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What are you playing? What are you looking forward to? What have you finished? You know the drill.
Tell me what to read
>>14747622
eroge
>>14746460
I read one of those games and someone said they were all the same game copy pasted, so I didn't see the point in reading the others.
>>14747716
Is there even a trial?
http://www.dlsite.com/soft/work/=/product_id/VJ009930.html
>>14721853
What game is this?
>>14748498
https://vndb.org/v16208
>>14748395
>4,800円
→ 500円
What happened?
>>14748651
It's an advertisement for Island.
>>14748395
I bought it.
>>14748395
Is there a upload? I can't buy from dlsite
Oh my god, Swan's not dead!
And their new game looks pretty cute!
>>14749335
I hope it's preggo.
Art looks decent enough compared to their older stuff.
>>14747755
Try the download tab on the game website.
Just finished 楽園の守護者, one scenario of two in the アルカディアの灯火 dual game pack. As expected from EGS, it was fairly short, so I finished in one setting from the moment I started it. I've got mixed impressions. Light spoilers (mostly setting stuff that gets hidden and slowly revealed) below.
To start with, the scenario is what caught my attention from the start. A United Nations spec ops unit stealthing through a dead urban city to find and defeat The World's Strongest Man? Holy shit, how interesting, especially with the side note that humans and animals had been given supernatural powers. However, the scenario really didn't live up to my expectations for various reasons. The whole supernatural beings (SBs) setting was done a LOT better in the "Wild Card" series, in here it's really shallow and you only ever see 2 super-powers, and hear of a third one in flashbacks. The effect these SBs had on the word was interesting to hear about, briefly, but it can be summarized as"they all worked for the military and were nuke equivalents, the end". I won't lie, I misinterpreted the single screenshot I saw of the game (pic related), and interpreted the Strongest Man as a, like, martial artist or some such, but in realityhe's a generic American/German/Aryan who's the military's Superman, saving 1000000 billion lives, etc. The problem with that is theSuperman gone evil setting was done way better in "Irredeemable" or even Injustice. So from both fronts, I constantly had in mind superior works. This was disappointing. Most of the appeal of fighting the fucking "WORLDS STRONGEST MAN" was taken away by the focus on the 干渉 device making him really weak close range, and subsequently having 99% of the action and planning focusing on getting it near him to weaken him, removing any clever mind games or underhanded tricks, it's alllll about the device. That said, the scenario was good enough for me to tear up at the end, and thanks to being so short, the plot kept me entertained despite being disappointing. The strongest part of this scenario, I think, is the fact it tells a fairly concise story with a respectable degree of brevity, no choices or padding. I enjoyed that a lot. The protagonist is a cool dude too so it all rounds out.
The music is nice, but it fades out before looping which is pretty distracting. There are 8 tracks, 7 of which I like and 3 of which I really like, so most of the time I enjoyed what was playing. The lack of voices was surprisingly not a big deal, by the end I hardly noticed. Given that only one brief scene even has girls speaking, and the price of the game, I think that was a good choice.
The visuals were really good. I took very well to the artist's style (which I can imagine many disliking), so despite the entire story being told through CGs and 2 sprites (that don't change expression) I never thought poorly of the presentation. Bits from CGs were re-used effectively to convey action, and in particular the ending CGs were great.
Being both short and a non-school setting, I come away from 楽園の守護者 with a very positive impression. I give it a 7/10. Despite my misgivings with the scenario (written by 健速), I really did enjoy the game and it was well worth the 1050円 I paid for it, especially since there's 2 games in 1 here and マリーベル looks like it was better received. Not as interested in that setting though.
>>14750494
Oh yeah, forgot to mention my last favourite part.At the very beginning of the game, soldiers mention that The World's Strongest Man had a short temper and would yell at waitstaff in restaurants and whatnot if the food was late or some other trivial stuff. Though out the entire game, he was characterized literally as a 救世主 (see the name), but the whole time I kept thinking... but the dude fucking yelled a waiters, that's a dick move, what the fuck. Damaged his character for me significantly even though it was only a couple lines in the beginning of the game.
>>14749335
Huh. I see oppai loli is growing in strength. Good.
>>14750558
>oppai loli is growing in strength
Should have been obvious after Hestia's popularity in the anime/2D realm.
>>14750747
Hestia isn't really loli, though. At least not in appearance.
>>14750914
I dunno, quick google tends to side on the loli opinion with ロリ神 and （ちなみに身長は140㎝で、現実でいうと10歳女児の平均身長）
But whatever. I'm personally not complaining since I'm fine with that body type in my eroge, too.
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=17028&LangID=E
>GENEVA (10 February 2016) – Japan’s record on women’s rights will be examined by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) on 16 February. Japan has ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and so is reviewed regularly by the Committee on how it is implementing the Convention.
>Among the possible issues for discussion between CEDAW and a delegation from the Japanese Government are: Banning the sale of video games or cartoons involving sexual violence against women;
Eh, I guess eroge was a cool hobby while it lasted.
>>14751631
Do futas count as women tho?
>>14751653
"All characters are 18, also they're men" sounds like a cool loophole.
What a great time to be a trap lover.
>>14751631
Just claim all characters identify as male.
>>14750994
>>14750558
>>14749335
I don't get why it's so hard for some people to understand the concept of loli.
