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This thread is for the discussion of untranslated Japanese visual novels.
What are you playing? What are you looking forward to? What have you finished? You know the drill.
>>14557144
Did Asuta write this?
If Takashima did anything more than write a few lines I'm not playing this.
>>14557164
Asta wrote the two main routes. If you don't want any takashima, don't read his routes.
any games to look forward this month?
>>14557848
Tsumamigui 3
If anyone is interested in Chuusotsu and doesn't feel like dealing with the web trial:
https://mega.nz/#!7VEzhRDZ!2ZHjWB3_-w4Pk3R8gJMKlCQrLiwDmUp7GlyZQ4aiiTM
>>14558061
thanks
Finished Hikari's route in Miagete and it was surprisingly normal.
I'll do Saya next but I expected something a bit more interesting from Asuta
>>14557144
Just finished WA2 Introductory Chapter and really liked it. The story is pretty good and the soundtrack is really nice. The problem though is that I took an eternity to finish it. I was reading faster by the end of the game, but it makes me believe that I should put CC away for a while.
btw, is mahoyo hard to read? I was thinking of tackling another short game before I dive into the endless ones.
>>14558061
Thanks
>>14558310
If you need to ask, it probably is. Also, 1.24 MB isn't short.
>>14558321
Wa2 introductory chapter is 0.5MB while closing is almost 7 times longer.
>>14558310
Mahoyo is pretty hard yes. If I were you I'd save it for when you have a much better grasp of the language.
Please don't respond to this because arguing about "eroge language difficulty" is completely pointless.
>>14558340
Mahoyo is 1.24 MB
>>14558061
For those who did the web trial, this trial goes further
>>14558321
>>14558340
I didn't know it was that long. I thought it had less than 15 hours but I was wrong.
Thanks. I'll save it for later.
>>14558321
>Also, 1.24 MB isn't short.
That's like only 2 and half a route from Sakura no Uta.
>>14558396
sakura no unko being way too long doesn't make it short
>>14558397
Please refrain.
Name a better game released in 2015.
You won't.
This thread turns really bad when Habluka and his merry faggots infest it
>>14558266
Oh yeah, except for Saya which I will do obviously, are the other 2 routes worth doing?
>>14558404
Who's that? a Moogydrone?
>>14558415
I've seen people say that they felt more like bonus routes, so only if you find them particularly cute or something.
>>14558404
Not as bas as scatojiji-fanatics.
Do you have hopes for Toki wo Tsumugu Yakusoku considering it's not written by Kizuki?
>>14558433
You are far worse, faggots who can't accept not everyone have the same taste as their and who think having a discussion they don't participate in is spamming
My fav eroge of last year are:
Sakura no Uta
Rance 03
Evenicle
I'm lucky the're all getting sequels.
>>14558503
Alicesoft really had a good year, well needed since they were disappointing recently.
Hopefully Eushully will follow, they have been really shit in the past few years
Amakano has blinking eyes and mouths!
>>14558061
Could you please upload it to something that won't refuse download because of browser ver or "not enough memory to allocate file" (2gb at least, huh)? like dropbox. Or may be create a torrent.
Btw, were did you found it?
>>14558829
I'll upload it
The trial is really really really good, I don't care if people call me a shill or whatever, I just want more people to try it
>>14558829
https://1fichier.com/?xq6qx0onc5
Here is the link
>>14559063
It's worked! Thanks.
>>14558800
So, does she only have oral scenes, or do you just kind of half-rape her?
>>14558402
Overrated piece of shit. Repetitive and bloated expository writing. Seriously, why do they do this?
>>14559281
It's a plan to foil you, don't you see?
In fact everybody hate Sakura no Uta, we just make it seem like we like it to annoy you
>>14559300
Gotcha. According to plan then.
>>14559281
The writing was OK but I just can't give a shit about mimesis and aestheticism, it's spooky as fuck. Besides Scaji praises impressionism because it was made by the masses (not true) and to shock people, then goes and shit on modern art even though modern art has those same characteristics. Really annoying.
does eiyuu senki fully translated? my friend said it is but i cant find the patch and he's being a dick not let me copy the game, or he's lying?
>>14559097
She's not a complete cripple.
She can walk and stand a little bit with the aid of a cane.
>>14559456
I found it hard to care about that stuff as well, it felt like a step backwards from subahibi in that it literally doesn't matter.
>>14559996
Never fucking reply to me again unless you're contributing to the thread.
