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This thread is for the discussion of untranslated Japanese visual novels.
What are you playing? What are you looking forward to? What have you finished? You know the drill.
Finished Chaos;Child
Continuing from >>15197207
The 4 routes are nothing special and their pacing is sometimes really bad.
You can think of them as a fandisk to the common route with some revelations.
Kazuki route is pretty fun though.
The true route did deliver and the ending was satisfying to me.
Overall the game is good and really entertaining (most of the common route at least) but it really shouldn't have been this long.
>>15214981
>allage
>>15214984
speaking of which, the PC version is all age but the ps4 and xbox one is 18+ but I don't think they have hscenes.
Anyone know what changed? I tried looking for the CG set for PS4/XBOX but didn't find one.
>>15215011
>Anyone know what changed
The guys who rated the game.
Now that's different.
>>15214981
>acing is sometimes really bad
Pacing is great. Reading is not boring from beginning to the end. Huge improvement over Chaos;Head.
>Kazuki route is pretty fun though.
Stupid parody bullshit, like retarded manzai or something. One and only truly bad route.
>The true route did deliver
Boring info dump for the sake of info dump. Not even a route. Not garbage but the big disappointment.
Sorry, but do you guys know how to read a xp3 file with a mac? I hear its a popular file type for エロゲ.
Any torrent for D.U.O. ~Song for All~?
This game looks so cool
>>15215143
VMWare.
>>15214888
I'd be fucking mad if he didn't, Konami is definitely one of the best characters in the game, if not actually the best.
The "ougi" makes her too unbalanced though, her お家流 was already too overpowered.
>>15215143
Install Windows.
>>15215156
>>15215216
So the only way is to read it with a Windows OS?
![NW5KyYjZt90[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/pzByRrS.jpg "NW5KyYjZt90[1].jpg")
>>15215118
I'd agree with the anon you replied to apart from his sentiments about the true route.
Pacing wise the side heroine routes were indeed fucked and most of them had no interesting or plot relevant stuff going on. Like he said, at least half of them could have been optional fan disc content and it wouldn't have made a slick of difference for the main plot. They felt like a huge waste of time and opportunities, because they could have utilized f.ex.Haida Riko being captured alive or Uki actually real-booting Takuru's wish into realityas interesting ways of making the main murder mystery unfold in a completely different manner, with new revelations regarding the main plot. Instead they had side plots with no relevance to main story. EvenNono's route, which I liked was basically just a red herring and only relevant stuff was it somewhat fleshing out Serika's feelings.
Hana's route was really weird and I initially disliked it too, but it managed to turn the silliness into something awesome by taking it to the absolute extremes, helped by the best track in the entire game playing during that one scene. In addition, unlike other heroines,her route also actually had at least some stuff relevant for the true route as it properly introduced Wakui. Though I'm sure that too could have been woven into the common or true route somehow.
True route was extremely disappointing for me because I was expecting the plot elements revealed in the side heroine routes to actually get used somehow. When the credits started rolling my first reaction was "wait, what? that's it?". It's especially bad when you consider the game's main climax was already in the common route's ending, then you're forced to play side heroine routes with almost zero relevancy to anything, and when you expect the new things introduced in those side heroine routes to finally get utilized somehow the game laughs at you and just ends, because the true "route" is just more of a short epilogue. I understand that the game wantedto be all feely about Takuru and the heroines refusing their delusions, but we didn't need fucking 4 side routes full of nothing for it.
>>15215208
Komani is easily top 3 from what I've seen so far. The oni themselves are unbalanced to begin with so I don't consider it unfair play against them, although it's blatantly unfair against humans.
>her お家流 was already too overpowered.
If it had a much longer range it would trump basic mobile phones which is ridiculous.
>>15215574
Dude why are you calling her "Komani" in all of your posts?
>>15215582
Probably because I ignore spelling mistakes automatically when it comes to Japanese names, Guess I've gotten too reliant on spellcheck. Although I don't know why I spelt it wrong in the first place
>>15215151
Literally impossible to find
>>15215615
I just wondered if its some kind of joke I missed because you said it like 3-4 times, no problem.
>>15215624
If It was a joke then I wouldn't have made a mistake like "Konmani". Also is this the costume Konami was wearing while she was searching for information?
>>15215643
Yes, though they don't show it in the game.
>>15215675
That's disappointing, I was hoping it might show up later.
>>15215682
I guess they decided to save a couple scenes like this for their mangas. Currently there are 5 of them and one visual artbook, their quality is pretty great so I'd recommend them, specially the artbook. Cant wait for the X's one.
