/jp/ - Otaku Culture

I'm playing superior Corean VNs.

For people who want to play a better game than japshit but don't want to financially support militant feminists, here you go:
http://ahatestory.com/120126/

>>9423321
nida pls go.
no juice.

Alright, it's the usual Tinkerbell garbled text problem with ぜったいマジイキ！？. I used some program to change the display language in Vista but now I'm on Windows 7. Does anyone know an easy solution for this shit?

Just finished all that's translated in Majikoi... And now patiently waiting for translations for it and S.
Umeko was delicious.

I don't know what to play meanwhile.

>>9423339
Yes but we have our own discussions here as well, more untranslated stuff as well.

>>9423321

>Militant feminist
>has to pay a starving Malaysian both to draw her feminism game

星継駅擾乱譚まだ?

>>9423376
I think you might be out of luck here, raiL-soft is extremely fuckign unpopular in Japan.

2500円 isn't a bad price considering the amount of content, you might as well buy it

>>9423400
Anything that's DL版-only and not Lilith takes a while to get uploaded.

>>9423400
I don't think I'll get very far at Gyutto or DLsite without a credit card.

I love huge casts, Sinclient is looking to be pretty interesting

>>>/vg/

New Overdrive

>/jp/

>>9423438
Before I pull out my wallet. Is there going to be a package edition later down the line? I'd be more interested in waiting for that.

>>9423562
https://twitter.com/mareni14/status/226167188594249728

In other words, doesn't look like that at the moment

>>9423536
How was Hotchkiss anyway? I don't want another kick in the balls like 初恋1/1.

Currently playing: Wasuremono to Otoshimono
Looking forward to: Lost Christmas, Aerial, Biman ep. 2.

Skeptically optimistic for Lost Christmas. I hated the anime, but the most recent trial was really not bad. That being said though, with Daath nonsense everywhere and a character cast mostly composed of characters from the anime (granted, related parties to the Lost Christmas incident) I'm worried about the contents being too tied down to the source material for the author to get really creative and play off of setting. Also, Yet to Come's silhouette resembles Inori far more than I'd like to see, as well as Scrooge to Shuu.

Otherwise, four day countdown til Aerial is out, which I'm less skeptical about, but still kind of wary on. Inoue is a fantastic writer, the setting is fantastically detailed, and the military info-dumps are, to me at least, genuinely interesting. However, in the trial he had this issue with constant repetition of text in short bursts, excessive use of exclamation marks, and how unscientific the mech was are issues I hope don't carry over to the full version. No less it'll undoubtedly be a great game, and is easily my most anticipated title this year.

>>9423649
>and how unscientific the mech was
I don't mind superscience and overtechnology as long as it has a set of rules and is properly expanded on, which I'm quite sure won't be a problem for Inoue.

Finished the trial of Azurite, surprisingly long but damn was it good.
September is shaping to be a great month, can't wait.
In the meantime I'm going to read Arcology.

>>9423649
There is a new Lost Christmas trial? Definitely looking forward to it as the anime was fantastic so anything that adds up to the lore is very welcome.

The Aerial trial was great so looking forward that as well. Nagi route here I come.

>>9423740
Would you mind expanding on its merits?

>>9423740
As dar as september goes there's azurite, Zero infinity and sinclient.
Anything else? The current lineup is pretty good.

>>9423754
Someone uploaded it if you're interested:
http://www.mediafire.com/?vc8lhckdscfsgnt
http://www.mediafire.com/?c68p00b9rz9c8y2

Mirrors were a bit slow.

>>9423754
>route
Didn't they say it was linear? I haven't been keeping up, though, so they may have said something else in the meantime.

>>9423755
It just has an interesting setting and a story that has some heavy potential.
The characters in general and their interactions were good too.
It looks lot be a pretty solid sci-fi eroge, I may have praised it too much so you misunderstood me but I was just pleasantly surprised.

Also Airi was awesome, the trial needed more of her.
The protagonist mother (in law) who act like his little sister and is a yakuza boss.
She has a sex scene at the beginning of the trial which is nice at least

>>9423764
Well, that trial was amazing:

-Carol is hot as fuck
-Few minutes in, OTP scene
-Dat Sawano soundtrack
-Carol repeating Mana/Inori speech about the crown of sins
-Dat action/void sword


Very short as well but the full thing is coming out in only a few days anyway.

>>9423987

Lost Christmas music is by Sawano? Or is it just the trial or will be the full thing also by him?

>>9423531
they finally got rid of the monkey ears?

>>9424028
Guilty Crown and Lost Christmas share the same OST. It can be heard even in the official site.

http://www.nitroplus.co.jp/game/lost_x/

How good is White Album 2 compared to Parfait and NG. In what ways is it better or different from Maruto's previous works.

I'm asking this in all sincerity. I've been hesitating to play it since love triangles aren't really my favorite plot device, but I've been a fan of the quality drama and excellent character designs in his other stuff.

>>9424654
WA2 is longer, larger and perhaps in some ways more "complete" than the other two games. It's also somewhat different in genre, being more of an utsuge than Parfait or Damekoi.

For me personally, WA2 is easily my least favorite of the these three games (I haven't played other Maruto games), mostly because the protagonist is extremely hetare. I don't have problems understanding or acceptiong that WA2 is the highest rated out of his games, but I'd say it's probably more polarizing at least.

>>9424654
damekoi>WA2>Parfait
In my opinion.

>>9424689
>mostly because the protagonist is extremely hetare
Depends on the route, really. He has balls of steel in Kazusa's true route for example.

>>9424654
WA 2 is my favorite of his but I fully realize it's not for everyone.
Better try it and find out, at least it's definitely not the same genre as Parfait/Damekoi

What are some eroge experiences that left you feeling like you have played a complete game, seen the whole story to the end, found significance in playing, or felt like you had really accomplished something in the outcome of the plot?

I was thinking about this earlier today. Such as Muramasa, which thoroughly explores it's themes and lives out every character's legacy. Similarly, Muv Luv Alt, which albeit not being as awesome, thoroughly narrated the process of the events and themes, and each character's story and significance in the plot. Or YU-NO which explored its scenario to the very end, while being eventful and entertaining as you stepped closer to tying the loose ends with every route. Or Baldr Sky, where, I at least, after Sora's route had the feeling that I had triumphed over an indomitable foe that had been foreshadowed across the entire game. Or Oretsuba where after living each of the lives of the personalities, the excellent fusion of all of them in a route that demonstrated the outcome of every relevant party. Other ones that come to mind off the top of my head are Dies Irae, Parfait, Subahibi, RuiTomo, Symphonic Rain, Ever17, Cross Channel, Textbook of Evil, Himawari, and Ayakashibito

>>9424834
Probably Asairo, since it's basically linear, this menu screen at the end was simply incredibly beautiful and the symbol of all the developments in the game with the four titles put together.
The epilogue wasn't particularly on par with the rest of the game, but damn I cried when I got to the last scene.
Spoiled because light spoilers, even if they are not significant without reading the game.

>>9424834
Pretty much the same as you, I'd add Asairo, WA 2(Kazusa true), JQV, Forest, Clannad and Hello, World.

And I guess that mean Textbook of Evil is good, it's the only title I mentioned I still have to read.

Bunny Black 2 seems to have erased the first game from the internet. Time to persevere with that 10kb/s torrent.

>>9424834
you already mentioned the ones I would have ┐(；￣ー￣)┌
I guess the letter at the end of Itsusora was a pretty weird epilogue, but I liked it a lot
Also the various personal stories coming together at the end of KKK

>>9424920
If you can into depositfiles with decent speeds
http://www.anime-sharing.com/forum/hentai-games-38/japanese-%5B100730%5D%5B%E3%82%BD%E3%83%95%E3%83%
88%E3%83%8F%E3%82%A6%E3%82%B9%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A3%E3%83%A9%5Dbunnyblack-72276/

I hate anime-sharing links.

