/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Sekai/Denpa
The Seventh Sign -Mr. Sister- - "Planning release", appears to have been rejected by Steam
Ley-Line: Daybreak of Remnants Shadow - "More programming", UI interface nearly complete
Ley-Line: Flowers Falling in the Morning Mist - Fully localized, in engine work
Re;Lord Volume 2 - In QA
Harumade Kururu - Awaiting engine work
Rewrite+ - Overall 55% translated and 44% edited, Q2 release planned
Love Duction - 100% translated and edited, engine work in progress, entering QA soon
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, waiting on QA build
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. - 50% translated
Sumire - Picked up
Sanarara R - 100% translated, 25% edited
Amatsutsumi - "Waiting on build"
Love's Sweet Garnish 2 - 100% translated, in QA
Kanojo no Seiiki - Picked up
Glass - Picked up
New Glass - Picked up
Kimagure Temptation - 100% translated
9-nine- Episode 4 - "preparing Steam page"
Karakara 3 - In Development
Secret Project 7 - 100% translated and edited
Secret Project 9 - 100% translated

Sol Press/Panty Press
>Happiness! 2 Sakura Celebration - 100% translated and edited, QA build being finalized
Shitsuji ga Aruji o Erabu Toki - "Currently restaffing"
>Nukitashi - 100% translated, 80% edited
Himawari to Koi no Kioku - "Currently restaffing"
Irotoridori no Sekai - 100% translated and edited, waiting on QA build
Witch's Garden - "Acquiring staff"
Hyper->Highspeed->Genius - "Acquiring staff"

Nekonyan
Hello Lady - Main game 100% translated, edited, and TLC, 50% QC, engine work being done by developer
Dracu Riot - 100% translated, TLC, and edited, engine porting starting shortly
>Kinkoi: Golden Loveriche - 100% translated and 78% edited, being ported to Unity, QA started, Kickstarter planned for mid-February
Clover Days - 100% translated and TLC, 90% edited, engine porting started
Fureraba Complete edition - Vita exclusive content to be added to Fureraba a couple months after the fandisc release
Melty Moment - 50% translated and TLC
Making＊Lovers: Geki Icha After Story - "we plan to translate the Fandisc as well"
Secret Project #1 - 67% translated and 67% TLC, 30% edited
Secret Project #2 - 35% translated and 35% TLC
Secret Project #3 - 100% translated, TLC, and edited

Fakku
Abaddon: Princess of the Decay - Demo out, Winter release
Perverse Incentives - Upcoming release

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

LoveLab
The Humbling of a Holy Maiden - 100% translated, 50% through programming
Chinkamo Twins! - 100% translated and edited

Aksys
Dairoku: Ayakashimori - 2021 release
Variable Barricade - 2021 release
Olympia Soiree - 2021 release

Cherry Kiss
>Lonely Catgirl is the Purrfect Pussy - Released
Conquer and Breed the Demon Queen - Upcoming release

Other
Bustafellows - 2021 release
MAMIYA - A Shared Illusion of the World's End - 2021 release
Jiangshi x Taoshi - Episodes 1-2 released, episode 3 upcoming
Evenicle 2 - Demo released
Wanko no Yomeiri - Upcoming release
Taimanin Asagi - Page for the Trial of episode 1 back on Steam
Venus Blood Hollow - Kickstarted finished, December 2021 release listed
Fault - Silence the Pedant - Demo released
Fault Milestone 2 - Side Below - Spring 2021
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>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread

>>33065812
>Django - Waiting on translation.

Is the translator okay?

>Kinkoi - being ported to Unity
....
>Fureraba Complete edition - Vita exclusive content to be added to Fureraba a couple months after the fandisc release
This is nearing what 3 year anniversary this month? "A couple months" really are long.
>Jiangshi x Taoshi - Episodes 1-2 released, episode 3 upcoming
This still hasn't been updated. Ep.3 has been out for months.
>Shukufuku no Campanella - Trial patch released
This should be removed already.
>Wanko no Yomeiri - Upcoming release
This apparently came out 2020-10-20. Sequel doesn't seem announced.

Had nothing to read for so long I was forced to find another hobby and now I don't really care about VNs anymore. I wanted to read Musicus back when it was announced but now I'm not sure I'll bother.

>>33066725
Should have learnt Japanese.

>>33065812
Does Gold completely replace non-Gold or does it reference non-Gold in any way?
But it's a completely new story is it not?

>>33066725
How do you run out of games to read? You must be picky as fuck.

>>33066844
They are different games. Everything from the story to character events and h scenes is completely different. The only similarities are the gameplay and character personalities.

>>33066995
in his defense, a lot of the modern releases of the past 2 years have been really bad.

>>33067016
So? Read old games. Run out then learn Japanese or MTL but even for translated games there's enough to last you years to complete them.

>>33067110
>dude just consume everything no matter how shit it is

>>33066755
Don't care anymore.
>>33066995
>You must be picky as fuck.
I am.

>>33067241
wow

>>33067241
That's some archetype Japanese coding right there.

>>33067204
The fact you consider the majority of games shit tells me you don't enjoy VNs. Look for a different hobby.

>>33067446
most modern releases are shit though. You do have a point in that 99% of people will never run out of stuff to read however I am beginning to run out of titles after having been reading VN's for nearly 17 years.

>>33067366
>I am.
So you're a plotfag who only reads 1 game/year. You're in luck, there were a few like Baldr Sky, Raging Loop, Iwaihime, Totono.

>>33067508
Iwaihime is a cuck game not a plot game.

>>33067446
The majority of games/movies/VNs/anime etc is shit. Obviously you want to pick what appeals to you instead of playing anything just because you can. You're a fucking idiot.

>>33067508
>Baldr Sky
This is something I would have liked to read years ago but now I don't care.
>Raging Loop
Good VN which I already read when it was released.
>Iwaihime
I tried reading it and not only is the writing terrible, it's based around some stupid supernatural mega-NTR shit. I didn't like Ryukishi before, but Umineko at least had some redeeming qualities. This however is complete and utter shit.
>Totono
Tried this and well and didn't like it at all. I don't care about this kind of meta stuff and again, NTR.

