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http://reviews.fuwanovel.net/2016/06/08/rose-guns-days/ It's pretty good. You should take a look into it.

I'll join precisely because I want to lose. It'll be fun to see people weirded out by the dice multiplying! Do make sure to remind me when I lose though.

You might want to consider reading more modern books. With publishing companies losing money, they've recently started cutting down their editing departments significantly, so much so that people are constantly (not really constantly, but constant relative to before ...) complaining of proofing errors. It seems sometimes done by software these days, so you'll get words which are spelt correct but they're the wrong word, and it happens far more often than it used. Which is sometimes funny, cause you see shit like this :3

Ever since Sekai Project acquired the license for Maitetsu, there has been discussion, speculation and hope among the internet; "Sekai Project, will there be an 18+ version?". "Sekai Project, where is the adult version?". "Sekai Project, will we receive those hardcopies on time this go around?" and so on. But I - as well as many others - highly doubt that this will happen. Therefore, I am quite confident to announce the following bet: IF Sekai Project (not a fanbased translation group) confirms a full1 18+ version of Maitetsu at any point between now and the official release, I will change my current Avatar to one voted by community2. This is the one time chance for the community to break my status as an eternal user, who has not once changed his avatar. However, should I win the bet, everyone who bet against me will have to wear the TexasDice avatar for 1 week. Further rules: - 1Full means no content is left out. A partial adult release will not count. - 2Every User who bets against me, will add one week to my punishment, should I lose. (example: Should three people bet against me and win, I'll wear the punishment avatar for 3 weeks.) - In case of my loss, I'll gather suggestions for my punishment-avatar and let you decide which one to wear via Strawpoll. The suggestions can't break any Forum rules, keep that in mind. - Bets given after I lost obviously won't add to the punishment time. - [Placeholder for future Questions/clarification] Good gambling everyone. Participants: EDIT: The Sign Up period is over, FUTHER SUBMISSIONS WILL BE INGORED - Texas Dice August 2nd 2016

It is on this day that I shall take up arms against the texan crusade... Wait what? I mean, I'm all for this, may you need to don an avatar fit for an heterochromia lover. (´・ω・`)

Sanah's written an insightful review of the game. For those who just read conclusions, here are his: Full review can be found on his blog - http://sanahtlig.blogspot.com.au/2016/06/in-depth-review-sakura-dungeon.html Anybody on the fence about this game should read the review. It's comprehensive. EDIT: Fuwa blog link for discussion -

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Primarily it was visual novels, because there were so many great titles I was missing out on due to not knowing Japanese. Now it's a mixture of a lot of reasons, one of them being the fact I want to work in Japan. My favorite thing about being a mod on fuwa is that I always get to see the records of every shitpost ever. Sometimes I go back to look at hidden content and laugh at some gems. My least favorite thing is probably the fact I can never do something right, there's always somebody that will think I'm acting like a tyrant. And I don't know, I'm not sure how I got into this position myself. That's classified. I'd probably try to unify all 4 main pages a bit better, cause right now things still feel sorta scattered. Or maybe that's just me. Like, I know it's a dead horse already, but the main site is still sorta useless. One thing I woulf say is necessary for a visual novel site is passion for the medium. Visual novels are a small niche and you can't expect your community to be huge, but if you care enough and put time into it, I'm sure you can grow to a decent size so that other people start helping you grow as well. One thing I'd not change on Fuwa is the forum. I basically spend most of my time here and despite not being perfect I think it has a place for everyone. These were probably really generic answers but honestly I don't see myself as a revolutionary so this is the limit of my imagination.

I'll do a Sakura Spirit giveaway AND an AMA. If you're the first to post, I'll even include a copy of Bad Rats.

Have you considered books? I hear they meet these requirements pretty well.

If I was physically capable of tracking down every gaming console and every smartphone on this planet and smash them with a hammer, I would.

Well it's finally done. In side the spoiler contains a literary analysis of Mai Kawasumi and Sayuri Kurata from the visual novel and anime Kanon. I explore the complexities of their friendship through analyzing them as individuals. I don't want to say any thing more because of spoilers. Speaking of spoilers, if you have not watched the Kanon 2006 anime, or read Mai and Sayuri's routes in the Kanon Visual Novel then you have been warned. However, if you read Mai's route without reading Sayuri's, I personally wouldn't stray away from this paper as Sayuri's route is only around an extra 30 min - 60 min of original text. So I don't think you would be spoiling yourself from much, but in the end it's your choice. This paper does not spoil any other character routes. A few notes about how I incorporated quotes: 1) Non-Directional Translations created the English patch for the Kanon visual novel, so my quotes are of their translation. 2) After I finish a quote I cite the character's route by writing their name, and then I include the in-game day that it was said. For example: if Mai said "I like Usagi-san", and the in-game day was January 15th. I would write it like this: Mai said, "I like Usagi-san"(Mai, Jan 15). This is significant because... (It's not).

