translated and edited
DareSora - Volume 1 Released, info on future volumes soon
Witch's Garden - Picked up
>Happiness! 2 Sakura Celebration - 100% translated, 83% edited
Hyper->Highspeed->Genius - Picked up

Nekonyan
>Hello Lady - Main game 100% translated, edited, and TLC, 50% QC, engine work being done by developer, tentative Summer release
Dracu Riot - 100% translated and edited, engine porting starting shortly
>Riddle Joker - 90% translated and 90% edited
>Kinkoi: Golden Loveriche - 85% translated and 45% edited
Clover Days - 100% translated and TLC, editing and engine porting starting shortly
>IxShe Tell - 100% translated and edited, 70% through QC
>Aokana Extra1 - 90% translated, 50% edited
Fureraba Complete edition - Vita exclusive content to be added to Fureraba a couple months after the fandisc release
>Melty Moment - 35% translated
Making＊Lovers: Geki Icha After Story - "we plan to translate the Fandisc as well"
>Secret Project #1 - 35% translated

Fakku
Abaddon: Princess of the Decay - Localization at "40% to 50%", 2020 release

Visual Arts/Key
Angel Beats 1st Beat - 50% translated

Aksys
Collar x Malice -Unlimited- - August 21st release
Piofiore no Banshou - September 10th
Gensou Kissa Enchante - November 13th release

LoveLab
The Humbling of a Holy Maiden - 60% translated, 50% through programming
Secret Project 1 - 30% translated, 20% edited

Other
>Eden's Ritter: Paladins of Ecstasy - Released
Jiangshi x Taoshi - Episodes 1-2 released, episode 3 upcoming
Evenicle 2 - Announced, Steam page for a demo covering chapter 1 put up to be released within the upcoming weeks.
Wanko no Yomeiri - Upcoming release
Taimanin Asagi - Page for the Trial of episode 1 back on Steam
Venus Blood -Hypno- - Announced, Kickstarted planned for September or October
Fault - Silence the Pedant - Demo released
Fault Milestone 2 - Side Above released, GE still to come
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>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread

Who the fuck is kirby

>>25148756
Someone released a translation for Okinawa Slave Island.
https://www.gaytorrent.ru/details.php?id=c0c23df5ac69f006bbe4050aea4bb2369a31c9216cac0776
https://vndb.org/v7691

>>25148941
>Fagshit
Trash

>>25148894
Lurk more

kirby is vvav.

>>25148756
>Sol Press actually makes progress

Wow, you dont see that everyday

What are the chances of Sayonara wo Oshiete getting licensed?

>>25150720
If you translate it, do a good job on the translation, and are willing to sell the rights to said translation cheap, I'm sure you can convince MG or JAST to pick it up.

>>25148759
I'd be impressed with those sol updates if those numbers hadn't been out of date for over a month.

>>25150720
Maybe the DMM version can. I played the old one without a backlog and nearly killed myself. But its still the only 10/10 eroge i played to this day.

I absolutely love it.

>>25150899
Lol, that ain't happening. It's just one of the few games I'd still like to read.
>>25151378
I'd expect that if anyone licensed it they'd get the modern version.

>>25148941
>link doesn't work
Thank god.

>>25150720
I just finished and had the idea of trying my hand at a translation, but I don't know where to even begin. Checked vndb and saw some TLwiki trannies tried to work on it a while back, but nothing ever came out of it.
>>25151378
Give Kusarihime a try. That's another 10/10 for me.

>>25154453
>I just finished and had the idea of trying my hand at a translation, but I don't know where to even begin.
I imagine dealing with the technical aspects is one of the biggest hurdles in these projects. I don't know much about it, unfortunately, but SayoOshi is a VisualArts game, and the updated version that you can buy as a download runs on SiglusEngine. That's the same as Angel Beats, Summer Pockets, and the various Toneworks games, so if you tried asking people from Alka or Tsurezure they might be able to help you.

>>25154453
>and had the idea of trying my hand at a translation
What possesses people to think this way?
If I knew Japanese I'd just read more stuff instead of translating.

>>25154930
It's a good way to strengthen your understanding of english and japanese given that you must actively use both.

>>25154976
>strengthen your understanding of english and japanese
I guess that explains why so many fan made translations are terrible.

>>25154930
Sometimes if you like something, you want other people to be able to enjoy it too.

>>25155005
Yeah because their japanese is fucking shit and they didn't realize just how bad it was and they decided to pick a title that was either too complex or too long for them to take the time to properly do and learn from.

