/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>43584550
Cute Yakuza.

finished her game, pretty fun. Hope the rest are even better

>>43584577
What is it about 893 girls that makes them so cute?

Tatsuya-kun is such a great character. He's totally going to die, isn't he...

>>43584655
>Killing the best character in the series
They wouldn't dare, right...?

>>43584661
>best character in the series

>yeah so your gf is going through this issue that sprung from an issue you have but it'll resolve itself on its own with time so it's fine bro
>by the way, if you do this thing you can do something about your issue, and prevent your gf from getting wrapped up in the effects of your issue in the future
>can that thing fix my gf's current issue?
>yeah but-
>then lets do that
what did yuzusoft mean by this?

why do nukiges have multiple ejaculations in a single scene... I can't cum that many times in a session

>>43585495
You dont have to come every time the MC comes

>>43585504
Yes you do. Or you didn't read the VN properly.

>>43585495
i can

This is the dangerous underworld criminal mastermind known only as "the Hatmaker", the brain behind the e-aphrodisiac rave.
Say something nice about her!

>>43585678
Put some pants on slut

>>43585689

Can't believe they put my mum in a VN.

Is this some doujin game?
Why is the art so ugly

I want to share my thoughts on what I'm reading after a long time here, but it's an otome. Sorry for the betrayal bros

>>43585495
It needs at least 5 ejaculations in a row before i can cum

>>43586212
douzo

>>43586212
Go ahead, is definitively more interesting than "Thoughs on nukige #71"

>>43586212
Just do it we don't care

I mean, why not just post it in the BL-game thread instead?

>>43586618
Otome isn't BL?

>>43586686

>>43586618
I spent a lot of time a few years ago on these threads, so I'm quite fond of them

>>43586212
https://www.dlsite.com/girls/work/=/product_id/RJ124817.html
Well, it's a work whose story basically follows Yaneko's life and her fall into the abyss. I've already read other titles from this dev, so I already knew what to expect, but it was still pretty impressive how much the pacing improved as well as the story structure so that you could really take it seriously. Yaneko is everything you'd expect from the "best girl" of any vn you've read: she's very unpredictable, her monologues and reactions are really funny, and she's a character whose most notable trait is her enormous humanity and concern for others. Much of the story consists of sol moments, but in this case they are justified, as they allow us to get to know the rest of the cast to a greater extent, as well as to understand how much Yaneko has to endure until the final conclusion of this first part. It's probably one of the biggest emotional rollercoasters I've read in a long time. Because yes, putting a character like her in a setting where an inquisition takes place and where you can be accused of being a witch just out of envy (wow, I can't imagine something like that happening in real life) and tortured in the most horrible ways imaginable is really emotionally shattering.
Another thing I like to point out about this dev is the way they build up the story, then give way to the points of no return. You can notice the essence of doujin at this point, as they always try playing with the limits of brutality and violence to emphasize how precious life is and the bonds we share with others. Overall, I also found the characters' reactions fascinating as they didn't fall into a particular trope, but rather showed certain nuances that made it easier for one to connect with them even though some of their reactions or decisions might be somewhat objectionable.
It is a work that places enormous emphasis on the suffering that the oppressed must endures, just for the enjoyment of the oppressors (whether for self-satisfaction, profit, or plain fun). So no, it's not about romance; it's mainly about the vulnerability in its purest state that people are subjected to in the face of those with power.
Currently reading the second part... I honestly have no idea what to expect, because the ending of the first one is so overly cathartic, it could easily be considered a self-conclusive work.

>>43586727
>Yaneko is everything you'd expect from the "best girl" of any vn you've read

This has been the experience I've had with the (admittedly limited) experience i have with otome games. Why are otome protagonists so cute

These are not appropriate pajamas to wear in front of your circle friend (male)

>>43586967
>see-through hair
Blacklisted.

>>43586727
>Nice to know that we have people here that read doujin otome games
>強制/無理矢理
Perhaps maybe another time

I'm going to fund the hamidashi anime project.

>>43587743
Last time Madosoft had an anime one of the episodes was a live goat

>>43586727
Oh neat.
I love this game, glad it's found an audience beyond the usual otome crowd.
I've been slowly replaying it recently before I get to the sequel.
>>43586618
Majo is kind of strange because I feel as if it's emotional core mostly exists in platonic relationships, largely between the MC and other female characters, rather than the 'romantic' connection between the MC and her 'love interest'. So it's possibly worth a shot if you're into dark games and don't mind some doujin jank, even if you have zero interest in otome.

>>43586200

ive had hapymaher on the backlog forever, this re-release bumped it up i guess

>>43588238
I remember being pretty satisfied at the end of the original, starting the fandisk, and being mad as fuck at its plot

??? How this painting is supposed to be arousing? Did scaji really get hard from drawing it?
I guess i really don't have any 審美眼

>>43588443
Is that really a painting? Not to derail but it looks like AI.

>>43588443
This part was so absurd.

>>43588443
It's in the same vein as the magical sakura shit
Don't think too hard about it, it doesn't make sense but it doesn't matter
>>43588466
There are plenty more absurd things and they've yet to come

>>43588443
Is this AI generated?

>>43588471
At least for sakura i could get relate to the feelings they were describing but this one is really incomprehensible
I found it pretty cool how it looks like a figure despite the branches being clearly drawn but like what the hell do you need to smoke to get aroused from this?

>>43588457
>>43588517
too complex to be AI

>>43588539
This is AI trying to draw a hand.

