/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Sekai/Denpa
>Kemomusu - October 11th release
Karakara 3 - 2019 release
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, Editing and programming started.
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
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 - 30% translated
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 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
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
>Lilitales - October 11th release
Raging Loop - October 18th release
Ouka Sabaki - Partial "Early Access" release on 9/17
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, preparing gold master
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 - 100% translated, plan to release this year
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

>Amagami - "Script translation done. 2008/2329 original edition scenario scripts edited (86.2%)"
So Close.
>Lilitales
Wasn't FrontWing supposed to be doing this one? Did KaguraGames steal it from them or something?

I am having such conflicted feelings on the YU-NO remake.
On one hand I absolutely love YU-NO. On the other hand I am really no fan of the remake designs and changes.

>>22200432
Where does KaguraGames get all those shit RPG Maker porn games anyway?

>>22200584
The licenses are likely cheap as fuck and they provide an English and Chinese translation. If you mean where they find them they probably just look on DLSite.

>>22200432
I think Frontwing's western localization team is dead. At best, they may only be focused on Frontwing's own projects or maybe finishing Sharin no Kuni, but that's kind of optimistic.

>>22200465
>remake designs and changes.
Elaborate

>Amagami - "Script translation done. 2008/2329 original edition scenario scripts edited (86.2%)"
After all this time, I can still wait just fine, but at the same time.... HHNNNNNNGGGGGG

>>22201452
Not him, but I don't like a lot of the redesigns simply because, aside from looking bad, they seem to miss the intentions of the original in big or small ways. In some cases, though, some of the design changes were meant to adhere to a kind of reinterpretation of the characters; for instance Kanna in the remake is basically a different character, as Uchida Maaya voices her with an extremely deadpan, dandere-esque voice, which is extremely far removed from the original delivery by Imai Yuka. Kanna's remake design follows the philosophy of this reinterpretation, and as such her expressions are similarly much more deadpan overall. The result is a character which feels far more different from the original, and, in my opinion, it's inferior, and, frankly, a disservice to the source material. One can make similar arguments about Mio as well, though it's not as egregious as Kanna's changes.

>>22200432
Frontwing is currently too busy wasting all their money and team power on their Grisaia themed gacha game for phones. You would think that after 2 failed DMM games that they learned their lesson.

I can't believe how close we are to Maggot Baits

>>22202672
I can't wait for all the people who are playing it because they enjoyed euphoria to drop it.

I'm playing Hyper->Highspeed->Genius. It is pretty good. EOPs are in for treat when Sol Press finishes translating it, however long that may take.

>>22200465
>>22201452
>>22202213
Remake was a fucking mistake. Even more now that i know they decided to use a generic chara-design for the remake because it would be easier to use for an anime adaptation. And the anime adaptation was shit and flopped hard.

>>22202684
I doubt there are many people who are looking forward to it anyway considering that some random softhouse-seal title nobody asked for is outselling it.

>>22202824
Pretty sure the chart is fucked since it hasn't moved at all in like 2 weeks.

Go fix it Doddler.

>>22202752
How do you go from this to this? Dude looks like a chick now.

>>22202849
Eriko, Kanna and Mitsuki are the one who got it the worst.

I must be really weird. I usually prefer games which /v/ says have "no soul" and in this case, I think the old YU-NO looks like shit and is therefore unplayable to me, while the remake which just got released in English looks great and makes me want to play it.

>>22203171
>/v/
Leave immediately.

>>22202824
>considering that some random softhouse-seal title nobody asked for is outselling it.
That's because it comes out on Friday and has a higher discount

>>22200414
https://twitter.com/jlist/status/1180333810371547138

Flowers Autumn is in QC according to Jlist.
JASTUSA responded that they are printing the packages and getting the acrylic figures made up now.

https://twitter.com/jastusa/status/1179775455177723904
Majikoi is also in QC and has had 'unforeseen delays'.

According to the JASTBLUE discord, Togainu No Chi is the next N+ project after Kimi to Kanojo to Kanojo no Koi. Sumaga never.

>>22202752
http://imgbox.com/g/DavlrswUYb
Uploaded a cg comparison gallery.

>>22202849
should see the 3rd to last cg

>>22203171
>Muh grafix

Sprites and CGs aside. Check out that hand holding UI clutter all over the screen.

