/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Sekai/Denpa
Karakara 3 - 2019 release
Nanairo Reincarnation - Going through final QA
Ley-Line: Daybreak of Remnants Shadow - Fully localized, in engine work, 2019 release planned
Ley-Line: Flowers Falling in the Morning Mist - Fully localized, in engine work, 2019 release planned
Baldr Sky - Q3/Q4 release date, in Valve review
Re;Lord Volume 2 - 100% translated+edited, awaiting engine work by the developer
Harumade Kururu - Awaiting engine work, 2019 release
Rewrite+ - Kickstarter planned, 67% translated, 17% edited
Love Duction - 100% translated and edited, needs engine work
Hoshizora no Memoria (retranslation) - In progress, 2019 release
Hoshizora no Memoria Eternal Heart - 35% translated, 2019 release
Island Diary - 100% translated
Riajuu Plus - 100% translated and edited, awaiting engine work
Creature to Koi Shiyo!! for Otome - Waiting on a third party
Miko no Kanata - 100% translated and edited, awaiting engine work
Memory's Dogma - Code:01 Released, 02 onwards upcoming
Tenshin Ranman - QA and engine work next, in "icebox"
Fault - Silence the Pedant - Demo released
Fault Milestone 2 - Side Above released, GE still to come
Nekopara Vol 4 - Announced
NarKarma EngineA - Announced
Subete no Koi ni, Hanabata o. - Picked up
Sumire - Picked up
I Walk Among Zombies Volume 3 - Picked up
I Walk Among Zombies Volume 0 - Picked up
NEKO-NIN exHeart 3 - QA in progress
Winter Polaris - 70% translated, Summer 2019 release
Sanarara R - 100% translated, Q3 release
Kemomusu - Planning release date
9-nine- Episode 3 - Picked up
Amatsutsumi - Translation and editing in progess
KoiKuma Fan Disc - 60% translated
The Seventh Sign -Mr. Sister- - 100% translated and edited, waiting on a build
Love's Sweet Garnish 2 - Translation and editing in progress
Kanojo no Seiiki - Picked up
SF - Picked up
Glass - Picked up
New Glass - Picked up
Nekopara Vol 4 - In development, 2020 release

Sol Press
>OniKiss - September 24th release
Kimi o Aogi Otome wa Hime ni - On hold until a problematic bug is fixed
Shitsuji ga Aruji o Erabu Toki - October 18th release
>Nukitashi - 44% translated, 5% edited, November 22nd release
>Himawari to Koi no Kioku - 54% translated, 22% edited, February 2020 release
Irotoridori no Sekai - Kickstarter succeeded
Mirai Radio to Jinkou-bato - work starting shortly, 2019 release
DareSora - Volume 1 Released, info on future volumes soon
Witch's Garden - Picked up
>Happiness! 2 Sakura Celebration - 24% translated, 2% edited
Jinrui Saikyou Seiyoku no Yome Kouguchi Rinko - Picked up
Hyper->Highspeed->Genius - Picked up

Nekonyan
Aokana - Through Steam review, 9/27 release
Aokana Extra1 - Picked up
Fureraba Complete edition - Vita exclusive content to be added to Fureraba a couple months after the fandisc release
>Senren Banka - 45% translated, 45% edited
Hello Lady - 85% translated, 70% edited
Making Lovers - 65% translated, 65% edited
Melty Moment - On hold until after a newer Hooksoft title is released
Making＊Lovers: Geki Icha After Story - "we plan to translate the Fandisc as well"
Secret Project #1 - 100% translated and edited, engine work by developers
Secret Project #2 - 30% translated and 25% edited
Secret Project #3 - 10% translated

Cherry Kiss
>Mesu Inu Haramase Oyakodon - Released
Nekura Ijimerarekko o Tasuketara Natsukareta - Future release

Fakku
Oral Lessons With Chii-chan - Late 2019 release
Abaddon: Princess of the Decay - 2020 release

Aksys
>NG - October 10th release
Piofiore no Banshou - 2020 release
Gensou Kissa Enchante - 2020 release
Collar x Malice -Unlimited- - Picked up

Other
Ouka Sabaki - Partial "Early Access" release on 9/17
Raging Loop - October 18th release
Lamunation - Programming work ongoing
>Venus Blood Frontier - Translation finished, editing ongoing, December 2019 release
Dei Gratia no Rashinban - Picked up, Kickstarter planned
Seven Days - Passed Steam review, 1 of 3 extra CG events scripted
Taimanin Asagi - Steam release had been planned, but has since been removed from Steam
Yumeutsutsu Re:Master - Announced
Utawarerumono Remake - 2020 release
Project Sakura Wars - 2020 release
Magical Charming - Release planned
Angel Beats - 50% translated
Summer Pockets - Official release planned
Tayutama 2 - Future release, R18 patch planned but may not be ready at launch
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>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread

Any place where I can check Mangagamer being retards and how they delay their schedule forever.

>>22120354
Have you been out of the loop for the past two months or are you just stupid? They haven't been able to release anything because their payment processor dropped them and it only just got fixed a few days ago.

>>22120354
Anon...

Hey OP, you might want to include that Raging Loop is getting a Steam release on Dec. 5th. The October release date is only for console.

The time is close at hand where I'll have to deal with fags posting screenshots of their YU-NO remake playthrough and western artists drawing fanart in the style of the remake.

>>22121141
Can't wait.

>>22120463
They were able to, they just didn't want to release in other places then their store.

>>22121410
Why would they release on their direct competitors sites before their own? That would set a bad precident for them.

>>22121815
They can release on Nutaku or Fakku, they already have some of their games there. And their own store is shit, I rather not use it when possible.

>>22122446
While possible, MG doesn't consider either of them important enough to lend their big titles. I think they are a bit more generous than JAST USA when those stores are concerned, but not by much. They don't even have Beat Blades Haruka, and that title's 3 years old.

>>22123969
The cost of store fees is probably not worth giving them newer titles

Can't be worse than Steam cut.

Onikiss banned on steam.
https://steamdb.info/app/1125540/

>>22124101
I'm more shocked that they even tried.

>>22124320
I guess you don't lose anything from trying.

>>22124323
Pretty sure they do. It costs $100 to submit something to steam I'm pretty sure.

>>22124350
Oh.
Then, yeah, that's dumb.

>>22124320
I mean Cherry Kiss manged to get https://vndb.org/v19765 onto steam, it has incest and a girl in school uniform so anything is possible.
Though I guess the biggest problem steam would have with Onikiss is the boob sizes.

>>22124101
Surprising absolutely no one.

>>22124320
>>22124323
Even if it wasn't going to make it onto Steam in the first place, the usual "banned on Steam" reports that a handful of places post probably isn't bad advertising that the title exists and is being sold elsewhere.

>>22124595
Ah yes, let's look at the wonderful article covering it:
https://www.oneangrygamer.net/2019/09/onii-kiss-onii-chan-wheres-my-kiss-banned-from-steam/93459/
>Now some people might be wondering “why would Valve ban this game?” The obvious answer is that it’s because the story is themed around lesbian incest

>>22124687
Post a screenshot or archive it, I'm not giving that faggot any clicks.

>>22124694
All you need is that one line.

>>22124687
between this and the Amagami article i'm not sure which is worse

>>22124823
speaking of which
>50% edited
ahhh, it's edging closer.
i know one of the editors posts here occasionally, we're all still rooting for you!

>>22124101
Was it really banned? I believe it says something else when a game gets rejected.

>>22125117
https://steamdb.info/app/1055130/
Rance's page says the exact same thing.

