Visual Novel translation status
Amagami - 1st day patch Released for PS2/PSP, "1410/2308 original edition scenario scripts translated (61.1%)"
Amairo IsleNauts - prologue and common route fully translated, Shirley route 10% TL, Masaki 18.5% TL, Konoka 55% TL, bonus 20% TL, prologue patch out
Aokana - Common route + 2 character routes translation done
>AstralAir - prologue patch released, 32,907 / 64,574 (50.96%) lines translated
Ayakashi Gohan - 49% complete
>Black Wolves Saga: 62/65 scripts translated, 51/65 scripts edited
Bunny Black 2 - To be translated
Clover Day's - 100% of the common route + 348/711 KB, 119/743 KB, 92/764, 338/846 and 74/722 KB of 5 routes translated
Flight Diary - 14.8% translated
Gore Screaming Show - Prologue and day one patch released
HaraKano - Ayana Seno's route patch released
Haruka Na Sora - Sora 11.29% translated, Kozue 23.73% translated
Hatsukoi 1/1 - 11409 lines translated
Hoka no Onna - 48.68% translated
Irotoridori no Sekai - New project started, prologue mostly translated
>Ken ga Kimi: 115/122 scripts translated, 100/122 scripts edited
Kiminozo - Common route translation complete
>Koichoco - Going through finishing touches
>Koiken Otome - 96.62% translated, 88.90% edited, prologue patch released
Kurukuru Fanatic - 87.5% translated
Lovely Cation- 26% of lines completed
Lover Able - 6.84% translated
Majikoi A-1 - 11.4%
Mahou Tsukai no Yoru - Commie project actively in editing
Mahou Tsukai no Yoru - 2nd project with 2.2 scripts translated
Mahou Tsukai no Yoru - 3rd project released ch 1-5
Monster girl quest paradox - Being translated, new demo patch for items, skills, and gameplay text, etc
Muv Luv Total Eclipse - 25% translated
>Noble Works - 54,169 / 57,690 (93.9%) lines translated, partial patch released
Oreimo Tsuzuku - 266/268 scripts translated, 196/268 through TLC+Editing, 121/268 scripts finalized
PersonA - 44% translated
Rewrite Harvest Festa - 22583/30040 (75.18%) lines translated
SakuSaku - 100% translated, 31858/49257 (65%) lines finalized
>Starry Sky In Summer - All scripts translated, 171/177 scripts edited
SubaHibi - 100% translated, 2nd editing pass and QC remain
Tasogaredoki no Kyoukaisen - 100% translated and edited, QC and technical work remains
Tsujidou-san no Jun'ai Road - 12/323 scripts translated
Ushinawareta Mirai wo Motomete - 4282/35056 (15.7%) lines translated
>White Album 2 - 10671/35275 (30.25%) lines of closing chapter translated
>Witch's Garden - 40435/67201 (60.17%) lines translated, 2221/67201 (3.31%) edited, prologue patch released
Yosuga no Sora - Translation status is Common route 100%, Sora route 100%, Nao 78.42%, Kazuha 100%, Akira 89.73%, Motoka 32.17%, Common and Kazuha fully edited
Official work
MangaGamer
>Kara no Shoujo 2 - Released
Euphoria - demo released, 11/27 release
Free Friends 2 - 100% translated and edited
Higurashi Hou -Onikakushi released, Watanagashi in scripting
Bokuten - 66.5% translated, 30.05% edited
Da Capo 3 - 61.4% translated, 23.47% edited
Gahkthun - 100% translated and edited
OZMAFIA - 89% translated
House in Fata Morgana - 85% translated
Myth - 57.12% translated, 45.8% edited
My Boss Wife is My Ex - 100% translated and edited
Kuroinu - Being released as 3 seperate chapters, 18.13% TL 18.13% edited
Supipara - Ch 1 100% translated and edited
Yurirei - 72% translated, 63% edited
Himawari - TL and editing finished
>Beat Blades Haruka - 79.1% Translated
Umineko - Picked up
Tokyo Babel - 56% translated
Negai no Kakera - Picked up
Princess Evangile W Happiness - Picked up
JAST
Sonicomi - Fully translated, building launcher
Sumaga- Fully translated, in editing
Trample on Schatten- main scenerio 100% translated and edited, extra content 33% done
>Flowers - 100% translated, in editing, preparing to port
Seinarukana- Waiting on LE materials. QA checking.
Django - Waiting on translation.
Sumeragi Ryoko - 100% translated, waiting on test build
Sweet Home - 10% translated
Sekai/Denpa
Fault Milestone 2 - Side Above released, GE still to come
Grisaia trilogy - 2nd title in TL through end of Nov
Clannad - 2 of 3 QC passes done, 4Q 2015 release
WAS - Kickstarter finished, delayed
Atom Grrrl - 100% translated
>Narcissu 3rd - 62.41% translated
>Narcissu 0 - 13.40% translated
WEE 3 - 7.39% translated
Nenokami - 37.79% translated
Kokonoe Kokoro - picked up
Shizuku no Oto - picked up
Sacrament Sheep - In Beta
Memory's Dogma - Kickstarter reached goal
G-Senjou - Q4 release
Chrono Clock - Picked up
Root Double - Picked up
Tenshin Ranman - Picked up
Witch Boy - Kickstarter failed
Darekoi - Picked up
Wagamama High Spec - 2016 release
Mayoi Hitsuji no Kajuen - Picked up
Other
>Eiyuu Senki - Nov 12th release
Harmonia - On Steam GL
>Little Busters - Picked up
>Tomoyo After - Picked up
Muv Luv Trilogy - Kickstarter Started
Lucky Dog - Possible iOS released based on the ongoing text only fanTL
Work being done on a fanTL of Shin Koihime with hopes of getting it licensed
Wish Tale of the Sixteenth Night - 2367/10293 (23%) lines translated
Harvest December - 3DS ports being released
Norn9 - November 3rd release
>Kyuuketsu Hime no Libra - Kickstarter preview up
Magical Eyes - Winter release planned
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>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread
Looks like six digits is broken.
