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Bonjour, my name's Down, and I Iike ze Precure and Aikatsu! Hon hon hon! Look at my Christmas themed avatar. Je suis incroyable parce que j'adore Muv-Luv. Je suis excité! Au revoir! PS - I banned OriginalRun.

So I went a little bit crazy and participated in MG's winter sale. Bought a few discounted VNs and got free Steam keys I'm not planning to use. So I'm sorta giving 'em away, but I don't like complete randomness (or charity, for that matter), so I thought about having, like, a contest or some shit. However, the only good idea I came up with is having people fight each other to death in some sort of arena, but the logistics, legal counsel and funeral arrangements would likely turn out to be a major pain, so I scrapped the plan. Shame, it would've been fun. So... um... I dunno, just post something cute and/or funny and/or something that would melt my icy heart. And please mention which key(s) you want. Don't try too hard or anything, I'm gonna give them away in the end anyway. Just take it easy, dudes. The keys are ALL GONE eden* Princess Evangile A Kiss For The Petals: Remembering How We Met (which is so dirt cheap anyway, you might as well buy it) Cho Dengeki Stryker (I can't guarantee this key will work... pretty sure it will though, but keep that in mind)

More awful OELVNs with next to no redeeming qualities! You can find my rant review here: http://reviews.fuwanovel.net/2015/12/11/sword-of-asumi/ As usual, constructive criticism and the like is more than welcome! But please remember, I play these awful games so you don't have to...

If I find out my Mom did that...

Launch button has been pushed! We are now live! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mikandijapan/libra-of-the-vampire-princess-visual-novel-english Thank you for your support Fuwanovel and friends. Now, I just need to hope James and I don't die of a heart attack within the next 39 days. To Kickstarter battle! <3

ICHIBAN TSUYOI DAKARA!

Alright where's my goddamn fandisc? I want to get together with my beloved Hazuki-sensei, the two childhood friend monkeys fighting over Yuki, my loli mad scientist Nozomi drinking some more milk and inventing something more sinister, and my yaoi route with Oboro.

this is why sca is the best

welcome to fuwa! We're really a bunch of pervs (please, dont deny it). But I think you'll manage.

only 11 days into december & i´m already broke now... edit: would have loved to back the fucking hell out of libra, because that 60er which i did so far feels abit wrong, BUT super dungeon explorer´s campain has been THE financial overkill to me :/ thx for crosspromoting ><

2/2 Shikishi are gone now o.O! THANKS, MOM! Satsuki-sama, Bookworm-sama, Deep Blue-dono, julyan-sama... 有り難うございました。

Already done with that. Haha we're all proud of your brilliant life decisions

I'm not sure why you guys are unhappy with bat's reviews of Key games. It could be worse, I could have been the one doing them.

NEMU <333333 Welcome! I hope that rewrite doesnt kill you

Couldn't bear all these Euphoria discussions, so I ended up playing it too. Going for Nemu's route first, and till now the stuff is within bearable levels. I just hope that they give us a good reason for Nemu's behaviour.

indeed we are!

Thanks Clephas, you just killed my backlog >_> Sadly most people translate moe bullshit and im pretty sure everything thats worth playing for its gloomy setting has been mentioned. oh btw the VN called Boku ga Tenshi ni Natta Wake that Clephas mentioned is being translated ATM.

Awww..... I thought you meant dark/gloomy as in very depressing bad ends, NTR, relationship breakups, and all that. Guess it also means horror/thriller/mystery.

The only thing that makes it more difficult is because we dont have the base alphabet down because it doesnt use the one we use in the west imo. Im selfstudying japanese at the moment and if you just make sure that you read japanese everyday while studying some kanji on the side, the different meanings just becomes more and more natural to you, or well, that works for me because my brain is pretty good at remembering language stuff like how kanjis look for example (the meaning is another story though :P). Also luckily with the help of VN hookers and translate aggrigator you dont need to know like 2000 kanji before you can read vns in JP

Oh cmon', I was interested in the kick start until this. "there should have been an Iris path" There are always somethings I don't get why and this is exactly one of them. Side note: Where is Illya's route?

