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Haha, just found this thread. Yeah, you know the most fun part of that? Every time I post a status update, I get a notification saying "Dergonu has posted a status update!" I then click that and read it again, nodding to myself while I do. Ahh, me

Does this deserve its own thread? Probably not. Am I supposed to be able to see that anonymous follower? My permissions are traditionally pretty messed up, so regardless of whether I'm supposed to or not, blame @Tay. In a completely unrelated topic, Dergonu has two more followers than I*. Just thought I'd mention it. *Until I followed him myself, that is. Issue has been remedied by our hero of olden times, nohman. Now the math checks out once more**. **Math has been completely ruined. Nevermind. It made sense at the time.

Maybe it just had feelings for the site?

Hell yes, I'm taking credit for this despite not commenting on it

Higurashi really isn't necessary at all. I wouldn't say it's "much better" having read it, because as said it's just a few minor references. Just little "Oh, that's neat" things. Chapters 1-4 are approximately 50 hours in length, and then there's another 50 hours in chapters 5-8. Indeed, you would know all the answers! So, they CAN'T use the PS3 sprites, backgrounds, and voices. Alchemist owns those, not 07th expansion. And that means they need to engage in separate licensing agreements in order to utilize them. However, it seems that Alchemist is either unwilling or asking for too much. MangaGamer actually licensed a different set of alternate art from a pachinko game to avoid having R07 art, but that's only the sprites, not backgrounds. The good news? Fans always mod this stuff in pretty quickly. You can expect a fan patch that gives it all the PS3 art and voices. However, this is still an inferior experience to the PS3 port that russian team has been building. The downside to that one is that you need to own both the PS3 version and the Japanese PC version to actually use it. As for the release timings, Higurashi was released one chapter at a time because it was retranslated from scratch, one chapter at a time. Umineko is released four at a time because there was no retranslation, and instead they just gave it a much quicker editing and TLC pass. Releasing it in chapters didn't seem to make sense to them since they'd be churning through them so quickly, so they're just doing it in two big batches instead of eight. edit: Also you should note that the video you linked is of a super dated way of playing the game. You should see what the thing looks like with the proper PS3 port, in all its 1080p glory, chock full of special effects.

It's ok. Believe in the me who belives in you.

List of new features: Thing 1 Thing 2 Thing 3 The other thing The thing you've been waiting for If you run into bugs, post them here. NOTE: The FuwaFabulous theme is still broken, so until I can fix it, please use another theme.

It's funny how you always say that, Tiag.

The thread in which I discover that people actually utilize the forum's follow feature. Your posts are always enlightening, Tiag.

It will almost certainly get modded, so I would just wait and see if I was you. The Witch Hunt translation wasn't great, so a bit of extra polish could actually go a long way.

Eh? They're still using original backgrounds when they could use the PS3 ones or whatever, and no voice? Doesn't seem like a very good decision to basically release an inferior version. :/ Also they release Higurashi 1 episode at a time, and Umineko 4 at a time? So many questions... I'd probably know the answers if I'd at all followed what Mangagamer does, but alas ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Anyway, to answer your questions that seems to be precisely that same VN, with https://vndb.org/v2153 being the other 4 chapters. And IMO it's much better if you read Higurashi first, because otherwise there are a few minor references you won't pick up on and spoilers you might notice, but if you don't want to read Higurashi for whatever reason, Umineko stands on its own just fine.

http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=396769 Pretty much my mood right now

Eclipsed has been on the ball lately... but by counter-induction, that probably means it's time for a change and he'll screw up and Derg will finally win. So I voted for Eclipsed.

I'll throw Ayakashibito out there, since you seemed to enjoy Hanachirasu and Kikokugai. Solid title with the dark themes you're probably looking for.

