Previous thread: >>47722302This thread is for the discussion of untranslated Japanese visual novels.What are you playing? What are you looking forward to? What have you finished?
But why?
>>47769654I already thought Lip Monster was retarded but they took it in an even worse direction, holy fucking shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed5Ka4EIkHE Nee chan's got a rack and a half
>>47769654I just found that there is lipstick with that name, so I guess they had or wanted to avoid future copyright issues. In that case, that research they should have done prior, but oh well.
>>47769654>Lip nipples
>>47769654That's a tongue twister for native english speakers. What the hell were they thinking?
>>47769654The OP song is named "Lip Ripples" so it's pretty obvious what they were actually going for. Feels like a panicked decision
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>>47769959You'd think that young people, the ones, you know, working in eroge, would be quick on the uptake and use their youthful power to look that shit up in advance. So how does this happen exactly? I just struggle to imagine so many bureaucratic/financial steps where people read the game's title and no one thinks "wait, did we double check this?"
>>47771623>young people, the ones, you know, working in erogeAre you sure about that?I'm pretty sure majority of eroge creators are well in the 40s if not 50s.
>>47771768Scenario writers, artists, musicians? Sure. But I mean the kind of guys who sit there working on the code, or handling legal stuff and promotion, or run the website and social media. Even if they're in their 30s right now, shit, they're fairly young. That means they had the chance to be introduced to PCs and the web fairly often, which would have influenced their thinking and made them more aware of the landmines you can step on. It's just crazy.
>>47771623That's just my hypothesis, I don't know if that's what really happened. The people who usually work in that field for companies are usually subcontractors or privates, so here it is probably a problem of management and has nothing to do with “age”. Another recent example was musicus!, since it was originally called musica!. Whatever the case, from a commercial approach it's a pretty bad decision, since you have to consider the advertising expenses and all that.
>>47771623>young people, the ones, you know, working in erogeHAThis medium filter zoomers, stop trying to make up stuff
>>47771830Coders and even parts of web design, promotion are usually shared between a bunch of studios. based on subcontracts and things like that.They are very unlikely to escalate possible issues to the point of them getting to creators.Game names are usually decided by producers, director, sometimes scenario writer, or artists if they are inside the team instead of being subcontracted. And in a lot of cases those decisions involve at least some amount of alcohol and/or late meetings. No one is googling shit at such times. At most they'll check that there are no games with the same name already released.
>>47772083That's not true, what filters zoomers into any job anywhere in the world is work experience. Now, I don't think you're confusing target audiences and the people who work at the companies. In any case, a lot of young people have entered the medium recently.
>>47769786>>47769959RIP Monster
>>47771089inverted lipples...
Why are Appetite games so slow to be uploaded sometimes? I know most of them are shit, but that has never stopped uploaders before. Still waiting for https://vndb.org/v51275
>>47773113people lost interest after they peaked with shiritarou earlier this year
>>47770097That's what I'm going to call it now.
>>47773194That one actually had a good scenario
>>47773113That's funny. I was just also thinking about https://vndb.org/v51144 and poof, there it is.
I have finished Natsu no Kusari, it was pretty good. Any other edgy VN without magic or sci-fi bullshit?
>>47773113I just wish appetite would make more obscure fetish games again. Stuff that no other company would ever touch.I miss their grandma games, their brown gladiator girl games, etc.
>>47775179>Natsu no Kusarihttps://vndb.org/w10790
>>47777076Wow, a person who's profile is 90% EVNs and BLge.
>>47775179sakuraba maruo's stuff, 駄作 in particular. 蛇足 seems to be more well-regarded though, but both are sort of related
>>47777076The protag is literally me frfr>>47777472Thanks mate
so I'm getting a bad ending no matter what?
>>47779185third choice
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>>47779185All three variants need plapping.
>>47768695Bought all Itsumama games for a real pittance.
Thank you to the anon who helped me with Popotan. Switching to the DVD version worked.
Be sure to get proper 栄養 before you have a wank anon.
>>47768695https://www.parallel-soft.net/poison/products/himei/fan/eh_z05.mp4Holy shit this game will be hot as fuck. Hope by the end they get prostituted by the dudes. 3 lads is not enough for a good gangbange.
>>47782546Is the girl on the right made of clay?
>>47782546Okinawa bros
Finally I got https://vndb.org/v4464 (Ricotte) working, which ever one of you fuckers gave instructions NOT to install in C:/ I hope you forget a kanji every day.
Kusogebros we're so backhttps://twitter.com/ASaProject_2016/status/1834506102505095514
>>47782887American blackie.Just so japanese dont confuse her with a brown girl.
>>47782546It's over, anatomy bros.