>>9424920
Nevermind the previous one
http://www.anime-sharing.com/forum/hentai-games-38/japanese-%5B100730%5D%5B%E3%82%BD%E3%83%95%E3%83%
88%E3%83%8F%E3%82%A6%E3%82%B9%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A3%E3%83%A9%5Dbunnyblack-53896/

This has proper mirrors.

>>9424902
>>9424834
I agree with these lists. I'd accent Parfait, which I just beat recently, thus the experience is incredibly vivid. After Rikako's route, I felt that I, through Hitoshi's perspective had genuinely changed the life of a character that I genuinely cared about. Showing the ending before the process, that feeling of satisfaction after the final credits rolled is something I probably won't forget anytime soon.

>>9424920
Funny, I was just downloading the first one from nyaa last night. It was so slow that I finished 5 other large downloads while waiting.

>>9424946
>>9424958
Oh, it's Bunnyblack, not Bunny Black. Goddamn.
Thanks a lot.

>>9424866
>but damn I cried when I got to the last scene.
I cried three times with eroge. In Asairo for the sweetest story with the sweetest ending I've ever read.
In Muramasa both for the "holy shit I managed to finish this" and for one of the smuggest ending in any 2d-related material. Accepting the "curse" as your/the way of life? God damn it, that was cool.
And well in MLA, beacuse it was my first serious untranslated VN and we all know what happens there.

>>9425015
>I cried three times with eroge
I wonder, does starting to cry by Araragi's last scene in chapter 2 and finish right at the end of said chapter counts as one sole time? Because the whole end was heart destroying.

currently playing:

かのつく２

>>9424654
White Album 2 is a culmination of the years Maruto has spent as a writer and, in many ways, his writing style itself.

Those who've played his works know that all of his games (well I can't speak for Folklore Jam because I haven't read it, but apart from that) have this one route that's extremely characteristic of him. And I like to think of WA2 as a 4mb extended version of it, the difference being that it follows a linear narrative this time. It's the one game in his portfolio that has his stamp all over it - every damn inch of the way - and just for that reason alone I consider it the best of his works.

Which visual novel do you like the most, art and presentation wise ? I love Quartett.

Been revisiting Saihate no Ima since I'm a bit in a Romeo mood these days.
To be honest I don't know what to think of it even to this day
The writing is amazing most of the time but there are times where Romeo goes too far and it's night incomprehensible, especially during some scenes of Sayaka and Fueko's "routes".
And the last arc...

So for the people who read it, what did you think of Saihate?

>>9424654
On a personal level of enjoyment I'd definitely rate DameKoi higher than WA2. But I can agree that WA2 is definitely a signature of Maruto's work.
I haven't played Parfait yet. Maybe some other time.

>>9425027
In fact, I probably had tears rolling down any time the donkan was being a cool guy... those flashbacks. And I surely cried at the "other hand" and the picture zooming out.
Yeah, I am always at least a bit moved by these games, so I had to cut it down to the very best moments I remember.

>>9424834
>found significance in playing
Mostly because of how relatable to my own life it was and the situation I was in when I read it, but Owarinaki Natsu, Towa Naru Shirabe probably fits that bill most for me.

>>9425194
That was my favourite moment in the entire game. I don't know why really, the game is littered with stuff that is more significant and I even know in my head that they are more moving.

But that moment broke me. It was right then that I fell in love with Asairo.

>>9425110
Forgot to add, I'd probably rank the games of his that I've played in this order:

WA2 > Damekoi > Parfait > Chocolat >>>>>> Aozora.

I just don't understand Aozora. There's something very, very off about it.

>>9425221
Yeah, the flashback in chapter 2 was definitely the defining part of Asairo for me too.
Such a beautiful game, actually the only eroge I would use the adjective "beautiful".

>>9425221
It was a combination of factors: the separate CGs for every pair of hands, the song coordination, the magnificently posed rhetorical question...
And, fuck, I have watery eyes right now. I'll go replay that and cry me to sleep.

>>9424834
G-senjou, Yu-no and Muramasa for me. MLA, not so much.

Here I was worrying about Souemon not showing up...

It's nice to see some real discussion about past eroge experiences here. After reading down the list, I've picked up a few titles to play, Asairo and JQV being first after Aerial

>>9425375
This fucking cat.

>>9425412
You should be able to finish either of them before aerial though.

Nice to see so much love for Asairo

>>9425717
Hiyo's face in tat pic always looked like she was aroused/just had an orgasm.

>>9425064
I hope you know there is this one arbitary choice that decides whether your girlfriend becomes your lover, slave or sex friend and affects the ending.
QUALITY NUKIGE WRITING

Btw anyone have opinions on Kiss' other games? So far I've enjoyed both Kanotsuku 2 and CM3D, though the latter, while nicely done in 3D, didn't really offer any "emotional attachment" via storytelling like Kanotsuku 2.

>>9424834
Two of my most memorable eroge, Swan Song and SubaHibi, especially the former.
It's the only eroge that I couldn't put down after starting it and ended up reading it in one sitting (barring eating and naps). The atmosphere, the characters, the story without boring chicken sandvich moments.

It was all plot, no bullshit and the ending was very satisfying (if you pretend only normal end ever existed). Soundtrack was also one of the best I've heard and it's "more realistic" art style was a refreshing takeoff from the norm.

Muv-Luv trilogy and Baldr Sky would also fit the "feeling of accomplishment" criteria, but that's more because they both were so damn long. I kinda also hated both of their endings, fuck Original Hive Arc and Sora route to hell.

>>9424834
Clannad, Air, Subahibi, Higurashi, Sharin no Kuni.

>>9425991
Swan Song has some pretty impressive writing, shame about the translation

>>9426024
Did they fuck it up that bad?

>>9426041
They did

Translation fucking when?

>>9426059
具体的な事例？

>>9426064
Likely never unless you find someone who can stomach to translate all that fucking scat.

I never finished the damn thing because someone didn't care to use spoilers (huge spoiler: virtual reality in their post. And it wasn't that great anyways from what I read.

I got to the part in Nemu's route where they're able to escape the white rooms, then attack Nemu's followers and Keisuke gets himself captured. Is it worth picking up again?

>>9426085
Sure, for that scene and the concrete scene.

That scene is one o f my favorites from it.

Also what happened in Nemu's 3rd door? The one where Keisuke plays with her tounge. What did he inject? I can't read runes so I not too sure of what was going on there.

>>9426154
Didn't pay attention to such a small detail (I mostly skipped the H scenes), but presumably something that made her tongue VERY sensitive to stimulation.

>concrete scene
This sounds horrifying.

>>9426085
I have a horrible memory and can't seem to remember how far into Nemu's route the part you mentioned was, but I would say keep going, the game was its best in the end parts in my opinion. Or if you just played for the H-scenes which I know a lot of people did, there are still some good ones left to get.

>>9426200
It's not guro, don't worry.

Still, do you know where I can find a synopsis of the story? It seems like a decent one, but there are literally no discussions on it anywhere.

>>9426233
The scene he mentions is about the halfway point of the game, IIRC.

>>9426454
So basically once they get out, it's just about halfway through Nemu's route?

>>9426454
>>9426468
Oh, if that's the case, then you definitely want to finish it. Last half of Nemu's route is where pretty much the whole story is.

>>9426482
Okay, I'll do that once I finish Meikyuu.
Thanks a bunch.

By the way, I finished Nemu's route, and never saw this scene. How do I get to see it?