I wonder why MG hasn't picked up any homo/otome titles lately

>>22204791
Probably because they don't sell that well. Cut's their already small market in half.

>>22204802
But I was told they were the highest selling titles!

>>22204802
>Probably because they don't sell that well.
This.
NTY did well since the audience were starved for content to throw money at. Since then, HS has outright bombed and they've buried the fandisk. Hashihime also seems to be bombing, based on steam charts it peaked at 29 players and is now averaging 18.

When LD1 bombs it'll likely cause them to finally rethink how worthwhile BL is. LD1 includes a number of big name voice actors and tops a number of Japans lists, so it wouldn't have been a cheap license. The voice actors are expensive enough that the Japanese side had to recast everyone in the Bad Egg release due to costs.

>>22202849
The old one is passable. Would let that bang me once.
The new one looks like a fem Asian queen you'd find on Grindr.

>>22204905
Oh lord, I just saw Luckydog1 was made in 2009. Good luck with that one

>>22204791
>>22204802
>>22204905
harotears.jpg

>>22202849
Best friend in highschool that you'd have a drink with and stay the night over at their house while watching action movies. He's always there for you, he's someone you can depend on.

vs.

Twink that cries all the time over small things and is for some reason really attached to you. You've been stuck with him ever since you had some small talk with him inbetween classes when you saw him playing TWEWY.

>>22204955
The artwork in Luckydog1 is pretty painful and dated. The promo video Mangagamer uploaded also contains loads of problems.

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

Numerous lines are sung in English but they've outright changed them. They also allowed lines like 'scent the chance' into a public promo video.

>>22204705
Old CG looks better mostly because of better shading. Maybe for the last pair of CGs, the remake version might be better, but that's because I forgot the context of that CG. Remake version looks more melancholic, original version looks more romantic.

>>22204791
From what I remember, all of MG's otome titles sold solidly, even if that's partly due to being on Steam. Being on Steam didn't help Hashihime, so it's at least fair to say that otome is less niche than BL, at least in the West. Not to mention all of those console otome games that get localized.

>>22204905
I honestly expected Western fujoshi to be more willing to spend money for their niche genre or at least have more market staying power than one title. MG BL titles aside, JAST doesn't seem like it's exactly rolling in the dough with its BL titles either, unless I'm mistaken. Sweet Pool probably sold decently, but not much more than that.

Interestingly, Mangagamer didn't license a yuri title either. Though in the case of that genre, it may simply due to the fact that they licensed so many last year or because there aren't that many yuri titles left to pick from.

>>22204705
>>22202752
The way the remake just deleted best girl's pantyhose

>>22204705
>>22202752
>>22206191
is just outright criminal.

>>22204934
That still sounds way better than the beta orbiter he actually is in-game

>>22205036
The latter one is literally his canon character except with the TWEWY part replaced with "saving him from bullies", so, success?

>>22206209
I mean yeah I guess Takuya feels stuck with him after dealing with the bullies, but his personality falls more in line with the first at least from what I remember and how I feel about him. It's more that Yuuki feels indebted instead of just being annoyingly attached.

Not sure how legit the account is, but Nexton seems to be gearing up to localize some titles (for real).
Though they are a few years too late for that sweet steam money and I have a really bad feeling that we might get another NukigeGamer 2.0 with cut content and censorship to fit it on steams platform since they don't have their own store for westerners AFAIK.

Also, I pray to God that they didn't buy the Shin Koihime Musou MTL.

>>22207262
Might as well spearhead the project of doing a VN storefront. MG got some of their game so it may be a good idea to be their partner for that.

How to get this part?

>>22207296
Uninstall and play the original.

>>22207295
They seems to have their own site which was created during the time MangaGamer was dead.
http://nexton-net.jp/nextension/
>Nexton Extension (Nextension) is a project that connects Nexton to its overseas users.
>Using different platforms, Nextension aims to deliver information and entertainment to all Nexton fans abroad.

>>22207331
Yes it was linked here a month ago.

>>22200414
>Amagami - "Script translation done. 2008/2329 original edition scenario scripts edited (86.2%)"
Sooo, when it hits 100%, it's done, right?

>>22207342
No. They still need to QC.

>>22207349
Well, still, good to see progress.

