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I haven't even played the game but I have on good authority that the pink-haired one is the best thanks to that screenshot I saw before

>>7818681
I've yet to play Chihaya's route, but I have heard it is excellent. She's a very sweet, blood related little sister in the parts I've seen, and I look forwards to seeing what her route has in store.

Either going to read OwariNaki or one of August's new releases in a bit for the rest of tonight.
Still undecided on which to do though.

>>7818681
She's the best because yandere imouto, but it's not like the characters were memorable in my opinion. It's a villain/atmosphere game.

I wish more romance based games had only 1 H scene per given route.
Then I'd be able to finish more games that way rather than stop for the day after I've fapped once like I usually do.

Kind of playing Steins Gate fandisc at the moment. Stopped on the start of Ruka's route (which has been entirely gay so far) also still playing Rance Quest.

I haven't checked the blog yet so I don't know what is coming out this month.

Installed Yandere, my virus software keeps telling me its a virus, specifically malware. Stupid virus software.

>>7819107
This doesn't looks like Yandere material.

Living in the Country in UN/AL sure is shitty.

Kusari actually, but getting steadily bored with the sex.

>>7819107
I read somewhere that some VN's have an anti piracy that takes screen shots and posts them round the web.

>>7819354
there's also a few eroge on share that were infected with viruses that would kill your hdd when you install them

>>7819354
That was some malware that was going around Share. It didn't contain any games, it was just a fake.

>>7819354

Isnt that the one time Cross Days installation thing?
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/99423-Porn-Pirates-Busted-by-Fake-Game-Installer

The title of that articles still makes me criiiiiiiiinge.

>>7819302
And even the high school girls are manlier than the boys there.
I think I have a fetish for girls who use "ore" now.

>>7819368
Yep that's it.

Still euphoria. All the shit is getting to me so I'm considering stalling it and actually finishing eden* or continuing Cartagra.

you guys and the fig thread most likely have the only /jp/ers left on /jp/.

Speed read through 姫騎士アンジェリカ last night

As much as I love サトウユキ, they need to switch it up and use other VAs as the main girl in these type of games

>>7819378
you ever going to tell us the source or just brag like a faggot?

>>7819541
終わりなき夏永遠なる音律

>>7819541
Is it so fucking hard to search?

>>7819541
Have you seriously never played a game from âge?

>>7819593
Not everyone can recognize Glorious rUGP just from a screencap with a single line.

>>7819610
>with a single line.
You should have, that line display is unique to it.

Well, if nothing else this game has a decent soundtrack.

Finished Cross Channel. It was ok, but the way it handled the timeloop structure and storytelling wise was pretty shit, having to repeat the same scenes and flashbacks over and over without the ctrl skip function working because lolscripts was annoying as hell.
The VN still did some good plot points with the timeloop (Miki's week was excellent). And the setting is very lazily explained (if you can call it that). The world building was extremely weak for a VN that spends three fourths of it's read time setting up the plot and world.
The pace is pretty bad too, it's really slow for 4 days of each week and then it actually presents the plot of the week at the very end.
Half the cast doesn't develop for shit and the important information about some of them is presented like two hours before the game ends, in the last stretch/continuous week(s).
Also it needed to tone the fuck down the over the topness of the backstory tragedy and abilities of some characters.

I'm not completely sure I like the way it ended regarding Taichi, but I think it's more of a personal thing, so I won't hold it against the VN. The twist regarding Nanaka at the end was completely retarded though. "It makes the main twist in G-Senjou no Maou look excellent" kind of retarded.

With all those complains though, it wasn't terrible either. The cast was likeable despite being crazy, the concept was good, some good use of the timeloop plot point and in general after the first three weeks (which were a bore) it had me reading interested.

It was a little overhyped to me thinking back, but I tried to not let it affect me anyway.

I need an upbeat, generic-moe-shit visual novel to just make me feel good.
Any suggestions? The less drama, the better. The more generic and two-dimensional the characters, the better.
Or maybe something just funny, or badass without any "sad" parts.

I don't know, I just want to try something that doesn't take itself so seriously.

>>7819873
English preferred, in case I didn't imply that.

>>7819873
My Girlfriend is the president.

Homeward. I laughed, I cried, I came. You will, too.

>>7819873
Quartett would be a good choice. Quirky characters, excellent art... and nothing else.

>>7819405
I powered through the shit and other shit that was too extreme for me because I want to get to the Kanae route. So close now, almost done with the last of the first routes.

>>7819878
Not much in English. Maybe Canvas2.

Just recently finished up Popotan, which was actually really charming if you stuck to the right routes. What really struck me was the sheer amount of character development and opportunity to explore, since you could walk around town and discover scenes at your own leisure.

I played it in moon language though, so I couldn't get all the nuances that I'm sure it had.

>>7819873
MuvLuv Extra
Majikoi
Maybe Shuffle?
Dunno, sometime people like to toss a tiny bit of drama into otherwise pure comedy games just to make them seem... deeper.
Edelweiss
Da Capo
Galaxy Angel
Koihime Musou

so guys, what can you tell me about the upcoming VN to anime titles, mashifoni and majikoi?