>>47783216what a garbage title
>>47783216For me its the cute dog girl and the cute tsundere.
>>47784273>>47783216Cute dog!
>>47784273Based on her hat and that pose I think the angel might be an addicted drug abuser.Stay far far away.
>>47784745so sad we aren't getting any actually cool charage like this anymore, only retarded incel wish-fulfillment
>>47784786>incelBut they decided 2D>3D. They are voluntarily celibate.
This year's pichi pichi game better be about their maou series,last one was a bit of a letdown.
>>47784273This is amazing in a bad way, like, one of the worst character designs I've seen in quite some time. The only one worthwhile at first glance is Yukari.
>>47784273Not really feeling any of these
>>47784273Asapro is dyingAfter that cuckold fandisk i shall say, good riddance.
>>47785806Everyone agrees that the side characters relationships were the best part about that game though.
>>47785806I seem to remember it being the highest rated asapro fandisc so far
>>47769805>Ayumi shacho the last bosswf
>>47784273I love all of these designs except for the top right normalfag.
It's funny how all you need to bypass this restriction is to press cancel
>>47786836japanese code folded 7777 times.
>>47786872Folded -2147483648 times
>>47784273top right is the only good design
>>47786836I had the same happen with pic related, clicking cancel instead of confirm lets me ignore the block
>>47786836Sadly that is not the case in general, in Ocelot vns pressing cancel closes the program so you need a quirky crack to bypass it.
does anyone know what the deal with the "movie dvd" is, that comes included with the ley line trilogy box set? does it just splice all the major events from the games into one ova or is it some sort of sol fluff?
is there really no romance in jeweha
>>47787253There is, but it's much closer to the end of the game due to spoiler reasons. It wouldn't make sense for the MC to pursue romance before something important happens.
what's the consensus on cross channel? how hard it is?
>>47787367requires deep knowledge of japanese society and otaku culture
>>47785806Dude that might be the best thing they've ever done.If anything, the biggest problem is that it was relegated to an FD.
>>47787367the level of boringness is high so pretty hard to go through all of it
>>47787367Pretty easy, it’s basically linear. There are only a few missable minor scenes, I think.
>>47787367It's fantastic, but I imagine it would be very difficult to approach as a newcomer to Japanese. There's a lot of reading between the lines and it isn't exactly fast paced.
>>47787367Romeo Tanaka's prose for newfriends is a rather uncomfortable bounce between dialogue heavy on colloquial stuff as well as reading between the lines and exposition that's fairly obvious when it's just describing actions like "おカマは泣きながら逃げていった", but can get fairly complex when describing mental states, emotions, thoughts, reflections, what's going on inside the characters' head, basically.He also loves switching up styles (one of the funniest gags in 家族計画 in my opinion was a character imitating a sports caster) and his works are full of potentially hard to understand gag scenes that require an above average degree of familiarity not just with the language but the culture as well. If you're not confident, it might be tough. But also, why not just give it a try? You can always throw it in the pile to read later if it really is too much. He is a damn good writer.
>>47787578Doesn't sound that bad, I thought it was supposed to be mareni tier
>>47787889mareni is hard to read, romeo is hard to comprehend
If you need to ask about the “difficulty” of something you want to read then yes, it’s too hard for you.
Have any of you play this? https://vndb.org/v50864Is it as good as this? https://vndb.org/v17849
>>47788046this is difficult to read
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>>47788663Natives don't speak like that he's ngmi
>>47788669
So, someone made a patch for Nijuuei to backport the console voices. https://vndb.org/r120311Have any of you been able to get this working on modern Windows? I followed the instructions from the github page using the most recent download from A-S but the game crashes after a video at the beginning, says it can’t find a sound effect file even though I can see it right there in the folder.
>>47788699patch was made by a person from keroq makura trannycord along with some instructions posted there, but it's full of trannies and admin is a tranny, so can't really recommend it easier to just read console version if you can't get it to work
>>47787367Nice underlying message, but gets too repetitive and dull...
>>47788714you seem to be very suspiciously knowledgeable of all of those discord trannies......
>>47789920yeah I was one of them but got perma banned for arguing kei is a trap and not trans
thought on Sakurai Hikaru?
i dont mean to be that guy but ive been looking for a while. if anybody has a link, or can upload a link- of the vn sorairo (https://vndb.org/v1914) that would be fantastic. the only ones i've found required some payment, be it vip or premium service. and im not in any private trackers either.
>>47790373https://sukebei.nyaa.si/view/3632856This is probably what you want in this case.
>>47790443appreciated. didn't think to look for publisher collections. i feel dumb, getting suggested a nyaa link after all that
>>47769654This is one case when they need one english speaking person to review the titles. LIP MONSTER already sounds retarded but Lip lipples is somehow even worse.