Just finished Amane after in Meikyuu, and I don't actually recall where the heck this CG from her ED is supposed to be from. Possibly the grand route?

Also, how much more obvious do they want to make it regarding Kazuki being alive?

>>9426561
What the fuck is wrong with her lips?

>>9425884
Custom Raid 4 was alright. It had more of a story to it, and it had some gameplay as well.

>>9426606
I think it's not from anywhere, just promo art.
Also don't worry about that, it isn't even trying to hide it.

>>9426561
It was a bad end that I think you could get on Kanae's route but I forget the exact choices. Of course you could just download a 100% save.

>>9426606
I have to ask, did you read the bad ends in Kajitsu?

>>9426614
> it isn't even trying to hide it.
Seriously. Different person here, but the second I start ground route it's like
>"彼女"
Well I wonder who that is.

>>9426623
Why did it even take you that long? They've been throwing it in our faces since Kajitsu.

>>9426618
Oh so it's in Kanae's route.

I don't think I ever finished it, but I'll go back and check.

I don't like DLing 100% complete saves, I like playing through the games themselves.

>>9426628
Sorry, I don't mean that's where I first realized it.
The second the bus crashed, I pretty much I decided she was alive unless the game actually showed her dying

Who is the last protagonist you felt really bad for in a SOL eroge that wasn't hetare?

>>9426635
Well okay, but I was talking about the "彼女" thing. Kajitsu had that too.

>>9426623
Uh, I don't know why you guys think they're trying to be "subtle" about it just because they didn't explicitly state it in words. The end of the Amane after is a flat out visual statement confirming the already pretty clear theories from the first game, and the promo at the end of grand route features the voice actor in question.

And just thematically, it really wouldn't make sense any other way.

>>9426619
I did, though the letter in Kajitsu was a strong statement, it didn't really confirm the whole thing beyond any doubt, just left it all up in the air about what happened.

The ED this time though pretty much shoves it all in our faces.

>>9426644
>and the promo at the end of grand route features the voice actor in question.
Wait, so she doesn't appear even during the Grand Route?
That's just as bad as Dominion's Miko in Baldr Sky.

>>9426561
Fucking Christ, I had already forgotten how horrifying the scenes in euphoria actually were. I mean, I can stand most fantasy guro like Dark Blue but that looks inhumanely disturbing even without any blood.

>>9426791

Given all these non-subtle showings, I think she will also come in the grand route. Otherwise it would be pretty poor showing after setting us up with this expectation. No doubt they will try to spin on her formal appearance in Rakuen, and so far the characters they put in have been useful.

>>9426791
>That's just as bad as Dominion's Miko in Baldr Sky.
I don't think it was really bad per se. I mean sure it was braindead obvious, but Baldr Sky in general had a lot of that easy-to-guess foreshadowing that still made you look forward to when the reveal would finally come in-game. I think it's part of what made the pacing so good.

>>9426085
You've got a long way to go. . .without spoiling the plot, all I can say is you're not even halfway through the real plot yet.

>>9428266
>I think it's part of what made the pacing so good.
you mean spoonfeeding made it appeal to retards who don't like complex things and guesswork, i.e umineko

Finally have some free time. Been trying to finish DC3 before IroHika came out at the end of this month, only to find out that it's delayed.

I still have AsaIro on my backlog.

Anyone here read Chinese VN translations? They seem to have a better catalog of translations than English. How are they?

>>9423531
Please don't tell me this is band or music themed again, Overdrive really needs to be more creative with their shit.

>>9428403
>Guitar
Nope, doesn't revolve around music at all.

>>9428410
Maybe she uses that guitar to fight demons, you never know.

I'm going through Majikoi, so far I've completed Momoyo's route and, I have to admit, shit was pretty cash, the story was fine, the humor wasn't bad for Japanese comedic standards and the characters were all interesting and endearing. My only gripe was the lack of boning untill the afterstory.

On a sidenote, I've heard you can bone pretty much everything that moves on Majikoi, so, are the side-routes translated in the last patch? If so, how could I access them?

>>9428301
You know it!

>What are you playing?
Touhou, Tribes, Binding of Isaac

>What are you looking forward to?
Monster Girl Quest P3, Torchlight 2, Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition

>>9428422

Really? I think Momo's route is the weakest. The most irritating thing was the huge battle which dragged on forever until the end thus preventing any interaction between her and Yamato. Bit too chuunii for my taste. Anyway, Chris is the best Majikoi anyway.

>>9428436

Now the only thing you need to know is what a VN is.

>>9428456
>Anyway, Chris is the best Majikoi anyway.
That's what I'm going for next, but I've seen complaints of her being a cunt. We'll see soon enough.

Regarding Momo, I guess I've got something for strong, independent samurais who don't need no weapons. Also, I found her cute.

>>9428386
>let's pass one day pleasant together

Engrish never fails to amuse.

>>9428401
From what I've heard, Chinese VN translations have a reputation for shitty quality, even more so than English ones. I read part of the Chinese TL of Flyable Heart just for practice, but I won't comment on the quality of its TL since my Chinese is garbage.

Started with Bunnyblack and it's kicking my ass. Is this supposed to be so fucking hard?

>>9428504
The prevailing attitude is "close enough is good enough". It's a cultural thing. You'd know if you've ever been to China.

>>9428514
Go away, Cudder. We're talking about Chinese, not machine translations.

Best nee-san

>>9428515
I wish they would stop doing this in all-ages VNs. It's like they're rubbing the fact that you can't fuck them in your face.

>>9428515

That's why I hate most all-age games. If you chose to keep the ero out than stop cockteasing me with your ecchi shit.

>>9428515
Tell me again why in the hell they decided to make the vn all-ages.

>>9428551
To troll nerds like you.

coughdc3pccough

>>9428551

To cash double in a few months when they decide to release the 18+ version. We're talking about Circus, after all.

What is more interesting is that they still have a vibrant market after three games and more spinoffs and addons than you can count.

obviously STILL N-O-T doing much of it since the absolute best you(naruto haters) can do is STILL be my parrot biatch(Naruto hater)and respond everything I say, with pasta so again, your(naruto haters) pathetic attempt at a point here was supposed to be……????!!!!
Oh, by the way, I noticed one of your posts have been deleted.
ROTFLMEAO!!!!
Don’t you(Naruto h8ters and ALL the other brokeback biatches) get it by now, biatches, don’t you understand????!!!! AGAINST ME, YOU(NARUTO HATERS AND ALL THE OTHER BROKEBACK BIATCHES) CAN’T, AND WON’T WIN!!!!
Faggots what’s the matter????!!!! Tired of getting hit when the ABSOLUTE BEST you can come up with is Pasta????!!!!
RUN, FORREST, RUN!!!!
ROTFLMEAO!!!!
The fact remains you(Naruto) had NOTHING, then and you(Naruto)STILL have NOTHING now, so your(Naruto)pathetic attempt at a point was supposed to be….????!!!!
This ass clown sits here calling me dumb while naruto haters STILL here and STILL responding to me.
HILARIOUS!!!
Awww, widdle Naruto haten faggots, just got biatch-slapped AGAIN, so now he’s(naruto) gonna run off and cry like a little biatch.
RUN, FORREST, RUN!!!!
ROTFLMEAO!!!!
Yeah biatches go run and hide in your Idoltrash topics about me (an oxymoron if I EVER heard one!!!!) And I’ll keep ignoring them to prove that while I CAN AND WILL ignore you, you retards CAN’T AND WON’T ignore me. HAVE FUN TALKING TO YOURSELVES!!!! ROTFLMEAO!!!!

