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CONFESSION: For various reasons, Feb 4 this year was really a bummer kind of day. So to all those who took the time to wish me a happy birthday, it really brightened my day up a lot. So thanks @12kami @Deep Blue @Flutterz @Dergonu @ヤミハナ (Ooooh, VC waifu) @Nashetania (yeah, we're still cool, Reaps) @Kiriririri (half naked Sakura is ALWAYS acceptable) and @Shikomizue. And to the rest of the board, I'm just glad you're here as well. This has become a part of my daily routine and sometimes, it really gets me through the day.

Don't advertise his channel more, he's already making all dat youtube cash from ads, he's literally a scam artist, just ask Mr. flamedfeline who exposed his ass.

Hello, Hirei from Degica just popping by on the thread here. Funny that you should mention that our Kickstarter updates are lacking in editing skills... Just wanted to reassure you all again that we do have native English speakers on the team, like myself. The translation team has not been the one doing all the updates on the Kickstarter page as they are busy translating Muv-Luv itself. Helrouis is indeed from the Philippines, however he's trying his best at English which is a secondary language. As community manager he's been responsible for a lot of communication with you all and getting your feedback to the rest of the team. Which I would hope most of you appreciate and would forgive him for minor English mistakes. @sanahtlig If you have any issues with our editing or translations let us know. I can see that you're somewhat upset and I'd be willing to speak with you via PM or email. However, I would like to think that something as minor as this would not deter you from supporting our Kickstarter and further translation projects. Cheers, comrades! ;p

I admit when I saw the title of this thread, I grabbed my car key and thought ‘yes I agree with you – this key IS a joke! Look how fat it is, and all these useless buttons.’ But then I realise you were talking about Key the VN company. And I completely agree with you there, also. The only Key VN I actually liked was Kanon, and I’m anticipating Angel Beats to be pretty lacklustre … Then you started talking about figures, which I have no knowledge about. But did you just say the bigger figure was ‘cheaper’? Hmmm … what’s the catc-WHOA! 20,000 yen?!

I have a lot of Secondary Characters i love but out of what i've played recently, i'd go with her Chiaki is just great, scary yet surprisingly bashful and secretive..really kind at times too....wish she had a route

If your youtube videoes had this much clickbait in their titles, then im pretty sure the views would rack up pretty quickly

Hello @sanahtlig, How do you do? Thank you for the criticism, and my apologies for unintentionally casting potential doubts to the localisation itself. However rest assured, I'm not part of the localisation team. English education in my country isn't as up-to-date around the world, and I've been studying last year after learning about the many differences. Believe it or not, we're on the same page when it comes to giving importance to the company's impression -- I requested the localisation department to provide liberal English translation for the Kickstarter video (as the original Prefundia version was literally a mess), and also asked Connor Krammer/AmbiguousGravity from Reddit to help edit the Kickstarter page before launch. Admittedly I tend to get too excited when it comes to updates, but I'll make sure to triple check all contents with native staff members before publishing next time. We're aware that we should be more responsible especially we raised so much money, and just like how we handle most of the campaign issues - we hear what everyone has to say and we will try to comply or do better with the best of our abilities. Thank you for pointing this issue out, and especially for backing our campaign, we really appreciate it!

