/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Started アキバ系彼女 expecting a quick fap.

There's actually a surprising amount of text and character interaction. Unfortunately it isn't fully voiced which is disappointing.

Currently looking for my next VN to play. I guess I should probably go finish one of my other ones I have first though.

Why is voice acting important to anyone. Shit throws me off personally because i read several times faster than they speak. and i dont fucking read japanese anyways

Hoping to finish one route in Owarinaki and ExE this weekend.
But with my laptop headphone jack fucking up, I don't know if it'll happen.

Anyone else excited about Your Diary?

>>7871359
Sexy artwork from kantoku. Sign me up.

>>7871283
Maybe because it could be possible that others like different things than you.

>>7871283
It adds more impact and life by complementing the text, providing stress where it counts in remarkably critical ways. This can range from situations of solemn decision making or amazing speeches, such as every line that is said by Kageaki, to accentuating and making tangible the pain of other characters with screams and broken language, such as Nanoha's gang rape bad ending in Baldr Sky. It's also really critical in any game that deliberately tugs at your heart strings be it positive or negative, such as in the case of Haruka ni Aogi and Parfait. And in particular cases, like Oretsuba and Himawari, all of the voice acting is phenomenal.

TL;DR: I think for the most part, voice acting adds an organic layer that crosses the monitor.

However, I think that it's better to leave a game unvoiced than to have bad voice acting, To it's defense, because voice actors are of such stressed importance of japan, most games with voice acting, and just about every great game in the last 4 years usually has at least tolerable voice acting. Furthermore, every "god-tier" eroge/galge by /jp/'s consensus typically phenomenal voice acting. This is under the assumption you understand what they're saying though.

I'm slowly burning through my back log.

Playing Forest and Oretsuba Prelude while I wait for Oretsuba R to arrive in the mail (On a side note, Sakura pushed me over the edge with buying this one with his recommendation.)

I didn't think I'd particularly like Forest, since I'm not a fan of fairy-tale fantasy like Liar-soft's beautiful series, but my expectations have been defied and the game is totally blowing me away. I'm still early in, just went into June, but with the games narrative presentation and immaculate organization, as well as the excellence of the writing, this game has been making my day every day that I've played it.

>>7871188
Seems like you didn't enjoy H2o very much.

>>7871359
Been waiting for it since last year. Still hyped (and posted pics from trial in previous thread). I'm still disappointed that the game got pushed back a week, though.

Have to ask two quick questions about Forest.

I'm not sure if I missed it or what I missed, but what is Alice's relation to Akeru's student? Also, in the H Scene, The first one leading to the first bad end, there was screaming and crying before and after Alice's H-Scene. Who was that?

Playing フローライトメモリーズ (either fluorite or flowlight memories), mostly because I thought it would have more drama which would be welcome since a lot of the recent releases seem to be typical high school comedy bullshit which is boring as hell. Currently doing the Nee-san route.

>>7871934
Did you finish the game?
Because you are asking some obvious stuffs

>>7871764
>(On a side note, Sakura pushed me over the edge with buying this one with his recommendation.)
I feel pressure now. I hope you like it.

>>7871781
Yea, not that much. Also the skip function in Plus is abysmally slow, because it is PS2 I guess, making me not really want to start again.

>>7870581
Nah, she only has that true end.

>>7872111
Why would you be playing the ps2 version?

Just started School Days HQ

>>7871154
Please don't forget the thread title next time.

>>7872287
Added routes.

>>7872491
Doesn't the complete edition add those in?

>>7872532
I don't think so. From what I read, the complete edition is the regular game plus the fandisc, while the PS2 version is the regular game plus 2 routes.

>>7872537
Actually the Complete Edition doesn't include the complete fandisc despite being the "COMPLETE EDITION"

It does have the Setsuna route.

>>7871970z
Nah, not yet. Just entering July now. Since you point that out, I'll just save my questions for after I've finished. Thanks in the mean time.

I just beat Jade Cocoon. Does that count?
I have a whole bunch of actual visual novels on my computer, and I recently finished Big Bang Age, which was great. Recently I just haven't had time for them, though.
I'm playing that Aya Shameimaru: Ace Attorney game, but it's shit and only worth playing for Momiji's cuteness.

Id be playing To Heart 2 if my PC wouldnt be fucked, posting from my laptop. I guess its HD's died :( oh well, atleast I have few TB's of backups on my external HD's.

Just finished Swan Song, which was awesome. The normal end basically handed out plot-armor removal, everybody was getting fucked up.

I'd love to find another translated VN where shit is just going down. G-senjou was awesome, Sharin no kuni was awesome, and now this. Really don't wanna play anything mellow for a bit. I want some more 'fuck yeah', anyone have a recommendation?

>>7872832
>Jade Cocoon
Fuck, I thought I was the only one who ever played that

>>7872850
What is translated of Sumaga is pretty fuck yeah, but it's just one route.
You can always try majikoi, which is pretty fun and the translation has stead progress.

Are all the versions of Phantom of Inferno on PC unvoiced?

>>7873062
Yes, unfortunately. Probably would be better waiting for that PS3 edition if you happen to own one.

I think I'll play Memories Off 7. I was trying to decide which to play but the older ones don't look to great.

>>7873041
Now that I can read Japanese fairly well, I should probably get round to Sumaga again.
I'll probably forget after tonight and just end up waiting some more until JAST's release comes out.
On that note, I should probably get around to reading ef's fandisc as there's no way that's coming out in English now, though I should probably save that until after I reread ef this winter.

Bump

Just started playing fortissimo EXA.
Not really sure what to expect.

>>7874396

I really liked it. There's a few scenes with some epic fisticuffs.