>>15215151
I have that game, can upload if you really want it just not today
Anyone here played School of Fantasia? I'm thinking of starting some VN/Rpg hybrid and I stumbled over this one.
The protagonist of Island is really fucking annoying.
>>15215792
Sure, that would be great.
What is taste of lemon kiss.
>>15216638
Tohsaka's anus
>>15216638Lemon
>>15214568
Purely x cation is a nukige.
>>15215729
Is this a nukige?
>>15218095
yes
an 60+ hours long one
>>15218260
Why does a nukige have an all ages version?
>reading lovely cation 2
>protagonist says his birthday
>it's the exact same as mine
>stunned I screenshot it and go to share
>realize last moment that you input your own birthday into the game
>>15218484
Finished OwaSekai on my actual birthday, got honestly one of the nicest birthday surprises I've ever had.
Not entirely sure if that's a compliment to the game or a dig at myself.
Amazing Japanese programming strikes again. Playing 二重影 in Windows XP Mode and it takes 100% of the virtualized CPU just for doing nothing.
Is this the new Muv Luv in terms of serial milking?
I realize this has probably been mentioned to death but I just started noratoto and the voiced narration is really throwing me off. Feels like a nice middle-aged lady is reading me bedtime stories about what I assume will be wacky harem hijinks with tits.
Does it improve or go away or do they use it for jokes or something? Cause I'm already feeling a touch awkward and I'm not even sure why.
>>15218778
Hold on I might be utterly retarded and should just shut up and read
Why was this thread made so early the old thread is still up
>>15218977
To annoy you personally.
I cannot believe this fucking faggot.
Please tell me she has a route/ending at least.
>>15219555
Dude you don't need to spoil MLA everyone has read it already
>>15218778
Shut up and read, retard.
Im trying sakura no uta and well im up to the bit where they talk about akashi and the balloons I kinda dozed out and just skim.
However are they just repeating the same thing for a while? I mean they just keep mentjoning the same thibg over and over again. Am I missing something, am I reading too fast? That Im missing key differences fron each mention?
>>15218746
Not even close
>>15218484
Im also playing Lovely x Cation 2. What girl did you pick?
I went with Wakoto-sempai.
How long have you been reading vns?
For me about
2 or 3 years or so.
>>15218746
Isn't this their 3rd game? First they have to make 10 more to get shuffle, then they can fight against muvluv.
>>15218741
desu i didn't get past the first few minutes because it always fucking crash.
>>15220234
Did you update it to 1.01?
Never Island - dropped.
Very bad pacing.
>>15220258
I completely agree with you, but how long in it are you? If you're nearing the end of冬編(you can check from the flowchart) I'd suggest holding on as the true end was genuinely great. The part afterNever Islandis really short.
Also, if you're >>15219555 the one thing I can say is thatyou won't be disappointed.
>>15220217
12 years, give or take
>>15220217
Consistently for about 7 years, first one was about 15 years ago
Silent World is lighter than I expected, but I guess it'll get going in later chapters.
So I started コトバの消えた日 ～心まで裸にする純愛調教～, because I quite like the artstyle. I pretty much put all VNs with that "style" in my backlog at some point, if it's terrible I should find out fast, right? Yeah.
So I started it and it was nice. One girl was quite a bit to my liking, the music nice.. a nice build-up to a normal romance.
And then, just randomly after a few hours of completely normal content, everything changed. Without explanation. The protag got "horny" and figured the only way to get over that is show the heroine naked in front of all kinds of dudes and get off of her embarrassment, because she hates that (duh!).................................................... wtf? No explanation? Just randomly such a ... "twist"? That.. "solution" to feeling horny? You even get a nice link to her thoughts so you know for sure she hates it. Great! Where the fuck did all that come from all of a sudden?!?
Yeah, I haven't checked anything, or else I would've known it's about exhibition, but that wasn't even that. Getting off of humiliating a girl is.. not exhibition. I got trolled so hard by this shit.
tl;dr: Be careful what you add to your backlog. Holy shit.. it really seemed completely "normal" moege-ish at first.
>>15220358
Er, you just straight up didn't read any description of the game first? Or a description of any other KeroQ game either, because that should have been your first clue that it wasn't going to be a vanilla romance.
>>15220377
Maybe I wrote that a bit badly. It's not about it not being a "vanilla romance", but about HOW it pulled that shit out of its ass. The title is obviously there. I didn't know anything else than that though.
