/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Been reading too many nukige lately, can't get myself to read anything that doesn't get to the porn fast.

らぶ２Ｑｕａｄ has a pretty slick interface. It's also entertaining because of the ridiculous story premise but I guess it's time to start with KKK, my main dish for this month.

http://frontwing.jp/product/grisaia2/gallery/gallery.html

New CGs released.

>>7938045
Jesus fuck, those menus. Makes my dick hard.

Reading Muvluv Alternative at the moment. Just got to the part where Takeru speaks with extra-Yuuko. I'm liking it so far. It was definitely worth sitting through that shitfest Extra for

>>7938061
Another Grisaia game? I am erect.

Does anyone know any good moege? I really find myself interested in things like that lately. I've played everything by Lump of Sugar.

>>7938094
パルフェ ～chocolat second brew Re-order～. It's part of a series, too, IIRC.

What's a good nukige, preferably with animated sequences, that isn't by Squeez, Softhouse Seal, or Silky's?

I just watched the animu of 11eyes, and while it left some questions I'd like to see answered, I'm not sure if I should bother with the VN unless it's much better. Anyone played it?

>>7938114
>11 eyes anime

>>7938112
Try stuff by MBS truth or G.J.

September is just a bad month for me. Way too many games I'm interested in. And my most anticipated one has come at a very bad time for me.

>>7938073
If you have a menu fetish try out the trial for Walkure Romanze.
They must have spent half their budget on those things.

Currently stuck on Turn 34 of Sengoku Rance (yes, new to the VN world, whatever).

The guide I'm using from GameFAQs tells me to attack Texas twice, but when I attack them the first time, Yukihime goes and gets that masked dude to fight for them, and he keeps making me fight his stupid pandas, so I don't get a chance to make a second attack. What should I do?

>>7938112
Atelier Kaguya Honky Tonk games. Try Anedeath or Ijira Rental for instance. (Or if you are hard M go with Mainichi ga M).

>>7938187
Or élf's newer games maybe (hey they aren't Silky's).

>>7938187
Thanks for the recommendation, looks like a good place to start.

Unfortunately, I'm not M, but it looks like there's a lot of general appeal

>>7938119
I know it's bad, that's why I'm asking whether the VN is slightly better or much better.

Finished Futaba's route in the kamige of kamige Green Green. Also played a bit of SuGirly Wish but it is extremely boring.

>>7938112
Also Imopara has a very few animated eroscenes.

Started Koikishi.
It's nice.

>>7938479
>Green Green
As bad as the anime or even worse?

>>7939168
Never watched the show, so I honestly couldn't tell you. Although I was being sarcastic when saying it was a kamige, it wasn't that bad. I thought the humour was rather funny, and the heroines pretty good. Some of the sprites are pretty funny looking though.

To Heart 2.

Played tough Konomi & Manaka, finishing up on Tamaki

Too bad the translation is still incomplete, I cant read jap.

>>7939188
MONKEY EARS AND PLASTIC SHADING

>>7939188
>Some of the sprites are pretty funny looking though.
Pic related.

Koi Kishi has more action and less 'cute knights doing cute things' than I thought. Pretty neat.

>>7939214
OVERDRIVE SEAL OF QUALITY.

>>7939217
What a shame. Was hoping it would be nothing but cute girls in sexy armor.

>>7939217
Why the nipple slip?

>>7939238
Why not?

>>7939217
A lot of action? That sounds good. Is the writing good at all?

>>7939243
>Is the writing good at all?

Nothing outstanding, that's for sure. But it's at least fast-paced and the art is hot as fuck.

>>7939217
What type of action are we talking about here? Is it chuuni?
Or is it something lighthearted like Kamikaze Explorer?

>>7939350
Not that guy, and he's probably much further in than I am, but it's pretty lighthearted so far.

Hm. I just finished downloading Girlfriend of Steel 2nd, excited to romance Asuka. But I feel like I've played this game already...

October.

hey guys, new to VN/eroges...looking for recommendations. Preferably no loli. Romance and good sex scenes would be a plus. Mainly just looking to fall in love with a character. Thanks!

>>7939502
>no loli

>>7939502
Kill yourself.

Finished Ai's route. Her perverted jokes/references/innuendos coupled with her nonchalance were very refreshing to see in a SoL title.

Though I'm disappointed in her route. For a second, I thought she was guilt-tripping the protag to hide the fact that she was some slut or a rape victim. But it turns out that she was doing it for some trivial reason. While she ended up losing her virginity to the protag anyway, the lack of a bleeding CG was too high a price to pay for that simple plot element. Apparently, many girls bleed on their second times too, so they could have taken advantage of that.

The CG consistency problem is still very annoying. One CG bothered me in particular where her lower abdomen was abnormally large, which resulted in her crotch area being larger than necessary. I'd provide the example, but our new meido bans even when you spoiler NSFW images.

Moving on to the tsundere route next.

>>7939612
Still in the common route, but the flashback implications of the MC having slept with her are false?

>>7939640
Pretty much. He got drunk and Ai stripped him.

>>7939707
Well, that's disappointing. It's like I'm seeing that thread from a few days ago in action.
And there went here one sort of interesting point to me. Not like I was going to do her route though, her mannerism or whatever you'd call it manages to grate on my nerves.

Up.

i just finished the final ending of EVER17 after some days of playthrought
boy i wonder why i didn't read it sooner, it was probably one of the best stories i've ever read

care about the wall of spoilers

i absolutely loved the blick winkel 4th wall thing and how i got tricked in believing who were the real main characters
no really, i broke my jaw when hokuto saw himself in the mirror
i was astonished since i was all that time believing i was ryogo from 2017
same thing for the "real" and "fake" takeshi thing
also i kinda know not many people like tsugumi but her romance was really beautiful. Kids? Holy shit i love dem kids, dat chami and dat tsugumi
too bad i didn't quite like coco's voice and the fact she's supposed blick winkel's romance. Well coco i like you but not in that way, but i guess it's okay since i got to read this fuckawesome story

another thing that maybe i didn't like were the long-ass explanations about the really complicated stuff, i guess i'm an idiot who just wanted to get only what was necessary

>>7939956
That's great, but use proper formatting.

