Alicesoft/Rance General #1316Gal mon EditionLast Thread: >>574573449FAQ: files.catbox.moe/vxrbu5.txtTorrent: files.catbox.moe/zxwsje.torrentRead the FAQ before you ask questions.>Useful LinksWiki: https://alicesoft.miraheze.orgBooru: https://hannybooru.com/Check the FAQ for downloads and general hints!>MiscellaneousList of translations - https://alicesoft.miraheze.org/wiki/Translation_projectList of mods - https://alicesoft.miraheze.org/wiki/Modding_Project>Recently ReleasedOnly You [English Patch]Mediafire: https://www.mediafire.com/file/kpl10ogjg2jjfb4/Only_You_Re-Cross_English_Patch.rar/fileMEGA: https://mega.nz/file/dj9HmCBZ#Vwt_DvPkTogA_8ssvrmKTldoIUE2UivuVCrEEYeZEn4Galzoo Island [English Patch]Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Ugus0OkswgePIigqplOfer8id9QE4pf0Prepatched: https://mega.nz/folder/gzl2XLjL#P7sSj56QXitsfY1pF3EIcwBeat Valkyrie IxsealMangagamer: https://www.mangagamer.com/r18/detail.php?goods_type=1&product_code=1471https://mega.nz/file/Ouo1FSpS#sngYlg7Op_fas-JPqQkg0oBMojV-yfGXauql-X5zmVc>Rance 03 English Outhttps://mega.nz/file/60JglLyI#iOGa_Xj49ZiZJJyIBOvwJtRricqLuafUWTjYRx77Kwshttps://www.mediafire.com/file/ket7bpzpie3l3rd/2015+Rance+03+[ENG].rar/file>Yoru ga Kuru!https://store.steampowered.com/app/2901150/Yoru_ga_Kuru_Square_of_the_Moon_Remastered/>Daiakuji (Prepatched English)https://mega.nz/file/EFAinJKZ#fMYcHghqTJZuk3rQn3h41AFXET1p0HBPgABeY26taRg>Upcoming Games>JapaneseUntitled wife nukige (still happening)>EnglishRance X - Translation: 100% – Editing: 80%Pastel Chime 3 - announcedDaiteikoku - TL Announcedhttp://mangagamer.org/rance/https://twitter.com/Alicesoft_enTranslated Rance Games on Steamhttps://www.kaguragames.com/rance-is-finally-coming-to-steam/35th anniversary site:https://alicesoft35th.com>Emergency /ghost/ Postinghttps://arch.b4k.dev/vg/thread/533301678/
nin nin nin
Rance's Piss
>only youHow is it?
>>575404693Fun enough but nothing special
>>575404927Pretty sure you can see some pixelated pubes in some of the games.
>>575405564IX has some but orion draws them kind of weird.
>>575407037Alicesoft had pixelated pubes in their really old games but I can't remember if that's the case for rance.
Reached Lvl31.Game said that half a year has passed since Seed became a Toushin, but it felt like one or two weeks max. So in-game time and plot time are not congruent.
BTW it might be one of the most "crossing the line twice" things that I ever seen in a game that the Himmlers you fight on Lvl30 attack with...poison gas.
>>575411676Kinnikuman had a nazi attack with poison gas directly referencing the concentration camps.
That's it for Lvl31.Man, the story with the girl and the stones was rough. The weird thing is, I distinctly remember being 9 when it first occured to me that suicide is a thing that people can do out of desperation, which might sound obvious, but it is somewhat of a novel idea when 4 years before you probably didn't even understand the idea of death, much less more abstract concepts like despair and meaninglessness. I even remember where I was, what was happening and what the weather outside was when it happened.It is to this day the closest thing I experienced to what one could call an epiphany.
>>575421704>never got to fuck her yourselfOne of the biggest travesties of VI
>>575411676Alicesoft is the master of crossing the line.
>>575422694TT2 has some depth
>>575411676Seems fitting to me
>>575433931Millie my beloved
>>575433931Seen goods
Seen goods implies the existence of seen bads
>>575446790I thought he moved to north Korea
nin nin
>>575442428If everyone who makes a girl seen goods is dead, is her purity restored?
>>575459212Unironically yes
holy shit it's Trevor, GTA
>>575460440You fool, that's the greatest soldier in the world, Big Boss
>!ahahaG- Ecnar
Seen goods vs kissed goodsWho wins in a fight?
>>575466032Me
>>575470830She makes this face while watching her dad fuck her mom
>>575476654she makes this face while watching her dad fuck shizuka
>>575477518She makes this face while watching her step-mom fuck her half-brother
>>575478568which mom and bro?
