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This thread is for VN main menu tracks that are catchy/memorable/atmospheric/etc. How many you post doesn't matter, but PUT THE DAMN YOUTUBE LINKS IN SPOILER TAGS so that people do not have to scroll down a couple kilometers while reading. Remember11- All or None (Piano) This track's sadness and the whole atmosphere in the main menu reflects the themes of the game beautifully (especially the first half). Danganronpa 1 & 2- DANGANRONPA A perfect introduction to Danganronpa's wacky, catchy style. Ever17- Karma Same as Remember11. This music is tied to some unforgettable moments of the VN for me, hearing it always takes me back. Euphoria- Rakuen no Tobira (Instrumental) Reason is spoilers but the track is amazing either way

More terrible OELVN's, yay! I even had high hopes for this one too... So, I was trying to wait for Unwonted Studios to release the 18+ patch but since that is apparently taking forever I decided to publish it anyways. I highly doubt it will do much to improve the overall quality of this hot mess anyways... Link: http://reviews.fuwanovel.net/2016/02/14/no-one-but-you-2/

And that's exactly why people call Sekai the Hitler of visual novels.

You really expect something else? I think Valve mentioned it before but the reason Steam cracks down on sexual content is because of international obscenety laws, not because they're incredibly conservative or something. Obscenety laws are really hard to fight against and could put Steam in trouble in countries where pornography is either illegal or eroge is considered child porn *cough*Canada*cough*. Until Steam can sort out a system that protects them from these laws, it's unlikely they'll allow full blown eroge on Steam. What I think is the best solution is to do what HuniePop did and have patches to give you the uncensored content instead, that way you technically still don't have porn on Steam, but you can still get the "Steamy" content.

It’s not the black or white scenario you try and paint. Muv Luv, G-Senjou, Clannad, all saw fans clamoring for an official release.

"I personally rated this a 9/10 on my VNDB, but keep in mind; I am yuri freak. " Objectivity lost right there..lost faith in senpai -grumble grumble, rant rant- Anyhow, good review senpai even if your score is biased by your yuri love taking over your brain...Good job Wouldn't any of us do that?

Not necessarily. Sekai Project has suggested in the past that they like to pick up titles with name recognition in the West (source). Most of these happen to be titles that have been fan-translated or had a popular anime adapation. It's a mistake to assume that the crowd that buys VNs on Steam is the same crowd that plays fan-translated VNs. It's not a mistake to assume that these people are influenced by the crowd that plays fan-translated VNs. Everyone has to keep in mind that Sekai Project has a marketing budget of zero or close to it. They want titles they can sell to people (not necessarily us) with no marketing effort on their part. Fan-translated titles are good for that.

I'm not asking for a translation of Dies Irae or something like that (although I'm pretty sure it would do well with a Kickstarter, which Sekai Project has a fetish for) but more titles on the level of Grisaia and G Senjou No Maou that aren't translated. Although I am looking forward to Chrono Clock, whenever they finish it.

Well in my completely objective, and correct opinion, they are all wrong, and are terrible people.

I'm sure youtubers are really glad to see another winged cloud game because those are the ones who profit the most with those types of novels. I would bet that they even make more money than winged cloud itself.

What are some of your favorite visual novel artists? Which artist left an impression on you as you read through a certain vn? Which one made you wish to see more of their work? For me, it is either Tony Taka, who's done "Sora no Iro, Mizu no Iro" "Fault!" "After..." and many others. Another is Happoubi Jin. whos done stuff such as "KanojoxKanajoxKanojo" and its sequel, "Boin" and its sequel, as well as the Bishoujo Mangekyou series. what about you? whos some of your favorite vn artists?