>>9428572
Brand fidelity works wonders in Japan, it's part of the reason companies tend to make games with very similar themes or plots. Knowing what to expect is generally a positive thing in their consumer industry.

>>9428594
Are you high nerd?

Is there some site full of vn backgrounds?
If not what's the best course for extracting backgrounds.
FSN, Umineko, S;G are the ones I want the most.

>>9429048
Search for CG packs and hope backgrounds are included. If that fails get extractor programs like Crass
http://tlwiki.org/index.php?title=Tools

Just curious, but what do you need the backgrounds for?

>>9429069
He's probably going to use them in his original visual novel do not steal

>>9429069
ah thanks.
Visiting Japan and I want good reference for pilgrimage spots.

http://vndb.org/v9768
Does anyone play? In the beginning I did not really like it. May you say about this gameplay? :3

>>9429542

Settings seems pretty generic, also >>9425884 doesn't sound cool either. I'll pass on that.

>>9429542
It's okay. The regular sex scenes are not that bad, some surprising fetishes there.

But the real high point are the NTR scenes. Well, not really NTR since it's you who pretty much forces her to whore herself, I don't know what this fetish is called.

Those two prostitution scenes in particular - the way she calls you before, to confirm whether you really want her to do it, you just can tell she doesn't want to do it, her voice shaking and breaking up, her fear and uneasiness almost palpable. And then the way she breaks down crying and apologizing to you after losing her virginity to the old guys - pure gold.

Just make sure you keep both her holes intact if you want those scenes to have the full effect though, otherwise she just convinces the men to fuck her in the ass.

>>9429612
Thank you lol. Gonna download it.

>>9429612
Maso scenes were also pretty awesome.

You will get plenty of good faps once you start breaking her into maso / lewdness / protag induced NTR. Though you will also find some generic rabu rabu if you're not into those as they're all optional.

Btw, does her H scene dialogue also change if you pick the other personality at the start? Wondering since they're both done by the same VA (which is a bit shame, would've liked more options like CMD3).

3 day countdown /jp/, hang in there.

Although it's a 10 day countdown for me since I'm going to wait til my copy arrives

>>9429838
My backlog is already too damn big to be able handle a game of Aerial's dimensions. Haven't even found time to play the trial, though the thing has been sitting on my HDD since it's launch.

>>9429857
I can sympathize. I'm spending the time I wait for the game playing the trial so I can be on time when it arrives. Decided it wouldn't be too shabby to take a break from what I'm playing (Dies Irae, Hanachirasu) for some quality mecha/military action

>>9429838
Can we make a separate thread in advance? I think it deserves that, not to mention that it'll leave more space to discuss other VNs in this thread.

>>9429866
Hanachirasu can easily be ended in a day.
And taking a break from Dies Irae?
Where did you stop?

>>9429881
I'm on the last chapter of Marie's route, which I'm going to finish and then put down until Amantes Amentes comes out on PC next month. Don't want to be burnt out on the content, and could use a short review to take a gander at the extra scenes and CGs. I didn't realize Hanachirasu was that short, so I might just play that before Aerial, haven't started it yet.

>>9429874
I think it's a bit premature for that, but when the torrent shows up, sure. That being said, I'm not sure it's necessary since so many users seemed to have transitioned over to /vg/, At the same time, I don't want to contribute to cluttering the general thread if that'll be unpleasant to the other participants.

I certainly don't mind if you guys talk about Aerial here, but if the entire conversation starts looking like this, then it's time to make a new thread.

>>9429892
I'd rather talk about Aerial, or any untranslated eroge, in /jp/ honestly.
I post in /vg/ but to be honest posting in the thread over there just make me feel like I'm showing off, like talking about advanced physic with some middle school kids.

replaying ruitomo with the voice patch. god Fuurin is godtier.

also just finished grisaia and concerto notes. liked them both especially Rika. the latter reminded me a lot of tasogare no sth which I loved.

>>9429909
I don't think he was implying you should talk about Aerial in /vg/. That would be silly.

>>9425246
for me it's Aozora>Parfait>Chocolat>Damekoi. it depends on whether you actually enjoy vanilla school setting and the island countryside atmosphere.

haven't played WA2 but will do.

This is adorable, I didn't think Korisu could get any cuter.
Also I'm particularly fond of the choice implementation in meguri, choosing the next fragment of text and telling apart who is the one sqaying it by manner of speech is really nice.
The problem I suppose is that there's just too many choices which will probably make skipping a hassle.

this thread is pretty slow as is and without much discussion going on, I don't think people discussing Aerial in depth here will bother anyone

Tried to install Eiyuu Senki and got this error halfway through. Now it doesn't even start up the wizard and instead keeps showing it.

I have changed both format and locale to Japanese and turned the UAC off.

>>9430095
These threads are always like this.

Slower is better.

>>9429892
>since so many users seemed to have transitioned over to /vg/
Do people actually believe this?

>>9430227
True for translated games. Either people on /jp/ treat those players with hostility or their games simply have been discussed to death.

Haven't been to /vg/ myself but I presume that with KataSho's debut their VN General threads are more lively than ours.

Which is fine by me, leaves more space for discussing new releases, and I'm not saying this in any hostile or degrading way.

>>9430263
The threads are mostly for translated games, or "babby's first/second/third/etc. VN" type of games.

/jp/ threads are for untranslated ones. And for nukige.

>>9430263
But VN general threads on /jp/ haven't really ever been for translated games, nor have they gotten any slower since when we first started having them, so I don't believe any significant number of people from these threads went over there.

The art for イモウトノカタチ is so boring considering it's a rather high-profile game. They really could have done a better job with this.

Went through 嘘つきナレットの優しい暗殺者 from the same makers as ヴィザルの日記.
Hard to really talk about it because it didn't left much an impression for me, Vizal was definitely better.
It had some good points though, the writing was solid and it was pretty short, the setting is also interesting, I just wasn't really a fan of the characters.

Next will be another doujin game ソラヘノキセキ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuBYbD7l1rA

On the subject of /vg/ - their VN general threads are the worst. It's pure circlejerking, nothing else. From what I've seen, it's all about waifu wars and 'feels' for HoshiMemo or MajiKoi. Definitely to be avoided. I highly doubt anyone who frequents these threads migrated over to them.

>>9430190
I know, I'm just saying a new release and somewhat more posting isn't automatically enough to warrant a new thread, plenty of newly released games have been discussed here just fine without opening new threads.

Went through the Leyline trial; it was way too short to get a proper impression from the characters. But I sure loved the whimsical magical atmosphere. And whoever voices the principal is amazing as a VA.

>>9430387
When the game comes out though, the thread will be filled with people just discussing that game, so I think it should get it's own thread, just like for when WA2 came out.

>>9430391
Tsubaki is the best Leyline.

>>9430408
It could be shit and get next to no posts.
Don't force it, if there are things worth being discussed about then people will make that thread

Remember a couple years ago when Dive 1 was out and people were waiting for Dive 2? The VN threads on this board were pretty much full of spoilertags until the people who were into Baldr Sky kindly moved to their own threads

Aerial will be more or less the same, in fact most games with robots/powersuits tend to be extremely hyped. I'm not really interested in the game myself and don't really mind either way though

>>9430491
Aerial isn't on the same level as Baldr Sky.

Could someone point me towards a walkthorugh for Majikoi in English? It'd be much aooreciated

www.project-navel.com/tsukiniyorisou
TsuriOtsu site up.

I feel pathetic for getting my hopes up for this game just because they put Jakuson on the staff list for extra monies when it's obviously an attempt to replace Shuffle the cashcow.

>>9429838
Jesus, this month went by way too fast. I haven't even finished any of the June releases yet. Looks like I'm going to be out of the loop in these threads for awhile because there's no way I'm starting something as big as Aerial when I still have so much to finish.

