/jp/ - Otaku Culture

About to start Natsu no Ame.

JAV

I unironically huffed a sigh of relief when AB went back online.

Finished Amairo Islenauts.

Not too much to say, it's a yuzusoft VN. You know exactly what you're getting, it could've come out yesterday. It does what yuzusoft VNs do and it does it well. The only thing that really sets it apart is that because MC is a teacher and the heroines are students most routes have drama that at least partially centers around not letting people find out about their relationship, which is fine individually but does get a bit repetitive across every route..

Girls:
>Tia > Misaki = Konoka = Shirley > Yune
Routes
>Shirley > Yune > Misaki > Konoka > Tia

Tia is fantastic and deserved a full route and not just a mini-route. When will Yuzusoft give hags the love they deserve? It can be a subbrand like Yuzusoft Rotten.

>>46238205
I too love EOPgods that put rules to avoid people uploading weebshit in my tracker too

>>46238275
rent-free
doesn't even affect you if aren't into doujintrash

>>46238275
I don't care about their clique. I only care about easy access to unpopular oldshit.

>>46238232
I'm quite conflicted if I should be extremely mad at you for ignoring the best girl of the game or if I should be glad that a hagfag hasn't soiled her.

Jarring cuts before both of the H scenes so far. I guess it was made with an all-ages version in mind.

eroge for this feel?

please give AB invitation i want obscurege too
will do the needful and seed, pc on 24hours seeding good ratio, no bad things never
discord: ab_redeemsir (temp email will dissapear too soon, going sleep now)
I'm serious this post is no joke

>廃村少女 got an append
That's unexpected. Escude usually doesn't do appends.

>>46238329
A lot of VNs seem to be these days.
Check the files, see if it has steam acheivement data like the yuzusoft vn did.

>>46239114
Didn't check the files but the 後日譚 is super short, hard to see why anyone would play it without the porn.
I guess they have to provide some closure though.

any recs for games that have a big focus on MC ending up with 2 girls? love triangle and heavy drama or what doesn't matter, bonus points if it doesn't just end once they get together and also goes into what happens after

>>46239161
white album 2

>>46239165
sorry i should have said besides WA2

>>46238725
https://vndb.org/g126?l=1&m=2&l=&f=81PB&s=24w
Here, bro.

>>46239161
I know Miagetegoran had a FD that focused on the 2 main girls and the MC all forming a relationship with each other. Honestly, it felt like it made the most sense to me considering their past and how deep of a friendship the three characters shared.

>>46238830
Alright. That was fun.
I thought it'd be an epilogue, but it's actually an IF scenario that followed the "bad end" that always got thwarted during every route. I did wonder what would happen if they took the offer and stayed, because they escaped in every ending.
More Kagome is always welcomed, even if she got put through the wringer here. More group scenes, which were my favorites in the base game. Pretty nice ending (the implications man), but it could be better. Guess they don't want to make new tachie.

There uses to be a visual novel purchasing guide somewhere around here, does anyone have a link? Going to be in Akihabara tomorrow and I can't remember which stores are best for eroge. I picked up YUNO at Mandrake Sapporo but I haven't had much luck anywhere else.

>>46240042
I dunno bro. Last time I went was in 2016. I suppose things got pretty bad since then. I now live just two hours by Shinkansen, but it's hard to justify the tickets.

>>46240042
Isn't akiba half chinese/korean now?

>>46240119
>but it's hard to justify the tickets
Why? Tokyo is more than just Akiba. I'd go to Nakano and even Ikebukuro if all I really wanna do is gawk at otaku wares.

>>46240131
The main street is. The side streets still retain the old 電気街 feel.

>>46240147
>Why?
It would be a one day trip, 20000 yen just for travel. Much better ways to use it. But lately I have been toying with the idea of going, one of these weekends.

>>46240167
20000 is peanuts. Are you a starving ALT or something?

>>46240218
Not really. A beginner programmer careful with money.

>>46240147
I went to Nakano today but didn't buy anything unfortunately. Sapporo was by far the best city for Eroge which is strange to me. I guess maybe there's not so much interest in it there so good stuff stays in stock longer.

>>46240248
No point in living if you'll be a Scrooge with money and you're in Japan so I doubt you're there to make big bucks so just enjoy your earnings. Carpe Diem.

>>46240288
Nakano is starting to get more attention since Mandarake is a big player there. Sapporo doesn't tout itself as otaku haven so it works out for rare collectible hunters.

>>46240318
>you're in Japan so I doubt you're there to make big bucks

Hmm, yeah. Mostly to live safely, relatively isolated from various unfortunate states of affairs around the world. I guess I might go next week.

>>46240318
i didnt like the layout of Mandrake at Nakano broadway. There were too many shops with stupid names like Mandrake special 13 (what doea Mandrake special 13 sell? Fucked if I know.) spread across too large a space. i prefer when a store is entirely self contained. A Mandrake in a small 4F building is much easier to browse than 20 separate mandrake storea spread accross a mall.

>>46240403
Their naming sense is whack, but once you know which ones sell certain goods, it's easy to navigate unless you're just that bad at directions. Plus Nakano tend to have the most dynamic stock. Stuff comes and goes there so it's never always the same shit on display.

>>46240427
I'm only here on holiday unfortunately so I can't visit regularly. I might go back again tomorrow and have a proper look depending on how long I spend in Akihabara. I have I whole day tomorrow set out for shopping.

>>46240248
There are tech jobs outside Tokyo/Kanto?

>>46240971
Sure, why not?

>>46241000
Dunno, I just heard from people I know who are in IT that all the jobs in Japan are concentrated there. Though maybe things are different if you're not an EOP and/or have relevant expertise.

>>46241030
I'm sure most are there cause most of everything is there.

Knowing Japanese is crucial. Probably at every level but especially for me as a beginner, since rather than skills I already have they wondered if I'll be able to function in a Japanese workplace and if I can learn from their Japanese materials/documentation.

>>46241154
That makes sense. Well, I fell for the "study what you love" meme and got a degree in linguistics, so none of this is relevant to me unfortunately, was just curious.