But the more you do the more you learn and the better you get at it. If anyone going to get into fan-translating here's some advice. Your first release is probably going to suck. Quite a bit actually. So pick something small and simple so that you can always go back and redo the translation to a better quality once you've gotten better through all this practice. Once you get started on your second fan-translated title, again pick something small and simple. Once you finish and release it, compare the feedback from it to your first fan-translations and if you haven't gotten notably better you should stop translating and work on your fundamentals. If it has gotten better, do a slightly longer or slightly more complex title.

If you're looking for a nukige series to start translating I'd recommend the Prisoner Of Tentacle Hell series. The titles are extremely short and are very simple tentacle fodder but they do have a small handful of complex lines or references which should help sharpen you up a bit. Not to mention the developer has published the sister series on mangagamer, so if you do a good job with your translation you could potentially sell them to Mangagamer which can enable you to flex to an official translator position.

>>25155008
like this? https://vndb.org/g1663

>>25154635
Thanks for the helpful reply. I'll still think about it some more and try translating the prologue and the common route on my own first, at the very least, before bothering anyone else with something that could end up being nothing but a waste of time.
>>25154930
As some other anon implied, it makes for good writing practice and it's not too mentally taxing (or at least not as mentally taxing as writing in itself tends to be). As for why SayoOshi out of all works, mostly because it'd translate well; I'd never wish upon my most hated foes the hellish task of translating shit like SakuUta or Muramasa, but there are certain works that while read you can picture being written in another language and this one in particular didn't seem so annoying as to not even contemplate, or toy with said idea.

>>25148756
>Django - Waiting on translation.

Is the translator okay?

>>25155533
Keep us updated if you decide to continue with it.

>>25155533
If you ruin my sayooshi I rip off your head and smear your cats ass with mustard.

>>25154453
I encourage you to start a new sayooshi project solely to piss herkz off.

>>25148759
>Nukitashi - 100% translated, 26% edited
1% of editing progress since May

do you have the untranslated scripts in plain text for some of those?

>>25160389
If you're asking how to extract scripts then find out what engine the game uses then google search to see if there's any tools for that engine.

>>25160416
does anyone ever upload the scripts anywhere or would it be easier for me to extract them myself? I'm looking for the oreimo tsuzuku script by the way.

>>25160294
What do you expect from the guy who couldn't finish the editing of chrono clock?

>>25162494
They're seriously not the same guy are they? Lmao there's no fucking way I'm going to buy nukitashi if the dude who edited CC is also editing that.

>>25162494
Shipping the game before the editing finished is entirely on Sekai even if the editor is working at molasses speed.

>>25162588
I hate myself for going through that twitter account. https://twitter.com/puffketeer/status/1241560355345743872
>>25162626
It is, but perhaps at some point they realized his 'contributions' weren't worth waiting for. I can't think of any other case where that has happened, have you?

>>25162870
Yeah the game has to come out eventually. Not even defending him at all, just pointing out that him being slow and Sekai shipping an unfinished game are 2 separate issues.

>>25154976
No it isn't. I fucking hate you fags. If your ability in both languages is at a point where it needs to be "strengthened", then you have no business translating anything.

>>25163003
Quit your bitching you giant baby, someone fucking up a 45 minute title with a terrible translation who then realizes they have no business translating is not a problem. The only people who know for sure that they can translate something are people who are so heads and shoulders above the common japanese speaker that their proficiency is clear as day. Or the people who try to translate something and realize they do actually know enough or that they don't know enough.

There's also the complexity of the title itself. Something like nekopara, pretty fucking easy due to it using extremely common words for the most part. Translating something like Subahibi, much harder due to the vocabulary not commonly used in any form of modern media or day to day life. Now that Japanese developers are going hands on with personally publishing titles themselves you should expect to see a large drop in 'official' translation quality to the point that fan-translators and official translators are pretty much the same thing in the eye of the public.

>>25163363
The people that believe they know enough are always deluding themselves. Ixrec would later admit that he shouldn't have translated Cross Channel so early, but it didn't stop him from fucking up on every thing he did after that. Complexity is irrelevant when you're as incompetent as the average visual novel translator, and the only difference between official and fan translations has always been that official translators get paid for their trash.

>>25162957
The problem isn't that he's slow. Have you seen Chrono Clock? The game's translation is a fucking nightmare and it's definitely because of the editor.

>>25160294
>1% of editing progress since May
In case you're curious
>Nukitashi is 1.2 million characters.
>1% of 1.2 million is 12000 characters.
>Over 4 months, that's 3,000 characters a month
>AKA 100 characters a day
Unless I made a mistake here, he's literally doing 10 lines a day.

>>25162870
Fuck I really wished it was him dead and not Conjurer.