Synopsis Willow Bates: a recent college graduate, who works at a small cafe, lives alone in her childhood home. Lonesome and suffocated by the tedium of working at an unfulfilling job, Willow found a quiet joy in otome games. With few friends and a non-existent love life, shes grown attached to the happiness brought by romance novels. We join our heroine as her mundane days are interrupted the morning she stumbles across strikingly handsome, vaguely familiar men. After a second glance, it all becomes clear: her favorite characters are now real. “Be careful what you wish for.” Quick Info Developer: Audilis Platforms: iOS/Android/Windows/Linux/Mac Main Routes: 6 (Alister, Jin, Dimitri, Faust, Milo, Enzo) Expected Release: Summer 207 KickStarter: Go to Campaign Demo: Download Team: See who they are FAQ: View frequently asked questions Links: Website Tumblr Twitter Facebook Progress Demo/Prologue completed. Work on first two routes started. KickStarter fully funded Greenlit on Steam Features 100% ORIGINAL STORY, ARTWORK AND MUSIC! We are making every cutscene, sprite, background and song ourselves in order to provide an immersive world and consistent experience. 30+ CGs! Each route will feature at least five gorgeous custscene images that can be unlocked throughout the story. SIX ROUTES! Each route features a unique experience. Six romanceable character each offer their own personality and flaws that you will need to approach differently. 18 POSSIBLE ENDINGS! With three different endings for each of the six storylines, there is plenty of replay value. Your ending depends on the choices you make, so choose wisely! GAMEPLAY YOUR WAY! Change the main character's name, remove her sprite, adjust text speed and more. Arrange your settings as you wish to enhance your experience. Videos Teaser Gameplay Screenshots Characters Demo Download Tell us what you think! If you like this project and would like to see it succeed, we can definitely use your help. First, consider pledging to our KickStarter! With that funding, we can complete the game to the quality that we want and have a much better chance of meeting our deadlines for rolling out routes. Also, if you have a Steam account, consider voting for us on Steam Greenlight. Every vote counts, and helps us reach a much broader market for Windows, Mac, and Linux users. Finally, if you have any constructive feedback we would **LOVE** to hear it. We are a young company, and your thoughts, criticism, and suggestions are highly valued. Please leave a reply here or contact us directly if you have anything you'd like to share.

Mostly spending all my time/money on plastic crack, really.

Finish Fate/Stay Night, ya dingus.

Go for NepNep.

Okay, all done. (Note: Also made that post in the GM board)

The thing we've been waiting for finally did something useful, the inbox list works again Now I can see my bazillion PMs on the glorious Infinite Stomach v2

Whoever added that tag was an idiot. It's literally just her legs and arms being constrained by vines.

I thank all those who have left a comment!^^ regarding the dubbing, unfortunately we know that they are not cheap, but if we get the chance we guarantee that we will! you read the update number 12 on the kickstarter? There is a rather interesting! Diceti what they think about it as soon as you can ^-^ . here under a new and beautiful artwork of our artist bicio! surce:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2044603064/elisa-the-innkeeper/posts/1624203

There's no spoiler button right now, but you could still add spoiler box here. Here's the setup below to add spoiler manually. [spoilerx]Whatever content you want to hide in spoiler box[/spoilerx] (Note: Remove x to activate the setup) Hope it'll be help if you want to add spoiler. PS - If you need something lighthearted here, ToHeart 2 VN should be able to cleanse you, since it was only basic moege/charage.

After spending some more time with it, I'll amend this statement somewhat: it's still full of Japanese cliche. But for the typical English plebeian otaku, it'll be fine. And nobody should go into this game expecting good writing anyway. I've played through half of the "routes" at this point.In summary: Purino Party is a passable-but-not-good puzzle game that rewards you with extremely cheesy SoL scenes and lewd CGs of cute anime girls.

Hey, Derg, you saw this is out, right? http://store.steampowered.com/app/485040/

But I've never seen you use a punching bag as your avatar.

VCN - Vore, Scat, NTR.

If it says anonymous, I'd believe the person in question would wish to remain anonymous, no? Why do you think I went to the trouble of covering it up? Regardless, no, that is not the individual in question. The question I'm posing is whether I'm supposed to be able to know who the anonymous individual is, not that it makes much of a difference. You know what's problematic? It's that you're not just following yourself -- which should be impossible to begin with -- you're following yourself twice. It's impossible for regular people to follow someone twice. That means you have literally committed two impossibilities on top of one another. Actually, scratch all that. You know what's really problematic? That you haven't followed me back yet. That's what. Traitorous scum.

Hey, I like other things. Like ... you know. The other things. (What other VN genres do they have again? )

No shit, you're a yuri fan till the death. Let's hear it from someone who's not strictly into yuri.