ティンクル☆くるせいだーす -Passion Star Stream- 豪華版 （Lillian） 2011/予定 → 2011/12/22 更新日 2011/09/16

恋するコトと見つけたり！ 初回版 （Fizz） 2011/冬予定 → 2011/12/22 更新日 2011/09/16

真剣で私に恋しなさい！S 初回版 （みなとそふと） 2011/予定 → 2012/01/27 更新日 2011/09/16

春季限定ポコ・ア・ポコ！ （ALcot ハニカム） 今冬予定 → 2011/11/25 更新日 2011/09/16

>>7874742
>真剣で私に恋しなさい！S 初回版
>2012/01/27
;_;

Decided to finally get the append disc for Kamidori, so going through and getting the new bits with that. The Myrene H-scene gave me the weirdest boner.

>>7874925
A while longer until we get Kokoro route. It'll be worth it.

>>7875341
I wonder how many characters got hscenes.
Since Yukie's friend got one, I hope Koyuki got one too.

>>7875477
If that happens, my mind will divide by zero.
Also, have some Kokoro.

>>7875477
I don't think it's likely considering her role in the original game but hey, who knows. Along with the hatsubaibi they announced the trial should be out this 22, by the way

Fuck, for a week I started reading VNs again, it was fun, entertaining, and all that, but now I'm back to being unable to bring myself to go and read for more than ten minutes at a time.
What the fuck's wrong with me.

>>7875563
It happens.
Also the reason my VN reading track record is awful.

>>7875477
Seriously, I don't even want Koyuki to be boned by Yamato. It would feel wrong towards Jun and Touma.

Typing of the gay

>>7875736
I loved that typing mini game.
that and miracle no-ton's made my day.

>>7875736
You have too many n

http://ctf.over-drive.jp/index2.html
I may have to play Kira Kira now, I guess

It's like I'm really playing an MMORPG.

How did anyone else like this game (Heaven's Cage) by the way?
So far (chapter 3) I quite wished Makoto would have less "irl world" stuff because I found them pretty uninteresting (especially Misao, fuck I hate her), but Saiko's chapter was pretty great. And at least I finally can roam free in the game world.

eroge everyday

Starting Djibril, haven't played anything like it, the high sexual content tag has me spooked but ... damn, Poyoyon Rock and an OP that's cute as HELL?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBGWD-Ef8T4

I'll try.

wooh, finally finished Muramasa. that epilogue took more time I tough would. Liked the finale with Sorimachi (world need more characters like him) more than the one with Hikaru. definately great eroge tough, although it didn't become my favorite due small things here and there. as far as routes go Ichijou > Muramasa > Kanae. Muramasa route maybe was overally bit more balanced than Ichijous but Ichijou routes final chapter and epilogue out-did anything that was in Muramasa route.

ps. Kageakki has some refined tastes and Sorimachi is awesome and I'm going to play dat Uzuki in loop for while

Anyone have the list of highest rated VN of each year and the highest money making VN of each year? I'm sure both can be found on erogamescape but the amount of Japanese on that site scares me

Oops forgot the last page.
Amane being gay for Kazuki please me

Started playing Noble Works.
Seems this will be another game where I won't use a walkthrough as I can't decide which of the routes to do first.

just got taimanin yukikaze

aoi nagisa's designs are better than ever

>>7876584
http://erogamescape.dyndns.org/~ap2/ero/toukei_kaiseki/index_toukei.php
Here's where you can sort by rating and year (you're looking for the 全部 column on the upper left). I don't think egs has anything related to sales.

>>7877898
Man, my dick hurts.

>>7877898
>better than ever
Downloading.

>>7877748
Oh god, this game, I can't stop laughing.

>>7878554
It sounds interesting. Do the heroines know that he is impersonating the other guy? Do they not know? Or did they not even know the person in question to begin with.

>>7878587
Up to now, only two heroines, the impersonated guy's brother and her meido know. The character in that screen knows the main character though. Which leads to well, that. The one other heroine is his classmate but doesn't really know him well due to him (the impersonated guy) being out a lot, and the last heroine didn't know him at all it seems, though there's been some possible standard eroge flags raised.

>>7878629
I see. I was kind of hoping for some cool drama, where like a girl likes the original guy, he's now replacing him, and she doesn't know. Or something. Either way, it seems to have gotten good reviews, I'll probably check it out.

>>7877980
Thank you sir, you are a gentlemen and a scholar.

>>7878636
>I was kind of hoping for some cool drama, where like a girl likes the original guy, he's now replacing him, and she doesn't know
There is something like that, kinda. One of the girls is the guy's fiancèe and they get close without her knowing it's actually a bumfuck that looks like him (cue guilt trips from the protagonist, etc). One of the other girls also has her route partially dealing with that issue (reputation is serious business and since the guy already has a fiancèe his relationship with the heroine is criticized).

>>7878759
> One of the girls is the guy's fiancèe
That'd be Shizuru?

>>7878786
yeah

>>7878792
Thought so.
Good thing I wasn't that interested in doing her route as I'd feel like a dick NTRing the poor guy.

>>7878759
>One of the girls is the guy's fiancèe
The first route I will do. Unless there is a genki kouhai.

>>7878823
>Unless there is a genki kouhai.
Sort of.

>>7876584
Highest money maker of the year... well that depends on production costs too doesn't it? there is no way to know that. we've got sales data for 2011 so far: http://visualnovelaer.wordpress.com/eroge-sales-figures-2011%E4%B8%8A%E5%8D%8A/
2010 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/efemeral/20110302/1299068327
2009 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/efemeral/20100219/1266601404

>>7878920
>Note that numbers listed in this article are not strictly copies sold. They are called PUSH! points. That is to say, estimates.
so she read about the fuck up and edited her post

>>7878936
Considering how inaccurate the 'push points' are, it baffles me as to why the person is using them at all. When the numbers are so off, what's the point in using them as any sort of base?

>>7878993
Because the original post was about how little Rewrite sold (under the misunderstanding that push points are actual sales numbers), so it's not like the post could be just deleted, talking about the industry makes people look so medium-conscious.

>>7878993
>>7879064
How are push points calculated anyway?

Playing Forest. In July right now.

This game is impossibly good. The narrative style and organization of the information as well as the way it's presented are a feast for the mind. The actual content itself is exhilarating. Very high recommend this so far.