>>7939243
Don't listen to this guy. I played through the demo of Koi Kishi and the writer cannot write action for his life. There's absolutely no tension or build up and the "bad guys" are not intimidating in the least. At best, they're like villains from a really bad Saturday morning cartoon - they do all the typical overly dramatic bad guy things like snatching purses and performing heists of fine art and it's of course up to our heroes to stop them - it's pure cartoonish villainy.

On the other hand, cute girls doing cute things were the best part about the demo.

>>7938479
Someone I know would not want to hear that. He's trying to complete SuGirly.

Anyways, I'm about to jump into Baldr Sky. I should expect something great yeah?

>>7940179
I think it's considered a kamige and it really deserves the title. Tons of FUCK YEAR! moments, the game play itself is pretty fun. And from the way the memory gimmick is written, the game will keep you guessing through all six routes. All the heroines are quite endearing as well.

>>7939956
I finished E17 a few days ago. Aside from the terrible (terrible) pace, it is indeed good. And this comes from someone who got some shit spoiled, and saw some other shit miles away, and even then the specifics of the spoiled shit was surprising.

Though I particularly didn't like how Blick Winkel/Hokuto interacted with Dead Takeshi. Deus Ex Machina isn't exactly what I feel it is, since Blick Winkel was fairly well built up, but the interaction with the past itself felt coming rather out of nowhere to save the day, specially Hokuto's conscience being there.

>>7940179
It's very, VERY good, one of my all-time favorite eroges.

>>7940201
>>7940219
It's being translated though.

>>7940245
So? Just means that there's gonna be inevitable newfags. That didn't stop me from enjoying ML regardless.

VBA so goood. not very far yet (due to the random skill/title system being perfectionists nightmare, maybe I should have disabled it at the start), but it's suprisingly funny/entertaining, plot is decent (well can't say much yet though), characters are suprisingly decent/good and protag is pretty good too, h-scenes are also delicious and gameplay addicting. so yeah so far it's pure entertainment for me.

>>7940179
personaly it's my all-time favorite eroge. and no matter your taste you probably will find something great in it as it has something for pretty much everyone.

Hey guys, I'm pretty new to VNs and I'm just going over those recommendation charts and downloading the ones that seem interesting to me and are fully translated..

Was just wondering how much of Majikoi is currently translated? On the website it names the routes that are translated but it doesn't really say how many routes there are in total.

>>7940252
2 main heroines plus teacher route. The Momoyo route is 98% done, just needed to be proofread.

>>7940257
Thanks.

>>7940252
I'm playing it right now, just wanted to play until after the prologue to see the op ... I have 12 hours playing it and I have not seen the op

but it's great, I can not stop playing

>>7940266
That's release awesome. I love long VNs.

>>7940252
I wanted to play until the end of the prologue to see the op ..... I've been playing 12 hours and I have not seen the op


but it's great, I can not stop playing

>>7940280
>>7940270
>>7940266
You guys ready for the [spoilers]inevitably inferior[/spoilers] anime adaptation?

Anyone here play muv luv alternative? I was spoiled about the crunch scene.. how's the rest of the game? worth the playthrough?

>>7940293
It'll probably end up like the oretsuba adaptation.

>>7940299
The rest of the game is alright. That scene is only about halfway, not even, through the game so it isn't really heavy spoilers. It shouldn't affect your enjoyment.

Playing YU-NO.

Holy shit, I feel like I'm getting/can get NTR'd from every direction.

Is anyone translating this?

>>7940325
At a decent pace? Nope.

>>7940325
You're better off brushing up on moon than waiting for a patch.

Mmm, this Baldr Sky talk is getting me excited. I've been planning on reading it for a while now, and currently, it's up there in my list of VNs to read along with Grisaia and ML's side stories.

Anyways; just finished Yuuki's route, my first one, in Lovely x Cation, and it was very enjoyable. The art is nice, and Yuuki is incredibly lovely in all possible ways.

Was a crack for KKK released?

>>7940340
Yes

>>7940344
Any link?

>>7937954
I just stared Chaos;Head after watching Steins;Gate

Is the main character going to stop being such a naive fucking retard? I honestly can't stand listening to him go on about the media brainwashing high school girls and how he is the super crusader of justice in video game worlds.

too many gay choices ...Gakuto route or what ?

btw yukie is love

>>7940354
Hes supposed to be a delusion faggot. Go ahead and laugh at him, no he does not become likeable if thats what you mean.

>>7940369
Oh, alright.


Guess I'll just continue on with the game laughing at him then.

Blargh, still no torrent for 理－コトワリ－.

>>7940363
There are 3 bro mini-routes. No homolust, just true friendship.

>>7940371
Is it even good? I dropped the trial at the part where the main character picked a fight with the teacher just to show how cool and edgy he was.
Oh and the most akward sprite poses I ever saw too, I guess

>>7940323
what is yu-no?

>>7940376
It's a C:drive VN. You read them for the porn.

>>7940395
Oh, ok. Looked like it was trying to be a serious game with serious plot.

>>7940323
Sluts and NTR everywhere.
It is sad that we will never get this kind of games anymore. Now having red blood during ero scenes is a must. Sad times.

Guys, how the heck do you get voice on the older Complet's games to work? In my case specially mousunatsu and yagaigu, Juicy Age works fine.

Oh man, whoever wrote the plot for this game must have had a lot of fun.

Guys, is Baldr Sky mostly video game or visual novel?

>>7940483
Text-wise, if you think of both Dive 1 and 2 as the same game and you should, it's the third longest VN ever.

>>7940485
Ooh good to hear.

Now back to praying for a translation..

>>7940485
Not that anon, but I installed both Dive 1 and 2.Seeing as how 2 has 1's storyline included, could I just uninstall the first one?

