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This review is going to read like a mess because of all the spoiler text, if you'd prefer to read this on VNDB you can here: https://vndb.org/w13482 All specific spoilers will be marked with how major or minor I feel they are. Outside of spoilers I'll use as much general language as possible to avoid them. I'd recommend Waremete to most readers who want a romantic comedy with some cute moments but a healthy dose of plot. The downside to the plot is that a lot of things are repeated or follow a formula in the various routes which leads to quite a bit of predictability, but I think that is to be expected in this genre of story. Characters are fairly well written and all of them have a surprising amount of depth to them with a few exceptions. Kenny is a joke character, but a decent one, but even he has a bit of depth with his shows of true friendship and understanding of the other characters. Kaori is probably the most flat main character in this visual novel, even lacking much character development in her own route. On the other side there's Airi, who is the most interesting, smartest, most violent, and deepest character in the story, even - moderate characterization spoiler for an ending - Nagisa is the barbed tongued ojou who I found adorable, scary, and wonderful. Yui is the airheaded kuudere that is very interesting and gets quite a bit of character development throughout the story. I enjoyed Nagisa's route the most out of all of them, but the only route that really landed flat for me was Kaori's. Extremely minor spoiler: The plot is interesting. The story does one thing that I personally loved and that's - major spoiler - Not everyone will like that, but I think it's the most effective way to get across the emotions that the characters themselves are likely feeling in that moment. Past that it's largely a fairly standard story for this genre, although - moderate spoiler - There are 16 H-scenes present here, they are decently long, are of about average quality, mostly pretty vanilla - H content spoiler - It's worth mentioning that the H-scenes do feature some decent characterization and some light plot elements in them, which is quite a bit different than your average VN where they could largely be skipped without missing anything. Music features three vocal tracks with Hashimoto Miyuki, all of which are pretty good. A lot of the BGM are just repeated versions of those tracks - mostly the OP - in various instrumentals with tempo changes, which I didn't mind since I liked the OP in particular, but it does lead itself to being a bit one-note. Systems work pretty well with no issues since it's KiriKiri. With it being an older KiriKiri game, I had to use the Win8WOH fix for my disc version. The English patch from Studio Frisay worked with no issues on said disc version. Localization done by them is pretty well done. With all that said, I'd recommend Waremete to most readers looking for a romcom with a decent helping of plot thrown in. It's a good read, and it's available for pretty cheap, especially if you buy secondhand - it was about 3000 yen for my copy including proxy and shipping fees - and has also gone on sale on DMM before for the same or cheaper.

I am curious to see what others think about this game. Looking forward to a review.

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I also searched recently and it seems that the official links have disappeared. I ended up finding it via old threads or on drives shared by the community. Try asking directly in the thread, someone could send you a copy.

Wondered several times what this name ('Clannad') meant or where it came from, without ever this being important enough for me to search for an answer... and I came across the answer by accident lol : From Wikipedia (last paragraph of 'Musical style and legacy') I do not intend to fact check this and will take Wikipedia at its words and live a slightly better life now.

