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Visual Novels Community Thread | A Little Something for Everyone
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Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
Maybe I'm wrong, but Denpasoft announced like 10 games and they all look like bullshit.
Basileus777
Member
They're all moe games.
AtomskEater
Member
They supposedly started the panel by saying "Who's excited to see some boobies!?!? WHO'S EXCITED TO SEE SOME VAGINAS!?!?!?!?!?"
So, that tells you about all you need to know.
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
Fuckin' weebs. Mangagamer's announcements were all nonsense, too.
I mean, it's obviously great that this genre actually exists in a meaningful capacity in the west... but man, it looks like the garbage-tier stuff is what's really catching on :-/
AtomskEater
Member
I see a fair amount of people in the "porn or bust" mindset, IE they won't touch anything if there's no h-scenes, even if it's a really good all ages games.
Mangagamer talked about it IIRC and said their nukige sales are what allows them to bring over the more story-driven games, which don't really turn much of a profit.*
I'm excited for a couple of announcements (mostly Aksys's announcements, the Novectale game, Majikoi in 206x), but yeah we're getting what the market asks for. :,)
*Okay to be fair there's probably less work in localizing a nukige, and perhaps smaller licensing fees as well.
AtomskEater
Member
I have no idea about Yuzusoft since their games don't look to be up my alley, just presenting other possible reasons MG may make more money on nukige vs other types of VN.
Yuzusoft doesn't appear to make nukige, but I guess as long as there's ero content those games have a better chance of doing well.
Yeah I agree they probably have a better chance of doing well. I'm just skeptical that these titles are low cost/effort acquisitions and releases considering Yuzusoft is a relatively big name in Japan AFAIK.
MG I like a lot because they like to take risks on interesting projects and niche genres. Stuff like Euphoria, Fata Morgana, No Thank You, Fashioning Little Miss Lonesome, Liarsoft titles, and others. Sekai and JAST mostly like to stick to safe genres (moeges and simple nukiges) and things that are already popular with an established fan base from either previous works or in the case of Sekai fan TLs. Although JAST has picked up a few interesting titles in the past.
I wonder if that has anything to do with the scale of each company, considering MangaGamer can afford to do something like Space Live. I guess it seems like I'm just making excuses for JAST and Sekai Project but MangaGamer is way more prolific than either of them (yet their website is still awful). It could also be that Sekai Project in particular is trying to establish their branding as a "high-profile moege" localization company.
That's crazy in my mind, because it's obvious the most successful VN KS were all "serious" projects and even when there's some porn in it (Muv Luv) it's not much and I'm quite sure it was not the reason for success. It's like these porn fans are just more active when it comes to MG and their site, but theat level of demand should not be unreachable anyway and a better handling of IPs could show that.
The problem is that nobody seems to really raise the bar continuously, not even MG, preventing anything from changing.
Dovac said in the SP Discord that the Rewrite+ translation will be fresh. Apparently they don't even have the fan TL to work off of (Visual Arts is the one that bought it, didn't give it to them).
To add to the conversation above: Both Dracu Riot and Senran Banka have more RTs/likes on Twitter than the new Noveactale game.
To add to the conversation above: Both Dracu Riot and Senran Banka have more RTs/likes on Twitter than the new Noveactale game.
I didn't realize Sekai Project has a discord. Thanks!
At this point I'd give up. The existing TL is 99% done and is only missing translated images. But most of them all say "whose eyes are those eyes" anyway.
Just FYI, there is no chance of us getting Noah officially.
The S;G translator reached out directly to Mages about it, I'm guessing there's some licensing issues in place here.
cj_iwakura
Member
JAST got Steins;Gate, the coup of a lifetime.
https://twitter.com/CommitteeOf0/status/881108887855935488
At least the port seam to be heading somewhere.
Yuzusoft games are played just for the art, which is as good as it gets (provided you like the style). The rest... well...
Funyarinpa
Member
I'm worried about Sekai handling the new Novectacle release, but it's a LONG ways off, so I want to remain hopeful. Loved Fata's translation so would've been glad to see Mangagamer pick the new game up too.
Sekai's reputation for delays and their lack of transparency doesn't help matters.
