Previous thread: >>50467575This thread is for the discussion of untranslated Japanese visual novels.What are you playing? What are you looking forward to? What have you finished?
>>50489023>None of the drama cd feature dancer VendettaLiterally false advertising
Now that the dust has settled, are the appends in the Sakuuta remaster worth reading or are they just filled with nothing but mediocre h-scenes?
>>50490191I am reading Sleepless. The game is more extreme than I prefer but it’s interesting enough to keep going.
Merry Vinnymas!
>>50489080Heh, this was the peak of the game.
>>50494689I glimpsed, they're sick af
Is there any explanation behind like 5 new futanari scenes in sakuuta anniversary edition?
>>50495467picked up
>>50495467Wriitten by Scat-JI.
>>50495467LMAO IT'S REAL https://files.catbox.moe/u0ugrp.jpg
It's out
>>50496014what in the fuck? how do you justify that plotwise? or in any sense for that matter? scaji just went full retard
>>50496151>how do you justify that plotwisethey grew peniseswala done
>>50496151Never read it but isn't there one in sakutoki too?
>>50496151Why does he need to "justify that plotwise" for an append scenario that's probably just H?
>>50496610its quite disrespectful, who is he to wield the power of randomly giving dicks to someone you probably love? seeing yuumi with a dick has left me very disturbed
>>50496140Not seeing the Append Disc on the 2 torrents, was this a patching disc? I thought the new stories were directly on it
>>50496815I thought they were just a part of the game and you'd unlock them after finishing the routes they're related to
>>50496693>giving dicks to someone you probably loveHot
>MC is forcefully kissed by one of the heroines on the late common route. Why do VN devs do this, are they retarded?
>>50497168What game? Do other girls get angry?
>>50497168every vn should do this
>>50495467It's Sca-ji>>50496151I can think of 10 different ways to stuff that shit into Marchen without any issue whatsoever.
>>50497179It's done out of view. Nekonade Distortion>>50497181I'd never play VNs again
>>50495467予定調和 i'm afraid.
>>50493859To my knowledge, there is no waiting for events in YU-NO, time never progresses until you do an action which causes time to progress.The issue is that the main game world is large and empty, and the things you need to do are often obscure and unintuitive. And because the game has a fairly intricate flowchart, finding one thing that progresses the game isn't good enough; you have to find EVERY thing that progresses the game so you can fill the whole chart.Taking notes would probably be a good idea, even if you're playing with a guide. Because the game is primarily a mystery and all the pieces are split across different routes, it might help you follow along with the story more easily.My best spoiler-free advice is to try everything. Even choices that seem meaningless at first might lead to different outcomes.It's not for the easily frustrated; it reminds me a lot of the Get Lost flash game that always got posted to /f/ if you're familiar with that. I'd still recommend any fence-sitters to give it a try. It'll never be a total wash because even if you end up bouncing off of it, you'll have gotten to experience that gorgeous music and art first-hand.
>>50497192if this is the most shocking thing in motonaga writing for you why even bother
My 2026 goal is to stop looking at new games and finish everything on my desktop that isnt a nukige.
only 3 reviews but is it that bad?
>>50498345I read the trial and it was pretty fun. Not started the main game yet, but I assume it's just some angry NTRfags since it's the first time Anim teamMM have done something non-NTR adjacent iirc.
>>50497811The only super annoying parts of YU-NO were the handful of pixel hunt-y moments, but the game isn't anywhere the worst I've played in that regard.
>>50498510I guess they're complaining that there aren't enough CGs
>>50497168what's the issue
>>50498531No, I think he's complaining about there not being a CG like this https://hitomi.la/reader/3292066.html#310https://hitomi.la/reader/3292066.html#316https://hitomi.la/reader/3292066.html#319with a fixed camera. Most of their games include this.
>>50497811>>50498521honestly, yu-no is very reasonable and solvable without a guide, especially when you compare it to other point and click adventure games. people complain about getting 'soft-locked' and having to restart, but the game seems designed for the player to get stuck and replay it multiple times, and it really doesn't take a lot of time to do a playthrough. the game is designed to be a labyrinth where you have to explore and learn new information through the routes in order to get out of it.
>>50498574some of the worst artwork ive ever seen professionally produced
>>50497168>cuckshit in my moege?
>>50494689Quick question - I haven't read Sakutoki yet, can I read the appends without it? I figure maybe when I finally get around to Sakutoki I can ctrl through Sakuuta again just as a quick refresher.>>50496014>>50495467Holy shit Sca-ji is a madman.Is this what the kids call keeping the rent low?
>>50498510>Not started the main game yet, but I assume it's just some angry NTRfags since it's the first time Anim teamMM have done something non-NTR adjacent iirc.It's kinda weird, right? Why not just make a sub-brand, like mother & wife?