>>7940499
NO. If you uninstall Dive 1 you won't be able to access Dive 1's route from Dive 2.

>>7940504
Wait, lemme get this straight. There's a route in 1 that can only be accessed if I have Dive 2?

Sorry if it's obvious. Had a long night.

Looking for some VN recommendations. Here's what I played so far and my thoughts on them:

Ever17 - loved this. Completed every single route. It had a -great- mix of slice of life/character development and intriguing plot.

Tsukihime - Great atmosphere, dull and repetitive writing, SHIT tons of exposition (which i normally don't mind but it was glaringly obvious in this one) and has pacing problems. I only played the Arcueid route, but I no longer have any interest in the rest of the game.

Saya no Uta - Very creepy game. I didn't really care about the characters or the plot. The most interesting thing about this were the notes left by the doctor who raised Saya. It was really interesting. I wanted to find out more.

What I am currently playing:
Muv Luv Extra
Fate/Stay Night

Kind of hard to say exactly what I am looking for but I like long games with varied themes and decent art at least.

>>7940508
no. it's like dive1 = routes 1 - 3. dive2 = routes 4-6. you uninstall dive1 you get routes 4-6 for full and "summary"-version of routes of dive1.
so:
d1: 1-3 full.
d1+d2: 1-6 full
d2 only: 4-6 full, 1-3 summary

think d2 as expansion pack

Looking for some VN recommendations. Here's what I played so far and my thoughts on them:

Ever17 - loved this. Completed every single route. It had a -great- mix of slice of life/character development and intriguing plot.

Tsukihime - Great atmosphere, dull and repetitive writing, SHIT tons of exposition (which i normally don't mind but it was glaringly obvious in this one) and has pacing problems. I only played the Arcueid route, but I no longer have any interest in the rest of the game.

Saya no Uta - Very creepy game. I didn't really care about the characters or the plot. The most interesting thing about this were the notes left by the doctor who raised Saya. It was really interesting. I wanted to find out more.[/spoiler]

What I am currently playing:
Muv Luv Extra
Fate/Stay Night

Kind of hard to say exactly what I am looking for but I like long games with varied themes and decent art at least.

>>7940508
just have both installed, start Dive2's exe and you'll play them all in order since the route order is basically forced. The true ending is unlocked only once you do them all anyways.

>>7940525
Have you considered trying untranslated VN's? There's a whole library of what you're looking for.

>>7940536
Ok, so I don't even need to play D1, just have it installed. Rather start from D2? Got it.

>>7940525
try Sharin no Kuni, Kara no Shoujo, Steins;Gate, Inganock

>>7940537
:(

if only I knew moon runes.. maybe I should learn Japanese just to play VNs haha

>>7940543
Thank you. I will check those out.

So I seriously need to read Dies Irae before KKK? Does it not include some kind of summary?

>>7940557
Everything I heard about it points to yes. Bit of a bummer, I know, but according to reviews it's not a small part of the enjoyment.

>>7940557
I don't know if there is a summary in KKK but you definitely need to read Dies Irae before it.

Thoughts and opinions on Love Quad and Your Diary?

>>7940588
Your Diary is standard moege, read it for the art if you must.
I expected more since Natsu no Ame was pretty good personally.

>>7940588
らぶ２Ｑｕａｄ is basically a nukige with nice art and great presentation in general. Characters are also rather entertaining.

>>7940737
Oh, and the story involves a Matryoshka-doll trying to end humanity.

Yeah.

>>7940422
It's not ntr you fucking retard.

>>7940758
You know how it is when kids learn new words.

>>7940809
I'm expecting to see people use "chuuni" as a synonym of "action/fighting" before long

>>7940568
>>7940571
Shit. The trial was great, the art is the prettiest thing ever but nobody fucking told me that this is supposed to be a sequel. Guess I'll have to look for a DI torrent.

>>7940863
The little sister had the highest powerlevel according to the trial, looking forward to her scenes

>>7940877
I love girls with high powerlevel.
Especially when they are loli.

>>7940758
But the game has NTR though.
Mitsuki, Ayumi too
Then we have that faggot detective in Kanna's route

>>7940922
Heroine rape is not really NTR per se, and in Mitsuki's case both knew they actually loved another person and they were just comforting each other so she can't be "stolen" from Takuya to begin with.

I just finished playing all 8 episodes of Umineko.

And I have to say: I liked it more than Forest. Now before you rage so hard you cry tears of blood, juts wait a minute and listen: YES Forest's actual plot is much better, YES Shkanon is a terrible fucking solution. BUT there's two things that Umineko does better in general. First of all, the cast is still mostly better than forest's. In fact, Eva and Natsuhi might be some of the most 3 dimensional characters I've seen in VNs. The other thing is that Umineko's music is much better. So even with the fucked up mystery and other problems that Umineko has, I still enjoyed it more than Forest, which it is often (not entirely unfairly) accused of ripping off.

I just got to the part in steins gate where (chapter 6) Suzuha and okabe decide to go back to 1975 together to try to change the future. Then the credits started rolling. What do I do now, this can't be the end?

>>7940863
From what I've seen from the screenshots, the art looks a lot like something you would find in an otome game. Pray tell, anon; this isn't an otome game, is it?

>>7940938
Umineko did have a really good adult cast, which is sadly uncommon in japanese stuff.

>>7940938
>First of all, the cast is still mostly better than forest
AHAHAHAHA NO
The main cast of Forest is much, much better than the cast of Umineko, there is no comparison.
The characterization is like miles ahead.
Oh and Natsuhi and Eva are nothing special at all.

>The other thing is that Umineko's music is much better.
Umineko's soundtrack is basically the one good thing about it but you won't judge a fucking VN on this.
And the soundtrack of Forest is amazing too.

You can like Umineko more if you want, even if your reasons are pretty fucking retarded, though.

>>7940955
It's not that uncommon, most of the characters in Forest are adults too.