>>14559998
Don't pretend to be me, idiot.
>>14558402
mfw still on makoto's route
guys japanese turned into random symbols and shit, this has never happened to me before, whut do?
>>14560337
>japanese turned into random symbols and shit
I had this happen with TinkerBell's 喰ヒ人 even though my locale, time and date etc. settings were all changed to Japanese. The only solution was changing the system language, which is possible if you have Ultimate version of Windows or download and use Vistalizator (works with Windows 7 too) to change the language settings.
>>14559063
Thanks.
>>14558829
>Btw, were did you found it?
Hiruou was giving away the trial on CD at Comiket.
Filter list
Habluka
moogy
sakuuta
sakuunko
sakura no uta
The thread will be much better. No need to thank me.
>>14561080
Why would I filter an actual eroge that was released a few months ago?
I bet its same shitposter as this one: https://www.reddit.com/r/visualnovels/comments/3yxo13/2015_getchu_visual_novel_sales_ranking/cyiqwg7
>>14561112
Downvoted!
But really, I'm not surprised if it's him.
Putting aside the popular titles, what are some sleeper hits in 2015 for you?
>>14561080
Why would I need to filter posts on an anonymous image board?
>>14561112
I agree with Muv-luv but Ever17 and Umineko are fine. What a prick.
>>14561398
I've posted about it in the thread before, but I really enjoyed Kokoro Risuta. The text just felt very "smooth" and was enjoyable to read, the art style really appealed to me, and it had a great voice cast.
It definitely wasn't what I was expecting from the first title in 6 years from a brand I'd never heard of before, and I only downloaded it originally because Shimizu Ai was in it as she's one of my favorite VAs.
>>14561080
I agree with the first two but filtering an actual eroge makes you a pussy.
>>14561398
Cavalier. Didn't know about Takaya before trying its trial.
Where these all Sakura no Utafag come. I want my Makura low profile. Supreme candy 10 times more better than that shit le. It just all these normalfag coming and spout kamige kamige everyday.
>dat feel you actually love Makura and Dogakobo since beginning
>you bought H20 and Koihime Musou BD to support the company
>Glad Ikikoi get translated even it "machine translation" and people starting recognized Dogakobo as good studio after yuru yuri even they don't make vn adaption anymore.
>Suddenly tons of normalfag coming this year for sakura no uta and umaru
>GIve me back muh sekrit club
>>14562007
Are you aware of Subahibi?
>>14562024
Kero-Q desu. I knew people play it because SCA-ji. I am more Inugami Kira fag.
>>14562038
>Kero-Q desu
Ahhh I'm embarassed. My mistake
>>14562007
>>14562038
If you just like bad games with bad art, surely there are tons of other brands out there that you can still idolize.
>>14562057
Oh well it just i like Inugami Kira art. That why i love Seitokai no Ichizon very much.
Oh well it doesn't matter anyway. I always play like 10 new vn every month anyway. Just salty it become popular like typical anon.
>>14562084
Are you that person that wrote that giddy blogpost several years ago about Inugami Kira retweeting one of your tweets?
Or perhaps Inugami Kira was more than one Western fan.
Will anything in 2016 be able to challenge しょうめざ?
>>14562623
literally everything will
>>14562626
Something specific?
I guess I should have specified I meant in sales and overall popularity. In quality I guess it's possible, although I still have really high hopes in Romeo.
>>14562623
The anime coming first will ruin it
>>14562633
The game will have two parts, the school one and the working-at-a-company one. Anime will most likely cover only the school one. Seems like that could be the best possible advertisement.
Wait, Does the girl who won the protagonist from the first game change depending on whose route you do in Amanko 2?
>>14562662
When I did Yuzuka, it was Sayuki who won. I don't know about the others though.
>>14562668
>>14562668
I'm doing Ruika's route and Koharu won.
>>14562668
>>14562673
>Heroines with related areas win
Gathering that means Mizuki won in Honami's route due to living in the same building as her
>>14562680
She's still coming back to the inn, so probably.
>>14562683
>Homamin needs to deal with two guys that pking their head into other people's bussiness
Heh
>>14562688
poking**
>>14562637
They confirmed they're going to cover only the first half.
Also I hope they go for a more realistic approach, I'm so tired of these pat-in-the-back metaworks that reflect the industry in a idealistically positive light.
>>14562700
Did you read the VN trial?
It certainly won't be s self-congratulatory thing like Saekano.