>>22207342
>>22207349
>>22207353
I'm just happy that it's close to finally happening. Been waiting for this for years now.

The YU-NO remake only managed 60 concurrent users on Steam thus far (although it will have console sales as well). I would have to think that would be quite a bit below the expectations that Spike Chunsoft would have had for the Steam release.

>>22211188
The anime wasn't really that popular over here either.

>>22207262
According to their discord thing, they are still partnering up with MG for localization. I guess, instead of MG going to them for titles, they will be pushing titles to MG instead?

>>22211188
Boi that's Sekai Project numbers!

>>22211188
Some blame goes to the high price and many reports of crashing at the same early point.

Maybe for some people I guess, but for me it isn't so much that I *need* honorifics as much as it is that the replacement for honorifics is often moronic and poorly handled. For a recent example refer to Nanairo.

>If you're that worried about the nuances of character interactions, you should be far FAR more concerned with everything else the translator is doing.

The man makes a valid point. If they care so little about their work that they would remove honorifics then nothing else the translator does is going to be worth reading anyways.

>>22212233
>as it is that the replacement for honorifics is often moronic and poorly handled
Also if they ham-fisted the honorific replacements then it leaves the question of what else was totally screwed up along the way. Honorifics just end up being really easy to pick out due to how often they are repeated by characters.

>>22212233
>you should be far FAR more concerned with everything else the translator is doing.
Should they voice their concerns to the translator who might have gotten everything wrong? Ask some Japanese speaker to spend his personal time comparing the translation and the original? Anyone who needs a translation is only going to spot basic problems, and no matter how concerned those basic problems make them feel for the rest of the translation there's really nothing they can do but point out what they are capable of pointing out. I can't believe Sekai fucked doddler's head more than getting arrested for a loli onahole did.

>>22211188
It's not surprising that an ancient NTR game isn't popular.

>>22212355
Try a bit harder next time.

>>22212360
At what? It literally has NTR in it.

>>22212363
So what? Calling YU-NO an NTR game is like calling Nier Automata a bullet hell.

>>22212374
It's a game with NTR in it made by Elf, which became an NTR company. I'll call it what I want.

>>22211193
The anime wasn't popular everywhere in the world. Nobody gave a single fuck about it even more in Japan.

>>22212384
You're a clueless EOP.

>>22212618
I'd rather be clueless than like NTR.

>>22212618
Don't reply to him.

>>22200584
From /hgg2d/ posting about them.

am i supposed to know what the fuck NG and SF are?

>>22212858
Context?

>>22212858
NG = no good
SF = science fiction

>>22212866
>>22212870

>>22212881
Oh. Have you tried using vndb, retard?

>>22212858
they are literally called NG and SF

VNDB is infested with MG shills.

>>22214426
Cool.

>>22200414
>Maggot Baits - October 24th release
I stopped looking after it was in
>It's finished :^)
>It's being tested :^)
status for what felt like 9 months. I'm ready.

>>22212233
It does seem like getting 'creative' with honorifics thinking "this would be a good replacement" tends to create far more issues then just dropping honorifics in general. No matter how creative the translator or editor may think their replacement might be, they rarely actually come across as actually being creative to the reader (instead often being a distraction), and the standard awkward 1:1 replacements that wouldn't be used in English (such as using Mr/Ms outside of something like a teacher) feels much more unnatural than just retaining them or dropping them would be.

Also, while referred to here as "wow that's not what they actually said" moments, it is still worth remembering that when a product is released with original Japanese audio, the reader's experience isn't just reading the script, but rather reading that script with that audio. This is why localization choices like "lets change something in English to something else" or other changes that an English reader can easily pick up on usually falls flat, yet some of the best received localizations are still heavily localized but in a way that is not immediately noticeable by a typical reader.

>>22216252
Even if their replacements do feel natural in one scene, that doesn't mean it'll hold in later scenes.

A great example would be Azusa in Nanairo. They use "Ms." but the mc continues to call her Ms. Azusa, even when they're in a relationship and fucking.

>Bokuten - Finalizing the Steam version

FUCKING WHEN MG???!?!?!

>>22216264
When you start supporting youkai genocide

>>22212624
Got cucked or what?

>>22212363
It's all done for drama and angering the player and it gets resolved anyway. Stop taking everything at face value.