I hope that they not screwed up. Moonstone ignores me about the "fair of poor quality", Harukaze too. Okay, well, please. Well, it's not necessary. When you are promoting your game with a terrible English, you need to understand what are you doing. Because not only the text in game should be good, then all promo-materials (including web-sites, fliers etc.) too. It's a PR, oh my gosh. Why do they think they can thus save on advertising? It's awful. How many years publishers on the West did a little steps... and now everything is pushed. I don't trust the knowledge of English at Japanese. Arrgh, I bombed, sorry.

Maybe Tokyo Babel, I/O and Root Double here for the recommendations. Clephas almost want to categorize Tokyo Babel as utsuge, so I think it should be your wish here. As for I/O and Root Double, I think those VN was had some heavy theme. I don't knew if those VN will fulfill your dark criteria though, but I think there's some dark moment to me in those three VN.

I'm patiently waiting for the PS3->PC full backport release to reread this grand masterpiece. Sorry but PS3 Voice Acting is beyond amazing...

A good chunk of Liar-Soft which previously worked on Forest, was employed on FTR as well - mainly Ryuuko Ooishi (art) and Takao Tozan (writing); hence the similiarities. Unfortunately, what makes Forest so unique is Meteor's writing and it's the part FairyTale Requirem clearly lacks (not saying it's bad, just different). Depending on that, I'd either advise to continue your adventure with Liar-Soft games, or grab anything written by Meteor afterwards. Albeit Hikaru Sakurai wasn't directly involved with Forest, that game is a sort of a spiritual prequel (along with Seven-Bridge), to whole WAB series. That said, read Inganock. You won't regret it.

Welcome. Have a pleasant stay. I am somewhat curious about your project, so I'll be keeping my eye on you.

Inganock, it's pretty rad. Has gameplay but I'm certain you can deactivate it.

I vote for Eclipsed because I feel that Derg is gonna get distracted by yuri doujins.