What is the most undesirable trait in an anime girl?Aside from having good eyesight.
>>575480796pink hair
>>575480796Afros
>>575480796nonvirgin
>>575480796flat
>>575483741This
>>575480796Incredibly high pitched voice
>>575480796Toned muscles
>>575470830She makes this face when Rance pulled out his cock(He gonna fuck her)
>>575480796infertile
>>575484141One of the most annoying things
>>575480796Being a quirk chungus
>>575484606Rance would never. She is 13
>>575487167Which rance girls are quirky chungus?
>>575493694None immediately leap to mindAthena 2.0 maybe? Though she is 'genuinely' childlike-retarded instead of just pretending.
>>575480796Poor dress sense.
>>575497038Chizukobros...
why so slow today, nin
>>575501914I, one of the two /haniho/ posters, have been distracted.
>>575501914Haniho only goes fast when we get a new translation or when we are off-topic.
>>575501914It's Monday neetbro...
>>575480796Knows what sex is.
>>575512835That's such a great line, man
>>575501914We're matching the speed of Rance X editing
>>575493341heh
>>575501914>>575502621same here.>>575494043in fiction it usually is legitimately the girl's personality. at most she has a sad backstory
I feel like TT1's tournament arc was more satisfying than TT2's. Both were all about gimmicks but in TT1 the gimmicks were usually there to put you on even ground with the other guy, not to beat them outright. Plus there were far less circumstancial wins.DogiYou beat him.wizard manYou get magic to be able to fight him, but the fight is more or less honest.ArthurYou beat him with the spell that breaks his focus. It's not your fault that he kept trying to use the same technique.weredragon archerYou beat him for real, he does hit you and you can lose if you are underleveled.YayoiNot a real fight, admittedly.PoeNot a real fight, but there is still a legit struggle.4.5 real fights out of 6.Now in TT2,KeijinYou beat him for real.MilioYou beat him for real.PlumaNot a real fight.GajiNot a real fight.XavierThere isn't even a fight.BillnasSerena gives you the technique you need to beat him and also tells you how to beat him.2 real fights out of 6.
Like even Seed acknowledges this when he says that he doesn't feel like he actually earned his wins before the fight with Billnas.
Though if I wanted to be mean I could dock one more "real fight" from TT2 because Milio is like ten years old even if he is the Hero.
>>575525427Still more competent than Arios
COINCIDENCE?
>>575528395I do this same pose and also I look like this and also I weigh this much
>>575529554Ah, a fellow Bambaramaxxer...
>>575528395I look like this and I had sex with Bezeleye
>>575493341Explain this then
>>575530109She had a nightmare and her dad is calming her down
>>575530272Why are they naked?
>>575530352They are on holidays in Europe and there is no aircon
I love Ranch
>>575535819Which came first?Ranch or Cool Ranch?
KONAMI
>>575528128Is he named after the demon from the Goetia?
Wait, that guy is Arioch and he's not from the Goetia. Nvm my SMT-fu has gotten pretty rusty.
You know shit's serious when the love interest dons the box art armor.So that's why there was such discrepancy between plot time and game time.
The theme that the angels get sounds like bonus stage music in a platformer. I like it.
I haven't eaten a single angel so far besides the one you couldn't avoid eating when you became a toushin, anyway. Whenever I was tempted to do so, I thought about Craia being disappointed in Seed and immediately reconsidered.I thought I wanted to be an asshole, but the potential benefits don't feel like they would outweigh the unavoidable psychic damage of being deliberately malicious against people who did nothing to deserve it.
>>575555094Well someone's never going to be a successful and rich businessman
>>575461654I thought Barres-dono was the Big Boss expie.
>>575555094Sounds like your natural inclination is to be a good person anon, no matter what you might think you wanted initially.You'll have to larp if you want to be evil.
>>575555447He is too. If you are a military man in an eyepatch, you're automatically Big Boss
>>575558895...I wasn't fishing for a compliment, really, neither do I think of myself as a particularly virtuous person, it's just that, I guess, the moral choices of this game are not exactly like the situations you encounter in the Rance games, where Rance being an asshole is a lot of fun because 8 times out of 10 it happens against people just as, if not far worse than Rance, and 1 of those 2 exceptions is almost always played off as not that serious. Like bullying Kanami is fun because of her being a master kidnapper, and Lia getting fucked until her mind is obliterated is also enjoyable because of her sadistic past. I didn't like Sill getting bullied at first but you kinda get over that once you see how much he cares for her in serious situations. But none of that grey morality applies to TT2. Do I fuck the partner of this opponent who was brainwashed into being a participant? Do I eat angels who were virtuous kalars in life? Do I goosh goosh Gaji's waifu? It's completely black and white.Anyway, it feels like the game is nearing its climax (no pun intended). I just had an audience with the Oni King. Those jailer onis you fight before you free Dellas were pretty fucking tough.
