Previous thread: >>48451062This thread is for the discussion of untranslated Japanese visual novels.What are you playing? What are you looking forward to? What have you finished?
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>>48492584That sounds perfect
Is it recommended to read Ashita no Joe before playing あしたの雪之丞?
Hopefully asking this is allowed, can someone shill me a 6-15 hour NVL game that can't be texthooked?
>>48493681https://vndb.org/v661
I see gyaruI skipSimple as
I see gyaruI readSimple as
dropped this one years ago. lets see how far we get
I don't rememberWhen we download off of sukebey, is 2d.g.f. better or is girlcelly better?
Any good Hooksoft games made under their own label and not their imprints like Smee, etc?
>>48494125Yubisaki Connection
>>48493681>that can't be texthooked but why tho
>>48494157People are trying to call me out, saying I can't finish a game without a hook. I want to prove a point.
>>48493681>>48494165Play a PSX-exclusive VN
>>48494077Both are the same quality-wise
>>48494192he'll just hook it like everything else
What are you going to read next week?
>>48494590I was thinking https://vndb.org/v1321 on Christmas day since it's short.
>>48494590ハピメア, I'm in the mood to fuck my sister.
>>48494590I will do what I do every yearLoad up a save on the christmas day in some moege and enjoy my christmas date
>>48494673Enjoy her 20 minute route.
You've got to aim for at least a shredder
I wish Kusukusu still drew for eroge
>>48495277Taisho Setsuna = cute.
>>48494590Rereading Moemi's route in Pure x Connect.
>>48494590sana edition
>>48494828Surely you're just fucking joking, r-right?
>>48493681Every VN can be text hooked if you know how, the only one I was never able to get working was KimiKiss but that was because it was emulated through psx. (I still managed to read it via OCR)
muv gacha is dead, DEAD!
Holy shit, this VN has an entire anime opening scene, I thought I got tricked into downloading an episode of evangelion. And it has the cleanest transition into the VN, wow. I can't find any info if it was originally an anime or anything.
>>48498209There's a girl who calls herself 'boku' HOLY CUTE.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxcfaitVqt8The OP is sung by... some random localizer? https://vndb.org/s24005
>>48498576Dr*pped.
>>48498576>[BIG ANNOUNCEMENT] >I sang the OP song for Sister Position's upcoming game, Doinaka Kyoudai, Natsu Oto Kimi to. I also sang and wrote the translation for the English version, Sounds of Summer with You! I hope to connect with erogamers around the world, even as a newbie singer.kek
>>48494520What it's using here to hook/translate?Some OCR software?
>>48498861Yomininja I think, it seems kinda slow compared to others.
>>48498576Now I'll just sit here and wait for anons to tell me the medium totally isn't dying and that getting steam localizers involved in the staff for japanese game is totally harmless
I picked up this short nukige because it has art from the Amaemi artist and I enjoy his style, but there's some other artist involved as well and that guy is clearly using AI. https://exhentai.org/s/abb37bf6e4/3163532-443
>>48499031Boo! AI, Wwoooowwwooo So scary!!! Get a grip.
>>48499012>medium totally isn't dyingIronyweeb?
>>48499031>using AIProof?
>>48499052He made it on an evil computer with heretical digital pen and not by hand with horsehair paintbrushes and authentic soulful IIalian paint like the old masters.
>>48499045I don't mind its use as any other tool, but this one is too blatant.>>48499052Look at the controllers and the guy's right hand.
Did a new anime adaption got made or something? Why the inflow of ironic raiders?
>>48499031Oryou is declining...
>>48499141>IIalianA couple years ago my typing started to get worse, I think it might be age affecting my hands or something. I don't know why it started happening. Please don't mock me.
>>48494165>People are trying to call me out,Which people? On a different service?
>>48499031This shows a clear misunderstanding how how to create art with AI, he likely prompted 1,girl 1boy, when he should have generated the first layer with only the male, and then generated a separate image of the girl and inserted it into the first image. AI still can't understand 3d space and objects maintaining continuity behind other objects.Not necessarily an AI issue, but a Human skill issue.
>>48499326>>>/g/>>>/ic/
I hate heterochromia memeIt looks fucking ugly
fat witch hat
>>48499326If it can't understand 3D space how do you expect it to produce separate images with the same exact angle with poses that fit together?
>>48499811see >>48499347
>>48499811Control net
>>48498576looks like shit anyways compared to their last game
>>48499867Yeah, Chata apparently got forced by Whisp(Lose) to make something more suited to the average DLSite user's taste, so it has a bunch of game elements you'd see in an RPGM title. Can't say I'm too excited, especially after this news too.
>>48499902Damn, Lose lost their way big time.
New Urushibara-sensei game.https://vndb.org/v54048I know. But better than nothing.
>>48500459https://hanakimi.frontwing.co.jp/
And finally, could it mean...
>>48500459>all-ages>simultaneous releasesnew frontwing disgusts me
>>48500459I wanted his writing with Favorite art, but maybe writing for Frontwing means he'll have a damn editor this time.
OK after readin gseveral 'plotge' that have lots of interactions with girls that wouldn't feel out of place in the 'moege' I've read and several moege with extremely involved plots I have concluded it is a fake distinction
>>48500618I'm not against that.