As usual, post order numbers if you got em'.
lol @ flowers being delayed. Turns out making a fully functional engine from scratch might actually be a little time consuming!
What the hell was up with that idiot throwing a tantrum about shills in the last thread?
>>14296477
JAST is so weird about setting dates that they cannot possibly meet. I want to say they should just pick a date way in the future so that if they get it done before then they'll look better for it and they won't have to keep delaying games past the date they set. But then I think, setting dates like this is probably what keeps them going. They have to keep delaying things and it motivates them to keep working because they've got a date set, even if they cannot possibly reach it. If they set it too far ahead they'd probably laze about more and get even less done.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/251290/
The longest VN ever written is now available in English for the very reasonable price of $30.
>>14296670
Too bad it's not voiced at all, while the Japs just got a remake of it that's fully voiced.
>>14296477
Why do they need a new engine anyway? I know Doddler did one for KnS 2 but that's because it had some interactive parts to it. Still seemed like overkill though.
It's a shame that MG didn't do it themselves, seems like the translator for KnS 2 and Yuri Ghosts really likes yuri.
>>14296747
Apparently there's no actual way to get the engine to work in english system locale.
>>14296337
>Koichoco - Going through finishing touches
Haha. My "Update: no updates" actually prompted them to do a real update. Guess I made the right decision. You're all quite welcome for that. I am, in fact, the savior of visual novels.
>>14296766
Can't they just make a wrapper around the game that opens it with applocale?
>half of /vn/ is about KnS 2 crack
>>14296747
Not voiced at all isn't quite correct. It has battle voices. They did a cool thing too, there's an unofficial patch for the Japanese voices on the internet and when you apply it, it actually becomes an option in the game. So they intended for people to do that even though they couldn't do it "officially."
>>14296772
applocale is often pretty buggy and doesn't work properly for many games.
>>14296785
Battle voices don't really count. I mean, there's a shitload of dialog in the game and none of them are voiced.
>>14296791
The voices probably would have been ridiculously expensive to license and there's no way the game would have been profitable for them if they decided to do that. Anyone who cares is going to get the voice patch anyways.
>>14296794
The voice patch is still battle voices only though, he's talking about full voice acting for story scenes.
>>14296794
Remakes for FC and SC were released in Japan with fully voiced story dialog. They probably won't be patched in though.
And they can't get the license to other Falcom works either, which is unfortunate.
>>14296806
What do you mean by other Falcom works? I was under the impression that XSEED has had very little problem with that, aside from Gurumin which Mastiff still seems to own. They're even doing Xanadu Next.
>>14296820
I meant Japanese voice licenses. Their Sen no Kiseki is forced dub.
The way I see it, there is no point to learning Japanese once the Horizon light novels are fully translated.
>Hear about remake
>Look it up
Damn, wonder if XSEED might ponder porting the remakes too. At least on the bright side they wont have to translate all of the text again assuming the script is the same
Well, at least if I ever get a PSVITA and got that, I already will understand what is happening
>>14296878
good thing that will never happen
>>14296884
It's only impossible at the moment because the series is not yet finished. However, the translation is being worked on actively, so it is a guarantee that it will happen. Don't fucking underestimate light novel translations.
>>14296670
It's a fine game but is no more a visual novel than Dragon Quest. I've played through it back in the day and I didn't notice it having that much more text than other JRPGs.
Most of that text must be item descriptions or something.
>>14296777
Holy shit ppl must buy the dam game.Doddler and crew barely make ends meat.I wouldn't be surprised if MG was actucally running from a trailer at this point.fucking /vn/ scum
>>14296777
Holy shit ppl must buy the dam game.Doddler and crew barely make ends meat.I wouldn't be surprised if MG was actucally running from a trailer at this point.fucking /vn/ scum
>>14297294
How will Doddler pay his lawyer fees if people don't buy KnS 2?
>>14296670
That's not France Shoujo. That isn't even a VN at all!
>>14297294
>Doddler and crew barely make ends meat.I wouldn't be surprised if MG was actucally running from a trailer at this point.fucking /vn/ scum
Every time someone pirates one of their games, money disappears from MG's bank account. It's no wonder they can't afford to have any marketing budget whatsoever.
Yesterday I was looking at various sources of VN news. I found out the following:
- Fruitbat Factory got the LB and Tomoyo After licenses.
- Eiyuu Senki to be released in less than two weeks.
- Sound of Drop was released.
- I saw a bunch of status updates for other Sekai stuff.
- Muv-Luv KS is still doing well.
- Zero Escape 3 got a name.
- A bunch of VNs are on sale on Steam.