>>7820379
That you should go back to /a/ if you want to talk about anime.

>>7820379
Why the hell would you want to watch an anime adaptation of an eroge?

>>7820398
>>7820388


i was asking about the sources not anime, in the end adaptations usually fuck things up so i want to know about the source material

>>7820417
Not much to say about them, just one of better titles in respective genres.

Miko with handgun is my fetish.

>>7820441
How's the protag? Not sure if I want to start that just yet

Monstergirl Quest is a VN right? I've been doing that a lot recently

>>7816929 (from last thread)
That's expected; think about what would happen if its window was constantly kept active. The active window is what receives input events.

The only suggestion I can make is to run it in a VM so it can think it's the active window. It may also be possible to patch if it is only a check and not an integral part of the functioning.

>>7819895
Little did I know that since I was on Nemu's route there was still plenty of shit to be had. This scene probably takes the shit cake. Though after they vomited the shit I was expecting them to shit out the vomitshit again then vomit it again and so on and so forth. I'm not sure whether or not I'm disappointed.

>>7820674
oh lol. so is the trial any good?

>>7820674
お前が分かってねええええ

>>7820722
It's your usual "guy finds suddenly himself engaged with multiple girls and is distressed about it" setup (they even joke about it being trite in manga plots) so don't expect groundbreaking originality there. But it was kinda funny I guess, I liked all the heroines. And the ero is hot.
I guess the fun will be seeing how the three princesses that threathen to destroy Earth if they're not chosen will react when you enter another girl's route.

>>7820750
well It's not like I'm excepting masterfull plot from it. just some nice entertainment, which it seems like it would provide. maybe I'll check it out sometime

>>7819343
The H-scenes are quite irregularly spaced, and they get less frequent as you go on. Early on, or at least on the route I've done, you can get a whole bunch in quick succession early on, whereas later in the game there can be hours between H-scenes. The ones at the end are also a lot better, in my opinion. I can't say for sure whether its like this on all routes though, having only played the Tamami one myself.

>>7820674
wat gaem is dis

>>7820507
He has some balls and is a pretty cool dude in general. But I'm only reading this because I like the artist to be honest. Same dude who did ステルラ エクエス and I love his character designs.

He draws some amazing tits too.

The designs for that Nitroplus renai game. Still see no reason to be excited about it.

>>7820992
oh look it's tsuji santa's stampface again

I'm a little new to VN's and I came across a problem. If it helps I was trying to run Osananajimi wa Daitouryou with Applocale

>>7821290
Fuck applocale.
Change your Windows to Japanese locale and try again.

>>7821290

AFAIK some games won't work even with AppLoc (f.ex. Muv Luv), so I'd suggest switching to Japanese system locale entirely (from control panel).

Though it might be a game/windows related issue so I'd suggest googling that error if switching to Jap system loc won't work.

Just finished Rance 6 completely including the hidden boss.
I had more trouble with Anise than with Alberto during the last battle, I guess there is a reason she is considered the strongest human mage.

It was actually really good, maybe a bit too long.

>>7820429

recently got mashifoni, any particular route you recommend going after first? routes to avoid? should i expect lots of drama?

It's kind of light on drama. Miu's route is the best. Angelica's is the worst, imo. The imouto's wasn't bad, but disappointing. Airi has a lot of icha icha which is nice if you like that kind of thing(I do) Angelica does have some too I guess but she felt more like a side character than a heroine that should be capturable.

>>7822138
>routes to avoid?

People like you are just as bad the "ctrl through eroge" crew.

Tuna-Man's theme song makes my soul burn with a heroic spirit.

wtf am I reading

>>7822203
Good news is, all of the truly severe cases of bloat are easy enough to identify that you can just ctrl them without hesitation and get back to the good stuff. In the end most of the above was more of a huge nuisance than a fatal flaw, and the story was never in danger of completely losing its momentum or intrigue.

>>7822342
That was so incredibly retarded and fun.
Grisaia needs a full comedy VN.

>>7822203

well sorry dude but i had to ask, see, forced drama and scat are amongst the things i rather avoid if they are heavily present on a game's routes..

the fact that one route might not be my cup of teat doesn't mean i will stop playing the game when i could just easily avoid it

OMGWTFOTL made me cry more than any other visual novel.

What is it with tsundere characters doing high kicks that flash their crotch at whoever they're kicking, then realizing what they've done afterwards and being embarrassed about it?

>>7822826
She's used to abuse the wimpy MC without being abused back. Things get different when you're dealing with a real rapist.

>>7822846
I wouldn't really call him wimpy.

Did the Rewrite Trial Patch translation stop? I was really looking forward to reading it.

Currently playing Chaos;Head and I'm at the point right after the pink haired girl shows up in his room and he goes to the hospital. I can't get myself interested in this VN, it is alright... Great setting, the music and sound effects are cool, and it has pretty nice visuals. But I can't play for very long without getting bored or annoyed.

What is Romeo Tanaka's best VN?

>>7822920
Netorarape ~Koibito mo Imouto mo~

>>7822920
Cross Channel

>>7822886
According to Moogy, LoSs stopped translating because it sucked. See here: http://mogumogubakubaku.wordpress.com/2011/07/31/10/

>>7823302

>>7822928
That's his best?