Sucks that vndb doesn't have artist tag for character

>>43588443
desu the center of the piece does look like a split open pussy + the golden flower and the rest of the inside looking like an invitation to share in the same intimate eternity is all pretty lewd

>>43588669
I can recognize this but I seriously doubt anyone here has fapped to this painting.

>>43588687
you'll see the truth of the world if you do

>>43588443
And still lost to a fucking circle.

>Flashback for something that just happened 7 lines ago
Epic

>>43585881
God I love sluts

>>43589025
Welcome to literally anything Japanese.

>>43589025
let me guess: sakura no moyu

>>43589032
She better get a good H scene before the game completes.

>>43589025
if your game doesn't have a flashback within another flashback get out of my face

>>43589150
Why do you keep posting this anime?

>>43588539
Not really

>>43589158
Its a pedotranny just ignore them

if they were going to have coq redo cgs, they should have had him redo sprites as well
triggers my autism

>>43589871
He did, if you hate coq don't play regret end

>>43589871
>they should have had him redo sprites as well
But they did?

>>43589871
The only thing left untouched were the H-scenes and so you're still left with inconsistent art styles

>>43588539
Not at all. Looking at it again I'm pretty sure it is AI.

Linuxfag here. Anyone know the correct ritual to summon picrelated's movies? I'm almost out of goats.

>>43590366
install windows

Man just what point in writing so beautiful scene just to completely 台無し it like this every time
They just recently talked about how she was basically a second mom for Naoya and now he just decides to push her down out of nowhere like this?? And now once so pure and 尊い Ai starts to use shimoneta in every second sentence for no reason?
I swear those are the worst h scenes i've ever seen, this retard is just incapable of writing a normal romance

Wait, I am confused
Is the new Hapymaher a remake or sequel? Can I play it without touching the original?

>>43590767
It's a remaster of the original and FD with additional new content

>>43590767
>Wait, I am confused
This takes like one fucking minute to look up; what is there to be confused about? They explain it on their website, it's explained on getchu and so on.

>>43590807
That Scaji tweet saying it’s a sequel and was recommended to him confused me, thanks

>>43590857
There's an additional scenario included which is probably what he's talking about.

>>43590856
https://twitter.com/SCA_DI/status/1662328932467884033
blame Scaji, he actually got the new and the previous one sent to him by purple software shachou kek

>>43590970
https://twitter.com/osho0079/status/1662329808737681408
literally first comment

Does CLANNAD not give you a CG gallery after finishing your first route?

do vn like dangan, AA and AI count as VN here if I post jp screen?
will the raincodeposting be ok here?

>>43591295
people here gonna cry about anything allage

>>43591295
as long is japanese i dont care, the whole key catalog is on EGS after all

What's wrong with these people

>>43591322
literally no one has cried about it here. schizos don't count. with yuzuOPs there were a lot of anons sharing their ss of yuzuges that had translation but in japanese, and I thought it was ok? I don't know about the stance of the rest in this thread tho

>>43591365
Celery should be in all foods.

>>43591373
>that had translation but in japanese, and I thought it was ok? I don't know about the stance of the rest in this thread tho
The opposite stance is retarded anyways. Am I supposed to post in the /vg/ thread instead just because something has been translated? They're not even going to understand the screenshots anyway. The thread divide should be between Japanese readers and English readers.

>>43591404
There are no translated vns to begin with, only localized

He's just like me

>>43591404
Speaking of which, I don't even know why there are anons spamming jp ss in /vg/ w they should only do it here

>>43591416
I remember the era where things would actually get translated, i remember people using TL notes to explain untranslatable stuff instead of localizing it, it would also help the person understand the culture.

>>43591423
how do I get myself to read games from this company after knowing how they went full retard and exploded

>>43591632
But anon, that was amaterasu translations era as well... the damage those faggots did (and still do) to CC was irreparable

just admit eroge is untranslatable
localizations can be good but eroge localizers will never be good writers, they don't read

>>43591602
No idea, I don't browse those threads. It seems off topic to me except if they're MTLing, but in that case the least they could do is provide the translation.

>>43591664
The problem is that no matter how good a translation is, it will never be the same as the original source. This is not just limited to Japanese, but to any language

>>43591649
>tags: Blood-related Brother/Sister Incest, Sex Involving Children, Anal Sex, Inbreeding, Threesome
Pretty doable if you ask me

>>43591687
thanks picked up

>>43591678
Translation can be better than original, it all comes down to the writing skill of the translator
Obviously no one with real skills going to waste time on something like eroge so the quality is corresponding

>>43591705
I mean, as far as Japanese is concerned, the only decent translator was this makoto guy who worked with nitroplus titles. Everyone else is a joke

>>43591602
Speaking of which, I don't even know why there are anons here that post about spamming jp ss in /vg/ w they should stay over there in the first place

>>43591678
I was talking to my eop friend the other day how everything related to ecchi is actually better in japanese thanks to the language.

>>43591664
I started reading a chink sc-ifi book series called three body recently, with the translator himself also being a chink and professional author, the first book has a whole afterword about how he tried his best to maintain the unique prose and cultural elements, with every addition to the next he had to made being approved by the original author who became his friend over the process. He had like 10 different people proofread it and offer suggestions.
the very first thread on /lit/ about it I see has some anon ragepost about how he dropped the book because the translation was terrible

>>43591723
Don't you remember when eops came to tell us to go pick up anons who were spamming on their threads?

>>43591655
Translations in the west exploded because otaku media(anime) became normalfag friendly and they don't really care about japanese culture so they consume the garbage.

>>43591742
If you visit those threads in the first place you're probably an MTLer and belong there.