>>14562705
Not yet, but that sounds reassuring.
>>14562729
The trial isn't too long, go for it whenever you have time. Personally I really enjoyed it.
>>14562623
Nobody can stop Romeo
>>14562662
I guess that will become a kind of trend now, since Primal x Heart 2 was also like that. Well I prefer this way than having just one canon heroine though.
>>14562748
Agreed.
>>14561398
As far as sleepers go, I randomly picked up アリスさんこれなんですか？ at Comiket and it's actually not bad at all. It's pretty funny and the production values are more or less commercial level.
>>14562855
Describe its plot and main draws in few short sentences.
>>14562864
http://alikore.studiohilite.com/
Its draw is that it's completely ridiculous.
>>14562873
It's only 1620 jpy, so I might as well give it a try.
So I chose Alice's route first in Monobeno, and am on the after route now. Just passed the 精算 part, and they are talking toHimemiya in loli form.
The reason for the problems that occurred is being explained, and I'm not sure if this is a spoiler for Sumi/Natsuha routes. Is it fine to do the after routes before doing all the routes normally? Or have I spoiled myself by doing so?
Also,so many lolis in Alice's after route. They needed to find a way to put in some loli Alice sex, didn't they it seems. Not that I have any complaints.
>>14562933
Personally I reached the end of common route recently. I'm still deciding if I go Sumi or Alice first, but everyone says Alice is the least good, so I'll probably get it out of the way first.
Really hyped for Maitetsu, but I fear with the extreme about of e-mote, it might not run well on my notebook. I was told that they'd optimize it more than e-mote VNs usually are, so I have hope. We'll when the trial comes out.
>>14562952
>about
amount of e-mote*
What's exactly sakuuta about? What's your reason for liking it /jp/?
>>14563286
best dad and MC
>>14562680
That's correct, yeah
>>14562700
>>14562729
Interview about it with Takahiro.
>>14563883
>>14563886
Thanks, read it
Takahiro sure is insistent that he didn't write a word of it, I wonder if he feels bad for what happened with Anegin
>>14563929
>I wonder if he feels bad for what happened with Anegin
What happened?
>>14563944
Game was hyped as being a JacksonxTakahiro collaboration but it ended up being 120% Takahiro shit
Pretty much the biggest disappointment of 2015
>>14563949
Man, I feel pretty bad for Takahiro then
>>14563959
Why?
He hyped something hard and it ended up being shit, his fault
>>14563965
As a failure myself, I feel bad for people who fail. I know it's law of the jungle, but how absolutely humiliating and crushing it would be to put your all into writing something and for it to be reviled.
>>14563972
Don't worry about him, Takahiro is one of the most successful person in the eroge market right now
>>14563975
>Majikoi
Point taken.
>>14563883
>>14563886
Is this going to have a DL version on DMM day one?
I just noticed, Makoto's route in Sakura no Uta was really written by a nukige guy? He is a good writer who just does nukige for money?
https://vndb.org/s3580
>>14565216
He probably also enjoys it.
>>14565216
Scaji is a fan of him. He's not really a bad writer, but Makoto's route isn't very entertaining.
>>14565236
>isn't very entertaining.
Downright awful, more like, nothing interesting happens and has no payoff to what was the main conflict because it belongs to another route.
Which just leaves a bore with a bad excuse of drama.
>>14563929
>I wonder if he feels bad for what happened with Anegin
Probably not, but he wants to reassure Romeo's fans it won't happen again.
>>14566423
What happened with Anegin?
>>14566777
This question was already answered several posts earlier.
>>14566777
In short, it's shit.
>>14557144
Holy shit those are some cute girls.
>>14566892
That's a boy on the left, homo
>>14566894
Close enough.
>>14566894
Stop oppressing her buttpussy, you cisnormscum.
>>14566892
Cute boy
>>14566920
I'm a cute boy.
>>14566892
Its a shame they get older.
Saya a cute. I approve.
>>14566939
>>14566949
These cuties have routes by Asta, right?
>>14558310
CC will take you an eternity
>>14565236
Makoto's route is more than decent if it was in any other eroge.
I've come to really enjoy Kazuki Fumi's writing. I wasn't planning to read Shirogane Spirits because it's a Giga moege but looks like I'll give it a go since he worked on it. Seems like a Vita version for that is coming out, might be nice since I wouldn't be especially interested in ero from it.