>>9430641
I'm still looking forward to 1/10th of it. It might be a cash cow, but even in that stupid extra episode disc NavelPlus, Jackson delivered quality text. I intend to buy it, and put it down after playing the route he wrote bare minimum. I just hate the setting and the lack of ability to explore psychological and cultural themes like Oretsuba.

>>9423933
Holy fuck, please tell me her breasts are no bigger than B, she looks like a god.

>>9430641
They will never replace Mayumi and Primula for me.

>>9430751
She is pure DFC goddess.
Also has the same VA as Rusalka

Find an amazing greatsword, sell all the other weapons because their shit now, equip the sword only to find out it's cursed.
I'm just not good at this stuff.

>>9431265
source?

>>9431273
It's written in plain kana RIGHT THERE. Apparently from a game called "Item Maintenance". Learn to read, secondary.

>>9431294
A++ would read again.

>>9430342
>'feels' for HoshiMemo or MajiKoi
They hate that word and they change their flavor every thread or three.
Though, they often go full circle.

>>9430342
You're right, I visit both.

>>9431273
Looks like the first Bunny Black.

I remember it being pretty frustrating at times, but it's still a fun game though. I like the second one more though, even if it is a lot easier.

Euphoria is genuinely terrifying me because I see part of myself in the MC.

Euphoria is genuinely terrifying me because I see part of myself in the MC. Ever so often a part of me just wants to revel in cute, innocent girls being completely defiled with no mercy and I just can't help myself.

Time to kill myself I guess.

>>9431640
Can somebody please translate this eroge?
And if you're in the mood, Pigeon Blood...

Currently playing through Ore wa Shoujo Mangaka when trudging through the horrible public transport traffic in my country. I don't know why, but I enjoy May-Be Soft's idiotic and nonchalant humor, I have to contain my laughter in public sometimes.

>>9431380
>>9431397

I tried keeping up with them to no avail. In the end it's just tweeting progress through a VN. I'm fine with someone saying general stuff about a VN in a general thread, but you don't have to remind me about every other line you find funny or interesting.

I like the other discussions though about translation nuances and stuff. For example, that guy translating Majikoi S was totally out of sync with all the allusions they were making in the VN, until he found a site detailing them.

In the end I spend more time playing VNs than visiting these threads, but I like /jp/s general pacing and critique more.

>>9431640
I really recommend you play Sayonara wo Oshiete at a point if you haven't already. Based on this statement, you'll probably like it a lot.

>>9431732
Who's the writer for Sayonara wo Oshiete? It would be a shame if he just disappeared from the radar like Craftwork.

>>9431709
Speaking of which, whatever happened to /a/ VN threads? Are they still talking about Muv Luv for the trillionth time?

>>9431823
They don't appear as often now, but yes.
Also, Fate threads are ALWAYS on. Some times up to 4 at the same time. And they actually discuss stuff.
Weird.

>>9431823
And TM, don't you LOVE them?

>>9431832
>>9431833
>TM
All they ever really talk about is FSN, partly because of F/Z. Barely anything about Mahoyo besides Aoko being waifu material.

>>9431853
Can't blame them though. They're being newfags to this shit, they have to burn this part of their lives.
Wish they burned it somewhere else.

Why do translated VNs suck so much?

I'm spending every day burning through as much of my Japanese studies as I can so I don't have to suffer this garbage any longer.

It's like they pick the same exact type of game each time. What is wrong with these fucking translation groups? I am so tired of playing grimdark shit where everyone dies or something horrible happens.

I want to play something funny and happy for once. Why won't these masochists translate one of those? There's tons of them.

>>9431868
No e-peen for translating happy moeges.

>>9431861
Why would you want to talk about mahoyo anyway?

>>9431868
My GF's the President and Flyable Heart are translated moeges, granted the latter was just machine translated garbage.

From what I can hypothesize, VN TL'ers ride on what's hot in the Japanese scene seeing as how there's a lot of fans that share their tastes.

>>9431868
Is it me or do I see you in every one of these threads?
For the last time, you'll have a hard time finding an enjoyable moege.
You might ask, "how hard is it to fuck up a game where nothing happens"? Surprisingly it happens a lot. You'll get drawn-out, dull scenes with terrible writing, bland humor, and the girl you like will probably have the worst route.
At least some of them have good art. Even mediocre moege tend to be worse than good moe anime.
This is coming from someone who fucking loves moe.

Been playing this.

Plot is stupid beyond belief but its vanilla h scenes are adorable.

>>9431868

I'm trying to bring something different...

;_;

>>9431916
I should really play amagami one of these days, I found Haruka adorable.

>>9431916
how goes the progress?

>>9431891

>You'll get drawn-out, dull scenes with terrible writing, bland humor

This sounds good to me. Anything that I can live vicariously through without fear of heartbreak.

>>9431932
> without fear of heartbreak
The little sister in Mashiroiro Symphony's my favorite character, but her route was the most heartbreaking one. While other characters' route were all full of lovey-dovey that makes you want to hug them so tight, all you got in her route was a few hundred lines of love, then the rest was dealing with people disapproving their (incest) relationship.

In her ending both school didn't merge, and she transferred into the all-female school. They finally give you more icha rabu with her in a 45-minutes drama CD released 10 months after the game. ;_;

Reading Togainu no Chi. So far is good, I really like that opressive atmosphere you can feel in the city.

>>9431928

Ok so far, recruited a new translator and current making some headway in the current technical issues of the game and we have a release soon for the PSP version but no release date for internal reason. It should be released at the latest by the end of September...

>>9432300
The full thing?

>>9432305

PSP version. Full thing, as I said, might be on a pessimistic estimate done by 2015-2016. We might get it done quicker with the extra translator.

>>9431819
http://erogamescape.dyndns.org/~ap2/ero/toukei_kaiseki/creater.php?creater=404

Unfortunately he did vanish. The other game he wrote was pretty damn bad as well.

>>9432344
Wow, what a track record. It's sad to see someone who wrote Oshiete and just kept crashing down.

>>9432344
It looks like he has four credited - do you mean Pieta or the two Omae no Natsuyasumi (kind of great title there at least) was bad? Hopefully the latter, because Pieta looks like it might be interesting; I like the unusual package design at least.

>>9432886
Here it is by the way.

>>9432886
Should have clarified, I played Omae no Natsuyasumi on the sole premise that it was written by the same guy, and that was awful. If you play Pieta, please post your impressions when you get done, very interested.

>>9431868
You were saying?

I wasn't having issues with Chaos;Head before, but now my more recent saves crash the game whenever I attempt to load them. Can anyone tell me what this error message says?

>>9433090
I only heard of Pieta for the first time about 20 minutes ago when I visited the Erogamescape link posted here, and if I do play it I'm not going to get to it for a while thanks to a pretty long backlog and a lot of new games (Leyline and Hiragumo-chan should both be getting here this week). It's scored pretty low, too - 65 on EGS vs. Sayonara wo Oshiete's 79; even the OmaNatsu games were scored higher.

I'll still likely give it a try someday. Note that it did get a (low-scored) review of 薄幸姉妹幸せ探しノヴェル。ただそれだけ。 so maybe hardcore imouto lovers might want to check it out.

>>9433192

Error in loading save data.

You can just copy & paste these kinds of things into Google Translate for future reference.

>>9433192
Just "error while loading save data". Did you apply a patch or make any changes to the installation recently?

I usually never post these, but this captcha seemed amusingly appropriate for this reply.

>>9433208
Thanks. I would have but the text wasn't selectable.