>>48498576Shame they couldn't get Yakushi Ruri to do the OP theme because her songs are so iconic but since they're going for a more bittersweet vibe with the OP it makes sense they'd get another composer and artist to work on it. The new OP is fine, a lot more generic than what I'm used to from Sister/Tinkle Position but it does the job. I guess the game itself is going to have a more mono no aware vibe compared to their previous games which I'm all for.
>>48500481bros...
>>48500459I was going to ask why FW were now an all-ages company, but then I remembered they got bought by Bushiroad. Another reason to hate gacha I guess.
>>48494192that's actually not a bad idea, has anyone played the PS2 version of Subete Ga F Ni Naru?is it fun?
>>48500618Moeplotge are the best
>>48497423kimikiss was one of the first vns i ever finished when initially learning nip and i still understood 95% of it. it's so braindead simple
>>48501410>nip…
>>48501637What visual novel is this?
>>48501640櫻ノ日々
textractor doesn't remember the extensions I use anymore...so annoying wth happened
>>48501665time to graduate from it
>has multiple heroine routes>only one is treated as canon and is required to finish the story>everyone else is treated as a character arc, but is essentially pseudo game over with extended narrativewhy do this
>>48501665thats because you're not launching with admin. settings don't persist unless you use admin
>>48501770They really should just make these kinds of stories into kinetic novels
>>48501680Not him, but what do you mean graduate? The technology is only getting better
>>48498576Looked up the games she sung for before, almost all of them are just regular nukige but then there's this thing kek
Unless the character routes are extremely short then Tir na Nog seems to be a full length game even though it's an Azarashi Soft +1 game.Common route is extremely comfy so far, but there's been a few hints that suggest it's not just your average moege. Which would make sense since it's Nakahiro.
>>48501880https://chobit.cc/9nb59/anwv1si6holy shit i'm laughing so hard. they had to autotune her voice so much that it's comical.
>>48501880That CG looks better than 99% of the garbage coming out nowadays with AI since at least you can tell that was made by a human and you can feel it had a lot of love put into it.
>>48502090You know what, that's fair. I shouldn't be dunking on a small doujin circle scrapping together amateur art to make their dream game when there are far worse things happening in this medium and art in general.
best nukige of the year is to come shortly...
>>48502090>VNs that use AI artNo way. Examples?
>>48502548Any VN with art I don't like.
Doesn't seem like any moege nor plotge is releasing this month and the next.We are getting more and more dead months for new releases, aren't we
>>48502548Just check DLSite, they have a special category for this shit. Anyway it's best to just drop the subject and not talk about it lest it attract those annoying as fuck techbros here.
>>48502555See: >>48502073Next year also looks pretty stacked already. Got like 15+ titles on my 2025 wishlist already.
>>48502548Im pretty sure most of the stuff releasing lately has AI in one way or another and the fact that we are reaching a point where im having trouble telling what is AI and what is not makes me mad.
Then it becomes an otome game
>>48502489Erm that's not tsumugi no hayanome.
>>48502592you're just retarded
Anyway to force textractor to hook a specific engine (or exclude one)? It was hooking rugp properly at first but now it keeps trying to hook BGI and hook search doesn't turn up anything.
Are you mad?
>>48502592Mind making a thread about it on /g/ and /ic/ to discuss it further?
>>48502489Wrong.
>>48503696I dunno about best of the year. It had some great h-scenes, but the corruption was really fast and it was a bit light on the ntr. I think with a bit of tweaking it could've been sometihng really special, as it is it's good but missing a certain je ne sais quoi.
>>48503282About no threesome route with or without extra yuri? I would like it, but I understand why it's not possible for WA2.
>>48501770Writers thinking they're writing a story heavy novel instead of a VN and forgetting what their actual purpose is.
>>48502090
>>48504355>>48503684
>>48504450Stop talking about AI and this wouldn't happen.
>>48504538>AIsee >>48499347
VNs.. just aren't fun anymore...
>>48504798perhaps it's YOU, you're not fun anymore. If you're a fun person then VNs are fun.
>>48504798This is why you save routes of the ones you really loved for these occasions
>>48504798It's a you problem. Go do something else.
>>48492533Favorite heroine of the year for you?Doesn't have to be from a game released in 2024, just one that you read this year.
>>48492989Bump.
>>48505302Pic related from the new whirlpoolge really stuck with me. Really didn't expect to feel from it
>>48505302
Where on earth did Hiruou fuck off too?
>>48505302hottie
>>48505302Carolina McLachlanReally happy she's getting a route in the sequel.Berka and Mea aren't far off.Oh and Yuki and Rina in WA1 are both great too.
>>48505302My JK wife who doesn't believe american propaganda
>>48505302Easy pick for me in that case.
>>48505302always good interactions with her
>>48505302I didn't really enjoy any of the VNs I read this year, though Seine in Lovel X Cation 2 stood out because she was such a cute autist.
>>48505302Hiyoko or ML Sumika
>>48505302Nobuchina
>>48505302Grimlock, forever in my heart.
>>48506783Still mad she didn't win the FD
That's a lot of best girls
>>48507539I agree. Usagi by far has the best chemistry with the protag.