>>14567604
Not him, so I'm not sure if it's true in this case, but often you can learn it by following the writer's Twitter.
>>14563286
It makes me feel like an intellectual, above all those retards who play moege and chuunige.
>>14568143
... but sakuuta is just another crappy moege.
>>14568151
Shitty reply to shitty post.
>>14568151
I wish the average moege had writing like Sakura no Uta.
Finished Alice's after route now. Didn't expectit to go as far as them having a child and getting married. It'll make things tougher when going to Sumi's route, maybe I should leave a day or two before starting it.
I feel like the title screen changing spoils some of it, since it showschild Natsuha hugging Sumi's child? At least in that case it'll feel happier than Natsuha sleeping for 7 years.Would have been better if it didn't display that until after Sumi's route, since now I know what to expect from the end.
Well, the title of the game having -happy end- in it spoils that aspect anyway, I suppose.
>>14567340
That's wrong, it would be even worse since I didn't come in expecting philosophical wanking in the first place
>>14557144
>star gazing plot
>>14568527
Still better than cross dress in an all girls school for "insert reason here"
So is サクラノ詩 ヴォーカルCD up yet?
>>14568545
No it's not, at least that has some secret agent feel to it. Club activities and astronomy are the most mindbogglingly boring shit imaginable.
>>14568582
I could do it, but I live in Japan, so I don't want to take any risks. Just wait, some chinks should do it.
>>14568607
You again!?
And no reasons again.
>>14568644
Yeah, figured as much. Thanks, though.
>>14568646
Because it's boring, unless they're building a space ship to go to the actual stars I do not care, they might as well be looking at light bulbs hanging from the ceiling. And no, it's not romancing or interesting going "kireeeei" every time the night sky show up.
Putting up shitty star gazing show for the cultural festival is also boring.
>>14568582
>>14568644
Don't despair anon, I'm still hunting for the 3rd disc of うたてめぐり soundtrack, so far all links are dead.
>>14568709
If you want its soundrack, chances are you read it. How was it? It's in my endless backlog.
>>14568715
Routes themselves aren't boring is what I can say, heroines are interesting (one has split personality disorder iirc) but the pacing is too fast in some moments. I liked the protagonist and star-crossed lovers theme, soundtrack and CGs are also good. H-scenes were a complete disaster for me though, badly timed, poorly done. If you wanna play it do it for the story and not for the fap.
>>14568753
To be honest in most VNs I skip through the H scenes when I'm reading and then fap to them in a separate session. Or just to their CGs sometimes.
I think a similar thing was once asked in this thread and most people said they skip through H scenes most of the time too.
>>14568759
Then it's a good option to do that in うたてめぐり. Game is really good overall, I'd say read it and see for yourself, it won't be a waste of time imo.
Wondering if this is ever going to come out. I never played the release that compiles both games so I wasn't even aware they teased a new heroine, all the way back in 2012. More jiyu2 is always appreciated.
>>14568709
Use the baidu link here
http://tieba.baidu.com/p/2664236931
You'll need to rip the CD yourself, but that's about it.
>>14568709
http://tieba.baidu.com/p/2664236931
Use the last link
>>14558402
whats the name of the VN?
>>14569122
Sakura no Uta
>>14568212
i wish scaji wrote a simple moege like parfait. his stories are too profound for me. just give a simple love story plz
>>14569365
Just read other authors man.
Is there a guide to pic related?
>>14569528
Have you tried Google?
Because I found one in seconds.
>>14569365
Parfait is amazing though, I wouldn't call it a simple moege.
>>14569603
The majority of people posting here do not post on /vg/, you don't see 56 moon readers over there do you? There is not like a discussion circle on /jp/ saying to troll /vg/. It's just some people who know Japanese posting Japanese vns. Nothing to do with this thread.
>>14569365
Scaji is actually pretty bad at writing that kind of thing, though. The crazier his stories are, the better, frankly.
>>14569646
I don't see how "simple moege" can hold a depreciative meaning there though. Or actually, I see it, and I think it's pretty dumb.
>>14569880
Yeah. The only thing not outright crazy he wrote and I loved is still that Hayami After in H2O, and that was already going overboard. I'll continue to dream about Moekan 2 and 陰と影 on any case, even if Sca-ji pretends it doesn't exists, and even if it is more impossible than ever due to the recent success.
Frankly, I think he makes way less errors writing nonsense than anything else. Nonsense here being a witty joke if y'know what I mean.
What games let me play as an old lady shapeshifter?