>leaving your house
I seriously hope you don't do this

>>46241263
Man i wish i fell for this meme too
Instead i fell for the "go into IT and become rich" meme and my degree has been completely useless for me because i fucking hate coding

>>46242501
>fell for the "go into IT and become rich" meme (...) because i fucking hate coding
I hope more of your kind exits the industry by the time I graduate with my computer science degree in 2 semesters

>degree anything other than medicine/engineering/laboratory science like physics or chemistry
What a waste of time and money. You could have been a shut in, getting your credentials by solo work and reading more eroge.

>>46242547
>I graduate with my computer science degree in 2 semesters
Different anon, but seriously good luck. The market has been really bad these past few years. I couldn't imagine how hard it is to get in as an entry level now. Use nepotism or something if you've got it.

>>46242596
My degree is in physics and I literally code for a living

>>46242625
>Different anon, but seriously good luck. The market has been really bad these past few years. I couldn't imagine how hard it is to get in as an entry level now. Use nepotism or something if you've got it.
thanks anon. yeah it's been looking like shit for a while now, I've been banking on the fact that the company I wage slave for right now is a privately owned company and they prefer to hire new engineers from within the company. it isn't quite what I had in mind but I actually have an interview lined up for one of their network engineer intern positions this week.

For me, I just wait until my relatives die and take their stuff and money.

>>46242702
same plus free government bucks

>>46242702
for me, the only thing they are going to leave me is a shit ton of loans

>>46242726
real eroge protag...

http://yaraon-blog.com/archives/253104
The day when every eroge will have to include arab characters keeps getting closer

>>46242749

>>46242749
They may think that now but once they get older they might reconsider it.

>>46242749
can I say that feminism was a mistake in this thread?

>>46242749
It's no surprise. People mainly had children so they could make them work and bring in an income. Nowadays children are only a financial burden and work is soul-crushing enough without also having to take care of another human on top of that.

>>46242951
it's not money issues, people are just completely and utterly mentally ill. Poor people have the most kids, even.

>>46242749
This unironically elevates the stocks of moege through the roofs since you can see what it was like to build a family 40 years ago before everything went to shit since most moege take place in an alternate timeline where social media didn't destroy people's brains.

>>46242749
It's getting to the point that no one, especially with those with higher education and non-normalfags, wants kids in any moderately developed country. 2D children is better anyway.

>>46243230
It's all pretty ironic, the smarter people get the fewer kids they want, and eventually they get replaced by poor and stupid people who bring the population in and eventually turn everything into a shithole
It's as if the world is programmed to never reach prosperity

>>46243275
Modern day people just aren't as smart as they think they are. They're perfectly fine with having shadow governments fuck the world up, as long as the constant dopamine hits keep coming. I truly believe humanity has stagnated in all aspects.
Yesterday I suddenly realized that the year gap between Gunbuster and Diebuster is shorter than the gap between Diebuster and now, and has been for several years. Even as I type this I keep thinking that can't be right.

>>46239161
School days

>>46243275
Idiocracy was a prophetic movie

so why is erogay dying then? is it the gacha and vtumors fault?

>>46243510
eroge dying, my favorite meme. Two more weeks.

>>46243510
Lower attention span + bad reputation among population + gov fucking over ero stuff + a lot more available content for easy dopamine rush + retarded boomers ruining their own companies + everyone retiring due to combination of everything above

>>46243510
gacha and vtumors are the symptom, not the cause. the average normie can't even read news articles past the headlines anymore.

>>46243558
people fellate themselves over gacha writing that takes years to build up, there is nothing beyond those games being free as opposed to eroge costing as much as full price AAA games and dominating social media presence thanks to artists that just draw whatever is popular for the most engagement.

>>46243510
Eroge has more quality than anime,manga, light novels, gachashit, videogames and more.

>>46243604
This and unlike gachashit eroge doesn't become dead media and titles from many years ago can still be enjoyed in the present. Couldn't care less about twitteroid artists drawing the current popular thing, fanart is overrated anyway

>>46243534
At the least this 2ch/5ch poll is almost dead.
https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm43408796
https://w.atwiki.jp/2chbesteroge/

>>46243578
The gacha players circlejerking each other off about writing quality are a very small percentage of the actual player base, most simply got their brain highjacked. They will actually complain about shit like having to clear the story to access the best farming nodes, they're utterly and completely lost to the skinner-box.

>>46240369
>Mostly to live safely
How about natural disasters? There are a lot of them in Japan.

Blue Archive story tho

>>46243652
I doubt there are many people older than 13yo who genuinely would care about gacha story
The only reason i play gacha is to grind for my favorite character and make her as strong as possible, it's basically an evolution of raising simulators

>>46240042
When I'm in Akiba I do Traders 2 -> Melon (not much there anymore) -> Lashin (also hardly worth checking) -> Manda -> Surugaya -> Traders honten -> Softbank

>>46243652
>They will actually complain about shit like having to clear the story to access the best farming nodes
I know which games you're talking about, and by that logic I can say that's a minority too, because even the gacha devs didn't imagine there would be people that stupid. Or, hell, if they care about farming that much, they're also the type who'd keep praising the game for giving them 900 hours of gameplay for free

>>46243668
Do you not read chapters/events featuring her? seems utterly pointless to me. Might as well browse through the trillion jrpgs that already exist for a design that attracts you there

>>46243578
>people fellate themselves over gacha writing that takes years to build up
A lot of players want to skip the writing and get onto rolling/doing whatever asinine bullshit for cheap serotonin rushes. Average person enjoys seeing progress without much effort, which is why reading eroge and learning another language isn't popular.
Anyone who unironically defends gacha writing were wife beaten with sunkcost and blind loyalty. You can very clearly see this with the existing FGO and Genshin fanbase.