>>33067446
even if you know japanese 90% of releases are absolute trash. Like the recent Ryukishi game.

>>33067846
As for upcoming releases, I may still read Musicus or Kiminozo at some point, depending on how I feel at the time. If the rumors are true about Muramasa getting translated, I'd still like to read that, and it's the only one I still have an active interest in. Besides those I think I'm pretty much done with it all.

entire options menu of Âge's new engine. You can't even mute specific characters. 0 font settings. Good luck selling your next actual game on this shit.

>>33068491
>mute specific characters
Do people actually do this?

>>33068491
who cares? It's just some options. They're not important anyway. Though I suppose if you bitch enough they'll sell a $10 patch that adds additional options.

>>33068533
I've only used it once when I was rereading Kara no Shoujo HD. I don't like the new voice actor for the main character, so I muted him. For KnS2 RE, I patched in the original voice actor.
I can see myself potentially muting some annoying high-pitched character, but I haven't been driven to that point yet.

>>33068533
I mute every voiced protag ever.

>>33068827
Christ I wish I muted Takeru when I read muvluv. I can't fucking stand his VA and he doesn't suit Takeru at all.

>>33068847
Dumb

>>33068868
Rude

>>33068491
Is it still based off rUGP or is it something entirely new?

>>33069038
Kouki said in a livestream they met somebody who makes engines that are superior to their own which also manage to run on smartphones.
Then this releases and it turns out the company that ported F/SN to phones was involved.
I can only imagine is an entirely different engine and the reason there's 0 options is that those new hack frauds they got never had to code a multi-language pc release for anything ever and don't know how to do it.

>>33067846
>>Baldr Sky
>This is something I would have liked to read years ago but now I don't care.
are you me?
I just don't have time to put 100 hours into something with a shitload of filler like I did when I was 19.

>>33068533
I muted Mitcher when I played Grisaia.
Any anime girl that yells gets muted.

>>33069213
Learning about all the filler flashback scenes killed my interest.

>>33069213
This is the reason visual novels are dead in Japan. They could make plot visual novels that are a third as long for half the price that would be 3x more appealing to their target demographic, but for years they insisted on putting out gargantuan abominations full of filler and selling them for 8000 yen.

>>33069261
visual novels are dead because gacha games are the same thing and free

>>33069318
Gacha games are nothing like visual novels? Except maybe moege I guess.
Also they aren't free. Even if you're not a whale, the price of admission is your soul.

>>33069348
are you aware of how much text volume gacha games have nowadays?

>>33069348
It's the anything it's the opposite since moege are the only VNs still alive.
Moege are still the only ones where you can get full monogamous relationships where you meet the girl and see the relationship develop, gacha is all harem stuff.

>>33069440
what's a gacha game you would consider on par with the average plotge?

>>33069519
Iris Mysteria.

>>33069541
It's not available in English and locked to Japanese IP addresses, so I won't be able to verify your claim for awhile it seems.

>>33069261
I've read the claim that the Japanese audience actually insists on gargantuan length. They supposedly want it that way.

>>33069679
I understand that they want a long game in the context of what they pay, which is why I suggest that a length cut should come with a price cut as well.

>>33069635
Even something like Magicami also has all the fighting and "suffering" from plot VNs, even had a collab with Steins;Gate.
Sure it's not good quality writing but it's not like VN fans ever cared about that, it still fills the needs of cute girls, porn, and some degree of a story, only thing missing is actual one-on-one romance which is why moege are still alive.

>>33069719
The reason why I doubt a gacha game can be a proper plotge is because by design those games are never supposed to have a conclusion, and because the characters you access to depend on what you roll, so you can't exactly have a lot of plot based around a character the player might never have.

>>33069141
>somebody who makes engines that are superior to their own which also manage to run on smartphones.
They honestly should have gone with unity if all they wanted was something they can shove on any platform. We know it can work with how other VNs have got ported to it afterall.

>>33069141
Does the engine run on Win 7?

>>33069759
That's only a plus, people always shit on the endings for VNs and say how japs can't write conclusions, with a gacha you have the same favorite characters constantly going on new adventures or whatever, it's the same shit as an ongoing manga.

>>33069719
I rather play RPG Maker if I wanted that. Gacha games like all online games are limited in the way that your choices don't matter. If anything they are like a worse version of a kinect novel.

No one cares about the Wizard's Climber translation?

>>33069759
Oh and the two games I mentioned have a limited set of characters and you roll for alternative dresses for them so there's no problem in using them on the story.
Other games where you roll for new girls instead just have a central cast that the main story focuses on and you get those characters for free anyway.

>>33069873
You sound like someone who has never played a gacha.

>>33069912
I've never heard tell of it

>>33067720
All good plot games are cuck games lol. If a plot game doesn't have NTR, (tentacle) rape, surprise used goods reveal, and heroine death it's shit.

Eiyu Senki Gold got released and a bunch of pirates from F95 and Russia joined JAST discord and report stuff that outs them as pirates. How dumb can you be

>>33067986
If NTR is a problem for you then you should stay away from Musicus and Kiminozo and Muramasa.

>>33068491
How basic. Why does Age suck so much.
>>33069141
>smartphone dev
Yikes. Still besser than their own crashing shit.

>>33069261
VNs are dead because of gacha, SHORT and episodic crap games. Almost no one makes good longer games anymore. Short stuff is the dreck of VNs.

>>33069873
>japs can't write conclusions
That's the truth. Most anime/manga/LNs shit the bed in the last arc and have abysmal endings if they even have any closure at all. VNs have the perk of actually ending, but bad writing will still ruin a good story.

>>33068625
>For KnS2 RE, I patched in the original voice actor.
How did you do that? I want to read the remaster with my glorious Suwabe voice acting and not the new actor who suck balls.