It's literally goes from "moege" to "random weird humiliation fetish for the heck of it" without any explanation or reason behind it. And not just a bit, but I got through like 1000 lines or so hoping to get SOME kind of connection to what was before that. Nope. It continues and continues. It's like a sudden genre shift without reason, explanation or anything.
I figured that it'd have some.. consistency. Which is why I wrote "if it's terrible I should find out fast, right?". Or at least development I can follow. This however was just awful. I haven't actually dropped it yet in hopes that it will connect its parts, but holy shit. Not like this.
>>15220401
Well, that's what you get for reading something by KeroQ's B-team writers.
>>15220422
Hm yeah. I digged a bit around and this seems to be more "ero>anything", which is fine. It's just not the kind of ero that's really for me. If it's not connected enough with a story, I'm not going to have much fun with it.
Well, I only have me to blame here. Though I find the whole thing more funny than anything by now anyway. It's like the author just randomly lost interest in continuing the story and started some random fetish porn instead. Okay.
>>15215280
I agree with you in general (aside from side routes being bad because they're side routes), but word 'pacing' in my opinion defines flow of the story, drags in it. I didn't feel any, reading was fun. Though I fully agree about weak scenario leaving many things hanging in the air.
>【Lass】新作『Liber_7 -永劫の終わりを待つ君へ-』ですが、発売日を2016年10月28日に延期させていただくことになりました。
5 months delay,
>>15220695
And just 2 weeks before the supposed release announced. Whoops.
Was that "series" actually good back then? (as in 11eyes, 3days and Mayosube)
>>15220716
Good shock value.
Speaking of shock value, Sakura no Mori Dreamers is coming out this month.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWA9jriThfA
>>15220725
Hm, all of them? I actually like the more subdued atmospheric "horror" genre. Most VNs however go the "let's a lot of monsters rape girls" way, which isn't interesting in my opinion.
Sakura no Mori Dreamers I'll probably try, as there isn't really a lot similar like it I feel. Or at least I don't know much. Not sure about it being by Moonstone though..
>>15220190
Seine. I always gravitate towards tsunderes and kuuderes. Makes the love feel more real.
I'm trying School of Fantasia, but in windowed mode whenever I move the mouse inside the window, the fps go down to like 0 and it essentially freezes until I don't move the mouse anymore. In fullscreen with vsync this doesn't happen.
Anyone ever had this kind of issue with a VN? Seems weird as fuck.
>>15220217
26 years.
>>15221098
In case anyone ever plays this and googles it or whatever: Seems to be utterly random. Switching to fullscreen and back seems to fix it.. for a while. it's weird.
Awesome Japanese programming, just how I love it.
>>15215792
I'm still waiting, anon (waku-waku)
>>15221389
It's going very slowly because my connection shits itself once in a while
>>15220217
1.5 years. I've read 3 so far.
>>15221419
Thanks alot for your help.
Do people just not like adult heroines? Lovely Cation 1 had two but Lovely Cation 2 has none.
>>15221494
Almost all of the Cation games have a teacher heroine thankfully
>>15221518
Ironically, the best one had no teacher heroine.
LxC 2 not having a single teacher heroine is why it's only on par with the first game for me. Mark of shame in an otherwise excellent game.
>>15215729The Oni are going to interrupt this war right? Perfect opportunity to strike at the clan
Lovely Cation 2 has an easy mode and a normal mode. But, I struggle to imagine what easy mode would be like. Normal mode is already super easy, just buying whatever the girl mentions (Dragon Boy manga, Kamen Raiba dvd, etc) and continually visit wherever she frequents. There's less than no challenge here pretty much unless you have 0 reading comprehension and can't figure out you need to go where the girl you want to meet is to meet her.
>>15221901
It puts unnecessary pressure on me.
>>15221901
iirc Easy mode basically means you can get all the CGs without having the required stats/items.
>>15221901
And purely has you miss scenes on normal, without a walkthrough. While choices are easy, if you don't know which stats you need when, you'll probably fail some checks. You have almost 0 margin.
In other words the series simplified everything A LOT, but made everything way harsher in return? Heh.
>>15221947
Hmm, that seems like a pain. Not a fan of missing cgs
>>15221957
I can see that. I read a random book because it gave +5 in some stat and it ended up leading to an important scene. Though I've yet to be rejected by any girls.
>>15221744
If its same as all ages then nope, But I'm a little behind of you in X version. There are almost zero onis at that area. Hell Miku didn't even knew the existence of onis untilshe saves Kensuke.