Venus Blood release date https://twitter.com/Intl_Ninetail/status/1181792882434248704

>>22207296
Take the path for the Ayumi route, then after you see the scene with Kaori and Marina, the guard, head to the school's infirmary. Also, make sure you've beat the game first.

>>22217377
Before all that though, you gotta uninstall the remake and boot up the original. A crucial step a lot of zoomers seem to miss.

I don't know if it was mentioned in any previous threads but Sekai updated their progress tracker to state that the translation of Rewrite is on hold since Conjueror died. I had been wondering if he'd finished it or not.

>>22207315
>>22217458
Imagine being this mad about people not playing ugly original garbage. State of boomers.

Do you all think the Compass of Dei Gratia Kickstarter will succeed?

>>22218172
I honestly forgot about that the day after it got announced. I remember it looked really shit so probably not.

>>22218149
Remember when Kickstarter was about community helping a project become a reality? What's up with these physical goods/translation/VA Kickstarters lately?

>>22218176
It looks interesting. $57k seems like a lot for a doujin game with no voice acting, though, even if it isn't short.

>>22212233
That's how I feel. In theory, honorific replacing/removal can be handled well, especially if the implications of the honorific are properly transferred over to the text, but that's usually not how it goes in practice, especially if 5 or so different and nuanced versions of sibling are being casually thrown around.

It's also not uncommon for professional literature to keep honorifics of a foreign culture though there are times where the honorifics are omitted there too. It only seems to be an huge issue when translating Asian media.

>>22212233
>>22218885
To my beloved dude

Where is the hype from How to Raise a Wolf Girl coming from?

>>22219598
I've not seen a single person post about it, so nowhere is the only answer I can give you.

>>22219598
there's hype? where?

>>22204791
Otome sells better than BL almost always.
>>22205819
>I honestly expected Western fujoshi to be more willing to spend money for their niche genre or at least have more market staying power than one title
There is not much BL fans in the East and West. But there is broad Otome support overall.

Any news on the Noranoto 18+ patch? There was a dude working on it, right?

>>22221241
Yeah, that was me. Sorry but it's been cancelled.

>>22205819
Western fujoshi don’t like to spend money. The manga companies like SuBLime are particularly vocal about how much it annoys them.

Fujoshi will actively scanlate stuff they have already licensed (and released) just so they can share it around ‘for free’.

When it comes to the few that spend money they seem to be more happier with the western produced stuff then Japanese BL. The dev for Coming Out On Top mentioned they crossed 10,000 sales for example and the Camp Buddy team confirmed they had already turned a profit in less then a year. The only recent BL title that may have crossed 1000 sales is NTY.

According to Discord, Sweet Pool underperformed. It turned a profit but it seems like it didn’t need much. The hard copy print run was 1000 copies and they still have over 500 left. The limited edition finally crossed 200 sales (each has a numbered card and people have been tweeting them). Enzai and Absolute Obedience reportedly took 6 years to sell our of their initial print run.

>>22221728
I wonder how well Hashihime is selling.

>>22221728
I think one reason Sweet Pool underperformed, as well as many other vns, is that anyone who wanted to read it had already read the fanTL.

>>22221940
Doesn’t seem like it’s doing very well. All time peak on Steam is 29 people. Average is 16 but it’s dropping fast the past few days.

/r/visualnovels didn’t have a discussion thread for it, doesn’t seem to have been popular enough. On twitter it doesn’t seem to have generated much discussion. Looking at Mangagamers tweets (and even blog posts) most are pretty low or outright have zero comments.

Gonna potentially say that it’ll do better then Hadaka Shitsuji but not all that well otherwise. It seems like the voice actors are pretty cheap though so it might just turn a profit.

>>22200414
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3bugt_36sg

>>22221940
Looks like a cheap EVN. What's so special?

>>22221728
>Western fujoshi don’t like to spend money.
well that's at least one thing we have in common

If anyone cares, Riddle Star has honorifics.

>>22223486
That's good news to hear even if I dont care to read the vn.

>>22223486
But who is translating it?

>game got good translator
>no honorifics
>game has honorifics
>got not very good translator
it's suffering

>>22223984
Who said this?

>>22223987
me

>>22223990
Quoting yourself is a bit silly, don't you think?

>>22224002
no
you mad?