>>9433217
Thanks, and no, I didn't make any changes. It seems that all saves made after the part where Takumi is humiliated by the media can't be loaded. I guess I'll just have to stick with my choices and never exit the game until I reach the end.

>>9431819
He's long gone, like a lot of the talented guys from that era. Although Kenzo Nagaoka was the one responsible for the actual planning/proposal, direction, and character design for Sayonara wo Oshiete. Check out For Elise and Carnival if you haven't already.

>>9433799
Those are on my list of games to play. I'll put them further up now that you've mentioned it, thank you.

>>9433247
>Thanks. I would have but the text wasn't selectable.
I believe you can still ctrl+c and it will copy it to the clipboard.

>>9428517
Exactly what I'm saying: It's a pervasive cultural thing.

>>9434549
This is correct. It's been there since Windows 2000 if I remember correctly.

Any anon happen to have the OP and the insert song that was available on Aerial's main website?

>>9431899
Putin is the best girl.

Bunnyblack could really use some kind of story. This game is just one damn long grind so far.

Hello I'm new to JP, I was redirect here..anyway, I just finished MLA, looking for a new VN to blow my mind!

All help appreciated!

>>9437281
Albatross Koukairoku

The trial for すぽコン！ had the same bland ero text as their last game. It's a shame because I like the character design.

>>9437281

Try G-Senjou no Maou or Sharin no Kuni. People who like MLA will love stuff like this.

>>9437295
Has this been translated?

>>9437295
I want to read this so bad. Unfortunately, it's so far beyond my current reading level it'll be a long time before I can play it.

>>9437281
You'd have better luck at the VN thread in /vg/. They mainly talk about translated VNs.

>>9437330
Ah, thank you!

>>9430321
Did you also read 霊刀キザクラ　～桜花の剣と惑竜章～? It apparently shares characters with it.
I've been interested in it since it was featured in one of the Super Eroge Wars videos.

http://kizakura.sakura.ne.jp/index01.htm

>>9437281

Actually, just look at VNDB and filter for language and rating. You won't find any other mecha VN, though. Fate/Stay Night could also be interesting for you.

>>9437344
>You won't find any other mecha VN, though
No sir. No others, especially not in English.

>>9437368

I don't even know that game. Not a fan of mecha stuff anyway.

Anyway, congrats for refuting me.

>>9430119
Please respond.

>>9437623

idk, you could try right click and run as admin maybe, or run in compatibility mode?

though Eiyuu Senki is a fairly new game so i doubt compatibility mode would change anything.

>>9437862
It... actually worked. First I tried running as admin which just gave a "script base not installed properly" error, but changing compability to XP Service Pack 3 did the job.

Thank you so much.

>>9437281
Demonophobia.

If Tomo keeps this the whole VN I'm going to die from a heart attack.

>>9438687
Enjoy dying then. Tomo is the cutest, most feminine character in that game.

>>9439013
Those nyas perfectly introduced in his speech pattern.
I'm surprised Rui is the first girl to do, I'd thought she'd be the main heroine/last to unlock, not Akaneko.

>>9439022
I think it makes decent sense. Rui is really upfront and direct about everything, except for her curse. Out of all of the characters, Akaneko was the most shrouded in mystery, especially about her stance of fixing the curse at the end of Rui's route. For last moments development, it made sense that the most elusive, introverted, difficult character would be left last

Started LovePlus+ and went for Rinko just because this CG remotely reminded me of SubaHibi's Tomosane. I also named myself Takuji and chose to use 僕 for "I".

Finished the "get a girl in 100 days" last evening and fiddled around a bit after that before going to sleep. I'm just wondering, do I miss any content if I play in skip mode, such as birthdays, holidays etc.? I really don't have time nor the resolution to date her in real time and wait hours or days for shit to happen. Also wondering what exactly did LovePlus+ add to the original?

My impressions on it so far are rather mixed. It's a nifty little game with likeable heroines, yet dominated tedious grindfest "gameplay". It's not bad, but I'm wondering why it's so damn popular in Japan. It looks and plays like a poor man's dating sim without any ero, though on a portable device. Is it supposed to be a babby's first dating sim or is there something I'm missing?

Also got my little brother hooked into 999 after failing with Chaos;Head, seeing that something with more gameplay would perhaps interest him more.
He's a lot better at speculation than I was. I mean, he figured out that 9th man was offed for his bracelet, Ace is "Snake's" killer and also exclaimed "maybe there is an ending where everyone dies by his hand" before even getting the sub ending. All that without spoiling or completing the game even once and from the looks of it he's heading for the Axe Ending right now.

>>9426085
Geez, that's a little extreme for me. Maybe I'll leave Euphoria alone.

>>9426618
>100%
Can you link me to a 100% save please?

>>9440868
http://sagaoz.net/savedata/yarawa/euphoria102_kuon.zip

>>9440754
There is a scat filter, you know.

>>9425884
>I hope you know there is this one arbitary choice that decides whether your girlfriend becomes your lover, slave or sex friend

i'm aware of that.

Finished off Artemis Blue. What an experience, if Inoue can pull something off that great again with Aerial I'll be more than happy.

Also Ali is the single greatest miracle to ever be bestown unto the universe.

>>9440902
>
>http://sagaoz.net/savedata/yarawa/euphoria102_kuon.zip


Wow thanks anon. I didn't think anyone would deliver.

I just can't wait for Leyline.

Anyone as excited as I am right now?

>>9425132
http://vndb.org/v1027

>>9441014
Sorry, I only have the attention span to focus on fucking mechs god damn it so fucking cool shit exploding everywhere fuck yeah and a really well detailed sci-fi scenario with plenty of military stuff.

That being said, I played Leyline, and it felt like I was reading a light novel. I think it'll probably be a decent, if not good game, but Aerial is overshadowing it by a lot imo.

That being said, I too think that Aerial is very overhyped, and also realize I'm a participant in that. I just want mechs, there's not enough of them in quality vns.

>>9440954
Now that you've finished Artemis Blue, I think you can sympathize with my concern about Aerial having a proper ending, no? I'm not entirely confident Aerial will be better though. Artemis blue is a great game, but not phenomenal, and that's the basis for his competency in writing Sci-fi. Personally, I like Ashita no Yukinojou series better, even though they aren't really comparable (besides being written by the same guy). Inoue has a rare talent for powerful dialogue, that has really shone in all of his games.

>>9433192
If you are using english patch, there was a problem with saving in chapter 7 or something. The workaround is to read through the whole chapter without saving. Once you start the next chapter you can save and load normally again.

Just finished Meikyuu. I must have read almost a third of the grand route today, goddam.

It honestly felt a bit tedious to me. Not much of the humor which made Kajitsu so fun, and a large part of the grand route (mainly, the military parts) just didn't seem very important to Yuuji's development. Anyway, Rakuen should still be fun. More of the main girls is always good. And hopefully Miliela (sp?) shows up again.

I think next it's time to go through the catalogue of short N+ titles, starting with Kikokugai.

>>9441307
>miria
There better be more of her, or rakuen will be the biggest disappointment of the year for me

>>9441307
>>9441316

Pretty sure the entire poodle dog team (not good with dog names, pardon) is coming back for Yuji, I can't think of a reason not doing so, since they are most familiar with his behaviour and movement. Expect her to fly the chopper around for sortie.

>>9441154
I get where you're coming from, but to be perfectly honest, I was so focused on how well written the characters were and how they developed through some really powerful scenes that I kind of hoped he wouldn't rip away attention from that to focus on resolving on other things. Considering how well he managed to portray humanity's situation and just how incredibly fucked they were while still having some good character interaction in Aerial's trial gives me hope that he will be able to pull it off, but I guess we'll just have to wait and see. It's not long off!