>>7940983
>Umineko's soundtrack is basically the one good thing about it but you won't judge a fucking VN on this.
Considering VNs are nothing but text, art, and music, I'd say it's fair to judge them on music.
I also kinda like the awful Ryukishi sprites but I haven't played Forest so I won't comment on that part of the argument.

>>7940938
I think you feel the Umineko cast is better because it had more exposition, I thought they were pretty average "two-faced adults" stereotypes myself.
Still, I respect your opinion, even though I personally don't think a couple of characters and soundtrack can be enough to make up for worse overall writing and plot. If you got enjoyment out of it though it's your victory so whatever floats your boat.

>>7940998
Well Eva and Natsuhi aren't really two faced.

Everyone else is though, except maybe Krauss.

>>7940936
Seeing that majority of NTR games involves rape, your definition just discounted majority of NTR eroges. Heroine rape is NTR if you're not the one doing the raping.
Also the heroine's feeling is not really that central in NTR, what's important is that the protag feels jealousy/loss/rage over it.

>>7941008
I thought the majority of NTR games feature rape just as an occasion for the heroine to get stolen? Not every heroine rape game is a NTR game.
I guess Ayumi's scene is slighlty NTR-ish since the outrage is an important part of it, yeah, but then again you rescue her.

>>7940221
mh i kinda know what you mean
the pace at the end indeed felt rushed and how blick winkel and hokuto saved the day wasn't really "serious", but i probably overlooked this because i wanted takeshi to live no matter what
i also got spoiled something just tsugumi's good ending tho, i did know "the main character" was going to sacrifice but i didn't know who, when and for who, but obviously once i reached the submarine part it became obvious
still, it ended up being one of my top favorite scenes, it was really touching

when playing the game i ended up making some conclusion miself after knowin you's different names, seeing her epilogue, and having visions about 2017 but until the final route i was seriously oblivious of what was happening, and when the mirror part came i shat bricks

Is the steins;gate translation out? I keep seeing screenshots of it translated but then I'm not finding the translation anywhere.

>>7941025
I know. If it's not the protag doing the raping, it's NTR.
Basically heroine having sex with someone else == NTR, that how it's already defined nowadays.

Is it possible to cancel the e-mail you're sending in Steins;Gate and pick a different choice? I'm tired of accidentally sending cold or flippant mails.

>>7941066
Well, ok, I guess it's just a problem of definitions then. I personally don't consider it NTR unless the heroine is clearly stolen away from the protagonist. Heroines being not virgins or rape victims doesn't qualify in my case.
To make an example Baldr Force doesn't even have the ntr tag on egs, just 陵辱

>>7941066
Not really. The reason many 'rape NTR' games exist is because the girl eventually falls for the rapist or mind breaks or whatever. She leaves the protagonist usually, even if she wasn't consenting at first. Just getting raped beyond her will and then going back to the protag is not really NTR. NTR specifically means to be stolen.

>>7941190
But not all NTR ends with the guy succeeding. It doesn't have to succeed to be called NTR.

I guess Triangle Blue isn't NTR then? The rapist never succeeded.

>>7941218
Er Triangle Blue has a lot of NTR scenes that have nothing to do with rape so the game is still NTR regardless. To call getting raped NTR would be like saying she is cheating on you if she gets raped.

>>7941222
>To call getting raped NTR
They are NTR Type B/C according to some random japanese websites that classify NTR games. You can also look at NTR blogs and see that they frequently list those.

So you think 3 of the 4 NTR routes in Triangle Blue are not NTR?

Just started playing through the Higurashi series last week.
I got to Watanagashi-Hen and to the scene where Keiichi talks to Shion on the phone and confronts her over the contradiction in her story about talking to Kimiyoshi. It was 2am in the middle of the night and I had headphones on, so the horror music was blaring in my ears. Then Shion started laughing like a maniac followed by a scare chord with a pair of eyes flashing over a black background. Needless to say, I fell off my bed, knocked over my chair, which knocked over 2 of my textbooks, and woke my roomates up.

Seriously, that is retarded and horrifying. Should I be expecting anymore screamers in the rest of the game?

>>7941243
The main NTR route in that game with the most scenes is pure NTR, the route where she is working at that cafe or whatever she eventually becomes a willing participant, she willing sleeps with the kid she is teaching. What other NTR routes are there in that game exactly?

Just getting raped does not constitute NTR. NTR B is where it eventually becomes consensual, and NTR C is not really NTR, it's just a way of seperating non consensual rape from the other two main types of NTR.

>>7941269
Shit-poster go back to /a/ and suck on Curry's cheesy dick

>>7941269
I only pointed out Triangle Blue because you practically said it's not NTR if they didn't succeed.
Did they succeed? No.

Triangle Blue has 4 NTR routes:

The childhood friend/host.
The fat otaku that she married in an online game.
Protag's uncle(?) that manages a famiresu
And the Autistic NEET she tutors.

She didn't willingly sleep with the Autistic NEET, he raped her. Also he didn't succeed in stealing her from the protag. The otaku never succeeded on all the ends on his route either.

Can't remember much about the famiresu though but I'm pretty sure the protag also killed that guy. Same with the childhood friend.

It's fine if you don't consider it NTR, the japs thinks otherwise though.

>>7941243
>They are NTR Type B/C
wasn't fhc the one who made up those? I never see those "types" in japanese reviews so unless you can provide me an example you're just going by what a retard who can't read japanese said
and you're confusing scenes which ntr fans could be aroused by with actual ntr content
that's like saying footjob is inherently masochist sex. It's not, even though masochists are more probable to be aroused by it. 寝取られ ≠ 陵辱

>>7941368
http://www5e.biglobe.ne.jp/~poko2/ntr.html

>>7941081
I don't think there is such a button
>>7941057
Yes
It's the rough version with some typos. You missed the General threads but google around and you might find it.

>>7941374
nice job ignoring the rest of my post though, a single rape is not NTR no matter how you slice it

>>7941451
I'm tired arguing. Maybe you should've checked the website I linked to.