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for a moment I was wondering how and why Eclipsed had to use your mom's computer. Then I realized it was the IDE

Hey everyone! So it's time for another review, this time of a yuri title that I just finished last night, Kimihane Kanojo to kanojo no koi suru Ikkagetsu. I got recommended this a little while back and decided to read it because I thought it was just a short yuri nukige. But boy was I wrong ... The story: The story is quite lighthearted and simple, three girls who think they saw an angel when they were younger live together in a dorm. These three girs get along very well and the story is just their daily lives unfolding before our eyes. Or, rather, it is actually being seen by someone else. The story is told in a third person narrative, being looked at by a mystery person. The third person narrative is quite interesting; its something I haven't seen much off in VNs, and it made for a fun experience, reading an untranslated novel in the third person. It's a novel strongly built on the slice of life element. The story is split into 4 chapters, with 4 routes, each route has its own unique twist on the four chapters, with new CG, dialouge and events. The routes are each coupling, Rin x Hina, Hina x Fumi, Fumi x Rin, and finally a secret route unlocked after the completion of the previous three. Each scene during the game tends to be quite specific and short, but in return there are many of them. So let's say they are sitting in the living room having dinner, there is a short sequence where they do that, then it suddenly switches to a different scene, let's say, they are now at school. This is actually a very comfortable way to read an untranslated novel for me, as its very easy to get the context of the conversation. Also, story wise, there is a reason for this specific short scene duration, and it is revealed during the last, hidden route. There is an enforced playing order, where a new route is unlocked after the current one is finished. Also, there are NO choices in the game. You get some unique dialouge choices in the form of these screens: However these have no effect on the routes and the story at all, and they are simply small unique scenarios. All in all, the story is very light and cute, the language in the novel is simple, but it still keeps you entertained the entire time. Similar to Sono Hanabira, it focuses strongly on it's character interatcion. The characters: The story offers very few characters, only four of which has a sprite. These four characters are the ones who make up the bulk of the game's story. These characters are: Hina: Hina is kind of the little sister in the group. She is super adorable; a small girl with a loud voice. (She tends to yell a lot.) She does a lot of stuff that just makes you go, "aww", but unlike Fumi, she is quite ... Noisy. She isn't a fragile and gentle little girl, but rather a loud and energic one. She spends a lot of her time yelling at Rin, and this makes her appear more like an older sister, despite her role in the little "family" being the little sister/daughter. Rin: Rin is my favorite character of the three. She is a slob, managing to put her glasses in the fridge like 8 times during the story. She sleeps in all the time and is always yelled at by the little energy bomb that is Hina. Basically everything Rin does will make you laugh. She is less innocent and more direct and frank, making her do hilarious stuff like roleplay sexual scenarios with Fumi's stuffed animals, get in bed with Fumi telling Hina to look away as "mama and papa" are going to be doing grown up stuff. She will make you laugh a lot, and thats what I loved about her. Of course, just like the other two she has sides of her which aren't so clear, that you learn more about during the routes. Fumi: Fumi is the mother among the three. She is very polite and formal, always takes care of the housework and steps in as a peacekeeper whenever the two others start quarreling. She is gentle and adorable, but just like Rin, she has different sides to her which are discovered during the routes. Lastly, Sachiko: Umm.. She is the ... Middle aged dorm manager who keeps on touching the girls... She also tries to pay them to be painted nude. .. uhh.. Someone call the police..? General impressions and thoughts: Like I said in the introduction, Kimihane looked like your average yuri nukige to me, but wow was I wrong. It is by no means a nukige; I'd probably call it a moege, (as there are only 2 H-scenes per route and quite a lot of cute and adorable, lighthearted dialouge and scenes dominate the game.) The art in the game is really nice, with several CG variants for each scene and well done character details and sprites. This also makes the H-Scenes quite enjoyable, though like I said, the H-scenes were actually not what made me stick around for this one. Each character has a lot of developement throughout the story, and each route brings out a new side of them that we haven't seen before. This makes each route feel unique and very enjoyable. The humor in the game is quite entertaining, and the romance is well done, though its a little bit simple and moe like. Don't expect extremely prfound and deep relationships. Even though the story is so simple and light though, it doesn't make you feel bored or tired of what is going on. The characters keep the romantic routes interesting, but what really blew my mind was the hidden route. Once I played it, I just went... "Ohhhhh!" It did such a good job of suprising me and I think it will suprise you as well. I never saw that coming. Anyways, since the game is fairly short there isn't too much else to be said. Honestly, my conclusion is this: PLAY IT! It's short, its really cute and light but at the same time it has its moments where the story really takes you by suprise. The characters are wonderfull and entertaining and the art is really nice. I personally rated this a 9/10 on my VNDB, but keep in mind; I am yuri freak. I think a more objective rating would be something like a 7.5. But this is definitely not something you should play just because it has yuri. It's quite the good little novel, and it left me seriously pleasantly suprised. That's it for today folks, thanks for reading!