Well, first of all congratulations on successful Kickstarter for Root Double, even though it's kinda shaky at the middle. My comment is that for Sekai if next time you want to release the VN that has less exposure than this one, I would suggest that you better did the Thunderclap and better tier earlier (Although I understand that maybe this time Regista was kinda hesitate to allow Sekai at first, while back at Libra the decision to make the Kickstarter was started from the staff of Libra themselves iirc), since I'd read that many of the user feel here your move was kinda late. Anyway since this project was already funded, let's move on to discuss this game, and if you still want to discuss the Kickstarter, please go to this thread. For the release date, hopefully around March (Although if the release was got pushed, I'll make sure the thread will be not drowned). Anyway, from the title, it was obvious the credit should go to GundamAce or back in Gamefaqs forum ShadowBlackMage since he was as the leader of Lemnisca Translation did the translation. Once again, if some of Lemnisca member came here (Or especially GundamAce), thanks for translating this game and 2 previous games (I/O and Never7). For the premise, as we knew Root Double was dealing with 9 people (3 people from rescue squad and 6 civilian people) trapped in nuclear facility which about to explode within 9 hours. To make it worse, actually there was a drug that could prevent radiation, but unfortunately in best case scenario it was only enough for 6 people, leaving 3 people dead. By reading that, you knew that the chance of all people to survive were very slim. So of course they need to trying to search where they could escape within 9 hours. Oh, apparently this game maybe Takumi Nakazawa answer to 999 which was made by his fellow back at Infinity project, Kotarou Uchikoshi. I mean what's with 9 people and 9 hours (Oh and one more info, the drug I mentioned was only capable to prevent radiation for 1 hour. The drug supply was only 54 drugs, in other word only enough for 6 people like mentioned before). For trivia info, the drug name was Alone Desire. As the story goes, there was also some mysteries which accompany them to their escape. There were 6 mysteries, and the mysteries were: The captain rescue squad loss his memories Some of trapped civilian were high school students (Normally in VN it's not a mystery, since they like to involve high school XDDD. The question is more like why the high school students could come into nuclear facility) There was dead body inside facility The reason that the incident happened, and why they couldn't get out easily And last mystery was about the people who should not exist but exist at the nuclear facility There you go with the mystery. For more info, once again you could look to Kickstarter page, or Animesuki forum here. And once again thanks to GundamAce for the info translation back at Animesuki forum. As for the review, here's from Awesome Curry Chronicle (WARNING - Some MAJOR SPOILER there) and below's from GundamAce. For special service I'll post his review, from A route to his final review (The game was divided to 4 route - A, B, C, and D). He wrote the review in Animesuki and Gamefaqs back at 2012 (I was interested to Root Double since 2012 by the way). So, here's the review from GundamAce Route A Review (I'll use spoiler for shorter page, although guess it's already very long) Route B Review Route C Review Route D Review (Keep in mind this review was for normal version, because I'd heard that XTend version had Route D changed. Correct me if I'm wrong) Gundam Ace Final Review There you have it, although if some of you find it better than Ever17 or not later is depend on you I suppose. Oh finally, since GundamAce mentioned cast, guess for next I should do some commentary for the cast and character, like back in KoiChoco and Noble Works. One interesting thing about 9 characters was the system called Enneagram. It take too much time for explaining it, so I'll give Wikipedia link here. And for 999 games, actually there was also some info that Uchikoshi confirm that he design the character based on Enneagram. There was discussion about that at Gamefaqs, and here's the discussion (Watch out for spoiler though in case you didn't finish 999). For the cast, I'll give them based on Enneagram from 1 to 9, some info, and the seiyuu. But before tha, I'll give some info about 2 additional characters first. Since in GundamAce review that he mentioned Ai Shimizu character, guess I'll better mentioned Ai Shimzu first. In case you wonder who will Ai Shimizu voiced, here's the character. As for the character, I couldn't explain it since the info was nothing, and if you ask my opinion, she was not important at all. As for Ai Shimizu herself, her role was (By the way her pseudonym mostly had some connection with automotive brand) Sanjou Makoto in Noble Works, Komine Sachi in Grisaia franchise, Napoleon in Eiyuu Senki, Elina in Dracu Riot, and Tamaki Sakura in Hatsuyuki Sakura. As for Miyoko Tenkawa, she was Natsuhiko's mother, and she works at LABO and according to VNDB she rarely come home. So she like Hinata's father back in I/O, while we could said that Natsuhiko situation resemble Hinata's. For the seiyuu, she was voiced by Sayaka Ohara, and her role was Kela Hazel in Galaxy Angel trilogy, Dahlia in Duel Savior PS2 Version, Urotorii in Utawarerumono, and most famously in VN she was Beatrice back in Umineko. As promised earlier, here's the other characters info, starting from 1st Enneagram. Oh by the way all trapped people based on Enneagram. Ukita Keiji (1st Enneagram, The Reformer) - By the way, his enneagram and Loise enneagram was mistakenly written in kickstarter page as the Helper. According to the description, he was Natsuhiko neighborhood and work at LABO as one of the researcher. His voice was provided by Toru Okawa, and his role was Tomitake in Higurashi franchise, Arawn in Tears to Tiara, and Gasai Itsuki back in Comyu. Mashiro Toba (2nd Enneagram, The Helper) - According to description, she was one of our MC (Natsuhiko. Oh this VN had 2 MC by the way) childhood friend. Her biggest pride was cooking and take care of Natsuhiko. Back in TV Trope, GundamAce describe her position was like Sakuya back in I/O. Her voice was Asami Imai, and her role in VN was Makise Kurisu back in Steins Gate, Okitsu Ai in Yumina the Ethereal, Morishita Michiru in Koi Choco, and Yoshitsune in Eiyuu Senki. Ena Tsubakiyama (3rd Enneagram, The Achiever) - The teacher at Natsuhiko and Mashiro school. For hard word, she was kinda want to achieve something as the enneagram said, sometimes to obsessive to the goal I think. For easier word, especially to Remember11 veteran who read this, just thinking of Mayuzumi Lin when she trapped at LABO. As the seiyuu, the name was Toyoguchi Megumi and her role was like I said before Mayuzumi Lin in Remmeber11 and Junko Enoshima back at Dangan Ronpa. Louise Yui Sannomiya (4th Enneagram, The Individualist) - Half Japan and half French, and transfer student in Natsuhiko school. Nicknamed Salyu and she had ferret called Alice. For some reason, she was willing to live with Natsuhiko. For the seiyuu, Shindou Kei, no notable role in VN or anime, although some of user here may elaborate it. Oh GundamAce made a comment that Salyu design remind him of Feili from Chrome Shelled Regios. Watase Kasasagi (5th Enneagram, The Investigator) - One of our MC and the captain of rescue squad. At the beginning, he was lost his memory for unknown reason. But before memory loss, he was calm man and with dry sense of humor. His voice was Shingaki Tarusuke and his role in translated VN was none, although Fate/Zero fan may recognize him as Matou Kariya. Kazami Tachibana (6th Enneagram, The Loyalist) - Chilhood friend from Watase and vice captain of rescue squad. She was take the lead while Watase suffering memory loss. Her seiyuu was Rina Satou, and her role in VN was Souya Misaki in old VN Snow Sakura, Kusakabe Yuki in To Heart 2, Yoshitsune in Majikoi S, Nami from Aoi Shiro, and Ushiromiya Ange in Umineko franchise. Natsuhiko Tenkawa (7th Enneagram, The Enthusiast) - Another MC, and he was only high school students. He like to be alone, just like Hinata back in I/O. For a little commentary, at the beginning he was liveng in harem situations lol, with Mashiro came to his house every morning, Salyu living in his house, and another his childhood friend Yuuri also live in same house as his. For the seiyuu, the name was Ichiki Mitsuhiro and his role in anime (I didn't comment his performance in VN because he didn't had any role in translated VN yet) was very lame MC from old anime Magikano (By the way, I watched it back at 2007) Haruo Yoshikawa. Of course Natsuhiko was more handsome than Haruo lol (Even though both of them wear glasses). Jun Moribe (8th Enneagram, The Challenger) - Kazami junior in rescue squad, and her goal was that she want to become the heroes who protect the weak. That's why she choose to become rescue squad as first step. Her seiyuu was Tomonaga Akane, who in VN she was play as Inubushi Keiko and Suzukage Hotori back in Remember11, Seira in Chaos Head, Nagamine Nozomi in Seinarukana, Kawakami Kazuko aka Wanko in Majikoi, Soejima Hisoka in Comyu, Kazami Kazuki in Grisaia franchise, and Oda Nobunaga in Eiyuu Senki. Yuri Kotono (9th Enneagram, The Peacemaker) - Another Natsuhiko childhood friend, and live with him. According to the info back at Animesuki, she didn't like to go outside house, but for some reason she was trapped in LABO, while according to Natsuhiko she should be at home. I quite take a liking to her design back at 2012. Her seiyuu was Kaori Nazuka, and her role in VN was Flower MC Shirahane Suou. Oh if some of you like to watch Fate Ilya, she was play Miyu Edelfelt. I think that's all of the info from Root Double I could give it here. Although there's still more about world building info, but you could read it at Kickstarter or GundamAce info. Use this thread for future discussion of Root Double in near future. And sorry if I couldn't provide more info. Hope you like my post here. PS Almost forget, here's the OP Video for Root Double thanks to Sekai Project Edit - I'd just remember that one of VNDB user made a review for Root Double. So like GundamAce review, I'll copy the review here. Oh the user name was crauxan Crauxan Root Double Review - The review was made back at 2013