Yet despite all of this, I did not even notice Kara no Shoujo 2 was released/about to be released (even if you ask me now, I don't know what the release date was). The only reason I even knew it was being translated, and the reason I now know it is released, is this very thread. Outside of this thread, I very rarely heard about it at all.
>>14297405
>Every time someone pirates one of their games, money disappears from MG's bank account
Yeah sure, buddy. And torrenting is no different than mugging them at gunpoint and taking money straight from their wallets in person, right?
>>14297437
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm
>>14297437
I'm sure that was said tongue-in-cheek, but piracy does have some of that effect. Sure, there's lots of people who would have never spent money either way, but there's also plenty of people who have the disposable income to buy it but if they can easily pirate it, they'll do that. The only reason to purchase a single-player game is if you feel some moral obligation to support the developer.
>>14297405
It's pretty depressing as the IG stuff gets so little coverage. Cartagra and KnS are the best games MG has released (or at least near the very top). KnS2 seems great from what I've played so far too.
Lets hope chuuni, moe or being a nukige are not requirements for games to do well in the west.
>>14297453
>but piracy does have some of that effect
No. No, it doesn't. The money they have right now is not decreased in any way by people pirating the game. It can harm their expected profits, but it can never reduce their current funds. Instead of bitching about how they're missing 'potential sales' due to piracy, they could focus on increasing sales in other ways - for example, the much, much larger number of missing potential sales because they're not freaking marketing the game at all. The only people that even know about the game are pirates (and a relatively small group of pirates at that). How can you expect to get any sales that way?
>>14296337
>Koichoco - Going through finishing touches
This can't be real.
>>14297502
Well, they posted an "update"
https://basicvntls.wordpress.com/2015/10/31/wrapping-up/
>>14297482
> Cartagra
This is pretty much the worst vn I've ever played.
>>14297508
>That doesn’t necessarily mean it’ll be released this month (if we find any major issues for example), but it does mean that there will be no more major changes.
So it is sometime between this month and never.
Rest of the post sounds like they have given up on it and just want it gone.
>>14297539
I dunno, I played Cartagra before KnS and liked it more. I felt like KnS was too unfocused and the mystery was practically solved 2/3 of the way into the game, it was just a matter of catching the guy. The true ending was just utterly unsatisfying as well, and it felt like a waste of time going through a second playthrough just to see it.
I actually felt more closure about Kazuna's safety than about Toko, and that was only because I had played Cartagra and was attached to her character.
I also liked how Cartagra had more comedy and it was naturally done as well. It had its flaws with the little sister solving everything herself and the infodump of the true ending, but it was a satisfying read.
Hello friends, to commemorate the release of Kara no Shoujo 2 in English, here's an interview with Innocent Grey's Sugina Miki from last week's Tech Gian. Enjoy reading.
>>14297539
Have you tried the Sakura VNs? Anyway, I'm one of the few that liked Cartagra way more than KnS since it was pretty much a self-contained story and that it didn't leave me stuck and needing a walkthrough since I forgot to click a pixel.
>>14297587
That's there >>14297575
>>14297588
Also here's the associated illustration.
>>14297539
Meh, I liked Cartagra more then KnS. I'd be interested to hear what you specifically didn't like.
>>14297592
That's the cover art for KnS 3 right? Is that a character from 1 or 2? It's kind of hard to tell.
>>14297542
>sounds like they have given up on it and just want it gone
That's pretty much what it is.
>>14297568
So is there any info about the premise of KnS 3?
>>14297688
Get fucking ready. It's coming.
>>14297601
It's a girl he drew with the theme of winter in his mind.
>>14297665
He just says that the scenario for KnS3 is moving towards completion and that after the Flowers series is finished, they'll start fully working on it.
>>14297688
He is worse than herkz.
>>14297294
At least they need to do some work to crack it since no precracked exe yet.
Softdenchi DRM is pretty shit though, if all it takes is a few NOPS to bypass.
>>14296338
Higurashi Hou - Watanagashi is scheduled for a November 14th release. According to Conjurer's twitter, Tokyo Babel (TL: ~66%). And Cafe confirmed on his twitter that Myth is at 62%.
>>14297405
>- Fruitbat Factory got the LB and Tomoyo After licenses.
>- Eiyuu Senki to be released in less than two weeks.
>- Sound of Drop was released.
>- I saw a bunch of status updates for other Sekai stuff.
>- Muv-Luv KS is still doing well.
>- Zero Escape 3 got a name.
>- A bunch of VNs are on sale on Steam.
You have a point, why doesn't MG just go all-ages, since those are all of the games that get press coverage.
>>14297488
You're right. MG should just abandon their current non-all-ages audience, since so many are inclined to pirate and just focus on Steam, since those people actually pay money. People who don't pay have no right to complain because you're not a potential customer.
>>14297765
Viva la all-ages.
>>14297765
> MG should just abandon their current non-all-ages audience
I believe their nukige sell pretty good.
>>14297765
>>14297770
Your possessions are being taken from you and you are forced to watch.
>>14297775
Soon all licensing choices will be made to appeal to people like NarutoFan 96 and ILoveBleach 2001.
>>14297781
That's how the weeaboo world outside of /jp/ is. No point in fighting against it.