>>14570446
That picture is retarded. It looks like an ordinary anime girl except she just has a lot of wrinkles. Japanese can't draw facial features at all.
What does the Gun Knight girl up110 (update 1.10?) add? My antivirus is flagging it so I'd rather just ignore it if it's not something important.
Anyone played Unionism Quartet? In Juno's route, did the read text skip somehow go through theandroidexplanation as a bug or was that in the common route and did I somehow miss itor was it during the H-scene because I skip those?
>>14570446
Please delete that image
>>14570890
>plays nukige
>skips ero
???
>>14572569
>Unionism Quartet
>Nukige
Anon please
I'm almost done with Steins Gate 0 /jp/.
Can you please recommend to me a game I could play after?
>>14572664
Is it any good?
>>14572664
Just wait for Zero escape 3 and Punch line if you want more console sci-fi and thriller VN.
>>14570142
>H2O
Is this actually good? I remember the Anime being terrible. Is it worth a try for sca-ji?
>>14572753
>Punch line
This? Uchikoshi is working on it, will it be good?
http://gematsu.com/2015/06/punchline-game-coming-ps4-ps-vita-this-winter-japan
How was the anime?
>>14572753
>Zero escape 3
I thought only EOPs were looking forward to it 999 was mediocre and Zero Escape was extremely bad
>>14572781
As an anime it was colorful and the characters weren't bad but Uchikoshi just can't write, he just used the same twists for the 4585472times again
>>14569090
>>14569100
Love you, anons.
>>14572868
Care to throw it on MEGA after you download? File's too big.
>>14572887
Baidu links are better downloaded through JDownloader because of how often the connection shits itself
>>14572764
Probably not. The only things Sca-ji noticeably wrote are the After Stories of Hayami and Otoha, and some parts of AaA (mainly the joke mini-game where the heroines play poker with the protagonist possessed by Baphomet). Everything else is pretty horrible, sincerely speaking. It was like there was some sort of agreement that every writer should try to copy Nijuuei/Moekan's abuse of short sentences and repetition into every dialogue, making worse something which wasn't already that good, so a lot of conversations would take a loop on the same matter with monosyllabic lines half the game. And the plot itself was pretty inconsistent.
Still, HayamiyuriH-scene in that After is still one of the best things I've ever read and was worth it for me. Otoha's isn't so good but it has this scene and other details (references) which denounces the writer.
>>14573643
Moekan references, I meant.
How long is the Chuusotsu trial?
Also at first I wondered why is everyone so hyped about it, but then it turned out it's the new thing by JQV writer, so no wonder.
>>14573733
About 1 hour
>>14573740
Cool.
>>14573744
It's pretty cool, hope you enjoy it
>>14573761
I live blessed/overwhelmed by cool stuff. Just few days ago I bought Romeo's latest LN. Gonna start reading that soon too.
>>14572787
I never played Zero Escape but it's amusing how it got praised in the west and trashed by critics in Japan. Same as Tactics Ogre sequel, which again was trash (and rightfully called for being trash, getting 2-3/5 stars on Japanese review aggregators) and praised by English reviewers. I do wonder why.
>>14573983
*remake
>>14573983
Don't forget Fire Emblem if.
>>14573993
For Zero Escape it's just people who aren't familiar with Uchikoshi who fall for his trick.
I'm sure people here other than me can understand, 10 years ago when I did Ever17 I did shit bricks, now I'd probably be bored as hell and I thought Zero Escape was pure shit but yeah...
For LUCT there is the fact that the english script is better than the japanese one (talking about the remake on psp here).
I know it may be hard to believe but it's true, I read quite a bit of comparison and while the english script has flair, the japanese one is generic as hell.
LUCT isn't bad game but gameplay-wise it has a lot of problems but the cool script in the english version make it seem much better than it is really, the japanese version doesn't have that so it just feel like a proto version of FFT in the end.
>>14573996
If has some of the worse writing I saw in a game in 2015, like even worse than Tokyo Xanadu
But the gameplay, for a FE, isn't bad, better than Awakening at least
>>14574018
Tokyo Xanadu is another can of worms.
I liked it at first, cause I didn't yet play many games with similar premises or read similar LNs, but in the end it got tedious, characters got under-utilized (or over-utilized like Rion) and there was no interesting twist at all. And you couldn't even romance a girl of your choosing.
I guess for someone who already played a game like that, TX must have felt meh from start to finish, but I liked it a lot at first, which only made my final impressions worse.