Sekai's reputation for delays and their lack of transparency doesn't help matters.
I'm hoping they get the first two titles out soon in order to get the third one faster. Have no idea what to expect of Tenshin Ranman, and don't really care about Dracu Riot. I am very interested in the third one, however. It's about time we got a 1080p title here: I'm not a fan of reading 720p novels on a 1080p display or reading them in a small window.
Oh, and Wagamama is releasing on the 25th. Geez...
purseowner
Member
purseowner
Member
Island pls.
cj_iwakura
Member
Kind of sucks when someone pulls off something like that then people just want them to do something else next. (I can relate, when we released Ougon Musou, everyone was pissed we didn't do Cross.)
I'm sorry, I'm sitting this one out. Getting under 5 hours of sleep for the third time in a row would be the end of me orz
Anyway, hoping for good things here!
tenshin raman is an ~ok~ game, dracu-riot is non-offensive at it's best, and senren banka is among the better moege I've played (touta is one of the best authors in the business right now imo, though you can definitely tell where his stuff starts and stops), so it's worth looking forward too
but also it's the longest of the three by a significant margin, so look forward to it in 2020 at the earliest
Island delayed to 2018 to coincide with the anime. 
https://twitter.com/FrontwingInt/status/882090256681521153
https://twitter.com/FrontwingInt/status/882090256681521153Basileus777
Member
Subahibi is coming out in late August. Will be on Steam with a weird release strategy. Part 1 of the game is $29.99 and there's a free patch that has the rest of the game and all its adult content.
What about people who prefer all-ages versions?
Basileus777
Member
They're playing the wrong game.
Basileus777
Member
He makes a really poor argument tbh. Herkz sounds more bitter that Frontwing didn't need him than anything.
Funyarinpa
Member
What about releasing a supposedly unfinished product is a bad argument? Sincere question.
Basileus777
Member
This premise is faulty, but the part where he keeps talking and reveals that he's really just venting bitterness at Frontwing. Herkz isn't really a source I'd put much stock into when it comes to things like this. The guy is making the assumption that only he could edit the game and that Frontwing is hurting their product to spite him and it's pretty silly.
Frontwing actually has a pretty good record with their translation quality post setting up their own localization staff.
Maybe it's like the Rewrite situation, where VisualArts supposedly secured the fan-translated script and in the end decided not to use it?
The Silver
Member
that subahibi game feels like some urban legend to me, I've been hearing about that game since I first got into VNs. Is that game supposed to be Euphoria levels of depravity?
Translation Status Update July 4 from /r/visualnovels
Originally from /jp/ on 4chan
Fuwanovel version
Originally from /jp/ on 4chan
Fuwanovel version
So I picked up Fruit of Grisaia for $15 (due to it's near universal praise) from a sale on Denpasoft but I'm having a bit of trouble installing it.
They sent me an email with a 7 part download + a patch however each compressed file extracts to the exact same 7GB file totaling 7 7GB files after extraction. On top of this 7zip throws a data error for an img file every time I attempt to extract anything past part 1. I tried dumping them all in the same folder but I just end up overwriting the same files 7 times over.
Is there anyway to get a Steam Key out of a Denpasoft purchase?
They sent me an email with a 7 part download + a patch however each compressed file extracts to the exact same 7GB file totaling 7 7GB files after extraction. On top of this 7zip throws a data error for an img file every time I attempt to extract anything past part 1. I tried dumping them all in the same folder but I just end up overwriting the same files 7 times over.
Is there anyway to get a Steam Key out of a Denpasoft purchase?
iRAWRasaurus
Banned
That's uhh interesting so extracting one somehow extracts all of them I've never experienced that before thanks.
Hexa
Member
MajikoiTL, the ones that have done the fan translations for the currently fan translated releases so far, is involved with JAST's release of Majikoi. Their fan translation of A-3 has also not been effected.
https://www.reddit.com/r/visualnovels/comments/6ky5ux/jast_announces_majikoi/
So this should guarantee this doesn't turn into a Sumaga/Django situation. Awesome!
https://www.reddit.com/r/visualnovels/comments/6ky5ux/jast_announces_majikoi/
So this should guarantee this doesn't turn into a Sumaga/Django situation. Awesome!