I saw no Sakura thread in the catalogue so here's one.I'm currently finishing Sakura Wars 2. I'm right after the mission where you rescue the Hanagumi from being encased in crystals and Kyogoku summons the weird ass flying fortress Musashi..So far I really enjoyed it. I picked Kanna again (and I think I got the file transfer right on Mednafen) and her loneliness left me shocked. I knew her backstory from Ouka Kenran, but I had no idea things would get so sad. I couldn't help but cry too when she was crying by her father's tomb. It was a good pick though, Kanna is very cute despite her being a tough tomboy. She gets bashful so easily~Sadly I find her koubu specials in this game less cool than the ones for the first game, they couldn't animate a karate koubu quite right yet.Most chapters were very fun and full of great pacing and escalation. Sadly though I found Orihime's to be rushed when Ogami forcefully drags her to talk to her father.Orihime and Reni are great btw. The Eisenkelds looked really fancy and cool, too.
I thought only Farewell My Love was translated
>>23720922First game got a fan translation a few years ago.
I think that GameBoy Color game got a fan translation as well.
>>23720922We now have fan translations for Sakura Wars 1 and 2 on Sega Saturn, Hanagumi Taisen Columns 2 on Dreamcast and the first GameBoy game (Go Forth, Young Cadet!).
I love my wife!
>>23721203What do you love about your wife?
>>23721440Need caps of Leni's big reveal.
>>23722257I don't have them on me right now but you can always play the game.
>>23722875You think I wouldn't pursue that option if it were feasible for me?
>>23723677I only got one of them because I chose the mountain trip.If you choose the beach trip, you discover Reni is a girl earlier by seeing her in a swimsuit, which is cuter than the onsen reveal because she is bashful.I wonder if there is aa way to find out earlier... this game has so many missable events.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKyVn1ITCmM
Would you pilot it?
>>23723721The cutest!
>>23724169Without a doubt!
>>23720909>what if le dating sim but with mecha>also mecha barely appears and is barely relevant
>>23724697How can you dislike Spirit Armor?Also it's not a Dating Sim, it's a VN with romance options. Said romance is important but just one of the many core aspects of the game.Dating Sims are games like Tokimeki Memorial where you raise stats to score dates and win a girl's heart at the end.Thanks for the bump, I guess.Do people here play or watch things or do they just go off by wikis?
>>23723721Thanks, bruh.
>>23723721>which is cuter than the onsen reveal because she is bashful.You mean she's not in the onsen?
>>23724898I thought she's afraid of spooders, not sneks.
>>23723721Any chance of getting the rest of them?
>>23724895Well, in the onsen she is still cute, I just find her cuter at the beach when she is finally surrounded by happy people and she starts to feel embarrassment for the first time.Reni suffers from deep trauma and part of her route is to help her learn what it means to be a human, to accept good and bad feelings and things that aren't just being a machine-like soldier.I'm probably not gonna play the route myself because I am faithful to Kanna. I don't know lol.>>23725127This channel is posting some scenes from the english translation patches.https://youtube.com/@undokunFor Reni in a swimsuit in the Beach event, it's here:https://youtu.be/mOXfhabsazQ
>>23724919Sumire is afraid of spiders, Kanna is afraid of snakes.That's part of why Kanna calls Sumire a snake woman.
Is the PS4 game good for someone who has never played it? I wanted to play it for a while since I like the main character design
>>23725976I never played it because I didn't like the character designs (cool mechas but sadly I dislike Tite Kubo) but from what I remember while it went okay at launch and people liked it enough back then even with its flaws. Now though it has a lot of longtime fans that dislike it alongside others who wished it could have been more.
>>23725976I've played that and SW1 and I liked Shin more. A lot of that came down to Kamiyama being an extremely based protagonistThe only problem with Shin is that tried to reference the past games in probably the worst way possible. It's great fun whenever it isn't doing that.
>>23725962I meant does she not feel embarrassment in the onsen scene considering she didn't even have a swimsuit there?