Should I buy a VR headset to play VNs in I think it will be extra immerisve
>>50499152Wouldn't it just be reading shit on a screen, just in VR, so you wouldn't have any distractions?
>>50499162I'm sure it will look much bigger than it ever could irl, unless you are richfag with a personal theatre I suppose.
did they use AI in sakutoki? I don't mean in a "le soulless artstyle" way, but like, actual AI for the paintings? saw someone mentioning it before and now I can't unsee it kek
All the years of discussion has convinced me to not read any works written by SCA-JI and put him into my blacklist forever.
>>50499168Unsee what? What's supposed to be AI here? It looks fine. If they actually did then they'd have given a painting for Naoya's painting battle with Misuzu and Kana. Speaking of which, I really wish they had one for the latter.
>>50499253Sca-ji is an author who can write the worst dogshit you've ever read (LGI, Olympia), then follow it up with peak fiction (Jabberwocky, The Happy Prince ). The problem is he ping-pongs between the two wildly, often back to back in the same damn game.
>>50499168no retard generative ai was not advanced enough when the art was finalised. and even if it was, scaji's mind does not operate like a westoids. he would own it and be proud of it
>>50499261>What's supposed to be AI here? It looks fine.Is "AI art" an art that doesn't look fine? Friendly reminded that art in the abstract style that could easily make it into a sakurano game(and no one would ever know) won some art competition year before sakurano was made.
>>50497982I'm not a VN elitist who cares who the writer is. I just enjoy romance stories in VNs and expect them to not include things that worsen or ruin that romance.
>>50499342>worsen or ruin that romance.whats wrong with it i dont get it
>>50499368Stolen first kiss, but really the worst thing is that it feels like the agency you have in guiding the story solely towards a certian heroine is taken out of your hands and youre cucked drectly by the developers.
>>50499374You never have any agency to begin with. Everything was written before you even open the game. Your freedom is granted by the writer (i.e. the god of the game's world). Become a creator yourself if you want to have true agency.
>>50499415I'm not japanese so any vn I create will be absolute dogshit unfortunately.
>>50499422Don't be so hard on yourself. There is some good art that came out of Japonisme. You can also move to Japan and learn about the culture as much as you can. An imitation doen't have to be inferior to the original.
>>50499262Olympia was a massive slogTook me like 2 years of grinding to get through it lmao
>>50499456I mean it kinda sucks but it's also only like 5-10 hours depending on reading speed. Taking 2 years seems like it's dragging the route out unnecessarily.
>>50499460I read slowly. Makoto's route took me like 20-25 hours to read through and I did that over a month. But the bigger issue is that I feel like KMS every time I read that since it's a huge bore
Smug mob chara
>>50499262What's so bad about LGI?
There used to be a time where I read a VN from beginning to end nonstop, now I always have a second window open tkaing half my attention, are VNs becoming boring or is something wrong with me?
>>50499862Same here. Every time I sit down to read a VN an exhentai window will forcefully open itself and force me to furiously fap to loli ryona for hours. We need to find the culprits.
Eiyuu * Senki WWX Offiline edition demo released,now known as Eiyuu * Senki WWW (World War Wonder)https://ci-en.dlsite.com/creator/30873/article/1675063
>>50499168I noticed a considerable improvement in the depiction of artworks in sakutoki compared to sakuuta. But I always thought it was just scaji getting better at drawing, or hiring someone kek
Why are you all obsessed with this sca-ji retard? Celebrity worship is pathetic
>>50499918he is the only one writing kamige
does anyone else start thinking of a heroine when having actual sex? I cannot keep an erection when fucking my gf if I don't start thinking of rin like in here>>50499460
>>50499950Tell that to your doctor, in those exact words.
>>50499950I've never had sex, why do you think I play VNs?
The act of reading in itself can bring me something close to sexual pleasure if what I'm reading is interesting. The reason I like chuunige is because to me, the stimulation from a good chuunige is actually better than sex. There is always something going on and that something is usually meant to shake up the emotions or engage the intellect. Since, for me, reading something like this really does give me so much pleasure, I can honestly say that concerns about length don't bother me at all, lol.
>>50499422As I've grown up, I realized that the top shelf American and European games are far better written than any Japanese anime games and visual novels with more mature and artistically inclined sensibilities.I have carefully curated the "finest" recommendations from the weeb community.I played and read Rance, Black Souls, Cell of Empireo, Seraphic Blue, Subahibi, Cross Channel, Higurashi, Umineko, Sakura no Uta, Musicus, Shin Megami Tensei, Final Fantasy, Muramasa, Xenogears, Nier, Metal Gear, Fire Emblem, Mother, F/SN, and it's all over the top slop for stunted manchildren. Nothing you can take seriously as a veteran art enthusiast. Tolerable Japanese games exist, but they have always always been far inferior to American and British games. Phil Fish was right.