>>14574018
>For Zero Escape it's just people who aren't familiar with Uchikoshi who fall for his trick.
Exactly, not having porn helped a lot too.
>>14574047
I didn't dislike the LN のり in the first few chapters but the game quickly turned to characters spouting LN catch phrases ad nauseasm while having no personality of their own
Like after the first few chapters every dialogues is:
girl "(small laugh)....LN catchphrase"
guy "やれやれ。。。LN catchphrase"
And this repeat forever
>>14574018
I found Ever17 boring and zero escape fun.
>>14572781
I really enjoyed the Punch Line anime, the real plot don't start till episode 6 though. And it gives you an ending that will make you look forward for the game. It's by no mean better than Ever17 or Zero Escape but it's defintily something only Kotarou Uchikoshi can write. If you do enjoy Uchikoshi works or even like Ghost Trick on the DS, I highly recommend this for you. Also the game will be the first collaboration between Uchikoshi and Nakazawa Takumi since Remember11 back in 2004.
Any trap games you guys can recommend?
>>14574454
The trial for that one c89 game someone else brought up is pretty good.
>>14574459
And which one would that be?
>>14562873
>女装して女学院に通っている事以外には、どこにでもいる普通男子学生
Yeah no.
They remembered
>>14570890
Update on this: wat, it seems to get explained in Milly's route. Do they just assume you've read that one beforehand and imagine the conversation happened in Juno's route as well? What the fuck?
>>14576396
it's not something new...
>>14576635
it's still stupid that they don't require you to complete Milly's route first in that case though.
>>14557144
So how is the love triangle in this game guys? Is it as good as white album 2?
>>14574454
Ruitomo (don't forget the FD)
Tsuriotsu (play the sequel if you liked this)
Otomekoi (if you liked this play ensemble's other trap games)
>>14562623
It's not an eroge
Are trial versions really long, generally? I haven't ever tried one, and I just saw I just a *26* part playthrough video serious on youtube for a 体験版. Each part is 20-30 minutes so that's about 13 hours of VN. That blows my mind. I'm referring to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmSeljQkaX0&list=PLyXU0M8rrKrNi2VPCjeOsbCvwls4-6aGe
Is pic related any good? I downloaded it because I saw a nice looking screen cap while I was fapping, but I have been looking forward to the angel beats vn for a long time and it just keeps getting put off.
>>14577366
It's pretty mediocre.
Voice cast was fairly nice though.
>>14577258
Sure, if you leave it on a slow auto mode like that, it's going to take a long time to get through anything. If you're actually reading at a normal speed, trials are typically a few hours. It varies, though. Sakura no Uta's trial was pretty long, for example (since it was essentially two trials in one - the old trial from 2008, plus new content).
Found time to listen to 大図書館 drama CD from Comiket goods set. Can recommend, especially if you're a Shirasaki fan. I wonder why they made it about her though, when other girls are more popular.
>>14568487
What VN?
>>14577808
Monobeno, clearly from context and previous postings in the thread.
>tfw classics will never get translated
I want what the elevens have!
>>14577836
Purposeless whining has no purpose. If there's a problem, try fixing it on your end.
And besides, what's interesting about TokiMemo, except its historical value? Watch that Arino show episode and you learn all you need.
>>14577836>>14577848
Please proceed to appropriate thread/board with discussions of "translations", its offtopic here.
>>14576686
The way the story develops reminded me of WA2 a lot but of course it's not even remotely as dramatic.
First of all the girls are completely different and more importantly they are friends so "dealing with the loser" is actually an important part of the story (imho the best scene of the game is about that).
Also the love triangle only develops if a certain misunderstanding is solved. If you make a different choice romance with Hikari and Saya is "postponed" until Hikari comes back but in the meantime MC falls for the other 2 girls (and Saya cries ;_;).
Basically Saya want fair competition with Hikari while Setsuna wanted to forget about Touma.
Finally just finished 塔の下のエクセルキトゥス. I killed last boss in just one turn, what the fuck seriously.
Ending was pretty idiotic and simple, as every part of the game. Mc just said something obvious > everyone become like OMG WOW WHAT A GREAT IDEA > every problem got solved > ending. Man at least solve Elpis & Marianne's immortality problem like that as well, but they didnt even bother with that.
Other than this I still feel same as my other post, though character events gets a little better as you play the game. Marianne & Riko & Klarissa's character events were really good at least. It'd be so better if there were more events for them, and less for others.