>>22125117
No one knows. It was just posted by one fag somewhere and everyone’s parroting him. Nothing official has been said.

>>22125134
>There's a hikki loli mom wondering around in a naked T-shirt. You kiss her every day. You can fuck her too. You can kiss your imoutos' tummies in OniKiss. You can kiss their nipples. You can do anything.
This man knows how to sell a game.

>>22125242
You can even kiss your sisters too.

>>22125134
>Another very important feature is that you can view every H-scene from the girl's perspective
This is a good feature because I get turned on by the idea of being a woman and having sex with a man (no homo)

>>22125270
There's a whole genre for that, fujo-san.

>>22125276
I'm not a fujoshi, I'm a man. And otome games aren't the same thing, as they're written to appeal to women.

>>22125270
I don’t think you understand how it works. It’s just narration of what’s going on. In standard Hmanga/H-douninshi, those are the little speech bubbles which are not what she’s saying out loud, but what she’s thinking. Like “This fat dude cock feels so amazing, but I can’t let him know that” kind of shit. Go on sadpanda right now anf most of them have that. Except that it’s mostly about affection or observation in this case.

Why does this exist
https://twitter.com/DrCullenPHD/status/1174150265043210240

>>22125500
You linked this last thread, faggot.
Not a VN.

>>22125502
I didn't post it in the last thread.

>>22120217
>>Nukitashi - 44% translated, 5% edited, November 22nd release
>November 22nd
lol

>>22125502
and yet games like Ar Tonelico are considered VNs

>>22127070
Ar Tonelico has more than just dialogue in the VN segments.

>>22127070
>>22127748
Ar Tonelico is a RPG not a VN lol, Being or not being allowed on VNDB doesn't make something into a VN. VNDB has strange standards and actually banned real VNs in the past, while they keep stuff like Ar Tonelico or Trillion which are clearly RPG.

>>22127070
Thats because Ar Tonelico has actual vn scenes. Its even branded as half rpg half vn.There are many scenes with a text box, sprite, and text narrative.

The game this nigga posted doesnt, shit might as well be subtitles because it only uses text for the dialogue and not narrative.

https://noisypixel.net/sol-press-interview/
Iroseka is at least 30% translated it seems.

>>22127906
>The visual novel community is tough to gauge in the west because through talks I have come to realize that this industry isn’t sustainable and perhaps shouldn’t even exist based on the fact that every game is released at a loss
kek

>>22127912
>>22127906
Maybe they should stop pissing away money on such shit ``localisations" and just do what the market wants: a translation.

>>22127788
>while they keep stuff like Ar Tonelico or Trillion which are clearly RPG.
Trillion is more of a raising sim than anything. But yeah, not a visual novel.

>>22127906
He should really try giving his kickstarter backers that update instead of looking for interviews to complain about his VNs not selling.
I guarantee a part of the reason why they're not making money on VNs is they suck at communication and all those Kickstarter fans they piss off stop supporting them after being burned or feeling ignored and used as a piggy bank.

>>22127906
Kind reminder to not get your hopes up.
https://retrospring.net/chuee/a/88479

>>22127912
This feels like it's satire.
>On the other hand, visual novels take about six months to localize and we need about 600 sells to say that the release did pretty good.
I knew the bar was low, but I didn't think it was that low.
>If you notice with Sol Press titles, there’s a similar pattern with the games we localize where each title has eye-catching illustrations.
Pic unrelated?

>>22127947
Actually, Under One Wing flew under my radar and the art for that is nice, and the premise sounds good too. How did that turn out? Decent translation?

>>22127947
I think the low sells come from the marketted audience. The type of people generally into anime in the west are born and raised on torrenting, the market isnt normies who buy everything and cum at every corporate release.

Mix that with vns being niche within an already relatively niche market.

>>22127928
that's a good joke
most people do not give a shit about translation quality

>>22127991
>Decent translation?
The editing is questionable to say the least

>>22125117
Confirmed banned by staff. They also said they removed all mentions of school from the game, with the girls being office workers intead. Also no H of course.

>>22128073
That image tells me all I need to know, thanks.

>>22128080
Yup

>>22128073
...Thankie swankie?

What?

>>22127906
Xev is full of shit lol

>>22127928
People who really care, passionately, about translation quality in eroge already learned Japanese, or is in the process.

>>22127788
Agarest, Ar Tonelico and so on should be allowed on VNDB just as much as Rance. It's shit gameplay with an enormous amount of VN storytelling in between. The Agarest games in particular are 100% on-par with porn games, just without the porn. If I said there existed a 18+ Agarest that came before the ones on PS3, people would believe it. It's like saying Utawarerumono 2 and 3 aren't VNs because there's no porn and they're on consoles.

>>22129709
Look at the rules before you open the mouth, nigwad. Narration is what's important.

>>22129727
Not him but VNDB standards are strange. While I wouldn't call Agarest a VN VNDB did make many strange decisions.

>>22128088
they are fucking stalinists

>>22130597
>stalinists
You didn’t notice that all the girls talk like rednecks? If your girl says gosh darn during an H-scene, you’ve got problems.

>>22130633
t. only contact with rednecks is through stereotypes on tv

Apparently SP decided to release Nanairo on 28( The next day after Aokana ), 4 days after Onikiss and 9 days after SR and Rockets.
Nice release window. Can't think of better timeframe this year.

>>22130922
Well, we were wondering which one was going to flop because of how close everything was this couple of weeks, so here it is, the one that is going to sell jack shit.

Nice job SP, as always.

>>22130922
Shame MangaGamer's chart is broken since I can't stalk now and see how long Sengoku Rance will stay in it.
>>22131075
Sekai Project likes to release titles suddenly to fuck with their competition. They did it last year with Koikuma and Maitetsu. Koikuma sold well, while Maitetsu was killed by Evenicle.

>>22131228
>Maitetsu was killed by Evenicle
Maitetsu was killed by incompetence of galactic proportion. Miscommunication with fans and creators, bad translation, wrong assets in wrong version, i don't know where to start. It was doomed just by being in Dovac's hands, Evenicle or not.

>>22131303
It was always going to fail because western people don't have a boner for train autism like nips do. I know I've never even ridden one. Who gives a fuck about trains.

>>22131459
Zoom zoom.

>>22131481
Do you actually dispute anything that I said? Trains do not have the same level of importance in the west in they do in Japan, except maybe in a few European countries, and even then I don't think it's the same.

>>22131459
>western people don't have a boner for train autism like nips do
You can't be more wrong. West have gigantic community of train collectors. It got to the point when they have their own associations, events and even manufacturers. Western autists simply focus more on models. Japan has nothing on them. Century old train toys can go up to 100k+ $ in US.

>>22131459
Wait wait wait, are you saying you've never been on a train? I know some of you are hikkis living in Bumfuck Arizona but are you really that sheltered?

>>22131574
I was considering mentioning this, because I do know that there are train hobbyists in the west. I've perused a few of their magazines in the past, and like you said their interests are geared more towards models, and the hobby is pervaded by past nostalgia and seems to have more current interest in trains as shipping devices. This is different than the Japanese experience in which people ride passenger trains commonly.
>>22131579
Why would I have ridden a train? If I want to go somewhere I drive a car or fly. I don't know how I would even find a train near here. It's simply not something that anyone does.

>>22131228
Rance probably flopped, the chart is "broken" so that we cant see that.

>>22131574
Dont forget our holy Train Simulators

Oniikiss out, friends.

>>22127947
I know for sure that a few hundred is what MG needs to break even on its titles. It's more or less common knowledge that for MG to actually release a physical, they have to sell at about 1k copies, which means the break even point is somewhere before that.

