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Visual Novels Community Thread | A Little Something for Everyone
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Just 5 or 5-8?
calc84maniac
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Sweet Fuse is $2.99 in the US PSN Flash Sale this weekend, highly recommend.
Funyarinpa
Member
Can someone quote the post? Curiouscat is glitching like crazy for me for some reason.
Basileus777
Member
"Soon."
Funyarinpa
Member
Thanks. I love (Character name from Watanagashi)
Shion
Looks like they recently added some bundles to steam.
Nurse Love Addiction bundle comes with its soundtrack for free now if you pick up this bundle.
And there's a Clannad bundle that includes Clannad, Clannad Side Stories, and Tomoyo After ~It's a Wonderful Life~.
Pretty good bundles if you wanted to grab everything. They're also all on sale right now.
Nurse Love Addiction bundle comes with its soundtrack for free now if you pick up this bundle.
And there's a Clannad bundle that includes Clannad, Clannad Side Stories, and Tomoyo After ~It's a Wonderful Life~.
Pretty good bundles if you wanted to grab everything. They're also all on sale right now.
I read Fata Morgana, Higurashi and Little Busters.
Only Little Busters scratched that itch, but nowhere near the same level as Majikoi. Not to mention the storyline itself... I wasn't a big fan of serious parts to say the least.
Well, here's hoping there will be more of Majikoi after A1-5 and one day we get the whole series officially in English.
Only Little Busters scratched that itch, but nowhere near the same level as Majikoi. Not to mention the storyline itself... I wasn't a big fan of serious parts to say the least.
Well, here's hoping there will be more of Majikoi after A1-5 and one day we get the whole series officially in English.
So, Sekai Project is running a Kickstarter for Tokeijikake no Ley Line -Tasogaredoki no Kyoukaisen- / A Clockwork Ley-Line: The Borderline of Dusk, a localization that had been announced previously. On one hand it's a game I really want, but on the other it's Sekai Project, and I don't want to encourage them running more Kickstarters.
KuwabaraTheMan
Banned
Nice. I've been looking forward to this one.
Dangerous1992
Member
i felt the complete opposite here, with Root Double Nakazawa tried to focus a lot more on the characteres and their backstory, whereas in R11 they had more a secondary role.
I/O was the VN that really tried to capture R11 in its complexity, with its even more insane and mindfucked space time tale. Yeah at points its confusing and all, but it's one of the most fascinanting VNs out there.
It really shows that with a more constrained Nakazawa, we will get something like Root Double, and when you let him go berserk something like I/O
If he can get the balance right for his next VN then i'm sure something special is awaiting us!
I have no qualms about SP or any other publisher using KS, provided the campaign is run competently.
Bring it on, $60 for 3 all-ages Steam VNs sounds good.
Just to avoid alternative facts on Ley-line, I'll copy-paste this part
The game is coming out regardless. The campaign is just for physicals and limited merch because we get bombarded about them the minute we don't have it and the game is quite popular and good. Shitz expensive to print. Also, I didn't want to add any console stuff into the mix because I would like to get the ones in QA right now out and on the market first. It's quite possible we'll revisit it later as our workload evens out. But for now, nothing is decided on that front.
The game is coming out regardless. The campaign is just for physicals and limited merch because we get bombarded about them the minute we don't have it and the game is quite popular and good. Shitz expensive to print. Also, I didn't want to add any console stuff into the mix because I would like to get the ones in QA right now out and on the market first. It's quite possible we'll revisit it later as our workload evens out. But for now, nothing is decided on that front.
Good luck, I wish the 'story heavy' games were as popular as Nekopara crap. :\
Are there plans for more Stretch Goals?
AtomskEater
Member
Nice, I'll probably jump on this. At some point I heard it was meh, but most of the reviews I'm seeing are favorable.
Basileus777
Member
I don't really mind them using KS to fund hard copies. Physical goods are expensive and risky for a small publisher and this is preferable to the Mangagamer model where only successful titles get hard copies way later, requiring you to double dip.
Though $135 is more than I'm willing to pay for a physical copy of a game that I don't even know how much I'll like yet. I'm glad to see we're getting an uncut version of the entire trilogy though.
Though $135 is more than I'm willing to pay for a physical copy of a game that I don't even know how much I'll like yet. I'm glad to see we're getting an uncut version of the entire trilogy though.
"Vita isn't dead, boys. Not by a long shot." -- Two unannounced translation projects by ReadingSteiner
Most likely Punchline and YU-NO or Chaos;Child.
Most likely Punchline and YU-NO or Chaos;Child.