For this week title, because we finally have Ushinawareta Mirai o Motomete full translation patch available, I made parody of its English title, In Search of the Lost Future, with I changed the word 'Future' into 'Jewel', so we have 'In Search of the Lost Jewel' as the title. As for the reason on why I chose the word 'Jewel', it's because I decided to shortened the title as Ushieta with that word is from the characters from a fanfic that has the story about the search of the mythical jewel, Ushi and Eta. As for this week, besides Ushieta release we have Shiravune announced three title at once and also new fan translation projects. Of course, there's also Nekopara 5 release with it the last title for Nekopara VN series. Overall this week is an interesting one, and let's see what I can write in regard of it. We have Loverable programmer telling us in VNDB that he can't fulfill the target for August 2025 release because the editor was forced to quit the project with he's now the last remaining original member, thus putting the project's future in question. That said, he feel that he was too far to consider himself quitting the project seeing it's been nine years since the project started (And I remember on how I did keep tracking the progress way back in 2016), so he decided to keep continuing with the project as long as it's possible (The post in regard of it). As for the current progress, currently Loverable is already fully translated and edited with almost 40% (39.4%) lines are approved. We also have another updates on Majikoi A Plus Disk, and currently it's been at 16.21% edited. Frontwing did release Kanade, and what I understand is that it's shorter compared to Perennial Dusk. That, and the story is lighter even with the post apocalypse world setting where it was overrun by the plants. For the premise, our MC Yuuto met the titular character Kanade with she said that she was half-alien along with have the mission to save the world through the song, which contain the power to pacify the plants. From there, Yuuto and Kanade start their love story. Go get Kanade if you've been waiting for it, and have fun. Once again we have Sekai manage to released Nekopara 5, and for the info it's still not available on Steam so you need to go to the other store if you want to get it. For the content, it's more or less like Nine Shinsou in which it's the after stories for the series with the MC finally can have sex with his own little sister Shigure together with the other catgirls. Go get Nekopara 5 if you're waiting for it since it was announced in AX 2022, and have fun. Once again we have Shiravune announced three titles at once, and the first one is Criminal Border Last Part (Life Sentence) in which it's obviously the last part of Criminal Border with we'll have the group dealing with the aftermath of the event in Part 3. Also apparently it's not as good as previous episodes, although you may find yourself have another opinion if you decide to play it later. The second announcement is the second VN of ExS-Tia Parallel series, Reunion, which is actually related to ExS-Tia 3 with the main heroine heard the news about her older sister who was supposed to be dead following the event of ExS-Tia 3, which make it some sort of the sequel of ExS-Tia 3 even though ultimately the story is still standalone. For the last announcement, we have E School Life with it being Hooksoft VN, which is not really surprising if we remember Shiravune localized HaremKingdom. For the story, it's about the MC who was back to have school in Japan after he has enough studying in overseas, and from there he does his best to get the girlfriend. Note that there's no exact release date for all three new announcements, so I'll note it if Shiravune announce one later. One of Alicesoft's fan decided to work on Toushin Toshi 3, and currently it's been at 20% translated along with 10% edited. For Toushin Toshi 3, from what I see it was set in one of the city at Rance world, Toushin city (It also the setting for Rance IV), where the annual Toushin Tournament held with each contestant accompanied by beautiful female partner and the winner can do anything to the loser's partner. For Toushin Toshi 3 premise, we have the MC Natch searching for his father who have been missing in the tournament five years ago, and obviously he'll need to do his best in the tournament. We also have a new project with a goal to translate Natsu no Ame (The link to the project). I do remember that my roommate used to playing this with ATLAS, so it's nice to see it finally has translation project. For the story, we have the MC Sousuke who was suspended from the soccer club and yet he still train in case the suspension get revoked. One day, he met an older girl where he made some mistakes to helping her, and as soon as he get back home he find out the girl was his long lost half-sister. Oh yes, it already has some progress in which it's been at 9% translated. Lastly, we have the aforementioned Ushieta with it was adapted into the anime back in 2014. For the premise, we have the MC who is the member of the astronomy club with the club is in reality more like de facto of student council with their job is to solve the problems that the real student council have. One day after Sou stays in the infirmary until night because he was injured by one of judo club member, he felt the school building shaking with Sou goes to the center of the shake. There, he find the naked girl who introduce herself as Yui with she know a lot about Sou for some reasons. Afterwards, Yui decided to join Sou into the astronomy club. As for Ushieta itself, I know that it also had translation project in 2017, although said project was stopped after some months, leaving it untranslated until Studio Frisay decided to work on it. That, and it has quite good graphic for a VN that was released in 2010. Go get Ushieta 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.

Dunno if this info will be helpful to anyone at this age, but if you're using a potato like me (an older version than Windows 10) and you're getting the "Authentication failed: unrecognized kernel32 module. / NM." error, that's because while the patch makes the vn compatible with newer systems, it makes vn incompatible with older ones. I resolved the problem by deleting the "version.dll" file. Well, at least vn runs now; hopefully, I won't encounter any other errors in the future.

Heroine selection in the order in which I'd recommend them: Kinkoi Kakenuke Seishun Sparking Fureraba Marshmallow All the way Home Hatsuyuki Sakura (FYI not sure I'd call this a romance game, but it does contain romance) Study Steady Magical Marriage Lunatics Featuring the heroine confessing: IxShe Tell - every single heroine does it. Gin'iro, Haruka - specifically Hinata's route Oshirabu (yuri) A bunch of the Sonohana games (yuri) Technically every NekoPara game I've read Angelic Chaos Reboot - specifically Amane's route IIRC, but with the way this one is set up I think Kaguya did too? Maybe Fumika did too? This VN gets real blurry on it in general since one of the main plot point's is the MC's erectile dysfunction. Hapymaher - Saki Chrono Clock - Michiru - seriously a ton of imouto routes do it. A lot of the single route VN's (I mentioned two yuri options above) feature the heroine confessing first. I'm sure I'm forgetting quite a few to be honest, but in a lot of the VN's - including some I mentioned above - it's played off more as a joke than a serious confession a lot of the time. imouto routes feature quite a few "caught masturbating then crazed confession then embarrassment and avoidance" storylines. The only 100% serious one above is Gin'iro, Haruka, and slightly less serious but still real are a bunch of the Sonohana ones, the rest get played off for laughs on some level.