As the title above indicates, this is a story about the love life of a working adult... to be specific, a twenty-five year old salaryman named Oga Itsuki. At the beginning of the story Itsuki, who has already begun to settle into the dull exhaustion of the salaryman style of life, is awakened to just how pathetic his life is by his immediate superior, who suggests he try to change himself. The amazing thing is that he does go through with it, and it changes his fate (makes it interesting). First, I should say that this VN won't be for everyone. It has a lot of h-scenes, and the protagonist seems to attract lonely women (single and otherwise) who are desiring of a one-night-stand. He even cheats on all of the heroines at least once (though the ones after theyofficially become lovers are optional scenes). That said, this isn't a nukige... it has a bit too much story and makes too much sense for that (well, except for the fact that he attracts so many women). This VN is pretty short. I finished all the paths in about ten hours, about the same as a low-level moege. The fact that comedy and everyday slice-of-life make up only a minority of the story is pretty beneficial here, as the story of each heroine - and the common route - progresses at a good, relatively fast pace that gets down to the meat of things without a lot of side-tracking. There is no 'endless dating' period like you see with the schoolkids of your average charage, and the protagonist's relationships with the heroines are pretty interesting in and of themselves... well, amusing anyway. I can honestly recommend this to someone who is tired of the endless school romances that plague VNs but doesn't want to head off into the wilds of Chuuniland to escape it. Overall, this VN is a fun ride that is over quickly enough that it doesn't become boring or trite. The endings are pleasant and the heroines are interesting enough that it really is worth getting to know them.