My only objection is the frequent sexual content.

>playing VNs

>>7878993
It's possible that the numbers grow greatly erratic only for the largest properties (e.g. Daiteikoku, LB! Ecstasy). The point system at least shows us the ratio of the divide between higher ranked versus lower ranked eroge. I can also say that Fortune Arterial outsold Yoake and Eustia. Or maybe I cannot.

At least I know in the future to not make big conclusions based on Push points in my argument.

Here is an apology.
http://visualnovelaer.wordpress.com/2011/08/25/rewrite-sold-24424-copies-what-on-earth/#comment-477
Tah

>safe mode
wat

Hello /jp/, I require a small favour from you guys. I'm been trying to install Muramasa, but I can't seem to find the serial; the 2ch archives indicate that the number is already in the torrent itself, but mine only has the mds and mdf, and I haven't been able to find anything in there (nearest thing was the productGUID number, but that didn't work either). Will anyone be able to help me on this? Thank you for your time.

>>7879670
I think this was the one I used, should work: 612-036-490-121

>>7879687
It does work; thank you very much!

Aaeru is a fucktard.

>>7879778
Really now? What is it with people like this wriggling their way into these threads? Not got enough "epic" VN translation drama?

Anyone know how to play this?

http://vndb.org/v760

I've gotten passed the second fight once but I no longer know how I did it. Just getting her Amore stat up doesn't cut it so having sex with her all the time isn't enough but if I don't get her Amore stat up high enough that doesn't cut it either and having sex with her gives 20 points and anything else (the first time) gives only 10 which doesn't get the Amore stat high enough for the second fight. I think. Hell if I know I've only passed the second fight once.

Sigh.

Here's what I really want:
Loveriel

Here's what I can't get:
Loveriel

Here's what I get instead:
Generic girl

Double sigh

>ティンクル☆くるせいだーす -Passion Star Stream- 豪華版 （Lillian） 2011/予定 → 2011/12/22 更新日 2011/09/16

Oh, fina--

http://www.lillian.jp/kurukuru2/sbx.html
>Starlit Brave expansion released
>Tenshin Ranman's Hime cameo
>Tenshin Ranman
>Hime

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

Oh, and Koisora girls Kayoko and Sera are also cameoing. The other VN girls from the first SB are also confirmed. I assume Macaron will return, as well as the cameos from Princess Witches, and Passion Star Stream girls in general.

It'd be nice if the animu-side girls were also confirmed.

>>7880835
Just use walkthrough, here' one
http://www.foolmaker.net/game/m/djibril.html

>>7881426
Brilliant.

If only I lived in Japan. Then I could finally live out my dream of writing NTR nukige for a living.

>>7881084
Can you fuck the guest characters or is this game all ages only?

What is up with amaterasu translations website?

>>7882145
Moving servers, apparently.

Hmm finished Shiina's route in Memories Off 7. Although the game itself seems nice, and the characters are good, I did not like her route at all. It was pretty much entirely drama, and not the type I care about: pretending to date someone else to get the protag's attention or whatever. Also, the protag is way too dense for my liking, I can understand it somewhat in these types of games, but at a certain point it just gets annoying. And then on top of that, there is like no nice romance scenes or ichaicha scenes afterwards. Chinatsu also seemed to disappear for the majority of the route. I don't think most of you have played it so you probably don't know what I'm talking about, but yea. I'll probably do Chinatsu's route next, if I can remember.

>>7879656
You call that an apology you stupid piece of shit?

>>7879656
You can't have valid discussion here because we're retards xD.

>>7881741
Passion Star Stream is definitely 18+, but no confirmation on HCGs of the Princess Witches girls. Not sure how it would work, considering the MC of Princess Witches also shows up in the game.

No idea for Starlit Brave Xtreme. The fact that only the VN girls are confirmed makes it possible, since they've all been in eroge before (though this would essentially be some crossover NTR'ing, since the MCs of their respective games definitely aren't here), but personally, I'd prefer bringing back the animu girls as well instead of potential guest cameo h-scenes. Maybe.

>>7882860
Shame guest character CVs aren't listed as that would clear it up right away.

>>7882892
I'm fairly certain all of the characters had their previous seiyuu in Starlit Brave (save for Crystal, who didn't have a seiyuu to my knowledge, unless Haruka Tomatsu voiced her in a drama CD of Ohimesama Navigation or something). Of course, it was all-ages, being on the PSP.

So I'm not seeing how that info will confirm or deny potential guest h-scenes.

>>7882860
>animu girls
It has an anime?

>>7882926
Well, Rin and Saber for instance were never voiced in an eroge technically, so whether their actual VAs or pseudonyms would be fairly telling whether the entire title was going to be 18+ or not, due to how silly the VA stuff works.

>>7882958
There were no pseudonyms used in Fate/Stay Night. The all ages version was voiced, and the 18+ version had no voices. That's it.

>>7882946
No, besides the five VN guest cameos, there were 5 other animu/mango guest cameos.

VN:
-Feena Fam Earthlight (Yoake Mae Yori Ruriiro Na)
-Chelsea Arcot (Shukufuku no Campanella)
-Yui Inaba & Suzuno Yukishiro (Flyable Heart)
-Temari Tokura (Te to Te Try On!)
-Rin Tohsaka & Saber (Fate/Stay Night)

Animu/Mango:
-Shana (Shakugan no Shana)
-Taiga Aisaka (Toradora!)
-Dokuro-chan (Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan)
-Ana Coppola (Ichigo Mashimaro)
-Crystal Hoshikawa (Ohimesama Navigation)

>>7882958
Point taken. Pretty sure Rin and Saber were voiced by their animu counterparts in Starlit Brave, meaning Kana Ueda and Ayako Kawasumi respectively.

>>7883002
>animu/mango
>>>/a/

>>7882987
That's my entire point though.
If they were to be voiced in an 18+ they'd presumably have pseudonyms used because that's how things work basically. Like how character CVs will suddenly change between 18+ and all ages ports for other games.