My beloved
>>48507696>>48505302Oops
>>48505302Hotaru
just make it 18+ and spare yourself the headache.
>>48508185Don't post that. You'll summon him.
>>48508185I miss Giga
>>48505302Really obscure pick, but I'll say Natalya Cambiasso from Z/X 絶界の聖戦.I freely admit that 100% of the reason I bought this game is because it had a cute sexy brown nun girl on the cover. Having played it, I can say with a reasonable degree of confidence that it is NOT an amazing perfect overlooked gem with no flaws. However, Natalya not only has a great design but a great personality too, and whenever she's onscreen the game feels twice as good as it actually is.
>>48508294Is there actually an Asagi card?
>>48508322Asagi from Nippon Ichi? Yes, it came with the game. The code is P04-021. You get two copies of that card and one of either P04-023 or P04-024. Mine had P04-024.I think she's also supposed to have a boss fight in the postgame, but I haven't gotten that far yet. I've only played two routes so far.I've read that some reprints of the game don't come with the free cards, so if you're thinking about buying the game for them it'd probably be wise to look into that.
>>48508430Yeah that's my Asagi! She's typically a postgame boss.Interesting game i'll check it out next month.
>>48505302Honami
Must be fun
>>48510300Kita would never...
>>48510315She killed millions.That's not a joke. She actually kills millions. That's part of why I like her so much, I'm actually astonished the writing had the guts to make Female Vampire Truman a heroine and fully espouse "it's ok to nuke people if it accelerates the end of the war and saves more lives overall by forcing surrender".
>>48510324This made me want to pick it up, thanks anon. Will I enjoy it if I play mainly for her?
>>48510324I understand what they were going for but I can't say it was satisfying. It feels like all she was never able to accomplish much apart from damage control. Her route feels like an extended bad ending for her. I also really dislike her being a part of the final battle and having to pull the trigger on her father.
>>48510508Probably, she's the main heroine and the true route.That said, because she's the main heroine and the true route you have to read the other two routes first.>>48510510>I also really dislike her being a part of the final battle and having to pull the trigger on her father.That was the climax of her entire character arc! That's one of the best parts of the VN. It wouldn't work without it.
>>48510508If you can tolerate being preached to all the time about how racism bad then it's one of the better releases recently.
>>48510524>game doesn't shut up about racism is bad when it's an ugly woman in a western gameEw>game doesn't shut up about racism bad when it's like a cute catgirl and the racism is against cute animal people who are identical to humans in every way except for the ears in a Japanese VNNow that's the good shit.
>>48510516>she's the main heroineThanks, I love heroines who do nothing wrong so that's good.>>48510516>>48510531I don't seem to notice these things, it's why I was surprised when people disliked the other work voiced by her that features racism for that reason. I just choose to not see it as preaching unless it's explicitly western-influenced.
>>48510531So I presume you already played Jeweha?
Spoonfeed me pls. Which version of Dies Irae is the optimal experience? HD anniversary or the original? I was gonna go for Amantes Amantes.
>>48511155at least use the light purple one.
>>48511164too bright hurts me eyes
>>48511155Original sucks I think it only had 3 routes or some shit. The newer versions added the Kei and Rea route. Might be wrong on which routes got added but you can just check on vndb.
>>48511155Acta est Fabula + afterwards you read the extra parts in Amantes Amantes.The HD versions are pretty pointless now that high quality upscaling is available with Magpie. They also have pretty soulless new UI and I think there were some sprite issues when switching back to the original 4:3.Anything before Acta est Fabula is incomplete, like >>48511429 says.
KFC is shit.
>>48510576I watched the anime 86 years ago and it was some retarded anti-racism propaganda which just alienated me from the medium even more.Your case is one of the reason why they are using japanese media for it since you are under the impression of >Thing>Thing (Japan)
>>48511908is this game some kind of cyberpunk Pia Carrot?
>>48512272>>Thing>>Thing (Japan)>he doesn't recognize the superiority of Japanese media to use any themesSounds very ironic.
>>48512175Stop posting retarded shit for a while, please.
>>48512347>Thing (Japan)Unironically this.Japan can do both "racism is bad" and "racism is good" because it upholds the law of balance.
>>48512514>law of balance
>>48513264Forgive me, for every JP word I use I have to use an EOP word.
>read VN in japanese>be forced to read VN you love in MTLCould you live like this?
>>48513330But I always read them with MTL?
I'm off sick for 2 months, what VNs should I play to heal me.
>>48513353Maybe you could go on an immersive adventure with your daughter.
>>48513380Don't shove that all ages crap in my face.
>third pov>again, the side girl is best girl, and again, the main heroine is another boring clone of the already shit previous oneWhy must I suffer endlessly like this
>>48513353Will Urobuchi-sensei ever return to writing VNs?
>>48513530Fixed her face.
>>48512272You have to be braindead to take home some anti-racism message from 86. It literally has superior bloodlines in that universe. It was just the author's way to give most of the characters deep-seated trauma and PTSD.
>>48513530Would you really want to cuck your bro Morisato?
>>48513530Asuka is the best though.
>>48513530She has an all-ages route
>>48502606>>48503282is WA2 the novel where everyone is a piece of shit and the MC gets the blunt of it by spending his life lonely in the true route or some shit? that's the spoiler I read some times ago that kept me from reading the novel but I don't know if it's real or not. I don't want to read shit like that in the true route.