Onis are strong and a big threat but its not like they are in everywhere of the country, at least not yet at that arc.
>>15221965
>Though I've yet to be rejected by any girls.
That's because you can't be.
>>15221970
>If its same as all ages then nope
Did this appear in the all ages version?
>>15222102
Nope, that character does not appear at all ages version.
>>15222116
Interesting.
>>15215151
>>15221389
https://mega.nz/#!8RhFTb6Q!fyDJF8mKxbAR5nkEpuGYLpxt3RIzJhpzlKWeRELpJuc
https://mega.nz/#!kM4RTYZa!SqMqaUp6QYwkYANNzpKPy17muNUl_MGx3-YKkxKogeI
https://mega.nz/#!MYgmDJBB!DTwBnB_Iee_i5yf6zqKDId4AbVHoFhJM8kj5qjw4HFs
https://mega.nz/#!8FQSkY4Z!O16ogekFvs1xY7gy53kqOKqrCDCFdgkUaMGyhQddefk
https://mega.nz/#!cBw0HDAY!gZez8SJDN3KbI58BvaeczT873PTKHb7jH22yZSvhzv8
https://mega.nz/#!hNghRDoA!Kf9L2MF5yeuGqbWH2rPeFMBnN5NWYfYqGZ0P7NVF7Eo
https://mega.nz/#!ZZJlkQwb!Lx7wfWhu4q6vi54T0W37Ue8IqcE7vE7lazsKtygL310
https://mega.nz/#!RcAiCS5L!SWG_rx7yqTybt6F6RzZZk4t3wdWjaw2qaU-iegO4RFI
https://mega.nz/#!1F4y0QrA!MMoYerqm9iTgPueFzysfAsgBv9LO8Xo6xcYFuZ2M91I
I can find some other rarities, if anyone is looking for something obscure I might be able to help as long as it's old and not too large
>>15222287
Thank you.
If u could search for https://vndb.org/v7265
Really obscure game with shoujo style drawings.
>>15222287
ty so much.
>>15222287
Thanks, grabbing this
>>15222287
Thanks for the upload. Do we have an online repo for stuff like this or is this the sort of thing that you have to just lurk every thread to see rare stuff get uploaded?
>>15222474
We had an FTP but it's gone.
>>15222471
Is this a nukige?
>>15222949
I think that's a dude.
I could be wrong though.
is Verethragna gud? I'm partial to card games, I like M&M's art, but I dont remember anyone ever commending Astronauts for their game systems. at a glance the card battles look like arterial, which iirc was decent enough. thoughts?
>>15221901
It's a nukige. It's not meant to be hard.
>>15223184
Is this a new meme?
>>15223189
Pretty old shitposting meme where people just call whatever they think is shit or has more than 3 eroscenes a "nukige". I've said it before and I guess I'll say it again-- never trust the (at the very least English-speaking) internet in type judging, take your own decisions.
>>15223261
Well, rather, don't trust strangers. It's fine to trust (to some degree) people you know.
>>15222488
VDZ's FTP? No it's not.
>>15223171
Good porn shitty gameplay
>>15222474tohno-chan.com/ddl/src/vn_list.txt
>>15223415
how's the story/characters?
>>15223451
That list looks extremely biased for popular games which are the least needing of DDL backups
>>15223483
That's all megaupload links anyways (which don't work as it's a dead site) and the newest version link is dead.
>>15223483
Hahahaha.
>>15221223
>>15220275
How old are you guys?
>>15222287
do you have 偽りの教室?
Are there any other places for talking about eroge?
>>15220355
Have you guys ever done like sessions where you guys play the same eroge? Other than new releases. This way people can talk about the same thing rather just random eroge that people might talk about or really popular or incredibly recent eroge.
>>15223859
whoops didn't mean to reply to
>>15223807
bbspink
>>15223859
No, that's not done here. Reddit does it.. for translated VNs.
>>15223881
Have it been considered here for untranslated stuff?
I mean I'm pretty sure there could be some stuff in people's backlogs that match up, that they could play together
>>15223859
Something similar happened with Noble Works some years ago, but this thread has "changed" since then.
>>15223859
Interesting, could be ways for people to try rarely known eroges.
>>15223389
how do I access it?
>Play eroge in public half naked or lewd scene comes or seems like its coming up.
>Cant play anymore
Some guy in my class asked if I watched hentai
>>15224141
Wait why did my post get deleted?
>>15224158
Wait what now its back, I know I saw the trash icon. Maybe a bug?
