/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Is your name supposed to be 喝?

If so, since I've been playing that new hypnotist eroge for the past few days, genius.

What is it?

Thank you. I was afraid I'd have to play this myself.

>>2583414
Actually, it comes from 勝つ.

Okay, /jp/, I've decided.
I'm going to try to play this game from start to finish, and post as many screenshots with hilariously bad dialogue as I can.

Previous response for Fading Hearts Parallel
http://archive.easymodo.net/cgi-board.pl/jp/thread/2528949
http://archive.easymodo.net/cgi-board.pl/jp/thread/2547188

What's the plot?

>>2583434
If DDC had a drinking game, I would literally die playing it.

>>2583447
Take on the role of Alex, a newcomer to the Anime and Visual Novel Otaku subculture. After learning the joys of vivid visual media, he has an encounter with a girl. The girl speaks of the problems of her jealous boyfriend that seems to demand a lot of her time. Soon Alex's memories begin to resurface as he talks more with her.

Will Alex get involved with her troubled love life?

Will Alex remember what he forgotten?

What happened in Alex's past that he badly wants to forget?

DRAMA

Alright, have to look the writer of this up. If his/her (I'm assuming 'her') native language is English, there's going to be trouble.

>>2583460
Nevermind, (s)he's from Canada.

Nice art, though. Take away the shitty story and writing and you'd have a winner.

It's like I'm really in elementary school!

>>2583460
The company is Canadian, so the writer's most probably Canadian as well.

This scene sucks so much I'm taking a screenshot every other line now.

The fact that the art is so nice is the worst thing about it. What a fucking WASTE.

Where would one obtain this game?

>>2583481
Author took it down. Maybe someone could /rs/ it or something?

>>2583481
/rs/. Sakura River has taken it off their site. To improve it.

Wait, how did I get here all of a sudden?

>>2583480
Congratulations; now you know how every single person who has played Shuffle! feels.

Beating the 'every other line' record now; these three lines were right after another.

This one has been posted before, but deserves a repost.

I can't post sounds here, but I just heard the worst 'beating heart' sound ever.

Why are your screenshot filenames numbered in reverse order?

Claire meets Candlejack.

>>2583518
This.

>That mountain does look cool though and I would like to be on it sometime.
I read this in Ron Burgundy's voice.

A park close enough to a forest to see the light of a gaming device from the park. Makes perfect sense.

>>2583519
Windows sorts files in alphabetic order, so lower numbers are listed first. The picture I'm about to post is always the second file after I hit 'browse' if I name them in reverse order.

Also, 50% of the protagonist's lines consist of repeating what was just said. Best protagonist ever.

...
Yeah, I also immediately thought of that.

Jesus christ, this is fucking funny. Someone RS this shit.

Indeed.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MO6R0V16

delivered

>>2583480
Sakura River probably actually paid money for the art, then the shitty dialog was done "in house". By the same people who thought this would be a good idea...

Not even the protagonist can escape Candlejack.

Yes. THAT 4koma.

>>2583556
Or maybe just a bad sentence without a full stop?

I feel like I've heard this line before. But then it actually made sense.

Alright, alright. I'm convinced.

Fuck OELVNs, I'm going back to games by Dualtail. They may be horrible and full of rape, but at least they're written better than this.

NO GOD WHY

Wait, we've only seen eachother like once or twice before.

>>2583571
KS is better than this shit.

Not even a 2D girl likes an otaku.

Um, I only talked to you. Are you implying I can't do anything more useful than having two random conversations with someone?

>>2583600
Remember that she's a long-lost heroine from the protagonist's forgotten past, and is probably the living ghost of a girl in a coma to boot.

No! Why are you doing this to me?! Type-Moon's hint corners were awesome ;_;

Ah, looks like we're getting a list of names of the people responsible for this abomination.

THIS GUY!

Sounds exciting.

I CAN'T WAIT

>>2583625
So THIS is the girl I need to kidnap and force to work on something half-decent.

I'm half-tempted to buy this when it comes out just to see how terrible it is.

Of course, to make up for it, I'll immediately after raise a dispute through Paypal, who, if I know Paypal at all, will then proceed to lock the account without checking first.

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IT'S DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP

>>2583455
hahaha owow a game starring damaged goods is not good enough for /jp/

GTFO

I don't think I really like the character design for some reason

>>2583651
It's still high quality and better than.. every other english-language VN ever. Which isn't bad for a free work, except this isn't a free work.

Like I said, the art is actually a bad thing, because it makes the writing look far worse in comparison - even if you could buy the horrible plot and writing, you'd STILL be thinking 'such a waste' every moment of reading the thing.

>>2583632
>Alfe Clemencio
Hmm, sounds like a filipino name.

http://www.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~aclemenc/index.html
This seems to be the writer's personal website, complete with e-mail address for...questions. *cackle*cackle*

That was... Inspiring. How much money do you think the full product will produce?

http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~aclemenc/projects.html seems to be the newer version of his website, the other one is outdated. This one is probably outdated as well, but less so.

>>2583775
Too much. They should be charged for making this crap instead.

>>2583778
Come on now. Do you seriously think anybodys going to buy this piece of shit?