Jokes on you, I can't be arrested for that until I'm 18 AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

0/10 IGN Too much grills kissing. On a serious note, Sachiko is the best girl. She really resonates with how I would act when managing a dorm filled with teenage girls. And now I have to go hide from the police because of that comment. Pretty good review overall Homolover

probably Kawahara Makoto he has a very distinctive art style specially when it comes to express feelings in the characters, there is something I can't describe it with words but when I see some of those expressions they just feel different to me.

I haven't played that third one but the first two i agree they're my favorites, didn't know their names before now though

My favorites have to be Aoki Fumio, Alpha, and Tony Taka.

Some hentai anime look more recent just not to the level of modern anime. I couldn't even imagine how awesome a hentai anime with Ufotable level animation quality would be

Hasn’t there been all sorts of talk regarding what price Key used to demand for the privilege of localising their games? Wasn't it an arm and leg from every member of the localisation studio, the first born of the CEO, and a thousand souls nabbed from the recently departed (stored in a jar with a rubber seal for convenient transportation.)

Yes to majikoi no to Harukoi Otome. oh my god, does harukoi have sooooo much drama. its also very depressing. there are routes that have choices that can make you feel like a piece of crap and a route thatll make you sad. not the good kind of sad, like "What a beautifully told story" but the "DEAR GOD WHHHHYYYYY?!?" kind of sad.

Actually I'm more the directing type actually I guess, I often end up trying to give as much directions as I can, and see if my teammates are good with it, if they are not I try to explain my reasoning about why I think we should do things this way, and if they disagree we try to look for a different solution together. Overall it worked nicely so far (had to compromise from time to time though), and discussions often end up improving even more the original idea proposed.

Since you're on 8.1 you can HF pAppLoc. People like to bag on its 'unreliability' but in my experience its more like 1 in 50 VNs chance of failure, with that VN being Ever17.

True, I liked IkiKoi as well, but the game is basically meme at this point

Similar to Hoshimemo but has not too much drama huh... I think you need a romance comedy. How about Majikoi?

OreImo Portable School Days Clannad (but as you say, too much drama) Hapymaher (unTL) Your Diary (unTL) Toradora Portable

Noble Works Dracu-riot Princess Evangile Eternal Heart

This is all the reason you need to play Huniepop

As someone who works with marketing, I would have done the same. You have way more success selling a product that already has built a reputation even if it's bad than something that is foreign, new, and obscure. Can't blame them for wanting to get some easy money from it. Heck, you know what guys? We can make our own company and do the same thing as what Sekai Project is doing. Bet we have 50 different people in here that could make dovac a sorry ass of a CEO when compared to our awesome Fuwanovel personnel and if we combine all our talented fantranslators to coordinate and work together, we can translate White Album 2, Dies Irae, and Baldr Sky in less than a year. Hehehe.... yeah right... But the only difference is, these guys are do-ers, not people just waiting for something to happen. They don't care what we think, what other haters think, and just execute. It's something I admire from Sekai Project even if what they are doing is destroying the loyalty and trust they built with their long time fans and VN fans in general.

I loved your review very much since you was such honest when you write the review. I wish I could write review like that. You really did good work with it.

Alright! So I finished Kimihane Kanojo; absolutely loved it! I had no expectations of it and it just blew my mind. Such a beautiful little yuri VN I've made some changes to my backlog and so it's time to start Maggot baits! Well.. I kind of already did start it a few days ago. So far; loving it. The action scenes are epic, the art is beautiful and .. Well, there are parts that aren't so beautiful but .. hey, not hating those parts either My first guro VN so I don't know how I'll handle those parts but... We'll see. On the translated side I'm still playing ikikoi. Not going to say much about it because I'll get murdered Short version: I'm one of those people who actually don't hate it

Well it can't be art, since Sakura Beach has great art and it's terrible in every other aspect. For me it's the plot, the setting, the feel and the writing, I'm certainly not there for the H. Never fapped to a VN, only like once or twice I felt the inclination. It's no surprise many people are naming characters, since telling a story never seen is difficult, characters tend to make or break a work of fiction.