>>46243666
gook trash is trash

>>46243698
I actually forced myself to get into FGO because I played F/SN before I had hair on my balls and I couldn't believe people actually memed about it having a good story. The first arc has like 2 acceptable chapters and the finale isn't even one of them. Must be a gigantic case of でんでん現象

>>46243687
Grinding in jrpg is what i consider utterly pointless because eventually you will just complete the game and forget about it, and the thought that you could cheat any time you want anyway nullifies the feeling of achievement
It is a completely different story with a living game that keeps adding new stuff and you can continue to grind as long as the game exists and flex on various leaderboards or shit

>>46243730
>leaderboards
Zoomer mental illness

>>46243742
Desire for your wife to be the strongest in the world existed since the stone ages

>>46243748
>cavemen did thing 999999999 years ago so you must do it too

>>46243767
this but unironically but only for raw meat

>>46243629
While i agree with you sadly the state of affairs is different, we are getting into the remakeshit era for some reason, my only theory is that they don't want to sell old eroge because the "morals" were different back then and the banks are forcing them to, which why every remake shit description have a favorite word in common "倫理", however even modern shit are getting remakes and somehow managing to sell well which is the thing i don't understand

>>46243730
>Spending your life savings to get on the leaderboard of a shit game that will shut down in a few years

>>46243787
>life savings
That's some ultra small pp flex material, i achieve everything through fp2 only

>>46243730
nigger what games are you even playing that your fucking jpeg grind to max takes more than an hour?

>>46243782
> every remake shit description have a favorite word in common "倫理"
That is just referring to コンピュータソフトウェア倫理機構
Sofurins rules changed slightly from the time it was made so there will be a few word edits.

damn JOPs

>>46243669
Awesome thanks

>>46243604
>>46243578
There is literally no difference between gacha or eroge in terms of story lol
in fact the gacha ones usually have MUCH higher production value with better art, voice actors etc. you aren't superior for playing another medium designed to milk retards for easy money

>>46245076
Their stories are dogshit and you're a retard.
>better art
Meaningless without a good story and not even true in the first place.

>>46245101
>Their stories are dogshit
Have you played any? Please list the ones that you did
>not even true in the first place
lol

>>46245076
Are you the retard that was defending heaven burns red here?
>another medium designed to milk retards for easy money
Actually the jews who wanted to milk retards left eroge behind to make gacha garbage, while those who actually cared about eroge kept doing it.

>>46245128
>while those who actually cared about eroge kept doing it
that explains why pretty much everyone left eroge

>gacha trash "production value"
>most unvoiced
>drip-feed CGs
KEK, good one

>>46245241
damn anon, how did you timetravel here from 2015?

>>46245219
Even nasu who is milking FGO released tsukihime and mahoyo 2 years ago so yes, keep believing that.

>>46245281
it's just a pithy jab anon, you don't have to get so butthurt

If it were up to me, every route in every game would have the possibility of NTR/NTS

>>46245449
this but only yuzuge

>>46245449
random chance for each character's route to be NTR
you have to buy a new copy of the game to roll again

WHEN YOU WALK AWAY

>>46239749
>pulltop
i remember miagete got good reviews here when it came out but after suffering through koinatsu and having a straight up nightmare experience with miraikano i kind of ended up traumatized by that company, i'll keep it in mind though, thanks

>>46243492
forgot all about that, but that game and series was a real disaster

>>46245128
Hey, HBR's story is nice.

I like Eleonore before, but now I like her much more.

>>46243661
Besides Singapore, most disaster free countries are sand shitholes.

I like Eleonore before, but now I like her much more.

Hell, Uma Musume has better characterization than most eroge.

>>46245735
Maybe if you've only read shit eroge.

>>46245722
I clapped when I read this scene.

>>46245507
Miagete and KonoOozora are some of my favorite works by them and really of all time so I highly recommend them. Asta does a good job of interwieving a specific subject matter(i.e. Astronomy and Gliders/Aeronautics) and a enjoyable heart-warming story.

>>46245760
What else is there after reading all the good ones?

>>46243742
What is zoomer about leaderboards when playing for score in arcades has existed for decades?

I fucking hate VNs with jumpscares
I'm a pussy, I don't need this shit in my life. And I was about to sleep too.

>>46245933

>>46245933
BOO

>>46245933

>>46245990
That was the one
Fuck this. Her picture book was dope though and I still have no idea what's going on.

>>46245933
>>46245975

>>46238169
I thought I'm the only one playing Dolphin Divers. Really like the ED song for the black haired tsundere.

>>46245990
oh hey it's that exact one that got me
there's a bare handful of vn jumpscares that worked on me and that's one of them, pic related being another

>>46246271
Cute

>>46246271
remind me to never read anything from this company

>>46246963
it had an excellent imouto route thoughever

>>46243880
Denpa?
Mobile 催眠?
Teenager addicted to mobile screens?

>>46245990
Weirdly erotic, i want a nukige with this type of heroine.

>>46248023
Do not stick your dick in the bottomless void

How can there be no difference between gacha and eroge in terms of story if one is 後付け after 後付け and the other you are done with it once you read it?
I don't think you both write them the same way desu

>>46249051

>>46249675
>Unlike social games that you casually play on your phones, you have to sit down at your computer for a long time to read visual novels
You also have to do the same for most gachas. The average gacha "game" is much, much longer than the average VN and I'm not even counting event stories or similar stuff
>Social game characters are appealing at first sight, but their backgrounds and settings are often half-baked and lazy, as such, they often give me the impression that they're made to only look good superficially
You can say the same for most eroge. Take away the "ero" parts of a VN and most people here won't even bother to play it - that should tell you how shallow most of the stuff in this medium are

>>46249881
I don't know you but aside from nukige I don't really care much for the ero in most VNs aside from a few that tickle my funny bone
Yet if a VN is all-ages I seldomly get the urge to read it.

>>46249675
Hot

>>46245943
>>46245990
sauce of these ones?

>>46250200
first one is Akeiro Kaikitan (read the prequel first)

>>46250200
second pic is chronobox

>>46249051
Sequels and FDs. I also don't think eroge's stories are written in one sitting either. Only thing that matters is the writer's ability and how good the story actually is.