>>15224141
That's what you get for playing in public half naked.
>>15224112
I don't know about more official things but there's definitely phases where one person reads something and posts about it a bunch with a lot of praise and it ends up with a lot of people reading it at around the same time.
There's a couple things I'd be up to do it for but I don't spend much time reading VNs these days so it might take me a full month to finish a 30 hour one.
>>15224177
I meant a character was half naked but yeah.
>>15224140
ftp://vdzserver.org/
User and password same as the old one.
>>15224141
I rember somebody here was playing a nikuge in public, it was the one where you kidnap the kid and keep her as a slave
>>15224174
That's where it belongs.
How old is Kuon?
>>15224228
No I mean my post was deleted somehow and had the trash icon I commented then noticed that it came back.
>>15224241
How old are you
>>15224212
Which one is that? Sounds like something I should be playing.
>>15224241
Older than me.
>>15224373
Maybe clockups most recent game, 夏ノ鎖.
>>15224472
Buy it you filthy leech.
>>15224203
Not him, but I forgot the username and password.
Might be interested in some of the downloads.
So I just started Lovely Cation 2 and a lot of people seem to talk about needing stats for certain CGs and such. Are there hints in-game about what stats to get? Or is it pretty much impossible to get all CGs without easy mode or a guide?
>>15224483
Then you do not deserve to play it. Go get a job.
I downloaded Dies irae～Acta est Fabula～ from nyaa, but the included crack gives me this error.
Do I miss a step here or is Zarathustra required?
>>15220217
7 years but not continuously
>>15224483
>Thu
Get a job...
>>15223643
>>15222437
I might be able to get both, will post in a few days
All this talk about lovely cation 2 makes me think I should read it.
>>15224521
Want to post it for a fellow jobless poor man.
>>15224525
Someone uploaded it to mega, go check a few threads back.
I use a text hooker to quickly look up words in a dictionary. Please laugh at me.
>>15224542
Don't tell me what to do, faggot.
>>15224542
How much do you pay her?
chaos child h code when?
>>15222949
Yeah
妻みぐい3
>>15224489
>deserve
Spooky.
Is Island really as good as the vndb scores make it seem?
>>15224871
vndb scores are measures of opinion, not of quality.
EGS scores are measures of stema
>>15224492
You downloaded the append version.
Download the full Acta est Fabula from somewhere else.
>>15224241
Everyone is 18+ lad, even Mari
>>15224241
Island spoilers. If I'm not remembering these completely wrong.リンネ is 13 when the protagonist meets her in Never Island. She got pregnant during the one time they had sex, and gave birth after getting to Island (which happened before the protagonist), which is probably around a year (in her lifespan). 凛音's current lifespan is 17 when the protagonist meets her in Island, but she was in cold sleep and didn't age for 5 years. 13 + 1 + 17 + 5 = 36.
>>15224241
Which Kuon?
>>15225231
Who's this nukige?
>>15225377
Puramai Wars
Wouldn't call it a nukige
>>15224320
If you refresh too fast or the servers are being shitty and slow sometimes you'll see your own post but the board hasn't quite recognized it yet so it'll be marked as deleted but fix itself after a moment.
>>15225291>getting pregnant at 13
Is that even possible?
>>15225471There are girls getting pregnant at 9.
>>15225471
Girls can get pregnant at sub-10 years anon, 13 was probably the standard age back in ancient history
http://www.asa-pro.com/7th/
Can some kind anon give me a summary for pic related? I have no fucking idea what's going on.
>>15224713
u srs?
>>15225829
The four images describe various chapters of the story and stages of your relationship. It's a heavy NTR game, btw.
ランランラランアイランジャ～、戦えアイを守るため～
What an incomparable masterpiece. May Island take its rightful place as one of the greatest VNs ever written.
>>15225917
I think i worded it wrong. I meant a summary of the plot of the game. I know that it's NTR heavy but i have no idea how it lead to this and what happened in the end when basically everyone's fucking everyone. Thank you anyway but i meant a summary of the plot.
>>15225954
Well, you're a dude and someone fucks your wife
Nice little gundam.
>>15225920
waiting warmly for someone to make a video of all her アイランジャ lines.
How long in hours is the last route of Island?
>>15225779
I for one am excited.
>>15226238
You mean真夏編? I don't remember exact hours, but it's really short compared to everything else. It only looks like it's long in the flowchart due to having many choices towards the end (which are represented by similar balls like separate scenes are).
>>15225779
Schoolgirls, wow
>>15226238
It's short, probably 1 hour
>>15226271
Someone knows jack shit about Asa Project.