>a single rape is not NTR no matter how you slice it
I find it stupid too, but apparently it is.
Just check that website above and NTR blog deprogram.main.jp/sb/log/game/.

Any suggestions for someone who likes 小悪魔-types and/or ロリババァs？ I have Taiyou no Promia in my queue, but I'm not sure what to go for next.

I really need to stop checking the sites of my favorite devs everyday. It's killing my wallet.

>>7941564
Draculius, main heroine is a ロリババァ.
Same main writer as Grisaia too so expect the same kind of god tier comedy.

>>7941564
demon lolis?
淫辱都市／堕天の贄
http://www.getchu.com/soft.phtml?id=688522

>>7941496
I did read it, and the rape part had 最後まで to differentiate it from where rape turns consensual. So they're talking about games where the heroine is raped repeatedly, not just one rape.

>>7941588
Thanks, will check it out.

>>7941591
I actually had this and had forgotten about it. Clockup4lyfe, thanks for reminding me.

I'm playing Tsuyokiss, is it just me or did Majikoi take heavily from this?

>>7941783

Same writer.

>>7941814
That so? I didn't know. Well, it explains why a lot of situations feel similar.

>>7941329
I think the protag pretty much kills everybody except for the kid, but I'm not sure I remember that autist being an actual route.

Just finished Kasumi's route in Dies Irae.
Didn't expect such a bad end, almost everyone died. Reinhart and Mercurius laughing their ass off in the ending was pretty awesome though, fucking glorious bastards.

>>7941979
I'm on chapter 12 on that route. I'll look forward to discussing it when I finish it .

>>7942463
I'm at 8th. Rule of cool is the best things to happen to VNs ever.

Has anyone played GoGoNippon? I kinda wanna buy it because I want to "support the industry" especially in a case where they are targeting us specifically as an audience but honestly the girls look cute and all but I dont like the idea that the game is themed around sightseeing/tourism not to mention it has no voices and its all ages.

I like that dual text thing but I just have this sneaking suspicion that Im not gonna like it.

>>7942569
>targeting us specifically
No.

>>7942569
They're not targeting "us", that was explicitly stated.
They're targeting weeaboos.

by us I meant foreigners as a whole, not what specific group of foreigners.

The point being, that they're trying to reach out to foreigners as way of making revenue and thats good for us.

Twinkle Crusaders -Passion Star Stream-'s trial is up, apparently.

http://www.lillian.jp/kurukuru2/taiken.html

In the middle of playing it now. Yes, the Princess Witches cameos have a battle here and everything.

>>7942775
>and thats good for us.
In what way exactly? There is already a plethora of VNs released in Japan with more each month. I don't see how an OELVN targeted towards the worst group of people is 'good for us'.

>>7942775
Fuck no.
Japanese have fucking awful taste when it comes to VN already, I don't want the producers to start catering now to the even worse taste of foreigners.

W.I.P

>>7942921
Who are you quoting?

after finishing the prologue all the options out in Japanese, to start seeing the route in English of Yukie and chris what i have to do?

I have to fill the balls in events of Japanese language?

btw sorry bad english , (hard google translatior mode)

>>7943071

>>7943372
Keep selecting Chris or Yukie on the map screen until you enter their routes.
It's probably best to use the "Go Home" option on days when the one you're going for isn't selectable.

fuck it, downloadin grisaia
or rather searching for it

I miss hongfire ;_;

after finishing the prologue all the dialoges out in Japanese, to start seeing the route in English of Yukie and chris what i have to do?

I have to fill the balls in events of Japanese language?

btw sorry bad english , (hard google translatior mode)

>>7940466

>>7940863
Yo, I own Dies Irae Act Fabula. Want an upload?

>>7943395
Same guy as >>7943482
I own Grisaia too. Let me upload a few pictures of my collection so I don't have to call it each and every time.

Have any of you learned Japanese just for VNs? About how long did it take you to get a decent grasp of the language? Was it worth it?

>>7942851
Finished the demo.

Princess Witches team is broken. The battle against them is hard as fuck.

>>7943513
Alright, here is my collection of eroge/galge.
http://imgur.com/a/K5AyN

Not depicted here is Rui wa Tomo wo Yobu, the Innocent Grey Collection (Paranoia and its four games), and Noble Works.

First, look for it yourself, but if you want anything uploaded while hongfire is down, I'll try to get to it within the week.

>>7943541
You just wanted an excuse to show off your collection, didn't you.

You don't keep the boxes/cases?

>>7943513
Three years for a really good grasp, but I was fucking lazy and only actually studied consistently for about 8 months of those three years.

>>7943541
>http://imgur.com/a/K5AyN
As much as I still find pirating convenient, having the actual discs feels like you're "entitled" to them. Color me jelly.

>>7943541
Where do you live?

A little bit into Mana's route in Koikishi.
Looking kind of cool there protagonist.
Though, I'm a sucker for that type of scene.

>>7943555
I have boxes at my house, live at the dorms. I have preorder bonuses not involving CDs in boxes at home, and drama/soundtrack CDs in different CD cases.

Really wasn't intending to show off, it's just that I've said "I own that do you need an upload" like 12 times throughout these threads, thought I'd make life easier.

How long does G-senjou take to finish from the point right after the whole Yuki incident?

>>7943617
So I'm assuming you can't upload all your collection out of risk of fucking your connection?

>>7943623
Well, I'm on the schools connection, so "I could", but waiting for CDs to burn and then watching uploads go, reuploading missing parts, etc is a bit more pain than I'd rather go through for each and every one.

So I'd appreciate it if you looked elsewhere first, but if it comes down to it, I'll get around to it.

IF THE TRANSLATION ARE UP TO 63% WHY THE LAST PATCH IS ONLY AT 42%?