I'm so salty right now. I'm about as salty as you would be if the Panthers lost the Super Bowl this weekend.

Who names their company "Key" anyway? What are they trying to say? They are the "Key" to my heart? Bunch of arrogant pricks! Fuck them!

I really am impressed that Degica gives due attention to even a single person's complaints. Keep up the good work. I supported this project mostly as a gesture towards Age / interest in the particular title, but good PR encourages an actual fanbase that will stick with you in future endeavors. @MiKandi Japanshowed that you don't necessarily need the most acclaimed title on VNDB if you can connect with fans on a deep level and garner their support. I'll be watching to see if Degica evolves to be a company that generates that sort of enthusiasm among VN fans, or if it contents itself with being AGE USA.

Seriously?! Ugh... If the game had a Ruriko route it would have been 10x better. Damn you moonstone

oh yeah man I totally see why you dont have the time even though your signature tells me that you're playing 10 games at the same time.

I went for the sister first, because going for normal in a war between small and big is the hipster thing to do. Confession: Can I quickly express how great Ultimate Boob Wars is, simply because it's really long and has something for everyone? Let's summarize: 6 main heroines; 2 flat, 3 busty and 1 normal + 2 more flat and 1 more busty side characters. All of the main heroines have 9 h-scenes each and the side characters share 7. Now add 2 scenes for Harem and 1 scene for Big Breast End, Small Breast End and Bad End (butts) respectively. That's a total of 66 H.scenes, 33 of which are animated. If you're a normal human, you "use" about two of them per day. That means that even if you're only interested in one breast type or even one character, you still get DAYS of content out of the deal. Compare that to something like The Secret Sorrow of Siblings or Sweet Sweat in Summer, which only have a reading time of what, 2 hours? If you want to get your rocks off, buy Ultimate Boob Wars.