I thought he was actually supposed to be a good writer.

>>7823376
cross channel and saihate are really his only crowning achievements when it comes to eroge. Though, both games are so utterly amazing that it's no surprise that he's hailed as one of the greatest writers in the industry.

>>7823418
Cross Channel wasn't nearly good enough to carry a name on it's own.

Dunno about Saihate, I hope it's actually good enough to do that.

Why isn't they guy who wrote Sharin no Kuni and G-Senjou as acclaimed as writers like Ryukishi & Tanaka are?

Also who wrote the Muv luv series?

>>7823610
>Also who wrote the Muv luv series?
Yoshimune Kouki

>>7823456
I hope you aren't judging Cross Channel's writing from the translation.

>>7823610
Looseboy is really popular in Japan. More so than Ryuukishi, I'm pretty sure. Especially after Umineko.

>>7823670
It's not like there is any other way I can judge it...

>>7823680
Which is why you SHOULDN'T.

>>7823670
>Looseboy
Slut.

>>7822917
I actually just finished the A and AA endings for Chaos Head. I don't think I've had an MC annoy me this bad in awhile, but the girls make up for it at least. Nanami and Rimi are love.

Is the B ending worth going through the game again for? I hate how the skip function automatically assumes neutral responses to delusion triggers rather than giving you a choice.

>>7823710
B side is a lot better than A so you should.
Especially some of the last parts when they put Taku's consciousness into the victim's bodies, my hand hurt while reading the delicious hand description.

>>7823670
How is the Translation that much different from the origional? Enlighten us who cannot speak Japanese, please.

>>7823670
>I hope you aren't judging Cross Channel's writing from the translation.

'Sup Moogy

>>7823670
>I hope you aren't judging Cross Channel's writing from the translation.

I can judge the story just fine though, and it had a lot of bullshit going on.

>>7823728
It's bad. Even Ixrec has admitted it's bad and wants to re-translate it before he starts Saihate no Ima.

Holy shit, I don't think I've come across a character with a voice and way of speaking as this.

>>7824360
As annoying as this, rather.

The translation is pretty bad, but it's enough to get the basic ideas and stuff, nothing important was really 'misrepresented'. I doubt there are many people that would change their opinion of the game from a re-translation, unless they put too much importance on writing style.

eroge everyday

>>7824431
>unless they put too much importance on writing style
And here I was thinking people were free to place whatever importance they want on the different components of fiction. Either way style is generally considered to be a major part of writing.

>>7824990
CC is still very average despite the writing style.

>>7825004
No it's not, I must have done more than 300 eroge and it's still in my top 10.
You just have shit taste

I read CC in Japanese, it was pretty great and the writing was good, but on the whole I guess it was too DEEP for me to appreciate it on the same level as the people who are rating it 95+/100. For example, even though I know the context, I'm not really seeing the awesomeness of this particular line: http://twitter.com/#!/moogy0/status/95410008568762369

>>7825213
I'm not one to fap to writing style like this guy but I can understand why he liked that line.
CC is written in a way that really touch the soul of the reader, I doubt there is a more emotional and empathic style in another eroge.
It's not a question of deepness or whatever, if you want some to see some deep lines go read Saihate no Ima.

>>7824431
If you only judge things based on their basic ideas just read summaries and give it a day.

Fucking retarded.

>>7824431
>I doubt there are many people that would change their opinion of the game from a re-translation, unless they put too much importance on writing style.
I should link you that literary translation experiment where the same exact text was translated shoddily and then putting great care into it to get the style across, they're like two entirely different things. I lost the link though, shit sucks. Or you could compare Takajun/HA guys Fate snippets with a few scenes a guy named arai translated.
Having a good writing style is more important than one would think, and I'm not talking about masturbating to it either. It can literally make a world of difference.

>>7825234
You're right, what you said is fucking retarded. Comparing reading summaries and only caring about the basic ideas are completely different, and you're well aware they're completely different and that it was a retarded comparison. You used it on purpose to make the other person look worse. Don't be a petty little fucker

>>7825208
I've read about 160 eroge myself and I still don't see what's so special about CC other than the prose. CC is a max 8/10 game for me. You're the one who has shit taste, fanboy.

>>7825311
>Comparing reading summaries and only caring about the basic ideas are completely different
How are they different when you can get the basic idea from a summary?
Anyways only caring about the basic idea in a fucking novel is really stupid.

From >>7787172 makes me suddenly read Majikoi manga.
>Read ch12
>See this
You can't do this to me boner!

How do you guys usually keep track of the games you played ? Is there something like Mal ?

>>7818665
Does the purple haired women get a route/h-scenes?

>>7826215
Erogamescape or VNDB

>>7826157
Can't wait for Kokoro route

>>7826157
Kokoro fuck yeah!

I'm playing Chaos;Head, I was expecting a grimdark VN in the vein of Saya, but all I've gotten is a hikki constantly whining about how much his life sucks.

Will it improve?

>>7826336
Yeah. It starts off fairly weak, but gets better. Give it some time.

>>7826336
It'll show slivers of getting better in a bit, just to take a nosedive into a pile of shit.
Have fun.