I bet you can probably start learning Japanese today and be able to read the majority of the VNs on this list with reasonable comprehension by the time most of them even get released. I swear this list has been at least 50% the same for 3 years.

>>25166686
I started learning Japanese about a year and a half ago and I still don't understand shit. The will to grind vocabulary and consume native content every single day evaporates quickly

>>25166802
Why, did you get memed into not studying kanji and end up having a hard time memorizing vocab or do you just hate reading moege garbage to add to your mining deck?

>>25166686
The amount of untranslated VNs I want to read is too low to justify it, and none of them would be particularly easy to read. I'd rather stab my eyes out than read a moege.

>>25166976
For reference, out of all the VNs on OP's list, there are less than 10 that interest me, though not necessarily enough for me to actually read them all.

>>25166897
Most of the untranslated stuff that drove me to start learning got translated. I got maybe a few hundred words into the Anki beginner deck and eventually got to a point where nothing was sticking anymore and I'd been clicking again on the same 3 or 4 dozen words for a month. The drive to learn more almost completely evaporated after a while. Most of the native material I could find was too far above my level to learn from. The only exception was H manga, but knowing what 中出しの喜び is doesn't help that much with most other content.

>>25167029
I'd learn Japanese just to read Propeller's NEVER EVER VNs like Evolimit and the Ayakashibito fandisc/sequel to start with. Only a fraction of the medium ever makes it west, so I'm sure there'd be something of interest to be found.

I'm not too surprised since we just got updates, but I guess MG didn't announce their secret projects during the weekend Otakon was supposed to happen. The next convention related time is mid-November for Anime NYC though I personally think MG will reveal their announcements sooner. As for when, who knows? Probably at the same week one of their more important titles goes on preorder. If they correlate the announcement period to one of their titles, my guess would be Musicus or Rance 01. Both have a good chance of coming out this year.

>>25167108
I don't know, man. I think I'm relatively familiar with the games that are supposed to be good, and out of those there isn't much I'd care about even it got translated. There's stuff there, which is why I continue keeping up with translations, but it's not enough to justify the work (and there isn't any other Japanese media I care about either). I tried some years back, back when I was more into it and less disillusioned.

>>25167338
Part of it, I think, is reading certain games that I was looking forward to quite a bit, and them not being as good as I was expecting them to be (e.g. Dies Irae and Subahibi). They weren't bad of course, but in hindsight my expectations were too high due to the games being overhyped -- and hype is one of the few things you can look to to see which games are supposedly worthwhile. I guess it caused me to reevaluate my expectations and look at the situation more realistically. If I'd learned Japanese to read one of those games I would be very unhappy about it. Or maybe I'd try to justify it to myself by pretending they were masterpieces, lol.

>>25166686
i swear to god i literally did this. i mastered japanese faster than the shit i wanted to come out released

Just a heads up, one of the C;H NoAH translators has left the project
https://twitter.com/Chaos_World_300/status/1290029294056431617

>>25154453
>Kusarihime
Still mad that those subhuman trannies at shitGamer thoughts that licensing that jannie whatever FGO knock off instead of this one was a good idea. Just another reason to hate this joke of a company.

>>25171447
That was a bizarre choice. So many Liar-soft games they could pick that people would want to read and they pick this fucking literal-who crap.

>>25169559
If they're not a tranny they're mentally ill somehow. This hobby really boggles my mind. But whatever, I wasn't expecting Noah to come out at all anyway.

>>25171640
This is a problem with a lot of translators, but do you think that someone who would learn an entire language primarily to read porn games is going to be sane? Just reading the shit as your main hobby is already abnormal, maladjusted behavior. Now take that and multiply it by people who sacrifice a substantial amount of their lives just to get more of it.

>>25171447
Yeah, a nearly two decade old release would've been such a good choice.

>>25171742
God forbid they release a game that's good instead of some mediocre shit that's shiny and new.

>>25171770
Why would you want MG to translate a good game?

>>25171770
I mean ideally that would be nice, but it's not practical at all. I don't think the new and shiny shit they got is going to sell either, but it has better odds of getting getting a few steam retards to give it a chance.

>>25171792
No one else is going to do it.

>>25171770
good games don't sell and a company has to sell first and foremost

>>25171803
You're absolutely deluded if you think that literally-who jannie shit going to sell more than 10 copies.

>>25171879
No one's going to do it. If you're going to fantasize you should go all the way and wish for someone competent to pick it up.

>>25171925
Nice reading comprehension.