And I'll definitely be giving the Yukinojou series a shot in the future. I was interested in it before cause people seemed to praise it, but now that I've actually experienced an Inoue game I'm really looking forward them. Especially since Serina seems like she could be Haru levels of awesome (even if she isn't the protagonist).

Lost Christmas has finally come, got the confirmation order in my email this morning. If someone could point me to a torrent, I'd appreciate it (not too keen on waiting 5 days for it to get here in order to play it) although it probably requires a serial code and a crack might take a while.

>>9442439
Highly recommend it. The first one is a bit dated and has issues with repeating text, and some very unnecessary and unpleasant H-Scenes, but the dialogue and character design is top notch. Even the obnoxious orange haired loli isn't bad at all. The second one trumps the first on almost every level. Because there's not much of a plot not directly related to the characters and the protagonists, that excellent character design is the whole focal point.

Lost Christmas has finally come, got the confirmation order in my email this morning. If someone could point me to a torrent, I'd appreciate it (not too keen on waiting 5 days for it to get here in order to play it) although it probably requires a serial code and a crack might take a while, I'd appreciate it.

>>9442439
Highly recommend it. The first one is a bit dated and has issues with repeating text, and some very unnecessary and unpleasant H-Scenes, but the dialogue and character design is top notch. Even the obnoxious orange haired loli isn't bad at all. The second one trumps the first on almost every level. Because there's not much of a plot not directly related to the characters and the protagonists, that excellent character design is the whole focal point.

Lost Christmas has finally come, got the confirmation order in my email this morning. If someone could point me to a torrent, I'd appreciate it (not too keen on waiting 5 days for it to get here in order to play it) although it probably requires a serial code and a crack might take a while.

>>9442439
Highly recommend it. The first one is a bit dated and has issues with repeating text, and some very unnecessary and unpleasant H-Scenes, but the dialogue and character design is top notch. Even the obnoxious orange haired loli isn't bad at all. The second one trumps the first on almost every level. Because there's not much of a plot not directly related to the characters and the protagonists, that excellent character design is the whole focal point.

>>9441307
It should be a crime for young girls to be so beautiful.

Mao no kuse ni namaiki da turned out to be a lot of more a nukie than I expected, calling it a ero scene collection probably wouldn't be far of.
Of course, that's not really bad, it's hot and all.

I actually wanted to read something, though, so I started on eustia instead.
Besides the story itself being pretty good so far, it's mostly the setting which makes me like it so far (not reading something in a highschool setting in modern japan is already really refreshing for me, though) aswell as the characters.
Well, the side characters, actually (as usual). Most of my thoughts so far have been about wanting to play with the crazy little prostitutes or how the hate sex between Caim and Sistina would play out.
Well, crazy-mode Eris was pretty nice, but she turned back to being boring when I actually went into her end, bit of a shame.

Finished Bunnyblack. It's an extremely unbalanced grindfest with basically no story whatsoever. Starts out very hard but you become pretty much invincible one third through the game. I did enjoy the humor though, the protag training Shia to become waifu material provided plenty of hilarity.

For those who played the sequel, is it less repetetive?

>>9443410
>Mao no kuse ni namaiki da turned out to be a lot of more a nukie than I expected
Every piece of information about this game promotes the fact that it's a nukige so I'm actually curious how you could manage to expect something else.

>>9443883
Fuck off then.

>>9443883
I did expect a nukige, but it's not like every nukige is exactly the same, especially concerning the amount of ero content.

well finished with JOKER. it was decently enjoyable read in the end, and I liked the writing style even though I can see people hating it easily. it all kinda started mediocre but the later chapters were some good stuff imo. and fuck dammit that fucking bastard joker, has been while since I wanted to see villain burn in hell this badly, that fucking bastard, and the end they gave to that bastard didn't satisfy me at all. moving on, Ikoi and Hinageshi were also nice and delicious heroines oh why god ;_;, I wanted Hinageshi to survive.
Overally I'd say that JOKER had quite bit of flaws, but is still enjoyable read as long as you don't set your expectations too high. oh right it also had some nice tracks in the OST too.

>>9443974
I couldn't continue after the second chapter, the writing was so bad it was actually getting to me.
And all the characters basically act like utter retards all the time, the protagonist himself is basically autism incarnate

>>9444406
>the protagonist himself is basically autism incarnate
I'd luike to see a real autistic MC, though internal monologues would be hell to pull off well.

bump

>Pretty sure the entire poodle dog team (not good with dog names, pardon) is coming back for Yuji
pretty sure it was mentioned back in Grisaia that Danny died some time ago. I do hope Millie gets some more limelight than just Dave's Nukimakuri Channel though, the whole Yabuinu platoon segment felt a lot too short for what it could have offered. However I do appreciate the fact that Fujisaki attempted to detail how exactly Yuuji came to be, as opposed to Sharin's went to a war here, started a business there, became an elite elsewhere, all of it before 20!

On another note, anybody here played Axanael? It doesn't seem to come up half as often as Sumaga, so I was wondering if it's any good.

>>9445172

I thought that Yuuji actually saved him when he was in trouble. Something like a grenade exploded near them and screwed over both of them. Though, it has been a while since I played Kajitsu so I'm not so sure.

As for Axanael, I didn't enjoy it so much. Most of the characters are crap, the story is pretty crap and while the jokes were initially fun, they got old fairly quick. But it is relatively short, and very easy to read.

>>9445172
>>9445360
Danny's dead, yeah. Makina After confirms that. And the grenade thing was a separate incident that had nothing to do with him living or dying.

Anyone else think it was great how the stories Yuuji told Makina turned out to be his own personal experiences? Caprice confirmed both the grenade and the karaoke stories.

>>9444414
I second this. There are a few works with autistic heroines, but I can't recall ever coming across an autistic protagonist.

Can someone help fill in some blanks for me? I'm been playing Meikyuu on and off and fuck me I've forgotten some of the important details already.

The girls' pre trauma/trauma/post trauma:

Yumiko - heir to a company?, doesn't want to do what her grandfather says? so he builds a school for her to confine her? then she completely distrusts others??
Amane - normal-ish girl, the only survivor of a freak accident, feels guilty about surviving
Michiru- grew up expected by others as a genius but turns out to be below average? so they send her away to this school?? develops a split personality because ????
Makina- child genius, ??????, slowly regaining her brain functions over the years
Sachi- normal girl, parents got hit by a car, believes if she always follows other peoples instructions then she won't get hurt anymore

Also,
Didn't they say there was a reason why Makina has a weird speech impediment? I think it was pretty mundane reason but I just want to remember the details.


Gracias

>>9443788

Depends on what you found repetitive. The gameplay remains the sameish I think. The sex scenes same shchara type crap for the past 10 years. But what I really liked about Bunny Black 2 was that there's new characters to throw into the mix and none of the old characters need any more (or have any more) character development so it's just a lot of character interactions and stuff. It's also pretty short so if you enjoyed BB's characters you might as well play the sequel too. No plot either of course though.

>>9447548
I'll try


Yumiko - pretty much, I think, in different order though. Her trust was betrayed by her father aswell as her classmates until she ended cutting some bitch up. Her father build the school to confine her because she's gotten mostly worthless to him in that state.
Amane - also pretty much, though she also feels guilty about "killing" Kazuki
Michiru - also got abused by teachers because she's dumb, no friends besides that one girl who ended up jumping off the roof, developed some sort of heart desease a few years later. Then she got some heart transplant which ended up coming with a whole soul which is her second personality. Or something.
Makina - trauma from her father dying and rotting in front of her for a few days is pretty much the main problem. Her mother being a bitch and a little sister who gets the new heir exists (though we never hear that much about her, other than she's also turning into a snotty little bitch). There's one of the joke scenes where Sachi mentions her skull is weirdly formed so she can't voice everything right, but I'm not sure if you should take that scene as is.
Sachi - don't think there's much more to it.