>>46250210
>>46250230
Thank you anons, will download them soon.

>>46249675
That's ironic because a lot of eroge are half-baked. They will have an interesting concept, but fail to go anywhere with it. There are many games in this genre where "it gets good in 30 hours bro trust me" isn't just a meme, and by that point they spent so much development time on filler that the actual interesting and thematic parts of the game aren't fleshed out nearly enough.

>>46246963
It's pretty cool shit. Unlike their pure moege which was shit. RIP though.

>>46250389
How's first game?

>>46250389
is this also 夏の色のノスタルジア ?
>>46249675
>you have to sit down at your computer for a long time to read visual novels
Thank god for all the PC handhelds that have come out in the last couple of years.

>>46250424
>is this also 夏の色のノスタルジア ?
Appearently not. Filename.

>>46250431
Damn, I totally missed that.
It's サクラノモリ†ドリーマーズ2

Redpill me about Whirlpool. Seems like they delivered this time.

>>46250394
Better than the second, if you ignore non "main-heroine" routes, if you ask me. The girl herself doesn't matter, but it's the only route where the mainstory continues past common. Common itself can overstay its welcome a little, but it's worth sticking to it. You can obviously still read the other ones, but they are very typical moege fluff, aka not the strength of the game in my opinion.

My favorite was Tokihate though, it had the best pacing. Shame there was never a follow up. Technically Mori Dreamers 2 takes place after Tokihate and acknowledges its existence, but it's a sequel to Mori Dreamer 1's common route of sorts. And that comes with its own issues related to the story. Still worth playing though, but the main story doesn't quite come close to what Mori Dreamers 1 ends up doing, and it never answers any questions either due to how it branches.


I did play the "Nostalgia" game as well, and in a way it was a precursor to the next games. I 100% recommend doing the twintail route (non sister). If you like the direction of the final part of that, you should at least try Tokihate. Pic related was definitely something.

>>46250538
Thanks for detailed response, I'll give it a try.

Oh, Asou Ei. Ourest of our guys Urushibara-sensei posted about it before the reveal. so I though maybe.

I mean, Asou Ei isn't bad, but

>>46249881
>won't even bother to play it
Why would I bother to play censored trash?

>>46249881
>take the ero out of eroge and people won't like it anymore
Wow, what's next, you're going to tell me no one wants to buy a car without wheels and an engine?

>>46250517
They give their characters big fat meaty nipples.

I look like THAT?

holy shit what a bitch

>>46251455
best girl

>>46251455
route soon

>>46251455
I can fix her

holy shit that's brutal

>>46252069
My dick

Anyone else constantly cycle between 2-3 different games and play 15-20 min (or however long a scene is) of each at a time until they get to a good part? I know it’s very zoomer brained of me but at least I’m still reading a lot everyday…

>>46252136
Catastrophically zoomer brained. If someone made a YouTube/Tik Tok channel where they uploaded 1 minute clips of only the "good parts" you'd probably never touch another VN again

>>46252161
Nah, I still like the build up leading to the “good parts” but reading the same build up continuously for hours bores me.

>>46252136
You should go check yourself for ADHD, i only read one at a time.

>>46251228
>episodic shit
Sign of kusoge

>>46252136
No, unless I'm deciding what to play then I switch around the start for a bit, then when I decide which one I like the most I stick to it to the end

>>46252136
I feel physical repulsion from the thought I reading more than one vn at a time. The most I'll do is one 'normal' vn and one nukige

>>46252193
It's just the all-ages version which only has one route.

reading more than one VN is a disrespect to the author so you didn't really read the VN

>>46252244
>Censored AND trimmed eroge
Do they actually expect to sell or is all just a money laundering operation?

>>46253557
most nips don't care about h scenes and will buy it if it's good unlike w*stoids

>>46253557
Seems like a weird experiment, maybe get people from Switch interested on buying the full game? It also looks like the first time they do a Switch release?

>>46253563
Writting something with h scenes in mind and removing it is just as bad as writting all-ages and then sticking some random H scenes.

>>46252244
Thats ok. Full release + loli heroine + cool protagonist like Secret Agent instead of their usual faggy ones = I give it a chance

>>46253682
>Body: Pale, Slim, Small Breasts, Teen
>loli

>>46253720
i won't tell if you won't

>>46253720
I too dictate what is and isn't a loli by using whatever some indonesian guy on vndb tags characters as.

>>46253959
It's not just indonesian guy, it's translation cabal with translators looking down on lolis but removing loli tags and translating games with not_loli this way

>>46253557
switch version is only ￥2,000 compared to ￥10,000 for pc... paid demo?

>>46252193
>>46253557
There are two releases of the game, a complete version eroge on PC and episodic all ages version for the switch
I dunno why they do this, but maybe switch users tend to buy lower priced games outside of big mainstream releases?
If they release the full version of the game at full price they'd have to compete with mainstream games there
Probably it's easier to show up among other releases on the low price section of the switch store
Also ensemble games are all kusoge regardless of how they release their games anyway

>>46253990
Partial release is cheaper than the full version
Why would they do that?

>>46253959
>>46253978
The average breast size increased so much that people now call small women loli. Great, just great.

>>46254154

>>46254208
kek

Got any recs for good mystery VNs?

>>46254208
>-5 loops back to eggs in mother's ovaries and sperm that hasn't been produced yet
>it's the sperm that determines x or y chromosome
>we can't determine the sex until observation
Perhaps... Schrodinger was in us all along...

Are eroge players most likely to play JRPG's or WRPG's? With how most of you think and act, I'm leaning towards the latter.

>>46254806
Why not both?

>>46254806
Why not neither?

>>46254806
>westoid RPG
No

Feels like same fucking retard spamming westoid every thread

>>46254850
>I've been found out!

started rereading perseus for reasons (okay, one singular reason)
i am reminded once again that ren is fucking perfect
except maybe those minori-mandated bolt-on water balloons

>>46254850
shit posts get shit replies

>>46254806
Video games are for children.