>>14297788
Soon I'll have all the chuunige I've ever desired. HAHAHA
>>14297724
I see you are posting my screenshot, yeah pretty easy
>>14297838
Kill yourself, facebookfag redditor.
>>14297877
Yeah, that's just not going to happen anon, I know the thought of anyone going anywhere besides 4chan must crush you but you are just going to have to go fuck yourself and get the fuck over it.
>>14297880
savage m80
>>14296820
The Evolution releases with voices aren't made by Falcom, they'd have to license with additional companies and it'd be prohibitively expensive.
>>14296342
Sekai project announced the port of Uchi no Koneko-chan.
https://vndb.org/v18185
>>14298152
Kickstarter when?
>>14298157
When they realize that $57,000 is too high a goal for a port of a mobile vn.
Sekai's kickstarters look like they're loosing steam. And you can't say it's because lack of interest about vns on kickstarter, because Muv Luv is breaking records.
>>14298172
>A mix of dedicated fan translators and professional translators from Japan will work directly with the creators of Muv-Luv series to ensure the highest quality translation for this release.
How much is "he who must not be named" getting paid for this?
>>14298185
Ixrec or Dovac?
>>14298199
Yes.
The visual novel boom in the west might start slowing down once Steam sales have finally stabilized.
>>14298209
Part of the blame should be placed on all the shit vns and oelvns that have flooded Steam and convinced people that those are representative of vns.
>>14298209
Winged Cloud flooded Steam with countless low quality crap so that is what most Steam users associate VNs with. Thanks to the retards who bought their games saying it's for the community. You just shat on your hobby.
>>14298220
Maybe higher quality works being released on a regular basis might help salvage the situation, but yeah, the days a vn could easily sell 20k+ copies at full price are long over.
>>14297765
MangaGamer's 18+ distribution store is quite important to MangaGamer, as it gives Japanese publishers a reason to go with MangaGamer. Compare to Sekai Project where the Japanese companies have found it trivial to cut out the middle man.
>>14298261
Any Japanese publisher could just throw a vn onto dlsite or create their own website. And it took Koihime Musou a year to sell 2,000 copies, which included copies from its first hard copy run, so it's not like sales numbers on their site are all that impressive. 18+ patches are also becoming expected, so people don't want to pay extra for the 18+ content.
>>14298243
What days were those? No VN over 20k did its sales at price points higher than $10. People buying Sakura Spirit, Nekopara, or GoGoNippon was never representative of sales for full priced VNs.
so is the group that's going to be translating the mub rub stuff for the kikestarter the same one that was responsible for fucking up that 6 minutes line?
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>>14298463
Yep.
Praise the flame.
>>14298503
well damn, I feel bad about giving them my money now
>>14297179
Are you sure you played the right game? There are lots of Legend of Heroes games. Sora no Kiseki 2nd is renowned for its absolutely absurd length, and no, it's not item descriptions, it's actual story text. It also has very difficult Japanese to translate, like 手工業の導力化は、労働力の集約を経ずして生産性を向上させ、中世的な職人組合を企業化し、多種多様な製品を安定して市場へ供給する体制を築き上げていった。 so that makes it an even bigger undertaking. And imagine bugtesting a game of this size. They have a blog post going into depth about that as well.
Found an image about the amount of text in this series.
>>14298572
Because if there's one thing everyone always says about Japanese games, it's that they're not needlessly wordy enough.
>>14298463
>>14298561
Not surprised that an idiot that types in such a stupid way was dumb enough to throw money at a Kickstarter without even knowing what he's supporting.
>>14298582
Who cares what those retards say? Because that's the thing, it's not even needless. It is a DAMN good story. Any moron who generalizes about Japanese games like that should be kicked in the nuts and off a cliff.
>>14298572
Is the translator of that game okay? Does he need a life time supply of multi-vitamins?
>>14298588
Missing the point, ft. You
Let us laugh at Muv-Luv kickstarter supporters for 1. Muv-Luv devs using translators that don't know Japanese 2. Being released Degica which has more than enough money to localize without needing kickstarter in the first place (http://store.steampowered.com/search/?publisher=Degica) and 3. Indirectly supporting SP.
>>14298590
This is what happened to the first person to attempt to translate that game.
http://www.carpefulgur.com/drakblog/?p=53
>>14298590
He did try to kill himself mid-project. And I'm not even joking.
>>14298614
Well, at least half the money is going towards fulfilling physical rewards. The average pledge is over $170 now.
I pledged since they had Vita physical.
>>14298091
Oh, if Falcom didn't make them they aren't worth doing anyway. You know what happened with the Gagharv trilogy and the old Ys games.
>>14298590
All JRPGs have gotten ridiculously bloated with bullshit in recent years. This one just happens to be slightly more bloated than others and took twice as long to translate.
>>14298651
This JRPG is over a decade old, idiot.
>>14298619
>>14298620
Um, well, that was unexpected. Not sure if I should make a Recettear joke or not.
>>14298658
No, dipshit, it's not.
Nor do I see how "It was ahead of its time in doing shit wrong" is an argument in its favor.
>>14298668
>June 24, 2004
HURR DE DURR
And there is no such argument because it didn't do anything wrong.
>>14298676
Wrong game, fuckface.
>>14298668
He's replying to the recent years comment. Some JRPGs have always been longer than others. Dragon Quest series is one of them.