>>22130922
As good Evenicle was, it was in a completely different niche from trains. It's hard to blame Evenicle for Maitetsu's many shortcomings.

>>22131228
Even if the chart wasn't fucked, MG releasing a bunch of titles at once makes it hard to predict any numbers of Sengoku. I'd be surprised if it didn't make top 10 though, though it might not be a guaranteed top 5 for various reasons.

>>22131579
Subways aren't in every city, and if someone wants to travel cross-state, they use cars (more freedom) or planes (much faster) instead. It's why Americans like their big gas-guzzling cars. If you're going to be stuck in a car for hours on end, it better be comfy.

>>22132660
Subway =/= actual train

>>22125134
OK that sounds really nice, pls tell me there is pregnant sex

>>22132901
Just impregnation talk.

>>22132919
;_; why

>>22132303
I'm not sure how to feel about the mother calling you onii-chan as well.

>>22130633
Speaking of...

>>22133228
Pretty sure you should be more worried about the fact that everyone who bought from solpress store is currently fucked, because the adult patch does not work. The adult patch which was not just for adult scenes, but like everything except the small part shown at AX.

>>22133245
>but like everything except the small part shown at AX.
Not sure what you mean by that. The menus have the scene replay mode and everything which wouldn't normally be in a censored version, but I haven't gotten far enough to see any yet.

>>22133261
During the second day you have those hearts in the top right corner yeah? They signify who you're gonna have an event (nonH) with at the end of the day. Those events are not accessible. And you can't get in any of the routes obviously because you need these events.

>>22133269
Shit, you're right. It just skips straight to the next day.

>>22133342
I guess the editor was shooting for that "Sweet home Alabama" meme.. Also, do I see two different fonts?

>>22133359
>Also, do I see two different fonts?
It's just the current text vs the backlog text.

>>22133342
I kind of get her saying just gosh, it's like もう～

>>22133515

Random passer-by here. I'd need to see the original text (and get some character/scene context) but もう～ is only loosely relatable to something like 'gosh darn it'. It's almost always a strong form of exasperation. It's also got vernacular restrictions; mostly to older women in the southern US (at least in American English) or new parents attempting to 'clean' their language around kids.

Something like もう～ is closer to 'Fucking hell', 'God Damnit', 'Jesus', 'gaaah', etc (again, in the American vernacular).

The speaker in those lines doesn't appear to be a Southern Belle (though it's hard to say without proper context), it seems to point towards a fundamental misunderstanding of the character and their idioms.

>>22133808

(cont)

Based on limited context it appears the speaker is simultaneously frustrated by the character's actions and annoyed at how cute they find them. That particular phrase, especially repeated so often, is not how I'd express that sentiment (and not usually how I see it expressed from others).

Maybe the speaker has a verbal tick? an idiom or other characteristic? Maybe it was a ham-fisted attempt at polite speech in English (which does exist just not at the level in Japanese)? Hard to say without more information.
The translation team seems to have had a decent editor at least, excessive use of commas aside.

>>22133808
the translation is trash desu. Liberal as hell and characters are rewritten. that and the groundhog day reminds of why i never buy vns

>>22133515
I only thought to actually check what she was saying in the "Gosh, fighting?" line and it wasn't that. But I already forgot what it actually was.

>>22133830
Pic related was the only other thing that really stood out to me from the first two days. Well, that and how they use "mom" instead of "okaa-san" for the mother despite retaining the brother-related honorifics.

>>22133899
The writing is trying to come off as unnatural as possible, instead of just translating what is being said. For example "calm down" turns into "take a chill pill". "lively" turns into "a little ball of fire". stuff like this everywhere. i just want a translation, not localization/rewrite...

>>22121141
On the other hand , as a Crossborder from /a/ i've yet to see ANY GOOD FANART of Yu-no, this pisses me off more than the rantings of those guys about the adaptation being Shit, or simply not knowing anything about the VN.

>>22133937
>The writing is trying to come off as unnatural as possible
I would say it's trying to do the opposite and the rewrites are an attempt to make it sound more natural, but it's ironically having the opposite effect because it's so overdone.

>>22133985
There are some good fanarts of it, and by some I mean they can be counted on one hand, maybe two if you're not as picky as me.

The holy trinity of pain:
1. Fanart is non-existant.
2. Remake is a piece of shit with inferior art.
3. Nobody has read the original.

The one saving grace I would say is that theres a good quanity of official art from the artbook and the vn iteself to sate my tastes.

>>22133808
>Something like もう～ is closer to 'Fucking hell', 'God Damnit', 'Jesus', 'gaaah', etc (again, in the American vernacular).
No way, not for the typical use of もう～. None of those vernacular words can be used in a cutesy sense. More like "gee" or geeze. Just because Japanese doesn't have swear words doesn't mean you should just start localizing to a bunch of curses unless it makes sense in context.

>>22134183
Remakes are honestly cancer 99% of the time. So few people who work on remakes actually have enough respect and insight into the original work to do it justice. Sometimes even when it's the same people who worked on the original.

That was a hyperfucked release, never seen that before. But I guess it’s fixed now.

>>22135267
I wonder what went wrong. You'd think QCs would detect gamebreaking bugs like that lol

>>22135392
Based on what they said on memecord, they introduced completely new shit last second and something went bad during compiling. So it was after QC was completed?

>>22135402
Normally you would think that making more changes means doing more QC, but apparently not.

>>22135447
See >>22134299. Would it be better if it was geez? You gotta transcribe the moan of exasperation somehow, no?

This is seriously lazy. I'll pirate this shit.

If gosh triggers this thread already, I don't want to imagine what will happen once Aokana gets released in a few days.

>>22135447
I really don't see the problem with any of this. That being said, I get the impression that the majority of this game is [sister does some moe thing] followed by [MC narration about how cute she is] over and over and over. I feel like I'd probably get mad reading it.

>>22135796
Who cares, man. The shit the autismos in these threads cry about is so retarded it's unbelievable. There's a reason no one gives a fuck about what they say or tries to cater to them in any way. And it's because they're idiots.

>>22135796
>>22135810
I mean, there's some retard earlier in the thread saying that もう means "fucking hell" and if you don't translate it in such a way then you're "rewriting" the character. Says it all really.

>>22135810
Ok chuee.
>>22135804
Try it bitch.

You kinda late cartel crew. Where you were in previous thread? You used to be paradroping your discord trannies instantly somebody complained about translations. If you have time to waste then go and shill Nanairo because othewise its going to be stealth release.

>>22136040
>looks up Nanairo on Denpasoft
>not available for pre-order
>not even a product page yet
I hate Sekai Project's steam first and everybody else later attitude. They deserve every flop because it's their own fault.

>>22136171
You know whats funny? While SP keeping radiosilience the Silky+ devs themselves are trying to help them shill.
https://twitter.com/silkysplus/status/1176403780876697600

>>22136208
Dovac said he’s waiting for them to decide if the porn should be free or not.

Harr harr.
Read it.

>>22135681
>Would it be better if it was geez?
Yes, absolutely.
>You gotta transcribe the moan of exasperation somehow, no?
I've been paying more attention to the voiced lines since last time and they're not even doing that. Maybe half of them have the character saying "もう", the rest just seem to be the translator throwing them in for the hell of it.

>>22135804
The "gosh" alone doesn't bother me that much, but the "gosh darnit" does. No one says that. No one except for some mild-mannered 50 year old American farmers. And certainly not any modern Japanese youths.

>>22135804
>That being said, I get the impression that the majority of this game is [sister does some moe thing] followed by [MC narration about how cute she is] over and over and over.
That's a pretty apt description, yeah.