>>25171803
You know, I'm not really sure that something being old would negatively affect things in this way. What does the fact that the game came out in 2002 have to do with me? I don't know Japanese, I haven't played it before. It's not old to me. Unless it just looks horrendously outdated (I don't think this one does) then who gives a fuck? Saya no Uta is from 2001 and no one cares.

>>25171956
Meant 2003 for Saya before someone corrects me.

>>25171770
Didn't they get feedback on their survey years back that people preferred newer higher resolution titles or was that something else?

>>25171928
>wish for someone competent to pick it up
You aren't going to find that in the current industry.

>>25174145
had to have been something else because they just translated and released a title older than nekopara vol 1.

If nothing else, Jeanne probably releasing before Sona-nyl is funny. MG announced that title way too soon. Hell, Rance Quest has a decent chance of releasing before Sona-nyl, and Sona-nyl was announced the year Rance VI was announced.

>>25174284
I haven't played it, but isn't Nyan Cafe still in HD? I know for sure Kusarihime isn't. In any case, plotge don't sell consistently well. Not that I think Jeanne will sell well at all, but it at least works as low tier FGO bait to get a few extra sales from some saps.

>>25176079
>I haven't played it, but isn't Nyan Cafe still in HD? I know for sure Kusarihime isn't.
Damekoi wasn't and they released that.

>>25176079
To be fair, that was before koestl became a Grisaia slave for Frontwing right? He might have gotten it out sooner if he wasn't forced to commit all his time to that and basically abandoned Sona-nyl for about two years.

Wasn't sona-nyl announced more than 4 years ago? It's not really a massive game either. madness...

>>25179882
koestl is slow

whats up guys, its the krauts, hows it going

>>25179882
No one in mg cares. It's not gonna sell well anyway.

>>25167254
Musicius is a higher priority than Rance

>>25160294
>>25162870
Wait what kind of VN is this really?
>Seiran Island is a paradise where perverted sex is permitted by law. The transfer student Junnosuke is a proud virgin that steadfastly values chastity. He believes that there should be no sex without love, counter to the rules imposed on the island residents. However, those who do not have sex are subject to immediate arrest, fellatio and intercourse! Will he and his friends be able to escape the clutches of the student council and disciplinary committee, known as the ‘SS’? Their battle to keep their virginity begins!
I kind of feel like I should have checked it out earlier. It sounds hilarious and the art isn't that bad either.

>>25181110
This so much. I don't understand why they persist to pick titles that nobody cares not even japanese readers. If they want to release some liar soft titles that much at least pick the popular one not that random gay ass title like Sona-nyl.

>>25184294
>>25181110
I care. I've been really into those titles ever since I read Inganock, and I ended up liking Sharnoth just as much.
Granted that I don't really know anything about Sona-Nyl, but I am without a doubt very interested.

>>25183028
>Wait what kind of VN is this really?
Nukitashi is basically a comedic parody of nukige that's riddled with Japanese pop culture references to start off with. As you go further along in the story, it starts playing things a bit more seriously, and essentially switches to an odd balance of action-comedy, where it switches rapidfire between silly gags and moments it plays dead serious (I think an analogy would be something like Gintama, maybe). It's a very, very popular game that won a lot of awards in Japan.

The one thing it ISN'T is a nukige.

>>25179890
Wasn't he delayed by Muvluv?
>>25184294
I thought Gahkthun was alright so I kinda care(d). It's been so long now though I wonder if I still will when it comes out.
>>25184532
If I read this post with no prior knowledge I'd already think the translation would be cancer but knowing who is editing makes it a guarantee.

>>25184574
>If I read this post with no prior knowledge I'd already think the translation would be cancer but knowing who is editing makes it a guarantee.
The translation is guaranteed to be a disaster. Early on we're talking a pop culture reference or typical nukige scenario joke at least once every ten lines, although it does calm down a bit later. It's a brutally hard translation in the best of circumstances. With the guy who gave us 'douzo lad' at the helm, it's going to be an absolute shitshow. I'm so excited, it's a day 1 buy for me just to experience how bad it is.

>>25184294
Sona-nyl isn't exactly a literally-who liar-soft game, though. It's rated 80 on EGS and has a decent number of ratings. It's not as popular as Kusarahime, Forest or Inganock in Japan, but still, keep in mind that popularity in Japan won't matter for translated VNs. Like, The lesbo ghost game sells waaaaaay more than the other liar-soft VNs here, but that's not the case in Japan. I think momentum is the big thing and that isn't going to carry over in translations. Kusarahime or Forest had their popularity and got their momentum in Japan and became household names. Different translated titles become household names based on a different momentum. Is there any real reason to think Kusarahime would sell respectably if translated and Sona-nyl wouldn't, just cus the former is more household in Japan?