Is being short and having big eyes really what they think loli is about?
>>14751709
Kyonyuu loli is basically supposed to be a cute, childish face paired with huge tits. Nothing to do with actual loli. I guess can understand the appeal. I don't really see how >>14749335 has an overly childish face though, it looks about as "loli" as any other high school character.
>>14751631
Why don't they deal with real issues instead? Is it too difficult and it's easier to attack fictional media instead?
>>14751774
Solving real issues requires effort.
>>14751774
The world has too few real problems of major enough importance. People need to invent enemies to fight.
>>14751631
There isn't another country in the world which listens to or cares about the UN, why would Japan?
杞憂だ
>>14751774
>>14751790
At this point, I'm sure it's all just a big power play. They simply try to ruin the fun for anyone.
>>14751631
This'll have as much affect on anime, VNs, LNs, and manga as the legislation against rape in games. Or the Tokyo legislation against incest and homosexuality. Or the legislation against lolicon. Or the Japanese minister holding up a copy of 'My Wife is a Grade Schooler' and saying trash like this needs to be banned.
Is /a/ going apeshit about this? Oh god I bet they are.
>>14751809
Yes, my sarcastic comment in the end was indicating I don't believe it'll have any real effect either. Still, it's stupid that that's what they care about.
>>14751790
The world has a lot of real problems. A lot. It's just that the lives they live are so comfortable they don't see them. It doesn't affect them. So they make shit up. To them, in their bubble, they're huge problems.
Why is it always women that ruins shit?
>>14751865
But that's not true.
if they are untranslated how do you read them
>>14751957
personally I hire a japanese person to read the game while I look from behind his shoulders and then give me a summary of the game
>>14751813
I don't know about power play, but there's definitely a group who wants to ban as many types of pornography as they can because they can't get porn banned outright.
>>14751860
Yes that what I meant. For those people, there are not enough problems.
>>14751865
It is not women that ruin things, but men that let them. They are only allowed what men allow them, since men run the world. According to them, anyway.
Men should just stop listening to women. They'll probably learn to one day.
>>14752013
this works, but I prefer looking at the CGs and listening to the voices and making up my own story based on pictures and the tone of their voices.
The YU-NO remake is going to suck balls, I just know it.
>>14752025
It is, but good thing it's only for consoles so I can pretend like it doesn't exist.
>>14752025
>>14752031
lol I just checked the yu-no site and the character section has spoilers. I guess they don't give a shit since the game is so old.
>>14752039
>they don't give a shit
You got that right.
Is Iwaihime any good?
>>14752043
Anyone else think 罪ノ光ランデヴー just seem way too avant-garde, everything is blurry like a fake DoF, effects all over the place crippling the fps, everyone stand too close and out focus, "camera" zoom into ordinary objects instead of showing all the environment.
It's honestly the only eroge to give me motion sickness because of the FoV or what you'd call it
>>14752025
Because of the new art? I haven't read the original but I think it looks like old shite.
>>14752427
The presentation looks great to me except the huge frame drop. It adds more atmosphere to the game, especially when they use different angles. Regular eroge presentation is boring and uninspired. It's acceptable but it's better to see some attention given to the backgrounds and sprites. I think it was neat how you have small details like certain characters showing up in the background before they talk to you.
>It's honestly the only eroge to give me motion sickness
You sound like those old people who can't play any sort of video game in first person because it makes them sick. Get with the times, gramps.
>>14752660
>Regular eroge presentation is boring and uninspired.
Daitoshokan really drives this home I think. Too many games I play just have some SD panels and leave it at that, with the rest of the game in a couple CGs and sprites. Not that it really bothers me though because at the end of the day text matters way more in regards to whether I enjoy it or not
>>14752681
Yeah, Daitoshokan was great presentation-wise, but it also had the writing to carry it. But then again I can see why a lot of companies don't do this. Why bother making things look good if the scenario itself is shit?
Also I've been wondering about minori for a while now. They seem relatively small, where the fuck did they get their funding? Their games have always had amazing production values, not to mention they had Shinkai a while back.
>>14752710
Everytime they raise a heroine's cup size they get $10,000
>>14752660
>You sound like those old people who can't play any sort of video game in first person because it makes them sick. Get with the times, gramps.
I can play regular games just fine, but this shit is just annoying with blur and shit moving on the screen non stop.
>>14751631
Why don't they go after JAV? There's shit like Night24 being produced.
>>14752836
What's that?
Might be a stupidly unreasonable request, but...
I once saw a video featuring the H-scene in White Album 2 ~closing~ and damn, did I fell in love with the Chiaki's santa claus scene. The dialogue was sensual, the music was gentle, and the execution was just affectionate.
Unfortunately, after a few months, I can no longer find the video anymore. It was as if it was deleted or something. I downloaded the game to try and dig it myself but I realize that the game was just too big for me to search the routes one by one when I don't even like the game that much.
By any chance, does anyone have a video link for the H-scenes for White Album 2 ~closing~?
I really can't find it anywhere
>>14752888
Have you tried googling for a 100% save?
Assuming the game has scene replay function.
>>14752919
Other than a few unfinished Eng patches, nope.