>>43591705
>Translation can be better than original
maybe, if you view it as a separate work
but translation can never be the same experience as the original and this is what people don't understand
if you've read a translation, you haven't read the actual work

>>43591726
Have you read suisenka? if not, do yourself a favor and do it. Probably one of the closest things to true erotism in this medium which makes sense given its nature

quit raising death flags you fucking idiot, you're too good for this world already

>>43591687
>Blood-related Brother/Sister Incest, Sex Involving Children, Anal Sex
The holy trinity

>>43591649
>how do I get myself to read games from this company after knowing how they went full retard and exploded
What do you mean? They just stopped making games, they didn't go bankrupt or anything.

>>43591837
They made eroge with completely detached h scenes from the story, the crime that can't be forgiven

>>43591837
>They just stopped making games, they didn't go bankrupt or anything.
Their core fanbase accused them of appealing to chinks and steam users because last run didn't even enough porn scenes or something, so the devs got mad and emailed the EGS admin telling him to delete all discussion of their games from the site. This only made the fans even more mad so the devs emailed him again to reverse the deletion. Then the devs got the sales numbers for week 1 and declared on their fantia that development of their next game is cancelled because they'd go bankrupt halfway through, instead they would make free additional porn scenes for last run. A year after that they closed doors.
https://www.tyoshiki.com/entry/2020/11/23/011028

criminal border is a kusoge with garbage art and writing.

>>43591926
what dont you like about the writing?

>>43591926
koku hands wrote this post

>>43591904
>鉄道ファンでない自分にとってまいてつの価値はあくまでエロゲである事でありエロゲでないまいてつに価値は無いと思っているのでここは大きなマイナス要素。

Is there really anyone who reads maitetsu for the trains? lmao

>>43591968
You really underestimate train otakus

>>43591968
Maitetsu was more notable for its small town politics stuff than its trains, at least to me. Granted, you had to pointedly ignore how everyone in the story was 10-20 years too young to do whatever job they were doing. Lolis shoveling coal to run a commuter train was probably the hardest part in that regard.

>>43591977
>Lolis shoveling coal to run a commuter train
How can reality even compete with eroge

>>43591968
You are actually a MTLer... right?

>>43591968
trainlore aside maitetsu was a big disappointment after Monobeno, especially their half-assed attempt to make it all ages and fully removing sex scenes from the story. Monobeno has some detached scenes too but you could see them right away without losing context.

>>43591977
I thought the train lolis in Maitetsu weren't actually human. I haven't read it exactly because that felt like a cheap copout to my lolicon sensibilities.

>>43592061
>denshi syako

>>43592094
How bad is monobeno pasing? Is it really take forever to get to the good parts?

>>43592190
you can tell he's a nationalist because he went for Nihon-shiki romanization

>>43592061
Where is maitetsu there?

>>43592167
They aren't human, or at least, aren't written that way. They also aren't who I'm talking about. I mean Nagi, who shovels the coal for the train. Or Hibiki, who runs for mayor.

>>43592219
Old enough to suck dick, old enough for politics.

>>43592272
>>43592219
What's the difference, am I right fellas!

maitetsu has...yuri? wtf hidden kamige?

>>43588951
to be fair, she also lost to the most hype music in the entire VN

>>43590625
>spoiler
I haven't read it, but maybe it's a "ララァ・スンは私の母になってくれるかもしれなかった女性だ" moment?

>>43591977
I don't get finding it difficult to suspend your disbelief for stuff like this. It's not real life.

>>43592759
Well, yeah. It doesn't pay to get TOO critical of one's wish fulfillment porn sub-subgenre. The "prepubescent girl being a steam locomotive watertender" thing just stuck with me.

>>43592778
Are there lines about her sweat? I think that's what's at play here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywajagWrd0U

>>43586967
Does this game have pregnancy yet?

>>43593610
Other companies need to step up their game, Qruppo's advertising is worth watching on its own.

>>43590625
really man? she's clearly devastated and coping hard in the other two routes even misuzu notices it
and who wouldn't fuck their mom if it was a lolibaba??

>>43592369
>maitetsu has...yuri? wtf hidden kamige?
For whatever reason they refused to give the new characters in LR non-yuri h-scenes. They got massively flamed for it and it led to the series of disasters that resulted in their company folding.

Is Happy End the superior version of monobeno?

>>43594214
Yes. Happy End is just Monobeno + the fandiscs combined into one VN, it's the same VN with more content.

>>43591365
Nanami a slut

>>43594167
>For whatever reason they refused to give the new characters in LR non-yuri h-scenes.
one of their fantia posts essentially said one of the new characters is to tiny that they're afraid of getting raided by glowniggers if they let her get dicked

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ｘｄ

sex now

>>43595201
why don't you hide those ugly menus

>>43595298
I already told him but he didn't listen

>>43595298
>>43595313

knew the OCD psychos would overreact to this

>>43595201

>>43595324
Literally every single time somebody posts a VN with a menu here somebody says to hide it.
UI artists worked hard on the menu

newb question. how can you set wine on osx's system locale to japanese?

>>43595383
If it works like on linux you have to start the game with
LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 wine <game>.exe

>>43595324
it just looks ugly bro

>>43595340
Each main heroine gets 4 scenes according to the extra so this probably isnt true. Also in the fandisc even that dumbass Sekka has some sort of route as well.

>>43595433
no one tells you every day to polarize all the mirrors in your house just let that guy read his shit the way he wants to

>>43595415
Thanks for the suggestion, sadly it seems like this only works for linux.
I've tried installing fonts as well and running them through wine but they still don't seem to be working with VNs. Wondering if I should try something else like playonmac?

