Oldschool visual novels

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Oldschool visual novels Anonymous Mon Apr 26 08:55:12 2021 No.34449939 [Reply] [Original]

Let's have comfy thread about good old novels, pc98 aesthetic and so on.

Anonymous Mon Apr 26 08:56:13 2021 No.34449950
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By the way, about pink haired girl from Sakura no Kisetsu. You probably know this game as "datesim with girls from Evangelion, Rayearth, Saint Tail". But there isn't strong public opinion on what character was reference for that pink haired girl.
Some anon claimed that she is a reference to some girl from Pia Carrot, but that's obvious bullshit, because Sakura no Kisetsu was released before Pia Carrot. And girls look barely alike anyway.
Personally, I think artist tried to make some "teen Chibiusa (from Sailor Moon)" image. Both have pink hair, puffy pigtails, red eyes.
What do you think, oldbros?

Anonymous Mon Apr 26 09:43:20 2021 No.34450918
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I don't like shilling which is why I haven't posted it on here before. But it's hard to find people who are into retro VNs, and this seems like an extremely appropriate thread. A couple months ago I released a short VN which was an open love letter to retro VNs. I've been a huge VNfag for 10 years now, and I wanted to make something that expressed my appreciation for the medium. I literally made this VN for other people who are into retro VNs, so if anyone is interested it's called Digitital Seclusion. You can find it for free on Itch.io. Picrelated.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 26 09:58:32 2021 No.34451192 >>34450918 I should probably mention that I reference a bunch of retro VNs (from PC-98 stuff to '99 and very early 00's stuff). Some of the references are as simple as music choices, and others are more overt.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 26 12:02:24 2021 No.34453149 just finished gloria. It was fun but I'm dissapointed there was no Etana netori route

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 26 13:33:31 2021 No.34454507 >>34451192 >PC-98 tried to install some old stuff just out of interest, but since I can't read japanese I could only blindly click on things and guess. Is something like Visual Novel OCR usefull

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 26 19:28:45 2021 No.34458441 >>34449939 >pc98 aesthetic and so on. How many people would have even played a VN that old?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 26 19:31:04 2021 No.34458466 File: 19 KB, 320x400, soldier.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I'll have to do a Princess Maker 2 run again one of these days.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 26 23:29:20 2021 No.34460877 >>34458441 Aside from like the Rance games probably not many. Idk how old YU NO is but before it got a remake it was still relative popular I think.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 26 23:32:23 2021 No.34460908 File: 249 KB, 539x307, Screenshot_20200320-134429.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>34449950 That's a good a guess as any. It fits with the time frame at least.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 26 23:38:45 2021 No.34460966 >>34458441 The original Kimiita is the oldest thing I've played. It was a decent renai game.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 27 02:05:10 2021 No.34462339 File: 76 KB, 640x480, z39.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>34453149 Ah, I remember Gloria. Cute silly thing and great art style.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 27 05:06:17 2021 No.34463791 >>34458441 I played Rance 2 for a bit

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 27 13:54:45 2021 No.34470241 File: 58 KB, 640x400, Melty Marchen 01.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 27 16:30:19 2021 No.34472160 >>34470241 >Melty Marchen Is this any good?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 27 18:30:33 2021 No.34473434 >>34462339 C's Ware had shitty plots and they were aware of it, but the music was usually quite good.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 27 18:31:34 2021 No.34473445 >>34458441 My first game was a PC98 game called Sex 2, back in 1996.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 27 18:39:54 2021 No.34473529 File: 53 KB, 320x200, sakurakisetsu-98_002.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>34449950 Those cheeky motherfuckers, making me smile decades later.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 27 18:46:30 2021 No.34473616 >>34449939 Was this one of the first VNs with ladder scenario structure?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 27 18:52:53 2021 No.34473701 File: 204 KB, 800x600, weddingpeach-2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>34449950 >>34460908 Some japanese guys say that she resembles a character from Wedding Peach, but the artstyle makes it difficult to pin it down.