Either my google-fu and moonrune skills are too low for that or it just don't exists
Damn. I really wish I still have that vid
I found it here
>http://video.fc2.com/a/
But I can't find it anywhere anymore
I'm getting this shit right after the starting narration. Crashes the game. What do?
>>14752992
Date format to japanese.
>>14753000
Had that set already. Changed the region format to Japanese (only non-unicode program language was set for JP) and it worked. Thanks.
>>14752941
http://sagaoz.net/savedata/ha/30ho.htm
it's here.
Just googled white album 2 セーブ
>>14753040
WOW
You totally solved my problems in an instant. I can't thankyou enough for this, anon.
I still don't know how I could make the game load up the save files but I know that this file won't lie
Thanks again, anon!
>>14753078
>still don't know how I could make the game load up the save files
How are you managing to post if you're this computer illiterate dude? You just drop the files where the game normally saves and overwrite what's in there.
>>14753122
My load up files are a mess due to the large amount of files and folders. Took me fifteen minutes to figure out that it was saved at the My Documents instead of the game folder, which it normally does.
>>14753122
Thanks again by the way
>>14752427
I get what you're saying but I really like it. I guess it's subjective. This kind of direction is common in minori games. It feels surreal, and it's intentional. You already get those vibes from the trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVcRByh9eQU [Embed]
>>14752021
>It is not women that ruin things, but men that let them.
Again, this is a leap of logic. What some retards with power at the UN do isn't representative of the opinion of all women, or people. In reality, most women, and most people, don't give a shit about what you masturbate to at home, much less drawings. Besides, there are a lot of men who ruin shit too. People ruin shit. Do Obama or Bush represent the opinion and doings of all men? Not mine, that's for sure. You should be attacking the UN; attacking "women" is completely missing the point.
>>14753557
If people attacked individuals instead of groups, things like racism and propaganda wouldn't exist and there would be no IP blocks on Japanese sites.
Also why should I attack the UN? CEDAW isn't representative of the views of the entire UN, is it?
>>14753636
>If people attacked individuals instead of groups, things like racism and propaganda wouldn't exist and there would be no IP blocks on Japanese sites.
Yeah. I don't see your point, though. Are you saying it's fine to be short-sighted because other people are too?
>Also why should I attack the UN? CEDAW isn't representative of the views of the entire UN, is it?
Sure. If you can identify the actual problem better, that's great.
>>14753670
I'm just saying you're hoping for too much. It's a limitation of humans to think that way.
>>14753781
But not all humans think "that way". If it were a "human limitation" like you say, it would be impossible for anyone to get it, but several people do. Why? And even if it were some kind of biological limitation, it's irrelevant since speaking up when you disagree with something is a natural reaction and I won't stop doing it because it's supposedly futile, but I think you guys are smart enough. I do the same when I say a woman saying all men are rapists or some shit. I don't think I'm being insane here.
Should I get Hotori-chan's tapestry?
>>14754227
This game isn't out yet is it?
>>14754229
No, not even a release date annonced. Only trial is set for spring release.
>>14754256
Then why would you get something of a character that might be shit?
>>14754262
I believe somewhat strongly that she'll be perfect. Archetypes being a thing in Japanese otaku to the extent they are, you should be able to guess character's personality just based on their design. And August wouldn't just pointlessly betray fans' expectations.
>>14754279
She looks like a saber clone, this means boring as hell.
>>14754408
She's much cuter though.
>>14754414
Nope.
>>14754417
Strongly yes.
Just finished Sumire and Idol Mahou Shoujo ChiruChiru Michiru.
Now on Puramai Wars! and quite fun so far! not expecting so much scenario wise but last Asa Project did (Hitotsu Tobashi Ren'ai) was really fun so I thought I'd give it a try!
>>14754950
Its classic Asa Project game, It starts with a really fun common route with great humor, then ends with really bad heroine routes. I think they really need some sub-writer who can write heroine routes or gotta fix this shit with some other ways. I have played almost all of their games, and they still cant write a proper heroine route.
>>14755033
I liked Sakura's in hitoren.
Okay, so, when starting Makoto's route am I supposed to remember hearing about the Nakamura family earlier in the story? Or is it just that the involved characters all know what's going on and that's good enough?
>>14756539
Wait for III A Nice Derangements of Epitaphs for main explanation about what happened in the past.
III PicaPica deals with its own matters regarding Nakamuras though, so just follow along.
>>14755046
I liked both hers and Risa's.
Every time I get the urge to open up Hoshi Ori and finish that last couple routes, I remember the festival shit and it goes away
>>14757971
If one of the routes left is Rika's, it's extremely worth it.
>>14757981
Rikka's one of the two routes I did before the festival shit wore my patience down.
>>14757990
Here's the solution.
>>14758074
I mean, I can do that, but then it feels really broken. No interweaving of character interaction, icha, lewd, and story like a good route has, just constant icha and sex without constant breaks in understanding due to missing the entire plot, banal as it may be. I really don't enjoy it
>>14758074
If you have to skip parts in a game in order to tolerate it it's not worth playing.
>>14758181
I don't know about that. I know a guy who gave Gakhthun a glowing review but skipped the fight sections because they were boring and didn't add much. I skipped the John Galt radio speech in Atlas Shrugged but I still finished the book. Sometimes skipping stuff is fine.
>>14758195
>they were boring and didn't add much.