>>43593610
Im actually excited for this, i want to see how hard it can get butchered

Any easy way how to bypass さよならを教えて Japanese Windows lock? Bought it at DLsite but even with language and locale set to Japanese it just doesn't start and keeps repeating that it runs only on Japanese Windows. Not really in a mood to install pure jpn Windows right now. Is there a crack or something how to side-step it? Would be greatly appreciated.

>>43592571
I do hope they release the OST and Vocal Album soon enough. Toki had some stellar compositions. For example 向日葵の嵐が過ぎ去り lines along with the best BGM Uta had to offer.
https://youtu.be/hqW_YiwG8JQ

>>43595786
set your timezone to japan

>>43595786
Just pirate it

>>43595786
Buyfags can't stop losing, i just downloaded it somewhere and it works fine out of the box

>>43595835
Thanks for the idea but sadly even that didn't work. Seems it really needs a Japanese copy of Windows, which is pretty hilarious in its own way.

>>43595881
>>43595942
I'll have to do it in the end, but I like supporting the eroge industry through buying their stuff. And generally once you buy something it feels nice to actually use it. Kind of bummer I'll have to pirate it anyway.

>>43595966
Looks like the Siglus popup. You can probably crack it with alpharomdie

>>43595966
>supporting industry
>20+ yo game

>>43595966
>Seems it really needs a Japanese copy of Windows,
i highly doubt it

>>43595966
Is your windows locale set to japanese at least?
>kind of bummer I'll have to pirate it anyway.
You already give them your money, is basically semantics at that point.

>>43595776
Can't wait.

>>43595966
did you try using locale emulator? it's the first thing i try when i encounter problems like this.
if that doesn't work either, search for ntlea 0.92

>>43592571
弱いからここまで来た, I couldn't come up with a better name. The mob that surpassed the heroine. Scaji's house will get burned down if Kana doesn't get a route in Oto.

"Piromizu-sensei, is it just me or is there something wrong with her back? I didn't write her character to have scoliosis."

>>43596570
I hated that CG, if you want to show her boobs or butt/thighs choose one, otherwise you get shit like this.

>>43596570
grotesque

omaygot ambatukam bravo piromizu-sensei

>>43596028
That was the editor of the already dead solpress, the new editor will make something different most likely so i wonder how they will destroy the script.

>>43596910
they used fuck several times in pv already, you can be sure they will use americango to its maximum

There literally is a thread, multiple apparently even, for you to discuss this shit and yet you cunts STILL come here to do so. Fuck off, already.

Harukaze, where is noratoto 3 ffs
Any good charage with at least one ojou heroine recently? Kind of like monkeys and noratoto 2

It's been a few times now that I notice people talking about translated materials... this really isn't the thread for it. There already isn't many uninfected places on this website so please go shit up another place.

>>43597149
There are no translated VNs though

>>43597149
>>43597149
>translated materials
You one of those people that think you should go to the EOP thread to talk about a game just because it's been translated?

>>43597234
He's probably talking about the people talking about the translation of Nukitashi itself

>>43597291
Oh, I must've missed that. Agreed then.

>>43597149
I agree overall but exceptions are also fine
I don't use any other threads but I'm still interested to see some epic fuck ups in nukitashi

>>43597341
Make a thread for "translation fuck ups" then, it's still off topic

>>43596910
>the new editor will make something different most likely so i wonder how they will destroy the script.
It's apparently the same script as the Sol Press one.

I don't remember a line as cruel as this.

I just don't really understand why anyone who reads Japanese would even keep up with, let alone give a single shit about the quality of translations in the first place. I guess former EOPs or something, I started reading VNs to learn Japanese and not the other way around so I suppose they just have a different perspective.

>>43597646
There's always something comical going on in the EOP scene. It's not really keeping up, more like peeping in the window to see how much the trash heap has grown.

>>43597646
It's just these terminally online and mentally stunted NEET shitposters taking any material they can get to interact with "le vinnie" community because that is the only way the far left end of the bell curve has to communicate and feel like part of something.
Either way this is not the thread for it. Ignore it.

>>43597669
>There's always something comical going on in the EOP scene. It's not really keeping up
these statements don't look contradictory to you?
>>43597692
The first sentence makes me think that you should not be calling anyone 'terminally online' lmao. Agreed that it's off-topic though.

>>43597712
eop spotted

>>43597751
what?

you know who you are

>>43597775
Was that a response to this? >>43597760 Because in my original post >>43597646 I literally said that I've never even read a single VN in English, I don't know how you come to such a weird conclusion. Are you just dense or something?

lol

back to /vn/ you go

>>43597712
>these statements don't look contradictory to you?
No? I don't keep up with the EOP scene, but every time I peek my head in there's some new funny drama or schizo is all that means.

>>43597646
https://www.reddit.com/r/visualnovels/comments/13tqnl5/current_state_of_the_nukitashi_tl_the_translator/
go to reddit if you want that

>>43598104
i wonder how come it's always the tranny moralists who get to translate the most perverted stuff

Now that the dust has settled, was it kamige?

(wannabe creators cg)
it gets better every game

>>43598201
Not reading a vn with american sized heroines

>>43598104
anon said he doesn't care about translations, this thread isn't about translations, and you still bring up translation drama.

>>43598587
The level of reading comprehension in these threads is insane sometimes.