>>22136935
That it not being free is even in question is another reason for SP to burn.

>>22137101
>That it not being free is even in question is another reason for SP to burn.
Dovac said he's waiting for the japanese developer to decide if the porn should be free or not.

>>22137111
Yes, it being the Japs they were waiting on was clear. SP should be pushing them for it to be free, but I'm sure that they aren't.

>>22137111
>waiting for the japanese developer to decide if the porn should be free or not
BS, the western publisher decides if it's free or not.
Look at MangaGamer's steam patches all of them are free except the one for eden*. Same goes for NekoNyan and Sol Press.
Sekai Project is the only one jewing out the customers and they are the ones who even started with this paid patch shit in the first place.

>>22137147
I don't shy away from shitting on dovac, but that entirely depends on the contract. It could be a contact with low license costs and high royalty fees. Then the pricing is obviously very much so in the interest of the developer.

>>22137147
>Sekai Project is the only one jewing out the customers
JAST does it too, though inconsistently. For Saya no Uta they indicated that it was more their decision than Nitro+'s, though. And there are some smaller publishers that sell the patches on DLSite.

>>22137147
The price of the Eden patch is to make the Steam version in line with the MG version. The JAST patches are similar in that they make a cheaper Steam version the same, or close to in price as the JAST version. Even when Sekai Project uses paid patches it makes the cheaper Steam version get up to the same price as the Denpasoft version.
Games with free patches are free because the all age version is the same price as the 18+ version.

>>22132637
>Even if the chart wasn't fucked, MG releasing a bunch of titles at once makes it hard to predict any numbers of Sengoku
I kinda miss the anon that kept track of sales IDs. We could at least see how large the jump was when the store reopened if we had that info.

>>22137215
>Games with free patches are free because the all age version is the same price as the 18+ version.
which they should fucking be by default. You shouldn't get the game cheaper because "it has less content" since the publisher tore out the content to sell on a wider platform. I don't get to pick and choose what routes I want to pay for, I have to pay for the complete package even if I don't want that specific route or heroine. Titles should be priced based on the full content release with a free patch to restore whatever the publisher tore out of the game, otherwise they're literally charging you to remove censorship.

>>22136935
He should change the question. "Do you want the game to sell or not?" If they say "Sell please", then it is free patch.

>>22137166
JAST are really crazy on that. They charge money for the patch AND offer you to pay even more for the patch to show your support.

Why isn't the patch free + you can pay as much as you want extra as support? I'd be more willing to give away money for a good service, than have to pay for a service and then be expected to show my appreciation of being charged extra, by paying even more.

Greetings wonderful autists of VNTS and all that. When I saw https://vndb.org/v18898, I knew I had to read it. When I had read it, I knew I had to translate it, because writing virulently hateful characters raging is my jam. Okay, it being 181 lines long helped. And getting two faps out of it.

It's like 50 yen on dlsite but honestly I don't even have a credit card so I understand if that doesn't work for you. I figured I'd release something before I make this 'official' and can't give anything but a patch file, and maybe even get a bug report or whatever.

Anyway, here's a link to a perpatched version. It's like 15mb and probably works https://mega.nz/#!y8dwWAhR!Ovoz9mowKbnz2u_n7-ieWK_eDui43lEwSHu1PvH6Tiw

Any comments welcome.

>>22137430
Looks shit, give up.

>>22137430
Looks like kamige, keep it up.

>>22137430
Looks mediocre, do whatever.

>>22137430
Thanks Zaka. It still sucks though.

>>22137161
It's still SP's fault for not working that out in the initial contract to begin with. For the sheer amount of shit they've licensed you'd think at some point they'd realize a question as obvious as "what are we selling" should be figured out early, or at the very least sometime before the week of release.

Onikiss is out? Finally. Gives me an excuse to actually beat it.

That being said, to unlock the mom's bit do you just use the harem code? I think that was it.

>>22138912
I was incredibly disappointed when I looked at the scene list and realised the mother didn't have her own route and probably only has one or two sex scenes.

>>22139164
It was a free patch originally and everyone was saying it is at best 30 minutes long, I don't understand why people got hyped.

October 24th release date for Maggot Baits.

Which VN should I play if I want a good story where you play as a tomboy dyke preferably with a bully/dom love interest?

>>22140345
ラッキードッグ１

>>22140371
anon I don't mean to alarm you but I think those might be boys

>>22140377
You said Tomboy and bully....

>>22140380
Tomboys are girls!

>>22139227
Some people want to fuck a loli.
Some people also want to fuck their mother.

Once you go down a rabbit hole, there's no crawling back up.

>>22138912
I prefer Onigyuu
But some of the art (cg scene) is shit, it's like a totally different artist.

>>22140400
It's two different artists an apparently one of them is a woman that has never seen a dick before on her life.
If they're gonna do any more of these games hopefully they get through the fandisk quickly and bring over Onigyu where the only artist is the good one.

>>22140507
K子??

>>22140507
While Sakura Misaki isn't the greatest dick-wise, most of Saya and Yayoi's CGs are still really erokawaii.
https://exhentai.org/g/1488369/486d503294/

>>22140558
Yes, his uncensored art for Asahi and Mahiru wasn't too bad, it only needed a bit more detail.
It could look pretty good if they assume a future Western release for their upcoming games put a little bit more effort on the uncensored art from the beginning.

>>22135016
Hard to have those same peoples when they are 4ft under the earth, but ye thats the thing, remakes are usually just a joke to its original.

I don't get why he's bragging about having 8 unsuccessful game releases. https://twitter.com/dobacco/status/1176598418312978432

>>22145623
Kind of funny how I hate MG more then Sekai now.
I guess Sekai just became kind of irrelevant now.

>>22145758
But why, exactly?

>>22145761
I used to like MG but I'm not so sure now. I think they are adapting to SJW market and their way of doing things is very bad for those of us that want to see more diverse vns.

>>22145761
Memes in translations.

>>22146143
That's all of them though.

>>22145761
not that anon but MG's really dropped the ball on their quality and titles recently. It really seems like they just don't care anymore.

>>22146375
Haven't really been paying attention for a while but aren't the only bad ones they've put out recently, SukiSuki, Rance, Evenicle and Damekoi? Three of which were done by the same person, Arunaru, and Damekoi was done by Conj who everyone knew was shit anyway.
Unless there's some controversy I've missed that wasn't posted here.
Also, I have no idea what this anon >>22145912 is talking about since MangaGamer by far release the most diverse range of VNs. And "adapting to the SJW market" makes no sense, is there even one announcement they've showed this year that shows this? Maybe the R07 game at a stretch, but they were guaranteed to do that anyway.

>>22146465
It was surprising for MG to not announce any otome or yaoi titles this year. I kind of assumed they had a quota. Not announcing any yuri is understandable enough, if only because last year had a lot of yuri announcements. At least MG didn't have a year where they announced almost exclusively yaoi titles (JAST USA)

>>22146375
MG licenses have always been shit. They rarely release moege and when they do its some shovelware that no one asked for like Amatarasu Riddle Star. Instead they prefer catering to normalfags and women.
Say what you want about NN but at least they license things people actually want.

>>22146482
>It was surprising for MG to not announce any otome or yaoi titles this year.
I think MG will probably start slowly moving away from Yurige and BL shit since it doesn't really look like they sell all that well anymore, just like they're doing with Chuunige. Just look at Hashihime, it got a shit ton of attention on twitter, but it has only peaked at 24 concurrent players on steam as of right now and hasn't even entered the top 5 on their website (although I'm pretty sure the 18+ top 5 on their website is broken since Ciconia is #1 on their all-ages store and Higurashi is #1 on their 18+ store even though they're both all-ages.) The truth is about the people who want these games is that most of them only want them so that they can push their agenda but they have no interest in actually buying or even playing the games, maybe this is less true for yurige but it's definitely the case for BL shit.