It makes me sad that this fabulous artist doesn't mass produce eroge

>>7882745
Shiina's route was pretty shit, yeah, too bad, I liked her a lot. I think to play Chinatsu and Kasumi's route you need to finish the three subcharacters though.

>>7883774
Mmm that's too bad, I don't really like the teacher or the gaijin girl. I guess I'll get around to it.

Started reading Noble Works~

>>7883522
source?

>>7883829
use iqdb

Bump

>>7882745
> I don't think most of you have played it so you probably don't know what I'm talking about, but yea.
this fapping over how obscure the game he's playing is is hilarious

>>7871760
> And in particular cases, like Oretsuba and Himawari, all of the voice acting is phenomenal.

I wish there was an easy installer for the Himawari voice patch, I'm too retarded to set it up.

More surprise parties? Chihaya is such a kind little sister.

>>7884722
Me too -I tried about five times and it still didn't work.

I was hoping to reread Himawari with voices before playing Aqua After, but maybe I'll just go ahead and read it anyway.

I pissed away the last 6 months working on this. I just finished making a companion program that injects the text hooker without using cheat engine. I need attention.

>>7885209
I don't really know about programming and all that stuff (no clue what cheat engine is), but how is it different from ChiiTrans?

>>7884529
Uhh ok? Only a handful of people rated it on EGS (like less than 10) and only one other person rated it on vndb so I would assume not many people played it.

>>7885231
I am going to keep telling myself it is faster.

>>7885231
ChiiTrans uses AGTH. AGTH does not work with âge games. I feel much better now.

>>7885323
>AGTH does not work with âge games
I'm pretty sure it does with the proper codes. I may be wrong though.

>>7885345
This, and even if it didn't ITH works just fine.

Since the decent translation came out I've been playing Edelweiss. Finished Mei's route. It MEI have been short, but it was pretty good.

Now seriously, I didn't expect this VN to be this solid. Sure it's nothing amazing, but I expected something a lot more fluffy, while I got pretty cool drama and fantasy, and plenty of teary moments.

It's kind of sad that many people played this shit with the terrible translation and probably hampered it's enjoyment (Checked out one route I've already done with the original translation, just because... and good god).

>>7876329
Do you even know what the Hikaru and Kageaki relationship was about´?

>>7885824
if I didn't misunderstand it horribly, their relationship was about would Kageaki accept Hikaru being his daughter (instead of seeing her as his younger-sister) and not be bound by values that others impose on him.

>>7885824
It's not that hard to grasp actually, that one guy who didn't get it admitted he wasn't that good at japanese to begin with.

>>7885513
Sorry, but if you didn't read Edelweiss in English in the days of Mustervate or become lily, you need to leave /jp/.

Just finished Hinata's route in Noble Works.
Is it normal for rich families in Japan to not financially help their daughters when they get married? I expect them to have at least a bank account/trust fund or something. It's not like they're disinherited.

This is not the first eroge I play either where a daughter of a rich family stopped being rich after getting married to a commoner. Do daughters do not get inheritance?

>>7886402
From what I remember she just wasn't very close with her family.

Nearing the end of Maya's route in Noble Works, I believe.
Not sure if I want to pursue Akari's or Sena's route next. Akari has on of my favorite VAs, but I like Sena's design and personality better. Of what I've seen of the two so far, anyway.

>>7886429
That can't be seeing as she mentioned that her father visited the other day so I don't think so.

>>7886451
Been a while since I read it but if the ero maid has the best route
What's with all the people playing Noble Works these days anyways?

>>7886465
As far as I can tell, it's only 3 people myself including it reading it in this thread.

>>7886465
Well people were discussing it in this thread so I got curious. Only finished one route so far though (Hinata).

>>7886402
I think Hinata is the first route I will do, after that, I'm not sure. Maya seems pretty moe, but I don't usually go for her type of character. I don't think I will do Sena or Akari's routes though as I don't particularly like them.

Finished Maya's route in Noble Works. That was nice. Fairly light on the drama as well which was nice.

Though, the H scene pacing was a bit quick.

Wait. What in the fuck. I just started Noble Works again to continue for today, and I now notice that at the title screen, that that Makoto girl is not there? Please don't tell me she is not capturable.

>>7887646
No.
But the teacher is.

>>7887680
I am sincerely upset. Why do they do this to me? Why do they show the girl to me this much and make her ungettable!?

Not quite "VN Related" but I would like to point out that Sayounara wo Oshiete by Craftwork is getting a re-release on blu-ray, of which pre-orders opened today. (Don't know the exact details, but this is probably equivalent to DVD-PG titles).

http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%81%95%E3%82%88%E3%81%AA%E3%82%89%E3%82%92%E6%95%99%E3%81%88%E3%81%A6-com
ment-dire-adieu-~%E3%81%82%E3%81%9DBD~/dp/B005LTXLWE/ref=sr_1_1?s=software&ie=UTF8&qid=13163
95682&sr=1-1

It's also on sofmap and other places. Though Blu-Ray is really shitty, the price of the original windows game is outright ridiculous (Talking in the $400-$800 range) so for anybody who did want to own a hard copy, this might be the best opportunity. I'd also encourage buyfags to keep an eye on used copies of the PC version, since prices might drop with the BD release.

Also, recommend the game highly to anybody who likes denpa stuff, probably the epitome of the genre. Game is really dark themed, lots of insanity (unfortunately, lots of rape too). Really one of a kind though.

>>7887700
>Don't know the exact details, but this is probably equivalent to DVD-PG titles
Taking a quick look at VNDB, another title released on BD's version is apparently the game and then BDPG, so I'd assume so.

>>7887031
Working on Akari's route now.
MIND=BLOWN
Chiaki's image has shattered completely.

>>7888072
This route is even worse for him than Maya's.
Poor guy.

age

All this talk about noble works got me an idea.
How about we do an eroge of the week type of thread where we'd go play the same eroge. This way we'll have discussion flowing.