They were pretty much the culmination of what the character fighting went through in the couple of chapters focused on him/her. Nevermind the last one or the fandisk one.
Skipping stuff of something you like because you find it boring and then say you love it is stupid in itself.
>>14747622
No comment
>>14758195
>skipped the fight sections because they were boring
yeah fights with sakurai are never really just fights, it shows she liked and was inspired by Utena
I'm having trouble running Aoiro Rinne. The no-CD exe fails every time, with a dialog box popping up talking about a Windows 95 update. Running in compatibility mode doesn't help.It says CRCが一致しません which I don't know what to do about. Anyone know what's up? I installed the official patch.
Any good translator here for a SFX help?
>>14758676
Go away. This is the visual novel thread.
>>14758677
Just one word that i don't know how to put it in english
>>14758680
Yeah, one word from you, and the thousands of other guys wanting translations. Offtopic ain't allowed.
>>14758676
I'll bite. What is it?
>>14758683
it can be related to this actually.
わきゃ わきゃ --> wakya wakya
Seems like a delinquent laugh but i just can't put it as "wakya wakya"
Should it be "Wahyaya" or "Wahahaha"?
>>14758690
Not everything about Japanese has to do with visual novels
And asking for translation help certainly is far removed from visual novel discussion. Fuck off.
>>14758690
dunno lol
Finished Scarlett. Overall a decent time-killer, but I can't help but feel that it had trouble of deciding whether it wanted to be a plot or drama game.
Finishing the first two chapters (meaning half of the whole game) which had relatively little focus on character relations made me expect more over the top battles of wits and tricky politics, but from then on the game suddenly turns into more slow-paced drama. Plot wise the third past / flashback chapter starring a completely different set of main characters for most of the time had quite literally nothing to do with anything other than showingthat like Shizuka herself, her mother and grandmother also longed for a chance at normal life which somewhat connects to the fourth chapter's thematic line between 日常 and 非日常. Seriously, the third chapter could have not existed at all and it wouldn't have had any bearing on the main plot.
The change from silly plot to attempts at heavier drama is really sudden and when the somewhat similar style continues in the final chapter (now starring the old characters) it feels kind of dreary due to how different the first two chapters were and how little they had in the way of characterizing the relationship between the two protagonists, not to mention the love story between Shizuka and Akito, the latter who was pretty much non-existent in the second and third chapters. I liked the idea of the ending itself, but the way everything leading up to it was structured made it sort of a killjoy and overall left me with a lukewarm impression.
Is Gangsta Republica worth the read? That blood related incest tag makes it tempting.
>>14759123
Wasn't it a flop?
>>14759208
I don't really care about sales numbers.
>>14758528
Tested the first result on anime-sharing with win 7, Japanes locale and Region settings succesfully. An update and no-CD were included.
>>14759367
I downloaded that. It didn't run on my system.
>When you save over a critical save spot and have to redo the entire common route to the the other girls ending instead of just selecting the next option.
>>14759627
I thought most games have separate flags for this sort of stuff.
>>14759123
The premise sounds retarded as hell.
>>14759637
My one and only save was literally on the option to select one of the two branches, I entered the branch and saved over it by mistake. No scene skip, just ctrl skip. It's going to take 15 minutes to get back.
>>14759657
What games have full scene skips?
I can only think of F/SN.
Is unison shift dead? No news on them since the final leyline game released.
>>14759784
It has been only one year dude. Leyline was a pretty succesful game and Union shift is a pretty old company so I dont think they have gone bankrupt or something, most likely they are just taking a break while spending all the money they gained from leyline.
>>14759820
I wish the LE trilogy box was not 180,00 yen. I really want it, but I can't justify the expense.
特に意味はない
そうだろう？
>>14759828
I think you are remembering it wrong dude, http://unisonshift.amuse-c.jp/products/project26/top_ltb.html as it says here its just 11.800 yen, with tax it becomes 12.700 at getchu. To be honest for 3 game + extras I think its pretty cheap, since they are selling each game for 7.500 yen.
Are you lads playing Eve Burst R when it's out?
らぶらぶらいふ ～お嬢様7人とラブラブハーレム生活～ is an eroge so decadent and shameless in it's own depravity that it's forcefully ripped apart my perception of eroge and why I play them and bared the ugly underbelly of lust for anime girls.
The first thing to understand is that the protagonist is truly a representation of the player, not in the sense that the scenarist, Kobayashi Kyou, wanted people to self-insert, but rather in that they conceptualized the simplistic desires of an eroge player and gave it physical form as a character. This is evident in the protagonists mission statement: make a harem. He repeatedly states that it isn't just a desire to fuck a lot, though he is a self-admitted pervert, but rather he wishes to form loving relationships with as many people as possible. This is a masterful summary of the average eroge player that cuts deep - moege are so popular due to their combination of both lusty sex and love, things that we want so dearly but were never given in life... however, much like the protagonist, eroge players aren't satisfied with just 1. Who plays a single route of a single moege and leaves it at that? No one. For it is not just quality, but quantity, that we desire. And so, an eroge player pumps and dumps not just sexual partners but romantic partners as well, with the powerful feelings of one relationship giving birth a stronger desire to feel them yet again, with another girl. That's the eroge player. A pervert, but one that wants more love than one girl can give.