>>22146465
>Haven't really been paying attention for a while but aren't the only bad ones they've put out recently, SukiSuki, Rance, Evenicle and Damekoi?
It's almost like that's all their notable releases during that time frame.

>>22146490
>They rarely release moege and when they do its some shovelware that no one asked for like Amatarasu Riddle Star. Instead they prefer catering to normalfags and women.
To be fair, their nukige are shovelware too.

>>22146490
They used to do tons of shovelware nukige but they were fun titles that had really weird quirks to them plus were super cheap barring their big nukige titles. Now all their nukige are spread pretty far apart and just boring/generic or horrifically overpriced with content cut out/rewritten to save on licensing/translation costs.

>>22146490
I stopped reading NN's stuff ever since they forced censorship into one of their titles. I don't want anything to do with a company that just straight up tells their customers to go fuck themselves. Same reason I don't bother with titles from Sekai Project unless it's one of their doujin titles they have absolutely nothing to do with other than purely publishing like Ne No Kami or IWAZ

>>22146568
>boring/generic
Kyonyuu Fantasy and Maggot Baits are literally the only good titles in MGs backlog though, the Liquid one they announced at AX doesn't look half bad either.
>with content cut out/rewritten to save on licensing/translation costs
No clue what you're talking about here.

Just a reminder that Ciconia is $40 for part 1. That's right, $40 for a chapter of a VN that features no voices, gameplay or talented writing.

>>22146581
Kyonyuu Fantasy was the only nukige I've read from MG in years that I enjoyed even though I think the tits are disgustingly huge on some heroines. Looks good on some heroines but looks atrocious on others. No comment on maggot baits until I've read it.

>with content cut out/rewritten to save on licensing/translation costs No clue what you're talking about here.

Kuroinu which costed $75? and was missing a shit ton of exposition content that the original had. MG decided to license the cut-up episodic version rather than the perfect edition which had all the episodic release upgrades but also had the proper story from the original release. Basically the episodic version forces 3 heroines to each episode even if it makes no fucking sense plot wise. As a result when reading through it you're constantly jumping through time and certain parts of the title make no sense unless you've read the original because they cut out all the context for it.

An easy example is during the second episode you raid 3 out of 7 castles and once you've raided 3 castles it cuts to a scene where you're going to the market with all 7 castle heroines on a cart ready for the market however this makes no sense because you already captured 1 of those castle heroines in Part 1 and at no point is there any references to a market in it since they rewrote the market aspect and instead changed it to the castle in Part 1 which said heroine never leaves. You also didn't raid the other 3 castles for the other heroines, they just magically show up on the cart (because in the original you raid all 7 castles before the market transition). So nothing makes any fucking sense in it and you have no idea what's going on outside of the specific castle siege and heroine H-scenes because everything else had been cut out or jumbled out of order.

>>22146619
>Kuroinu which costed $75? and was missing a shit ton of exposition content that the original had.
Oh, yeah I completely forgot about that. But I don't think they have said that it was anything to do with licensing costs, I remember they did say on their twitter some time last year that they had a choice to either release it in three parts and make it affordable (for customers) or release it all as one game like the original which would end up costing something like $100, but who knows, maybe they were bullshitting to make themselves look better. But if true I don't know if I'd call this "cutting content" rather than just licensing the shitty version of the game since the three chapters were released in Japan, it's not like MG modified the game themselves.

>>22146636
>make it affordable
>$75
That's such a massively high price point that they might as well have made it $100 and included the entirety. If someone is going to spend $75 on a nukige, they're going to spend $100. Then again this was done during the episodic craze so whatever. The problem is that MG brought over the worst version and charged a crazy price for it given that it was literally a glorified H-scene viewer since they(the devleopers) cut out everything that wasn't an H-scene or a direct lead into an H-scene. I could get a AAA game and the season pass for $5 more than the cost of the complete Kuroinu western episodic experience.

>>22146691
I do think that MangaGamer are the worst out of all the companies when it comes to price points.
Their latest titles' prices are:
Maggot Baits: $45
Amatarasu: $40
Ciconia: $40
Hashihime: $35
Haretaka: $45
Sengoku Rance: $35

Buying VNs from MG is an utter scam and it looks like kouryuu is the one making all of these titles cost so much since he retweeted this.

>>22146746
Those prices are probably about half of what those games cost in Japan when they were released.

>>22146805
I mean, the prices are probably 50% less than what they originally cost. First post wasn't clear.

>>22146807
>>22146805
Who cares what they originally cost? All the other companies manage to sell them for around $20-30.

>>22146814
Not really. Island is $40. Clannad is still $50. Little Busters is $35. Even if everything was actually as cheap as you say, how is charging you $5-10 more "an utter scam"? You sound ridiculous.

>>22146855
we should pay up to $70-90 like they do in japan

>>22146918
Did I say that? I already said the prices we get are 50% cheaper. You sounded ridiculous before, but now you sound like a retard.

>>22146465
Arunaru did nothing wrong

>>22147023
Oni-chan honorific holocaust never forget.
Nuremberg trials soon.

So how is Oniikiss selling? I know two dude on VN bought like 20 copies in total and gifted them out, but I’m wondering if that isn’t a fourth of the total.

>>22147172
Xev is going to report back to us in a month from its release when he gets the sales data from Jast, Denpa, and Fakku. We'll hear him say good things or complain about piracy. He may complain about piracy anyway. But the future of more Tinkle Position games rests in this 30 day time span.

>>22147172
Flopped like everything else from Sol Press

>>22147252
It should flop slightly less based on the apparent popularity. Though I guess many people will not even try it because they were lead into thinking it’s a nukige.

>>22146746
The problem with this industry is there's so few people buying games. If you halve the price of the game, you don't see double the sales to make up for it. That's how niche industries work, there's just not enough people who are both willing to buy games and price sensitive enough that the extra $10 or so will make them not buy the game. While it kinda sucks I don't really blame them.

>>22146746
>>22147434
Also if you think of the major companies involved, Mangagamer is more dependent on VN sales, right? JAST definitely isn't due to JList. Sekai has some other shit going on and has had big hits like Nekopara. MG just has normal VNs.

>>22120215
Hey guys

Which one of these designs is best? Which one is most appropriate for wearing casually?
http://www.theprintbar.com/designer/working_copy/2637763573

http://www.theprintbar.com/designer/working_copy/2637763658

Here's images for references:
https://imgur.com/a/SI09Vf7

>>22146609
It'll unlock the following chapters for free when they come out dumbass. $40 for question arc and $40 for answer.
You really think theyd charge you $320 for the whole package?

>>22148099
>It'll unlock the following chapters for free when they come out dumbass
Where does it say that?
>You really think theyd charge you $320 for the whole package?
Yes I do.

>>22148114
It's literally only what makes sense.
With the original Higurashi and Umineko releases, you got the previous chapters included. When you bought 3, it'd come with 1&2.

Ryukishi has said that he's having to pay more people to work on this VN. So having people pay the full price at the start so he can fund the production of the following chapters would be the best decision.

The price matches what the question And answer arcs for Umineko and Higirashi cost. (in their original release).

Literally nobody would pay $40 for 10 hours of content, and even less would pay $320 for the full package.

Only a brainlet would think it's $40 for each chapter. At most he'd add the following chapters as a $5 dlc, which even that I doubt.