AND HOW COME THE BRIDGE BATTLE OF ARCHER VS SABER AND AVENGER IS TRANSLATED BUT THE TEXT LEADING TO THAT INSTANCE IS NOT

WHAT THE FUCK

>>7943618
Depends on which route you take. Not long. 6-8 hours I would say

>>7943634
Hmm, I think I found one for grisaia, but thanks for the offer
and goddam is it big

>>7943671
It sure isn't as big as Baldr Sky D2, but that has gameplay so that's not a fair comparison.

Playing bad name. Oh gosh, art style in this game is beautiful. Her face, her breast, her arms, her entire body is fucking adorable. It also has simple japanese. Not that I'm reading.
Also music is really good.

What's the best way to play YU-NO? Should I straight up follow a walkthrough?

>>7943541
Think you could you upload Lost Colors? I haven't been able to find it anywhere, hongfire or not.

>>7943944
Best way to play it is in black and white.
Also no walkthrough, just make a new thread on /jp/ everytime you might get stuck without knowing what to do.

>>7943956
Yeah, got it, give me 2-3 hours.

>>7943956
Alright, Lost Colors: http://www.mediafire.com/?p35lppul56k9f
(Good choice by the way, game is really top notch)

Also, apparently my upload of World End Economica from like 3 weeks ago transferred into my new account. I saw someone uploaded it on an earlier thread, but that can be found at: http://www.mediafire.com/?1gmap13hy1778

オーガスト最新作
『大図書館の羊飼い a good librarian like a good shepberd』

>>7943541
that's pretty nice collection there. good to see other people who buy things too

>>7944122
And again the same face

>>7944122
Why did they go back to school setting? ;_;
Eustia's worldbuilding is excellent.

>>7943482
>Yo, I own Dies Irae Act Fabula. Want an upload?
No but a Nodvd patch would be great. I tried Alpharom but that didn't work.

>>7944135
Pretty sure that Fortune Arterial sold better and was more popular as well. Which is odd considering FA is a pile of shit compared to eustia.

>>7944141

Could you create a temp email? I'll just give you my serial code when I drop by my house on monday. Given that I have the game installed on two different computers, I'm sure they don't verify this stuff online.

However, a NODVD patch does exist, and should be easy to find, but, at least here, nothing on that end worked, ended with "ERROR: BLACK".

>>7944141
an acta es fabula nodvd was linked in the old thread or the one before that, did you try that?

>>7942851
>>7943515
I guess I'll try it, I always had a soft spot for Princess Witches/Twinkle Crusaders.

>>7944120
Well, that was fast.

Thanks!

>>7944213
>>7944219

Thanks guys, found a working .exe in one of the previous threads.

>>7944213
>ended with "ERROR: BLACK".
is your game named schahsjdhas grun or something? That's supposed to be an expansion for Die Wiederkunft so it doesn't install the whole game but just the extra material so you get that error. Download one that has only acta es fabula in the title

And here I thought accidental boob grabs were silly enough.

>>7944572
fucking love the art of Koikishi.

>>7944572
I thought the same when I saw this earlier today
http://jul.2chan.net/zip/5/src/1317516140977.jpg

>>7944582
>http://jul.2chan.net/zip/5/src/1317516140977.jpg
How the fuck would that happen accidentally?

Finished YU-NO. Well, it was good, I guess very good for its time. It didn't really live to my expectations though. The hype I read was comparable to that of Muramasa, MLA and Baldr Sky, but it felt quite behind the first two. I guess I'm back to reading Baldr Sky now, Nanoha route was so bad I've actually stalled it. I guess I'll have to wait for Dive2 to get the real deal.

>>7944584
He just mistook her for his sunglasses, it can happen to everyone.

>>7944590
How is Baldr Sky overall? is the nanoha route the main one?

>>7944615
It's pretty good, definitely worth playing if you like engaging gameplay/pseudo-cyberpunk.
There's six routes you're supposed to play one after another since they reveal more and more bits of settings in each route, Nanoha is the second route so it's just scratching the surface, I wouldn't really call it "so bad" unless you totally hate Nanoha's archetype.

>>7944615
The gameplay is really good, although a bit easy. Nanoha route is definitely not the main one. It feels like each route is more about discovering about your past then about the heroines (which aren't really good in my opinion)... that said Nanoha herself was really so godawful I barfed. Maybe that's just me because I haven't heard anyone else hating on her. Can't say much more given that I've not finished Dive1 yet. Ah, and play the bad endings... they are somewhat better then the good ones. At least, they explain some more shit about what is going on.
I feel it really lacks some good villain or something like that. The one that is in up till now is really nothing much. Maybe someone will pop up. I hope it will.

>>7944590
Opinions, but I like it over 2 of those 3 and I played it last year.

>>7944643
I like Nanoha, she's the only useless person in the game. It makes you want to defend her.

>>7944632
>>7944643
Thanks. Is anyone actually working on the translation for it though?

At this rate I'll probably know enough moon runes to play it in JP by the time the translation is done..

>>7944655
According to Ixrec and his merry band of butt-buddies, Strato has only managed to get six percent done so far.

>>7944643
>although a bit easy
You are playing on higher difficulties right?

>>7944651
Don't forget that you kill her in Rain's route.
>>7944643
Are you playing on very hard?

>>7944655
It' really easy. Like very very easy. I found myself reading it faster than almost anything else I've played.
>>7944657
>>7944659
I'm on hard right now. I can faceroll the random enemies still and 75% of the "boss fights" didn't feel like they were really there (read: I didn't even die).

>>7944643
pretty much everyone agrees that the normal/bad endings are better written than the good ends except the the true end. also it will get harder, I don't remember having too much problems in the first two routes, but then it started to get bit more harder from onwards. also fuck that last grunt fight before the last boss.

>>7944878
> fuck that last grunt fight before the last boss.
that fucking fight

Who's in for more planetarian footjobs and PHYSICS endings?

>>7945042
Me! Or at least more Gizmo.

>>7945042
Great news.

>>7945042
Wait what? It's coming out at the end of this month? Yet, preorders aren't open.