>>48514714Not at all, despite appearances WA2 is very otaku pandering. But I wish it was more like your spoiler.
>>48514822so it has an happy ending (or bittersweet at the very least) despite being a nakige? nice, I may read it then.
Have any of you gotten Rance VI to work properly on modern hardware? After getting out of the first dungeon (or so it seems?) I get this error and the game crashes. I'm honestly stumped since of all the older ones, it's on the System40 engine so it's the last one I would've expected to give me problems.
>>48514828Yeah, WA2 gives every heroine a happy ending.
The new saimin seishidou game is a saimin masterpiece imo. So many scenes and variations, so many heroines and events and each heroine has nice depth to their scenes. They really dropped the kamige of 2024 in the final month.
>>48514938>saimin masterpiecein the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king
>>48514946Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
>>48514822>otaku pandering?
>>48514849Are you using the latest patch? Version 2.05 came out in 2023.I wouldn't recommend it for a first time playthrough since it massively lowers the difficulty, but at least it's an option.
>over 400 games in backlog>can't decide what to play next
>>48515034Same bro.
>>48514849If you don’t want to use TADA’s patch, try this: https://github.com/kichikuou/xsystem4
>>48513590how?
>>48515034fuck it I'll play pic related before EOP can enjoy it. what should I expect?
>>485151429 million hours in paint
>>48513530Fixed your screenshot.
>>48515055Thank you, that actually worked. I still don't understand why it wasn't working to begin with, but I'll take it.
>>48515145Is that really what you're going to play? Out of 400 VNs? It looks like shit.
>>48515193Eh, I don't know what else to play honestly.
>>48515193>It looks like shit.Play it before you talk shit. It's one of the best VNs I've played.
>>48515210I judge a book by it's cover, and that has always been the right decision for me.
>>48515210It's good but not that good.
>>48514561>all-agesthat's based tho
>>48515150I fail to see the difference
is ok to feel lost/you don't understand when reading a untranslated VN for the first time? since it's my first time reading a unvoiced acted VNI was grabbing the MTL half of the time, it's time to go hard on my reps, I will do it for you Lisa from routes
>>48515424Back to le discord, EOP-kun.
>>48513508Otaku media has always had the "discrimination against minorities bad" theme because otaku have always been a minority and used to be discriminated against a lot.
>>48512347its for to read things that go "white piggu" it makes me hard. Like the scene with the Sakura no Tokiwhite lawyer who accepted MC's first answer and didn't realize he had to ask 2 more times or the scenes in Electro Arms Where MC says "you think the star spangled banner means you can do anything you want?"
However, this one looks REALLY interesting too. FUCK. why there is so much good shit out there?
>>48515469I will.I fare better understanding shit with games with voice acting
>>48515838also, I remembered i can understand maruto VNs fine without using MTL for some paragraphs i don't understand and only looking at dictionary once in a while for some reason.I guess i'm too accustomed to reading stuff in furigana
>>48515424Using mtl during your learning stage will cripple you harder than any shitty book would
>>48515838i think that's just normal
Gonna read albatross because Kuro looks cute.
>>48515210I don't remember posting this
>>48515551Downloaded it months ago haven't got around to it, really piqued my interest when I saw the art after it was recommended based on a request for a route-based eroge with an LN-esque adventure plot
>>48515424Yes, that's normal. Visual novels can have very tricky Japanese sometimes.Don't give up and MTL. Take your challenges slow and treat them as opportunities to learn, and eventually even the twistiest of spaghetti Japanese will make perfect sense to you.
>>48513530>he thinks that bitch is the main heroine
>>48516858He’s obviously talking about Naru. No one would have shit enough taste to dislike Ai.
>>48516870Oh my bad then. I like Ai and her route was nice. I misread and thought that he was thinking that asuka was the main girl of the whole game (and not the chapter like he said).
Can I play Sakura Taisen 3 without playing 1 and 2?
>>48517562Yes, but you still should play them.
>>48517580Is it okay to play 1 and 2 after 3 then?
>>48517672Sure.
>>48517672No, play them in order. ST1 is very short, one normal run is < 10 hours
>>48492989How the hell have you not read/watched Ashita no Joe already?
>>48517736I'm pretty sure most people haven't. Sure it's Dezaki and a super influential manga, but a sports manga/show from the 70s isn't exactly going to be #1 on most people's backlogs.
>>48517736it's the citizen kane of it's genresomething everyone wanks as influential, revolutionary, and even massively inflate how good it is, but nobody actually sits through due to being a slog that is not that interesting as a thing to grab your full attentionjust like today you have shit that grabs your full attention and filler you read because it's there and need something to burn time between your main shit's releases, this back in the day was also on that later category
>>48517736I've never really been a huge anime/manga fan.
>>48517736Sports aren’t interesting.
>>48517763Most casuals? Sure. But I thought we were all hardcore otaku here. I’d expect everyone to be familiar with that and other 70s classics like Berubara, Leiji stuff, 0079 etc.>>48517777That doesn’t make any sense and sounds like an attention span problem on your end. The problem you’re describing does actually exist and there are works considered “classic” that suffer from it, a lot of Tezuka series for starters. Ashita no Joe is definitely not one of them.