To answer these desires, Kobayashi Kyou once again expressed his brilliance with a set of 7 archetypes so generic one can only balk at the sheer balls he has to play them off as original characters. And yet, it works, it works so damn well it's fucking frightening. One would expect an intelligent human being, a long term eroge player, to be above this kind of shit, but that is simply not the case. Despite how astoundingly bland each girl is, the sex and love their offer the protagonist is more than enough to sate the lust as expressed prior. Despite the girls having absolutely no unique qualities whatsoever, relationships with them are just about as satisfying as those found in longer, full-length moege... and that's where Kyou's brilliance sets in and blew away my self-perceptions. I was on a quest find love in moege, and played them frequently to find the perfect girl to fall in love with and be loved... and every time I succeed, I'd move on to the next moege, looking for another such girl. The truth is, I, like most eroge players and humans in general, was overestimating my own complexity, and Kobayashi Kyou knew this. In truth, even the most horrifically generic characters, even the most egregious archetypes are fully satisfying for the lust of sex and love. By making characters scrape the bottom of individuality's barrel, he shoves the readers face into the reality of their own shallowness. Like cows gobbling feed, we'll eat up this らぶらぶらいふ he's created with our eyes wide in joy and pleasure.
A lesser man would have feigned depth, or cut the harem down for more development to main heroines, or perhaps forgone love entirely and focused on sex as so many nukige do. But Kobayashi Kyou is not a lesser man, and thus we have this masterpiece, a harem of 7 slates blanker than white, emracing us with their marshmallow bosoms, an embodiment of all the Joys of the eroge world. All is right, God is in his heaven. Final rating: 10/10, no question.
>>14759865
Have you seen the price on amazon?
>>14759983
>Who plays a single route of a single moege and leaves it at that?
I do this all the time.
>>14759983
Was this game so bad it broke you?
>>14760014
You've only played one moege ever?
>>14760027
I think so. I don't think I can play a moege anymore in the same way I used to. The baseness of lust and shallowness of love is too shameful and will be in the back of my mind the whole time.
>>14760027
>You've only played one moege ever?
No but I drop a lot of moege after just one or two routes.
Is that game with the lolis and teacher and loli teacher out yet? Also what was it called again?
>>14759983
Picked up!
>>14759983
>playing a moege with a title like that
Serves you right.
>>14760115
I should clarify it's actually a nukige, there is very little in the way of the icha / lovey scenes in comparison to H-scenes. In fact I forget exact details but I'm pretty sure for certain characters they just didn't include them falling in love with Mc, it cut straight from "he's a nice guy" to "master/husband/m'lord/darling/etc I'm in your harem and love you". I think I painted like a moege to set the scene unconsciously.
>>14760155
Honestly 10/10 or were you kidding? I honestly could not tell.
>>14760229
Objectively, if I were speaking to a close friend over a beer, I'd spill my guts that it's more of a 5/10, an average wank game which accomplishes nothing of note either as masturbation material or as a visual novel in general. But sober, I am sincerely impressed with the lengths the scenarist has gone, intentionally or not, to make the dullest scenario and dullest heroines literally possible... I genuinely can not imagine a game with a setting and characters more bland than this one. I genuinely cannot. And for that, it wins a 10/10. I don't foresee myself every playing a game more shameless of its depravity as a cultural black whole of brainless sex appeal and insipid romance.
I think it's telling that the sequel, らぶらぶプリンセス, has a different scenarist that apparently has tried to put together a plot about princesses and blood-line succession. I would not be surprised if that were desperate measure to climb out of the cultural dearth Kyou put them into. Or perhaps not, I'll have to play it to find out. I'll save that for the day when I dream of love again, however, so that my idealism can once again be stomped upon by the loving feet of nubile anime archetypes.
How long is Rin's route compared to Makoto's? I like Makoto well enough but the route just keeps going on without much sense that things are really progressing. If Rin's route has the same kind of pacing I'm going to have some real problems.
>>14761271
I don't know about actual length, but Rin's route certainly feels a lot shorter, since it isn't anywhere near as boring. Everyone agrees that Makoto's route sucks, so just get through it and move on to the good stuff.
>>14761271
Damn, I really liked Makoto as well. Shame how her route is.
I'm not used to playing romance games, does sakuuta get more interesting once I start getting into a specific route?
I don't think the slice of life stuff is bad, but it's getting a bit monotone.
>>14761454
Living is what the game is about. For me it got great in Zypressen and supremely interesting in Epitaphs onwards.
I can't tell whether Makoto's route is actually good or it looks bad because the other routes are a lot better.
>>14761454
Sakuuta is anything but slice of life.
>>14761454
>I'm not used to playing romance games, does sakuuta get more interesting once I start getting into a specific route?
No, not really, if you don't like it within the first few hours, you probably won't like it at all. It's pretty much a slow SOL and is nothing like subahibi.
>>14761614
It's just not very interesting. You can tell Asou tried, but it ended up feeling incredibly dry. I don't think that would change even if the rest of the game were as bad.
>>14761271
SakuUta script length in image.
>>14761560
I just couldn't get that aspect. I just saw it as a commentary about art and literature; and philosophical masturbation I guess. Except for the short passage in VI about happiness.
>>14761760
>I just couldn't get that aspect. I just saw it as a commentary about art and literature; and philosophical masturbation I guess.