>>14298678
Oh, so you really don't know anything about the series, because they are two parts of a whole. And yet you're trying to talk shit like the shithead you are.
Really shows how shit your argument is when the best you can do is try and split hairs, which instead reveals your idiocy.
>>14298666
Well, this is the same guy who equates the word "loli" with pedophilia, so it's hard to feel as sorry for him as I should, shitty as it sounds.
>>14298690
>entire conversation is about SC
>PSYCHE, I meant FC for release date, but using SC's script
Child, go back to eating paint.
>>14298680
And nowadays, EVERYTHING is bloated with a ridiculous amount of text; Tales, Neptunia, Fire Emblem, Final Fantasy, etc. It's not that much text compared to JRPGs of recent years because they've nearly all gone the way of endless parades of 30 minute cutscenes. In the half-decade that it took SC to be localized, professional translators without mental problems and with more than fucking Recettear under their belts turned out two or three that much text.
And claiming that something is good because it has a lot of words is asinine on its face. Having a lot of words does not make something special, nor is it even noteworthy anymore.
>>14298702
And you go right to ad hominem. Pathetic.
>>14298739
Learn the difference between invective and ad hominem, dumbass. Feel free to look up the fallacy fallacy while you're at it too because your education is clearly badly lacking.
>>14298738
You are seriously underestimating the amount of text in SC just because you think "those dang Japanese anime games are just too darn long!" Certainly, there are plenty of JRPGs with a lot of text. But this goes far beyond that. Name a SINGLE, JUST ONE, JRPG that beats the amount of text in the image in >>14298572. I'll wait.
Furthermore, I'm saying it's good from experience. Trails in the Sky is the quintessential example of how to write a story that has a lot of words but doesn't feel needlessly meandering. This is a game that shows exactly why it's good for JRPGs to have so much text.
>>14298759
>name a single RPG that beats the amount of text in these three combined
Bitch, please
>>14298750
And ignore that idiot's post, it wasn't me.
>>14298763
I thought I wouldn't have to clarify that I meant SC and was just pointing at the image for your convenience. Apparently I was mistaken.
>>14298771
Okay, Zero no Kiseki.
Are you done waiting?
>>14298775
Are you being this obtuse on purpose?
>>14298782
So you didn't mean SC after all.
>>14298627
Vita version of a kickstarter associated with Sekai Project, kek.
>>14298786
I did mean SC because we're talking about translated games. But then you were all "Tee hee, Zero no Kiseki."
So, think they'll consider porting over the remakes of Sora no Kiseki at some point? Or at least like, port over the improvements
>>14298797
Pretty depressing that there are STILL people falling for SP's Vita version lies, even after all this time. I get it happening elsewhere because people are stupid, but you'd think people in this very thread would know better.
>>14298806
With the revelation that those versions aren't by Falcom, I doubt it's worth doing. HOWEVER, if the games sell well enough that XSEED decides it's profitable, I would not be surprised if they tried to negotiate something anyway. They're certainly cool with porting over improvements - for example, Ys I & II Chronicles on Steam is a combination of all the best things from the different ports of that game to make the best version possible. It even lets you choose the art and stuff, so they could probably do that with Trails.
>>14298811
It's okay though since Muv-Luv is horrible.
>>14298805
>I did mean SC because we're talking about translated games.
We weren't, but your argument is equally retarded then, because all you're claiming is that it's the longest translated game. That doesn't address a single thing I've said. It's not twice as long as something like Tears to Tiara 2. It just took about five times longer to be translated.
>>14298851
I wasn't claiming it was the longest one, just that there are VERY few that can beat it in length, so I challenged you to name one and prove you know what you're talking about. You're right, Tears to Tiara 2 is pretty goddamn long and it's a miracle it even got translated. But cases like that are exceedingly rare. Even still, you could make the case that the Japanese in Trails SC is far more difficult.
>>14298851
>>14298868
chill out anons
>>14298891
I don't remember this. Is it from the OVA? Haven't watched that yet.
>>14298868
You could, but since it continues to have nothing to do with what I was talking about, I don't know why you would.
Having a script the size of a dozen plus novels is common now. Five years ago, Dragon Age made the same claim that it was a dozen novels worth. GTA5's script is 3,500 pages long. Writing and voicing is cheap, so while games, especially JRPGs of the Namco and Idea Factory variety, can't dazzle people with gameplay or writing, they pad them out with bullshit. Using length as an objective metric of any kind of quality is bullshit.
You know, Little Busters h-scenes sound creepy as fuck. Riki looks like he's ten years old or something. In the anime he even has one of the girliest female voice actors out there who has literally never played a male character outside of that one. Why exactly would I want to see that little kid having sex with girls who are probably twice his age?
>>14298827
The full voiceovers likely are too expensive to port over sadly, though, fans usually find a way...i hope
>>14298908
I don't mind to see him having sex with Kud, though.
>>14298908
Riki has the same voice in the VN (same VA as Rin, if I recall correctly), though his normal lines aren't voiced (but you can hear him in the minigames and stuff).
Also, Komari definitely isn't twice his age.
>>14298908
Don't you want to see him fuck that retard, Komari?
>>14298702
SC was 2006 though, so he still has a point. They're two parts of a whole game too.
>>14298572
my courage to someday play the evo games in japanese has diminished
>>14298797
Well, is it being published on Sony/PSN under Sekai Project or is Degica doing it? That makes a pretty big difference in who's actually in charge of the project and port.