Why is everyone talking about Island?
>>15226489
>why are people talking about a high profile new release
>>15226489
Himawari was a widely liked game, Himawari's PSV remake recently got a PC port and Island is from the same writer.
>>15224512
thank you
>>15226497
Well excuse me for not being in the know on VN's 24/7
>>15226530
Ah, I see. i'm guessing he's like the new Loseboy or something?
>>15224488
Focus on pumping VIT,DEX,INT, and whichever stats align with your chosen heroine's interests.
If you see an item worth more than 6 stat points grab it as it's probably important.
As a note you can't get every CG for a heroine in one play through because there's a branching point for which gift you decide to get them.
I just discovered that Atelier Kaguya created a two-part dungeon crawler series called "Dungeon Crusaderz (sic)".I know nothing about these games, but their battle screens sure look nice. Did anyone play them?
>>15226542
I don't recommend pumping INT into a DEX build, not a lot of point given how high the cost investment is for sorcery to do worthwhile damage (and even then it's only really usable in pve)
>>15226558
>>15226542
Fuck I dumped everything into RES, my fault for thinking it was an actually useful stat.
>>15220217
Uh... 20 years...
>>15220217
Since 2009.
Graduated from EOP status 2 years ago.
Aww, sometimes I really love eroge and their great plots.
>Guy and girl fulfill a request for a questgiver-girl (q girl)
>q girl was dumped and quest was because of that
>Once done she asks guy to stay
>"Maybe the shape of my V is all weird and I was dumped because of that.. not like I showed it to anyone yet. Please look and tell me if anything is weird!"
Hm. A little tip. Ask a girl next time. They actually have something they can compare it with! And they don't ask if it's fine to stick a finger in. (FOR SCIENCE OF COURSE!) And won't make you come in the process.
Ah, sometimes I really love eroge.
>>15215105
Sauce! Or link
>>15220217
A year and a half. Read a few translated ones and decided to start learning the language to read more. Mostly still reading moege/charage and likely butchering various bits of them without knowing it, so I just lurk the threads for backlog purposes since no one gives a fuck about some retard struggling through moege/charage that likely can't even handle reading stuff like Island yet. Still enjoying myself and looking forward to being able to actually participate in the threads though.
>>15227112
Not like everyone here is super fluent. Just try new shit. If it's hard on you, after a while you'll be fine. That's how it goes. If it's like WAY too hard, drop it till later. But there are very few VNs that fall into that category and you'd realize it fast. Like Mareni stuff. Just looking at screenshots will probably give you huge "hahaha... no!" feelings, if you are still not confident with the language.
>>15227056
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKEdSCK2fgc
>>15227112
If you're read 2-3 moege you can start thinking about your first plotge. Of course, if you enjoy moege you can just stick to them, but if you're getting sick of it don't be afraid to challenge yourself a bit. The fastest way to learn is to read something that's just a bit above your skill level. There's an image macro often posted that gives some decent recommendations.
>>15226131
Is the gameplay of this fun?
>>15227357
So far, yes. Even got a troll-bossfight with tons of adds where the boss does hurt and everything looked normal. Till you realize that the boss is down with one hit. (which is strangely fitting story-wise..)
The dungeons so far are not small but don't have enough to actually find in if you ask me. (as in treasure) 2d sidescrolling with a bit.. questionable controls.
Battles are nice though, featuring a grid-based formation system separate for both sides, with "area" attacks and whatnot. Though no "range" which is weird.
Also has 5 different difficulty-settings, which is always a nice touch.
Now I'm not THAT far in, so I dunno how it manages to hold up. But I feel the gameplay is pretty well done for the most part. Also gotta love that characters have their unique abilities, like one girl can use monster dropped cards as equip and thus learns their monster skills (think ff blue magic, but as drops and you can only equip a certain amount), or another always has an autonomous robot in the battle with her which automatically attacks and can cover her in addition to everything she herself can do. The screen I posted is that robot of course.
I'm trying to play Baldr Force, but it's a pain in the ass for various reasons since it's an old game. Besides the tiny 480 sized window, it seems text hookers don't even work with the engine.
How is the PS2 version? If I have to look up words by hand, I might as well play that one since you can freely resize the emulator window.
However, I read it has some new voices. I don't care if it's all-ages, as long as the voices aren't bad. Also does it even work flawlessly emulated? Anyone tried it?
>>15227460
>Baldr Force
Did you check agth wiki? It has several h-codes. Also did you try ITH 2015 or ITHVNR?