>>22223259
I've been reading it and it's a longer, complex, supernatural mystery story and the BL material has been fairly sparse. It's also quite funny and the art is great. I haven't finished it of course but that is my impression so far. Regardless it doesn't feel cheap or like an EVN at all.

>>22224287
The art is pretty stylish. I'm a straight guy but I'm honestly interested in this game, there's just too much else going on right now lol

>>22224574
and it doesn't have a torrent. oh well

>>22224574
I think if it weren't for the BL it would be a popular "plotge"

>>22224589
If I'm not playing to fap I really don't care who's romancing who, so if it's really good I hope it picks up traction

>>22224638
OST isn't bad either. Definitely gives the game a certain historical feel, since it's set in the 1920s. One of the songs I wanted to link isn't on Youtube, but whatever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSw0gwNyAEU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJUcLUgQEFs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufDoThCGrG8

>>22224287
How many choices?

>>22225178
Like I said, I haven't finished it, but not many.

>>22225266
And by that I mean that I haven't actually gotten one yet (I started reading it on Saturday), but VNDB has it tagged with "few choices" so I assume there are some eventually.

>>22225178
Having played it a bit more, it looks like the structure is, you play through the game once and it's kinetic and you get the first route and ending. Then you have to restart the game and it unlocks a choice to put you on the next route. Repeat, etc.

>>22224287
Looks promising, I'll add it to my already intimidating backlog.

>>22225662
The reviews are confusing. Some people are saying it's a kinetic VN.

>>22207349
not so fast

>>22226250
It has the structure I described. Pic is the first choice that unlocks after you finish the first route if you want proof it has choices. You can also check its VNDB tags: it has "multiple route mystery", "enforced playing order", "unlockable routes", "unlockable choices", and "few choices". It's not kinetic.

For what it is worth, Riddle Star only managed to get to 10 concurrent users on Steam today, so it isn't exactly off to a great start.

I've been trying to think of some mechanics that would make a vn feel really fresh and stand out. Do y'all have any ideas of your own?

One idea I had was a story where the protag has a split personality. It would have tons of choices. After each chapter (or at random), your save gets uploaded, and a save for the next chapter from someone else gets downloaded (one that's compatible with the choices you've made). You have to figure out what happened in that time period and what choices they (your split personality) made. You have to live with those choices and see what you can do to fix things and get back on a route. It'd take a ton of great writing to make it work; lots of completely different routes and such. Would have lots of replayability even on the same route.

>>22230235
Who needs fresh and innovative ideas when all you need to be successful is well-drawn anime tiddies?

>>22229654
I bought it and was incredibly bored with it after a few hours. Just really dull.
Cute artwork, at least.

>>22230235
Sounds neat but very difficult to execute well.

>>22230235
Relying so heavily on an online aspect like that means it will be impossible to play your game as intended in a few years when you decide to stop paying for hosting.

>>22229654
No boost during the prime time period for Asia either, without some turn around it will end up being among MG's weakest launches.

>>22232587
For what it's worth it's #1 on MG's chart.

>>22201486
This

>>22216264
Overdrive VNs are fucking garbage

>>22212233
As I see it honorifics is like dead pixels. Everyone can spot them and complain about it, but statistically speaking it is very little of the whole product that is wrong.

>>22229654
I buy most free patch games on launch (Without Sekai tier memelations). I do however rarely play these games until years later. It is just my way of supporting the industry until I get around to play them.

I just think they deserve money if they do bare minimum for the product. Hopefully that ensures they keep to bare minimum for sales in the future.

Have we seen any indication of the Gauntlets' Personalities besides Miyao and Chloe?
The whole traitor aspect is murky as hell because of this shit.

>>22230235
Honestly I don't like anything in VNs beyond being able to choose which route I'd like to go on. The more choices or game elements there are the more of a hassle it becomes. Sometimes I'll look at the walkthrough before playing a VN and if it has tons of choices or other bullshit you have to do, I won't read it.

>>22233767
Chloe is the traitor.
Might have seen it in Leah.

Any indications on what Sekai screwed up on How to raise a wolfgirl yet?

I am expecting either dude, bro, Miss girlfriend, or tacos instead of onigiri. I mean it is impossible for Sekai to get a translation instead of a rewrite.

>>22236957
No one bought it so we'll never know.