>>7826336
It will.
Still sucks nonetheless.

>>7826215
No route, she has 4 H-scenes, which is equal lowest with Tamami (the small grey haired one).
Though in this game, your favourite character having lots of H-scenes isn't necessarily a good thing.

>>7826336
What? the best part was being a hiki and chilling in your room playing mmos, i dont get how you can hate him as a character.

>>7826477
Why do my taste in characters never get a route... Are there a lot of older women having a route in vns? or is it really that rare?

>>7826508
Older woman routes which aren't nukiges are rare.

>>7826562
Is rare nowadays or was it always rare, i noticed that the older vns have more mature looking women. Also I mean like women from 20-40. So most older women are in eroge/nukides? I thought we just weren't seeing a lot of vn being translated with older women because of the loli meme shit. I was thinking it was different in japan.

>>7826562
Oh and any examples of visual novels/nukiges were its all older women in like their 30s? Maybe even a really serious vn with older women too.

>>7826604
really wish someone would translate some of Complets VNs

>>7826604
I can think of Ichiban NG na koi, but those are in their late 20s and they're not even the canon route.

So anyone else here played the gameplay trial of Venus Blood -Abyss-? Just finished fiddling around the trial and it's shit tons of fun, the new system scrapped the territory conquering and replaced it with bit Dungeon Keeper like system, fuck yeah form me that is, as DK is one of my favorite PC-games. can't fucking wait for full game at the end of month

>>7826604
Dame na koi has your divorcee wife as heroine, though the game's "canon" goes on the opposite direction so you might not like that.
Ijirarental has plenty of older girls, though university level or so, not actual adults. There's a few nukige where you can fuck your friends' mothers or so, look up those tags on vndb.

>>7826632
nukiges are awesome and all and i wish some were translated with my older women tastes but im really kinda looking for a romance setting were you actually try to love her in a slice of life type setting, it can be a deep vn too. As long as your romancing older women. Picture is what i like to look for in porn and such.

>>7826664
or something like this for an example, they dont have to have the mother archtype, they can be sexy and lusty looking too.

>>7826664
Try Lovely Cation, dating sim (stats and all) but you can romance two teachers who are similar to the Marimo/Yuuko dynamic.

>>7826604

You now realize that Aiyoku no Eustia is set in a part of the Nasuverse where somebody succeeds in letting loose all evils of the world.

>>7826735
Oh snap, Thats sounds awesome, I like Marimo/Yuuko.
>>7826769
This is also what i kind of wanted, how is it? Of course its not translated im guessing.. but if its really good maybe we can somebody to do it? We need more mature women vns, or at least i want them badly..

>>7826917
>but if its really good maybe we can somebody to do it?
You have some translator you really hate or something?

Any agth code for KKK trial?

>>7826926
Huh? no i was just thinking maybe we could increase awareness of more mature women visual novels/nukiges. This looks like a pretty good one.

>>7826933
ITH hooks it properly, so use it.

>>7826936
Yeah, I'm just saying translating raiL soft VNs must be physically painful for translators.

>>7826936
Good luck with that.

>>7826940
Tried for 2nd trial and it doesn't work.

Am I missing out on alot if I read Cross Channel Translated? I know about 250 Kanji and don't want to wait like months till i can read a VN in Japanese much less a Romeo Tanaka VN.

>>7826966
There's another one?
Had no idea. I downloaded mine a couple of weeks ago.

>>7820992
I heard about this one.
Will it be Nitro+ flavored or not?

>>7820992
I think I'll get it for Tsuji's art.
Did they say who's going to be the writer?
Also, Heroine B's hair are like ahoge madness. It reminds me of Nagisa.

>>7826973
Yes, you'll be missing out, but Cross Channel is pretty short and has high replay value so you might as well read it now and reread it when you're more confident in your Japanese

>>7826936
It's one of those games that even many Japanese people have problems reading because of the language.

>>7827003
>Did they say who's going to be the writer?
It's always the same Sumaga/Axanael one, I think, they're a team

>>7827007
What other Vns should I look out for because I will be missing out due to the Translation?

>>7826951
>>7827007
Why would they write it in such a hard way then? How is rail soft as a company? do they make alot of good vns?

>>7827086
I think raiL-soft is Liar-soft, but who knows.

>>7827086
Rail soft is a branch of liar soft and their main characteristic is using some really hard/obscure kanjis and walls of text in their VNs.

>>7827074
Kirakira, Umineko, Inganock, probably some others

>>7827129
>>7827086
http://vndb.org/p404

>>7827174
How is Sharin no Kuni's translation? because I thought the writing in it was awesome. Is it similar in Jap?

>>7827189
LOL MEMES XD

>>7827074
Just about every translated VN post-isani (with a few exceptions). While Isani were a bunch of stuck up faggots, you could at least say they knew how to write half decent prose. Our current batch of translators just don't know how, or don't give a shit, and that includes official Jast and Mangagamer translations.

>>7827216
>>7827189
If I remember correctly, Sharin's was one of them. Other decent translations were, I think, Saya no Uta, and ef. Emphasis is on "I think." It's been a while since I played them.