>>23726213Nope, she is completely robotic. She doesn't react at all when Ogami sees her naked (Ogami otoh runs away freaking out because he is surprised to find out she's female and also mortified by the accident).She has no real reaction to it the morning after either and the other girls are a little worried for her (though it's like a two textboxes thing at most).Reni only starts to open her heart around the others in Chapter 6, when she is brought to the actual troupe to play the protagonist role in The Blue Bird of Happiness. This is because she's starting to wonder what's the point of fighting at all now that she is finding out about love and affection.As the reason why Reni starts so cold and distant, it's because she was part of a (I think failed?) secret project called "Wachstum", where children were harshly trained to become elite soldiers with enhanced spirit power. She is the only child who survived through the whole ordeal and as a result her heart was encased in ice.
>>23726655I want to give her lots of hugs!
>>23726655That doesn't explain why she gets flustered about wearing a swimsuit but doesn't have any reaction whatsoever about being seen in nothing at all!
>>23727342In the beach scene, she's flustered because she gets called cute by Iris, Sumire and Ogami. She's in a comfortable environment among her friends, who make more aware of being a girl instead of a machine.
This seems like an opportune time to ask for a status report on SpiritArmor's LP.
>>23722875So does she do weird stuff to Ogami in the original?
>>23726087I still don't get why they did the whole 'old cast is stuck in demon limbo' thing. Why not do what Galaxy Angel 2 did and have the old girls be mentors for the new girls?
>>23728430No, he has a nightmare about her but that's all it is.
>>23729740>Why not do what Galaxy Angel 2 did and have the old girls be mentors for the new girls?Probably budget reasons since all the characters of the old games have famous seiyuu.
>>23730030What sort of nightmare?
>>23730118Kohran and the villain of the first half of the game kindap him to experiment on him, but you only see it from Ogami's pov so it's not lewd whatsoever just a little creepy and funny.
>>23730034If they cut out the Berlin, London and Shanghai Kagekidans they might've had the budget to hire a few more of the OG cast.
>>23730321He was better off in the original.
>>23730321>the villain of the first half of the gameYou mean that weird ape-looking dude?
>>23734188Yeah, Tenkai.
>>23721203Me too.
>>23734949Literally who?
>>23734909You're based!
So, I finished Sakura Wars 2. Overall, it was very good and I found it superior to the first game in many aspects, but 2 had a final boss that dragged on too long and who also loved repeating himself.The final spirit armor was cool though and design-wise an improvement over a giant Satan when said Satan could have been piloting a spirit armor too.
>>23720909>>23723721>>23725962>>23726655>ReniAs in Liefenstahr?
>>23723721What kind of swimsuit?
>>23724728>Also it's not a Dating Sim, it's a VN with romance options. Said romance is important but just one of the many core aspects of the game.>Dating Sims are games like Tokimeki Memorial where you raise stats to score datesThe girl of the playthrough is determined by which one has the most affection points though
>>23724169yes, although Kobu design peaked in SW3
>>23741295Yeah but it's still not a dating sim, it just has romance mechanics. In dating sims you have to raise your own character's stats.
>>23740666A simple pool swimsuit as seen in the beach event here:>>23725962
>>23741798That looks like the uniform.
>>23742608It's in the video I linked in that post...https://youtu.be/mOXfhabsazQ
I just finished the first game. Went for Sumire. Will play the second one soon.
>>23745380Why her?
>>23745380What did you like about it?
>>23745380based
>>23745384Hmm>impecable fashion style>exposed shoulders and cleavage>youngest one that isn't a loli>watakushi, desu wa and ohoho~>naginata is strong and has better range than other melee attackers>combo is like G Gundam's Love Love AttackMostly because of these things.>but she acts like a bitch!I can fix her. And already picked her again when starting 2.>>23746521I had fun. Though I picked a lot of wrong answers and missed many scenes and minigames. And I got a little disappointed with Maria's attacks, she was the hardest one to use for me, for a ranged attacker she doesn't reach very far. Sakura's special is busted for covering the whole map but she isn't that impressive outside of it. So Sumire, Kanna and Ogami were always my most used units, with Kohran and Iris as support.
What did they meant by this?
>>23747101Insert macro of Ana Coppola spotting a pedo here.