>>47790487I try to look for latest editions first. They might have better compatibility or fixed bugs.But it's easy to miss collections and they are not always shared.
>>47790500Why would they care about English pronunciation?
>>47791110It's rather likely that it will get translated. 5 out of 7 of their VNs in the last 10 years were. Besides, it isn't even funny or meaningful in Japanese unlike, say, "IxSHETell"
>>47791262>translatedwrong thread buddy
>>47791330Don't REEE at facts, it won't help.
>>47791262I find リップリップルズ to be quite charming and memorable as a game name.But maybe my sense is just weird because I seem to love nonsensical game names like ラブピカルポッピー and similar ones.
>>47791262Then the English publisher can just change it to Lip Ripples for their release? I fail to see how that's a problem.
>>47791516The problem is doubling down on retardation. If it's already bad enough that you have to fix it, make it so that no one else will have to fix it further. Except they are making it worse instead of fixing it.
>>47791580I really don't think it's a problem at all. I don't get why you care so much.
>>47791262Feels good hibikiworks rather go bankrupt that kneeling to westoids and translating their shit
>>47791601>I don't get why you care so mucheops are literally this annoying
>>47788669Ngmi-anon here still learning, I can't recognize unnatural sounding stuff yet. It's possible you're just shitposting, but if not, can you explain what's unnatural there for people like me?
This vn is so deep
still haven't touched muramasa after finishing the first chapterstill haven't read heaven's feel
>>47791913Changing the font like this is a warcrime.
>>47791913Changing the font like this makes its shallowness even more evident.
>>47791913how do you change the font
>>47787903Speaking of Mareni, apparently he's contributing a short story to this 帝都飛天大作戦 illustration book, I think it'll be the first new thing he's written in years.https://x.com/suikadokei/status/1834185284268732621
>>47791865He speaks like a chuuni guy. But it's a game.You wouldn't want to speak like that to people in the office, but there's nothing wrong with the grammar or whatever.
>>47792736I'm going to speak exactly like him when I finally make that trip to Japan.
>>47792781It can't possibly backfire, or get you into trouble.
>>47792960i look like this i say this
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https://x.com/Julio_is_God/status/1834990204278784273is hajimete no kanojo considered nukige
>>47793153laughed.clannad is erogehajimete no kanojo is nukigetsui no sora is nukige after perspective 1
http://www.waffle1999.com/game/105gyaru/Gyaru love
>>47793153Why would you think it’s not?
>>47790190I hope she somehow continues and finishes the steampunk series.
flat gyarus when?
>>47794019https://vndb.org/c80510
>>47794061looks interesting and no chest tumor inflation in sight thx anon
>>47793900Because everyone agrees that it's an utsuge.
>>47793153First time I've seen someone actually playing the browser version of an eroge. Maybe it'd be good for playing at work but otherwise I don't see why you'd pick it over PC.
>>47793199Looks like AIIn fact the shading looks like that NTR doujin koku was working on, whats up with that?
>>47794149Guessing your “everyone” doesn’t include the userbase of EGS, where it’s clearly marked as nukige.
>>47795040Yeah, by four degenerates, which is still 2 people short of being equal with the 鬱 tag. Then you have the fact that it's also tagged as "good scenario" which is basically the polar opposite of what a nukige is, and there are more reviews calling it a nakige than a nukige. You lost this fight the moment you decided that paying attention to what tags people assign to a game somehow gets you closer to the essence of said game. Get 6 blind morons to grope an elephant and not a single one of them will actually tell you that they touched an elephant.
>>47795064No, I mean at the top of the page next to release date, developer, etc.
>>47795077I seem to remember that euphoria also had it, didn't it? my understanding of nukige is more something like Milk Factory.
If H scenes make up a huge portion of the play time, it's a nukige. Simple as. It doesn't mean it can't also have a good scenario or something. Now I'll let you guys argue over if that threshold should be more than 50% or whatever.
Silverio Vendetta spoiler here but I just have to post this because holy fuck this scene. Literally does a complete overkill because of a catfight over a man. Shit like this is why I love chuuni games so much.
>>47791998so? one warcrime more, one warcrime less won't make a difference now>>47792016unpacked nss.npa, used notepad++ to batch replace every reference to font in every file, packed it back and it works
studysteadybros... it was nukige all this long...
time for another totally not retarded meta-"""discussion"""?
Himanatsu or Fuyukuru, which one do I play? Tell me about any of these if you've played.
>>47795814one is boring iyashikei and other is mystery with funny twists and philosophy
>>47794962That's just generic cell shading. Koku's is hard cell shading whereas this has some soft edges and gradients so they're not exactly the same
>>47795823So do you recommend Fuyukuru?