>>22148189
Kuroinu was $25 for 3 hours of content, so $75 for 9-12 hours depending on how slow you were in reading.

>>22148395
I've never read Kuroinu, but vndb lists it as 30-50 hours. The fuck reading speed do you have?

>>22148561
Episodic release that MG did has a vast majority of it cut out. 90% of the content is H-scenes and there's 3 heroines each release with 6-8 scenes per heroine. There's 9 heroines and about 4 one-off scenes with unnamed characters. I read through the entire thing in about 8 hours but i'm above average in reading speed. So lets say there's about 75 H-scenes in total, if each one takes exactly 10 minutes you'd end up with 12.5 hours, lets add another 2 for the small handful of scenes at that beginning and stage transitional scenes that'll put it at 14.5, round it up to 15 and that sounds about right given how much of the non-H content was shaved out for the average reader.

>>22148647
Was there at least a free 18+ patch?
Because that sounds absolutely criminal.

>>22148945
What're you talking about? Kuroinu is a +18 title. They picked the version to license that literally cut out everything that wasn't +18 content outside of one or two instances.

>>22146636
That is my favorite part of the industry. "We have to charge 100 dollars for this or we won't make profit. Oh btw we put up an all-ages version on Steam for 20 dollars".

They keep claiming the story and writing is worth zero, while the value is in the CG. So they should honestly just sell 80 dollar CG packs and claim it is industry standard.

>>22147434
I think you are wrong. If you look at piracy they claim hundreds of thousands of games are pirated. So clearly people want the games, but think the prices are too high.

Also, if changing prices did nothing, why are all all-ages titles 50% off? Clearly someone knows you can sell more than 200% the amount by lowering the price by 50%.

>>22149121
>So clearly people want the games, but think the prices are too high.
Or they opted not to buy the official releases for a myriad number of other reasons, like not wanting to buy porn, not wanting to buy porn off-Steam, not wanting to support the quality of the official release in terms of translation / QC / censorship / whatever, or not wanting to support the company that released it. Thinking the price point is the only cause of piracy is retarded.

>>22148955
That's the opposite of what generally happens so didnt even cross my mind. So it's nonstop h-scenes with story cut out?

>>22147434
>If you halve the price of the game, you don't see double the sales to make up for it.
Pretty much. Look at Maitetsu.

>>22146375
I see absolutely no difference to the MG of today by comparison to the MG of the last 5 years.

The only reason you might hate Sekai more is because they're literally irrelevant these days. When's the last time they released something of note, other than Naniro, which isn't even being advertised? They're basically Sayori's own personal localization company at this point because that's all they care about.

>>22149121
>If you look at piracy they claim hundreds of thousands of games are pirated. So clearly people want the games, but think the prices are too high.
What makes you think this? There are a lot of reasons to pirate. Personally I do so out of convenience, and saving money is just a side benefit. I don't think most visual novels are priced egregiously or anything close to that, but 5 dollars saved is 5 dollars earned. By your logic, Maitetsu should have been a huge success, but it was one of the biggest flops on Steam in recent years.

>>22149420
I pirate, not because the titles are too expensive, but because I'm a neet with no money. Anything not free is too expensive for me.
If I could function out in the world and hold a job, I'd gladly pay $40 for some of these vns. Anything over that requires that that shit be a physical copy with an artbook.

Amazing

>>22149768
18+ version available?

>>22149768
Holy shit a game that sells worse than daresora?
Is that even possible?

>>22149768
About what I expected. Literally no one knew it was coming out until Silky's made a post about it on their Twitter. Dovac and Sekai are of such utter incompetence that it's actually astounding.

>>22149768
That's sad to see because unlike Daresora, Nanarin looks to be a complete product, and supposedly decent at that(barring any translation failure). I checked the twitter and all they say is "hey it's out!" without attempting to make people interested in what it's about. Maybe they're better off just making kickstarters for everything because then it actually acts as advertising/information on what people are playing and supporting. Main issue though is kickstarters never deliver their physical goods in a reliable manner so people are more wary. I'll be a little annoyed if sekai project killed the future of silky's plus stuff.

>>22149420
I don't count people like you as you wouldn't buy a single digital product ever. You can always download it instead, and saving money is your motivation.

>>22150094
Not even Valve, considering it has school theme in it and wasn't banned like all other games.

So has anyone had a look at Aokana or Nanairo? How are the translations?

With it up to 182 concurrent users and counting, Aokana looks like it will be another success for NekoNyan, and it should have no problems surpassing their prior peak of 198 concurrent users with Sanoba Witch.

>>22146746
At least they have the decency to lowball Sengoku due to it's age. Though I expect all other Rance games to be at least $45 except for maybe 01/02 bundle.

>>22147479
JAST USA has J-list as a back-up, but it probably sells enough to stay afloat without being a constant drain on J-List profits. Part of the reason that they are notoriously slow might be to keep operating costs down.

MG was more or less barely floating by until they managed to start selling large nukige and moege instead of just gimmicky ones, and things only went up from there.

Sekai is trying to branch off from VNs by going into indie titles and consoles. Not really sure how well they are doing on that front though. I can see them ditching VNs outright and admitting that Nekonyan was owned by them all along once NN gets the Baldr Sky licence or just collapsing altogether.

Sol Press has LNs and manga, so they're probably okay overall though them ditching VNs outright is also a possibility.

As for other companies, Frontwing's Western localization efforts are probably fucked, and who knows what's going on with Visual Arts.

>>22147434
There's niche, and there's reliant on your consumer's generosity to buy multiple digital copies. Well, on the bright side, things are better than what they used to be. MG doesn't have to sell X amount of copies just for the voice patch.

>>22150773
MG still can't afford to release the "best" version of some of their titles though.

>>22150761
That's at least partly due to having a Chinese translation. I think Island did fine for a similar reason.

>>22150789
Kuroinu was fucked, yeah. There was no way that the partials would sell enough to justify translating the better version. MG did it because the split up version was the latest version when they licensed Kuroinu though they would have been much better off just selling the original version instead.

Another "high quality" release from sekai https://twitter.com/The_Doddler/status/1177769257548955648

>>22150979
Why didnt they just name the option "Lock the text box"
its like they ran that through google translate

>>22150979
It seems fonts a very common problem for the people for them.

>>22151380
It's worded terribly, its not for "fixing" anything. You can unlock the text box and drag it. By fix they mean "fix it in place".

>>22149784
Only on the Denpasoft store, although at least it's free.

>>22149768
akeiro kaikitan never ever

Getchu doesnt accept paypal and my card doesnt work internationally. Nice.
Was gonna try and nab a physical copy of Kara no Shoujo HD

>>22150979
I was playing in fullscreen for about 20 minutes and it was working fine. Hit alt+enter again just to check on something and the game crashed.

>>22136208
It's pathetic, honestly. Hopefully Silky's+ learns from Sekai being such utter incompetent cunts with their products that they either look for other localizers or decide to localize their own products on their own terms such that they can actually advertise their translations properly.

Is Nanairo any good? How popular was it in Japan?

>>22151126
99% of translations are done by idiots. If they couldn't get something that every single player will see in the menu all the time right, then how could they possibly translate individual lines correctly?
They're just going word by word with a dictionary and have no real understanding of Japanese.

>>22151589
What are they doing with all the Nekopara money if they're hiring monkeys?

>>22151589
>>22151618
In that very twitter thread where he pointed out that weird menu item wording, he said that the translation was "up to par." So I don't think it's reasonable to accuse the entire translation of being bad because a menu item was worded strangely. For all you know they said some person other than the translator run through and do the menus last minute or something.

>>22151585
it has a single route worth playing.