>>48517802One's time is limited and there's too much to go through. You need to focus on what's interesting to you.So cut me some slack, I'm going through old Leaf games now.
>>48517821>I'm going through old Leaf games now.Anything you have liked so far?
>>48517824WA1 of course. Still not done with all routes, but both Yuki and Rina are great. The game's also written in a very interesting way. Or at least in a different way than more modern games I've read before. I want to post more about it when I read all routes, but it's gonna take time.
>>48517682I'll be playing on PS2 JP and ST2 didn't get a PS2 port for some reason, so even if I play in order, I'll have to skip one game anyway.
>>48517802>Leiji stuffI made the mistake of watching all of 999 and most of it was pretty bad but admittedly it did have some pretty good episodes. One of these days I'll get around actually watching Harlock.
>>48517821>>48517837Fair enough.>WA1How are you finding the RNG aspect? I wanted to read it too but I saw someone here talk about how bullshit it was, and that deterred me. Plus I don’t like how the remake looks.>>48517873Funny, that was by far my favorite of his “big 3”. I’m a sucker for that ethereal fairytale-like atmosphere, and being a fan of 銀河鉄道の夜 probably also helps.
>>48518002>How are you finding the RNG aspect?Manageable if you read a guide, just to pick up events. And for the free talks, basically a good rule of thumb seems to be to meet the girl you want at least once or twice a week.
>>48518002>ethereal fairytale-like atmosphereThat's what I wanted. I thought it would just be like assorted adventures in space. Instead what I got was ad nauseam repetition.
Any charage/moege worth reading from this year? I'll read anything as long the girls have personality and there's funny banter
>>48512276Re:d Cherish is 25% cute girls working at a diner SOL, 75% cybervamppunk action.
>>48518090I'd say it's more like 50/50 personally.
>>48515145>what should I expect?Chusingura is full history autism, the author is a huge fucking nerd and half the appeal of his games is that he constantly dumps random facts about the era on you. It's great. The actual plot is historical recreation but all the historical figures are now cute girls. What sets it apart from pretty much every other series with that exact plot is that it commits to the bit harder than anyone else, it's full historical accuracy, up to and including killing off the heroines when they're supposed to die in history.>>48515193Chusingura's pretty fucking incredible dude. It's well worth it if you have any interest in the source material.
>>48518090I hope Crystalia goes back on the cyberpunk urban fantasy thing after this latest project katana. I really like RE:D Cherish and how it enhances the shared universe that they're building.
>>48518136They're out of Project Katana stories now anyways. All the Suzakuins that could get games have gotten them. Miyako would need a very different game, I don't see it happening.
>>48517682> < 10 hoursThat's still like 3 days for me, why should I waste my time on it?
>>48518146Make more Suzakuins.
Anyone got link to a good repo like that alist.ziyi.cc posted on the last thread? Chinese sites usually has the most things but they're a nightmare to search.
>>48518104Sorry guy, I'll put it on the backlog again, I'm reading Scarlett first. It's shorter.
>>48516668compared to manga and real japanese books, VNs are far more tricky.
https://x.com/kaerusoft/status/1867448930096865565They should just make more fucking VNs
>>48517736I picked hajime no ippo instead >>48518074This year was dry for more/charage, perhaps the worst of the decade
>>48519753>I picked hajime no ippo insteadEnjoy literally THE worst trainer to ever exist.
>>48519879dont feel like reading it, qrd?
Livehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdbmlebuKEc
All the Kin'iro Loveriche collaboration scenes from Mist Train have been added to the gacha thread in the hentai board.>No Akane
>>48517802I've wanted to check out Ashita no Joe ever since I saw Megalobox
>>48517777Feel like this is a weirdly common problem in the west but not so much elsewhere.Also put into words some thing I had been thinking about relating to comfort food media and big "event-like" media, and how in EOP spaces event-likes or "main shit" has largely died while comfort media or "filler" has been clogged with youtube slop, and I can't imagine that being healthy at all.Ironiggers have it even worse, with also no event-likes (or worse, they have it but end up with their expectations betrayed like JJK or CSM) and the comfort food became video essays summarizing the plot of various series, more often than not wrongly, so not only they have nothing that impacts them, they have everything that could do so ruined by spoilers and the opinions of speedreaders taken as fact.Be thankful VNs don't have an EOP eceleb industry because westoids can't read.
>>48517777Fuck you nigger, I watched all of Ashita no Joe and read the manga too, it was good from beginning to end. It deserved that length and had very high quality.
>>48517802>>48521722i want to formally apologize for accidentally slandering ashita no joe like that, i got my boxershit mixed upi was thinking of ippo instead >>48519753no idea how did i got those mixed up when something as simple as their hairdos are wildly different
>>48521167>black sheep odd one out black hair in golden hair gamewhat do you expect?
This christmas give yourself a present
>>48521861It's too late. Christmas will have come and gone by the time I get my license, a gun, and a bullet.
>>48521983>needing a license
>>48505302i expected more white-haired girls
End of 2024 and they still can't be topped. Why the hell are white haired girls so cute?
>>48500724we're posting natsukumo?