>>33070609
I extracted his voice files from the original release, put them in a folder along with the tl port patch, and added a few lines to the script so that it'd copy over and replace those voice files in voice.iga whenever applying the patch.
Have it nice and ready if you want: https://mega.nz/file/xHo2USyC#bgv78QQDhWcmJoWIIsQUlfqKLlwi7s08-mNghc3AITk

>>33069230
I can't imagine having taste so bad that you'd mute Mizuhashi Kaori of all people.

>>33070367
Not going to lie, I actually like abrupt endings that don't have much closure. Leaves more room for discussion and imagining things, and it doesn't fall victim to dragging on forever and fizzling out. I obviously prefer a solid conclusion that ends strong, but it's not the worst outcome.

Really interseted in reading pre Key Jun Maeda stuff but this is really hard to search anything for, anyone know if it's translated or not?

>>33071718
If only there was a website where you could check.

>>33071812
yeah I guess, I miss when it had actual links that you can just download directly from, also I always forget half of these are on sukebei

If I am probably like three fourths through Eiyuu*Senki. Any merits to finishing that or am I just better off starting a new game with Eiyuu*Senki GOLD?
I kind of got really into the game, but after covid totally fucked me up I never really got back into the game. So I haven't really played it in like 8~ something months as a result, and I've kind of forgotten a lot of what was going on as a result, so maybe I should just start a new game with GOLD if it's the better game and all?

But I really was enjoying the original game and I got really far.
Could completing the original game enhance my experience with GOLD somehow? Or maybe the opposite? Should I explicitly avoid completing the original in order to cherish GOLD? Or could it bee that it doesn't really matter?

>>33072275
It doesn't matter. They're completely different games (not counting the actual gameplay), they just share the same world and characters.

>>33070367
Umineko had one of the worst endings I've ever seen. I mean really, a tranny tries to date all his cousins/niece/nephews. Apparently everybody in the house is blind and couldn't tell it was all one person in drag.

>>33071718
Ever heard of vndb?

>>33070273
Really? In what way?
Did they like report a bunch of bugs that have already been fixed, or did they go full utter retard detailing how they extracted the game or even where they got it from?

>>33072816

The latter. Also showing screenshots of their folders with [superelmo] tag

>>33073234
That's funny.

>>33070273
What do you mean dumb? There's no consequence so how can it be called dumb?

>>33073304
As we speak JAST is sending a troop to assassinate you.

>>33072275
The original game's finale is terrible so I'd say just give up on it.

>>33070287
>If NTR is a problem for you then you should stay away from Musicus ... and Muramasa.
Spare me your epic memery.
>and Kiminozo
I know about this and it doesn't bother me due to how it's handled.

>>33065920
Nope. At least they're honest.

>>33073234
JAST employees(unpaid) would never be this retarded. Oh wait...

I'M ANGRY! I'M ANGRY THAT I'M A LAZY KEK WHO DOESN'T HAVE THE MOTIVATION TO WORK ON MY VISUAL NOVEL!

>>33070109
https://vndb.org/v783 game from SofthouseChara (Bunny Black developer). Some rando dropped a full translation on Nyaa and from what I can see in the first few minutes it's not mtl https://sukebei.nyaa.si/view/3250709

>>33077011
>MY VISUAL NOVEL
It's fine, no one would read it anyway.
>>33078829
>from what I can see in the first few minutes it's not mtl
How would you know?

>>33078829
Looks kinda interesting, never played a raising sim. Though Clephas said it's kusoge: https://vndb.org/t6848

>>33078901
Because doesn't read like one. Even an edited mtl always leaves traces.

>>33078942
Looks like our guy Sanah liked it

>>33078946
Considering the fact that your post literally reads like a machine translation, I don't think you have the credibility to be the judge of that.

>>33079295
Congrats, you passed the Turing test

>>33078901
visual novel translation*
I need a mommy to whip me back into shape.

>>33075878
Dayuuuuuuuuuuuum.

Meru is the perfect mommy. I want to cum on her feet while her husband licks it up.

>>33080681
Please direct me to Meru-sama.

>>33081754
https://twitter.com/merumeruchann/status/1047133946037694464?s=19

>>33075755
You don't have to believe me, but don't complain later.

>>33084314
Feel free to tell me the specific instances of NTR that occur in Musicus and Muramasa.

>>33084570
I know that in Musicus the MC raises his friend's kid after he dies or something.

I just can't get into Eiyuu*Senki. Something about the blaise way that it's all presented is irritating to me.

>>33077011
Are you the Django translator? Get back to work, you lazy piece of shit.

Cheating isnt ntr.

red pill me on Eiyu Senki GOLD, do I need a 18+ patch as of right now and is it any good. Is this the second game or just a newer version?

>>33090335
Read the thread, retard.

Do you also dream of Meru swallowing your cum?

>>33067846
I havent been here for years Baldr Sky actually got translated? also whats Raging Loop is it a legit japanese vn.

I think vns died for me once the infinity games all got translated including I/0 and root double, nothing can top remember 11 that shit was a wild ride. those threads back in the day and trying to figure out 100% what happened was insane levels of detective work. Are there any god level vns even left?

I mean the tuskihime remake will be one but will it top the OG I doubt it, Is it true its only a console game.

>>33090681
All infinity games aren't translated yet, though.

>>33090604
>Raging Loop

Console VN. Very good in my opinion. Well except the ending since Japanese people can't write satisfying endings.

>>33091092
What infinity games are actually left, I think there was a game that was made afterwards like I/0 and root double but the translation team pasted it right?
>>33091152
any guide I need for it or is it simple.

>>33091198
Fairly simple. There's a map system so you can go back to your previous choices.

>>33091220
Alright ill give it a try, its been years since I read a vn. I know robotic notes came out but the translation fix that came out is blocked on pirated versions and gave up on it.

