Welcome to this week VNTS Review, and because we have Select Oblige along with Shuuen no Virche fandisc, I decided to make a parody of Select Oblige opening song, Path to Glory, by changing "Glory" into "Recoil" because Shuuen no Virce fandisc full title is Shuuen no Virche -EpiC:lycoris- which remind me of Lycoris Recoil anime, so we have "Path to Recoil" as the title. For this week, the biggest news to me are in regard of Select Oblige release (Despite some shortcoming) and Sousaku Kanojo trial translation patch released, so it's more interesting compared to what we have at the last week. Overall, I can say this week is almost interesting one, and let's see what I can write in regard of it below.

I knew Mangagamer have Dead Days released back in October 31st in which I forgot to wrote about it last week, although seeing Shiravune also already have the exact release date for Nemurenu (Another Clockup VN) at December 10th later, I figure that I'll talk about it now. For Dead Days itself, it's about a group of people who supposed to be dead woke up in a strange place with they must play a game if they want to survive. However, the game is not easy seeing they need to hunt the specters in order to eliminate it, and more importantly they need to face their own raging libido (So there will be a lot of sex scenes) along with the feeling of dread for battle and running out borrowed time. So in essence it's more like The World Ends With You, just with a lot of sex and being written by Silverio trilogy writer. Once again it's not my taste, but people may been waiting for this, so feel free to get it if you're the one who waiting for this.

Aksys released Shuuen no Virche fandisc with it depict the after stories for the heroes route, and apparently it's quite long with several ending are quite happy compared to the one in the main game. What I can say is that there's no Steam version of it, so you can only play this if you have Switch. Still feel free to get it if you have Switch and want to read more Shuuen no Virche. For fan translation updates, we have Taima Seiko Alice is at 85% translated, and Sousaku Kanojo trial translation patch was released with it only cover two chapters of the full game. That said, it's still quite substantial, seeing the two chapters alone is consist around five hours of gameplay. Feel free to get Sousaku Kanojo trial if you want to see the translation before Shinzou release the full patch at the next year, and have fun.

Hikari Field manage to release Select Oblige on time, which is quite nice, although unfortunately it has bad translation, or as some people say unedited translation. While admittedly it's just three months old VN which mean the translator would have at most three months to deliver the translation (Usually the whole translation process would take more than three months), it's too bad the end product to be like that. Still, at least it's quite an improvement compared to when they tried to translate Tayutama 2, which itself is quite questionable decision because they just skip the prequel. Translation issue aside, in Select Oblige we have Nagi who live in a slum receive a ticket to enroll a very prestigious school, and so Nagi being poor person need to deal with the discrimination in the school before coming out of the top. I knew that Select Oblige didn't have good reception like Hamidashi, but seeing Sekai didn't have the best track record on holding its license it's nice to have Select Oblige in English even with its translation issue (Feel free to get it if you want to), and if anything else at least the character designs are quite nice courtesy of Yuzuna Hiyo who was designed several heroines in minori VNs before their bankruptcy.

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