>>43598587
and yet you are the one keeps bringing it back by replying to it
i swear retards who keep arguing what is offtopic create way more offtopic than that 1 guy who just posted pv of the translation

I wonder if there is another guy like this legend out there

Imagine being an authorityless thread police lmao. I will talk about translated games, MTL and anything I want, try to not cry about it faggot.

wtf it's hinamizawa but well drawn
2 minutes in and i already like this vn. very beautiful backgrounds. i wonder when it'll drop the ball

>>43598975
>i wonder when it'll drop the ball
as soon as the first 立ち絵 shows up and you realize that the art is garbage

>>43599008
you're kinda right, that bitch on the right looks like a fucking witch. but this won't stop me, i've read shit with worse art before

>>43598975
>hinamizawa

I really want to go to ジャコス right now

>>43599089

oh jesus fucking christ this is giving me the same vibes as when i read higurashi for the first time. that shit scared the hell out of me a decade ago

Goddamn I felt so bad for Ryou for the entirety of Kyou's route. Glad I remember so little of the anime though.

>>43599274
Reminder Tomoya is Ryo's bad end.

I wouldn't say that this chapter was as bad as people were saying, each second Kana was on screen was 10/10 kami time
The plot that followed it felt extremely rushed and made up but it still somehow managed to compile all the mess that was left after Sakuuta into a somehow meaningful ending so i didn't mind it that much
There weren't any hard-hitting scenes like the 墓碑銘 one that would make you cry as fuck but i didn't expect anything to begin with so i had a good time overall

aw hell nah

>>43595383
Bump

>>43595383
>>43599884
>osx
give up and install gentoo instead

>>43599539
The parts that hit me hard in sakutoki were when Shizuru showed the kasasagi vase to Reika, Sakurako's rejection, and when Nonomi praised Kana's paintings out of nowhere.

Will it be kamige?
https://twitter.com/craftwork_pr/status/1662615251089764352

>>43600077
SayoOshi was shit, so probably not.

>>43599917
The one i liked the most was probably the moment when Key saw the Sakurabi kyousou, it was the first time i managed to get what they meant by living art, the manifesting feelings towards his mom with which Naoya has drawn it felt real

I'm envious of people who mention shedding tears. Last time I did (reading a VN that is) was probably pic related and it was 5 years ago. I realize I'm not even considering nakige anymore when looking over what to read and just look for mindless tasteful works instead. Apologize if this reads as blogging.

>>43600466
The one which made me cry the most in recent years was Hishou Demonbane, though those were tears of joy rather than sadness

>>43595201
Good taste anon. She is great.

>>43599063
What is this

>>43600077
SayoOshi was great so probably

>>43600979
Read, nigga.

>>43601168
Oh I missed the top

I love pointlessly slutty seifuku.

Ah... a nice set of smalls.

>Fellatio before the first kiss
Nice "moege"
After getting fucked by the dubious route selection system i decided to inverse the order of the routes by doing the girl i liked less first and leaving my favorite last since this is a rare case where i liked everyone. While she is way cuter than i expected her to be i have no idea what they were thinking with that.

the Empire's idols are pretty slutty.

>>43601746
Why do moege do that?

>>43601746
She is unexpectedly the most fucked up and kinky its great
She's like an M who can't stop ノリノリing every time protag says/does some creepy shit which she reflexively reacts negatively top before immediately going along with it with pleasure. Also her route has like chuunibyou Manga story elements but she doesn't have a chuuni personality at all its cute
Her afterstory is some of the raunchiest shit yuzu has done
>rare case where I liked everyone
Yeah this game has the best cast

>>43601816
They're porn games first and romance games second.

>>43598201
>Now that the dust has settled, was it kamige?
Criminal border 2 is highly enjoyable, but I'm getting really worried that the series is halfway done and the second game quite literally ends with the line "our battle is only beginning!". There's been two episodes of slow buildup as Ikki and the gang become criminals, and I hope the payoff can actually deliver. Also the slut deserves an episode.

>>43601987
>Also the slut deserves an episode.
Definitely. She's way too fun to just become a background whore. She AT LEAST deserves a redemption h-scene.

>>43601987
I felt the same way on 9nine second episode, "finally the real villain shows up"
I think he can pull it off again.

>>43602057
I mean, we all know the true villain of Criminal Border is going to be Kouji in a robot body with a full joker face

>>43602061
>*sigh* somehow Koji returned...

>>43600466
>nakige
I think is matter of getting moved by something. While i didn't cry, i felt a lump in my throat during the marriage scene and the ending in the amakano fandisc that came out last month, from a scene that didn't involve anything sad, it was the first time in 2 years that i got moved by something that wasn't sad.

>>43601746
kissing is too lewd

>>43601746
have you not read moege for a while? That's standard.

>>43598104
>Can read VNs like Soukou Akki Muramasa, Albatross Koukairoku, Saya no Uta, Nukitashi, Oretachi ni Tsubasa wa Nai, and Kajiri Kamui Kagura without a texthooker or dictionary
Does this dude really think Nukitashi is as difficult as Muramasa and Albatross Koukairoku?

>>43602314
It's not as hard to read in terms of complexity of prose but you have to be extremely up to date on Japanese culture - including non-otaku actual mainstream Japanese culture, which is unusual for a VN - to get all the jokes in Nukitashi. You can read it much more easily than the others but you'll probably miss stuff unless you start googling baby factories.

>>43602321
Yeah, but Muramasa also has a ton of references, plus difficult terms, historical names/proper nouns, etc.
Difficulty of prose is nukitashi is just the 艱難辛苦を乗り越え満願成就に至る thing that keeps getting repeated. Muramasa introduces a difficult term or reference and then never uses it again.