>>25184532
The pop culture references would probably fly over my head. But it does sound like a cool title.

>>25182209
Yeah, MG has a clear bias for Overdrive titles. I can see MG saving their secret project announcements to correspond with Musicus's preorder announcement just to raise the sales of Musicus. That said, I think Rance 01/02 bundle's going to release before it, unless the post beta debug is unreasonably long for 02.

>>25184632
Honestly, Sona-nyl is more likely to do well in the West than Kusarihime, mostly because otomefags are starved for content, and Sona-nyl at least has some appeal for that audience. I do agree that there isn't that strong of a correlation between what's popular in Japan and what's popular overseas. Sure, Alicesoft, Muv Luv, and Key titles are popular enough in both markets, but Subahibi undersold here (with the assistance of a Kickstarter) and I'm pretty sure Nekopara is way more popular in the West than in Japan. Japan and the West are ultimately different markets.

>>25187003
Also Sona-nyl is part of a "series" that a decent number of people are already familiar with. The game might not sell well but it's at least guaranteed not to be a colossal flop.

>>25185554
A large portion are references to other eroge, although the majority of them are untranslated ones. Also there is no need to worry, the translator/editor will probably just change them to "bazinga" or something.

I will have faith in Moogy-dono and read Musicus. I'd like to know who's translating it, though.

>>25191058
It's me.

>>25191058
https://twitter.com/Kouryuu_/status/1286430918748581890?s=20

It is not Kouryuu.

>>25191742
Chance of it getting a decent translation decreasing...

>>25191766
All according to plan.

>>25191058
>>25191742
Is it DS55? He did Bokuten I'm pretty sure.

>>25192342
He's busy with Kinkoi and Venus Blood, so I doubt it.

>Secret Project 3 - 100% translated and edited, in Beta
Maria retweeted this but I doubt it's 03 since I doubt it would be that far ahead already. Therefore it's safe to assume it's some BL/Otome/Yuri game.

>>25191058
Moogy doesn't even read eroge anymore, do not listen to his garbage takes. This guy is going to be the new heika: https://vndb.org/u135371/ulist?c=added&c=finished&c=label&c=started&c=vote&l=1&l=2&l=3&l=4&l=7&mul=0&o=a&s=vote

>>25192953
Well his taste is definitely shit enough to be the new moogy.

>>25192953
>Hoshi Ori Yume Mirae: 10
And his review links to a longer reddit post he made about it too. Fuck off.

>>25192953
This is moogy and you cannot prove me otherwise.

>>25192953
Went through his votes reading his reviews for the past 10 minutes and this is some of the most insufferable, braindead shit I've ever read. Almost every game is listed as "dropped" as well which means his opinion is meaningless. How long did he read them, an hour?

This guy must be reported and banned. He pretends to have read the games and it pisses me off. Everything is just so braindead and WRONG to boot.

>>25193500
Eat shit faggot. You're welcome to your opinion, but if you want to tell me about how awful something is I expect you to have finished it. Here's his Cross Channel review for reference:
>2.4 (Dropped) A confusing VN with obnoxious dialogue. Charatcers [sic] are annoyng [sic] and overall, not a good read
This is meaningless.

>>25192953
For a moment I thought it was a parody account, but it's not.

>>25193583
Well, there are three bad translations of Cross Channel he could have read. The original definiely isn't.

>>25193612
>Kimi ga Nozomu Eien (2.5, Dropped) A love triangle drama story, hey, I like those, let's try this one out! What can go wrong! (spoilers: a lot did). The beginning scenes was filled with lifeless """comedy""" dialogue that was an absolute chore to read. The characters feels like blatant stereotypes and nothing that was going on was interesting in the slightest. Just read WA2 instead, please. Also, this killed my last will to read Muv luv and MLA at all.
Apparently he only read the beginning. Meaningless.

>>25193741
His Subahibi post absolutely missed the point. BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN!

https://i.imgur.com/LX9XkSl.png

>>25187003
>Yeah, MG has a clear bias for Overdrive titles.
Maybe because they are part of Overdrive.

>>25193761
>BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN!
I don't know what you're talking about, I'm afraid.
>Subahibi post
I don't think this is some kind of literary masterpiece or anything, and I don't think it's wrong for someone to dislike it, but I'm not going to listen to the opinion of someone who seemingly only read DtR1 (in English, and complained about it having "hard to read words"), as if their viewpoint would hold any weight.

>>25192953
If you sort by date it's clear that everything up to August of 2018 was read in English, but ever after that a lot of games are only added around the time they get English translations.