Who's raiding us now?
>>50500226Then what the fuck are you doing in /jp/ go back to /lit/ for American and British fellation
why isn't there a jap lit general in /jp/ btw? I tried to do one in /lit/ and it died faster than a fart in the wind
>>50500436Because this place is filled with Touhou , Vtuber and gacha fandom which are not interested in literature
>>50499950I can't stop thinking about anon's gf while jerking off to eroge. Can't believe I've fallen for 3DPD after all these years. It's over...
How come there are so many kamige VNs, but hardly and LNs worth reading?
>>50500517Because ln authors can create throwaway stories easily , there are many throwaway isekai premises like the hot spring one.If they had to turn something like this into eroge then they would quit since ost , art and va are very expensive
>>50500517Japanese aren't very good at writing LN/WNs, that's all Korean and Chinese territory, japs can't help but have a pathetic weak japanese protagonist in every LN
>>50500453where to discuss japanese literature then?
>>50500678r/JapaneseLiterature , discord,tumblr, Goodreads.You won’t find much discussion on 4chan for jp literature
>>50500678Not on the internet. Go join a literature club or make some friends who like reading books. There's so many bad faith and frankly retarded people using the internet nowadays that the very idea of discussing serious things like literature here is ridiculous.
>>50500678sadly enough the tmw discord is the only place on the internet where you can find like the dozen or two people who read japanese literature in japanese but discuss it in english5ch is probably ok, personally i only read the audible thread there because i like audiobooks
>>50500226My skin tone is too white to play american games at this point
>>50499507It's funny how the Sakuuta remaster uses the same background characters as Sakutoki. Those guys just don't age and stay at school forever.
>>50500517the barrier to entry is too low so the endless amateur narou syosetus take up all the oxygen in the room
>>50499905Just make the VNs you sit down to play loli ryona visual novels
>>50500517Maybe you just don't know the good LNs. I'm sure some LNfag is saying the same about VNs.
>>50501217Is there no vndb equivalent for LNs?
>>50501220novelupdates.comand mangaupdates.com for manga
>>50500517Because LNs are for teenagers, while eroge are for adults. You are reading Japanese John Green expecting a life-changing masterpiece. No wonder you don't find them worth reading.
>>50501264trvke. it really is that simple
>>50501230Damn that novel ranking's terrible.Looks like it's mostly zoomers using machine translation so you can't expect much. The translations for LNs are so painfully bad I cannot understand how any EOP gets into the genre.I've only read a few LN series in Japanese but I think there's probably great LNs out there. The obvious candidate is the Monogatari series.
>>50501298https://myanimelist.net/topmanga.php?type=lightnovels
>>50501298>The translations for LNs are so painfully bad I cannot understand how any EOP gets into the genreHuh?... Is this what JoP elitist really think? How sad, I guess you've got to justify learning japanese somehow.
>>50501330>>50499342Why are you so obsessed with "elitists"?
>>50501362Why are you so obsessed with being an elitist?
>>50500226If you went through all those and didn't understand what makes them good, the problem likely lies with you.>games are far better writtengames aren't even written, let alone better writtenif you don't care about gameplay, very few games have stories worth engaging with
>>50501330every time I've talked to an EOP friend here and they've showed me a translation I've found errors in like every paragraph>>49027817>>49034064>>49855666but more importantly, the writing style just sucks total ass. Even a master prose stylist like Romeo Tanaka is degraded to the level of a 10th grader's creative writing homework. Good translators are not doing LNs. It mostly gets left to Brazilian 15-year-olds adding extra errors to Google Translate output.Admittedly the latest LLMs are less likely to make basic errors of meaning, but they still mangle the style pretty reliably.
>>50501330for what purpose does one use the untranslated japanese video game thread as someone who only knows english
>>50501330LN fan translations are known to mostly be MTL or edited MTL garbage. I remember in 2014 when I was an EOP and wanting to read 精霊使いの剣舞 after the anime came out only to learn the TL was some jp > ch > eng MTL mess by some retards on baka-tsuki. In fact that was one of the catalysts that made me start learning JP.
For the discussion of untranslated Japanese video games of the visual novel variety
>>50499906This is definitely my #1 most anticipated title of 2026. I really hope it's a big success so other gacha games get converted into offline versions.
>>50501436When you click the eight digits next to the date and time, it automatically begins a post replying to the poster you intend to reply to.
>>50501445Holy shit Thanks this makes things so much easier. How do I give gold on here, you totally deserve it for this one bro
>>50501220There was, but it was shut down and I'm still sad about it.I miss you, Karen.
>>50500517Allow me to shill you sukasuka, the best thing is that is really short! 5 volumes
>>50501561I can't read this
>>50500517Read horizon, it's pretty short.