They're also releasing the Japanese version on Vita in a few months, so it seems like they have the console port handled.
>>14298908
They made an entire game solely for fucking Kud.
>>14298905
Um, okay, but you realize Kiseki games actually have really good writing, right? And while the fact that they use complicated Japanese doesn't mean much on its own, it helps to show just how much effort they put into the writing. Also, neither Dragon Age nor GTA5 are Japanese.
>>14298956
Doubt you'd have made it very far, considering how you type.
>>14298920
quite impossible. vita hasn't even been cracked, how would they get the audio files? and then there's the issue of inserting thousands if not tens of thousands of them.
for reference, the F/HA voice project is literally recording each line through vita audio-out, manually cutting recordings into clips, and inserting code to play each clip at the appropriate time. trails fans are not that crazy
>>14298976
Eat a dick, Moogy.
>>14298940
Riki's voice actor in the anime is Yui Horie, so it is definitely not the same VA.
By the way, does anyone else find it amusing that they call the version without h-scenes "Perfect Edition"? Seems their opinion is pretty clear. It's just that nobody can resist easy sex money.
>>14298984
>trails fans are not that crazy
XSEED might be, haha. The problem is they don't have the money or resources for that.
>>14298984
Things like these tempts me to get both a PSVITA on top of my plans to get a 3DS...at least I do hope I have a working knowledge of Japanese, money, and also knowing what is already happening before hand when I get them
>>14298968
It has nothing to do with Sekai Project. Degica's community manager used to work for SP or something, which people are obsessed with, but it means nothing for how the Vita port will turn out.
>>14299022
Vita's probably the one you want to get first because until you learn Japanese, you can play all the games that are in English since there's no region lock (PSP games too, though I guess you could also just emulate those right now). 3DS, you'd have to get a Japanese one.
>>14299030
Anyone smart enough to distance themselves from Sekai Project is good in my book. That just increased my respect for Degica.
Makes me sad that the Neko Kawaigari project has been dead for years.
>>14299030
He's developing a game and SP is the publisher.
>>14299077
Yo momma's developing a game and SP is the publisher.
>>14297482
That's somewhat depressing since KnS is rubbish.
Their best games are ef and Suika. Myth will probably join the rank as being one of their best, too.
>>14299092
What's so rubbish about KnS? Just the thing about it being a copy? Listen, if you copy one of the best things ever, the thing you make is also one of the best things ever. That is how it works.
>>14297724
What is going on in this screenshot
>>14299101
He posted a fresh one.
>>14299101
People learning how to use ollydbg to do babby's first DRM crack
Some of the worst people I've seen on the internet are people with cropped eroge sex scenes as their Steam avatars. Literally all of them talk in this LCD worst part of 4chan way, with horrible use of greentext.
>>14299051
They aren't distancing themselves from SP at all though. They're still very much in bed together, advertising each other's shit, etc.
>>14299118
Advertising each other's shit on Twitter doesn't mean anything. SP advertised for Trails in the Sky SC's release, does that mean they're in bed together?
>>14297294
It's ok, Doddler can now count on Trudeau to take care of his every need.
>>14299120
Hell, SP advertises for MangaGamer's stuff. I suspect their CEO is a madman.
I like making stupid puns for no reisen.
>>14299120
SP made a tweet about it. That's a far cry from sharing staff and sharing advertising.
>>14299097
Did you not think the true ending was immensely fucking retard? Instead oflooking for the kidnapped girl who is clearly in dangerthe protag decides toessentially take a nice vacation while finding out about her past.
Even if you ignore that there are tons of amazing coincidences and utter bullshit.
Let's talk about Orihime,we're told that she has body guards always watching her, iirc. Yet, somehow she gets kidnapped and murdered. Where did her body guards go?
After that you have these amazing coincidences where just about every victim is someone the protag personally knows. What a coincidence! You'd almost be lead to believe that the perp is doing it to fuck with him but nope. Just shit writing.
>>14299150
> Let's talk about Orihime
I like more how they boldly fucked in nurse office in school in broad daylight.
>>14299106
not seeing it
>>14299130
Underrated post.
Hello former contractor for a certain unnamed company.
I'm posting this to tell you the truth about why no physical version games have been released. Quite simply there's no more money left. I wasn't even paid for the work I did and I am willing to bet that I was not the first person that they didn't pay.
I even heard that they couldn't even pay royalty payments to the game's they got. It's why all their partners have been dropping them.
Don't be surprised if they pack up and disappear in the next few months.
>>14299514
I thought their partners were paid based on sales. How the hell do they keep getting new Japanese partners? Bad news travels fast in Japan. If true, I guess all the extra funds went to Narcissu.
Looks like we won't be getting Subahibi until next year.
>>14299553
An anonymous post on a board known for shitposting isn't the best place for serious, yet unfounded accusations
'Hello, I'm the former son of a certain unnamed (dick)head of a certain unnamed company, and I'm here to tell you all about the nefarious practices my (s)ex dad got up to behind closed doors. Acts which involve your pledged kickstarter and expensive anthropomorphic hookers...'
>>14299625
Especially when this board has a boner for shitting on SP
>>14299625
That's why I said, "If true". It's mostly wishful thinking on my part.
>>14299514
Is this why they've been hiring a bunch of new staff?