>>7945508
they are announcing the anouncement of the game.

>>7945508
情報解禁
Right next to the date. Are you retarded?

>>7945559
Herp, yes, apparently.

Sort of glad there are only two titles I'm interested in for next month.
Overloaded with too many new releases this month.

Started Lunaris Filia, those are some pretty cute Bat hair ornaments.

>>7940252
could i have a link to these charts you're mentioning? sounds pretty useful :3

>>7946154
Make a thread over at /a/ or /v/ and ask them for this shit. They fucking love to make those spoonfeeding charts. You will get 5 or 6 of them.

>>7946154
I recommend going to a site like vndb and sorting games by rating, that, or finding reviews from someone who has similar taste to your own and taking it from there.

If you're new and only reading translated stuff, I would probably recommend this order.

Fate Stay / Night--> Yume Miru Kusuri --> Seiken No Ignanock --> Kanon --> Ever17 --> Tsukihime --> Cross Channel --> MuvLuv Series

That gives you some good reads, some background on the common themes, a mix of settings, and then what I think are the best two VNs at the end.

From there on just read things that interest you.

>>7946194
Yeah, charts full of Bocu no Pico or the like.

>>7946154
Maybe these:
http://animu-mango.wikia.com/wiki/VN_Recommendations

>>7938114
Dude, the anime ending was something totally new.

Kukuri kills everyone in the VN.

>>7946123
What a silly game.

>>7946257
>Yeah, charts full of Bocu no Pico or the like.

They put that shotahomo shit even into their VN spoonfeeding threads now?

>>7946257
>>7946221
excellent, thanks guys

>>7946304
It happens.
Maybe they just see "recommend me" and the troll-instincts take over instantly. It could have been an isolated case, I'm not a regular there.

>>7946326
>>7946304
http://animu-mango.wikia.com/wiki/Troll_Recommendations

Ｏｈ　ｇｏｄ，　ｔｈａｔ　ｉｍｏｕｔｏ．
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm15242155

>>7946123
I really hope they were aiming to make this heroine as unlikable as possible from the beginning.

>>7946804
What makes you say that?

>>7946858
She's come off as a huge bitch to me from the very beginning.
And I usually prefer the "Childhood Promise" archetype to others.

>>7946865
And sure, I'm not that far in, but that's not really a very good start for a heroine, in my mind.

YU-NO

Don't let the haters tell you otherwise. This is a game every eroge connoisseur should at least experience once. It was made back when eroges were still games, instead of just walls of text with ero pictures.

>>7946943
How do you write things like this with a straight face?

>>7946996

>>7946943
He actually has a good point. YU-NO is very interactive.

Finished the common route, and started on Sayoko's route in Sucre.
This looks like it's going to be frustrating to read for the next few scenes of where I stopped for the night.

Probably not the best place to ask, but what the hell.

How compatible are VN's with gamepads?

>>7947910
Use joy2key.

In the rare case that you are not complete retards.
>>7946943
>>7947739
>I want to move my mouse, aim at the mouth and click instead of just click to advance the story
>Sure is interactive gaming

There is playing a game and blowing shit up, and there is pointlessly clicking and choosing where to go at random (good luck divining whether your room or the toilet is the place to advance the route).

We adults grew up a long time ago. If something is supposed to be a game, it should have good gameplay. If something is supposed to be a book, it'd better have an engaging plot. If there are branch points, they'd better not be random bullshit and people should be able to figure it out by logic.
YU-NO is complete shit as a game. People play (or read) it for the story. /captainobvious

Just finished 碇シンジ育成計画. Wasn't really what I was expecting, kind of a watered down version of Princess Maker. Still a fun read nonetheless though.

>>7947953
You as an "adult" seem to have played a lot of Monkey Island, Sam & Max and other point and click adventures that had logic as their selling point.

anyone translating Dies irae?

>>7948485
No, good luck finding anyone willing to tackle Masada's writing

>>7948497
Well how is it anyway? Is it any good?

>>7948455

>>7948514
I rest my case.

>>7948507
If you like rule of cool over everything else, I guess

>>7948507
It's pretty good, I'm liking it a lot.
It's fast paced and almost never dull, the antagonists are awesome and the pov often switch to them, the battles are adrenaline inducing and the writing is overall really good.

Though to write like this the writer must be kind of crazy.

>>7948681
Is that the game where the villains are zombie nazi's? I remember dropping it when it switched to a japanese school at the start.

Was expecting a WW2 game.

>>7948708
Yeah it's the nazis in Japan game

Does any of you actually buy your eroge? I ask because I live in Australia and am wary of importing eroges, because as far as I understand, if caught, it can result in jail, and entry in the sex offender list.

>>7948720

Check this:
>>7943541

>>7948720
unless you're buying loli games or something why would they put you in jail for porn?
I buy only my top favorites anyway, at least as long as I don't have expendable income

>>7948732
But even the normal highschool heroines looks like a child to your average normalfag.

>>7948713
>>7948708
>>7948705
So how is it related to KKK? KKK seems to be completely different.

>>7948739
world creation shenaningans. look up the KKK edit history page on vndb, someone posted a log detailing how they're related

>alot of the characters of KKK are reincarnated versions of Dies Irae characters
Without having played KKK, I'm guessing
Red hair samurai = Shirou
Ponytail girly man = Ren
Whitehair topknot = Willhelm
Short haired ahoge ninja = Kasumi? (That was her name right? Ren's osananajimi?)
Messy hair chick samurai = Shirou's nerd waifu

turns out I downloaded yet another incomplete version of acta es fabula so I have to redownload 3 gigs
fuck light and their continuity cockblock, I just want my buddhist/taoist/shinto powerlevels

>>7948927
I checked out the CGs and saw a Rote Spinne reincarnation.

Fucking. Rote. Spinne.

>>7948940
Dies irae is really fun.
KKK made me pick it up from my backlog.

>>7948705
>Though to write like this the writer must be kind of crazy.