Anonymous Tue Apr 27 18:53:38 2021 No.34473706
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5nSkShhCaQ&t=4083s

Aside from the horribly balanced combat (difficult to believe form Elf who already had experience with better RPG systems), Metal Eye was a fun story and had a decent BGM.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 27 18:54:20 2021 No.34473715 >>34473616 Nah, pretty sure it was already a thing by the time Tenshi-tachi no Gogo III came out.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 27 22:04:09 2021 No.34475648 >>34473434 what? eve, desire, xenon, divi-dead were all pretty interesting

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 27 23:19:35 2021 No.34476474 >>34475648 Did you miss the pokes they did to some of their earlier work? Comments here and there about lame, predictable stories and burning mansions at the end. But hey, they got better later on, so that is good. A pity they went bankrupt.

Anonymous Wed Apr 28 03:00:55 2021 No.34478512

>>34458441
Yu-No was somewhat hyped (in English) when the fan tl was released. I'd say that it's aged pretty well story wise, though I think its mechanics are pretty unpopular. I'm not sure if the remake helped the popularity of the game. I doubt it though.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 28 03:19:00 2021 No.34478638 >>34478512 It has gotten quite a lot of low votes in VNDB in recent months (if they're legitimate), so the remake can't have helped.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 28 06:40:17 2021 No.34480168 >>34458441 Played remake of Kizuato and Shizuku if those count.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 28 09:49:44 2021 No.34482331 File: 203 KB, 639x299, 1594672898486.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 28 13:25:33 2021 No.34485615 >>34482331 Btw some dude is translating Possessioner for the last couple of years.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 28 17:05:52 2021 No.34488564 File: 14 KB, 823x558, 01033.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I always found it funny how the teacher was able to tell people were smoking, but not the loud sex and moaning.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 29 01:38:32 2021 No.34494735 File: 212 KB, 640x480, 140317.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>34449939 You know what's really funny in retrospective? If you don't romance Asuka-clone, she'll hook up with Kensuke-clone.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 29 11:44:48 2021 No.34501294 >>34473701 I really miss this artstyle.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 29 13:49:33 2021 No.34502856 >>34450918 Looks interesting, I'll try it out anon. Thanks for sharing

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 29 18:53:34 2021 No.34506462 >>34501294 same

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 29 18:58:31 2021 No.34506510 How did they produce art like this with only 16 colors. It's kind of amazing.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 29 19:18:08 2021 No.34506685 >>34506510 Gradients and dithering to the point of wizardry. ELF were nothing short of geniuses when it came to making locales. A pity people dismiss them because they were an eroge company.

Anonymous Fri Apr 30 01:38:39 2021 No.34510901

>>34501294
I agree somewhat. My gripe with artstyles is how even with distinct styles in the references, they still look a little samey season over season.
If anything, it's probably just a difference in hand drawn and something done entirely on a computer. There's a feel to the hand drawn stuff that a computer will never capture no matter how flashy or smooth it looks.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 30 04:00:51 2021 No.34512023 >>34449950 I still remember her doggy style scene, it is the only scene I remember from the game. The very first hentai visual novel with decent length I played because Paradise Heights 2 was short and True Love was more dating sim.

Anonymous Fri Apr 30 06:43:38 2021 No.34513543
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Considering this is a pc 98 visual novel thread anyone got a download for these?
https://vndb.org/v15546
https://vndb.org/v6887

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 30 09:10:00 2021 No.34515493 File: 74 KB, 640x400, Mink no Omocha Hako 042.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>34513543 I searched through my archives and couldn't find either of them. Sorry.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 30 12:38:28 2021 No.34518724 File: 83 KB, 640x400, Doukyuusei2SP1.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] There is something to be said about ELF and all the weird fun shit in their fandisks.