>>7889849
It'd probably have to be longer than a week considering that everyone would have different reading paces and the like. But it does sound like a nice idea.

>>7889849
I dunno. We seem to pretty much have wildly varying tastes, so I'm not sure how well it would work.

>>7889849
A VN reading club? Sounds fun
But I agree with>>7889912
A couple of weeks would be better.

I'm playing this:
http://clannadppvisualproject.wordpress.com/

>>7889849
>/jp/ eroge club

I like it!

>>7889849
It basically already happens with new releases, if you want discussion flowing play one of the new games, and it's a monthly thing. No need to make a secret club for it, really.
Making a "game of the week" thing would monopolize the thread, without considering all the opinion shitfests that would follow.

>>7889912
2 weeks I guess?

>>7890199
Yeah but it's nice to broaden your horizons once in a while. Who knows you might even discover new tastes.

>>7890273
We're not talking about new games though, look at noble works - it was released last year. Also I don't think starting a new thread is equal to a secret club.

>Making a "game of the week" thing would monopolize the thread
That's why we make a new thread. I don't think one more VN thread would hurt.

>all the opinion shitfests that would follow
I doubt that will happen, we're not talking about popular games here.

>>7890794
>We're not talking about new games though
We could still use for KKK whenever it comes out and it's properly downloadable and playable.

I'm gonna feel bad doing Maya route because it's like NTRing Kotetsu, poor guy.

>>7890846
He was perma-friendzoned from the start.

>>7890811
No, a lot of people will prioritize KKK anyway, it's new and popular. I like this VN reading club idea though.

>>7890865
Still feels wrong.
In a couple of years they'd probably hook up because Maya would realise he was always there for her.
HAPPY KOTETSU END

>>7890895
>because Maya would realise he was always there for her.
He's her kobun, it's kinda a given and there isn't anything romantic in it.

>>7890895
Well, if it makes you feel any better, Koutetsu sort of deserves it after some of the sort of dick moves he pulls.
Only to turn to homolust later on. Well, not really about that last bit.
And besides, Maya is adorable.

>>7890895
He doesn't really harbor romantic feelings for maya though, he said so himself.

>>7890926
>>7891304
Shame
>>7890929
This would be good to know, if they didn't always pull this to make you feel better.

>>7891835
Least it's not like Akari's route.
Where Koutetsu thinks, rather, knows that some no name girl is going to confess to him, only to confess to Shuri/Takumi

What
The
Fuck

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gITYi2gabhw
NSFW despite Youtube

>>7892051
Game of the year. All years.

>>7892051
Oh wow, thought you were kidding when you said NSFW.

>>7892051
So you have to guess their pantsu color or what? Looks pretty generic otherwise.

>>7892051
I like the character relation graph.

>>7890811
I'm going to play this the day of it's release forward, so if you start a weekly thread for it, count me in.

On the other hand, none of us really know how long KKK is. If it's 40,000 lines plus, which it may very well be so long is it's complete unlike Zarathustra, not sure about the others, but I'd rather not grind a game of that length in that amount of time.

For an Eroge Reading Club, I would personally recommend extending the length to every two weeks, which is plenty enough time to pull in games of average length. If you wanted to keep it at a week, then why not get into doujin titles? Or play games of excruciatingly short length (like Dra+Koi)? Or make it into a route/chapter per week? For varying tastes, perhaps extending into multiple genres might be considered? For instance, on KKK's release date, Suika 2 and Sucre are coming out, which are more oriented to moege and romance lovers taste, as opposed to the thickly stylized 中二病 action (followed by copious amounts of badass, game is going to either be fucking awesome or terrible, still can't fucking wait, etc.) of KKK. Broadens the horizons a bit, categorizing by length and genre. That's just my two cents.

>>7892210
It'd probably be best to have the "Eroge Reading Club" focus on already released titles so that time could be accurately allocated for the title, rather than putting more restrictions down on it, especially in the case of charage/moege, I feel.

>>7892219
Same guy. I agree with this as well, was just writing some tentative thought that worked with what had been discussed up to this point.

Particularly, I'd feel more comfortable committing to games that have been recognized, regardless of genre.

>>7892251
Likewise. It seems like it'd be a good way to push everyone that's stuck in "I'll play this game someday" mode, so older and more recognised titles certainly seems like the best way to. Of course, lesser known stuff would also be good.

>>7892287
It'd probably be best to mix it up between the two.

This might not be exactly related to the topic, but the people that I want to ask this are most likely keeping an eye on this thread so for the sake of efficiency I'll ask here. I'm in the process of learning Japanese and lately I've been reading VNs with IGTH in order to get better, and I have, but probably not at the pace I desire. I guess what I'm asking is did anyone else actually learn Japanese to an advanced simply by reading VNs with a text hooker, if so how long did it take you to comfortably read most works that are released?

>>7892433
If you're relying on text hookers I don't think you will get better. Actually studying and stuff with be more effective.

Took me about 2 years.

The thing is though, is that I still rely on text hookers because learning through that method isn't very effective in learning kanji, so there's still a ton of kanji I don't know.

I never bothered supplementing it with any actual studying and stuff so the only kanji I know are the really common ones that you're guaranteed to encounter multiple times in a game, since they're so common I eventually pick them up. There's a lot of kanji out there that is 'common' but you'll really only see it like, maybe 3 or 4 times in an entire game and that's not enough to hammer it into my brain.

>>7892455
Well I should tell you that I I've done RtK 1 + supplement so that's an odd 2300 kanji, I know about 7000 ish words of vocab and I can read parts with readings I know just fine. I've also covered all Tae Kim grammar. I suppose I'm an intermediate, so it's not like I'm actually trying to learn the fundamentals by reading VNs. I rely on the text hooker purely for unknown words. I really can't think of anything to do right now but just SrS vocab I encounter in VNs.

>>7892676
Well, when ever you come across kanji or words you don't know while reading, you could write them down and throw them into Anki or a similar program, and memorise them. Eventually you shouldn't come across words you don't know too often.