>>33091241
BUY YOUR FUCKING VNS OR WE WON'T GET ANY MORE

>>33091198
12riven, tl team sold out and stopped the fantl as a result. I think there's one more too (code18) but I think I heard it's a kusoge with no involvement from either ever17 creator

>>33091274
lol fuck no

>>33091274
I will Osama.

If nips were innovative and wanted money they would turn VNs into CYOA RPGs.

Was the board raided again or something? Page 10 after only an hour.

Eiyuu Senki Gold is so good. JASTs best release this year. Easily.

>>33100423
Will I like it if I found the original boring towards the end?

>>33100441
Depends on what you found boring. If it was the gameplay then it is mostly the same so you may still have an issue with it, but the story is totally different.

>>33100561
It was in fact the gameplay, so it's a pass from me.

>>33100856
They gameplay became much better. Much more balanced, different difficulty settings and possible to vary which path you will take next. The game opens up after first getting to USA

>>33071718
You're not searching hard enough. The other day I found DDLs for both English-translated and the raw games.

>>33101538
That's good to know. I just started and was already starting to dread another 30+ hours of samey fights that come down to using the same busted units over and over.

>>33100273
Why are VTubers still here? Don't they have their own board now?

>>33108281
like every other new /v/ offshoot, the mods are just offering it as an alternative instead of forcing people to move for some reason. makes them all pointless.

>>33108281
They came back after not even a week. Guess they can't handle how retarded that community actually is.

I think it would be fine if they just had a couple generals like they did before. But them being able to continue to make a thread here for every single Vtuber is just stupid.

>>33091274
Why would you buy a shit localisation that requires a patch to fix it?

I thought there would be more hype around The Day After. I mean MLA is pretty much the most popular vn of all time in the west.

>>33112075
Most everyone interested has already read the first two episodes and has long lost any excitement. TDA is alright, nothing outstanding, so nothing to get "hyped" about. Also there's the people pissed over all-ages console censorship I guess, but that's whatever to me.
I'm glad I'll get to read the other two episodes finally, but it's still unfinished. I'll just have to wait some more for TDA 04 to come out and then get translated.

>>33112075
It's horribly censored, the engine is shit, and we've already read most of it like 8 years ago.

>>33112075
I read MLA 6 years ago i don't even give a fuck about the Muv-Luv verse anymore. Waiting for too long kill the hype.

>>33112075
>I mean MLA is pretty much the most popular vn of all time in the west
No that's Steins;Gate

>>33112075
I've never been interested in cheap spinoffs that seek only to beat a dead horse. That's what every Muv Luv spinoff is.

>>33117367
No, that's F/SN.

>>33119761
No, that's Nekopara.

>>33112075
aNCHOR's incompetent handling of the series in the west has killed all interest I had in it. I haven't even bothered reading photonflowers or melodies yet despite getting keys for them from the Kickstarter.

>>33112075
They really screwed up the pricing.

Apparently Evenicle 2 got banned on Steam. LOL!

>>33122505
Wow. Absolutely no-one saw this one coming. Remind me again why they decided it was a good idea to go steam exclusive?

>>33122505
Wouldn't be surprised if it did but can you post a source?

>>33122621
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aAbrEDNa2NmgntrKtij0RuxKneiFcTJisGyfMUv2nnM/

>>33118609
Yes, you know that without reading it

>>33122505
Please link me to the source of this, I want this to be true so desperately so that I can mock Alicesoft and their abhorrent censorship for getting banned on steam regardless.

>>33122714
whoops ignore me, I was typing and then walked away for a moment. Source is >>33122633
This is absolutely perfect.

>>33122714
Retard.

>>33122726

>>33122648

>>33122633
Thanks.
So I guess those cuts they made for the Steam version weren't enough and Steam still banned them anyway. It looks like if you want to get on Steam the Yukikoi method of gutting nearly the entire game then patching everything back in is the way to go.

>>33122633
- All info listed here is publicly available. It may or may not be accurate.
This is an aggregator, not a source.

>>33122766
If it was banned from steam, there's literally nothing they can do because banned titles cannot be resubmitted. Rejected titles can be resubmitted though.

>>33122766
subahibi and koikatsu did the same thing and they're both still up.
i'm pretty sure koikatsu's steam version without the off-site patch is not much more than a menu screen.

>>33122804
Steam Database is the source.

>>33122882
The SteamDB page doesn't say anything about it being banned though.

>>33122633
>Shuffle
Wasn't it removed because EN publisher lost the rights?

>>33122902
For whatever reason, rejected games have their web assets made public, but nothing else, which means that you can spot them via SteamDB. There's a pretty solid track record of rejected games showing up like that by now.

>>33122882
Steam Database doesn't have any flags to identify if it's banned or not. Not being able to hit the store page from the link just means that the application isn't publicly available without the access token yet. That can mean that it's still in development or in the process of submission or many other things.

>>33122902
The "Added Web Assets" thing is what happens when a game gets banned.
Examples:
https://steamdb.info/app/1390440/history/
https://steamdb.info/app/1250600/history/
https://steamdb.info/app/1284750/history/
https://steamdb.info/app/625760/history/

>>33122553
You say that but some people were insisting it would be fine since the demo got approved.

>>33122913
Says right there.

>>33122633
Honestly well deserved after the censorship if true. They were no doubt expecting big steam sales based on the success of the first game too. I'm guessing this will have to go on JAST or MG's stores now? That would be pretty hilarious.

>>33122977
I'm blind, didn't see there was a NOTES column

>>33122989
JAST can't sell it uncensored, only MG and Fakku can.

>>33122822
Last year Fruitbat got Jiangshi x Daoshi banned from Steam but were able to reach out to their Steam rep to get that decision reversed and have it counted as a rejection instead. That's why if you check Steamdb you'll find the old appid have all the telltale signs of a steam ban but also another appid that came later where it's just fine.
In general though yeah you are completely fucked if you get a ban.

https://blog.fruitbatfactory.com/2020/07/17/when-jiangshi-met-daoshi/

>>33123022
>JAST can't sell it uncensored
Why?