>>48523554There has never been a better time
>>48523760I'm considering replaying it but given it's winter I just might do fuyu instead
>>48522052The best one showed up early
>>48523933>Purrint_1254Post Purrint_572
>>48523972Here you go, apparently I played a bit of mahoyo before finishing harukuru
>>48523554>>48523933>>48523760I read the first few routes but didn't get around to Yuuri and Shiho's which I assume are the last 2。 I intend to come back and finish it soon though. The beginning of Himeka route made me feel bad for Shiho so I'm interested to see hers plus it's obvious she's going to reveal all of teh unsolved mysteries as well
>>48524060have fun, really liked yuuri's routeBut lower your expectations, the resolution and ending sucks
>>48524012time for you to post Purrint_111 now
>>48524226don't have most of the 100s and 200s for some reason. Have the 11 instead.Got tricked into this one but still cried at the end with the prerecorded messages
what is the actual difference between https://vndb.org/v21620 and https://vndb.org/v30835? the newer one claims to be a retelling, but also seems to be much shorter than the original.
>>48524372Do you not know what a 外伝 is?
Is the Celenaria webnovel supposed to be read before or after the fandisk?
>>48524553oh, it literally said it was a retelling so i didn't know
https://x.com/fragarian/status/1871088997893836847New sci-fige from the イハナシの魔女 devs
What is the final post-routes scene in aokana? Someone mentioned it on the archive and I don't remember the scene.
>>48525436The scene with the teacher.
>>48525448Oh, it's like really short and mostly fanservice/baiting, right?
>>48524994I think it was in between the main game and fandisc
>>48524994>>48525852nvm I got my answer (and it's slightly confusing). Celenaria originally had a bonus scenario you downloaded from Liar-Soft's website with a password gained from 100% completion, but they took it down and incorporated it into the fandisk. So the order is Celenaria->fandisk EX scenario-> webnovel 1&2->rest of the fandisk.
>>48524348post 1111 now
Do we like yuzusofto titles here?
>>48525903
>>48525903The only one I could finish was Noble Works.
>>48525903I liked the girl with the Nice Hat
>>48525903No, they are heavily astroturfed VNs
>>48525903Everyone loves yuzusoft.
>>48525903I don't like moege
>>48525903I read Mako's route a while ago, it was pretty good but then I got distracted by other stuff in the middle of Yoshino's route and never went back to the game. People seem to praise it as Yuzusoft's magnum opus or whatever so maybe I'll return to it someday but I'm busy with older charage right now.
>>48525903The people here are being tsundere. When the new yuzusoft released last year this place was nothing but yuzusoft discussion for like five months.
>>48526575Forgot to mention the title in my post but I'm talking about Senren Banka. Also dang it's already been 3 years.
>>48526575>>48526595I don't know if I'd call it their masterpiece. It's their most popular game by a mile, but I actually prefer Islenauts and TSR. And noble works. It's really good, though.
>months discussing a sub 80 EGS titleGrim
>>48526768EGS ratings should be taken with a grain of salt
>>48526768It's a good vn mate.
>>48526768ratings are for sheeps like you.
>>48525903the more eroge I finish, the less I like yuzusoft, went all the way from love to hate it
>>48526873>the game has 1(one) good route and the rest are shitthat's not a good thing
>>48526873>>48527438>Birth control pills in a moege>GoodStill not touching your garbage
https://x.com/nukitashi_anime/status/1871501030296592411So they almost changed every seiyuus from the VN, only Ayumi Sarah survivedMost of them didn't do much roles anyway, so idk, maybe they stopped doing eroge
Does Cross Channel dump wikipedia pages at you during the h scenes like saihate no ima allegedly does too?
Christmas has come again.
>>48526575>>48526595Same for me with Dracu Riot. I got distracted right after Miu's route and took around a year on/off with the game to finish it. But Azusa's route really test my patience by how boring it was and finally got it over the line not too long ago.
lol
>piano solo in the background as you take the virginity of your imoutoTruly a game made for 紳士.
>>48528929Maia should have been the main heroine.
>>48529066All I can do now is pray that the fandisk has some decent content of her.
>>48529182I never played the fandisk because I preferred the emotional finality of the original, playing any more would have ruined that.
>>48529182koq alien face looks frightening up close
>>48529182>>48529308looks like a demon
>>48528929Nice. Every game should feature this.
>>48525903>wedo you really need daddy's permission to do shit?no, you are not allowed to like them, kill yourself nigger
I'm starting to get tired of the same boring stories and drama in VNs, the school festival preparations, solving some dumb mystery, or fixing the MC's cringe trama. I just want to get to the point of VNs, with early branching routes and simply focused on the romance and no random side-plots unrelated to it, any recommendations.
Can you recommend me some moege where the love rivalry is more pronounced and the girls are actively trying to win MC over during the common route? I got bored by the usual "group of friends" stick
>>48530599https://vndb.org/v5108I haven't played it yet but he has 5 girls confessing to him all at once.
>>48530599The only asapro eroge retards have tricked me into reading(koikari) featured two girls fighting over the mc and you had to choose one while making the other one cry
>>48530616It's a funny (and sometimes heavy) game but I don't recall the heroines really being at each other's throats, just some banter
>>48530595seconding
>>48530771Are there any scenes where one or more heroines are visibly sad or crying because they weren't chosen? Fictional characters or not, I can't handle that.