>>43602334
>but Muramasa also has a ton of references,
Aren't they all locked to one scene and just referencing other nitro+ games?
Honestly when I actually read Muramasa for the first time I was shocked by how 99% of it was no more difficult to read than any other chuunige and all the really obscure stuff was explained by one of the numerous exposition dumps. Maybe one line in a thousand was actually unusually complex or difficult.

>>43602347
I would agree that overall, it's not that much harder than other nitroplus games like demonbane. But there are a lot of unusual words with weird readings, so I ended up consulting a dictionary much more often.

>>43602361
You don't HAVE to be able to identify every single one of the insults kageaki hurls at mountain bandit-chan, y'know.

>>43599889
It’s time

Looks like you guys don't have a guide or whatever.
Know where I can get a 100% save file of this kino?

>>43602436
I'll spoonfeed you because I like the game - just google sagaoz + game name and you'll almost always find a 100% save. It works for SV
>tfw no bad lotion wife

>>43602445
thanks brother.
>tfw no futa villain gf

>>43602090
>I think is matter of getting moved by something.
You're right. There's probably the right thing that'll make me click somewhere.

>amakano
I'm usually partial to petite girls but Piromizu's art is pretty great.

>>43602366
You have to understand, some people have the 'tism. This is the same reason some people spend 200 hours reading their first moege.

haha, y-yeah...

>>43604166
retarded ambiguous notation

>>43603306
>This is the same reason some people spend 200 hours reading their first moege
And so you're berating these so called "autistic people" because you know you'll never reach their level?
Are you flying over uncommon words because "it's ok dude I get what's going on by just feeling lol" too?

Baffles me you're trying to shame people who don't function the same way as you do and try their best to apply themselves.

Anyone know how to fix KKK not saving properly? Both the regular save as well as quick save don't work. Really excited to play it after seeing えふ壱 in the options menu.

Which way do you prefer for your imouto to call you the most?
Idk why but after Nokia i find the Aniki one feels the most 親しい for me
I think my dream would be imouto that is also a best friend that can do random stupid shit together and who takes you as equal

>>43604742
>And so you're berating these so called "autistic people" because you know you'll never reach their level?
No I think it's a legit way to do things, but it requires autism not to burn out super hard. I think getting through beginner levels is more about not burning out than trying to cram every little thing into your brain.
>Are you flying over uncommon words because "it's ok dude I get what's going on by just feeling lol" too?
At the start I certainly did.

>>43605271
>is also a best friend that can do random stupid shit together
Isn't this everyones ideal partner

>>43605326
Yeah but she's also an imouto

>>43605326
And yet those are so rare, it's either she depends on you or you depend on her

>>43605673
You can depend on each other at different times

So how is Wannabe Creators?

Playing a VN without a guide is so scary...
Has anyone ever managed to 100% a vn without it?

>>43605843
I always play first moege route blind, i like the feeling of capturing your girl by yourself

>>43605843
No. No one. Not even the people who make the guides.

>>43605929
You know that people who make guides sit in chats where everyone makes different choices and then they compile everything together

>>43605808
Depends on what you're looking for. It ain't no tomefure so there are no escalating interactions. It is just plot (writer struggle jerkoff - it's not copying the title of sousaku kanojo for no reason) and inserted h-scenes. The first one was fairly late but it still felt out of place because there was no build up to it. I'm however really happy he didn't go back to splitting the game into several different harem routes, which I feared when I saw 7 heroines. Looking at the H-scene count in the gallery, it is not a nukige either, since a standard moege would have twice as many. Finally, the humor is decent, though still relies on references a lot.

>>43605843
I always play with a guide but it's especially scary with adventure games that have a shit ton of bad endings like what I'm playing now akai ito or where the progression system is convoluted as fuck with black cyc games where its mandatory to use one

/jav/ don't need no guides.

>>43605938
Must feel great finding friends who share the same mental illness

>>43604857
Should work just fine. Never heard of that glitch before.

>>43605843
I've never played adventure/tactical VNs so I can't speak for those, but for any traditional ones I've never really used guides. I just save at every choice and reload to read missed content. I assumed it was how most people do it too?

>>43605960
>akai ito
I used a guide to get every ending and I was still missing a couple of CGs. I don't even know how that's possible and I never figured it out.

Good one

>>43606697
Sometimes you don't know if you missed content and going back after you finished a route already just to collect some cgs just doesn't have any impact already

The end of Nanami's route was unreasonably anticlimactic.

>>43606725
What VN is this? I tried searching using her name but she's not on vndb.

>>43606896
https://vndb.org/v2969

>>43606896 nvm it was MC's name.
>>43606908 Yeah sorry, thanks.

>>43606896
????????????
https://vndb.org/c?f=&p=1&q=%22%E5%B1%B1%E6%B2%BB%22&s=2

>>43606914
Did you download it in like 2 min or what

>>43606925
亘
>>43606928
No it popped up when searching via Yandex and that's how I understood it was MC speaking and not the nurse.

>>43606938
Yea doubt she would be the one to call mc bijin

>>43606925
Oh right it's written on her nametag. I even looked at it but thought nothing of it. I'm dumb.
>>43606944
It sounded funnier in my head though.

This is one of the funniest scenes in the game; Hazuki is comedy gold.

>>43607039
>no cute girlfriend who likes jidaigeki

>>43607039
へそ enjoyers are the highest race

>>43598201
How the fuck this isn’t Clockup title is still beyond me

>>43600466
Read Heaven burns red, guaranteed tears

>>43607171
What? Clock up would just ruin it with too much, too long porn.

