Visual Novel Translation Status (01/09/2024)

Welcome to this week VNTS Review, and because we have Lunaria Steam released along with Sleepless Nocturne announced, I decided to combine both words so we have 'Moonchild Nocturne' as the title with the 'Moonchild' word is from Lunaria full title (Lunaria -Virtualized Moonchild-). For this week, other than the already mentioned Lunaria Steam version release and Tsui no Sora release, we also have sprite released Everlasting Flowers which turned out to be not full GL VN as people expected, Cherry Kiss announced yet another nukige, and also JAST was announced the release time for Mojika. Overall, this week is quite an average one, and let's see what I can write in regard of it.

Once again Cherry Kiss announced yet another nukige, and said nukige is called Hypnosis Idol: Greatest Tits with the premise is the MC find out on how to have sex with his favorite idols. Said method is by using hypnosis, so the MC will do the hypnosis to his favorite idol group with all four of its member will have sex with the MC. Not the biggest announcement to me, but if you interested with it then you can wait until Cherry Kiss release it on Friday. We also have Lunaria Steam version release, and the premise is still the same with genius virtual online gamer Tabito encounter AI avatar Lunar-Q on the abandoned server which located in the moon, and Lunar-Q express her wish to see the Earth with Tabito tried his best to fulfill her wish. For comparison with Tsui no Stella, Lunaria is far lighter even though there are some dramatic turn in the story, which make sense seeing Lunaria is more like love story. Go get Lunaria Steam version if you've been waiting for it, and have fun.

This week we also have some news in regard of the exact release date for two VNs (Forbidden Ward and Hime no Rakuen), with both will be released on 27th later. For fan translation, we have Akagoei 3 was fully finished its editing work and currently it's been in QA work with the latest progress the QA work for it is 18.06% done, and Taima Seiko Alice is at 60% edited. Also like I say beforehand we have Sakura no Uta translation project was started with it was at 8% translated, and for more elaboration the prologue was already fully translated with the first chapter, Fruhlingsbeginns past halfway (52%) translated.

Oh yes, I did mention JAST is about to release Monika, and according to their site they'll release it in February next year. There's still no exact release date as of now, but at least it shouldn't be long wait if people have been looking forward to Mojika.

Lastly, we have Everlasting Flowers in which it had some problematic launch, and obviously the problem is not really the VN is more focused on the friendship between two girls instead of full romance. But instead it's because sprite decided to add DRM that force the player to play the game online, which obviously won't be good in case people played on Steam deck or have the internet connection cut off, although thankfully sprite add the patch which remove the requirement to be online. That said, unfortunately sprite still didn't add Music Mode, in which they've been doing so since Aokana (Which Nekonyan ported the game so they can add Music Mode). For the premise, it's about the broken girl Mina get the invitation to live in the seaside lounge for the summer, and in there she met Ran who is the opposite of her. While sprite did some mistakes, at least they prove they can do good job on art with it was said to be the high point of the VN. Go get Everlasting Flowers if you've been waiting for it, and have fun.

That's all for what I can write in regard of this week, and see you next week.