Hey all! So I started noticing a lot of members recently posting about Japanese products (VNs, character goods) and where the best to buy these kinds of things are. I thought it would be sort of fun to make a video on my YouTube channel answering a lot of these questions, particularly when it comes to tapestries and the like. Check it out if you have some time: In other news, my life is now complete. The best girl alive is now in my room in all her life size glory:

We need them. Most interesting metric is probably "uses per day", say for the last week. Paging @Flutterz for his forum-scraping code. Based on unbiased random sample totally biased gut feel, I bet is winning on daily usage since its introduction, so kudos to @TexasDice for that one. I've certainly used it a lot already.

I realized that sometimes (or even very common) has secondary characters that are either better than the protagonist or are very interesting, and that motivated even more to complete the visual novel, I will cite one example. I still know little visual novel, I probably read less than 90% of the people here, as I more play other types of games, but I thought interesting to discuss about it.

I've been thinking about Amorous Professor Cherry, Tsuki Possession and The Sagara family recently and thought that i really want to read a vn with an older submissive woman/women. where shes says shes against it but once they the character get physical, she drowns in pleasure. a vn that leans more towards nukige. no rape though. untranslated is fine.

2 Rec, good enough for me, Will play it then

Oh wow this sounds awesome.

the trolling is strong on you rorubichi xD this is the closest to what you are asking for... I think. https://vndb.org/v7805

Hmmmm...... since you don't want a VN that involve a hypnosis I'm afraid i can't help you here. But i will also check out the above mention VN tho

oh well this thread is right up my alley anyway

If you don't mind untranslated, I'd suggest Kiriya Hakushakuke no Roku Shimai from Atelier Kaguya. It's a bit like an Innocent Grey VN just with a lot more and better ero and the guys are dying instead of the girls. Great atmoshere and soundtrack. There's some rape in bad endings though, but the main routes are fine except one if I remember right. It's the hottest VN I've ever read. Just don't pick Sumi if you want a submissive girl, she's the exact opposite.

1) it's free 2) you have "multiple desktops" so now your incognito porn tab can be separated from your other stuff without closing them 3) there's a search option in the taskbar 4) quick access on "This PC" screen will be a pain in the ass if you store porn 5) you get used to having the start menu back overall it's nice do it the only VN related problem I've seen on W10 is that Grisaia's "skip to next choice" function crashes the game

Please don't recommend Eushully games. That's exactly not what OP asked for. In fact, I know people (myself somewhat included) who even kinda hate Eushully for making harem integral in every one of their games. Even if it's theoretically possible, you don't play Kamidori without its sidequest. Why should you deliberately ignore the meat of the game? (Main romances are shit by the way...) Soukoku no Arterial may be the least haremly Eushully game, but it has still some forced hentai-scenes. One in the common route, one in the light route, two in the human route and harem in the dark route. Some character sidestories have a hentai-scene included too (and again, you don't skip this. why should you deliberately skip part of the gameplay? that's not how you play an RPG). To recommend something else: Brave Soul I don't remember anything else though. Harem and Rape is essential to nearly all H-RPGs, haha.

Last but not the least, we dont need impatient brats rushing and bugging our dedicated fantranslators. Yeah stop putting them on the clock and spamming the forums with threads about when they will finish. They will finish whenever they feel like it, so the least we can do as freeloaders is be patient.