Good day. I have been very active in the community and I am finally making my final push before my kickstarter in September. I will be launching my Prefundia in August and we are grinding like crazy to make it the best it can possibly be. Please comment on this very early version of what we plan to put out. We will be putting up hard numbers later this month and tiers. Genre:Adventure, Investigative, Management, and psychological Visual Novel Platforms:PC, Mac, Linux, PS4 Languages:English (Fully Voiced), English (Text) Visual Style: DreamWorks style graphics mixed with dark and mythological themes. Progress:~20% of the game completed. (20 hour game) Estimated release:~Summer 2017 “Whether friend or tyrant, I will become a King!" Welcome to the Rift, a dimensional tear located in Canaan where the ancient gods were created and where you must prove your worthiness to lead the world of men. You have allies and the training needed to fight, but nothing will prepare you for the wonders and horrors of the unstable plains in the Rift. Manage Respect, Relationships, and Mental will when making decisions. Assigning team members to missions best suited for them. Discovering weaknesses to epic enemies through investigations. Collecting real world lore and in game lore by discovering hidden items. Unlocking secrets of the past by collecting memory gems. Making timed decisions and avoiding damage in high intensity situations. Leveling up your characters to specialize in unique skills. Time In the game, everything will cost time to complete and characters may be away, unable to do a task available. Time is managed by the player and he has 6 months to prepare to face Nun. Special events will happen at certain times such as full moon cycles, changing of season, etc. This will give the player a level of management that makes them feel immersed. Leveling Each character has core stats which helps them succeed in feats. Completing certain missions and training will gain you very limited talent points to specialize your character in lore friendly ways. Respect You are a leader. You must earn the respect of your soldiers! Decisions you make and the success of those decisions will affect the confidence your allies have in you. If you fail a lot, they will lose confidence and go rogue during critical decisions. You may even lose command. A true Pharaoh never loses command… Kinship While how successful you are in decision making and your sense in the field affects the way they see you, it does not help one bit on how they think of you as a person. In order to get on their good side, you must appeal to their innate personalities. One cannot please everyone so make your choices wisely. It is worth noting that Kinship affects how allies act when not around you or when not commanded. Stability You are the strongest. Unfortunately, you are also the most flawed… You have an issue with Dementia and you must suppress these voices throughout your time in the Rift. The tradeoff is considerable though because when you were young, and you let the voices run wild, you could do things others could only dream of. In these dark days, will you allow your mind to slip in order to wield more power or will you avoid such pleasures and rely on knowledge of self? The rift has stood for thousands of years, since the day Nun arrived from the planet Nibiru. Located in the barren lands of Canaan, this void was created to keep the outside world uncontaminated while Nun worked on his creations. He spent centuries studying the humans and when he figured out this world, he created ancients similar to the life found on his home planet. They warred with each other inside the Rift until only 3 families remained. When they left the Rift, Nun used a stability gem to alter reality and hide the incomprehensible damage done. But now, thousands of years since the great sundering, Nun has created another race of beings to combat his creations from ions past. In order for them to prove themselves, they must survive the Rift, as it were during the time of the ancients. Stability is no more! Can the mortals survive the Trials of the Rift? There are many different types of quests in Black Sands. We will briefly go through some of them to better understand the gameplay mechanics involved in each. In Black Sands, time, health, and deployment all work against you as you stride to prepare yourself for the final battle with Nun. Scouting - designed to seek new quests exclusively. Minimal danger Investigation - A quest that requires discipline and perception. Player must decipher material and decide what is important and not. Proper investigation rewards secrets. Tracking - This is an extremely heavy skill check category that requires quick decision making and a little luck. These missions are available only once before they go back into the quest pool. Social - This is a quest where you develop relationships with the other characters and learn more about them. Instant Events - Automatically happen when certain criteria are met. May have nothing to do with prior tasks. Group Events - The entire group must participate. Nun will go over your notes and inspect your facility whenever this happens. Epic Events - Storyline Events that are either triggered by actions or chose by the player. These tend to have more decision making then other events. Exploration - A quest designed to explore unknown locations. These quests have no prior knowledge so player must use their wits to move forward. The farther you get, the better the rewards. These missions can be ended at any time but there is no guarantee you can return. This game is directly inspired by Dragon Age and Telltale. Their strong narratives and crucial game changing decisions inspired me to design a visual novel unlike any before it. Additional motivation was found in the way Hollywood depicts middle eastern and Saharan people. We do a lot of research and use annotations in game to teach the actual history behind the fantasy of our world. Future We will be converting all sprites to Live2d and making them look a bit more realistic and 20x more brutal. The goal is to make this like Conan while having the art leveling of pixar, dreamworks. How can I help? Follow us on facebook, Cosplay our characters, Share the hell out of this, and Pay homage to the gods by buying some of our merchandise. Don’t forget to sign up for the newsletter and remember, Nun sees all. We have these posters and more. You can support us while getting something tangible that will uplift both you and your families. Facebook Twitter Official Page Official Store Youtube

I see it too. Languages:English (Fully Voiced), Japanese (Text)

Good luck @Dergonu! The girls are cheering for you!!

Try out Homeless Joshi Gakusei, if you haven't already It's brilliant

Sure, 2 parties are involved in a contract, but the devs are the ones that own the rights to the game and all of its content, so it's not unreasonable to think they're the ones making decisions like "no announcing 18+ content until we say it's ok". It's their game after all. Saying Sekai Project decides to just shaft 18+ material is pretty ignorant imo. It doesn't make any sense for them to purposefully do that when it's such an important thing for most of the community. I'm not saying I know all the facts, I obviously don't, and I'm ALSO not saying "hey we should push the blame somewhere else", what I am saying is that we should stop whining and direct our efforts into something productive instead of pure anger at either Sekai Project OR the developers. Because dovac has already explictly told everybody they can't say anything at the time, you can conclude 2 things: Dovac is more than aware fans want an 18+ version of the game He is unable to let you in on any extra info but has promised to disclose it when an appropriate time comes Hearing this, the conclusion I reached is that all I can do at the moment is wait, because I'm pretty sure Sekai Project is already doing what they can to negotiate an 18+ version of the game. And if they're not, the most I'll do is just say something "hey it'd be nice if we could have this" on their page, not raise my pitchfork and alienate any form of discussion.

I finished Toradora, and even though I loved most of it, It had quite possibly the least satisfying ending I've ever seen in anything.

I published my full article on the subject.

But as I said, in Kanon it isn't the point. Clannad I haven't played, sadly.

because its fun and I love learning stuff as a hobby, to be honest, I would never have carried on with it if I didnt enjoy doing it in my freetime. Im also in the happy situation that I do creative things for a living and VNs are really helping me get the creativity going for some reason. I can only speak for myself though,

Of course not, just add time traveling and a terrorist sub plot and you've got a 10/10 show.