>>23747088>but she acts like a bitch!Frankly I like this about her, she's funny
So after finishing the game I started reading the manga and watched the first set of OVAs. But then I went for the TV series and wtf, everything is so serious, there's lot of silent moments, even Iris that is always a ray of sunshine has that raped girl look. I'm not exactly complaining, but what a vibe shift!
>>23748884>>23747088Makes her the best character in Sakura Wars.
>>23747088>>naginata [...] has better range than other melee attackersWell, yeah, it's a polearm.>>combo is like G Gundam's Sekiha Love-Love TenkyoukenFTFY
>>23745184Someone inform Iris the empire is defunct.
>>23752838I feel like I've seen that pose somewhere else before.
>>23724169Is there some reason we wouldn't?
>>23747101Those scan lines tho
>>23764234I know, but trust me, they look less shitty on my even shittier screen.
>>23762464You're not a woman with spiritual power
>>23765159Nor is Oogami-shoui.
>>23752838Why shy and blushing?
>>23767548She was treated like a girl.
>>23720909>EisenkeldsIs that even grammatically correct?
Do you guys think Sega will do anything (good) with the IP ever again? I think there's still a market for another turn-based game, since FE3H was a big success for Nintendo/IntSys.
>>23770630>Do you guys think Sega will do anything (good) with the IP ever again?No, not even so much as a barebones port collection
>>23722875She looks like a car dealer making a sales pitch.
>>23770630you'll get a anniversary concert, merchandise, and maybe a new anime if you're a good little goy.
Who is Sakura and why are people having wars over her?
>>23770630Probably not. The problem is the IP isn't really that great to begin with. It sustained itself early on because it was one of the first big waifu simulators (now there's tons of them) and was a big cross media thing (which they don't really do anymore), specifically through stage shows but the new characters didn't really catch on and the old character's performers are 50 plus and way too old to be pretending to be teenagers on stage which they were already pushing it doing it in their 20s and 30s.
>>23773752Sakura is the ideal woman.
>>23773831*Sumire
>>23773752Ask the same about Helen of Troy.
>>23773754I think Sakura Wars probably stands out more now than it did back then specifically because it really isn't that much of a "waifu simulator." I remember playing the original and being surprised that there was barely any romance in it. It's more of a harem type story where it's just a sequence of a girl having a character and then fading into irrelevance to make way for the next girl to have a character arc
>>23747088>>but she acts like a bitch!Only when she's on stage; every other time she's not acting.
>>23774154Sakura is still the ideal woman.
>>23777530And Sumire is still mogs her at 33.
>>23778233Not that you'd know when she never made an appearance in the same period for comparison.
>>23778233She's a 33 year old woman who still dresses like a teenager.
>>23778345all of the cast that are trapped in hell forever are the same age as when then got therebut it doesn't matter because there'll never be a story where they escape after Shin anyways
>>23778531So does your mother.
>>23773754Honestly I wonder if Sakura Wars could get back in the spotlight if they just turned them back into SRPGs instead of action games. Utawarerumono is popular enough and Fire Emblem is still very popular.
>>23778531At leas she keeps the top closed now.
>>23720909I wanted to get into it but Shin is slow as shit and SW1 and 2 are trapped behind the world's most unintuitive emulators.
>>23778531Oh hey Tokimeki Memorial.
>>23778531Is pic somehow related?
A whole bunch of art from the cancelled Sakura Wars MMO was recently found. Apparently, the concepts for Yang and Huang Yui from Shin Sakura Wars originated herehttps://raiderking.com/lost-art-for-sakura-wars-mmo-found-by-fans/
>>23785663>>23785666>>23785668>>23785669Chinese?
>>23785662Neat.
Happy 67th birthday to Leni's voice actress, Ikura Kazue.
>>23785663>>23785666>>23785668>>23785669How was it lost?
>>23778233She looks a lot flatter than she was in her youth.
>>23796615she's never been that stacked to begin with, both her euro versions in SW 2 and 3 sport a definitely bigger rack
>>23797254The @$$ was flat.
>>23723721>>23797254How many bath scenes are there in this series?
>>23800844Yes
>>23800950Either answer the question or don't bother replhying
https://twitter.com/Sakura_Taisen/status/2039176173197103477The 30th anniversary logo.