I believe the VNDB tag 'Hero(ine) Selection' exists for the purpose of finding such VN. I've read ToHeart22 and Majikoi too long ago and can't remember if they should have this tag, but they do not. Thus I suppose you'd only get some VN via this tag.

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So im trying to translate sakura musubi in order to play it comfortably and not look up kanjis every second. I know that the sakura.csx file contains the script but i cant find a way to turn the file into a readable format.

Hello, I was looking for a VN with heroine selection instead of dialogue driven routes, something similar to Majikoi, To heart 2 and If you love me then say so. Ofc recommendations must include english or spanish translated titles only. On another note, Id like to know if there are any good VN in which girls confess instead of MC. Those are rare to see, so I dont have hopes on that. Thank you in advance.

I do read through what I translate within the visual novel. And I have plenty of connections in the translation scene. Once the translation percentage reaches a good number, I can find someone to help edit.

Hi, everyone! This release sees the Copycat storyline come to a conclusion along one of its two decision paths, with a couple of CGs included which illustrate one of the most satisfying scenes I've ever written. All in all, this storyline has been rather fun to write, and it's been nice to give Akiko another starring role to complement the one she had in Redemption ^^ Like always you can find this month's release in PC, Linux, Mac and Android versions on my SubscribeStar, Patreon or itch.io pages. I've also linked the most recent flowchart guide on the latest public news post on Patreon. For next time I'm probably going to continue my focus on Copycat, with another CG or two, extending the script slightly and working on the second path so I can call this whole part of Penlight done. Please enjoy the new release, and I'll see you next time What's New WRITING: The Copycat storyline has been completely written for one decision pathWRITING: Some minor edits made to the Redemption storyline script, adding in Akiko's singing interest revealed in Copycat, plus a few tweaks to a later scene on the relapse pathART: Two new CGs added to the Copycat storylineWord count is now around 461,000LOCALIZATION: Various edits and corrections to the Spanish scriptSome typo and grammar corrections

Congratulations!! You really came a very long way, congratulations, and thank you for all your hard work!

for unpack & pack operations in game archives 1. engine Shiina Rio VN: https://vndb.org/v16337 & https://vndb.org/v24752 2. engine Ikura GDL VN: https://vndb.org/v54 - Need help decrypting the VN archive from the English version 3. engine ?????? https://vndb.org/v2477 - Need help writing a PAK file encoder/decoder and ED8 file encoder to create new image files. 4. Navel engine developer (several of their VNs) Without your help, there has been no progress for over a year.....

The English patch for Ushinawareta Mirai o Motomete is out! Download via either Google drive or Mediafire. There really isn't much else to say beyond what I said in my previous post last week, but I appreciate all the support for not only this project, but also the previous projects, which thankfully have all seen completion, even if this one took longer than I had originally anticipated when I picked it up a year and a half ago. But as a long-time fan of visual novels, it's always nice to give something back to the community. So please enjoy the game released on the luckiest day of the year, Friday the 13th!

Oh. It is almost ready? That was fast. I guess it makes sense since it is a short game.

Came here to say the same. Try to find good proofreader(s) and editor(s). It's way too easy to miss our own mistakes, specially after we are reading the same text two, three times already. And I know that speed is great, but don't forget to take time to relax and review what you have translated. Sometimes a better translation will come after you actually stop working. In the end, you don't have tight deadlines, so make sure you enjoy the whole process without overdoing it :)

Great Whatever the case - get someone for proofreading and possibly editing. It's very difficult to find errors in your own text - even the obvious ones, the kind which you'd facepalm at after someone points them out

Just as you wrote that, another 0.5% got translated. Just kidding. But 5 months is for the translation to be finished if everything continues at this pace. There might be other things that need to be done, like UI or proofreading too. With that said, I've finished translating visual novels with like 10k lines in less than a month before.

I wish you luck my friend!