Anonymous Fri Apr 30 19:30:23 2021 No.34523556
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Question, are there any good resources for discovering PC-98/88 games that are worth playing out there? Either in english or japanese, doesn't matter. Not just VNs, but in general.

Anonymous Fri Apr 30 20:01:46 2021 No.34523903

>>34523556
Hard to say. Most of the PC98 review sites are long dead (along with their owners). The biggest PC98 connoiseur in the west, BTAxis, died of a heart attack or something, so no new roms have been released after his death.

There is PC98 image, which is still being maintained, miraculously.
https://www.pc98.org/main.html

There is also game database, which only hosts images, which at least helps you know what kind of game and content said games have.

https://refuge.tokyo/index.html

Wish I could tell you more.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 30 20:36:52 2021 No.34524191 >>34523903 Man, that blows. I know there's so many hidden gems waiting to be found but boy do you gotta dig.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 1 03:18:52 2021 No.34527688 Thoughts on this? https://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?p=500388#post500388 I'm referring to the linked comment and the one immediately following it, as they relate to PC98.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 1 03:28:27 2021 No.34527741 >>34527688 My thought is that Japan has always been backwards technologically and the idea that they were some sort of tech powerhouse even back then was a lie.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 1 03:32:10 2021 No.34527760 >>34485615 It's not the great honestly. Too much porn funnily enough.

Anonymous Sat May 1 03:36:03 2021 No.34527784

>>34527741
>>34527688
Also
>Much of the software out there were simple no-brainer & no-story plotlines where you just rape a girl that pops up on the screen. It was good while it sold, but eventually people became exhausted in spending over 8800 yen for something that had mindless sex after sex with a plotline along the lines of a "bad 1980s American porno."
I find it saddening that the erogame fad from a few years ago basically ended up being this in reverse. There were a few really good games, but it's just descended into boring sex battle RPGs and CG hunts.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 1 11:41:38 2021 No.34532866 >>34527688 He could have highlighted Rance's importance a bit more, but the gist seems accurate.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 1 14:45:39 2021 No.34534957 >>34450918 That looks pretty good, thanks for the hard work anon.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 2 11:45:22 2021 No.34549910 >>34527741 even today they innovate well in hardware and other large-scale technologies like auto manufacturing, ship building, etc they have always been mediocre at best when it comes to software

Anonymous Sun May 2 22:47:18 2021 No.34558495

>>34527688
>Right now, it is not so modest to say that currently, "ero-games are created with an anime market in their view." I mean I'm sure I am not the only one who already sees "Fate/stay night" as an obvious anime marketing material.
Boy do I love this line, even though it's several posts below what you linked.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 3 06:41:18 2021 No.34563888 >>34473706 Why is that "doll" bleeding?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 3 14:36:23 2021 No.34572814 >>34458466 Why'd they stop making these after 5?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 3 14:42:04 2021 No.34572914 >>34572814 Gainax could simply keep milking Evangelion than actually use resources on games. Did you forget they used to sell buckets and razors at the peak of its popularity.