Guh ... Wallet ... Empty ... I´ll back 5$ for now. I want to help out with what I can at least Better than nothing.

aiyoku no eustia is the one that comes to mind

Welcome to the community, feel free to ask any questions you may have.

What even is this...? This is why I don't get FuwaPolitics. Edit: I understand now.

And I ended up finishing Baldr Sky instead of studying... Procrastinating: it's so wrong but feels soooo good.

Oh my, I've never been addressed as -sama before *giggles like Zebia from KF2/if* err...anyway, I have to admit I'm glad this kickstarter's going on for more than a month, as between this and the MST3K revival kickstarter I'd say I'm done backing stuff for the year. Unless of course Type Moon decides to throw their hat into the ring (and considering how much money I'd throw in at that I both hope for and dread this happening )

Hello and welcome! I hope you enjoy your stay!

you have until jan 19th to back this, there is still plenty of time left to gather some bucks

I kinda see a pattern in your recommendations, lol. Sadly, none of the games you mentioned so far are hookable because Chunsoft liked to use custom character encoding in their sound novels. First one without which works with text hookers was probably 428 ~Fuusa Sareta Shibuya de~ which I read on PPSSPP. Well, whatever. Speaking of Machi, the first time I heard of this game was when I did research for the Godly Kamige in Hyperdimension Neptunia V. NISA really butchered EVERY reference in their localization. You would never know the game just spoke about Machi if you didn't have profound knowledge in Japanese video game history AND were good at guessing. But who cares about game references in a game about games when we get Western memes, right? Machi is by the way one of the best Godly Games in Nep V. Together with Final Fantasy and maybe Atelier. Haha.

Here at Fuwanovel we usually get an interesting intro once every (7/10MLA * LB! 4/10) years, welcome

C'mon guys. Stop now. I knew this was all a joke, most of them half-meant. But it doesn't matter to me, I do what I like with the people I enjoy with. School's worse. You all know how it is nowadays...I've had enough bullies for one life time, I'll be damned if I find some here. I get all the comments about Koisuru being better than SB, I just thought it would be as enjoyable as Sakura Swim Club. So please, stop arguing over petty things. I respect each and every decision/comment you make. After all...more fire to the flame won't stop it. Here, I'm free, I'm happy, I feel a sense of belonging...I don't want to see people argue over these petty things. Good day to you sirs and madams.

We all are joking here (I hope) he can play whatever he chooses, nobody gives a crap I mean many of us played euphoria here or plays nukige, joking a little bit is what makes this forum different in my opinion, you can joke but there still respect for the tastes of others

Already done with that. Haha

Translation: 12032/32977 A bit of a small update. Things got busy and I've been lazy . Nevertheless, it's still moving as slowly as it gets. As of the moment, there's still no chance for a partial patch cause of the hacking and editing part. Anyways ciao~ see you on the next update

I think that the romance in SnK, while not being the main focus is really well done and cute, it feels natural you know? Also I know this is subjective but I just came to love all the characters. But as SnK is my second favorite VN of all time besides of saya no uta I will really encourage you to keep playing it, its a feels ride I can promise you that.

$80 (included shipping) done. Maybe I will throw in some addon later if I'm high enough

Put down $60 (plus the $10 shipping), sure hope this not only succeeds but hits at least the second mini-episode stretch goal (always appreciate more story). Also because I'd appreciate more games in english that I can review for Halloween.

backed including the names and bio of all the actress that did the voice acting was a very cool and smart move, kudos for that.

3 minutes in, and sb got the $1k1 tier already. Holy hell.

I like it when someone give me a "like" , it make me so happy because i feel someone read my post.