>>33122989
Not sure what they were expecting since Steam has been so risky for a lot of 18+ content for a few years now. MG got super lucky with the original being approved since it arrived just at the right time where Valve was over the initial scepticism of 18+ titles and before they started to scrutinise every title for stupid shit.

>>33123032
Fruitbat has a previous track record with valve that gave them additional leverage to show they were operating in good faith. No new company will manage that if put in the same situation.

>>33123060
JAST can't sell titles that have children fucking, it's why they had to cut that one scene from Schatten. Evenicle 2 has an early scene (that the developers cut out from the demo without telling anyone) that their payment processor would consider the same thing as Schatten's.

>>33123080
Kagura and Cherry Kiss seem to be doing fine getting all their shit on steam.

>>33123128
Cherry Kiss is only hagshit and Kagura censor their games.

>>33123128
Kagura censors and rewrites their stuff, Cherry Kiss doesn't localize high school titles anymore. All their modern stuff is fantasy world older heroines.

>>33123126
>JAST can't sell titles that have children fucking
JAST sells Summer Memories and the + expansion.

>>33123126
>>33123173
And Onikiss.

>>33123173
>>33123191
Right but there's nothing to imply that they're actual children whereas Evenicle 2 has a flashback scene to when they were kids, just like Schatten does.

>>33123211
One of the girls in Onikiss hasn't had a period yet.

>>33123211
>there's nothing to imply that they're actual children
Well no eroge has that or they wouldn't be able sell it.
Why would a flashback matter? They're always going to magically be 18+ no matter what.

>>33123246
Could be a development problem.

>>33123259
I'm just saying anon, the exact same scene happened in Schatten and had to be removed, so it's a pretty clear indication that it'd have to be removed in Evenicle 2 as well.

>>33123211
>but there's nothing to imply that they're actual children
The loli in Summer Memories wears a school uniform and hangs out with a group of other kids where she made a secret base in the forest. The only way it could "imply" it any more is to directly state their ages.

>>33123126
Venus Blood

>>33123324
I only remember a lolibaba in venus blood.

>>33123282
The Schatten thing was years ago, a lot of things changed at JAST since then.

>>33123349
>we had to cut this content out
>but now it's okay for us to sell this content
>no we're not going to include that cut content back into the title
Sounds like a really bad idea to me.

>>33123359
They cut bestiality in Starless but kept the horse scene in Venus Blood.

>>33123387
Was it a regular horse or was it a magical horse? That might be the difference.

>>33123359
It would look bad if they were to admit the "fan patch" was actually them now.

>>33123399
A regular horse

>>33123410
The fan-patch wasn't actually them this time. Doddles was forbidden from creating one for whatever reason. So he stripped the scene out of the title and hid it inside one of the data files so that people could datamine the title and restore it themselves. The fan-patch team was currently in the process of having the CG's redrawn when someone tipped them off to the fact that the original was still somewhere in the game files hidden away.

>>33065812
>Amagami still isn’t translated

>>33122967
Oddly the demo is still available on Steam

How to Live a Healthy Hentai Lifestyle is MG's next release on March 11th, quite close to Rance Quest Magnum's release date. I guess they're not expecting a huge overlap of sales or are trying to make up for lost time.
https://twitter.com/MangaGamer/status/1359729368763834371

>>33126352
So are they going to release everything Clockup has except Futanari Elves?

>>33126479
No, they skipped one of the three titles I'm interested in, Mako Hunter. They'll probably skip Erewhon as well.

>>33125075
The demo has almost nothing in regards to "questionable" content. All the stuff that could have been a problem they ended up cutting out without telling anyone.

>>33126352
With that date, I wonder if they are still thinking of releasing something at the end of March. Would make up for nothing during January. Although they did do a 2 in a month release recently too, so it might have already made up for January.

>>33123211
The MC in summer memories is a shota who draws in crayon and is obvious meant to be in elementary school

>>33129624
Kagura is clearly in bed with one particular steam rep that allows them to get away with a literal /ss/ game.

>>33130002
Yet they still won't work on a loli mc game

>>33130002

more like they're pretty much fully experienced with the hoops valve forces porn devs to jump through to get on the platform

>>33130068
Meanwhile 343 bans people and tries to get accounts shut down for criticizing them or pointing out the only thing theyve done is mod halo reach for the last 10 years with evidence.

Screw steam. Gog isnt a pseudo communist run platform

>>33132058
Maybe Valve hates Asians (kinda like the darkies in California that dovac donated to who are beating up Asian grandparents).

>>33130002
Maybe Kagura Games' stuff is approved by a Chinese steam rep considering that's where 90% of their sales come from. Would explain Nekonyan too.

>>33122633
Steam started banning pretty much all games with rape in them, so they never really had a chance.

>>33122832
I thought Steam banned shovelware-esque games by default? How did a game with just a main menu screen pass?

>>33129624
>obvious meant to be in elementary school
He acts nothing like an elementary schooler in spite of the crayon drawings, not to mention he doesn't even have a small pp from what I recall. When I played the game the protagonist felt more like a midget than an actual shota (whatever is the shota equivalent of lolibaba). I really have no clue what was the dev thinking, what demographic was he targeting? Maybe I'm out of touch and /ss/ has changed, I really don't know.

If I didn't have these mental illnesses holding me back I could be translating this game much faster.

>>33140137
If you didn't have mental illnesses would you even be translating japanese porn slideshows though

>>33139588
>I really have no clue what was the dev thinking
I haven't played it but I wouldn't be surprised if that's a problem coming from the translation, Kagura censors and rewrites everything they translate.
The translation of the title going from Amaenbo (spoiled kid/mama's boy) to just Summer Memories tells me enough.

>>33124690
I wonder if they're going to wait to release it until they've finished multiple versions or if they're just going to put out a patch for vanilla PS2.

When a Jap drinks during the day you know he's depressed. Someone help that guy so he can translate again some day.