I wouldn't have even minded all that if, the worst sin SnU committed was being boring. I've read NTR nukige with more engaging plot lines.
>>14761614
Well, I'm reading it first and I like Makoto a lot and I'm still really bored and completely unable to tell how far I am through it because nobody seems to be doing anything. Naoya apparently just agreed to draw her or whatever so I guess stuff is finally happening beyond family drama that hasn't been fully explained.
But I guess I don't know if the other routes are better yet. They might end up as boring as this, especially since I can't go after Yumi. Well, she's basically Tsuki from AnG as a lesbian so I guess I can just read that again later if I want.
>>14761760
So Rin's route is about roughly the same length then? Well, guess I have to hope that she has some kind of surprise in store for me because I'm really not a fan of the character type she looks like.
>>14761760
2.9 MB? Really? It felt way longer than that.
>>14761893
http://pastie.org/pastes/10505710
Although TLWiki says 3.2 MB.
>>14759906
Eve Burst R is coming to PC...
Really, is this thread just not interested?
Oh well
>>14759983
we play all the routes of a moege just so we can find the best girl anon
>>14762429
I imagine everyone here already played Eve. I don't see the point of getting excited for remakes.
>>14762454
You didn't get excited for Rance 03?
>>14761760
da fk it was 2.9 mb? the game felt longer to me
>>14761641
actually if you didn't like the first chapter its fine because sakuuta gets better after that
Gotta go see this.
>>14762502
Nah, I'm not a pedophile.
>>14762554
'sup UN member
>>14749335
E-eh, was the new game's title name dropped?
I feel like I should be making a family tree in Makoto's route.
Started playing Madou Koukaku, finished the prologue.So far it seems to be much better than Rhapsody.I'm liking the town management stuff, also the story not being Kamidori level helps immensely...
>>14762454
>I imagine everyone here already played Eve
More like they started reading eroge a year ago and only read the latest ones
>>14762774
MK is pretty good game, I cannot understand why people dislike it so much.
Both gameplay and story are on much higher level than most of Eushully games, and it would be my favorite gameplay if they tweaked balance a bit better and added some late-game goals and challenges.
>>14758181
You don't skip H-scenes?
>>14763104
You do?
>>14759983
10/10 review. Would read again. Do you have anymore?
There is literally nothing wrong with being a moebuta
http://otakomu.jp/archives/350233.html
Seems like new ryuukishi is complete failure.
>>14763539
>発売から10日が経った2月8日現在、DMMの商品紹介ページで表示されているトータル販売本数は、わずか10本
Even I feel kinda bad for him.
>>14763567
Time to return to milking Higurashi then. also this guy must be bullied at his childhood or something, seems like even this game has some bullying in it.
>>14763567
>わずか10本
that's kinda sad
>>14763626
He stated in an interview that he used to be a social worker, and he had talked to a lot of kids that had been bullied. It probably left a strong impression on him.
>>14763539
>>14763567
http://blog.esuteru.com/archives/8504974.html
>>14763092
Seems like they're going back to MK's style with their latest game.Or well so it seemed from the PV.
>>14762435
Once you find best girl, do you move on to a new moege?
>>14763567
Maybe he shouldnt force his shitty art. No one wants to play a game with art like that in 2016.
>>14763942
What? he didn't do the drawings for Iwaihime did he?
>>14763539
false information
>>14763942
the art is the only good thing about that game.
>>14763567
DMM doesn't display number sold.
http://dlsoft.dmm.com/detail/dmmgames_0001/
>>14764362
http://www.dmm.co.jp/dc/doujin/-/detail/=/cid=d_dg0001/
With DLsite and digiket I guess this sold more than 100k
>>14763567
It's crazy that the VN community is so small a game by a well known guy like R07 can only sell 11 copies
>>14764401
it's not 11 copies total, as the other guy blog posts explained
you also have to consider consumers don't really like digital goods for "proper" games, which is why most top sellers are doujin stuff
but still, only 11 copies is still pretty sad
>>14764458
What is sad is that 11 people or more bought a bad game.
There was a download link before, go try it yourself
It's shit
https://vndb.org/v5746/chars#chars
This is the only VN in my life I've ever seen with a VNDB page listing ONLY the male main characters and ignoring the female heroines, rather than the other way around. This feels like justice somehow. It's especially funny because it lists their cameras which leads me to believe they were included because the editor liked camera stuff whereas the heroines didn't use cameras. Not sure about that though.
>Volume 4007ZMII, Nikon R10 super, Rolleiflex 3.5MX-ECS (Tessar Mounted type)
>>14764458
Someone in /a/ bought the game and the total sale went to 12
So yeah it's 12 copies total in DMM
I always wondered how people got to buying games and it turns out when you have an interest in non-H VNs the amount which gets cracked and uploaded drops pretty drastically. Have to buy the vns if you want to read them.
Admittedly I can't connect to nyaa right now to check if engima has a torrent but I don't imagine it does
>>14765369
That's Enigma? How is it?
>>14765379
No clue. I just made the post because I wanted to read it but can't find a torrent. It's 2,000 yen too, what a pain...
>>14765369
I always wondered how people got into buying food, why don't they just steal shit from grocery stores? Food costs money, what a pain...