Anonymous Mon May 3 17:47:32 2021 No.34575659

>>34572814
Gainax in general is a dead company.
I think they must have sold off Princess Maker to a Korean company by now considering that there was an awful Princess Maker mobile game at one point, Koreans in particular love Princess Maker for whatever reason.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 3 20:56:30 2021 No.34577938 >>34575659 Are there Korean mobile games? I thought it was the Chinese that made those.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 3 22:13:44 2021 No.34578764 >>34523556 Tell me about. I love the artstyle and glorious spritework common in PC-98/PC-88 games, but there are pretty much no resources out to find games in the first place.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 4 00:44:55 2021 No.34580333 >>34578764 You can try with the now defunct geocities sites in the archive, but precious little remains. A Kizuato comic I really liked from back then, Koge Kaede, is lost forever, as well as a lot more.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 4 01:02:54 2021 No.34580478 File: 70 KB, 330x900, ko049.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>34580333 All that remains. So much art, reviews and fan pages lost forever. It's a goddamn tragedy.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 4 02:59:52 2021 No.34581561 File: 110 KB, 640x480, fef6c98f.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] While it is my favorite in the series, I prefered Doukyuusei's adorned UI. A pity they decided to go with the name of the game for this.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 4 03:05:22 2021 No.34581616 >>34581561 >adorned UI That looks gaudy and ugly as fuck. New UI is unironically better.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 4 03:05:56 2021 No.34581623 >>34581561 Why did games in the 90s tend to have borders around them? Normal western PC games were like that too.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 4 03:07:47 2021 No.34581644 File: 55 KB, 640x480, 04 YUI.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>34581616 You think? I thought it looked nice.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 4 03:17:06 2021 No.34581749 One of the greatest tragedies of PC98 games is that they will never be able to top off the sheer absurdity that was Be-yond for Win95. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXNES4Bm4k8 Why do I love this shit so much.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 4 10:40:40 2021 No.34587816 File: 27 KB, 512x288, Yu No 07.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] best YU-NO

>>	Anonymous Tue May 4 10:55:02 2021 No.34588070 >>34473706 I didn't realize it was made by ELF. Huh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAyCljJe8Xk&ab_channel=9801Games

>>	Anonymous Tue May 4 12:51:14 2021 No.34590201 >>34587816 >no eriko sensei end >no mitsuki san end why

Anonymous Tue May 4 16:25:06 2021 No.34593115
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I am curious, which game was the very first you guys played back then? For me it was Marble Cooking, a puzzle. It had catchy music, but one stage was just plain impossible to complete.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 4 23:22:45 2021 No.34598765 >>34593115 Did you really have a pc 98 "back then"?

Anonymous Wed May 5 02:34:16 2021 No.34600670
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>>34598765
A PC98? No. Being able to install DOSV/J on a western PC and being able to (clumsily) play japanese games? Sure.

I wonder if any of you ever heard of websites called Plasticman or Reycava?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 5 09:15:41 2021 No.34605174 >>34600670 >>34593115 Well if it's playing on a PC, then ''Knights of Xentar'' which was a localized version of one of the Dragon Knight games, I believe.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 5 15:02:08 2021 No.34610490 >>34458441 I played paradise heights 2 and true love around 2002.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 5 15:24:08 2021 No.34610743 File: 27 KB, 640x400, 03933.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>34610490 True Love was really popular here in the west, but it was nearly ignored in Japan, which is no surprise, seeing how it looked outdated even in 1995.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 6 02:08:13 2021 No.34616664 File: 378 KB, 831x1301, 48 Night Story 002.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Thu May 6 02:20:53 2021 No.34616726 >>34616664 Are those Shampoo (2nd row, 1st column) and Nabiki (8th row, 5th column)?

>>	Anonymous Thu May 6 17:32:39 2021 No.34626203 >>34616664 Choose your fighter

>>	Anonymous Fri May 7 02:07:36 2021 No.34632701 Any of you ever played the Dengeki Nurse series? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM9KrUc4kxQ&ab_channel=9801Games Despite the title, the second game was less sexy than the first.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 7 02:14:40 2021 No.34632756 >>34632701 Never heard of it. Is it Ero?

Anonymous Fri May 7 02:18:11 2021 No.34632779
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>>34632756
First game was barely ecchi, with some nipples here and there. The second did away with all of that, and that was the end of the series. Which is strange since Cocktail Soft was well known for their eroges like Pia Carrot and Can Can Bunny at that exact moment in time.

Anonymous Fri May 7 02:27:07 2021 No.34632858
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If there is something I like about older eroge, is that they like adding cameos in the background art.

A place with faceless people as seen in recent eroge feel so sterile to me.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 7 10:49:26 2021 No.34637146 File: 106 KB, 642x402, 1431274567992.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I love how decked out the interface in these games can get.

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