>>43607226
Tears of laughter when Maeda's next inevitable meltdown rolls in, yes.

>>43607226
the only thing that makes me cry in that game is how blatantly shit the game balancing is. Every other gacha learned not to treat the main story as endgame content 10 years ago

>>43607226

>get that craving for soap opera a là WA2
>decide to read KimiNozo
>within the first 5 mins of opening the game, everyone jokes about homosexuality and Hayase calls it gross
Tomboy AND she hates gays? Full marks.

>>43607411
But anon, endgame is very far away from the main story. They make literally hard mode versions of its bosses, that are WAY WAY harder for a reason.
The days were the main story was actually genuinely difficult are long since over.

Criminal border 1 and 2 seems to be way more enjoyable than the first two nine episodes. Wonder if the payoff will be the same

>>43607774
9 nine peaked at episode 2.

>>43607728
It's funny to me how the dude that voices Takayuki (not in the main game of course, but in spinoffs/anime/etc.) ended getting typecast as the homoerotic 美青年 villain in every game. I was used to his latter type roles that it took me a while to realize he actually played the MC once.

My new favorite character

Those are some of the most stupid settings i have ever seen
They have put the fading (???) settings for literally everything for whatever reason yet they couldn't even bother to make the voice carryover

>>43607972
Is it not in サウンド?

>>43608117
The sound menu is actually even more stupid
For whatever reason when you open it the bgm disappears, so if you want to adjust it you have to go back and force between menus

>>43608315
I mean it's what you should expect when playing old games. Just be a normal human and listen to the voices all the way.

>>43608352
Still really annoying during h scenes since i'm not listening to every single moan

>>43608393
Welcome to older eroge.

>>43607751
yeah man thats why I could go on twitter right now and send you literally 2000 different tweets of people crying about story bosses, including the seiyuus themselves

>>43608393
If you don't listen to every single moan, you didn't truly experience it.

>see new Hulottege on EGS
>every heroine has multicolored troontuber hair
>everything has those lifeless nu-Yuzuge colors
>character designs look like they just copied the new Yuzuge
And another moege maker into the trash. Hulotte have always been consistent in their mediocrity and the worst they did was using too many hair ribbons or main girl having those ugly clips on their front bang. Their new game looks so bad, soulless and for the first time I have zero interest in even a single Hulotte heroine. Fuck, CUBE are my last bastion of moe now.

>>43608863
I blame these mfs for that fucking multicolored hair trend

>>43608887
Not that anon, but the multicolored hair actually fit the aesthetics and vibe of Magatsu Barai. Then again, I'm not too bothered by multicolored hair as long as they don't slap weird colors together.

>>43608863
Don't care about hair but I really dislike the h-scene expressions they give all the girls now, it's like ahegao but the art isn't "dirty" enough for it to look good, should just stick to cuter faces.

>>43608928
To be honest, I never liked the MB vibe (too shounen). Although I think my problem is more with the color palette...it feels too bright? it's like all the art has the contrast too high.
Well, I'm G yuusuke bitch when it comes to chuuni art, so I guess that may have also influenced my perception a bit

>>43608971

>>43608971
I appreciate heartmarks in any art style.

Get out of the way, faggots, here's the best girl of the year

>>43609046
Shit VA.

>>43608978
>Although I think my problem is more with the color palette...it feels too bright? it's like all the art has the contrast too high.
That was the point. But yeah it was pretty shounen-y.

>>43608863
You should see the new asapro, the designs somehow looks worse than ever.

>>43607039
She's the cutest character of all time

>>43609098
Agreed on the asapro at least. There isn't a single interesting character in their new game's lineup. They did alright with Kirame's design in futakoi, so it's not like they can't design decent characters.
I'll probably read the new Hulotte, some of the girls sound lewd as fuck from their descriptions.

>>43608887
That shit started before Magatsu Barai and I have to agree with the other anon that it fits the game. Ugly but not offensively ugly. The bright colors were a bigger issue.

>>43608971
I hate ahegao but multicolored hair triggers me. Hulotte started with soft-ahegao expressions in their last game but at least it wasn't too extreme and the rest of the art looked good. The new one's just bad. Worst offender is the loli. Why a black strand in her front bang? And the ends of her hair are also black? Then they have that other pink with the white front bang... The pink with cyan bangs looks bad too. Best looking is Nayuri 2.0 and she's just as thicc.

>>43609098
>asapro
My good old friend asapro, how could I forget him? Unfunny jokes, boring writing, ahegao faces and worse in sprites, and they use 4+ character artists every game who recycle the same faces with a different wig on. Every new game is worse. Bottom tier shared with SMEE. The new Hooksoft is also ugly as sin.

>>43609046
I really like heart pupils, really makes the heroine looks like she is in love.

>>43609209
Can you believe some games are giving you the option to get rid of them now? What kind of monster would turn off heart pupils?

>>43609258
陰毛 on
all the way

>>43609258
what VN?

>>43609307
http://azarashi-soft-plusone.nexton-net.jp/garudoma/

>>43609258
Why the fuck would someone want to turn them off, 陰毛 i understand because is like asking her to shave, but the pupils?

>>43609329
Has anyone already read the trial?

>>43609329
>azarashi-soft threesome
Nice.
Thanks.

>>43609334
>but the pupils?
This world has no salvation, there are too many degenerates out there

>>43609130
Just say you hate everything new, you tryhard geriatric.