>>46254966
You are playing a video that has game elements. Hence, you are a child.

>>46254806
They all suck so no thanks

>>46254957
>except

>>46255063
But WRPG fans seem to be more intelligent and capable of banting better. Aren't eroge fans like that too?

>>46255459
she should be a flattie, simple as
it would make her inevitable victory over the other cows all the more crushing

>>46255491
I don't know about you but the bants on Japanese forums leave me in tears

>>46250262
>I also don't think eroge's stories are written in one sitting either
It's not about being written in one sitting, it's about intent. Eroge are planned and written with intent of reader experiencing full story at once.

>>46254957
Wait, did Minori actually make a good game?
I thought they just made stuff like Trinoline.

>>46255809
Joy? Boredom? Sadness?

>>46255881
good game in its entirety? nah
but it's a perfect combination of a lot of the things i want in one route
possessive, bitter, sharp-tongued imouto (You) share a secret power with, do-inaka setting with nice atmosphere, the world is against (You), drastic preventative measures taken to keep the sluts away from onii-chan
there's something extremely appealing about the way it's framed that sells the "you & me against the world" feeling that i think all good incest stories should have

the rest of it is the usual minori trash, plodding melodramatic angst broken up by lots of sex

>>46255943
>do-inaka
How is this different from regular 田舎? Mud huts?
>the rest of it is the usual minori trash, plodding melodramatic angst broken up by lots of sex
That's what I figured but hey, that route sounds good, maybe I'll check it out.

>>46249675
It means absolutely NOTHING when it comes from ntrtards.

>>46255960
how would you know that without being familiar with the original work?

Are most eroge pretty much like this?

>>46255975
Not really? Most eroge are about loving relationships with women.

>>46255975

>>46255968
Because I looked at the title, brainlet?

>>46255980
Even NTRge?

>>46256006
By definition an ntrge has to have a woman enjoying sex so probably?

>>46238169
How did this got bikini allowed? They are minor, and Japanese console game got bikinis banned since July 8th 2022 by feminist lord named Kishida Femio.

Oh shit. The bikinischizo is here now too.

>>46256052
I'm pretty sure that's not right, I've read plenty of VNs released since 2022 with bikinis and also a basic google search doesn't show any laws or regulations matching that description around that period.

>>46255943
Hime route is also pretty good, I loved this moment. I think you're being too harsh on the game

>>46256077
Not law, but Pressure by Kishida and NPOs sponsored by them and their son. No bikini was in Japanese console game since July 2022. Sophie 2 was last Japanese console game with bikini. Atelier ran to gacha to avoid Kishida and Snoy's censorship(not Mel). For Japanese gacha never gets censored for being irrelevant.

>>46256052
>They are minor
they look major fat

>>46256077
Pic rel is Seifuku Kanojo which is released in Switch/PS and steam. Not much difference except for cursor between console and steam. Which JK will u vote for?

>>46256111
I meant for age. 17,15,16. This is quite bold for This dark time.

>>46256114
>>46256118
>>46256107
Are these post MTL'd into English or something? What the hell?

>>46256124
It's some mentally retarded /a/ schizo that terrorized the board a few years ago. Surprised he's still alive and kicking.

>>46256077
Even for ones on PS/switch?

>>46256133
*They/them

Any non-nukige about a salaryman taking in a runaway?

>>46256072
Someone must have shared this thread on /v/

>>46256124
It's the bikini schizo, I've seen him in /v/ and /vg/ before, he does nothing but bitch about culture wars and you should ignore him.

>>46255906
>１行目しか文章読めない病気か何かなの？
>テキストボックスから超えた文章は読めないぞ

>>46256814
そしてお主らは日本の据え置きゲームからビキニ禁止されたこと知っとる？あの血の夏からじゃ。令和4年7月以来じゃ。

Just when you thought the threads couldn't be any less salvageable.

mondblutbros...

>>46256169
i thought akabeisoft came out with one but i was wrong https://vndb.org/v22026 i haven't played it but it looks similar enough to what you want. otherwise just search the tag on vndb the list isn't long to begin with, honorable mention for シロウト家出娘と俺 which i liked

I would buy eroge and support the industry if each game didn't cost a hundred bucks

>>46254564
This is so deep, s*basisters

>>46257698
Buy used.

>>46257698
they're that close to realizing why China keeps buying VNs on Steam

>>46257698
just buy during sales or when there are coupons, dlsite gives them away constantly, i remember maitetsu was like 500 yen a few times and rance02 is literally free right now
https://www.dlsite.com/pro/work/=/product_id/VJ01001156.html

>>46257727
They buy on steam because buying porn is illegal in china so they can bypass that shit with steam and their retarded patches

>>46257698
Get an American job then. Even a shitty one can pay for any eroge.

>>46257823
>American
You're going to get taxed by IRS-san so that high wage evens out.

>>46257714
That doesn't directly support the industry. Even pirating 100 games and directly buying 1 contributes more than buying 100 pirated.

>>46258025
>buying 100 pirated
buying 100 used*

>>46258025
It's going directly to Japan either way. Better than lining up Gaben the fat fuck's pockets.

>>46258025
And people wonder why Americans and the Chinese, the people with the fattest wallets, are winning....

>>46258025
That's kind of wrong. People who sell used are usually those who buy a lot of new games and / or copies due to tokutens. Of course it's pure assumption that they'll use money they get from selling to buy more new eroge but that's entirely within realm of possibility.
Stores which deal with used games also have decent role in participating in advertisement campaigns of various eroge makers, etc.
That's why even buying used contributes to the industry more than outright pirating, even if it's an indirect contribution.

Any new gyaruge ?

>>46258464
https://vndb.org/v47548

>>46258464
Soon™

>>46258608
Saw it on vnd earlier,download is already done but i'm not the biggest fan of pinpoint stuff.
Anyone here played Gyaru x otaku or Harem x shangri-la ?
Egs ip blocked me for no reason.

>>46258608
>pinpoint
guaranteed kuso

Why is vndb being slow right now?