>>33123349
JAST is still the same slow piece of shit you dumb hapa.

>>33139588
>he doesn't even have a small pp from what I recall.
You're retarded.

>>33140808
Let it go already.

>>33140808
There is a clear improvement with the speed.

So, is The Day After translation closer being fanfiction or is actually decent one?

>>33130068
>more like they're pretty much fully experienced with the hoops valve forces porn devs to jump through to get on the platform
Nah, that's not it. Mangagamer also has plenty of experience, they were the FIRST ones to start submitting and getting approval for these kind of games with Yurirei.

The reality is Steam doesn't have any kind of consistent enforcement on this issue and approval depends entirely on what approval rep you get. Doddler has said plenty of times that if Steam just gave them a consistent list of rules then they'd follow them, but right now it's like a lottery.

>>33143332
usual SJW rewrites most companies do these days, otherwise it's fine.

>>33143510
Elaborate.

https://twitter.com/Alicesoft_en/status/1360056506998116353

>>33146256
steam = shit. No fucks given.

>>33143207
80% of those are trash, were released full of bugs or missing content, are short kusoge or FDs, were only published by JAST not translated, or have been in the works for half to a full decade. It takes them 2 years for a single Flowers game. The only respectable release of those is Eiyuu Senki Gold because Bango is a fast reliable translator. It's still taken them like half a year since the translation was done to release it and then they only announced the release like a day before Sekai-style. This list is no different from the trash Sekai pumped out in recent years or the nukigegamer days or I dare say no better than Cherry Kiss garbage.

>>33146256
The replies are gold. Kiriya talking as if he knows everything again while dodging direct answers. Retard not understanding why it got banned while morons itt didn't believe the news earlier. The wildbreed retard mentioning fucking Nutaku as a storefront lol. And someone said the ban would delay the release which makes no sense because you can put up the game really quickly on other storefronts.
Alicesoft deserves flak and the ban though with the hackjob they did and by hiring 2 absolute retards as translators. They better learn from this. Would be funny if they planned to release Dohna Dohna in the West with a Steam release. I'd laugh my ass off.

>>33126530
There is a few good titles they have right now. But I wonder if it's just them concentrating on Rance currently before going after the other Clockup titles.

>>33148560
Is it not just not having anyone interested in translating Clockup titles at the moment? Maybe whoever did Kenzen might want to do other Clockup titles.

>>33146799
Any delay will come from them being totally unprepared for Valve banning it and not having an uncensored version ready to put on the other platforms. We already knew that any other platform was a secondary thought by the way it was announced.

>>33146744
That is not really true, modern JAST games haven't had many problems with bugs. The few bugs they did have were fixed fast.

>>33146799
Retard this retard that... Maybe the real retard here is you.

>>33148560
>But I wonder if it's just them concentrating on Rance currently before going after the other Clockup titles.
Their Rance/Alicesoft team generally doesn't really work on other titles besides Maria.

>>33146256

>>33148961
They should've prepare contingencies for this kind of thing. Steam is very transparent with their vagueness after all, you'd know your product has a small chances of getting in with subject matter presented in it.

>>33149957
Alicesoft probably thought since the first game went through, they had a better chance than normal for the second.

>>33150032
They probably also thought they were in the clear since the demo got approved. I image after that they went all in on the Steam release.

Some anons from /v/ emailed Gabe Newell on the matter kek. While i can see the hilarity of it, i support them in a way.

>>33150032
Yeah, because that totally worked for KnS2.

>>33150136
Valve wont do shit. It has been in and out of the news multiple times on how bad their 18+ review process is and nothing changed. If anything it got worse.

>>33150136
Isn't Gabe too busy licking China's asshole? I mean, if you want to talk about censorship...

>>33150295
They just opened up Steam China, yes. Pretty barebones in content though, then again it could be our saviour from the Chinese menace on the int'l store if they could move all their Chinese players out of the main store.

>>33149744
Do they even have a Rance "team" anymore besides the hacker and Maria?

>>33150356
The only one who left was Aru as far as I know, so yes.

>>33150393
Dude.

>>33150393
BROSKI

>>33150295
I hate how powerless we are against China's evil actions.

>>33153158
I know. Now you can't even talk about how bad it is there without them cancelling your whole business. For people who are supposedly badass, they sure have thin skin.

>Alicesoft decides to cut ties with MG and go their own way because Evenicle 1 was a huge hit on Steam and they wanted maximum profits in as little time as possible
>Censor the demo heavily to get it on Steam and don't even tell people about it. Took people badgering them about the censored content for them to admit they removed content for the Steam version
>Demo was a huge shitshow without a proper translation + bad memes
>"B-but it's ok, Alicesoft will do right by us. There's no way they'll turn in a bad translation like that evil Arunaru! Based Alicesoft doing their own thing!!"
>No storefront so where are they going to release the uncensored version? Maybe MG anyways? The whole situation is a bit vague and it's obvious that an uncensored version is their last priority; just a cash grab before they lose their notoriety thanks to Youtube e-celebs shilling the game
>Now they can't even release it on Steam
>Now it's delayed
Ahahahahahahah

AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA

>>33153463
Companies, especially Jap companies, don't seem to yet realize how unreliable Steam is. How many times have we done this now?

>>33153463
I'm extremely glad it blew up in their face. What they did was pure blatant greed that is borderline malicious. Now they're out a huge amount of money because they took this on entirely as a solo venture and hired multiple translators and editors in an attempt to speed through the localization process to capitalize on the demand of the title but now they're stuck with no partners, massive amounts of bad PR, and nobody wanting to work with them because of how they stabbed their previous partner in the back and cut them out entirely despite doing fantastic work on their previous titles simply because they wanted all the money.

>>33153415
"If you don't learn how to respect China, then you don't deserve a cut of the pie. We Asians are ruthless when it comes to punishing cocky crackers like you. Times have changed, the USA is no longer on top of the world."
t. Chinese Nationalist

>>33153463
While I still really hope for this to be resolved smoothly somehow, it really is pretty ironic isn't it?
I wonder if they somehow blamed blamed MG for failing to put Rance on Steam only to fail to put Evenicle II on Steam themselves.