>>14299600
Yes, next year. Right.
>>14299514
You should apply at MG. Their rates might be lower but they actually pay on time.
>>14299778
What is it, like 1/4 the pay for a real translator job?
>>14299788
Don't forget also having to work on amateur garbage instead of anything you might actually want to translate. Aru's already said that after finishing Haruka, instead of translating anything he wants, he's just going to work on whatever MG throws him. Nukige to more nukige in hopes of maybe, someday, years from now, getting to see someone else translate what he could've just done himself.
>>14299813
That's not true at all. You might have to work on something you're not into for your first game, but almost all of MG's TLs are working on things they requested now.
>>14299813
I never said I had no choice.
When will MG partner with these guys?
And why does Google Translate do this?
>>14299876
A man chooses. A slave obeys.
>>14299876
When are you going to finish the anime?
>>14299881
Which dictionary is that? That's pretty outdated.
>>14299881
Because Google Translate is crowd sourced. If someone/enough people suggest a better translation for a line, it uses that. In this case, for that specific scream, someone put in Cowabunga as a better translation for it, so now it associates the rare case where a scream is written in that exact way as Cowabunga because it's not common enough for it to get fixed by someone else.
>>14299897
If you're asking about the Rance 01 OVAs, probably never.
>>14299912
Google's botnet
>>14299876
Yes, you're choosing to work on their garbage for peanuts instead of anything you care about.
>>14299126
When have they ever done that? The only case I could think of is when Sekai publishes all-ages oelvns on Steam that MG hosts the adult versions of. No One But You is an example of this.
>>14299881
>>14299928
That's hilarious
>>14298627
He left out the part where 95% of the extras are things that are like half the price in Japan.
>>14298908
She did another boy or two this year.
>>14299132
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/muvluv/muv-luv-a-pretty-sweet-visual-novel-series/posts/1370571
>Last but not least, we wanted to give a quick shoutout to our friends at Sekai Project.
They're responsible for bringing many top visual novels to the West and they've really paved the way. They've been incredibly supportive of our project and have helped us in numerous ways. Thank You Sekai Project! They're currently running a Kickstarter for "Witch boy Magical Piece". You can check that out here.
>>14299788
Literary translators are paid horribly considering the amount of work they do
>>14300131
And VN translators are paid only a fraction of what they are.
>>14300125
I'm sure SP advised them about the KS since they have experience with running campaigns. In the end, their campaign was great and they communicated well with the fans, unlike SP's shitty PR. I don't see a problem with it.
>>14300138
Do they get paid 10¢ a character like dovac says?
>>14300154
So if I translated France Shoujo
5.51 MB script = 2,750,000 characters
I can come out with a cool $275k?
>>14300154
As far as I know, video game translators for the games that actually sell, like Persona, are paid around 5¢ a character.
10¢ a character is more of a wage you'd get translating highly technical manuals, so dovac is either clueless or lies.
>>14300154
You misunderstood dovac. He said that translators deserve 10c per character, not that that's what he's paying. He's also said that his teams 'enthusiasm' allows them to come in much under the normally required costs for localization. Or, in more natural english, he pays them considerably less.
>>14300154
>>14300205
Well, he both misunderstood Dovac, AND that's not what Dovac said. He said they pay 1¢ per character.
>>14300217
Excuse me, to clarify, he said that other VN devs pay around 1 cent per character, but refused to say what he paid.
>>14300205
Or in other words buying a fan translation is way cheaper than hiring a translator.
>>14300222
>>14300217
https://www.reddit.com/r/visualnovels/comments/2fs8t8/some_questions_about_the_economics_of_translations/
Both Doddler and Dovac (now deleted) saying the usual MG rate is around $.01 per character.
>>14300177
>>14300217
How's 27,500 to translate France Shoujo?
>>14300242
That's what you'd earn for your probably 2-3 years of work if MG paid you to do that.
Why didn't MG translate this into referencing Gamergate? Missed opportunity tbqh
>>14300235
>Da Capo 3 is extremely long at 1.8m characters
You would think Kouryuu would hurry the hell up so he can get paid.
>>14300369
Please don't, any MG translator that is reading this. It's bad enough that Funimation had to do this shit.
>>14300382
What, don't you want cool memes like 'Such ruin. Much ancient.' in your game, bro?
>>14296670
>>14298572
Is it a good jrpg?
>>14300390
In 10 years somebody is going to play that game and ask themselves why the translation has such bad grammar.
>>14300394
Not if you're looking for interesting gameplay.
>>14300369
>tbqh
You're a fucking faggot desu.
>>14300394
My question as well. Also thinking of getting Tears to Tiera II. Though, apparently, that game has like an hour longs worth of dialog so you can't save in between. Only before and after. Bad design.
>>14300405
Is the story generic too?
>>14300410
TtT 2 is good but the completion rate should tell you something about it. Less than 20% of players got halfway through the game. It's a bit of a slog, the SRPG battles are long too.
Those hour long dialogs don't happen all the time.
>>14299813
>>14299935
This is complete bullshit and you are full of shit. We're doing Agreement rather than Bullet Butlers or Evolimit specifically because BDH wanted to work on it. We practically have free reign with our partners, with Alicesoft being the exception because they're a pretty haughty company.