>>43609351
Is the kusoge-reserved brand don't get your hopes up

>>43609441
But One Shota One was kamige

>>43609424
If the new shit wasn't shit I wouldn't complain. Enjoy your multicolored vtumors, gatcha, ahegao sprites and isekai vomit. I just want clean quality games of old. You'll understand when the current shit you like isn't made anymore and replaced by even worse shit that the next gen of kids drools over.

>>43609521
I never liked eyeless protags, slut girls, and fedora tier chuuni anyways.

Topical

>>43609521
Yeah I agree games having
>colors
is bad
VNs should be like 7th gen first person shooters and just be various shades of brown and grey.

>>43609046
She's pretty good but the year's not even half over, I would hope that there's something good coming in the later half that can compete.

>>43600466
even yuzuge can make me cry, i'm so fucking weak

>>43610311
I cried during tenshi reboot, nothing to be ashamed of.

>>43610288
>>43609046
She's actually probably my 4th favorite girl in the game (though her route is the best and her seiyuu is a savant)

>>43610322
>She's actually probably my 4th favorite girl in the game
That's absurd.

>>43610325
What can I say, Fumika, Orie, and Kaguya are just that good. Well Kaguya isnt as good as the others if i try to be objective but she presses my personal buttons
Fumika is insanely cute though

>>43609018
>>43609064
>>43609078
Title?

>>43610341
First one is tenshi souzou

>>43610336
>Fumika, Orie
You poor bastard, loving the girls with the half-hearted mini-routes.

>>43610345
No way that's Fumika. Her sprite is not that cute

>>43610391
Did you not play the game?
>>43610341
Bottom is study steady 2

>>43610402
Haven't played her route

>>43610418
But...she wears that in the common route...

>>43610427
Pretty sure I've never seen her in that get up

>>43610381
Doesn't bother me, Orie is really cute in basically every route anyway

>>43610427
she doesn't

Does anyone have the voiced version of 蟲ノ目? Links on warosu are long dead

As much as I love Koku's art, new looks kinda worse imo. Not sure if this is cherry-picked however.

>>43610571
Koku can only draw lumps of meat. Faces aren't his forte

>>43610571
I prefer COQ way more than the other guy. It's really unfortunate that they didn't redraw Saki & Keiko's H-scenes but weirdly enough the non H-scenes got redrawn in COQ style. Why?

>>43610715
Hard disagree. Maya is a cute.

>>43610571
I think it's because he restricts himself to try not to kokufy it too much so it ends up looking uncanny instead
It looks nothing like the original sprite, but also different compared to the usual koku face

>>43610730
Probably cause it would take up a lot of time to redo like 30 extra CGs.

>>43610730
Maybe they just wanted something for anniversary but aren't willing to make drastic changes. Just enough to prove that they didn't half-ass about it

>>43609334
I can get why. If you're emotionally invested it can break the immersion and make the girl look more shallow or unreal.

Does someone here knows where I can download the Buta no Gotoki VN?

>>43609101
Her seiyuu is really the one that sells the character to me. She nails nearly every line.

>>43610571
The sprite is a bit odd but the overall rework is really great from the limited CG I have seen so far.

wtf does herpes water mean??

>>43607039
mutsurisukebeme

>>43609334
I hate that shit, it just turns every character into slut

>>43610571
Did they had a fight with the artist in the left or something?

>>43610341
middle is sakutoki

>>43611861
It's funny how if you invert the order it becomes: sakutoki is mid which is not too far from reality

Those who read sakutoki here, what was the score you gave it?

>>43611949
1200 degrees of pottery glaze firing out of 1500.

>>43611962
Same here

>>43611949
An 8/10 the last 2 chapters saved it

>>43611949
5/10

>>43610345
>>43610402
>>43611861
thanks

>>43611949
Enough for me to want to read it a second time/10.

i know it's winter and all there, but is it really comfortable to sleep in a fucking tracksuit?

>>43612101
lazy ass artist, couldn't even be bothered to draw the zipper line in that cg

>>43611398
jesus christ i've never seen an artist regress so much in his career. he had such a good start with the first aneimo, then his art got really good with the second one, but then somehow he just started slowly regressing with each new vn
everything after hani tsuma looks like absolute garbage

>>43610565
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kHfjpggFWTuzn2S2DoOQkHqc6pDsGnNC

https://files.catbox.moe/5eo6bb.ogg

>>43612231
holy shit it's true. i think his art does not align well with the modern anime style

>>43611949
7/10 first 3 chapter 8/10 4 chapter 4/10 last 2 chapters

>>43612384
read aneimo 2 if you haven't already, really good vn

>>43612384
disgusting

>>43612418
Thanks for the rec. I'll read it later after I finish this one

Anyone here has a neurotic fear of a bunch of eroge becoming obscure enough that dl links and torrents are dead and cracks for them no longer appear? I do and it slowly sucks my lifespan.

>>43612638
do not fret, for there will always be some archivebro out there to save the day

>>43612638
I archive everything. To the extent where I doubt my own sanity.

>>43612638
there are plenty of people on ab who seed the whole existing catalog, as long as they are alive nothing will be lost

>>43612638
good thing I only play popular titles

>>43612638
I have 3 TBs of shit backed up in case something happens in the future

>>43613022
do you have this??
https://vndb.org/v12728

>>43610571
Years in the industry and Koku STILL can't draw faces.

>>43613029
Yeah, give me a minute

>>43612638
You should fear the imminent era of artists training AI on their own works to be more lazier than they already are. A lot of people achieve everything they download here so in the worst case scenario we will go back to swapping porn magazines between each other(In this case eroge).

>>43613077
There are already more than enough eroge on my wishlist to cover the rest of my lifespan, i really don't give a single shit about the future of eroge at this point