In the end Valve are just extremely unreliable and you probably shouldn't underestimate the experiences of the businesses that have had to play this game of gymnastics with Valve for years already. Because it is ridiculous.

>>33153764
>and nobody wanting to work with them because of how they stabbed their previous partner in the back and cut them out entirely despite doing fantastic work on their previous titles
Who the fuck are you talking about?

>>33120069
Same, and i still have my Sumika figma packed

>>33112075
>>33120069
I'd jump straight onto Muv-Luv if they actually released a proper uncensored version.
>fan translation is missing content and improvements
>official release is censored and is missing content too
>pick your poison, you'll be missing out either way
There is no good version of Muv-Luv. No matter which version you picked the other version could offer a better experience somehow. Meaning that both are bad. And that is incredibly frustrating.

>>33153764
They need the money for their hospital bills.

>>33153595
What other cases are there?

>>33140811
No I've been an /ss/ connoisseur for longer than you've been alive. I think I know what a shota pp looks like.

>>33156357
I don't think you've even seen the game in question then because the MC has a tiny dick.

>>33153463
The daily life of any eroge company that tries to publish through Steam.

>>33156375
Tiny relative to whom? He doesn't have a tiny dick for shota standards. The dialogue even supports this (you don't refer to a tiny dick relative to age as a "manly cock").

>>33122505
Didn't they precensor the demo just to avoid that? Welp.

>>33157466
Yeah without telling anyone they censored it either.

>>33155482
Orcsoft and Lune wanted their games on Steam.

>>33153463
Remember when they said that MG is dead and that Alicesoft could get it out uncensored with high quality translation much quicker? Their fans and everyone at Alicesoft get what they deserve.

>>33157481
"Reap what you sow"...
Mangagamer must be laughing hard.

>>33156402
I do wonder if they will give up going it alone after they put out Evenicle 2. Without Steam they aren't guaranteed crazy sales numbers any more so it is far less worth it for them and adds extra risk over just going back to licencing out titles.

I just saw Hata in the credits of Eiyuu Senki Gold Someone pinch me this guy didn't LARP...

>>33159693
No one cares, Hata.

>>33160908
not him, faggot.

>>33161669
So is it just your hobby to give him the attention that he desires or something?

>>33161730
Where am I giving him attention? I'm just saying that I was shocked someone on /vn/ actually said the truth for once.

>>33159693

There are always situations on these boards where random tripfags or random "employees" pop up in our circles and usually they are full of bullshit. Do you not remember this jsmile guy on reddit who larped JAST would work on Muramasa? Hata is nothing special and has done nothing of worth. He doesn't translate or edit or even program. Everyone who speaks English can QC. It's just whether you break under the tedium or not.

He's a grifter who just managed to find some influential friends as Kastel would call it.

>>33162858
Who the fuck cares about what Kastel has to say?

so the TDA translation appears to be shit

>>33163785
I wonder why people who can read Japanese read the English version. Is it so they can suffer?

>>33163936
For the uncensored CGs.

>>33163948
Funny. Speaking of the old vs new translations, has anybody restored the old Majikoi translation to the JAST version yet?

>>33163936
I find it easier to read in English than in Japanese. The former is infinitely more easy on my brain whereas I need to concentrate a lot more for the latter. Plus it's a constant source of amusement to see how people tackle certain lines. For that same reason I've read dozens of versions of The Iliad.

>>33163993
Is there any reason to do such a thing? Dunno why you wouldn't just read it as is if you wanted the old TL.

Plus didn't the guys who finished up Takajun's TL end up working on the JAST version? I seem to recall that being the case but I don't remember.

>>33164019
Well it's never going to become easier if you keep reading translation.

>>33163936
It's fun seeing something you like be ruined because then you can get upset and also feel better about having learned japanese. And if nobody checks translators can get away with literally everything

>>33163993
Absolutely no need. Who the fuck wants to read the old trashlation?

>>33164045
From line comparisons I seen the base work is noticable but JAST seems to have reworded and retranslated every line to call it their own. The fantlers probably joined the project but didn't do much. Maybe they got ditched halfway. Can someone pull up credits roll please?

im jop but i read English to support the industry!

>>33153764
>despite doing fantastic work on their previous titles
MG shils actually believe this? "Working" 6 years on almost 100% TLed Quest and making shitty TL for Evenicle is not a "fantastic work" you absolute bootlicking retard. It was stupid from Alicesoft to self publish Eve2 but it would be even more retarded to wait 10 years for MG to TL it.

>>33169024
I'm not talking about the time spent working on something, I'm talking about the quality of the released title which is basically the best you can get*

*depending on how localization bugs you. Some people love overly localized titles, others loathe it, it's a subjective thing. Evenicle has a great translation but a terrible localization. Mangagamer at minimum handled the titles themselves well by not forcing people to pay for the +18 content, pay for any voices, cutting out random content, rewriting random content to be more PC, and keeping mosaics.
Personally I don't give a shit about MG nowadays because almost all of their titles are extremely boring and generic but their titles are the least censored of any other publisher and I do need to give them props for that when most other companies will actively censor their titles in an attempt to minimize the amount cost needed to be invested into the title and maximize the potential sales of a title. When I buy a title from MG, I know I get the whole thing and that is something I cannot say about any other publishing company.

>>33169024
>"Working" 6 years
Half of that, actually. But close enough.
Arunaru's TL of Evenicle might not have been good (he's gone now anyway), but the work SLC did on it was amazing.

MangaGamer is my favourite company.

>>33169257
What aru needed was someone to keep his retarded localisation decisions in check. His TL speed was a pretty big boon for MG when he was there.

>>33169359
Arunaru didn't do anything wrong. Stop bullying him.

>>33169396
Well now Arunaru isn't doing anything either. Does he even have a job?