>>14300411
TtT II does some very unique things with the story that make it far from generic, but I'm not going in depth for some idiot who thinks generic is a legitimate criticism.
>>14300444
Sorry, said TtT because I was looking at the posts about TtT while I typed that. I mean Trails, but by coincidence it applies to TtT too.
>>14300439
Relax, MGer. It's well known that the translators get to choose some of the VNs they translate (not all because they have to throw MG a bone(r) from time to time). They talk about which VNs they like quite frequently and it's no coincidence that it is also the VNs they are assigned to.
>>14300444
Can't wait for Utaware to be localized
I wonder how much the translator at Atlus got paid for doing text-heavy work like TtT 2? Probably a lot better than VN companies right?
>>14300453
Is that Aruru and Eruru, or whatever their names are?
>>14300439
Yeah, you have free reign.
Of your partners' catalogs.
Except for the games they've licensed to someone else.
And the games that your partners can't give you the license to.
And the games that have been decided to be financially unviable.
But you have free reign to pick from about 10 unnotable moege and 50 nukige.
>>14300461
No, those are new characters in the sequel
Nekone and Kuon (related to Hakuoro)
There's some returning characters though.
>>14300390
>>14300398
Except it's "So ancient. Such ruin." which actually sounds just fine. Talking in sentence fragments isn't exactly unusual for a character quirk, and it has nothing to do with memes. Look at how Mordin from Mass Effect talks. And he is a very intelligent character.
>>14300469
That drunkard is one of my favorite characters.
>>14300465
Are you the "boo hoo shills" idiot?
>>14300477
Uh oh, he's still here.
>>14300477
If the character in question talked like that all the time, like Mordin, it'd be acceptable. The screenshot would indicate otherwise, however, so it really is just memes for the sake of memes.
>>14300439
As if you didn't want Haruka in the first place.
It shits all over pretty much everything you have ever released.
>>14300497
This. It was a hamfisted attempt at adding memes to be "funny".
>>14300405
That's very rarely the reason people play JRPGs anyway (although there certainly are JRPGs with interesting gameplay). Trails is the kind of JRPG you play when you want to sit down, crack open a bear [sic], and read for a while. In other words, it is practically a VN, which is why it has somehow managed to be the majority of the discussion in this visual novel translation status thread.
>>14300497
The screenshot indicates absolutely nothing, because it is a single fucking example. Unless you've actually seen other examples of this guy talking you really cannot make that claim.
It's most likely that this is a meaningless NPC that doesn't have any other lines in the game and so it's perfectly reasonable to believe that he's just a dude that talks like Mordin in the NA translation.
>>14300504
I play JRPGs for the storylines anyways. The gameplay is just a nice break for me. Unless it truly sucks (I'm looking at you first Neptunia game), then I don't mind if the gameplay is generic.
>>14300518
Unless, of course, you've played a highly hyped and advertised Nintendo game. But almost nobody's done that so how would anybody know?
>>14300477
>"So ancient. Such ruin." which actually sounds just fine
Stop pissing on the Queen's English
>>14300518
This is one dedicated baiter. Too bad he's not fishing in empty waters though.
>>14300523
I cannot imagine many people here being interested in this particular game since it's a particularly casual Zelda title. But sure, if you've played it, feel free to tell us what else this guy says.
>>14300382
>>14300390
Myth is going to have a doge meme in it. Tweet at Cafe telling him he's a gay.
>>14300439
Next time don't let BDH make business decisions.
>>14300521
Yeah, that is definitely the main appeal. And at least Neptunia fixed things with the remake of the first one, thankfully, so it's good they understand what they did wrong.
For the record, though, Trails actually does have some fairly solid gameplay in the middle of its story, even though the story is still the biggest draw. They're kind of like mini-SRPG battles. It also has an amazing battle theme, let me hook you up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bekkP37HcC0
>>14300547
>fixed things
Yeah, now it's just terrible instead of completely unplayable.
>>14300547
I gotta give XSEED credit for sticking with this franchise. I don't think the first game sold all that well. They seemed to have improved sales with Steam and GOG.
>>14300568
Why are you such a negative Nancy?
>>14300577
Why is Compile Heart so bad at programming, optimization, and game design?
>>14300575
They're a cool company. They probably realized that it was unwise to expect much from PSP sales, especially once they started putting Ys and stuff on Steam and saw how much better it did.
>>14300581
Because they pour all their resources into #1 waifu Nep-Nep.
>>14300585
Then why are her games so poorly programmed, optimized, and designed?
>>14300582
The first game is on sale for $9.99 at both places if anybody is interested.
>>14300590
Because you're playing them wrong. Read this helpful guide for more information.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=383658871
>>14300590
Remember how Disgaea's director going over meant their games would start being good? And then he made Trillion and all expectations for that disappeared.
>>14300616
Lol at anyone ever expecting anything good out of NIS.
I'm surprised to see the Neptunia hate. You realize we're talking about Re;Birth and not the old games, right?
>>14300637
Obviously. Are you?
>>14300668
Yes? Neptunia is a weird series, it kind of got more chances than it deserved to make its games good, because apparently people will buy it no matter what, but eventually it got it right. Pretty nice that they actually cared instead of continuing to phone it in.
>>14300691
>it kind of got more chances than it deserved to make its games good,
Yep.
>but eventually it got it right
Nope.
>instead of continuing to phone it in.
The very picture of denial.