Here's my review of Muramasa, hot off the presses.
>Hard to read with lots of pretentious writing about swords. Edgy and boring. Score: 1.5. Dropped.

>>25193929
>pretentious writing about swords
In a game called "Muramasa"? No way.

>>25194314
>I thought Muramasa was supposed to be a girl but it's some kind of robot spider. Score: 2.1. Dropped.

>>25192500
Maria doesn't like BL or Otome as far as I can tell since she doesn't like 2D boys at all. I think it's most likely to be a 3rd eye or a yuri title.

>>25193929
>MTL doesn't read well, shit writing confirmed, lowest rating achieved

>>25196098
She's always retweeting all the otome/bl shit whenever they get an update.
But you might be right, the "Sorcery Jokers" hint they gave never did get revealed and since it's already in beta it fits the timeline.

>>25196266
Assuming that it's a 3rd eye title, that narrows it down to Gensou no Idea or maybe Shinigami no Testament. Railore is too new for that hint to have applied to it, and Bloody Rondo isn't in HD. If MG really wanted to release Bloody Rondo, they could do it, but I doubt that's the case.

>>25196571
Doesn't Zack swear by Gensou no Idea? I could see him vouching for it if they were deciding to go with another 3rdEye title.

>>25196657
https://twitter.com/TheZackZeal/status/1289217259496288256

>>25197010
Honestly, I would have him pegged for the "Sorcery Jokers" hint as the translator for Gensu no Idea but I think he was/is translating something else at the moment. Was it the SkyFish poco titles?

Hey lads. Bokuten is back on Steam!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/668360/Bokuten__Why_I_Became_an_Angel/

Seems like this years December will have Angels again!

>>25200879
Maybe someone will buy it.
>Seems like this years December will have Angels again!
Wrong game.

>>25200879
Huh, was the third party EULA always there?

>>25200964
Due to the controversy, Bokuten actually appeared on the weekly chart, so they got some sales out of it if nothing else.

>>25192953
>Utawarerumono Just play Fire Emblem. This VN is a terribly designed SRPG from the first two maps alone in so many aspects. The story itself is a slog too, forcing the plater to see a whole bunch of random scenes in various locations, which becomes super tedious. The frustration increases with the shallow characters and boring plot.
>1.9
pls be troll

>>25202534
Seems like he got raped by the monkeys

>>25202534
It's true, though. Underwater Ray Romano has shit gameplay and severe pacing issues, especially in the Mask of Deception/Truth where they just talk about food for hours straight, even after the major events near the end of the final game.

>>25204513
Lol better than Fire Emblem's "UWU I need to fuck my waifu and because I am a fatass cringelord weaboo"

>>25204687
Every fanbase is annoying as shit. Just look at the Rancefags who invade /v/ and call those games the greatest of all time despite being on the low budget mediocre side, and even worse than that, offline gachashit.

>>25204513
I'm surprised they didn't sit down and talk about food right after Haku's death. Massive fucking issue in the Truth/Deception games. The haremshit is just as annoying. There already is a canon love interest for Haku so why in the actual fuck did the writer think making every female an orbiting cocksleeve was a good idea?

https://blog.mangagamer.org/2020/08/04/bokuten-back-on-steam/

>>25213346
>false, invalid reasons
>a valid issue with the previous Steam build of Bokuten was discovered

>>25212135
>The haremshit is just as annoying. There already is a canon love interest for Haku so why in the actual fuck did the writer think making every female an orbiting cocksleeve was a good idea?
My take on that is him being human and them being engineered to like and obey humans, though that has been weakened over many generations

>>25211614
Unfortunately this is true. But I always notice when fanbases get bigger they become worse over time. Then again that's most likely because annoying people tend to be Sociopathic in nature.

>>25214522
I thought that reason was always implied, even in the first game.

>>25217537
Every fanbase has its shit, but that shit simply becomes more obvious the bigger the fanbase gets. I don't really bother complaining about them since they are going to be inherently shit no matter what, unless fanbase antics start going beyond being annoying on the internet (like Rick and Morty fags with that whole Mcdonalds thing or Steven Universe fags harassing an artist into attempted suicide).

>>25218292
Yeah that is true I did experience this with MLP as well as a few others. Everything eventually reaches it's peak and then goes right back down again then even further. It's just how it is. Nothing much we can do except wait it out.

i enjoy playing VNs but at the same time they make me feel lonely

https://twitter.com/MangaGamer/status/1291223121161269248

Mangagamer already tossing out the next Cafe title when the catgirl was on just last month. Guessing they're sitting on the higher profile releases for now, but it seems really soon to put out such a similar experience.