>>7892881
Actually I guess that's what you just said, sorry. Either way, my point is relying on a text hooker even for unknown words won't help you remember them, because after you read the meaning in translation aggregator or whatever, you'll just forget by the next time you come across it, unless it is really common.

Text hooking is a tool used to help those who don't have high enough skills to read in the Japanese, it is not going to help you learn it. It would be like expecting to learn Japanese via watching subs. Sure, you'll memorise words like 何 or 好き but it isn't really going to help you at all.

If you're comfortable reading as it is, then there isn't a problem. It sounds like you know a lot more than most.

>>7892051
What's this game? The video is deleted.

>>7892922
http://vndb.org/v7939

>>7892676
Some games just simply have notoriously difficult or unique writing. I know I had to use a dictionary for quite a while for most vns weren't straight up moeges.

>>7892954
I've had to look up the most random crap in moege's because with my luck the ones I choose always references the most obscure technical shit.

>>7892676
>SrS vocab I encounter in VNs
I want to do this but its a pain to set up. It breaks my reading flow.

>>7893030
Yea, I tried doing that when reading Index, but it was such a drag. I wish there was a better way.

>恋騎士 Purely☆Kiss

Apparently the Japs are all over this game but playing the demo I'm bored as hell. Does it get better later or what's the deal? So far, all it's been is cliche after cliche.

>>7893219
Delicious Yuuki Hagure art?
Not that I've played the demo or anything.

>>7893219
The art looks quite nice at least.

>>7893223
Yeah the art is nice and it's about the only reason I got around 30 mins in.

>>7893225
Yuuki Hagure seems to be the artist.

>>7893240
Yes yes, I know that much.

>>7892296
>>7892219
Agree, though I don't think we should include the more popular titles like FSN, Muv Luv, et al.

I've finished Book of Shadows, a horror VN for the PSP, part of the Corpse Party series.

Same background as always: A group of highschoolers gets lured into some kind of ghost realm, an old abandoned school building where, while slowly getting mad, they are murdered, murder or eventually manage to escape.

It relies very much on the previous game, in fact it's more a sort of fan disc. The episodes provide parallel/alternative events for the previous game, mostly with characters from other schools that didn't play a major role before. Only the very last episode actually continues the story, but it's short and more a sort of prolouge (to be continued). At least there is hope for a new game. Not so much for the story though.

The last game had a rather unique adventure-like playstyle, this time it's a straight VN, but it's still (annoyingly) possible to choose locations, investigate and even collect items. At least you can fast forward now and save at every moment.

The episodes are very linear, there are some choices but they are almost entierly unnecessary ones between instant death or continuing the story (e.g. someone's coming: hide under the table or inside the box).

The writing could be better from time to time but is good enough.

It's not 18+ (one grade below), but still decent for the PSP. And when the imouto woke up, it even felt like a Black Cyc game for a short moment.

I wish there was an all ages version of Noble Works. I got to the first H scene with Shizuru and it was way too lewd.

>>7894436
To be honest I wish they'd cut down on hscenes. 1-2 per heroine is enough.

>>7894436
To be honest I wish they'd cut down on hscenes. 1-2 per heroine is enough.

To be honest I don't know what I want. If a vn doesn't have an hscene it feels incomplete and I want it to have one. If a vn have an hscene on the other hand I wish it has none since it breaks the flow/atmosphere of the game most of the time.

>>7894509
I just can't stand them, especially in a game like this. You have a young kid, who is supposed to be a high class ojou-sama raised by a strict family, who has never really had relations with boys before. And here she is, sucking some guy's dick, in school, right after they confessed to each other. it's quite offputting.

>>7894429
How scary is it?

>>7894509
>since it breaks the flow/atmosphere of the game most of the time.
Really? I can't remember the last time I encountered an ero scene that felt out of place. The only time they break the flow of a game is when I don't feel like fapping to them when they come up so I decide to take a break until I do. That happens more often recently since these days I try to fap to every ero scene.

>>7894531
>How scary is it?
Quite scary, it delivers in that respect.

I had to turn the PSP a few time a bit away from me while continuing, but I'm a scary person to begin with.

Talking about horror games, what are some good, not too old horror VNs for the PC?

>>7894590
神樹の館, it's 2004 so it's not too old.
Written by Romeo

Man, I was kinda looking forward to Kaoru's route in Ayakashibito since she was kinda cool, and then consensual gangbangs, leisurely having a 3P while they're infiltrating a highly dangerous building, and Kuki basically stealing the route's spotlight.
This wasn't exactly what I had in mind.

>>7894754
Kuki steals every route's spotlight. He's one of the most important character of the game and one of the best ever.
Besides, Kotarou's scenes and himself are so awesome in Kaoru's route. His fight with Kuki is my second favorite after the last battle, but in terms of badassness it's one of my all time favorites in anything.
Kaoru's route is awesome because it's mainly about Kotarou and the Dominion than it was about Kaoru, thus I was fine with this as I liked almost all the other girls over her, which is why I also didn't care much about 'her past'.

>>7894754
Ayakashibito had too many nonsensical sex scenes.
One of the reason I prefer the PS2 version.
Add to that it add what is probably the best route and the best heroine

>>7894905
Was that route ever ported to PC?

>>7894911
Not that I know

>>7894913
What's the point of re releases if you don't even include added material.

>>7894806
Yeah, I agree with pretty much everything.
It just looked like I might like Kaoru a lot since I'm into older professional ladies, and felt weird playing something that totally betrayed my expectations.
>>7894905
Ahah yeah, it actually made me think the ero was too forced on a few occasions. Luckily the rest is so good you don't care. And Hounan, so good.

>>7894918
Make sure you play Chrono Belt too, it's a must because of Kuki. He's the main protagonist of that game, kinda.
>>7894905
Personally, Tonya was better than Hounan in my book.

Should we go ahead with the eroge reading club thing?
What should be our first game?