And thats it I guess, in short its just a waste of great potantial. With a little better writer / scenario this'd be a hit for sure, since it already has great character designs & VAs and hot h-scenes.
>>14578011
This is Astronauts, they are making glorified nukige with gameplay, don't ever expect good story from them.
>>14574454
Last Cavalier is pretty good, too. Especially if you like historical drama or something of that nature.A shame that there aren't any 3some ending with Isa and Sei. Like almost every routes end with 2 main heroines of that route sharing Soushi, except what can probably be consider the two main heroines. Well, it's kind of expected with how the MC died like in history but I really wish there is an ending for him to be alive with those two.
>>14578269
How long is it?
>>14578278
Around 30-40 hours maybe.
>>14578033
Its really a shame, It had many good points imo like having a light hearted (but not a completely joke) fantastic setting just as I like, Great art, Good VAs, Nice character designs and personalities etc etc. But not having a good writer just wasted all away.
>>14578438
The writer is not the guy you should blame.
>>14578466
Why? or should I blame Astronauts itself for not hiring a better one? I dont really see any difference between those, since in the end the biggest problem of the game -having a bad writer- doesn't change.
>>14577366
>Is pic related any good?
Not much, some parts of the story are kind of funny and some parts are pretty boring. If you are in for fapping, I guess it's worth it. Still CG rips are in e-hentai though.
>>14578011
Why would anyone even bother with this. It's Verethragna but without M&M art to make it worthwhile.
Can't wait for March though, dat delicious brown gladiator princess...
>>14578751
Verethragna had super weirdly drawn pubic hair. That was kinda offputting for me.
>be anon
>want to play vidya
>cannot into moon
>no translation
>a lot of savescumming later
>get best girl in Amagami
>all the while playing Talk Dirty by Jason Derulo in background
Feels good
>>14579213
Welcome to the club, Anon.
>>14578477
I understand the new crit approach but the fact is that regardless of the writer they put to work in this game, the setting and story would never "be used to its full potential", simply because they would not allow it.
Does anyone know if the Steam version of Grisaia has any extra content over the fan translated version?
Anyone played the trial for 働くオトナの恋愛事情 ?
If yes how was it?
>>14579819
I liked it. If you have an aversion against casual sex (with non-heroines), you should stay away though.
Also, kachou the cutest.
![ガンナイトガール_Version_1.0.0.2_[data_ver1.00]-2016-01-05_16-49-20.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/wTwuQgf.jpg "ガンナイトガール_Version_1.0.0.2_[data_ver1.00]-2016-01-05_16-49-20.jpg")
I don't know why so many VN producers think it's a good idea to mix over-the-top moe anime girls and warfare, I really think it just don't work, trying to mix moe with war, you get ridiculous stuff like this. I can't take it seriously.
>>14579856
>If you have an aversion against casual sex (with non-heroines), you should stay away though.
Definitely true, that was the entire reason why I didnt enjoy it and not going to try full version. There are even some h-scenes for the girls who dont have character sprites, its just not my thing.
>>14579856
Does it feel like a nukige? EGS says it is but I never trust that.
>>14579889
Sounds like my kind of thing
Kind of tired of the whole super loveydovey only sex in most VNs.
>>14579856
>Also, kachou the cutest
How can one man be this based? Why isn't he the MC again?
>>14579883
What's wrong with it?
>>14580727
Maybe if you heard the ultra grim music playing you'd understand. Cutie moe girls saying "ban!" instead of shooting, as grim as hell music plays, and the CG zooms in on a moeblob face? Not getting into the war mood at all.
Though recent developments are doing a lot better of a job getting into the war mood. At the time I posted that, it had been non-stop moe for the whole game just about so it was really.. out of place.
>>14580737
Have you tried 群青の空を越えて instead
>>14580763
I did! Great game, that one really captured the mood well I think, a lot of the time. And it had side characters. It's always weird to me that modern games tend to have so few side characters. It always makes the world feel incredibly empty even if it's at a bustling school.