>>25229687
this looks like wanko to kurasou with extra steps.

>>25229687
The prequel is still selling okay (by MG standards at least), so it's especially weird. It's possible that they are releasing Wan Nyan early September because they are planning to release their next title mid-September to speed up their release schedule to get through their VN backlog. Or maybe Eternal Torment just wasn't ready.

>>25229687
It was pretty obvious. If you look at the OP it's the only game left that has been out of beta for a significant amount of time.
I'd imagine Rance 01 + 02 are next up, followed by Mugen Renkan and then maybe Quest.

MangaGamer? More like ShowelwareGamer lmao. Cannot remember the last time they released something even worth pirating. Probably Eve1 lol.

>>25238522
Why are you here if you don't like VNs?

>>25238522
>Cannot remember the last time they released something even worth pirating.
2019-05-16

>>25238522
MangaGamer literally released some of the best games of recent times. What are you on about? Maggot Baits, Sakurairo Dreamers? Fucking, Euphoria?

>>25239299
At least for the last one, that came before Evenicle, didn't it?

>>25239532
Everything after 2010 is new for me.

>>25237376
I think that December Quest release is pretty unlikely, though it would be nice. It is claimed to be almost through beta, but depending on how long post beta fixes take, I could see that 18+ otome game, Secret Project 3, or Musicus release in December instead.

Sumaga for work!?

They work on it? Is this confirmed?

Why didn't the western audience appreciate the profound literary depth of Subahibi?

>>25241982
Too few knew Spanish.

>>25241982
>>25242011
Was it because the dog-fucking CG was not included?

>>25242042
I still think removing that was super gay and no one is going to convince me otherwise.

>>25242067
Did you realize that Zakuro hallucinated all of that and it didn't actually happen?

>>25242042
I ended up skipping the title due to Frontwing tweeting that the title was completely uncensored but someone asked why a CG was removed and frontwing said that nothing was removed until the person showed a comparison of the two versions and frontwing ended up saying
>Oh yes that was removed but the game is otherwise completely uncensored

If they're going to try so hard to pretend they didn't censor the title until someone specifically shows a comparison to prove it was censored, it's not worth even bothering with it. So I guess you're technically correct anon.

>>25242189
Why would you not read it because of that? I can understand not buying it, but choosing to skip the game entirely (when you can even fix the issue with a patch) seems retarded to me.

>>25242207
It's just so dishonest to me that I'd rather not bother with it at all in the event they changed more things they neglected to mention like what Sekai Project and what Kagura Games does.

Niggers who pirate/not play a game because of a single CG are whats wrong with this world.

>>25242265
>It's just so dishonest to me that I'd rather not bother with it at all
You sound pretty stupid to me, anon. Your loss.
>in the event they changed more things they neglected to mention like what Sekai Project and what Kagura Games does.
They didn't and no one has ever even claimed that they did. And regarding the issue at hand, the only thing that was done was that the singular CG was removed so it shows a black screen -- all of the text, etc. is still there.

>>25242277
It's not a single CG though. It's that the publishers say they didn't change anything but they actually did and only acknowledge it when people post hard evidence of it and then they try to pretend that it's "no big deal" that they removed or changed something for political reasons.

>>25242277
People with no standards are what's wrong with English translations.

Do people actually read visual novels now or is everyone such a faggot that they just argue about WHAT you should be reading?

>>25242323
Seems pretty obvious to me that they were trying to advertise that it didn't have mosaics (ironically the CG in question had no mosaics) and something got tripped up somewhere.

>>25242350
On hatacord they actually do read VNs.

>>25242318
>hey man it was just one cg
>hey man it was just one scene
>hey man it was just one redrawn character
>hey man it was just the gay trap route
>it's no big deal dude
No they can go fuck themselves and their shitty censorship.

>>25242413
How do they find the time to read anything when they're so busy posting about themselves here?

>>25242414
Okay? That's besides the point, which is that you can easily play the game in its entirety without giving them any money even. I don't understand why you would not read it because of this.

>>25242387
Then they should've said mosaic-free and not uncensored. A title can have no mosaics and still be censored, see several Kagura Games title where some content was rewritten to be more appropriate and some sprites/scenes were replaced with others to be more morally appropriate.

>>25242438
I agree. But I still think that's what they meant. They didn't try to hide the CG issue during the Kickstarter.

>>25242323
They also DMCAed the fan patch that restored it which gave it even more attention.

>>25242414
I agree. Unless people call the company out vocally and forces them to change course, a little bit of censorship often becomes a shit ton of censorship.

>>25242167
Hilarious

>>25242414
I understand your complaint but literally just pirate it bro.