>>46257698
10,000 yen is only 66 burger dollars

>>46257698
I like to buy physical copies of vns i enjoyed a lot.

all these shitty machine translations cluttering up the bar gets annoying, even if you collapse everything it's still a fucking mess

>>46259923
you can just straight up hide them I believe

Any vn like seitokai yakuidomo?
pls.

>>46260425
>shit ton a penis jokes
Nukitashi

>>46257698
I pirate everything but then go back and buy legit copies of whatever I end up liking

>>46257698
Only the first two weeks matter in sales, so I buy VNs which seems like I would want more of it from the company, or have 特典 I'm interested to see, like 企画初期デザイン, ボツ案イラスト, 追加シナリオ etc

Evening untl'd folks, stumbled across this https://vndb.org/v20273
was wondering if anyone went down the rabbit hole to experience it, lol.

>>46260958
I've never heard of the eroge mag BugBug, is it any good?

>>46258025
Let's say you're interested in buying a new copy of two games. Both cost 10000 JPY, but used copies of one sell for 9000 JPY and used copies of the other sell for 500 JPY.
Wouldn't you be much more inclined to buy the first? Even if you end up hating it, you could sell it for almost the same amount you paid for it.
That's the difference the secondhand market makes. People pay so much for new eroge in part because they know they can get money back by reselling.
I recently bit the bullet and bought a used VN for a little more than MSRP. (It was Dream C Club Zero, I paid ~65 USD for it. Adjusted for inflation that's like 10 bucks over MSRP.) So the guy I bought it from not only essentially got to play it for free, he actually made money from it!
That's the ideal scenario, but who wouldn't buy more VNs if there was a chance they might get free money for it someday?

Speaking of buyfagging, I'm going on my first trip to Japan, any must visit places?

What's the connection between haughty ojou-samas and anal sex? That would probably the first thing that comes to mind when I see that kind of character.

>>46261480
Check in what prefecture your favorite eroge takes place and go on 巡礼

>>46261440
Actually I'd be more inclined to buy both used and then pocket the last 500 to buy myself a donut
>>46261480
Like >>46261553 said, 巡礼. Easily the most rewarding thing you can do in Japan, and you'll likely get to see a side of the country most tourists never experience. Look up the local 名物 because everywhere has their own.
As far as buyfagging goes Akiba is fun for window shopping but you generally have a better chance of getting a good deal in Nakano. When it comes to Nakano of course there's Mandarake, which in my opinion has good stock and a better likelihood of having rare stuff, but the prices are middle of the road and condition can vary. There's also a Lashinbang in Nakano which has less stock, but Lashin does sales and generally has good prices. Manda will tell you the condition of the box, disk, manual, and might give you info on any missing items from the box, which is one plus it has over Lashin. In Akiba you'll also find Softmap, which has the largest stock by far, and also deals in new stuff. Their prices are on par with Manda but the stuff there has a significantly higher rate of being discolored. It does come with a fair drop in the price, but the level can be terrible (boxes almost completely colorless). Surugaya has a fairly good selection there (but it's at the very top floor of a tiny building serviced by one cramped elevator, I just take the stairs but it's a hell of a climb) and they tend to have the best prices you'll find. On the other hand they don't give you any information about the condition of the item, so if you want to check for missing contents you'll have to ask the counter. I've heard they're happy to do that for you but I hate that kind of thing and tend to just avoid anything suspiciously below what it is at Manda or elsewhere. Since their speciality is online buying and selling they also have the best chance of stocking the rare stuff like Jisatsu no Tame or Shoin, if you're interested in spending 100,000 yen+ on a single game. Though I've never seen those at the Akiba branch anyway.
Finally Akiba has a speciality store called Trader (two locations) that has a lot of stock and the most detailed information about the product's condition. They're a little more steep than Manda or Softmap, but they're the most reliable by far. When it comes to stuff I actually care about I tend to only buy from them (in Akiba, at least.)

>>46261805
Thanks for the write up, I'll be sure to check it all out.

>>46261535
Is it? I don't remember many of them getting fucked in the ass.

>>46262008
Also unrelated to buyfagging but I recommend checking out ジョルダン and 食べログ. They'll make it really easy go get around and find food, respectively.

>>46261805
>Actually I'd be more inclined to buy both used and then pocket the last 500 to buy myself a donut
Sure, but my point is that if we lived in a world where almost nobody bought eroge used, then the average eroge might well cost 500 yen used.
If that was the case, buying eroge new would be much riskier, so less people would do it.
Ergo, buying 100 used games does more to support the industry than buying 1 new game.

>>46238169
How did Seifuku Kanojo got bikini allowed? These 3 are minors and the title tells us this. And Japanese console games got bikini banned since bloody summer in July 8th 2022.

>>46262383
>>46256052
Dementiabro...

>>46262383
>all-ages trash
Eww

>>46262423
Is seikano tame for galge?

>>46262450
I don't know I've heard Fukuoka is a crazy place

So who the fuck lured the binikioschizo to this thread?

>>46262450
How should I know if I'm not ever going to read it? There's a limitless number of eroge to waste time on family friendly garbage.

Seifuku Kanojo actually looks better than the Kiss series, shame it went all ages as the artist got better.

>>46262708
*CERO D

>>46262708
11s have been ripping on it nonstop

>>46262790
When people say all-ages they just mean no porn.
TsukiRe is Cero Z but people still include it in all-ages even though it technically isn't.

>>46256101
>I think you're being too harsh on the game
that is entirely possible, it's been like a decade since i played it and i think my opinion congealed over the years into "ren = good, everything else = bad."
i remember sui being annoying, but in what i've replayed, i'm still getting that feeling even if she hasn't done anything to deserve it

damn, i think i just legit fell for ren's gaslighting: interact with as few people as possible, trust no one, stay home and plow your imouto

>>46263133
Too bad that CERO Z focuses more on gore than nudity. Even when Abe was alive.

>>46262423
Even with half naked JK? I vote Yui(SJK).