Guys, you haven't seen anything yet.

http://kuroi.jascii.org/index.php?url=CPdl

Yes, this is another commercial venture.

JPEG, motherfucker. Do you know it?

>>2583827
Catgirl: Panic! is avaivable for free! Fuck yeah! Nekomimi sugoi sugoi!

>>2583559
>>2583628
How do I perspective?

>>2583749
Holy fuck. That guy came from Waterloo University? I suppose people there only know how to do maths and shit but not how to write in decent English.

http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=5068

Fading Hearts discussion thread.
You can post as guest.

>>2583725
He is someone foreign that's for sure. Or the person writing the story at least. The wording looked like it was written by someone who had English as his second language.

It's kind of hard to put this in words. Although the text was acceptable in terms of grammar and structuring, it didn't appear as how a regular text in English should be worded. The team should hired a real native speaker in English as a proofreader to reword the text in more "readable" terms.

okay whats so bad? I didn't read through everything but the art looks good. Why the rage?

>>2583660
KS was here
Fading hearts is a loser

The artwork in FH isn't terrible, but the characters look like they covered themselves in Vaseline to make themselves as shiny as possible. KS's artwork is superior.

>>2583827
And OH GOD DEAD FISH EYES STARING RIGHT AT ME. MAKE THEM BLINK. FOR THE LOVE OF RAPTOR JESUS MAKE THEM BLINK.

>>2583634

Wait, there's a "Fading Hearts"?

>>2584738
It's not bad, just mediocre and full of stupid little errors

After viewing this thread I just thought it would be nice if some Jap make a self-parody VN written in Engrish. It would be hilarious.

>>2584743
Don't call it mediocre.

Mediocre implies you can read it without having a visceral reaction. I had the distinct displeasure of feeling like I was going to taste my breakfast for a second time as I read this shit.

>and post as many screenshots with hilariously bad dialogue as I can

IMAGE LIMIT REACHED

>>2584710
The English language proficiency requirements for Canadian universities tend to be less rigorous than in the US.

>She starts to look at me, in fact she's staring at me
>Would you like for me to meet your expectations
>There have been people who have disappear from there.
>While some people report that they see the creatures there.
>I've been lost and have been wandering here lost. ಠ_ಠ
>Tonight is the episode is the one I don't want to face.

>>2583551
Can anyone verify this thing is legit? My mom says I shouldn't download strange exe files from 4chan.

>>2583434
DDC wasn't THAT bad, it just was disappointing.

This thread, man. This thread.

Ha ha ha, oh wow.

>>2583624
Did not download; did not listen.

>>2583625
Very generic style, but skilled at what she does. I hope that she goes on to draw generic but attractive girls for companies with better writing talent.

>>2583628
Look at the left side of the rug. Look at the right side of the rug. Do these edges converge on a point in the horizon? Middle school drawing lessons aside, acceptable.

>>2583629
Its pretty obvious that he used a leaf-pattern brush when drawing the tops of the trees in the forest, but otherwise completely satisfactory. Best of show.

>>2583632
THIS GUY!

>>2583632
Disappear. This guy is an eyesore. This guy. This guy. This guy. This guy. This guy. This guy. This guy. This guy. This guy. This guy. This guy. This guy. This guy. This guy!

Whoever thought that damaged goods as main heroin would become popular is probably clueless about the whole VN thing.
Or maybe they just had an urge to produce something, even knowing it'd come out as utter shit.

>>2584809

>>2583637
Oh, hey, I actually have her on my devart watchlist:
http://kaze-hime.deviantart.com/

Pretty talented.

So, how long is the game, overall?

Like, 30 minutes or so, or does it at least break an hour?

I wonder if they paid the artist. Considering they're SERIOUS ENTREPRENEURS, it wouldn't surprise me.

Do this one next. I gave up after the first chapter.

http://www.the-z-projects.com/eternity/

This shit's "The Room" of VNs.

>>2585906
Oh c'mon, that movie had some of the greatest scenes in cinema history.

age

>>2585906

But The Room was good.

>>2585926

YOU ARE TEARING ME APART, LISA

age

Someone just go extract the art so someone with decent writefag skills can go make an oelvn that's not shit.

Sprites and backgrounds: http://www.mediafire.com/?nzqnmuu52xt
Soundtrack: http://www.mediafire.com/?dnnm20ygd0w
I thought the soundtrack was kind of non-notable, but whatever.

Oh, and I still need to troll to keep this thread going, right? Okay...
Actually, I think the writing in this game is pretty good. The graphics suck, though.

>>2589533

I love you.

It seems like a real waste having characters this good looking and not being able to have sex with them.

>>2589542

Looks a lot better than KS

>>2589548

That girl? Sure, but I want to punch this one in the face.

>>2589558
>>2589542

>Claire
>Rina

These are terrible names

>:(

>>2589625

Oh, come on.

>>2589533
Fantastic; I'll see what I can do with this stuff.

>>2584723

Haha oh wow. Anon hard at work as always.

A few screenshots and I'm already laughing. Wow. Best unintentional comedy VN ever.

I saw Raging Hearts...

All this nice art coupled with the really, REALLY bad dialogue makes me want to cringe.

age
This thread isn't dead yet, and it has lots of great screenshots of this great game.

>>2591049
Yeah, but it's shit.

age