>>22151618
It's not like they're the only ones who hire monkeys. Crunchyroll hires monkeys too.

>>22151627
I never claimed to check the translation. But I definitely can't trust someone who chooses such a stilted and unnatural translation. In my experience, many translators, professional and unprofessional, have serious quality problems.

>In that very twitter thread where he pointed out that weird menu item wording, he said that the translation was "up to par."
Just because he didn't notice anything that egregious in the game doesn't mean he's necessarily good enough at Japanese to notice real problems with the translation. It just means their editing is good enough to not let stupid shit like that through.

>>22151641
As I stated, how do you even know the same person did the menus as did the game itself? You're just speculating about something you don't know anything about, though that's par for the course I suppose. Unless you have some evidence the translation of the game text is bad then I think it's reasonable to dismiss everything that you've said.

>>22149768
>>22150094
Why spend the money to license and translate a game if you aren't going to advertise its release?

>>22151673
>As I stated, how do you even know the same person did the menus as did the game itself?
I never stated that I did. It's normal to judge a product's quality as a whole.
For example, if a company produces one bad translation, then that would hurt their reputation and I would be less likely to trust their next translation.

It's a matter of reputation, not of logical deduction.

>>22151673
>>22151713
Lets say I posted a single line from a game and found it was inaccurate. This wouldn't mean much, unless the mistake was particularly stupid or plot-relevant. Maybe they just fucked up one line.
But when they fuck up a menu that players see all the time, in a way that's so incredibly obviously unnatural to any English speaker, that really reflects poorly on their quality control. If they had play testers, those testers had to be seeing that menu all the time. And still nobody said anything and got it fixed.
It just reeks of sloppiness and has got to be more significant than just nitpicking an individual line.

>>22149420
>Maitetsu should have been a huge success, but it was one of the biggest flops on Steam in recent years.
Who said it did anything less than "very well"?

>>22151754
>If they had play testers, those testers had to be seeing that menu all the time. And still nobody said anything and got it fixed.
I mean, does SP even have playtesters? Wasn't Dovac bragging/moaning about how much QC was and how they had to skip it? In fact, didn't they patently skip QC like several times now?

>>22152119
If nothing else they usually QC in parallell so that they end it about 2 weeks before the last fixes and changes are uploaded and the final build is shipped away without QC.

>>22152697
Who needs QC when you're just flipping moon games that already sold?

Did the first fault really sell at least 200k copies? How is that even possible?

>Ciconia 429 likes and 260 shares
>Maggot Baits 50 likes and 9 shares
I'm quit sad to see that there's no hype for Maggot Baits considering that it and Funbag Fantasy are the only titles that I'm looking forward to (and that Liquid title).

>>22153655
I love me anything Clockup but tentacles are eh.
Also, I'd love if Ingyaku no Gakuen were translated.

>>22153655
Maggot Baits is a niche title while Ciconia is a Ryukishi title. Look at how many people badger MG for more Higurashi all the time whereas Maggot Baits' hook is how much of the gorn you can stomach before you puke.

>>22154130
That's a bit sad because Maggot Baits is a hard boiled romantic adventure, inspired from the 80's Wicked city series, Psycho Diver, Kikuchi Hideyuki's stuff...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctu0H4HG_Y4

On the gore stuff, sure there's plenty, though by no means it's the main attraction. So there are dickgirls, sugar sweet vanilla scenes, some bestiality, lots of rape... and very long religious expositions during the second part. If someone is interested in gore, there are other works to better serve the fetishe.

Maggot Baits is unironically for the love story. I found the writing to be very good, though the pacing was a bit goofy/slow at times.

>>22153655
What? The maggot baits tweet has 103 retweets and 251 likes.
https://www.twitter.com/MangaGamer/status/1177071570851745792

>>22154130
>how much of the gorn you can stomach before you puke
Considering that it took me 2 months to finishing reading Euphoria because I thought that some of the scenes were hardcore, Maggot Baits will break me, won't it?

I find it quite amusing that the more visual novels I finish reading, the more I appreciate titles like Euphoria, Maggot Baits and Co. 95% of the licenses these days seem to be vanilla moege and short 2-4 hour nukige picked up only to be sold on steam for the quick meme and Chink money.

>>22120215
Why there's no AI: the Somnium Files on the list?

>>22154502
Not a VN.

>>22154509
But it is https://vndb.org/v26532

>>22154513
No H-scenes, not a VN.

>>22150761
It's NekoNyan's best selling game yet. Though more than half of the reviews are in chinese, so I suppose there's some merit in Hikari field's work too.

>>22151618
D I S N E Y L A N D

>>22151695
Because they want the exclusivity rights of being able to translate titles, but don't actually give a shit about supporting those titles once it comes to actually releasing them. It's actually malicious as fuck since they clearly don't give a fuck about the end products, just being able to hold down their monopoly while they get the right to say 'We did this!' when their competition could have done better.

Does the YU-NO remake have any redeeming quality whatsoever?
As much as the new designs look worse and most of the soundtrack being much worse. Is it ok? Did it have any irredeemable rewrites or anything? I mean it's safe for work for starters, how does it handle all the layers upon layers of incest? Or the very ending of the game that is?
I kind of hate myself for it, but now that it's almost here I am almost tempted to get it anyway. I absolutely love YU-NO. And even though I already have it, having it on the Switch as well might be cool. And that 8-bit game it's bundled with looked cute. And if I am going to re-read it, maybe a version where everything is slightly different would be more entertaining? Then I could compare them at the very least.
But then again maybe not because it looks almost objectively worse.

How bad is it?

>>22151695
>>22155045
Didn't they do exactly this with G-senjou no Maou as well?

>>22155879
They picked up the fan translation, released it with cropped CGs and you had to pay for the voices. I think they also messed with the script too and they did some of their own edits.

Licensing is destroying the vn market.
We'll never be able to return to the golden days of just buying/pirating the original untouched jp release and applying a fan tl. A fan tl done by someone who actually cares. A tl that doesnt come with butchering the game.

>>22156012
If I remember right the H scenes were completely untouched from the fan translation, except now they were cropped. Sekai doesn't care.

>>22156074
Even if it's true that some companies butcher the original nuances of vns, isn't it for the better considering vn companies in Japan actually receive much needed money?

>>22156201
I'm sure theyd receive more if they just made their stuff more readily available for internationals to purchase.
People buying the JP release would mean that mangagamer, sekai, and even steam wouldnt get their cut, so more money to the devs.

The main problem with that is accessibility for normies. Not all vn devs use the same online stores, most of those dont accept paypal, and none have an english option for the site. Steam filled in that gap, and it takes a 30% cut of sales to do so.

>>22156236
Japs are the most xenophobic people in the world, them opening and making their own stores available to English users won't ever happen.
Half of them doesn't even want the western readers, while the other half will sell their older licenses to whoever comes and pays first.
It's a mental problem and I doubt it will change anytime soon.

>>22156337
Good.

>>22156337
Good.
If you open your market to outsiders more and stop the gatekeeping, the people runnin' the market will feel the need to meet the demands of the new expanded audience. This is how you ruin things.

Imagine if Japan started taking in endless refugees to solve their birthrate problem, the country and culture would be absolutely fucked in no time.

>>22156337
I believe you. Eushully could easily make some big bucks, arguably more than ALICESOFT because their games aren't lol so random rape, but they hate us Gaijins, so fuck them.