>>22233767
Do people actually like Dragonknight07 games or is it some long-running meme? I've never been able to tell.

>>22237912
People like them well enough; there's not much doubt about that. It's not like people play his games for the visual art.

>>22238293
Wikipedia says he studied at a vocational art school, so given that he is a professionally trained artist I am surprised more people do not like his visual work.

>>22238315
Getting a degree doesn't mean shit if you don't practice on your own and you have to practice for thousands of hours to be any decent.

>>22238386
Well he's obviously improved. Just look at >>22233767. He can kind of draw a hand now.

>>22238411
It looks like shit and the prose is as bad or worse.

>>22238419
I was being sarcastic, you know.

>>22237912
I liked his previous ones but his latest is really shit.

>>22212233
Does the translation ruin Nanairo?

>>22238572
In my opinion, yeah. There's also some bugs which certainly don't help but I'd say the biggest issue is that the translation is well below average and overly localized which creates a really bad experience.

>>22238572
It's still really enjoyable, but the localization really stands. Practically goes out of its way to sully the experience. It's like having leftover spaghetti for supper. The sauce and meat are still great, but the noodles are a little overcooked now that they've been reheated.

>>22238685
Didn't need the leftovers bit. Could have just said that it's like having spaghetti but the chef overcooked the noodles.

>>22238685
What an absolutely awful analogy

>>22238794
Americans only know food analogies, forgive him.

Does Natsuiro ramune have no voiced h-scenes or it was an installation error? Voices run fine on the rest of the game.

>>22238883
Wrong thread.

>>22238883
Wrong thread but I'm pretty sure they're voiced.

>>22238891
>>22238899
sorry

>>22238883
>>22239142
No one in this thread will know since we can't read Japanese. Try here >>22210639.

>YU-NO Remake - Released
Is it worth it? I love the original but the art looks pretty shitty.

>>22239613
No

>>22239613
No.

>>22238572
It doesn't ruin it but it does really take you out of the experience a few times.

>>22237912
People liked Higurashi, mostly because of the anime. A few people went back and read the VN and enjoyed it in spite of it's amateur art and fairly juvenile writing and terrible pacing. It's a VN with some really good moments.

When Umineko came out, the world was on fire. The Higurashi anime had really built up hype, the VN market in general was quite bullish and Umineko delivered. The usual pacing problems and amateur writing was here, but Umineko really enthralled people because the atmosphere was fantastic and, like Higurashi, R07 had a great ability to craft a really hype moment. Umineko also caught on in the west for the reason. For a brief period, Umineko was on top of visual novels.

And then R07 dropped the ball, hard. It became clear he was making it up all along, and the promise of return on people's expectations of greater themes and a satisfying conclusion would not be delivered. R07 saw a drop in popularity and people were "over" Umineko. R07 reacted poorly, dropping from King to Duke, so he insulted his entire audience in the final chapter of Umineko and ragged on them for expecting a mystery to be resolved in his mystery visual novel. Doubling down was the worst thing he could have done, so he fell from Duke to Peasant. People got really mad, and then they stopped caring.

R07 released Higanbana, Rose Gun Days and Trianthology, three VNs literally nobody read. He wrote a route in Rewrite that is overwhelmingly thought to be the worst route in that entire VN and something you suffer through to get back to the good stuff. Pretty much no one in Japan has any interest in what the guy does. In the west people still care, mostly because they appreciate his pandering towards progressive social issues, and weren't as let down by Umineko as many of them didn't read it while it was coming out, only once it was all fully released.

Then Ciconia released and... it doesn't even feel like a WTC title. The atmosphere isn't great; in terms of amateur writing and pacing problems, R07 hasn't progressed at all. He's doubled down on the socially progressive pandering and the hate your own audience thing. He's trying to sell a 10 hour VN for $40 USD on Steam.

Do people like him? Only really westerners who refuse to accept Umineko was a clusterfuck of poorly thought out ideas even more poorly executed, and hail it as some kind of masterpiece that no one understands. I honestly think this is it for him.

I still have those fucking nicknames stuck in the back of my head. I'm still trying to figure out what could have possibly been the thought process behind them. Like how did they pick them? Why? For what purpose? And why use them the way they did? They dont use nicknames in the JP script, and you can still hear tye haracters say their acfuals names. Why not just use their actual names? They dont use the nicknames all the time either, only half the time, so why? Who let this happen?

fuckin' Ee, Awee, Fuu, and Ai-Ai

They're not even established, everyone just uses them. It's just so retarded.