>>7825342
>How are they different when you can get the basic idea from a summary?

Because one of the best parts of a visual novel is being there when the events happen, reading them, and experiencing the stuff. You won't get an emotional response reading a summary, you will get an emotional response while reading the VN. And that emotional response is going to happen because of the overall flow of events, the basic idea, not the style of writing. And that emotional response is the most important part, IMO.

>>7826441
Around when does it pick up? I'm on chapter 4 and i really don't want to but I'm about to go pick up another VN.

I don't want to leave any VN unfinished.

>>7827252
Stop responding to trolls. No one can be that stupid.

Is it diffucult going from playng translated VNs to raw VNs? I feel like it'll be a completely different experience.

>>7827252
>And that emotional response is going to happen because of the overall flow of events, the basic idea, not the style of writing
I 'm not the one you're arguing with, but I can't help but disagree on this one.
Say for example a character dies. Sure, you can get the basic idea of death no matter what, but sometimes depending on how it's written, how the character is presented to you, how the dialogue goes it either tugs at your heartstrings or makes you go "oh well here goes the cookie cutter tearjerker". You can freely be or not be interested in writing, but if you play the emotional response card you can't isolate it from writing in my opinion.

>>7827564
>>7827252
But you see, when reading a Translation you aren't reading summary. You still can have emotional attachments and full comprehension of the story, but the writing might be worse or not exactly as intended in the origional VN.

>>7827564
"How a character is presented to you' and "how the dialogue goes" are not necessarily related to writing style. Style is more of 'how something is said' rather than WHAT is said. And I think in order to make you care or to be entertaining, it's more important just to find something interesting to say to begin with.

Like, I love Baldr Sky to death, and you can't really say that game had good writing style(in fact, it's hard to get more basic than that), but it was damn entertaining and I really cared for what was happening.

>>7827547
>Is it diffucult going from playng translated VNs to raw VNs? I feel like it'll be a completely different experience.
That depends on how well you know Japanese, particularly kanji. If you make the jump too soon, it'll just depress you with what seems like an insurmountable wall. But once you know enough, it's great for not only giving you renewed incentive to learn, but also giving you confidence, helps stop you forgetting kanji by coming across them repeatedly. If you don't know many kanji, you'll probably want to look into using AGTH (Anime Game Text Hooker) with Rikaichan (a firefox dictionary extension).
If you don't know a lot, it's best to start with simple nukige, I found the nukige by Shiritsu Sakuranbou rather good in terms of simple language and there not being many complex kanji (though their more story based two are more difficult).
I started playing the simple nukige when I knew only about 300 kanji, there was a fair amount I couldn't read unaided, but it was still rewarding enough to convince me to carry on.

>>7827547
Assuming your Japanese is adequate enough, I don't think it's hard of a transition. I have found it hard to read translated works now though.

>>7827713
What do you recommend to someone who doesn't like nukige?

Excuse me, I know this isn't the place for this, and this question was probably asked a thousand times, but...

Would there be any VN out there with a Furigana option available? I've attempted to search for a Furigana tag on vndb, but... I guess things like these just don't exist?

>>7827880
all of them have this

>jparser+mecab

>>7827880
just use one of those text hookers and translator aggregator with parser

>>7827892
I have no idea what jparser is, and a Google search leads me to a blog with weird .php file downloads.

Some assistance would be appreciated. I'm sorry for the inconvenience.

>>7827861
Whatever you pick is going to be harder than your typical nukige, but if you're going to go down that route, a light moege is going to be easier to read than something that tries to be deep or dark. Nothing non-nukige that I've played stands out as particularly easy to read though.

>>7827706
Now tell me the difference between "what" is said and "how" it was said in any of the following:

きっと、澄みわたる朝色よりも、
クロスチャンネル
最果てのイマ

>>7827706
>>7827589
Cross Channel and Baldr Sky are 2 completely different type of games that don't rely on the same thing.

Cross Channel is a story that relies heavily on Taichi's peculiar thought process, it's very narration driven. The game itself is basically a trip within Taichi's brain and the writing style shows this, if you were to "normalize" the script you would get an entirely different game even if the events themselves would be the same.
So no, you can't say you "got" Cross Channel if you only got a crappy translation

Baldr Sky though is much more event based, there is no need for some strange writing script because it's all about describing the events that happen accurately and the characters themselves are pretty normal.

One style isn't better than the other, they just offer completely different experiences.

>>7827706
> Style is more of 'how something is said' rather than WHAT is said. And I think in order to make you care or to be entertaining, it's more important just to find something interesting to say to begin with.
I wouldn't say it's "more important". A guy with a great writing style can make you care even about food scenes or some inane whathaveyou by presenting them in an interesting way, while you can have theoretically interesting things being ruined because the prose is pretty bad (see a recent example in Irotoridori where every climax is so drawn out and padded by repeated concepts that it loses any sort of effect on the reader).
Sure, writing style isn't the beginning and end of writing, but it sure isn't as unimportant as you make it seem in my opinion
.

Why is she in a washing machine?

Quick question.
The ending songs of Grisaia came along with the OST or were they released separately?