Eroge releases stopped being good since 2019, then heaven burns red and blue archive happened
no wonder people who like narrative mediums are interested in gacha now
It at least the illusion of it being the future while eroge are only releasing NTR wife eroge for five years now

>>46263259
Making out with JK asses.

>>46263301
https://youtu.be/KZM7aKqI9FM?si=r38MMY7ZCAkfv_SG
You must be feeling pretty silly right about know...

>>46263312
Just ignore the ban-evading schizophrenic.

Eroge with this feel?
>>46260154

their death will not be in vain

>>46263312
Yeah. Seikano has bikini which is banned from Japanese console game since July 2022(even in PS and Switch) and Himari is Loli here.(loli isn't for age but by body type)

>>46263538
I don't understand. What are their relationships?

shit gets worse with each thread

>>46263312
A
Fucking
Remake
...wow

>>46263586
h*l*live unbanned bikini, thanks vtumors

>>46263586
>loli isn't for age but by body type
just fuck off already

Why are witches hat so erotic lads

>>46263728
Yeah. But cleavage often gets censored. Choco and Koyori. Choco-ESG inner, Koyori-ESG doggo.

>>46263848
Because most weebstuffs focus on JKs.

>>46264219
What a stereotypical tourist take.

ty meidotachi

>>46263259
So, it teases with fanservice yet blueballs in the end for no reason other than muh consoles? That's even fucking worse. What a waste of talent.

I now understand why people say kana is harder than kanji

>>46267385
pic not related?

>>46267385
uh.....

>>46267385
anon...

>>46260977
They were hot in the early AVG 90's market.
Started as a regular gaming mag but switched to AVGs.
Still running to this day.
Apparently, it's a compilation of FD- type content.

Some obscure what if scenario from SnK : HnS spiked my interest lol.

>>46267529
To add to this, they've started putting up manga stories for selected eroge.

>>46267385
this is nothing, it's when people start to talk like delinquents that trip you up

>>46267385
Thread is so dead you had to come up with the laziest bait i've seen this year.

>>46267698
I just skip those while feeling it out because I can't be bothered to understand pseudo nigger speak

Is this the best allage-plot-gamege series?

>>46268433
It reminds me of Western slops for some reason. Is it unfair to this gamege?

>>46267698
夜露死苦

Amane's route feels like the antithesis to Imokano.
Time won't tell, time won't heal, let's just do it and get on with this ordeal.

>>46270426
So deep yuzubro

>>46270426
that was just a retard hoping he could put it off having to make any kind of decision until she forgot about it, and then realizing oh wait she's not a toddler with ADHD, that's not going to work
and he still puts it off anyway until his dick is in her mouth at which point he sort of shrugs and says okay, i guess this is fine
i don't know how the fuck people call this a good imouto route

https://twitter.com/tenco_cc/status/1764992069087727687
Like anon said in previous threads, Eiyuu Senki WW Offline is coming along nicely. With the new Eushully and that gameplayge is healing.

>>46270600
You fags really have a knack of oversimplifying and reducing a story to its barebone bits and making it look bad huh?

>>46271023
i think if you reduced that story to its barebone bits it would be more interesting than what you actually got

>>46271023
ステマ乙

>other girls can tell when you've had sex via some form of sixth sense
heh
can confirm, it's legit

>>46270600
>i don't know how the fuck people call this a good imouto route
Simple
>is the girl cute
>is she an imouto
>then it's a good imouto route

>>46271518
those are absolute bottom-feeder standards
there are creatures that live in the oppressive darkness of several kilometers underwater, that only eat every once in a few months, scavenging the corpses of fish that only rarely drift down from miles above, that have evolved to eat once maybe twice in a year provided the heavens gift them with a carcass to feast on...
and these things still have higher standards than you do

>>46271557
>those are absolute bottom-feeder standards
yeah I'm reading yuzuge dude

>>46271565
ah shit my greatest weakness, he's aware he's reading trash
if i point out he's reading trash, now it won't have any effect
how can i possibly counter this gigabrain maneuver

Shame there are no eroge written by Russians. They are the masters of literature after all.

>>46271581
The only way to win is to flowers for algernon me - you have to trick me into reading kamige so that I can't go back to reading trash.

>>46271588
okay
are you reading it because you want some good imouto shit? then try literally anything by lucle
i'm also readin natsuzora no perseus and that has a fucking great imouto route too
as a bonus rec, tori colony has one of the best imoutos i've ever seen
i appreciate the flowers for algernon ref but you don't have to eat out of a dumpster just to get recs

>>46271617
truly the queen of 5d chess

>>46271675
ah, a fellow man of culture

>>46271617
sigh

>>46271702
listen i sat on that torrent for a month just to reread it, you can do the same
drama cd's worth it btw, it adds a lot provided to listen to it afterwards

>>46271702
Its on zi0

man
if this entire scene isn't the peak of the eroge medium, i don't know what is

>>46271937
also on ryuu, a-s, h-s...

>>46271952
What is that, NTR?

>>46271585
name a good russian novel that was written after the fall of Soviet Union

>>46271952
And just like that they lose their cozy home. Great job imouto. Not exactly a team player

>>46272383
Can't say, but I like to read their schizo isekai literature.

Seems like I can't buy eroge on amazon anymore, does it work for anyone not in Japan? I can't even buy this month's BugBug

>>46272708
you need to be a schizo to enjoy popadantsy slop, so you fit here right in

I just spent almost two hours retrying this gameplayge boss only to find out my damage getting lower and lower was not in fact a mechanic, it went all the way down to zero and it's actually a scripted loss. BAKA I get not wanting to have the player win just to do a cutscene loss but there had to be a better way...

Should I read the original or remake of Tsukihime? I don't mind the old style but which one has the better narrative?

Is it wrong for me to not read imokano just because art looks like garbage?

Okay what the hell, Setsuna's merciless. Evil even. Or crazy for real.

Yes, I'm finally reading the last route.

>>46273465
Read the original first, do other things for a while, then read the remake.

>>46273465
Read the remake first, do other things for a while, then read the original.