>>14765411
Difference being is that pretty much every single H-game is uploaded. So you really get into the mindset that every VN gets uploaded. But then you get interested in doujin games and non-lewd games and the sudden drop in support is astounding. It makes me think most people downloading/playing these games (not necessarily here) don't actually read the stories but instead just hack by to get to porn. This is somewhat surprising because most h-game porn isn't even that good.
>>14765411
If I could pirate and teleport food to my fridge for nothing, I would.
>>14765319
>So yeah it's 12 copies total in DMM
It's 12 copies on the 18+ doujin section of DMM, not total.
The main page where it's sold is http://dlsoft.dmm.com/detail/dmmgames_0001/ and that section doesn't display sales data.
It's first in the ranking for what it's worth http://dlsoft.dmm.com/list/sort=ranking/
I downloaded 塵骸魔京 and applied the SARCheck but it's still asking for a serial key. What do? I saw online that other torrents provide a serial key but mine didn't and the one I saw online died a long time ago.
>>14765455
>It's first in the ranking for what it's worth
Not much considering the second game was released age ago in several platform and the third is Elder Scroll Online aka a game nobody in the world care about
>>14765487
Try 7BMT1C45.
I remember it needs a serial regardless.
>>14765510
That worked, thank you very much.
After Aoiro Rinne didn't work I was thinking two games in a row would give problems getting cracked.
Friendly reminder, if you are playing visual novels and haven't taken the survey yet, please consider doing so to help a student with his master thesis out! It runs until 25.2, so only 11 days left! Thanks :)
https://www.soscisurvey.de/visualnovels/
>>14765547
>visual novels
>master thesis
You don't have to present that to people, right?
>>14765547
Just did it, hope it helps.
>>14765577
Visual Novels are quite possibly the newest and fastest growing form of media.
>>14765588
>Visual Novels are quite possibly the newest and fastest growing form of media.
>>14765588
Still wouldn't embarrass myself by talking about to normies, social suicide.
>>14765603
My normie friend have read s;g and parts of fate. Time have changed anon.
>>14765547
Done, HTH
>>14765577
>>14765588
>>14765616
Thanks for taking the survey! Well, "game studies" are a thing since 10 years already and I presented it to my supervisor as just another gaming form. But I can't do "game studies" because that would mean that I'd need to research the games in the japanese original (I'm nowhere near able to read them in japanese) so I have to take another approach which is the "culture transfer through computer games using the example of visual novels". So I'm not primarly talking about moe moe porn girls but western influence in japan (especially 1853, 1945+), the genealogy of visual novels, then of course what visual novels are and the corresponding culture (e.g. comiket) and how these things come to the west (translation groups + companies). Well, the thesis is part of my masters exam but no, I dont need to do a presentation.
>>14765588
>Visual Novels are quite possibly the newest and fastest growing form of media.
EOPs are cute if they actually believe this.
>>14765596
Thats actually the LN's,and reincarnation stuff to be specific.
>>14765423
Before 2012 you had a lot of people supplying stuff on Japaese P2P networks so even doujin games sold only at events got uploaded frequently. Times sure have changed. The law is to blame but I also feel like there was a bit of a generation shift.
I lost the link to the ftp, could someone help me out?
>>14759627
Nice meme arrows. >>>/a/
Well, I finally finished Nanairo. I repeat myself, from a thread or couple ago, but I really like the character dynamism in this game. The slice of life situations where everyone's talking with everyone were really enjoyable. The art is very pretty as well. The per-girl routes didn't have much difference between them, just theworst girl having a different outcome in the whole story.Music was ok. Ero was pretty good and, rather vanilla, which I enjoyed.
I'm happy that there's a sequel coming, Akeiro Kaikitan. I can see more of the crazy Aoi girl. Best oni.
I guess I'll either finally go for Baldr Sky or... I don't know, more having an inkling for comedy right now. Damekoi?
>>14766794
Most likely they'll have just little appearances though, I dont think they'll make any h-scene or important scenes around them so I dont think Akeiro as a sequel. Well seeing them again will feel good though.
>>14766794
Damekoi is nice and have a good comedy, go for it.
Just started WA2, pretty fun so far.
Hey /jp/, I'm having trouble playing a nukige (攫ノ雌) on Windows 10. The dialogue text is coming up as gibberish (mix of kanji, hiragana, english letters) while the interface is displayed fine. Haven't had this problem with my other games. Any one know a fix?
>>14767612
>/jp/
We clearly need an acronym to refer to this thread. エロゲスレ is great and all but it takes far too long to type out. How about just UVG for Untranslated VN General?
>>14767612
Turns out i just had to change my display language to Japanese as well. Very simple solution, but wasn't necessary in windows 7. Windows 10 is more weeb than it's predecessors it seems.
I can't believe this shit.
I bought Himawari from dlsite since it was only 400 yen, but it plays an unskippable Island advertisement fucking every time I boot up the game.
What the fuck, frontwing?
>>14767753
Upon investigation of the system settings, I found one that disables movie playback.
It doesn't specify what movie though, so I'm assuming it's for all of them.
Are there any other videos that play during Himawari?
Like maybe OPs or endings or other things.
>>14767753
>>14767794
https://mega.nz/#!ssxSXIgJ!Ueb0iQOgT7jhjiYzEda5STde-S3nsShJBN5E7-4UoxI
download this and follow the instructions.