So you have played your first visual novel game and finally arrived at the greatest moment in it: the h-scene. You have been faced with a difficult decision that will affect humanity.... in a way. The heroine is awaiting your decision, her eyes gleaming with excitement as she knows you are about to unleash your white minions. You are at your limit and you have to make this decision in the next 5 seconds or suffer the consequences... The question is where? You as a protagonist have a mission or missions (if you reload that save anyway): To be a responsible adult and not create an unnecessary life by pulling out your hyper weapon at the opportune moment because apparently it is the greatest contraception method in the visual novel world and then spray her like a busted fire hydrant OR Satisfy her fully: figuratively and literally by providing your love, warmth, and DNA even if she says "It's a safe day;" you don't believe in safe days or you are just too lazy or exhausted to pull out, so you remain inside. If you chose outside, despite covering the precious heroine with your essence and creating chaos made of white fluids all over the place, cleaning the whole place, even if it's the classroom, the rooftop, the library, the balcony or the church will be no problem, and you and the heroine will somehow manage to cleanse all the foul odors and pigments and smile at each other as if you've just robbed a bank without anyone noticing. Apparently you can use sorcery to block people's sense of smell so you and the heroine can totally walk around crowded streets without any suspicion. People who support the Way of the Outside are Ninja-class by default. If you chose inside, the heroine can never be become an expectant mother unless The P.L.O.T. demands it. The P.L.O.T. is more powerful than Jesus Himself. It can make babies appear or not appear with the heroine or the protagonist's will alone, so the protagonist can keep releasing inside 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, or 10 times without any problems. People may consider it "convenience", but I believe this is more of a miracle. "Inside" protagonists are also environment friendly, making sure the "predicament" can easily be wiped off with a single tissue as opposed to the wasteful "Outsiders" who require a dozen of them. People who follow the Way of the Inside are Hikikomori-class by default because they truly acknowledge that the inside is paradise and anything outside is corrupt, repulsive, and unacceptable. So once again, the ultimate question: inside or outside?

Hah! That's just the kind of answer I'd normally expect from you "normal" people. "Complete trash"? It seems that you just can't appreciate the rarity of a good porn that satisfies the darkest desires of mankind. Really, compared to most nukiges? Those are cream of the crop, considering the effective way they executed the rape scenes with a simple and straightforward method - break the haughty bitch who dared bad-mouthed you. Most importantly, "My Sex Slave is a Classmate" gave you the freedom of choice to choose the girl you want to rape and how you want to do it. That kind of interactivity isn't commonly found among most English-translated rape nukiges, because people have such little appreciation for such good stuff. It's really fun, actually, so quit being a prude. I mean, most nukiges have the girls doing what? Break down in less time than you can jack off. Bo-ring. What's so fun about a useless slut who mind breaks so fast? There's no sport. The whole idea of "rape" is power, not sex. That's why games like euphoria that focused so much on the complexities of sex rather than the simple domination of strong women are really just over-compensation. Both Captive Market and My Sex Slave is a Classmate get that, and carried out this simple idea beautifully. It's like a video game writer trying to actually write a good storyline for a video game. I mean, a video game with a s***ty storyline? Yeah, no s*** Sherlock! Stories in video games are accessories, not the main course. That's why people who complain that Destiny has a s***ty storyline has s*** for brains. The same with rape porn. The sex is extra; the power is the main course. The method of humiliation, the stripping of power, now that's much better than trying to figure out how to have the girl lay some chicken eggs or some weird kink like that. Edit: Check out the exchange between me and this guy at vndb, where we talked about the qualities of a good rape porn, and what made euphoria a bad one. http://vndb.org/t2180 Now tyr, that guy? He gets it. Edit 2: Here's a quote from tyr: This is such a fundamental truth many writers don't know about: If a girl gives in to the corruption, she instantly gets boring and should be disposed like the trash she became. Only a few heroines stay interesting even after the corruption process. Those are the really beautiful girls you keep as your slaves. This is elementary! This is one of the reasons why I'm sick of eroge heroines always loving the main character without reason. Girls without self respect are not worth your effort in corrupting them.