I somehow doubt you can't hook it.
Apart of that, there are programs which allow you to resize any window you want. But how well that looks I dunno, never tried any.
>>15227417
Thanks gonna try it soon.
>>15227505
Thanks, the wiki actually had a good code.
Fits perfectly.
>>15226277
Are you serious?
>>15227659
Did you finish Island yet? By last route I think he means真夏編. I'm not sure if it is that short, but it's certainly much shorter than thecommon / heroine routes or Never Island.
>>15227460
The new voices are generally considered better, but you can choose between the two in the PS2 version. I'm also planning to play it soon so I tried a bit of it in PCSX2, and it seems to work fine if you use software D3D renderer.
>>15228626
Not him but I tried using PCSX2 and kept experiencing random and extremely brief (like less than half a second usually) speedups and slowdowns that would distort the audio. Is there a way to 100% get rid of it or is that an inherent problem with emulation?
>>15228626
Make sure you don't accidentally download the Chinese version.
>>15228768
I haven't tried it yet, but a general emulation advice would be changing your audio sync settings.
Basically timestretching will try to keep your audio and video frame accurate, but can lead to audio skips. Try setting it to asynchronous, since losing frame accuracy is not a big deal in a VN.
You could also try changing the audio engine.
If you have an SSD, you could also try placing your game iso on it, as audio skips can be because of an unexpected disk read.
Waiting warmly
>>15225913
yes...
06/24 is far away, what are you guys playing during this backlog month?
So is Island actually good and worth reading?
>>15229692
The games left over from last month
>lovely cation 2
Well, that was the fastest common route out of any eroge I've ever played. Can't say I will complain.
>>15229740
It's Ever17 of our time.
Can someone rate all routes from Island?
I wanna know where I can start.
>>15229891
So it's crap?
>>15230210
Saya - 9.9/10
Karen - 9.8/10
Rinne - 10/10Winter - 10/10
Midsummer - 9.9/10
>>15230269
Not that anon but how long is that game?
>>15230220
It's not totally shit. Good "my first baby visual novel". Much better than Saya no Uta I think.
>>15230275
Too long to bother playing.
>>15230308
Haven't played the game but those were probably in spoiler tags for a reason. I personally don't give a shit, but some other anons might.
>>15230275
I tend to avoid giving or reading lengths of games because I consider it to be a form of spoiling - if you know a VN is about to finish it's a very different experience from when there's the possibility of a surprise follow-up, afterstory, or sudden twist. It shouldn't matter anyway, as the only reason you wouldn't play a long game is because it gets boring and you just want it to end, in which case it's shit and you shouldn't play it regardless.
>>15230308
Who the fuck quotes spoiler tags and doesn't spoil it? What is wrong with you?
>>15230381
Fair enough anon. Guess I should get around to it already since the reception here has been pretty positive.
Seems Silent World will get relevant now.
I'm reading after Island trial, but before playing the full game, but since it was originally serialized before the game's release, I believe it's okay like this.
Miku and Hikari are as stubborn as mules
how is 夏の色のノスタルジア? someone recommended it to me but I'm pretty doubtful of the writer
>>15230954
>every character is a childhood friend
My nightmare
Question for Island:So there was no time machine in entire thing at all?
Question for Island2:Why in the end Setsuna decided to go to future with his daughter but not to stay with Kuon (Linne)?
>>15231237The cold sleep machine is an incomplete time machine, and the final version is designed to completely prevent the user from being subject to constantly happening 時空震 and thus achieve proper time travel.
>>15231246凛音 didn't travel with Setsuna, she stays with リンネ. Setsuna entrusts her with the disc containing the time machine blueprint, remember? As for why Setsuna did it, his and リンネ's dream was saving the world with the time machine, thus they're most likely going to repeat the process until they've completed it.
So, what was the whole point of Island? I got to the end and got more questions than answers.Are Karen's and Sara's routes not related at all in the grand scheme of the plot? How did Setsuna gain experience from those routes when he doesn't use the cryogenic machine?
>>15230954
>>15231149
>childhood friend
And yet that brown haired girl does funny things to me just looking at a screenshot. I think I might need to check it out. Seeing the huge "Nakige" tag on vndb it might be a good idea anyway.. those are kinda rare nowadays.
>>15231301Saving the world from what?
>>15231350
She'syour full BR sisterso it's A-okay to like her
>>15231341He remembers them because the flow of time fixes itself so their 'routes' are forcefully integrated in the main one. They explain this in the game.