Not sure if you guys are aware, but I think VN/Dating sim fans would enjoy the "Witch Trainer" and "Princess Trainer Gold Edition" by Akabur. They're like many of the training games out there with the emphasis on turning pure characters into more or less whores. The first being Hermione from Harry Potter and the second being Princess Jasmine. Free downloads, the artist's work is usually Patreon supported. Get them here: http://akabur.com/ Enjoy

That's really sad to hear I'm probably in the state of "addicted to osu", but I don't care. While I do try to put a lot of emphasis on getting better, I want to get better because I genuinely enjoy osu as a game, just as a competitive one. I love music. I spent my childhood not listening to much music, and not until middle school did I start listening to anything once internet became part of my every day life. My music library has never been the most impressive in size, and only listened to random stuff my friends listened to, but I always loved just listening to stuff, so I didn't care. And then osu came along. osu completely changed my music library from just a few rock bands I listened to, to a large variety of music.It was the sort of shifting point (even though it's soo weeb like) to me primarily listening to Japanese music, which I personally don't regret. And at the same time, I can enjoy the game BECAUSE I can play along to my favorite songs. In fact, some of my favorite songs are BECAUSE I played them on osu so much. I didn't play them to go up a leaderboard, and there weren't songs I played for pp and hated (I really refuse to play shit I don't like). osu made me discovery utaite, which made me go listen to more of them outside of osu, and in turn made me come back to osu just to play the game with songs I liked. While I do get unreasonably angry at the game when I play badly, other times I'll just not care and keep playing, because I personally do actually enjoy the game. I've played osu for 3 years, and don't regret any of it. There's actually so many times I've said out loud to my friend over chat "I'm fine with xxx being my highest PP score, I love this song!" And then usually end up choking, but it's just the way I think. I like this song, and I like my highest PP scores being songs I like. Hell, nearly every song on the first page of performances is songs I like (I can see maybe 1-2 glancing through that are songs I find meh) Without osu, I would have never discovered these songs. The third song, I play an unranked version all the time because it's fun, and not even to get better or for ranking purpose.

In the meantime I'm still waiting for my clannad copy

Got this in the mail today

You have yourself a bet, sir.

I don't know if it was a huge mistake or not, but after mulling over it for days and days, I ended up ordering all 7 volumes of Koe no Katachi

I'm not joining this, but it'll be very amusing seeing a bunch of Dice avatars on this site.

You must be preety bored

It must be the only VN from R07 of such a length that isn't terribly paced and filled with dubious humour though (that is still present in some scenes but to a much lesser extent than in his previous works, especially Higurashi). A great read for people tired of enduring the same anime tropes again and again that are so common in many VNs.

Chihayafuru is a pure series! Leave Kana alone. I get what you nean though. Happens all the time with certain series. Not sure exactly why.

I'd recommend playing on Hard difficulty. It's referred to as "Normal" in the manual, so that's likely the setting the game was balanced around, and it makes encounters challenging without the need for additional grind. Testers might've complained, which is why "Easy" was changed to "Normal" and made the default.

The best translated VN atm

Hanako Has A Dream

Good question, I was actually just googling around for VNs similar to Little Busters, and then came across the Hoshimemo page on Fuwa. Not long after I registered on the forum and that's how my life spiraled out of control.

Only focus on getting ticket really,my scrub of team dies half the time i try to do 3BP

Well if it has windows setting in the settings of course it should work in a window. Try using all the different compatibility modes and test if any of those works in a window. I couldn't get one game working in a window except if I used Vista mode.

Preferences set just right.

I call you faceless weebs with only the utmost of sincere internet love.

It's to troll those who don't read

Also just realizing that it's releasing on Valentines Day Smooth, Atlus. Smooth.

… Wha? When you tell that story to your grandkids, you should change it from ‘broke my forehead against a desk’ to ‘broke my forehead rescuing a small child from a rampaging rhino.’ Sounds better :3

i dont want to be ported to a console not because i dont have a console but 1. porting to console will remove some of the scenes (h-scenes) as mentioned before 2. after a year or 2 the console will be replaced by a new console 3. because of (2) you need to buy every console to read the vn you what. so no console. also regarding the survey \ am i doing it right?

I was so naive to think that the question "What does Sekai Project do really well?" would be followed up with the question "What does Sekai Project do really badly?".... That would maybe lend to more balanced feedback.

Put stuff out quickly. Piss off the established community.

To expand a little on this: Few thousand people probably only got the game the game because it's new and checked the CGs or something but still really sad that at least 20k people played it without paying. Many people also probably from outside Japan so buying it is little tricky. But still sad. (Also Softmap had tokuten of the most popular character.) Numbers can vary A LOT from those because of the shop tokuten. See here (nsfw) for example tokuten that decides the real sales. Also your normal guy will buy the game 2 weeks later used for 50% off the price which doesn't do good for sales

Kill me Atlus y u do dis Persona 5 coming to NA on February 14th 2017 Well at least this Valentines I have a reason to be alone

We keep having less and less time to do more and more damage quests

It's interesting that they have so many game genres in there. Could this mean SP wants to expand beyond VNs and start localizing actual games? Some options are kinda bullshit. There's plenty of questions that ask me to rank stuff despite the fact I don't care for 90% of them. For example, I'm never going to own a gaming console, but I'm forced to put a "would very likely play a game in this console" because the survey doesn't allow a different opion. Or the option about where you get your information from. No matter what choice I make, it always implies I use all the sources, which is not true at all. I particularly liked this option though Lastly

So, I asked on reddit and in a blogpost about if people wanted another podcast about vns and since a lot of people were interested in it we decided to do it! So here we have the first episode where we discuss about learning japanese and reading untranslated stuff! I hope you like it, remember its the first episode so it sounds a little stiff since we dont have that much experience, it'll get better with time (also, please bear with me and my hopeless stuttering lol) https://www.mixcloud.com/VNP/the-visual-novel-podcast-ep-01-learning-japanese-and-reading-untranslated-visual-novels/

Rather than saying this on a thread where dovac is unlikely to see it, you can take this survey

Just binged Mayoiga (the 10 available episodes at least) with my best buddy. The first 3-4 episodes were great but the rest kinda devolved into stuff that wasn't as enjoyable. Got very confusing around the end as well. (spoilers up to ep10)

Confession: I played WoW and stopped because all the endgame stuff requires you to not play solo

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