It must be the other two then.
iceblade997
Member
Oh wow there's a visual novel community thread? This is awesome! Been looking to get into visual novels for a while now and am going to be starting my first (Steins;Gate) soon.
Going to add on with the comments about Clannad and ask - is it worth it if you only intend on doing one or two routes? It's on my wishlist and I really want to play it but I have a lot of other games I want to play too so I haven't really been replaying titles all that much as of late.
Going to add on with the comments about Clannad and ask - is it worth it if you only intend on doing one or two routes? It's on my wishlist and I really want to play it but I have a lot of other games I want to play too so I haven't really been replaying titles all that much as of late.
Basileus777
Member
Probably not. Clannad forces you to see all the side routes before you get to see the main route and as a result it's a really long VN.
Kresnik258
Member
This reminds me, has the Dies Irae Backerkit been sent out yet?
I don't think so, no.
Kresnik258
Member
Good. I was hoping they might've been able to sort something out for Vita physical that may come into play during backerkit.
Basileus777
Member
So Frontwing just made a bunch of announcements on their twitch stream.
Grisaia: Phantom Trigger has a prefundia up. The Kickstarter is to fund physical goods and localize the manga, the first 2 parts of the game are releasing April 28th.
Island is 50% translated, and planned for release in 2017.
They are publishing Subahibi, coming out in 2017. More news late Spring/Summer.
Frontwing has other unannounced projects, both internal and 3rd party.
They are also planning to launch their own storefront.
Grisaia: Phantom Trigger has a prefundia up. The Kickstarter is to fund physical goods and localize the manga, the first 2 parts of the game are releasing April 28th.
Island is 50% translated, and planned for release in 2017.
They are publishing Subahibi, coming out in 2017. More news late Spring/Summer.
Frontwing has other unannounced projects, both internal and 3rd party.
They are also planning to launch their own storefront.
Funyarinpa
Member
Wooow, great news about ISLAND there. Also glad that there might finally be a way out for Subahibi fron localization hell.
This is hilarious for a number of logistics reasons.
Kresnik258
Member
I wonder if they'll release the Vita version of Island. Since there's not a Kickstarter I guess... not? Maybe they want to get Sharin out of the door then try it?
I hope they get round to it. And I hope Grisaia is still coming too.
Basileus777
Member
They said they might do crowdfunding for Island or Subahibi, but it sounded more like it'd be an indiegogo for physical goods like they did with Corona Blossom.
Grisaia is in Sekai Project's hands. I have no idea why we haven't heard anything about it in ages.
calc84maniac
Member
Didn't they say forever ago that Vita versions wouldn't come until the whole trilogy is out on PC?
Basileus777
Member
They said that about WEE, I don't remember hearing that about Grisaia. Or much of any news beyond vague teases. It was noticeably absent when they announced all of their other future console/vita plans.
Translation Status Update February 19 from /r/visualnovels
Originally from /jp/ on 4chan
Fuwanovel version
Originally from /jp/ on 4chan
Fuwanovel version
IIRC, it wasn't all of their future console/Vita plans. They said they have more coming this year.
Kresnik258
Member
http://thevitalounge.net/2015/10/12...s-vita-western-release-is-still-in-the-works/
They said in October 2015 that things were finally moving with it and they'd have news in the coming weeks, lol.
Though as Shiz says, Fault Milestone; Narcissu and WEE were just the start of their console plans and I suspect Grisaia is in there too.
Though I expect it to be a PS4/Vita porting job at this point.
https://www.kickstarter.com/project...ley-line-a-visual-novel-trilogy/posts/1814041
As by console, they mean Vita, since that's the only platform other than PC where the game was released in Japan.
Basileus777
Member
Is this your supposition? Because that's not necessarily true, especially since they could end up porting the game on their own and not licensing an existing port.
The wording seems to imply that they're bringing the japanese console version instead of acquiring the rights to port the game themselves.
Translation Status Update February 26 from /r/visualnovels
Originally from /jp/ on 4chan
Fuwanovel version
Originally from /jp/ on 4chan
Fuwanovel version
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
It's from the team that did Tokyo Babel, which was decent enough.
I'm not sure how Pygmalion turned out, but I like the art. Hopefully it has fewer action scenes -- those were pretty dull. Or at least ratchets up the violence.
Basileus777
Member
Yeah, it's overly complicated and poorly communicated and the game doesn't really benefit from it. I'd just use a guide.
Basileus777
Member
Isn't this true for all VNs?
But then, I'm a person who'd use a guide for Umineko
A lot of VNs don't bother with making complicated decision trees, mostly for the best.