For discussion of Magical Girl Witch Trials (AKA Manosaba / Mahou Shoujo no Majo Saiban) and Acacia's other upcoming titles.>Socialshttps://x.com/Acacia_offical_https://x.com/13witch_Trialshttps://www.youtube.com/@Acacia-infohttps://www.youtube.com/@manosaba>Upcoming titlesMagical Girl Taboo Village ( AKA Mahou Shoujo no Inshuu Mura / Mahoumura / Manomura)https://x.com/mahoumurahttps://mahoumura.com/The Streamer's Alt Account Labyrinth (AKA Haishin Shoujo no Uraaka Meikyuu / Hanoura Maze)https://x.com/hanoura_mazehttps://hanoura-maze.com/>Unofficial human English fan translationshttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMEh7LrvyT6QXPDMzvG5ptop5bZB3UAcBhttps://vndb.org/r157052Be kind to new prisoners and tag your spoilers.Previous trial:
I kinda hate HiroEma on a meta level. At least with AliceEma I can pretend the ship matters. The best interpretation of Ema there is if she is masochistic succubus bottom
>>4594350I don't care that much about HiroEma. Alisa and Ema definitely had the hottest CG in the VN. I liked their dynamic>The best interpretation of Ema there is if she is masochistic succubus bottomI 100% agree. It really fits her
Will the unofficial translation patch work on the steam version? I'm not good with computers.
>>4594358Yes, it is easy to apply but ask if you have any problems with it
Huh this thread is new!Is it new?I know nothing about your game(s), could you tell me about it and about the girls in it? Some tl;dr?
>>4594510Yep, this thread is new. The visual novel got a fan translation a few months ago and it's starting to get more popular outside of Japan so I was surprised to see it doesn't have its own thread here In Manosaba 13 girls wake up on a mysterious prison island. The girls were put there because they were selected as potential witch candidates, which means they have the ability to use magic and are seen as a threat to society. Murders eventually start happening as girls start losing sanity and developing witch symptoms, so you have to figure out who's the culprit/witch and send them to an execution.I haven't read Danganronpa, but that's what people usually compare it to. Although Manosaba has an all girls cast.I like the art style a lot and find the girls really cute, it was fun to watch their ups and downs as they struggle together while locked up there. They're not the most mentally stable people out there
The upcoming visual novels by Acacia will follow a similar formula, and the official English translation should be coming soon.I'm pretty excited for it
>>4594560It seems like you left out one very big thing. Those are obviously lilies, so it's not just goggles. So what's going on between the girls apart from murderous intent?
>>4594510Danganronpa with a cast of magical girls. Suprisingly the most well-written murder-mystery vn there is. In no case did I smell the stench of bullshit. And that despite magic being major element in all of them, but the presentation and usage of it only enhances the riddless. I once tried Ace Attorney and droped it at the second case allready because of how long, convoluted and senseless the cases were for example. And Manosaba also has advantage over Danganronpa by... Not being written by Kodaka's sweaty hands.Cases are generally good, and I'd say one of them is brilliant. But! There are some minor issues:1) Motivation. Sometimes it matters and plays a role in the case. Sometimes just throw it out of window (vn does have good enough explanation of why it is the case)2) The structure of plot kinda makes the last 20% of cases silly. You'll see why.Now to the yuri... It's subtext. That's the best you'll get from this franchise. Main ships are:1) HiroEma, because of course they are...2) SherryHana (picrelated). These two have the best chemistry in the vn and the closest it gets to being a pair. Very romantically charged scenes these two have. Noone else even comes close3) AnanNoa. They do spend a lot of time together, but I somehow didn't find them interesting.4) Meruru and spoiler.5) Nanoka and another spoiler.Margo flirts with other girls alot, but somehow doesn't get dedicated pairing. Coco is cool, but doesn't get paired at all. I think she might have worked with Miria, but oh well...Lots of minor ships though.HiroReia, HiroNoa, MeruruEma, Meruru Alice, AliceEma, MiriaAnan.
>>4594567So you really enjoy SherryHana, I see.It doesn't seem like the kind of game I usually play, but it's still interesting.
>>4594342It doesnt need a general. It has no enough content to justify one and it's not fucking yuri. This deserves to be an image dump thread, nothing more.
>>4594561>a similar formulaSo it also won't be yuri and only have the barest subtext? And you are excited for that crap why?
>>4594342I read somewhere this VN has a time limit for choices during trials, and if you wait too long it's game over and you have to restart?Can you at least, like, pause the game so the time doesn't run out or save and reload the same choice or something?I mean, the one good thing VNs have over some games is that you can play them without pressure, I'm amazed they managed to take even that away.
>>4594679It's a visual novel trying to ape Danganronpa, which had similar mechanics. A game without yuri in which most of the cast fucking dies and kill each other so even the imaginary pairings can't stay together is somehow not what I think is worth any /u/ anons time...
>>4594680>Danganronpa, which had similar mechanicsThen it's a dumb mechanic in both games, I played Ace Attorney and it managed to get me engaged in trials without that level of bullshit, I don't have time to waste replaying the same shit all over again just cause I got a phone call at the wrong time or wanted to brew a cup of tea or something.If all you bothered doing for "gameplay" is write down some text, at least let me read it in peace.
>>4594682You shouldnt play this game anyway, but your reasoning is fucking stupid. A few timed choices are normal. If you are in a trial and know a timed choice is coming up, fucking do your stupid shit before the choice happens?
>>4594683>A few timed choices are normal.I've been playing VNs for decades and thankfully they apparently all thought different.Anyhow I take it you do at least get a warning before that entirely unnecessary bother, good to know.
>>4594684If you played any fucking games with timed choice in this format you know when that shit will come up from the flow.And even in fucking Ace Attorney you could get your choices wrong 5 times and get a game over. Then you have to restart the trial from the last save point. This is the same shit in every game like this. Time choices are just the same thing. Stop being retarded and just reject this game for what is actually wrong with it, that it has zero yuri.
>>4594680You clearly didn't read shit, so stop talking out of your ass and get angry at things that didn't happen