>>7827919
http://www.hongfire.com/forum/showthread.php/94395-Translation-Aggregator-v0.4.9

I'm not sure if it's because I knew in advance the setting of OwariNaki, but damn this game feels nearly as bi-polar as Shapeshifter.

>>7827706

I think this is really untrue.

Particularly because the ability to say the "what" of a conversation is entirely dependent on the ability to execute the "how".

Simple ideas or less meaningful concepts do not require much language finesse to convey.

Really good or novel ideas require stronger technical skill with language.

At the highest level, truly original ideas or concepts require new uses of words to be properly conveyed. I.E. The use of Alienation by Marx, the use of Dasein by Heidegger, the use of Totality by Levinas.

A really good example in VNs is Family Project. In it, we get clumsy manifestations of what Romeo Tanaka is trying to say, but he doesn't say it well enough for it to be understood, until he says it again in Cross Channel. This is working off of translation, but even with translation, the amount of time dedicated to the ideas was not enough and they didn't say what they were trying to say because they were not executed correctly.

Most works fail for one of two reasons:

1) The premise is mediocre/terrible/cliche. This means the creative vision of the work, even if realized, is just not good enough in some way.
2) The author cannot manage to execute the premise they conceived. The more ambitious a premise, the harder it is to execute.

>>7826308
Is the English patch of this complete?

I saved this picture a while ago.
Anyone mind to tell me the name/source?

>>7827920
I think most school life romcoms are as easy as your average nukige. Even most nakige I've played have been. What about nukige makes you think they're automatically easier than any other type of eroge? Any written work for adults is going to have a certain degree of difficulty, and although most nukige might not be much higher than that basic difficulty a lot of other eroge aren't either.

>>7829669
minori's eden

>>7829671
for sure, custom slave games are harder than most plotgames i've played

>>7829640
offtopic q, where did you go to school- out of curiosity

>>7829671
Part of it is that you don't have to understand everything to get something out of a nukige, whereas for a romance and even more so for a nakige, there isn't much meaning in it unless you can understand at least most of what is happening.
But I generally find my nukige to have simpler language than other games. Maybe it's just because the ones I play are full of elementary school students who would naturally use simple language. Or maybe I've just picked a set of nukige with unusually simple language and non-nukige with more complex language by coincidence.

>>7829671
>What about nukige makes you think they're automatically easier than any other type of eroge?

Most games with low kanji count on
http://tlwiki.tsukuru.info/index.php?title=VN/Eroge_Scriptsizes
are sexromps.

>>7826881
That's... actually plausible.

>>7820674
What game is this?

>>7830379
That's... kind of a shitty and random list. Most of those sex-romps are short 4 hour games. Notice how the only full-length nukige (Extravanganza, Kx3, Starless, Gore Screaming Show) have pretty much the same (or even greater) Kanji-count as plot heavy games?

The first VNs I read in Japanese were Tsuyokiss, Aselia, Clannad, Sharin no Kuni and Cross Channel.

Among them all Clannad was the one that helped the most, it's fairly easy to read.
I wouldn't recommend Cross Channel to a beginner though.

>>7830476
Are you sure you know what nukige is?

Doujin GOTY inbound.
http://cats-box.jp/mermaid/

>>7830598
Is everyone hopping on the monstergirl bandwagon or something?
I'm more than fine with that

>>7830598
What the fuck led up to this situation?

"I'm going to listen to the famed song of sirens! Tie me to the ship's hull!"
"But sir, those are not sire-"
"DO IT ALREADY"

Not as planned.

>>7830598
What the fuck led up to this situation?

"I'm going to listen to the famed song of sirens! Tie me to the ship's mast!"
"But sir, those are not sire-"
"DO IT ALREADY"

Not as planned.

>>7830598
Great, I have a raging boner for mermaids since I was a kid.

>>7830606
They are the mainstream.
Kinda disappointed at it because every femdom doujin maker whose games I liked (msize, Hiyoko Banchou, Kagura Do, etc etc) made/are making monstergirl eroge/rpg/whatever instead now due to that popularity, and none of them seems to desire making any oldfashioned M game now.

Should I play Tsui no Sora before SubaHibi?

>>7830685
No.

>>7830635
Oh, that sucks, I guess it's because monstergirls carry a lot of M component with it. I can imagine some people not being happy about the transition though.

Who wrote Planetarian?

>>7830773
The guy who did Kotomi's route in Clannad and Summer in Air

>>7830773
Suzumoto Yuuichi. I don't think he works at Key any more though.

bump

After playing the Ayanobe sisters side of the early branch (月の扉), I have to say that the other (夜の扉) side seems to lack the tension of the first. I don't know if its because I've already gone through it once before, but it doesn't seem to be nearly as intense as it was on the other line, but instead rather more frustrating. This is probably in part due to knowing things from the other route ( Like the existence of the hatch in the kitchen; and that they'd be better off slitting Tomonori's throat and throwing him into the ocean). Kishida also let himself get confined surprisingly easily this time around. I'm not sure if I'd still think it wasn't as good if I hadn't had this foreknowledge and was playing the route blind, and in any case I guess it's a little early to judge this just yet. In the part I've just got to I've just had Chihaya discover a heavily bloodied kitchen knife whilst preparing in the kitchen, which might just be the indicator that things are about to get serious, or then again might just be another red herring.