>>48530599https://vndb.org/v28633
After taking a break from eroge for a while and instead reading manga and LNs, gaming and watching anime and stuff and recently wanting to play some eroge again I've realized my main problem now is just how insanely long eroge are, and I was wondering if older eroge are generally shorter? I mostly played stuff from the 2010s and a couple 2000s titles.>>48525903I adore them, particularly Riddle Joker and Cafe Stella. Every single route is perfect (except it's so so long)
>>48525903Yuzu makes good VNs. Never bad, but never great either, they shouldn't top the list of best VN of any jop at all.
>>48530616Yeah, I'd love more novels like this. It doesn't have to be too over the top, but I want SOME confloct in the common route, even if it's played by joke>>48530747This one looks interesting too
>>48530975>I've realized my main problem now is just how insanely long eroge are, and I was wondering if older eroge are generally shorter?All depends on the studio and the title. But saying that, most of the titles released this year have been pretty short, so maybe we're moving in that direction.
>>48530747>>48531052God the choice I had to make between this VN's two heroines was genuinely excruciating.https://vndb.org/v481
>>48531100Sakura > Sakura
>>48531107I think you mean Sakura > Sakura
>>48530599Your Diary+It's not really that the other heroines are competing against each other, but they all love the MC and one heroine assumes she'll be the one to win MC's heart, there's alot of tension between all the girls.
>>48530595I can agree on the school festivals (though it's sometimes done with fun twists) but I will never get tired of mystery. It's just as much of a pillar as romance
>>48531171So long as the mystery is tied to the romance and not the main plot then sure, sometimes.
>>48525903Never played any of their games. Never will. Simple as.
>>48525903Senren Banka has TWO Virgin sex defloration scenes, for THE SAME HEROINE.That's all I need to say.
which rabu would u rabo
>>48531299Murasame route is s-tier yuzu as well as the entire soundtrack although the rest of the game is a/b-tier yuzu for me
>>48531299does this cringe shit really get you off?
Anyone know if https://vndb.org/r39089 contains all the previous releases?
>>48531385Absolutely, the most important scene in any romance story, where everything culminates to a literal and figurative climax. If you don't take your waifu's virginity you didn't love her. And if you don't care about it, you are a heartless and worthless gooner.
>>48531299That isn't really special, it's not THAT rare for there to be multiple versions of a heroine (like spirit/virtual vs corporeal, or two bodies from different universes) and for the MC to deflower both of them. Like right off the top of my head I can think of Muv-Luv, Amatsutsumi, and even Sanoba Witch as another one from Yuzusoft.
>>48531427>two bodies from different universesNot the same person
>>48531385Do you get off to NTR
>>48530270The piano solo, or deflowering your imouto?
>>48531427It's been years and I still haven't played Muv-Luv. Can I go straight into Muv-Luv Alternative and understand everything or do need to start from Muv-Luv?
>>48531512The former. It's a trilogy and you have to play it in order.
>>48531512You can absolutely start it from the third game and understand everything.
>>48531512>>48531528Goddammit, I meant the latter. Starting with Alternative is like only watching The Return of the King without watching The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers first.
>>48531461I play all ages, I'm sensitive enough to get a boner to heroine with thigh highs if the art is good
>>48531536Damn, I guess I've got a long ride to sit through to get to the only girl I really like.
>>48531512Would you ever start lord of the rings with the last one? Or breaking bad from season 3?
>>48531559I imagine in all agesge, that in universe lore is that sex doesn't exist. So I never play all ages.
>>48531560You meet her in Unlimited. Another reason not to skip to Alternative like a pleb. If you don't enjoy Extra you can just finish Sumika and Meiya's routes and then go straight to Unlimited.
>>48531560>girllol
>>48531565I don't care about Sumika so I'll just skip her.
>>48531572Based. Skip all her scenes in the other games, too
I wouldn't wanna be spoiled so If I never read classics like muv-luv, steins;gate, subahibi, oretsuba, WA2 I would never visit 4chan in the first place
>>48531578Well it's kinda canon that Takeru is a Meiyafag until he got forced into Sumika route in Alternative. In fact Muvluv is only athing because Sumika got cucked by Meiya.
>>48531317I would friendzone them, they don't look worth bothering with.
>>48530796Haven't beaten everything but I don't remember any scenes like that in blonde tsun route, when the girls aren't chosen they laugh it off and hope they're chosen next when the MC gets bored of his gf.
>>48531586I've never read any of those 'classics' since I usually steer clear from overly popular stuff, anything that has seemingly too many fans got them because it appealed to the lowest common denominator and not necessarily because it was that good.
>>48531630>laugh it off and hope they're chosen next when the MC gets bored of his gf.grim
>>48531622>they don't look worth bothering withbut if you don't enslave them you get kicked out of the school and become homeless... you have everything to lose...
>>48531632It's as if I asked an AI to generate me a caricature of a contrarian.
>>48531664Am I wrong?
>>48531632Based
>>48531317Oh shit this looks good, thanks anon, I'm going for right.