Maybe at some point, I have played some SonoHana's

This review is very thorough I don't read much yuri, but I can see that you liked this

Mine is probably Motoi Ayumu. The art in kono oozora and miagete goran is just so stunning

"This just in! A man in Canada was arrested after trying to pay young girls to paint them nude!" Thank you

True, okay we can always reference that old interview with that dude from Minori: http://blog.fuwanovel.net/2013/02/the-unstoppable-downfall-of-the-bishoujo-ge-industry-interview-with-nbkz-producer-at-minori/ http://biz-journal.jp/2013/02/300.html *It's 250,000 yen a month, not year, I corrected it in the above paragraph. So about 300k for a decent game, with the price going up depending how good you want to make it? Funnily enough, 300k is what was pledged to the Megatokyo team, so let's hope they can produce something decent with that money.

It was still better than 8 by a mile... though it definitely had issues. XP or 7 are the easiest to use/most stable Windows versions and even they had their problems. I say 'at its height', but I really mean before 7 and as XP was no longer being offered as a default OS for any PC (though you could still get it tacked on for extra at a lot of places). Edit: Also, I went straight from ME to Vista, and it was a massive improvement... by comparison. 8 is even worse than ME in my opinion... and that's saying a lot.

You could try 'Everlasting Summer'. It's a russian made VN.

Still not slow compared to JAST. I think this is 5 years or so since they started promoting Outlaw Django, and JAST has been sitting on the completed Seinarukana for how long now? I'm also getting a good chuckle from those mocking Sekai's line up. I'm hoping these people are not supporting ANY localiser then (and are reading games in native JP,) considering the best part of the line up of all 3 big localising companies is shit.

Just finished the main scenario of Kindred Spirits on the Roof. There's still some bonus scenes left to read, but that's for tomorrow. I had this feeling from the beginning that Kindred Spirits would turn out be a really respectable romance VN, and I'm glad it didn't disappoint me. Sure, it's not the greatest there is and it's little clumsy from time to time, but it's also the best pure romance story (stories?) I've read in a visual novel. It's very honest and natural how it present the romance and does many things better since it doesn't follow the standard eroge formula. No routes mean better focus and very refreshingly there's no shoehorned H-scenes. And the few scenes that are in there are where tastefully done. I encourage everyone to at least look into Kindred Spirits. I can guarantee that it makes you feel way better than making heated arguments about Sekai Project's business decisions. ~ I've also made some really good progress on Shiei no Sona-Nyl, I but got stuck on a H-scene at final chapter just before Kindred Spirits was released. But more about that later when I've read it to completion.

Then we get dissed and told "Please dont bother us with the 18+ stuff, Denpasoft handles that" nonsense or they make us wait for the promised goods that we pledged for or we have to constantly remind them they are behind or haven't done shit on time. Gotta love the customer appreciation Sekai Project.

So, is this happening? Cause I have a week free and could do it if you're busy with interviews and whatnot

Hey, welcome to the forum! It's great to hear that you have good morals when it comes to buying VNs You really support the industry, and for that we all thank you! As a welcoming present, here have some yuri :

Dank memes. I don't think anything else needs to be said here.

Damnit! They found out!

Welp, that was an interesting week, to say the least. I got 20 kB of text done on one day, and then I was pulling an all-nighter, and barely got 10 kB's of thext. Life works in strange ways, eh? Anyways, this weeks progress was rather decent progress done. I got a little under 60 kB's of text done, which is decent enough, and I'd like to keep the pace up. And thus I will now try to get at least 50 kB's of text done each week. With that amount of progress each week, this TL will be finished in about 3 months, which is fast enough for you guys. Also I did two H-scenes this week, which was... embarrassing to say the least. When I was translating these scenes, I felt so ashamed of my life descisions, but at the same time, they were kind of fun to translate. But still I prefer ordinary text over H-scene text, but I don't hate it, oddly enough. Update of the week: ————————————————————– Week 2: 83,0 kB/710 kB (11,7%) ————————————————————– I hope to see you again soon! - Arcadeotic https://euphemictranslation.wordpress.com/2016/01/23/update-2/