I wonder if the MG 18+ sales ranking chart is mixed or wholy seperate from the all ages chart. Higurashi was on top of the 18+ chart last week, but that could just be a glitch. Here's the ranking if anyone is curious.
All ages
1. Higurashi
2. Circonia
3. Amrilato
4. My Heart with Wings
5. Steam Prison

18+
1. Sengoku Rance
2. Farther than the Sky
3. Hashihime
4. Riddle Star
5. Maggot Baits

>>22120217
How tf are the Fault games taking so long? They're very short

>>22157135
That chart ranking might've actually been sitewide with both all-ages and 18+ titles. I guess it wouldn't be a huge surprise that an $8 chapter of a popular all-ages series was outnumbering $31 Sengoku Rance.

>>22157135
Considering there was a difference between the two lists, Higurashi might have been the top. At the very moment the site reopened though.

is mangagoy's new payment processor american or from JAPAN? my bank always freezes my card when I try to make purchases overseas.

>>22157774
Considering the censoring they had to put up, I would guess it's from Japan.

>>22157774
No American processor would be okay with the kind of stuff MG sells.

>>22154597
Today I learned Clannad is not a VN

>>22154513
Lol, I like how someone put all the LGBT and feminism shit in the screenshots section.

>>22157774
>>22157828
What's wrong with good old Paypal?

>>22154258
I was rather disappointed by how tame Euphoria was, I was expecting it to be a lot worse. Especially with how it opens.
Hopefully Maggot Baits will sufficiently disgust me.

>>22156143
H-scenes were removed entirely for like 3 years. Only recently did they release an official +18 version for G-Senjou.

>>22158318
Paid patch of course. Making G-Senjou the biggest puzzle purchase you have to do to get voices and H-scenes.

>>22158618
You can buy the full 18+ game on Denpasoft

>>22158633
which came out 3 years after the original release which came out several years after the fan-translation release which had uncropped CG's, voices, and +18 content already in it.

>>22158674
And? Your post about it being a puzzle is wrong.

>>22158770
that's not my post and that anon is correct if you're trying to buy through steam. The reason I don't buy games from Sol Press's store or steam is specifically because I have to download a bunch of shit in addition to the game to actually get it as it was originally released, when I could just get a torrent which is free and has everything already included and ready to go with absolutely no hassle.

>>22154233
>Maggot Baits is a hard boiled romantic adventure, inspired from the 80's Wicked city series
I watched Wicked City when I was a kid -- I think I rented it on VHS -- but that was like 20 years ago and I didn't remember it much, so I rewatched it recently. I really liked the dark tone of it, the style, the action scenes, but I thought it kind of fell flat with trying to be a love story at the end. I think I would have liked it more if it had been a grimdark edgefest all the way through. I guess my question is to what degree is Maggot Baits a romance in this way? That shit didn't ruin Wicked City for me -- I still enjoyed it -- but if Maggot Baits is leaning even more in that direction, like as a primary component of its story, then it makes me wonder if I'd enjoy it.

>>22159066
Also has anyone read the Wicked City novel that the OVA was based on? I just found out that it was translated into English a while back.

>>22160081
Thread up with the status updates for this week

>>22155869
>Or the very ending of the game that is?
As far as I've heard they did nothing to fix the end of the game being a rushed mess, which is the one thing the remake could have done to improve the story.

>>22156236
This so much. I buy doujinshi and eroge from circles that put it up as a digital download on an English storefront like DLSite or Booth (ideally Booth since DLSite EN takes a 50% cut). If they only offer physical or they don't have an English store for it, I won't bother. I don't know why the Japs are so slow to figure this out.

up

novel

>>22159066
Sadly making an edgefest it's not valued nowadays no matter how artistic, nihilistic or actually well-thought is it since they are automatically attacked to castrate individuals and make them tame. All work has to have some redeeming hopeful spot or values or it will be considered guro fapbait at most now

>>22146529
>their agenda
Their what lmao

visual

>>22173251
>>22164337
This isn't a general, you don't need to keep bumping the thread when the next one is already up.

>>22173705
K

codex version gets stuck here...

>>22173705
Wouldn't be an issue if this thread had hit 300 posts or fell off the board.

>>22178166
Good, it's telling you to stop reading that insulting piece of shit and go read the original.

>>22178455
works on my W7 PC tho

>>22178204
It's not a general, retard. It's a weekly status update. When the new thread is out you move to that one. Fuck off back to /vn/ if you can't figure it out.

The other thread reached bump limit. What do?

>>22184750
Is this your first time here or something? People can still post in it and when it dies you wait for the new thread to appear on Sunday.

>>22153655
I'm pretty sure Maggot Baits will do fine no matter what. It's a Clockup title. It has a built in audience

>>22185293
You think there's really that much crossover between the Eroge! audience and the Euphoria audience in the west?

YU-NO Remake literally doesn't work. Don't buy it.

>>22186800
remake is shit anyways, why would you buy it even if it did work?

>>22186800
If you mean this >>22178166
that you pirated it and it didn't work, then you got what you deserve.

>>22188119
Even on steam there's complaints about it not working.

imagine thinking this is good art

>>22191406
Imagine thinking that screen cluttering UI and remake art is better than the originals.

https://imgbox.com/g/QQF7dzsSfl

>>22191406
Seethe more, zoomer.

OLD GOOD
NEW BAD

Is the most zoomer thing you can see, you lose all objectively having not grown up in that era of videogames.

>>22191490
Dumbing it down to the old good new bad meme is the most disingenuous thing.

>>22191406
Kaori undeniably had the worst art in the game. That doesn't make up for everything else.

Both versions have shit art, but the new version is worse by virtue of cutting things and not fixing any of the problems the original had, plus being published by 5pb who are a bunch of fags.

Put Nanairo on hold to go read Ciconia. Finished that and now that I'm returning to Nanairo, the writing feels masterful in comparison.

>>22191468
The visual difference is interesting for how it shows the generational difference in taste. You can see in the old version she's meant to look mature and voluptuous, but in the new version she's meant to look young and slim. When I read the original YU-NO I got the definite impression that it was a game that was not made for me, but for the tastes of a prior generation of people (I say this as a 30 year-old). The new art does seem to lack """soul""" as they call it, but I think it looks good enough other than the face. Her face in the original CG looks so pretty, obviously meant to as a contrast since it's hidden earlier in the game, and that's lost in the new one.

>>22191468
>>22194034
(cont.) I also think it's interesting how the two CGs deal with her smoking. In the former there isn't any attention called to it since it likely wouldn't have been viewed as negatively. In the new CG her cigarette is almost in the center of the image and has a smoke trail so that you can't miss it. Contrasted with her updated appearance, the smoking looks kind of gross, doesn't it? I wonder if that's on purpose.

>>22191468
>>22194034
>>22194047
(cont.) One last thing: notice the difference in the way her legs are drawn. In the original the art has a big emphasis on the women's legs, thighs, etc. which you can clearly see from the original CG. But in the new version, not only are her legs not drawn in an appealing way, but they're even blocked from view by part of the table, as if the artist figured you wouldn't be interested to begin with.

>>22194034
Her hair in the new version looks fucking retarded, I don't know who that's meant to appeal to.

>>22194113
It's more then the hair. Notice she now has a [hair ornament] like every modern moe character. In this case it's the glasses she has pushed up on her head, which give the impression of a younger woman, again countering the mature appearance from the original.

>>22188119
both legit and codex version works fine on intel cpus, refuses to work with ryzen cpus tho.

What are the chances of the Tsukihime remake actually being officially localized somehow?

>>22196221
I doubt it would get released officially. Chances of it getting "translated" by retards: 50%. Chances of it getting translated by competent people: 1%.

>>22196221
The absolute first thing I'll do is make a sprite edit to make Arc look more like the original and less like just another saber-face.

>>22196788
You better share your work when you've done it anon!