Buncha Shiratori haters. Though I do admit, her character is shat and out of all heroines in G-Senjou she has the most "tacked on for the sake of having another route" feel ~~ @Vorathiel ahaha, you also got locked into Holy Prophet bad ending like me eh? HI FIVE t's funny cuz it's statistically the hardest ending to get if you were to do a blind playthrough since it requires straight up not visit Yukiko at all (You need to visit her something like 3x during Free Time to not get that ending, and you'll visit her at least twice no matter what, so all in all you just need to visit her ONCE out of the remaining five or six Free Times before 1/9 or w.e) ~~ Made slight progress in VLR, went through Magenta door cuz Luna's VA is same as Oshizu from TLR and I love her voice Very, very pleased with the puzzles this time around, actually requires a lot more thinking, hopefully the rest will have similar quality. 999 was more just finding and combining the correct items in sequential order with sparse mini game puzzles thrown in here and there, this one fked me hard, especially with the bartender father/mother/child drink preferences, it's like "Ikay, I got it wrong, therefore it's this asshole that's lying" NOPE, YOU WERE RIGHT THE FIRST TIME BEECH, BUT GO AHEAD AND WASTE MOAR TIME MIXIN' OTHER DRINKS 'COS, AHAHA, IT'S ALL POINT OF VIEW DUMB DUMB!!! Allied with Luna because I knew she's a good girl :3, very surprised about the results of Alice vs Clover & K, dun care about Gramps vs. Dio and the kid (but they got me good, dunno who's lying or not).

stop shitposting and give me feedback about VLR already!

I wonder if LeafyIsHere and/or Pyrocynical would be willing to do a roast vid on Ren's channel Imma tweet them

Oh, tempting.....Damn Euphoria corrupted my mind....But it's sooo good

Kenshin, fighto! I can empathize with the interview nervousness

The fact that people think it is groundbreaking means it is groundbreaking. Basically, if you can show it to an average Steam user and they go "whoa, what the heck, what's this doing on Steam??" then it clearly means it's doing something people don't expect out of a Steam game. And while it's certainly pretty tame, there's still no other VN on Steam to go as far as it in their sex scenes.

You did read your own cartoon post, right? Go get 'em! If they ask you your greatest weakness, go for "I sometimes have problems asking for help when I need it."

pick the 2nd choice.

Princess Evangile scrapped Ruriko and so they crammed what-would-be-her-route into the common route Sayaka's sister from Danganronpa got cut from Ultra Despair Girls because canon so hihi Toko, Not cut-from-development, but localizations we got the famous If My Heart Had Wings censoring H-scenes Filling my Ar Nosurge quota, there's a very, very subtle (well, subtle for EN players who will never get to play nor research it) removal of Ciel Nosurge references that actually makes Earthes x Ion one of the best romance tragedies of all time

Callin' it now, Fred's gonna name Tsubaki best grill, then all the Haru fanboy&grills will be up his grill What they all fail to realize, though, is Shiratori is best girl. ~~ I'll be able to make a sizeable amount of progress this weekend, but for now I'll just be completely irrelevant and comment about how my user title being Zero is totally relevant for 999/VLR even though it's based off of Louise the Zero Speaking of names, I forgot to mention it last time while I was reading 999, but "What the hell is a funyarinpa"? You mean...you don't know?! How could you not know?! That's...that's practically blasphemous. Say you're sorry! Apologize to the funyarinpa!"

Have them (their class equivalent - pixie/hylf) on your party while wandering their areas.

I knew you'd eventually turn to the dark side... we have cookies after all. Love Euphoria though but my knowledge is rather limited since im new to this kind of thing

Lol, I was thinking that too - but I SWEAR I recall some stuff specific to this 2nd one. Ugh, memory failure sucks. Also, just cleared the Gates of guidance bonus dungeon - what a twisted, sadistic evil set of maps - esp that last floor. And no real payoff either.

I really missed the Orpheus cutscene from the beginning of the game. Like, A LOT.

If my waifu was real she wouldn't be my waifu. Dragging 2D characters to 3D is the worst one can do. Waifus should only exist in our imagination.

I dunno, I think the OP is a pretty accurate representation of Ren's two years here.

The real tragedy in the pic.

The grimdark dystopian future is finally here, but it's not nearly as rad as we all thought it would be. Instead of cyborgs, flying cars, and smokestacks perpetually shooting jets of fire, it's lawyers, impenetrable legal codes, and people being threatened with fines for having an opinion on the internet.

... I am just going to leave these here... Don't hurt me. o-o xD