>>33169359
People give all the blame to Arunaru, but never point a finger at DxS (the editor who worked with him on all his projects). They both deserve to be shat on equally imo.

>>33169401
He is.
>Venus Blood Hollow - Kickstarted finished, December 2021 release listed

>>33169359
I'm still genuinely amazed they let SukiSuki go through with those localization decisions. You'd think someone in the company would have said "Hold the fuck up, we are not releasing it like this" Especially since it spent like 2 years in the icebox completely finished because of bankruptcy legal issues.

>>33169403
He made himself an easy target by defending and boasting about the choices that were made on Twitter. Ends up over shadowing DxS.

You can translate these?

https://myhentai.org/japanese-games/6265-mamagoto-mama-to-naisho-no-ecchi-shimasho.html
https://myhentai.org/japanese-games/role-playing-jap/271-beach-mama-and-my-nuki-nuki-summer-vacation-mamashota-rpg-101-ore-teki-shikou.html
https://myhentai.org/japanese-games/241-incest-lover-mama-to-haha-no-himitsu.html
https://myhentai.org/japanese-games/129-boku-no-maman-sagashi-mama-o-tazunetara-8nin-no-kyonyuu-tsuma-deshita.html
https://myhentai.org/japanese-games/11-mama-haha.html

Please.. I very horny

>>33169760
Sure thing. I can probably have them done by next week.

>>33169871
thank you brother u are my friend

>>33169024
And yet it's still better than the trash Alicesoft gave us in that demo

>>33170917
You are 100% correct.

>>33169444
I mean, if the editor said it was okay and the beta-testers didn't raise enough of a stink (that Aru and DxS couldn't squash), why would the company think there's a problem?

>>33172036
management should be seeing that shit before it goes out the door.

>>33172132
Management just cares about making money, how do you thing something like the entire Ace Attorney series happened? Most people don't give a fuck or even know about extreme localization and will buy shit regardless. Only the pc VN audience has a couple of autists checking translations and they still don't manage to change anything no matter how much they complain.

>>33172315
Ace attorney Localization is good.
Only dumb purists think otherwise.

>>33172315
Speaking of Ace Attorney, I don't know the localization team got away with calling an obviously Japanese locale, Los Angeles. Localization doesn't mean re-writing the whole story and removing Japan.

>>33173051
It was not extremely obviously Japanese at first to be fair with a few exceptions. Then they started having stuff like kabuki and shit that one wonders if the writers were intentionally trying to mess with the localizers.

>>33169239
>Evenicle has a great translation but a terrible localization.
That should be the other way around.

>>33169396
Never.

>>33172036
The project management doesn't give a fuck about what the testers think of the translation style, just whether there are errors in the English text.

>>33173051
Youkai Watch is probably a worse example.

Bring Takajun back.

>>33174707
Why is this the only fucking thing you idiots can criticize? Honorifics, adressing, nuances. How about you show actual mistakes which warp the story or make absolutely no sense. It's always honorifics with you lot because you never learned Japanese beyond weeb lingo and think things have meanings they don't actually have.

>>33174904
Honorifics do sometimes have a genuine meaning and removing them removes a core part of a character dynamic or quirk. Sometimes they are completely useless and you are correct though.

>>33174926
There are no honorifics that can't be translated. Just some translations are better than others.

>>33174904
More like it's because faggots argue honorifics don't matter, hence why that image explains how Arunaru's choices of localising the honorifics fucks up the characterisation.

>>33174954
Retard.

>>33163785
I hate American "people" so fucking much

>>33174963
They do not matter. They are just for you to stroke your exotism dick and feel like you are in Japan (even when the setting isn't even Japan)

All you want is to be called Oniichan you fetishist.

>>33175251
>All you want is to be called Oniichan you fetishist.
What's wrong with expecting porn games to satisfy your fetishes? They're not selling some high literature, it's self insert fantasies and porn, and if a user finds a character hotter and more appealing if they call him onii-chan then those needs should be met.

>>33175251
Nice arguments bro.
>All you want is to be called Oniichan you fetishist.
Well, you're not wrong. This is an intentional point of appeal when designing such content in the first place.

>>33175360
But you are still called Oniichan in the voiceline. How is this not satisfactory enough?

>>33174954
Every instance of someone attempting to Americanize text directly pertaining to honorifics or levels of formality is a trainwreck.

>there are people in this thread RIGHT NOW that defend broski

>>33175415
Creating a completely unnecessary disconnect between the voice line and the script does not help with immersion. Seeing onii-chan written in the text, the same as it is in the voice line, does not pull me out of it the way that seeing bro in its place does.

>>33175355
>>33175360
Sure but you're forgetting that the majority of western localizers quietly loathe themselves and are ashamed of their work and this entire medium in general and thus attempt to minimize anything "fetishistic" at any opportunity. The idea that art can be indulgent and irreverent and simply pleasing is profane thinking in their circles.

Is this because "bro" has been casually abused as a go-to term for dude? Or because it makes the characters sound like stoners?

>>33175415
>But you are still called Oniichan in the voiceline.
Not if it's Sengoku Rance, the example posted, you fucking retard.

>>33176005
Both.

>>33175505
I honestly think that part of their motivation is that it gets them attention and you will usually find the kind of people that do it will be on twitter revelling in it. This was recently from the Higurashi anime as an example.

Broski is absolutely awesome. It's a meme that even permeated into my real life because my actual sister started using it with me after I told her how much I love it. They are catering to my fetishism and I think that is great!

Damn, has the new VNTS ever been this late before? It's past midnight here.

>>33178048
It's been late for years.. I don't even expect it anymore till Sunday morning (central time). I recall it use to be posted around or a little after midnight my time.

>>33178048
It only just turned Sunday here. Has been turning up around mid/late Sunday my time for quite a long while now.

I'm retarded and forgot it was Saturday, not Sunday. I guess the mystery is solved.

>>33176534
I'll ask my imouto to start calling me aniki.