マッチ売りの美少女 from Gaia

>>7895090
Short, notable for its EGS score and something I thought I should play someday but never got around to it. Perfect.

>>7895090
...I actually played that one already. (Not that I intended to participate though.)

>>7895072
That's the main hurdle really.
Best idea would to get a list of ~5 titles down and have one person use an RNG or whatever to pick one, allot the time, cross it off the list, determine the next title of the remaining 4, and so forth.

>>7895090
Why does this exist?

>>7895278
It's japan, they love doing this shit.
I'll never forgive them for tantacle fucking Judy Abbott.

>>7895296
But she liked it.

New releases day soon and no Hongfire.
And Share doesn't work for me.
It's going to be hard

I should know better than to read the summaries when I press the Random VN button to look for a random nukige to download and fap to. Came across: http://vndb.org/v1783
>A meteor struck Mamoru when he was a kid, but he didn't get injured at all. That's why he was called "Miracle Meteor Boy". Seven years later, a beautiful girl surrounded by noble aura suddenly appears in front of Mamoru and he is taken to a strange place. Yes, it's inside a spaceship and there he can see beautiful girls showing their underwears...
>"Show the Holy Ball." He doesn't know what she is talking about. According to her, they are from another planet to get the "Holy Ball", which is a key item of succession battle for the throne. To show underwear is also a proof of the royal family and the pride of the grand universe. When they check Mamoru's body, the Holly Ball is found inside his body. As a matter of fact, the meteor which struck him is the Holly Ball. To get it out, Mamoru needs to reach a universally stunning climax. Like this, a battle for the Ball begins...
> To get it out, Mamoru needs to reach a universally stunning climax.
Sounds like Cumming out a kidney stone: The Game.

>>7896083
What's stopping you from using TT?

>>7896492
Weird, last I remember someone was translating that game?

>>7896512
I don't remember ever hearing anything about that.

>>7896512
There was a project that died early on like most of them do.

>>7896503
Apparently Google is too hard for him too.

>>7896492
I read that VN. It was a decent comedy.

I'm still finishing off routes in Kusari, last one I did was the Karen route, which was pretty damn good. This bit at the end was a real DAWWW moment. Karen route has really changed my opinion on her, now I feel kind of bad about hating on her before.

bump

Sucks that hongfire is really dead.
That site was really convenient.

Finished Hinata's route.
That was so incredibly sweet and heartwarming, made me smile the whole way through.

Finished up Parfait, what a brilliant game. Took me almost a month, but seeing as it's my first eroge in japanese, I'll have some great memories of it.

>>7899457
Parfait was kinda mediocre at best. You should check out damekoi if you haven't already.

>>7899465
>Parfait was kinda mediocre at best
You've got to be kidding me, I didn't know someone could dislike Parfait.
See something new every days.

>>7899465
While I respectfully disagree, thanks for the recommendation. The general plan is to read everything that he's written now.

Parfait is great.

The only thing I read of his that I would consider overrated is Konnyaku, but even that had its good parts.

Does the whole ordeal with Saijou and maou get cleared up even if I skip Kanon's route in G-Senjou? Is it better if I play Kanon's route?

>>7896083
I have Suika 2 and KKK in the mail myself. I'll get them uploaded if it takes longer than it takes to get them shipped to the US for someone else to do it.

I didn't really like Parfait. The heroines besides Rea weren't my cup of tea, I didn't enjoy like half the routes, and some stuff in it was quite silly. I despised the singer girl the most too.

Finished Shizuru's route, it was pretty good~
I kind of want to do Akari's route next to steal her from her dad.

the same person who complained with a wall of text that piracy was killing the industry

>>7901357
Link to the wall of text?

>>7901357
Why do you care?

I finally managed to install eden* after having to use a goddamn crack with a serial to install it.-
then In had to change the timezone becaseu it didn't like the environement and now says there's an error produced by the OS resources.
Fuck this game.

For those who know how to use Share, here's the 2ch Share thread for the new eroge.

http://kamome.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/download/1316509105/l50

Looks like シュクレ, ユユカナ, and カスタムレイドV+ have been released already, although some of them need to be cracked.

>>7902737
There are torrents for all of them already.

Just started Dies Irae finally to prepare for KKK.
I love me some chuuni

>>7902506
Pointing out hypocrisy is fun.

Did this ever get uploaded anywhere?

>>7903096
I was about to tell you to fuck off and wait for release date. Then I checked the game's vndb page.

>>7903195
A smart move on your part good sir.

>>7903096
I've been waiting for that and akaya akashiya ayakashino for a real while already.
But no uploads ever. The closest I found was a chinese web and it had the trials.

>>7903213
I see, guess it won't be a waste of my time then. I'll have it up in a little bit as a DDL on megaupload.

Michiru explains the Geneva Conventions.
（　´_ゝ`）

>>7903244
Fuck yeah.

>>7903267
Grisaia is probably the VN that has made me laugh the most.

>>7903244
Was it good? Thanks anyways for sharing

>>7903328
I liked it a fair bit, though I suppose I'm also pretty biased towards it since I liked Hasukura's writing from S&W enough to buy it. However since this is only part 1, the setup and introductions take up a slightly disproportionate amount of time compared to if one was playing the whole game at once. Not a bad start overall though, I see myself buying part 2 for sure.

>>7876329
Whats the Name of that Game

>>7903386
Oretachi ni Tsubasa wa Nai.

>>7903244

Here's the setup.exe for WORLD END ECONOMiCA - I. It's kinda slow to get going (was for me on the two computers I put it on anyway), so give it some time when you run it.

Part 1 - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=A5L30YLC
Part 2 - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1NAYCRMK

>>7903563
Blame megaupload for giving me such shit-tastic upload speeds ;_; I suppose you can blame some of it on me wanting to finish what I was working on before done first too though.

>>7903728
Naw it's okay, just wondering what was going on since thread went silent.