>>48531682Of course you are, you don’t know shit about the medium because you deliberately avoid the most important/influential games. It’s like someone who grows interested in philosophy but goes “Plato? Rousseau? Pfft, no thanks. I don’t care for that pleb shit. I only read 1960s Albanian authors.”
>>48531317I always go for expressionless or not very emotional heroines because I'm an expressionless person and I'm that way because I'm depressed and unhappy with life, so I feel like I would be improving that type of girl's life by expressing my love to them
>>48531713Read the same things as everyone else and you'll think the same thoughts as everyone else. Sorry for not being a mindless sheep pulled by the neck to eat the slop other people claim as the peak of entertainment, the majority of people are retarded.
>>48531735You know you can read both, right, Mr. Free Thinker? Anyone who actually has a respectable power level and is not just a tryhard has read popular stuff AND also explored the medium on their own. They’re not mutually exclusive.
>>48531632>>48531682>>48531735Post your favourites
>>48531713Not him but I would argue a genre work experienced in isolation from and in ignorance of the genre and form defining works doesn't lose any value as a result of said ignorance. Philosophy isn't really a fair comparison because it's extremely meta and in huge part it's about continuing and reacting against the work of other thinkers. One doesn't need to know that early Dvorak was Wagnerian and late dvorak Brahmsian or to even know of those 2 other composers to enjoy Dvorak to his fullest. Also there's isolated works (major or otherwise) which escape tje fingerprints of major works like Rossini straddling the classical and romantic eras while having basically no dialogue with Mozart and Beethoven's world. Just using music as an example but you get the idea
>>48531756Raging Loop, Harmonia, and Kanojo no Seiiki.
>>48531756What is that supposed to prove?
>>48531768wow
>>48531763what's bro yappin about?
>>48531299I want a tag for this, whether it's multiple scenes in the same route or different routes
>>48531768now that's shit taste
>>48531943>>48531793Retards. They offer something unlike the acclaimed titles - novelty afforded to only select few. Of course you won't see what they've really got to show - you only read the games everyone talks about.
Wow, such a insatiable desire to be right on the internet, he's started muddying the waters pretending to be me because he realised he has no individuality and couldn't actually refute me.Sad
>>48531986I believe he's the original poster over you, to be honest. You're a cut above the cattle? Act like it. Your taste is what the Sentinelese are to the modern world. I would love to study it in the same way a scientist would like to study an unheard-of insect. A man of intelligence would understand.
>>48532044Uh, okay
>>48530595P-please respond
>>48530595just read rabukome LNs or manga maybe
>>48530595sounds like you're a jaded cuckgrow up lol
>>48532156I'm 27 years old and have played 196 VNs, what do you expect?
>>48532168If you stop playing VNs for like 5 months while doing completely different stuff the next one you come back to will feel really fresh
It's so demotivating barely being able to understand the most basic japanese sentances but being unable tp acquire any words. I just cant get any of it to stick in my mind
>>48532168I kneelTell me a few of your strongest most 直感的で忌憚のない favorites
>>48531966i've read raging poop and it was garbage
>>48532226My most deeply favourite VNs will always be the few first ones I read; Katawa Shoujo, Little Busters, Hoshizora, Sharin no Kuni, Canvas 2, Himawari, they remind me of my past, when VNs were new and they gave me so much joy and cathartic sadness. If a story was good enough I would be able to sit in bed and unrestrainedly cry, from a mix of the pain of it ending, strong empathy for the characters, and the knowledge that I'll never be able to experience that kind of pure fictional love in real life.Daitoshokan, Your Diary, Edelweiss, Flyable Heart, Ushinawareta, Tsujidou, Kono Aozora, Koiken Otome, Signal Heart, Rui wa TomoAll other VNs after that need to really hid deep in my heart, either by striking my childhood traumas of letting go of a girl I liked's hand (which many VNs seem to focus on), or having some philosophical themes that reflect my own life and experiences. Ef A fairytale of the two - my fear of the impermanence of my memories, Suika - My strong beliefs on love, and that when your loved one dies you must kill yourself. SakuSaku the foolishness of falling in love, Around the 130 mark I started to come across fewer and fewer VNs that made me feel as strongly as the first 100 it was very rare.The last VN I that was powerful enough to make me cry was no.131 Kono Aozora, but at that point I was so numb to these incredible stories and the emotions that I had to force myself to cry. Before that was 117, Ushinawareta, 110 Tsuki ni Yorisou, 104, Sugar + Spice 2, 91, Kud Wafter, 85 Da Capo 2, 80 Your diary, I'll stop there.
Not even during christmas this general can catch a break...
>>48532458Ah, that reminded me, I played Da Capo 2 on Christmas, not realising it was a Christmas VN, so when I came to this scene I teared up, it was such a strange coincidence I almost feel like it wasn't one. It really hit me in the heart hard, I had to stop playing for a while, and I fell deeper in love with Anzu, she was like an angel to me at that moment.
Thanks, nu-Nekonyan...
>>48532505FUCKING DISGUSTING, nothing makes me more sick. You don't realise just how much Shizu affected me, her route was utterly perfect, god I it was just so good, the straw hat... I want to protect her smile forever.
>>48532505Both are bad, left is some blatant pantyshot because they didnt even care to at least making it look good and the right one apart from censoring, is modern art
>>48492533look at how bratty she is