>>47795853depends on what you're in mood for rnhimanatsu has some really good summer atmosphere
>>47796001>summer atmosphereThere is less than 10 days of summer left. Better go fast.
>>47795127Milk Factory is to nukige as Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor is to weapon.A baseball bat is still a weapon, even though it is a less extreme example of one than an air superiority fighter.
It's okay to hit fat "people".
>>47796307youre retarded. thats saying that all eroge are nukige. the whole point of a nukige is to be a more "extreme example"
https://watanabekobi.fanbox.cc/posts/7782336If you really really like natsukumoyururu, here's a link you might find interesting
That's Rising Sun Marriage done.Routes>Fine > Chloe > RiaHeroines>Onbert > Fine > Chloe > RiaI am shocked Ensemble of people made a dark, serious chuuniplotge and it's actually one of the best releases of the year. I don't know about THE best, but it's up there. It's great all around and my only issues with it are that you can guess most of the twists early on and it clearly has a pretty low budget (Lucia probably should've had a sprite and a voice). Great characters, fun magic system and setting, some actually great fights.Just a fun time all around, I'd highly recommend it.
>>47797004Damn buddy, should I play it for real?
>>47797004>>47797010Also what about 華は短し、踊れよ乙女 which seems to have the same main writer?
>>47797010I'd give it a shot, it's not very long and you'll probably have a good idea of whether you like it or not fairly early on.>>47797013That's kind of why I'm shocked Ensemble made KnM. I read Hanaoto and I liked it quite a bit, but it's very above average typical ensemble fare. The taishoroman setting and east vs west themes do make it stand out from the crowd and add some interesting ideas placing it above most other ensemblege, but you still know what you're getting. KnM couldn't be more different, it's a radical change from what they usually do. But I guess having such a dedicated fanbase and making multiple VNs a year gives them the space to experiment with something totally different now and then.
>>47797042Alright then. Thanks.
Is there a route order for 月下之煌? It says it's kinetic, but when I start the VN I immediately get a choice between two heroines.
>>47797004Glad to hear it. Can't wait to read it in 2 years.
>>47794019Gyarus and witches can't be flat, it's the rules.
>>47797086The 2 stories are completely unrelated to each other, any order is fine>>47797004Ensemble have always been the best company in modern eroge, I always knew they had it in them to make a kamige like this
>>47796383Damn that's a philosophically complicated game. I prefer when light games have fights with guys who kill people just because that makes them pop a boner.
>>47800972Well if you really want to know, he just likes killing people. It's actually not complicated.
>>47801088Oh, that's cool. I support covering it up with bs about exposing the hypocrisy of people though. I think that's a great mindset to have. I love being educated by murderers in korean powerpoints.
Where can I download Sora no Mukou de Sakimasu You ni for PC? it's not nyaa
>>47801709it literally is though. on sukebei. if you still can't find it somehow or there aren't enough seeds, look up the akatsuki brand collection (071026-130426)
>>47800972Why are chuunige like this? I didn't need to know that
>>47802535to please female reader
>>47802535Masada has AGP, for further context refer to that chapter in Avesta where Quinn is cuddling with kid-Magsarion written after his tweets about how he found the onee-san in KnY extremely hot.remember when this board has a masadaverse thread haha
I wish I could erase my memories and read Vendetta's route for the first time again. I lost it when they did the gay fusion
>>47802744>spoilerlolYeah, vendetta is great, her route has absolutely everything I love about chuuni.
Have you ever had the experience of reading something you KNOW and felt is good but you just cant be bothered to read it
>>47802930Only if I'm not in the mood for reading itself, or for the genre or something so I do something else.
>>47802930yes, if the work overall is good but paced in a way that makes me feel like getting to the good is either work or going through a marsh
>>47802930If I am reading it then obviously I can be bothered to read it.
Is this REALLY only for untranslated vns? Is there a gemeral for vns somewhere else?
>>47803409yes friend! there's a general JUST LIKE THAT on reddit where all the texthooking and tl reading folx gather <333escort yourself over there posthaste
>>47803409If you mean VNs that have never been translated, no, people talk about VNs with English versions all the time, it's just that people talk about the original versions of them here
>>47803409>>>/vg/
>>47803420I may be a newfag, but I'll never be a redditor
>>47803441in that case lurk the /vg/ vn general or the VNTS thread here though you'll get more traffic in the former
>>47803433>>47803421Thanks, I am very new to visual novels; I have been playing Everlasting Summer and Stay! Stay! North Korea thingy. I'm also new to learning japanese through visual novels:P
>>47803467Yeah, no worries if you play a popular VN that has an English version it's not as if you can't find people here to talk about it wtih