>>575559026The grey hair is also essential, I'd say. Young Big Boss is just Snake with an eyepatch.
*sob* *sob*
What do you think about the bl alice blue gamehttps://vndb.org/v3265
>>575575080>Dungeon Crawling Gameooo i should check it out
>>575575080Fittingly it looks like early 2000s yaoi
>Seed felt the slightest hint of guilt over killing GentoboWhat's wrong with this guy lol.On another note, I always found it funny that the tropes about buddhist monks in japanese media are the exact same that we have had about christian clergy in the west for centuries.
>>575575080It's still fucking insane that Planner appeared in the yaoi gameLike his appearance in KR game is just alluded or "maybe"
>>575570169so sad
Of course Apros's motivations ultimately resolve to "I had a woman moment".Truly a missed chance that you don't get to eat her despite the potential triple irony. If there was anyone who deserved to get her asshole reamed and turned into alchemy dust, it was her.Kurzweil mysteriously managed to subvert the curse of "blonde hair and red eyes equals evil" trope. Even his sprite made him look kinda shady. Poor guy.I quit in the middle of the fight with Dellas...what an awful fight. It's definitely doable if I bring along the correct gear, but it always turns out like ass when you're not fighting the boss as much as you're fighting for a chance to fight the boss. It also makes him look like a bitch. Am I fighting him or am I fighting three fairies and some guy with white hair in the back row? Plus it's always nice when the stats are not the actual stats. If I'm consistently missing two thirds of my hits, that's not 66 percent chance to hit, that's 66 minus god knows what percentage in accordance with their evasion stat.
Also I tried whether Magic Ban would shut down the healing fairy, but...no, she can use healing and revival even if you ban magic.
It probably doesn't help that the theme of the fight sounds a bit "royalty free JRPG boss fight music track 23".I'll finish things tomorrow.
>>575600625*smack*
Is there anyone here who is a legit new poster? Sometimes I wonder if we're always the same 20 users or if there's been some turnover with the years.
>>575605517I started posting here shortly before the hack if that counts as new
>>575605517I started posting here regularly around 2024.
>>575605517As the niwa who runs the polls for the soccer team it does feel that while the core is the same we have gotten some new blood over the last few years.
>>575605747Hey me too
>>575605517Found out about this general a month ago (from haniho poster in /hgg/)
>>575605810Remove Alice goalkeeper
Would you rather settle down for a virgin mother (kalar) or used goods (leazas woman)?
>>575615483I have played Evenicle so I know what kalar are like
I wonder if I could fit in 15 minutes of Rance IX every day. Would the game be fun that way?
>>575615483I can't continue my genetic lineage with a kalar, and also I would have to raise only daughters, which *hits pipe*, so given both options it would have to be the leazas one
>>575605810Steal tactics from /hgg2d/
Why should I choose between two things I dislike?
>>575605517I'm pretty new, but I usually fuck off for large gaps time.
>>575605517I haven't posted for half a year before i have returned a few weeks ago, before that i had only started posting in late 2024 though.>>575619668There are battles and sex scenes that are longer than that.
>>575623627You can get her pregnant again.
:3
>>575623627>which *hits pipe*Hear me out.Daughterwife.
I'll rather have a daughter (non-sexual) than a son.
>>575643331
>>575643652I appreciate your sacrifice
Would you play alicesoft games with your kid?
>>575645305Yes
>>575645287Don't try to act tough. You know raising a daughter has got to be the cutest thing ever.
>>575645305Alice told me that even children can enjoy Alicesoft games. Surely she wouldn't lie?
>>575646640Hey man, if you're going to get defensive about it, maybe you should think twice about feeding, clothing, raising and rearing a girl for at least 18 years solely so she can go and get ravaged by another man.
>>575647360Sure, as long as he marries her and gives me grandchildren.
lol
That's it for TT2.Pretty fucking ambitious game. I'll have to let the experience sit a while to really settle for a final opinion, but I definitely had a lot of fun despite a few things.I certainly can see myself thinking very highly of it if I had played it on release (that is, when it was translated a little over a decade ago). Even so, it remains very impressive for what was effectively a deluxe garage project.