>>15231375
Lolwut. Pretty sure that wasn't explained at all. Do you have a screenshot?
>>15231386
Nope, but it's in Rinne's routewhen he's remembering stuff from the routes he shouldn't have seenit's explained, probably by Sara.
Finished Island as well.
Mine verdict is that Island is tremendously horrible anti-science bullshit. And protagonist is hetare.
>>15231375
I do remember about it now actually.I still don't understand how this works because the theory was explained in the lines of (past) time traveling, and not (future) time traveling
>>15231359Cyclic glacial periods and massive loss of human lives every time it happens? Though I have no idea how a time machine is going to help with that.
Also a question of my own:The game never implied where the protagonist Setsuna originally came from, did it? 切那 was the child of Ohara family and the one who died saving 凛音. セツナ was リンネ's elder brother who died after the expedition. It was revealed at the end that the protagonist Setsuna was the one from the legend, but where he originally came from was never mentioned.
>>15231403
>tremendously horrible anti-science bullshit
Care to expand upon this?
>>15231412I'm guessing if you can bring future technology information into the past you can manage terraforming/space stations on time, while sacrificing never island to avoid paradoxes.
>>15231408
Different guy from before, butif you think about how time travel is supposed to work using 時空震 in Island, that implies the entire universe is going back in time, so based on that my theory would be that they probably occur once every ~25k years, which would help explain why the exact same people show up every time on the island and in ISLAND. We also know that Setsuna can retain bits of his memory and even regain them fully using the incomplete time machine. Hence, it's possible that after finishing Karen's or Sara's route a 時空震 occurs sending the entire universe back in time, but with Setsuna possibly retaining his memories because of having experienced time travel before, similar to Sara's explanation of different timelines.
That said, this all hinges upon the idea that the incomplete time machine does provide some protection against 時空震, otherwise there's explanation for all the names carved inside of it. I think it's reasonable to say that though, because otherwise I don't know how you explain the battery for the time machine never running out.
>天下御免
I wish they'd stop using this term, being constantly reminded of あっぱれ！天下御免 is not a good thing
>>15231412
>The game never implied where the protagonist Setsuna originally came from, did it? 切那 was the child of Ohara family and the one who died saving 凛音. セツナ was リンネ's elder brother who died after the expedition. It was revealed at the end that the protagonist Setsuna was the one from the legend, but where he originally came from was never mentioned.
While this was never explained, I have a theory regarding this. Remember the origami scene where Sara hypothesises what would happen if she went back in time and taught her ancestors how to fold a crane? It seems to me that Setsuna is like the knowledge of a crane, he came from the future, who in turn came from the past, so basically there was no origin. It's just an eternal cycle of him travelling backwards and forwards in time.
Just finished the demo of Sen no Hatou, it looks like be combined Aiyoku No Eustia and Daitoshokan no Hitsujikai togher.
Whatever, wait for released at September.
>>15233785
So, it is good? I like Eustia a lot but Im confused with Hatou premise, how are the school life and samurai setting aspects combined?
>>15234888
Not him, but school scenes are short and ultimately just underscore the conflict of ideals presented in the rest of the VN.
>>15233785
I'm just gonna wait until September and get the game. Playing the trial right now just to wait for another 4 months is torturous.
>>15230484
How is Silent World relevant to the Island? I don't want to read a full novel but I'm curious...
>>15232798but Setsuna never travelled to the past in game, didn't he?
>>15236135
Well I dunno fully, cause I read the book before full Island.リーン・カーネーション from one of Island's joke endingshas a relevant role in Silent World. But for all I know she might have it even in full Island. She mentions a promise with Setsuna in one of the book's chapters after all.
One character beingfound sleeping in old ruins with an out-of-place artifact that leads to developing techology to manipulate the flow of timeis the thing that sets events in Silent World in motion and I presume it might be relevant to Island.
I never realized how much I despise time traveling plots until now. G.O. should've done straight SF with good drama mystery like Himawari instead of this crap.
>>15236169
Oh so the book features Setsuna from the game as well?
But I have heard that the Silent world sets after the Island...I guess I have heard it wrong
>>15236185
Doesn't. Just that one mention + one character reading the Island legend.
For all I know it might be set after Island. In the postscript G.O. mentions it was originally planned to be a prequel of sorts, but ended up being kind of a spin-off.
Sorry for giving vague answers, once I'll read Island, I'll know better. For what it's worth, Silent World can be enjoyed as a stand-alone story well enough.