They really need to invent a way to send cock suckings through web so I could properly thank people for uploads

Are Dies Irae's 13 chapters all roughly the same length? I just started reading it a few nights ago and I'm on chapter 3, which seems quick given I read at a snail's pace.

Just realized that the new Chu x Chu Idol game came out.
Now to wait for it to be upped to DDL sites and break my dick.

・10/28 CLOCK UP 『プリーズ・レ○プ・ミー！』

Awww yeah

>>7903712
Well, how is it? Is it good?

Anyone one else playing 07expansions Higanbana? I started readign it and I'm not sure how to feel about it.

>>7904743
See >>7903372

It's pretty short though, so it'd probably be best and easiest to just read it for yourself unless bandwidth is an issue or something.

TRIAL OF WALKURE ROMANZE IS OUT.

Fuck me. I was just about to go to sleep.

>>7905007
>>walkure romanze trial

Boner.jpg

>armor girls
>jousting
goddamn I wish I could read

Goddamit ALL the download mirrors are getting hammered. Getchu's is going up and down.

>>7905045

If this game is any good and not just cute girls in armor I swear I great aunt Betty's grave I will translate it.

>>7905007
Maximum armor

>>7905007
...why is she wearing a bikini bottom over her underwear?

>>7905081

It's reverse armor. They armor the parts your opponent will strike because the opponent won't dare strike the fun parts.

>>7905143

Indeed. You can't rape a bitch if you chop off one of her breasts or something. It's quite an ingenious strategy.

>>7905007
Hmm... Either my download fucked up or they uploaded a bad file on their end as I'm getting decryption errors. (Why don't they put up md5 hashs for their downloads?)

>>7905192
6c647f2dcb709668b4f958a1a9d415e8

>>7904634
No. Don't know an easier way to put it than that.

Good choice by the way, game is fucking great.

>>7903712
Thanks a lot.

Still no Princess X or Chu Chu

Wow, Majikoi S has actually short 5-10 seconds anime segments for the fights. Are they shitting money or what.

Anyone has the link for the fixed malie.exe for dies irae acta est fabula?
I know hongfire has it, but I can't see the link from the search

>>7905649
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OG67VFM2

>>7905740
Thanks. Much appreciated.

>>7903712
Thanks. I was waiting for this one but couldn't find it before.

Hey guys, something I've been wondering about YU-NO for a while, since its English release is imminent. I see that they separate the scripts out into the different heroines' routes, and then one path to epilogue and then epilogue. Does this mean that you do your heroine of your choice, and then you go to the epilogue afterwards for every playthrough, or is the "epilogue" its own self-contained route, kind of like the Coco route of Ever17 or whatever?

Sorry if this is the wrong place for this, I would have used the VNTS thread but it seems to have 404ed, and I didn't think making a new thread for a simple question like that would be appropriate.

>>7906071
Yeah, the way the jewel system is built (at least in the saturn version, dunno if it's the same in the windows one) basically allows you to access the epilogue only after you saw all the other routes, and it's just as long.

>>7906071
Yu-No doesn't really have routes in the proper sense of the word.
What I mean is that there is only one ending, think Cross Channel.

>>7906077
>>7906079
Oh, so you're kind of meant to see all of the routes in a singe "playthrough"?

>>7906079
>What I mean is that there is only one ending
But that's kinda wrong, you also have the heroines' true endings after you see the epilogue.

armors how do they work

>>7906152
Does the trial have hscenes?

>>7906167
I didn't finish it yet, but it doesn't look like it has ero. Unless there's a digest scene at the end or something

>>7906084
These endings were just omake that bring nothing.
You really don't have to see them.

>>7906671
Well, they still provide closure for individual routes in the proper sense of the word, the point was I wouldn't compare it to Cross Channel's structure.

>>7906716
They don't provide closure, they are just specials you don't have to see that are only accessible after seeing the true ending that actually provide all the closure you'd want.
It's entirely possible to completely finish Yu-No without ever seeing these endings

Cross Channel and Yu-No have the same structure.

>>7906746
Yeah, I never saw those scenes.
Is it worth going back for? Replaying routes in YU-NO is tedious.

>>7906760
Not really.
Only worth for the CGs I guess

>>7906746
>It's entirely possible to completely finish Yu-No without ever seeing these endings
If you didn't see those endings you didn't "completely finish" the game no matter how you slice it. You get the Yu-No Master title only after seeing them.
Cross Channel is linear, Yu-No is not.

Seems it'sn new thread time.

Oh god, PrincessX is hilarious.

>>7906776
>If you didn't see those endings you didn't "completely finish" the game no matter how you slice it. You get the Yu-No Master title only after seeing them.

That's just retarded, you are just disagreeing for the sake of disagreeing.
It would be like saying that if you didn't saw all the bad endings in a game you didn't finish this game. Good luck reading something like France Shoujo with this sort of OCD.

If you put them together, these endings probably don't have more than 100 lines, they are really inconsequential and they won't change the format of a game.
Yu-No has a story, it ends with the true end, everything else is just omake.

>>7906805
>It would be like saying that if you didn't saw all the bad endings in a game you didn't finish this game
Nice how this time you skipped using the word completely. Noticed how you can't say you completely finished something without actually seeing everything?
It would be like saying you completely finished a bestiary after seeing just the main story enemies and that optional bosses are inconsequential to the list.
I'm not saying the true endings have the same importance of the epilogue, but they imply a structure which is fundamentally different than Cross Channel's. When there'll be endings where Taichi is shown together with each heroine I'll agree with you.

I can't express myself how much I hate seeing the very same argument in every general thread.

>>7907046
I wasn't arguing that games should always be finished 100%, if that's what you're saying, just saying I find the comparison with Cross Channel's structure tenuous at best.
But apparently I challenged an eroge master and spoke out of my place for thinking something the game calls "true endings" are not totally irrelevant to the game.
Someone should make a new thread anyways.

New thread >>7907474

I just got a bonus this week, and am looking for some underplayed commercial/Doujin eroge/galge to pick up. Any recommendations (that aren't myth or lost colors)