>>46273738
You have not read things with actual garbage art if that stops you.

>>46274296
Well yeah, I don't pick up anything if it has garbage art.

>>46271952
Best imouto, I tell ya.

>>46274296
I read nukitashi and henpri

>>46273738
It's your choice but you're seriously missing out on tons of good stuff if bad art bothers you the most. You're the same sort of person who wouldn't play a lot of retro games because the graphics look like ass.

>>46274348
Retro games look cool as fuck though. Can't say the same for actual ugly art like imokano

>>46274348
I still read stuff with bad art, but I just keep picking stuff with better art for a while...

>>46274348
What a horrible analogy. Retro games look good.

>>46274330
>Reading Dangling Grandpa like art.

>>46274372
>>46274437
Retro games look like ass. Plays like ass even.

>>46274437
There are tons that look horrible. You gotta be some cherry picking zoomer who only saw a handful.

>>46274654
I'm not sure where exactly the cutoff for retro is, but old video game art is generally pretty simplistic but has a nice aesthetic. There's little room for error since it's not like they were rendering super complicated 3D models back then.

I wish more games would have their saves inside the installation folder instead of some esoteric path inside %appdata%.
Not like I was going to bother backing them up, but I just did a fresh installation of Windows and loss 3 years or so of saves.

>>46274730
appdata is the correct directory to use for these things

>>46274682
NTA, but ugly polygons and edgy 2000's aesthetics are considered retro now.

>>46274730
agreed, but appdata should be something you backup too

>>46274730
maaya-nee spotted, still the most beautiful girl iizuki tazuku has ever drawn

>>46274730
I only really care about appdata since that's usually where stuff like CG unlocks and other extras happen. Individual saves I could just ctrl if I care enough.

>>46274815
from whence do these semen demens hail? please spare me having to look up names

>>46275135
https://vndb.org/v16338

>>46275161
i knew that looked like a giga font. thanks anon, you're a real one
>twintails is not sexually involved
my smile is gone for good

read

>>46273738
i'm curious what your standards for eroge art are if you think imokano art is garbage. don't tell me you're the same anon that thinks amakano art sucks.

>>46275179
yea it's a real shame they wasted this design

>>46274682
>nice aesthetic
some ancient eroge/video games in general had eyestraining color palettes which are frankly disgusting despite the more simple designs. a quick google search for "pc-88 games" is a good example. i could only imagine PC-98 also had plenty of bad eggs but no one cares to point them out for obvious reasons.
there were also a number of older, story heavy point and click adventure PC games with really bad aesthetics, especially when it's combined with 3dpd and pre-rendered backgrounds.

>>46275473
This sounds like entirely a personal problem. This looks fine.

>>46275489
>not pure kana
Into the trash

>>46275422
Isn't this one of those where the side girls are more interesting than the main ones?

>>46275489
Go look up old Ys games and prepare the eye bleach.

>>46275518
you're not really narrowing down the field here

>>46275525
Can you just post an example of what you think is so horrible or something? I don't get it.

>>46275361
amakano art is way better than imokano

>>46275539
I have to do all the work for you lazyass.

KINO denpage

>>46275573
Alright take 2.

>>46275518
depends, at least one of the main girls is pretty good but it's basically like majikoi with a giant cast but without the billion fandisks, pic related was the best of the side girls though and a crime she had no route considering her actions

>>46275361
I like the Imokano artist, Zombie no Afureta had amazing art, but I think Waffle's coloring team and his art don't really mesh.

>>46275584
This isn't the mona lisa but I can't say I'm supposed to see what's so offensively bad about this. They probably should have left out the background character since the lack of detail looks silly but it's fine otherwise. I guess we just don't fundamentally see eye to eye.

>>46275633
Look anon, Dogi's and Adol's face could be used as meme reaction faces. If that's not QUALITY to you, then I don't know what is.

>>46275539
Here you go buddy. I found this eroge out of random on Google just for (You)
https://trashrepository.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-1.html

>>46275678
you say that like it's a bad thing

>>46274730
despite wanting to, a warped sense of shame and pride prevents me from reading any nukige with a descriptive or otherwise porn-y title
i will only read ones that make some effort, however small, to pretend they aren't just wankfests

i won't ask if this is dumb because i know it is, but am i at least not alone in this?

>>46275693
Why does this guy only have one entry on his blog?

>>46275725
I'm ten years too old for that shit, sorry.

>>46275730
dude you're in an eroge thread. eroge has porn in it. never understood this weird bias against nukige.

>>46275730
sorry but you have some extreme autism but if it makes you feel any better it's unique to you

>>46275730
I hope you are not a westoid because then your "pride" is laughable

>>46275746
no see i have nothing against them, hell i love them in principle
it's just when something has a title that's just a not-so-brief plot summary of who's doing what in which hole, i refuse to play it

>>46275765
You're autistic in a bad way. Those titles are fucking hilarious.

>>46275730
If you actually learned Japanese at a respectable level, chances are you did it for eroge and learned the bulk of it from them. What pride do you need to pretend you're better than those who consumes nukige?

>>46275773
oh well, there's worse 'tisms i suppose
they're funny but they're much funnier on someone else's computer
you won't catch me dead with something that has a subtitle bracketed by ~s

>>46269670
Please elaborate. What part exactly? The gameplay itself, the aesthetics, the story/writing/characters...?

>>46271702
>>46271937
>>46271957
After you get it from a DDL site don't forget to seed it

>>46275361
i'm curious what your standards for eroge art are if you think amakano art is good. don't tell me you're the same anon who says "i love hags"

>>46275894
NTA but it's the art coloring, how over the top the characters act and of course the western zoomer fanbase that's filled with screaming fujos.

>>46275894
Everything besides the seiyuu I guess. I would easily believe it's a Western-ge from any let's play if I didn't do any further research.

>>46275944
Dunno, Komatsuzaki has that jp vibe like any other jp artist, that Westerners can't or don't want to reproduce.

>>46276364
I don't know. This looks like something a Filipino would draw.