>>14579883
>I don't know why so many VN producers think it's a good idea to mix over-the-top moe anime girls and warfare
Probably because Catch 22; one of the best novel of the last century, mix moe and war
Spoiler: life and war often isn't as serious as you think, if anything the army of any nation is always full of ridiculous people
>>14579856
Thanks, going to try that out
>>14580827
I hang out on the internet and read enough stories from ex-military to know war isn't universally serious. However, this VN is really really taking it dead-on serious, the music in this scene + the VA's grim deadpan + the MC himself telling his friends to stop laughing because this is the MILITARY and this is SERIOUS and those girls will be going to FIGHT and possibly DIE show some RESPECT... with all that going on, how can there not be contradiction with the moe girls who up until this point have mainly just been joking around with MC and being cute?
>>14580900
Maybe because they are just kids who didn't see war for real yet?
It's one thing to tell you that you are in a war and will maybe die, it's another thing to experience it
I don't think there is an inherent contradiction in fusing moe/comedy with war personally, it all depends on how you do it and if they are still in training phase I can see them caring about things girls their age care about
>>14579883
Mixing moe with anything serious is a recipe for disaster.
>>14580933
Sure. The end result though is a pretty hard mood whiplash, for me anyway. I said in my original post, "over-the-top moe", not moe in general; I mean, I really liked Catch-22 and that was a thoroughly well mixture of comedy and war. It can be done. But I've yet to see a game mix "anime level" of moe with war and not come out as looking pretty ridiculous, a lot of the time.
>>14579919
Not really. It's more slice of life (just with work environment instead of a typical school setting) than a nukige. It's not exactly a barrage of ero. Be aware that only applies to the trial though, since the full game is supposed to have 50+ h-scenes, so dunno how that turns out in the end.
I think ero is really holding back the potential of eroge. This medium could be so much more.
>>14582191
How does it feel to break the two hours of mature silence with an equally stupid post?
Did anyone else who played Gun Knight Girl be surprised by the OST? I think it's really high quality, I was glad whenever a track started playing, any of'm, because they're all so good. Maybe I just feel that way because the last couple VNs I played had unremarkable OSTs. (slight CG spoiler in second link)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJn3WFQVHK4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQAnlG4_FAk
>There's also one last thing to say, of which instead I'm very much certain: Romeo Tanaka is a very religious person, specifically a Christian, and he writes from that standpoint.
>Cross Channel is itself a profoundly Christian story.
...
>VII Cross Channel as a Christian Story
>This Layer-VI interpretation can sound absurd, but is instead an inevitable conclusion. It's staring right at the reader when looking at the title: the word cross and the symbol of the cross are right there. The text reading prompt is also cross.
...
>VII.VII Layer-VII: The History of the World from Noah's Ark to Present Day
>In Cross Channel, Taichi and seven(?) other people survive the Wave of Denpa that wiped away mankind, together with all the animals they brought with (only the microorganisms inside of them).
>The parallel is direct and inescapable: the basic storyline of Cross Channel is based directly on the Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood. And this, finally, allows to show what I consider the greatest troll of the story, greater than even not being sci-fi at all: being post-flood means the story is literally pre-apocalyptic, as the Book of Apocalypse would be yet to be written, or at the very least come true at that point in Biblical history.
>In fact, the Apocalypse - or the literal coming true of the prophecy within - is what Taichi is waiting for in the end.
Quotations from:
On Cross Channel, George Henry Shaft, 2013
How do you feel about this interpretation of Cross Channel? Do any of Romeo's other works suggest he writes from a Christian perspective?
>>14582797
>Do any of Romeo's other works suggest he writes from a Christian perspective?
>>14582797
Translations thread is there >>14567498
>>14582822
Obviously it's expected that you read Cross Channel in Japanese and as such can judge it better than English readers. And Romeo's other works are mostly untranslated.
>>14582826
>Obviously it's expected that you read Cross Channel in Japanese and as such can judge it better than English readers
Only valid if you're a native Japanese speaker or have close to native fluency. Otherwise it could go either way.
>>14582836
Ｐｅｒｈａｐｓ， ｂｕｔ ｌｅｔ‘ｓ ｎｏｔ ｆｏｒｇｅｔ ｔｈｅ ｋｎｏｗｎ questionable ｑｕａｌｉｔｙ ｏｆ ｉｔｓ ｔｒａｎｓｌａｔｉｏｎｓ．
>>14582837
Yeah, just don't like people implying that every kid who has been grinding flash cards in a month and decided to slog through the game with a text hooker automatically understood it better than Ixrec did.
>>14582842
To imply that was not my intention. When I said ｒｅａｄ, I implicitly meant read and be able to understand well enough.
I kinda tend to ignore the Fuwa/Reddit clique of machine dictionary readers.