>>7832568
Oh, and I forgot to mention, but this time round could Karen possibly be any more of a bitch? I was half feeling sorry for her after the cruelty of her rape and complete humiliation at the start, but now? Bitch retrospectively deserved it all and more. Confine you in the winch-room again? Some gratitude, not to mention showing complete obliviousness to the fact that they're still in a precipitous situation.

What happened to the VN packlist? All I'm getting is a 404.
I've also been gone for the past year so I may aswell be new.

>>7832748

Gilney-VN hasn't been on in about 9 months or so, it's been awhile. So, the packlist no longer exists.

How bad is Clannad's Translation?

>>7832910
Readable.
Still, pretty bad, but readable.
Unlike Kanon's.

>>7832910
>>7832914
It's a good demonstration of why having multiple translators and relying on editing to solve problems is really fucking stupid.

>>7832910

Readable but barely... it's not pleasant.

>>7832940
>relying on editing
It HAD editing?
Color me surprised. I can swear a dango would do it better.

>>7832970
Exactly. Just like Flyable Heart, all the problems were fixed in editing!

Anyone know any good voice actor databases that include H anime (and possibly h anime / eroge which keep their VAs private)

I've been using http://beautyplanets.web.fc2.com/VADB/ but they only list eroge

>>7833832
Try this one

http://gph.sakura.ne.jp/va_memo/system/vadb.cgi

>>7833832
Just found this

http://lists.sakura.ne.jp/link/seiyu18.html

Lists a bunch of databases and VA blogs

Well fuck my shit and call me Charlene. Walkure Romanze got delayed until 10/28. It'll be another month before we can fap to armor girls.

Finished Itaike na Kanojo
Bullying + rape + cute girl, it made great break from all those pure love stories I've played recently.
Will play Machi Gurumi no Wana is next, more cute girls being raped is what my brain need right now.

>>7834271
Ugh this is depressing. Oh well, gives me more time for Koi Kishi and KKK.

Enjoy yourselves!!

Today is Imouto Day!
http://twitter.com/#!/Aaeru_/status/110929825568538624

Anyone want to recommend some eroge? I've only read Shuffle and Yume Miru Kusuri.

>>7834556
http://vndb.org/u15834/votes

>>7834556
dont read any

>>7834562
That list sucks though, it has 9 for basically everything

>>7834564
do you want to play shitty vns or something

>>7834567
I'm saying giving 9 to shitty vns makes -you- make him play shitty vns

>>7834575
pretty sure there is no shitty vns in this list

>>7834575
Chances are, he wants to play shitty vns and will give them 9 afterwards.

>>7834562
>8 Discipline: The Record of a Crusade
>7 Hanachirasu

Really, now? Really?

>>7834562
>6 Hanachirasu

Very funny.

>>7834604
> 刃鳴散らす NitroPlus 70
>DISCIPLINE -The record of a Crusade- Active 80
yea?

>>7834616
sorry. fixed

better?

>>7835098
How old is that..?

>>7835102
2003

>>7835009
my trauma.

『神聖にして侵すべからず』
ＰＵＬＬＴＯＰ／９月２２日→１０月２８日
　
『ワルキューレロマンツェ［少女騎士物語］』初回限定版
Ｒｉｃｏｔｔａ／９月３０日→１０月２８日
　
September just became even shittier

I was expecting the Japs to come up with a patch that removes the censorship from the CG in Kara no Shoujo by inserting Mangagamer's US edition artwork, but it seems there still isn't anything like that.

>>7835591
They have never done it with any of the other licensed game as far as I heard, so it's hardly surprising.

>>7834535
Why is it Imouto Day?

>>7835098
Thank god Japan moved on from this shit.
This no eyes shit is fucking freaky

D'awwww
Teaching your loved one guerrilla warfare.

God, I'm enjoying this so much.

fucking Dr. West, what the fuck did you do to Muramasa!?

>>7836005
>loved one
She's his daughter you sick fuck.
Really liked that scene.

>>7836008
A daughter can't be referred to as a loved one? As a non-native speaker I have learned something new today!

>>7836022
She can, ignore him. "Loved ones" is an expression often used for family/friends.

I'm trying to read katahane... after finishing Muramasa. i don't really know if that has anything to do with it, but I'm finding this so terribly cliched that it hurts. Does it actually get better or does it continue with tsunderes and stupid dolls?

>>7836039
it's a freaking moege what did you expect to happen?

>>7836039
The last route is pretty excellent.
But it's mostly slice of life, just take it slowly with it and you should like it

Midori no Umi trial
Fantastic atmosphere, nothing happened (yet) and I'm already scared, can't wait for more.

>>7836005
Which game, please?

>>7836147
Nevermind, seems to be vndb.org/v5154

age

Why does everyone seem to like Sharin no Kuni more than G-Senjou, personally I think it is pretty close.
Visuals: G-Senjou > Sharin
Music: Sharin > G-Senjou
Story: G-Senjou > Sharin
Writing: Sharin > G-Senjou
Setting G-Senjou = Sharin

>>7838242

I liked the Sharin story much more. Not to say I disliked GSenjou, but I found Sharin to have a much more interesting setting and execution in general.