>>14767637
Why? He could have just removed "hey /jp/" or just said "hey dudes"
>>14767753
>>14767794
Are the movies included separately or just in a big packed file? In some games that keep movie files separate, you can just rename the specific movie file and the game will just skip it. I think KiriKiri does that.
>>14767859
Thanks a lot.
I can't believe they made that shit unskippable, what the fuck.
>>14767873
movies weren't included separately
>>14768025
If you consider that they only lowered the price so much to advertise that game, it's not that surprising
>>14767859
Is the actual game available somewhere?
>>14768090
You know that's not what I meant.
But oh well, 500 yen is nothing. I hope they take Mastercard.
>>14767753
>>14767794
>【ISLAND CM付版】は『ISLAND』の宣伝ムービーがゲーム起動時に再生されます。
>キャンペーン価格での販売となっております為、宣伝ムービーはスキップする事が出来ません事をご了承下さい。
This is why you read product descriptions.
Also, I can't remember any movies off the top of my head besides the OP/ED.
>>14768149
Damn, I guess that's my bad then.
Didn't think there would be useful info in product information.
>>14768110
Turns out that no, they don't take my Mastercard. Or specifically, it seems I won't get the SMS with confirmation code here in Japan.
Just a warning if your bank uses 3DSecure for authentication.
Anyway, I'll just pay in conbini instead. Wanted to save myself the trip.
塵骸魔京 is pretty great so far. I love how the protagonist is both voice and openly autistic.
>>14768589
Do you have Windows 7 or more? How did you manage to play it?
>>14769860
Not him, but when I tested it before adding it to my backlog, it worked fine for me on Win 7. And I checked now and I only got the game, its serial key, update patch and crack in its folder, which indicates to me I didn't have to do anything special to make it work.
Maybe you're confusing it with Hello World? That one doesn't work with Win 7 unless you use a special exe.
>>14769913
Hello; World works fine for me but 塵骸魔京 doesn't.
>>14769929
I mentioned earlier but Aoiro Rinne didn't work for me. So, it seems to be pretty random with old games. The one major disadvantage to text novels I suppose, how will folks in anno domini 3,000 run Muramasa if 10~ year old games are breaking in 2016?
>>14770967
You could just run it in a VM. Though you might have to run VMs in VMs to run old games at some point.
>>14771017
>run VMs in VMs to run old games at some point.
What!?
Is this a thing?
>>14771122
I don't think it is yet. It just might become a thing at some point.
>>14771122
Win10->WinXP->Anex->Dos->Actual PC98 game
>>14770967
>>14771017
The people that will likely be playing these old games by then will also probably keep one of our relical x86/x64 processor architectures and a copy of Windows just as some people keep their Amigas and PC98s nowadays.
I bet emulation will be a breeze as well like how we can pretty much put a PC98 emulator on anything nowadays like a PSP or DS.
>>14771459
I just realized that language will evolve so much in 1,000 years that old games will be unreadable in the first place.
>>14771474
You have a point, since if we get to live 1000 years more then we probably have jumped the hurdle from being a Type0 civ into at least a Type1 civ on the Kardashev scale and adopted a global language.
Maybe English or a bastardization of it, so I guess some will be saved.
>>14766261
ftp://vdzserver.org
i'm having a hard time playing through the other heroines in pretty cation 2 after going for the heroine i wanted.
i usually don't have a problem playing through all characters but for this it feels weird to me.
the appended life for feburary came out too, if anyone was waiting for it.
>>14772166
I actually finished Chitose's route last week which leaves me with just Honami. The characters I felt are a bit on the boring side certainly not better than LxC1 and 2 but not worse than PxC 1.
>>14772807
Honami is insanely boring, in my opinion.
I didn't like any of the girls better than PC1's Sakura either.
>>14772881
Amakano 2's Honami was pretty shitty as well, I dont even remember any good heroine who has Honami as her name. I guess something wrong with honamis.
I don't know how much of this game is meant to be comedy, and how much of it is meant to be pure characterization that a Japanese reader would balk at, but this character's autism is truly hilarious. I burst out laughing frequently, I mean especially with pic related, her fucking expression is gold and he's just completely unaware. It seems like 笹木弓 hasn't written anything else which is a same because I like what I'm seeing here. At least 海法紀光 has some light novels according to vndb.
In fact, does anybody know who 笹木弓 is? I googled it and the lack of results implies to me that's a pen name.
Why aren't there any mother/son incest games with normal sized boobs? My mother doesn't have triple G cup boobs Japan and I'm going to guess neither do yours.
Fucking hell.
>>14774302
Large breasts are a symbol of motherhood.
>>14774302
Because if you're upgrading your mother to want to sleep with you, clearly you might as well "upgrade" her physically as well.
You think ISLAND will be inspired by Island?
>>14770967
If your game hasn't gotten a remake in 1000 years, it isn't very good, now is it?
>>14774403
I think a couple games I've played are pretty good but have 0 chance of 3000AD translations. Nanairo Reincarnation for instance.
I wonder if 3000 era Neo Tokyo's visual novel industry will be similar to modern EOPs in that all releases are translations of old visual novels. Why make new ones with 1,000 years of masterpieces have come out?