Heh, I started reading Dies Irae to prepare myself for KKK (seems like a lot of you guys are doing the same) and this is exactly the impression I'm getting from his style. He's like a crazy talented/autistic wordsmith. He should write a normal slice of life VN, could be the best/worst thing ever.

>>7948953
WHY

>>7948967
Definitely, it's like FSN on drugs except not. Probably the chuuniest chuuni I've played, which is good thing. Been playing too much "real deal" lately.

Well I definitely like Dies more than FSN so far.
Currently around the end of Kei's route and it was awesome.
It's a game that doesn't let the tension go once it gets going.
And it's been a while since I did something really chuuni, and at least this game does it with a lot of style.

>>7948983
DI is the kind of rip off that it's better than the original.

>>7948983
Yeah, I actually like FSN and all, but I think it suffers from an identity crisis. It doesn't know if it wants to be chuuni or serious. With DI, you got full fucking autysmal weed snuffling crazy, which is much more enjoyable.

Only complain is that when you've got a huge amazing OST like DI, you should try to use the other tracks as well instead of sticking to the same single track all the time.

>>7948996
>Only complain is that when you've got a huge amazing OST like DI, you should try to use the other tracks as well instead of sticking to the same single track all the time.

That's because a lot of these great tracks were added for the later version of Dies only, notice how a lot of these tracks only play in Kei and Rea's routes

>>7948996
Do do don don
do do don do do do do don

DOO DOO DOO DOO DOOO

>>7948990
Maybe it's because I'm not very far into it but they don't seem to have much in common. DI is what happens when a talented writer uses his gift to run totally amok. It's extremely fun in a way that only a completely retarded, insane, and very fast-paced story can be.

Za Warudo Ren could SO beat Chains Shirou.

I loved Evolimit and Ayakashibito and I'm thinking of picking up Dies irae for more shounenlike battlan eroge, since all you guys seem to be playing it now.

How's the protagonist? I'm always particularily picky with protagonists. Is his power anything interesting?

>>7949025
He has a moe moe Blois de Justice.

>>7949025
Za warudo and huge guillotine arm.

He's the typical tsundere loner who turns hotblooded when shit gets real and his gimmick is that he has a complex about his girly face.

>>7949033
Kei's riding ero scene was glorious.
>Kei: Such a beautiful face... Are you really a guy?
>Ren: You think I'm female huh? Then what's this!?
>starts thrusting like a beast

>>7949044
Kawashima Rino is glorious.

>>7949049
>Kawashima Rino
instant favorite character picked

>>7949052
So cool.

>>7949052
Get out, myself.

>>7949025
Since Ren is pure Shounen material, I think it's fair to liken him to Aisaku from Schatten. Dies Irae is significantly darker themed, with it european black magic and shit, but the core is the same.

Ren is an out-spoken, self righteous badass whose consistency of character is more flexible outside of battles to allow for romance, sympathy, reflection, etc to give him pretend depth and complexity that he doesn't really have. In battles, he gets fired up and super self righteous, and awesome moments come out of it.

Ren however, isn't necessarily the star of the show, just the protagonist of the play. Almost every other character who isn't Ren (save Spinne) is a fucking beast, especially the upper tiers of the games organization (Eleonora, Makina, Mephisto, etc) and how the course of battles reflects their own disposition complements Ren's single-mindedness remarkably well.

I can't see Ren as being a good character taken outside of the context of the circumstances he's in in game. He like every other character is a utility for awesome moments and plot.

I didn't find Aisaku and Ren similar at all.

Sort of want a Fuyuki route now.

>>7949369
Really now? I didn't think that statement was too far out of the ball park when I made it, but...

In terms of their functions as a character, both Aisaku and Ren have a creed that they use to justify their priority over their enemy. For Aisaku, that's largely for the sake of justice and to protect his friends, for Ren, that's largely to restore his everyday life and to protect those associated with it. When this creed is challenged by enemies and obstacles, both Aisaku and Ren get fired up and self righteous, justifying their actions, or rather skipping the justification on the basis of this self righteousness. For the larger part, this creed only wavers when it comes to personal things, for Aisaku, people dying, clone Kizaia's death, and complications with the heroines and his friends, for Ren, this is a lot less prominent, but his interactions with the heroines also complicate things.

Of course, I think a lot of these points apply to Heroes of Shounen stuff. I consider Ren and Aisaku both to be pretty generic in that regard.

>>7947819
Well, that betrayed my expectations.

Considering lots of people seem to be praising Dies Irae, are the other Light games any good?
Like Paradise Lost, Soranica Ele looks interesting too.

>>7949724
>Soranica ele
Waste of 7gbs, download the OST if you like it and don't ever get close to the game.
Gunjou no sora wo koete is good and I liked tapestry.

>>7949724
Paradise Lost is pretty good, my main problem was the lack of voice, only a few characters are voiced, and with Masada's crazy writing voice really help.
But if you like DI you should like it.

Soranica Ele is wasted potential the game, I wouldn't recommend it at all.
It starts pretty well with some good writing and a few neat trick like the second mysterious pov.
But then nothing intersting happens, it tries to do a world end setting but the drama is really really bad and it ends up just being dull and really boring.
I guess the brown broken loli's route wasn't too bad, though still mediocre.
And the final route is just pure shit with Code Geass level twists

I wouldn't recommend this game to anyone, if you want a world end setting go read Hello, World or something.

Most Light games that aren't by Masada are pretty bad except for Gunjou no Sora wo Koete, this game is a masterpiece.

>>7949733
Paradise Lost and Kajiri Kamui Kagura both take place in the same universe as Dies Irae. Probably not a lot of point to playing Paradise Lost AFTER Dies Irae, though.

>>7949774
BTW, it goes Paradise Lost -> Dies Irae -> Kajiri Kamui Kagura, in case that wasn't clear. Kajiri just came out but it's supposedly really good.

Autosage~

the new thread: >>7949927

New thread >>7949927