Characters are also better Sharin, the only really likable one in GSenjou were Haru and Yuki (And maybe Mizuha before she became Yuki 2.0).

I especially disliked how Kyousuke was supposed to be smart but ended up being the Watson most of the time.

>>7838242
The art is the only thing I think is better in G-Senjou (not even by much), and that happens to be one of the things I care about the least in eroge. I think Sharin is levels above G-Senjou.

>>7838242
I kept waiting for something epic to happen in G-Senjou. Nothing ever did. Sharin on the other hand...

>>7838366
I kept waiting for both to become good. They never did.

Downloading Ever17. Am I doing it right?

Anyone got a CG set link for the Shizuku remake?

Just finished 未来ノスタルジア, it's been a while since Purple Software released anything this good.

Also, what a lucky bastard. Those two girls are hawt.

>>7836074
It really does have a rather unsettling atmosphere, pretty well done.

>>7839429
So it's good? I was wondering if I should read it or not.
I guess I'll do it, September looks pretty weak anyways

>>7839429
I like how the protag is a complete breast-fiend who runs amok on those bazongas in every h-scene.

Does Anna's route need to be unlocked, btw?

>>7839447
I found a new fetish.

>>7839462
Sucking on tits doesn't qualify as a fetish.

>>7839447

Why does he have a face in the h-scenes? Why?

This is what ruined MuvLuv,

>>7839471
Sticking it in is serious business

>>7827976
>you can't say you "got" Cross Channel if you only got a crappy translation
Unless there was some magical explanations in the writing style I can say I got how fucking stupid the twist at the end was, and how utterly lazy the setting and scenario is.
If you are going to have a magical setting, keep it simple. Don't try to introduce shitty unexplained devices or waste time in explanations that leave holes everywhere and that don't help at all the scenario or world.

>>7839471
The problem with that MuvLuv scene is Bad Art (tm), not the fact that he has a face.

>>7839480
But Muv-Luv doesn't have any good art.

>>7839481
>no good art
I dare disagree!

>>7839447
>Does Anna's route need to be unlocked, btw?

Yes, you can only play her route once you've finished everyone else's.

Every time I see this image my bitterness is renewed at the fact Ixrec chose to translate the title as 'Inganock of the brightest flame' when he could have called it something awesome like this.

>>7839486
That name is even worse.

>>7839435
It's good compared to all the mediocre titles Purple Software usually releases. If you didn't know, Purple Software is one of those companies that releases generic moe/character games every half year like clockwork.

This month really was weak though, so I guess it's worth reading if you have the time.

>>7839488

At least it doesn't sound completely unnatural as a phrase

In the end, it's all opinions.

>>7839429
Yeah it's surprisingly awesome, especially the final route. And it has some seriously great breast fondling, as already mentioned

>>7839471
ｗｗｗｗｗ

Can someone direct me to a site that has either a torrent or rar of DarkBlue?

>>7839514
www.google.com

>>7839523
Why you gotta shit post.

orz

why did I laugh so much

>>7839488
brightest=not a color
crimson=color
Changing a title that has an official translation is fucking retarded.

bump

>>7839471
He's about to fuck the soul back into someone, this ain't no goddamn pleasure cruise, Anonymous.

>>7841656
Can't be as bad as his translation of the Valkyrie's oath in MLA when age's original official translation was better than his, minor grammatical error aside, never mind the one they use now.

>>7841681

The scene was supposed to be, like, heartwarming or something, and Takeru went and ruined it with his silly expression.

Nothing beats his rapeface when performing cunnilingus on Miki, though. God that was disturbing.

More VNs need to go a route where the player character has a face at all times except the H-scenes.

>>7842739
Wait, you think this scene would've been 'heartwarming' if Takeru was an eyeless freak instead?

Sorry, but I'm not seeing it.

>>7843089
It's a BETA impostor

>>7843089
He needs longer hair if he's gonna be eyeless

Just another chomp.xyz OC.

>>7840213
I also had a pretty good laugh out of that.

>>7843089
In a lot h-scenes cgs the guys aren't in them at all, let alone have even more focus than the girl.

>>7843136

I've always found the faceless protagonist sort of unromantic. Sumika and Takeru are supposed to be having a confirmation of love scene.

Imagine if you looked up during the middle of sex and you found that the previously pretty girl you were talking too no longer had facial features, so you have a face with no eyes and no nose or mouth looking at you, with an ominous shadow over her forehead.

What bothers me, is that rather than freaking out, some of you will probably masturbate over that idea. You weird fucks.

I, as a person with no eyes, find it easier to self-insert into a protagonist who has no eyes.

>>7843178
You really shouldn't have eyes after a post like that.

>>7843174
I agree. I can't wait till protagonists with faces becomes the norm.

>>7843227
They already became the norm.

>>7843227
Aren't they already pretty much the norm? Most recent games I've played have faced protagonists, although they might not show their faces that often.

>>7843227
Yeah I can't wait until 2008. Oh wait.

Looks like we need a new thread

the new thread
>>7844551