>>9447571

Wait I dug through my memory banks and remembered some more.

In 2 the party size is 6 members only instead of 9. You can now choose how to do the skills of everyone. There are no more equipment, instead now you got 5 item slots and you put stuff there like a weapon that gives +30% pierce damage, a shield that increases blunt resist by 15% etc etc. Also a lot of little changes here and there. Overall imo it's a definite improvement gameplay wise over the 1st. The difficulty starts off normalish in first few levels then goes into hard (mostly because at a certain stage enemies show up who attack twice or auto kos) and then into pretty damn hard terrority when enemies start tossing aoe attacks everywhere. Then of course it becomes trivial when you have atleast 2 members who you have full ai control over who get do aoe heal/attacks at your command.

>>9447604

oooh thanks I think some stuff is coming back,

on yumiko and makina:

Yumiko- What do you mean her father betrayed her? Also what type of bullying did her classmates do to her to escalate her into cutting a bitch? Also also, was it this game where the grand plan of her father/grandfather was that she was supposed be taught to be exactly like him?
Makina- was this the one where there was some hostage situation and the kidnappers confined her with her father's corpses for days until rescuers arrive? Was it the mother's fault or something for how long it took for help to arrive?

>>9447668
Makina - the time Makina spent with the corpse was one week untill help arrived. and yes her mother was responsible of it due his father being too good for his own good so he was disposed, the family isn't exactly clean. also why Makina speaks the way is mostly due to her hospitalisation being so long, she was speech impaired due to shock and being years in hospital she became "blank" so to fill that "blankness" in her she easily picks up traits of people around her. thats how I remember it being

>>9447668
On Yumiko:
okay, my memory isn't exactly clear either so some parts may be wrong, but this basically:

- Yumiko's parents marry; maternal grandparents are promised financial assistance as part of the marriage deal.
- Yumiko is born. Daddy isn't happy because he wants a male heir, ends up sending Yumiko and her mom back to her grandparents, takes in a bunch of lovers(?)
- Grandma & grandpa blame Yumiko for this situation ("if only you were a boy!"). Mom gets hospitalized due to stress.
- Several years later, Yumiko gets summoned back to dad's household. At first she's distrustful, but later she starts to believe she's really loved by her father. Gets sent to an ojousama school, starts to actually enjoy life etc.
- Yumiko overhears some servant gossip; Michiaki is only putting on a good daddy act to get on Yumiko's good side because his son (Yumiko's half-brother), whom he intended to be the heir, died suddenly. Yumiko is shocked and heartbroken.
- Somewhere around that time, a newspaper reports dad's many, many illicit affairs with women; (I think.) Yumiko starts to be ignored at school. Despite Yumiko's best efforts, her mother learns about the scandal and jumps off the hospital roof.
- As a result of the above stress, Yumiko ends up assaulting a classmate with a carving knife. Nothing serious, but obviously daddy is not happy.
- Yumiko's father sends her to Mihama Gakuen, stating that he won't let her out until she resigns to him; (he still needs her as a heir and his puppet)

Fun fact: the above events are loosely based on the figure of a real-life JR president (forgot which)

>>9447571
>>9447631
Sounds good. I just started playing it and it and the gameplay does feel more refined. Not sure if I like the random encounters though.

Furuiro Meikyuu Rondo and Sangoku Hime 2 are out

>>9437295

>>9445172

Yes, I forgot about Danny since he mentioned it quite a few time. But nothing was mention of the rest of the team, not at least the one who is working at CIA division 1.

>>9445625

I thought it was a very nice touch back in kaijitsu, sneaking in a bit of past of him without breaking into too much, which was reserved for the grand route.

>Meikyuu Rondo out

Oh fun, will we get some delicious death and trauma?

Hello kind people, how about you recommend me some games in which I can spend 40% of the time looking at cute 2d-girls and 60 of the time looking at a menu. Thanks

>inb4 Sen.Ran. / Kami.Alch.Meis.
>inb4 >>/v/

>>9448367
Pretty much anything by Softhouse Chara.
If you really fucking love menus, then go for 忍流 specifically.

Wasn't Grisaia supposed to be released on PSP?
Any news on that?

>>9448367
>>>/vg/

>>9447795
>>9448049

Thanks alot man! This is helping me out alot. One last question on Makina:

Why was she involved at all in the getting rid of her father? I thought she was a good and useful child

>>9449725
Makina was used as bait her father into trap, and Makina herself wasn't that important to family due to them having her sister.

>>9449725
>alot

>>9436464
Dat Itoi Noizi coloring

I have a fucking trauma with kagome kagome since r11, no need to use it too ruitomo, fuck.

Still no releases from this month?

>>9450010
I've been keeping an eye out, nothing has shown up.

In a worst comes to worst comes to worst scenario, Aerial, Lost Christmas, and BiMan 2 will be in the mail en route tomorrow.

Well, that was fast.

http://news.dengeki.com/elem/000/000/511/511421/

Root Double PC port.

>>9450271
More than fast, insane, just two months away.
SEPTEMBER IS BEST MONTH.

So I just finished my first VN, Shuffle.

It was a lot shorter than I thought thought it would be.

Any suggestions for longer, light hearted ones? Maybe with more realistic developments other than meet, cook dinner, sex.

>>9450302
>light hearted
>more realistic developments
That's a pretty difficult request.

>>9450309
Figured.

I chose Shuffle because it seemed unlikely that half that cast would die off in some horrible manner.

>>9450324
You could always try da capo, it has enough sequels to last you a while.

>>9450302
Going to assume you're looking for translated titles here. I'd suggest Hoshizora no Memoria.

shiiiiiit didn't expect yandere in this VN.

Personal pet peeve of mine, but the translated only people always seem to ask for recommendations like they're starving for VN's. I keep suggesting they should learn moon to get what they want, but 9 times out of 10 they go on the defensive or make up some lame excuse not to study it.

>>9450271
>【速報】『ルートダブル』PC移植版が9月28日に発売決定！ なぜこんなにも早いのかイエティに聞いた
YESYESYESYESYESYES only 2 months!
Thank you based Yeti!

>>9450522
It was really underhanded only to scrap some actual xbox sales.
I don't complain since I can't wait.

>>9450290
What else is coming in September? Besides Zero Infinity?
>>9450302
Try Parfait or Dame no Koi. If you're looking for translated material, consider checking out Yume Miru Kusuri or Hoshimemo. For more detailed recommendations among a group of people who are keeping tabs on translations, you'll get a much more sufficient answer by checking out the general thread at >>/vg/10359696

I've heard good things about Root Double so this is excellent news.

Any VN's that center around gambling? Untranslated is fine.

>>9450714
There's also sinclient, which looks really neat (need trial) and azurite.

>>9450727

You mean gambling as a gameplay element (loads of mahjong eroge out there) or as a theme (frankly, nothing comes to mind)?

>>9450727
>>9450969
Well Namima no Kuni no Faust focus on trader stuff, you can consider it gambling in a way

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>>9451038
It probably needs the hack for gaijins, doesn't it?

>>9450969
I'm not too familiar with it, but doesn't Dracu-Riot take place in an island filled with gambling and hookers, and one of the heroines works in a casion?

Someone else might be able to elaborate better on this.

Okay so Aerial and Leyline are out.

Time to vanish for a month so I don't get spoiled.

New Dangan Ronpa is out now. Anyone playing it?

Waiting for my copy to arrive still. Voices and music weren't working for me in the ISO I found.

New thread: >>9452713