>>575658465I consider it the first truly good Alicesoft game as opposed to just being fun because Rance like III
>>575658649I didn't play the original versions of the first three games, but even when I compare it to 03, it feels more cohesive as a whole than 03 does. In retrospect the issue of 03's plot is that it never changes from the initial premise of "repel Helman and do something about the Fiends". While this game feels more dynamic. It also had an overarching theme to its narrative, unlike the Rance games.
Made a Cessna
I feel like Hazuki and Serena were also better written than most female Rance characters because they were more proactive, independent and on equal ground with Seed than most women not named Shizuka in the Rance plot so far.Seed himself though is definitely the weakest point. I never felt like he had a center. His moments of being pathetic are a bit too cringy and his edgy moments are a bit too out there. He was simultaneously too cold, too hot, and too lukewarm, as paradoxic as that may soundI also thought it to be rather awkward how Billnas just peaces out of the plot after the Toushin Tournament arc.
>>575661717Cute
A question for the lore experts. Are oni and devils two departments of the same "hell" faction?
It also became noticeable after a while that almost all women in the game have the same body type. It's a very nice one, but ideally, an eroge should offer some variety. Sporty, thick, smaller titties, big ones, etc.
>>575662926No, in toushin toshi oni seems to be rulers of the divine faction while in Rance they are lowest ranked servants of gods that do the dirt work angels don't want to do, devils are actually enemies of gods and they don't live in hell but in their own dimension that seems to be connected to hell.
>>575605517I (TT2 anon) started posting here last year.
>>575658649>the first truly good Alicesoft gameThis seems to be the standard TT2 opinion.
>>575664180I see. My reading of the TT2 situation was sort of that there's just one big "afterlife" faction to which angels, devils and oni all belong to, but who nevertheless don't necessarily all get along, like obviously you see that the angels and the oni are allies, but devils probably are not on good terms with the angels. Kinda like the Japanese military and navy having a rivalry during WW2 despite both serving the emperor.
>>575664602Devils serve Rathowm who is against the whale
>>575661570In all fairness 03 is limited to III which js limited to being part of one cohesive story whereas TT2 is complete in its own
>>575662084I agree on the girls. God I wish we got the alt version where Shizuka was the main companion
>>575664602Since toushin toshi 2 lore is never elaborated on we don't even know if there's anyone stronger than the oni king in tt2 world, oni king's counterpart in the Rance lore is a powerful god relatively close to the top of the hiearchy
>>575665985TT2 setting same as Rance
>>575666569No, there's no oni king in Rance's world and Toushin City clearly has different history.
>>575665947Just have Shizuka end up captured as slave when Rance goes to buy one. Their dynamics would end up being different from Rance & Sill since I can't see Shizuka taking Rance's abuse without fighting back like Sill could. Real question would be whether Rance would be able to charm her into remaining with him once the obedience magic wears off like he did with Sill
Kind of a bummer that you couldn't H Shuri in either game.
Alice's Theme ~Wailing~
>>575668247Just need Shizuka to think she can use Rance for her revenge
That joke in IV where the hannies are pretending to be the Power Rangers but they are all blue hannies is definitely in the top 10 funniest Alicesoft moments.
>>575661717Design strikes a good aesthetic balance here
>>575669247What's the top 10?>killing the shoopkeeper in the original rance iii>sacrifice girl bugging you to save her in iv>moe hannies from sengoku>rance trying to kill himself>dark rance being chuuni>hnk face when assaulting kanami>assault lia + my glorious days
>>575666569If that was the case, you probably wouldn't need to use Dimension Doors to fight Patton, Barres and Rance.
When I got the Dual Wield skill in TT2 and got Seed to simultaneously equip the Blaze Blade and the Iceberg Sword, I couldn't stop imagining it looking like Agni and Rudra from DMC3.
>>575670573The fuck? Where’s this translation from?
>>575664180I do think hell still worked the same like in RanceCause in X bad ending,Arios just walked out from hell nonchalantlyIt took one month, but he did get out
>>575665947>>575668247The original intention was thisYukimi pushed the main companion for Rance to be a meek girlThus we got Sill
>>575666643Setting doesn't means Timeline here
>>575680701I find that funny when I consider what Yukimi's modern work is like.
>>575676684https://www.youtube.com/@DLKentarou
>>575670573>>dark rance being chuuniThat's his every appearance though?
>>575687083Particularly the scene where even Crook laughs at him
>>575687083Dark Rance didn't have father around for role model, pls understand. In all fairness Zance is the bigger embarrassment