Just reached the end of the preliminary elections (I've been reading a lot slower than usual).

Don't worry guys, I'm sure all that was cut was the pass that would have removed the "desu"s.

Confession: I think I've been exponentially less whiny on this thread since last week. Progress!

Step 3: Uninstall: koisuru natsu Step 4: Install something with a decent plot and not some random kusoge or charage/moege

I'm going to come right out and say it... Sca-ji slipped up a bit when he designed the true path. Oh, I could understand the big turning point event being as it is, but its effect on certain characters - Rin for instance - doesn't make nearly as much sense as he wants you to think. Rin's change is the most dramatic (for all that happens during the true path, the protagonist is pretty much rock solid, even if he wavers). It is also the most odd, even with the knowledge about her that Sca-ji has been pounding into you from the start (with his usual heavy-handedness). Ai can be considered the true path heroine... except that there isn't one. There is a side-ending for Ai that basically could be considered a normal ending, where the protagonist becomes completely dependent on her in most ways... and it feels almost like a bad ending, despite the easy atmosphere. She does play a role in the main part of the true path after the turning point, but that role is mostly unseen. Sca-ji's choice of turning points in the true path would have been - in many ways - better carried out as an unmovable point of all the heroine paths. My own feeling was that he wasted a perfect way to create an even stronger dramatic escalation for Makoto's, Shizuku's, and Rin's paths by choosing to structure the game the way he did, making you feel too much like the heroine paths were just a foil for what he really wanted to write... the true path. Considering that I actually enjoyed Rin's, Rina's, and Makoto's paths more than I did the true one, I honestly feel that he failed in that respect, actually weakening the VN as a whole by going that way. To be blunt, the turning point of the true path is pretty much the only incident that completely and utterly strips the protagonist of his armor of nonchalance, and seeing how each heroine would have dealt with it would have in and of itself provided a lot of enjoyment and added a lot more depth to the experience. As it is, the true path is actually more of a drag on the VN as a whole, rather than a good center. PS: Yes, I'm aware that, for everyone that agrees with that assessment, there will be a half dozen others who disagree, but that is how I experienced it. I'm biased against Sca-ji's style, and I honestly think he let his bad habits get out of control in the true path. October VN of the Month Announcement This was actually a harder month to judge than any of the last three or four months, because there were multiple VN of the Month candidates that actually made it to a level where I thought them worth considering. Primal Hearts 2, Kyuuketsu Hime no Libra, and Sakura no Uta were all worthy of a VN of the Month, and it is typical of my experiences with the Japanese VN industry that all of them should be released at the same time. Libra is an excellent light chuunige/slice-of-life/comedy hybrid that has its flaws but overall manages to be more than it seems from the outside. Primal Hearts 2 was a sequel that easily surpasses the original in most ways, taking many of the best elements and discarding some of the worst ones of the original. Sakura no Uta, despite being a deeply flawed work, is nonetheless one that has a lot of artistic (not making a joke, no) value, even if Sca-ji's inability to restrain his love of pompousness and laying down the endless layers of foreshadowing tended to weaken the experience as a whole at times (as well as his tendency to go off on tangents to over-reinforce points he already made). As such, I had to go back and honestly consider each on its own merits... if one ignores its flaws, Sakura no Uta is the obvious forerunner. If one goes for completion as a single work within its genre, I'd have to point to Primal Hearts 2. Last of all, if I had to point to a work that took a lot of different elements from various VN genres to create something interesting within a somewhat stagnated hybrid genre, I would go for Libra. However, the point I made above stands... Sakura no Uta really is the obvious forerunner, based on pure writing quality and the existence of three excellent heroine paths. I honestly haven't encountered any better individual heroine paths than those in a long time, and it proves that Sca-ji is capable of doing that kind of work, if he really puts his mind to it... and though I still have reservations about making this announcement, Sakura no Uta is my VN of the Month for October.

i wish i had one