>>22238572
So far I can tolerate everything that is easy enough for me to catch with my limited knowledge. Obviously the Awee and Ee shit is just "why", But I'm more worried about things that I can't catch because it's not voiced or because my Japanese is toddler tier. If I don't see something I should be upset about then I can't get upset about it... So it's more like mild displeasure at the things I do see and a looming anxiety over not knowing about mistakes I can't see that could potentially be changing how I view the novel.

>>22241075
I stopped reading at the Rewrite part. Who in their right mind thinks Lucia's route is worse than Chihaya's?

>>22241176
>Who in their right mind thinks Lucia's route is worse than Chihaya's?
Literally anyone with two brain cells to rub together. But both are garbage.

>>22241075
Imagine paying $40 for 10 hours of content.

Terrible writing aside, the vn still uses stock backgrounds with filters, free public domain music, stock cg effects, and has no voice actors. R07 has turned into a fucking scammer that preys on his fans. "I'm getting older, I have less free time, and I'm having to pay more people to work on this vn, so I'm raising the price from 1k yen to 3.7k per episode." It doesn't fucking show.

>>22241231
The game has seen some improvements in that department. The stock backgrounds are about as convincing as I've ever seen them (still not very), his sprites are better drawn than ever before (still not very) and the game isn't in 4:3 resolution. We're making progress. Maybe when he starts charging $200 per VN he'll stop using stock art and filters.

>>22241219
That's a really stupid thing to say. I also doubt the majority are too stupid to see that Chihaya's route is the lowest point of the game... how about evidence?

>>22241075
Reminds me a lot about people who say the old VN are great and the new ones are bad. They are just old fedora tipping autists living in the past sipping on their Arizona Ice Tea while eating Doritos.

>>22242413
>old VN are great and the new ones are bad.
That's mostly true, though.

>>22242417
It seems that way because visual novels are dead in Japan and nothing gets released that was made recently except for low grade moege. The few good VNs in the past couple of years either haven't been translated; Sakura no Uta, Rance X, Tokyo Necro, or are console exclusive; the Utawarerumono sequels, Raging Loop etc.

There was plenty of garbage released back in the day too.

>>22242664
That's why I said "mostly." I don't disagree that good games are still being released, but there are much fewer now.

>>22242664
Also Raging Loop is getting an English release on Steam in December. I posted about it in an earlier thread but OP isn't including it in his list for some reason.

>>22242714
>I don't disagree that good games are still being released, but there are much fewer now.
There's much fewer VNs being released across the board.
The ratio of good to bad is about the same as it always was.

>>22241075
You don't need to 'suffer through Lucia's route' since it was added later to Rewrite, so that's a lie. Your loss if you skip the best route.
Popularity is fickle and you shouldn't judge anybody's work just on it. Higurashi/Umineko fans are just that; the popularity doesn't carry over r07 other works. Visual novels/eroge in Japan are super ghetto niche for starters, and Japanese have bad taste. Their gachapon/soshage addiction is killing eroge even more. You might celebrate r07's death as soon as the death of the whole eroge market.

>>22242772
>You don't need to 'suffer through Lucia's route' since it was added later to Rewrite, so that's a lie
It was actually added earlier than the others, and you need to complete it to get to Moon and Terra.
>Your loss if you skip the best route.
Lmao fuck off Ryukishitter.

>>22242788
Overall that's the big problem with works written with multiple authors. You can smell the stupid Romeofag from miles away, trying to stir up shit against r07. What a stupid goat.

>>22241121
>Fuu, and Ai-Ai
To be fair, I could somewhat see these as a possible nickname given to them. By a schoolgirl of course, but not impossible. The other two are completely pure shit though.

>>22242946
New thread up with the updates for this week.

>>22242954
why

>>22244603
Fuck off idiot. This isn't a general. Go back to your meme board.

>>22244612
Ignore the retard, he's from one of the idol cancer threads and he's bumping the whole catalog. Report and move on.

>>22239771
>>22240093
K.

>>22200414
any game with the same game mechanics as kamidori alchemist?

>>22244612
why so angry