>>25243030
I'm being serious. The girl doesn't tell Zakuro about it, but shows it to her through a vision. Remember they're deluded into thinking their the saviors of the world or some shit. The girl touches her and Zakuro "sees" what happened. It's bullshit and some kind of psychological manifestation caused by her being raped and going insane.

>>25243020
>Kagura Games
As shit as I think they are, I will say they stopped with their censorship and rewriting bullshit a while ago. Now they only censor the store steam ver but the their offsite patch restores everything. They even keep the shota's as kids and refers to them as such without the bullshit gnome and halfling shit they were doing.

>>25244519
If they really have stopped with the censorship, then that's good news. I bought only a couple of their titles, but I felt a little guilty after learning that they censored some titles even with their off-site patch.

https://groupees.com/eroge4

Any of this shit worth playing?

>>25269525
Ask /hgg2d/ just to sure, but I extremely doubt it.

>>25269525
No.

This chat is deader than my future. Come to Hatacord fags

>>25283285
I'll visit your Discord if you stream your suicide through it.

>>25283301
How mean!

Anyways. Can we discuss something?

Did Edens Ritter fail? The numbers are extremely abyssmal and the game had barely any marketing for itself. Also it was only offered on Steam which already meant disaster, despite it not being censored.

>>25283341
I didn't even notice it came out and I'm a huge fan of Waffle.

>>25283451
Well it is listed in this weeks updates and also features in this weeks OP picture.

>>25283707
I barely pay attention to the "other" section since it's usually filled with kusoge and I don't think I've paid attention to the OP image since like 2015.

>>25283341
It is censored though and that's why I didn't buy it. Which is why I'm hoping they decide to contact a publisher to handle a proper western release of it.

>>25287908
Anti-MosaicCHAD reporting in?

>>25288065
yes? No? I mean it's a pretty big fucking deal when a title that is 75% porn has mosaics and that it's a known fact that the artist for said title does extremely good work on genitals due to his/her previous titles being released uncensored by a different publisher. It's not like ShiraVN's previous titles where only 10-15% of it is adult content so mosaics being there isn't a big deal because the porn isn't the entire point of the title, which the same cannot be said for Eden's Ritter because it's literally all about the porn.

https://twitter.com/NekoNyanSoft/status/1292259034117136384

>>25269525
No, not even for free. Touching games don't need translation (JSK is an exception), and there much better untranslated touching games than these.
Female protag games are trash (these are not an exception), doubly so if there's cuckshit involved.
I haven't seen the remaining one, but it looks like it isn't worth $6 anyway. If in doubt, pirate first, then see if you feel like it's worth paying anything for.

Haruoto Alice * Gram Trial Version patch from Anime-Sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U6wkYEyYfOFrQrQQtfK1HgF8M5ff0kmu/view

>>25300055

What's the fucken point? To cocktease EOPs? They've suffered enough.

>>25300604
No they haven't. EOPs can never suffer enough.

>>25300604
Moege don't tease me, they just make me irritated when I'm reminded that they exist.

So is there still no word on what went wrong with Shin Koihime Musou?

>>25300604
>To cocktease EOPs?
Probably. That translator dropped the nevereverest Fortune Arterial just before starting this, so it's an almost guaranteed neverever. I mean, even more of a neverever than fanTL projects usually are, but the news is still news.

>>25301663
Besides the translator not even knowing Japanese?

One Hundred and One Ways to Commit Suicide -INVITATION-: https://www102.zippyshare.com/v/6gpG0Rkt/file.html

>>25304132
I assume it's related to this?
https://vndb.org/v6475
What is the -INVITATION- part?

>>25304348
It's a translation of the additional story.

>>25304487
Ah, I see. I was hoping someone was translating the game.

>>25304487
What is the relation of this to the game?

>>25304487
Also did you translate it?

>>25304132
Added illustrations and fixed page order, kinda fucked it up the first time around.
https://www36.zippyshare.com/v/5LYdYeDW/file.html

>>25304614
It depicts some pre-main story happenings from the pov of one of the heroines. The booklet itself is kind of an advert for the game.

>>25304844
Might give it a look later then (I was wondering if it had spoilers or something). Do you have any intention of doing the game itself?

>>25304906
It is a possibility. Though I promise nothing, as I'm not sure I'll have the time. Besides, someone would need to hack the game for a patch to be released, and it doesn't look promising.

>>25305347
Well I hope you're able to at some point. The first time I saw the game on VNDB I got turned off by the art, but I read a review on a blog about it a few weeks back and it got me interested.

>>25306163
New thread up with updates for this week

>>25305347
I'll love you forever if you do